Chapter 277. Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 277.— An Act Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and for other purposes. February 23, 1931.[[H. R. 14246](/us/bill/71/hr/14246).][[Public No. 716](/us/pl/71/716).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, TITLE I— TREASURY DEPARTMENT That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in theTreasury Department appropriations, fiscal year, 1932.
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, namely: office of the secretarySecretary’s Office. Salaries: Secretary of the Treasury, $15,000; UndersecretarySecretary, Undersecretary, Assistants, and office personnel. of the Treasury, $10,000; three Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $141,755; in all, $166,755: *Provided*, That in expending appropriations or*Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.Vol. 42, p. 1488;
Vol. 45, p. 776.*Ante*, p. 1003.[U. S. C., p. 65; Supp. IV, p. 25](/us/usc/p65/p25).Exception. portions of appropriations contained in this Act for the payment of personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated theIf only one position in a grade. salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious casesAdvances in unusually meritorious cases. of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade, but not more often than once in any fiscal year, and then only to the next higher rate: *Provided*, That this restriction shall not apply (1)Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical services.No reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490.*Ante*, p. 1005.[U.
S. C., p. 66; Supp. IV, p. 25](/us/usc/p66/p25).Transfers to another position without reduction. to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, or
(4)to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate ofHigher salary rates permitted. the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law. When specifically approved by the Secretary of the TreasuryTransfers allowed between appropriations for any bureau, etc., to meet reallocations. transfers may be made between the appropriations or allocations of appropriations in this title under the respective jurisdiction of any bureau, office, institution, or service, in order to meet increases in compensation resulting from the reallocation by the Personnel1218Report thereof to be made to Congress. Classification Board of positions under any such organization unit. Any such transfers shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. Chief Clerk’s office.office of chief clerk and superintendent Chief Clerk, and office personnel.Salaries: For the chief clerk, who shall be the chief executive officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary, Undersecretary, and Assistant Secretaries of the department, and for other personalOperating force of Department buildings. services in the District of Columbia, including the operating force of the Treasury, Liberty Loan, and Auditors’ Buildings, and the Treasury Department Annex, Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place, and of other buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, $558,184. contingent expenses, treasury department Department contingent expenses.Operating expenses, Department buildings.For miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the bureaus and offices of the department, including operating expenses of the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Auditors’, and Liberty Loan Buildings; newspaper clippings, financial journals,Reference books, periodicals, etc.Freight, etc. law books, and other books of reference; freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks and one passenger automobile for the Secretary of the Treasury, all to be used for official purposes only;Fuel, etc. file holders and cases; fuel, oils, grease, and heating supplies andLighting, etc. equipment; gas and electricity for lighting, heating, and power purposes, including material, fixtures, and equipment therefor;Typewriters, etc. purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriters and labor-saving machines and equipment and supplies for same; floor coverings andFurniture, etc. repairs thereto; furniture and office equipment, including supplies therefor and repairs thereto; awnings, window shades, and fixtures; cleaning supplies and equipment; drafting equipment; ammonia for ice plant; flags; hand trucks, ladders, miscellaneous hardware; street-car fares not exceeding $500; thermometers; lavatory equipment and supplies; tools and sharpening same; laundry service; laboratory supplies and equipment, removal of rubbish, postage, and other absolutely necessary articles, supplies, and equipment not*Proviso*.Other appropriations available. otherwise provided for, $205,000: *Provided*, That the appropriations for Public Debt Service and Internal Revenue Service for the fiscal year 1932 are hereby made available for the payment of items otherwiseVol. 37, p. 414.[U. S. C., p. 1019](/us/usc/p1019). properly chargeable to this appropriation, the provisions of section 6, Act of August 23, 1912 (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 669), to the contrary notwithstanding. Rent, D. C.For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the Treasury Department, $12,500. Supply Division.division of supply Chief, and other personal services.Salaries: For the Chief, Division of Supply, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $193,080. Printing and binding.Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, including materials for the use of the bookbinder located in theWork excluded. Treasury Department, but not including work done at the NewVol. 40, p. 1270.[U. S. C., p. 1421](/us/usc/p1421). York customhouse bindery authorized by the Joint Committee on Printing in accordance with the Act of March 1, 1919 (U. S. C., title 44, sec. 111), $693,900. 1219 Stationery: For stationery for the Treasury Department and itsStationery. several bureaus and offices, and field services thereof, including tags, labels, and index cards, printed in the course of manufacture, packing boxes and other materials necessary for shipping stationery supplies, and cost of transportation of stationery supplies purchased free on board point of shipment and of such supplies shipped from Washington to field offices, $404,200. General Supply Committee: For personal services in the DistrictGeneral Supply Committee.Salaries and expenses. of Columbia not exceeding $126,360; necessary expenses, including two two and one-half ton trucks, office supplies and materials, maintenance of motor trucks, telegrams, telephone service, traveling expenses, office equipment, fuel, light, electric current, and other necessary expenses for carrying into effect regulations governing the transfer and disposition of supplies and unusable GovernmentTransfer of supplies, etc. materials, supplies, and equipment in the District of Columbia; in all, $137,360. Repairs to typewriting machines (except bookkeeping and billingTypewriter repairs. machines) in the Government service in the District of Columbia may be made at cost by the General Supply Committee, payment therefor to be effected by transfer and counterwarrant, charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, General Supply Committee.” No part of any money appropriated by this or any other ActTypewriting machines, etc. shall be used during the fiscal year 1932 for the purchase of any standard typewriting machines, except bookkeeping and billing machines, at a price in excess of the following for models with carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches (correspondence models), $70; twelve inches, $75; fourteen inches, $77.50; sixteen inches, $82.50; eighteen inches, $87.50; twenty inches, $94; twenty-two inches, $95; twenty-four inches, $97.50; twenty-six inches, $103.50; twenty-eight inches, $104; thirty inches, $105; thirty-two inches, $107.50; or, for standard typewriting machines distinctively quiet in operation, the maximum prices shall be as follows for models withPrices of standard machines established for 1932. carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches, $87.50; twelve inches, $90.54; fourteen inches, $93.34; eighteen inches, $96.26: *Provided*, That standard typewriting machines distinctively*Proviso*.Quiet machines. quiet in operation purchased during such fiscal year by any such department, establishment, or municipal government shall only be purchased on the written order of the head thereof. All purchases of typewriting machines during the fiscal yearPurchases to be from stock of Committee. 1932 by executive departments and independent establishments for use in the District of Columbia or in the field, except as hereinafter provided, shall be made from the surplus machines in the stock of the General Supply Committee. If the General Supply CommitteeUnserviceable machines allowed for exchange. is unable to furnish serviceable machines to any such service of the Government, it shall furnish unserviceable machines, if available, at current exchange prices, and such machines shall then be applied by the service of the Government receiving them as part payment for new machines from commercial sources in accordance with the prices fixed in the preceding paragraph. And in selling typewritingAcceptance in part payment. machines to the various services the General Supply Committee may accept an equal number of unserviceable machines as part payment thereon at the exchange prices quoted in the current general schedule of supplies. office of commissioner of accounts and depositsAccounts and Deposits Office. For Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits and other personalCommissioner, and office personnel. services in the District of Columbia, $92,660. 1220 Reference books, periodicals, etc.For books of reference, law books, books on finance, technical and scientific books, newspapers, and periodicals, for expenses incurred in completing imperfect series, for library cards, supplies, and for all other necessary expenses, $1,000. Bookkeeping and Warrants Division.division of bookkeeping and warrants Chief, and office personnel.For the chief of the division, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $167,740. Contingent expenses, public moneys.[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 710](/us/rs/s3653/p710).[U. S. C., p. 1010](/us/usc/p1010).Contingent expenses, public moneys: For contingent expenses under the requirements of section 3653 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 545), for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, salaries of special agents, actual expenses of examiners detailed to examine the books, accountsExamination of depositories.[R. S., sec. 3049, p. 719](/us/rs/s3049/p179).[U. S. C., p. 1010](/us/usc/p1010). and money on hand at the several depositories, including national banks acting as depositaries under the requirements of section 3649 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 548), also including examinations of cash accounts at mints and cost of insurance on shipments of money by registered mail when necessary, $200,000. Recoinage of gold coins.[R. S., sec. 3512, p. 696](/us/rs/s3512/696).[U. S. C., p. 995](/us/usc/p995).Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of uncurrent gold coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section 3512 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 319), $6,000. Recoinage of minor coins.Recoinage of minor coins: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent minor coins of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse the Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of such coins and the amount the same will produce in new coins, $30,000. Public Debt Service.public debt service Commissioner, personnel, and other services.For necessary expenses connected with the administration of any public debt issues and United States paper currency issues with which the Secretary of the Treasury is charged, including the purchase of law books, directories, books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, and newspapers, and including the Commissioner of the*Provisos*.Services in the District. Public Debt and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $2,460,000:Indefinite appropriation continued.Vol. 40, p. 292.[U. S. C., p. 1027](/us/usc/p1027). *Provided*, That the amount to be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia shall not exceed $2,436,300: *Provided, further*, That the indefinite appropriation “Expenses of loans, Act of September 24, 1917, as amended and extended” (U. S. C., title 31, secs. 760, 761), shall not be used during the fiscal year 1932 to supplement the appropriation herein made for the current work of the Public Debt Service. Radio advertising expenses.For the payment of expenses of radio advertising in connection with public-debt issues and refunding operations in the public debt for the fiscal year 1932, $10,000, to be payable from the appropriationVol. 40, p. 292.[U. S. C., p. 1027](/us/usc/p1027). “Expenses of loans, Act of September 24, 1917, as amended and extended” (U. S. C., title 31, secs. 760, 761). Distinctive paper for securities.Quantity authorized.Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive paper for United States currency, national-bank currency, and Federal reserve bank currency, not exceeding two million pounds, including transportation of paper, traveling, mill, and other necessary expenses, and salaries of employees, and allowance, in lieu of expenses, of officer or officers detailed from the Treasury Department, not exceeding $50 per month each when actually on duty; in all, $920,000. 1221 division of appointmentsAppointments Division. Salaries: For the chief of the division, and other personal servicesChief, and office personnel. in the District of Columbia, $67,905. office of disbursing clerk Salaries: For the disbursing clerk and other personal services inDisbursing clerk, and office personnel. the District of Columbia, $55,160. bureau of customsCustoms Bureau. Collecting the revenue from customs: For collecting the revenueCollecting customs revenue. from customs, for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, and not to exceed $10,000 for the securing of evidence of violations of the customs laws, including expenses of transportationTransfers of receipts from points lacking Government depositories. and transfer of customs receipts from points where there are no Government depositories, not to exceed $79,200 for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized byLiving quarters, allowances. the Act approved June 26, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 818), not to exceed*Ante*, p. 818. $5,000 for the hire of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $500 for subscriptions to newspapers, $23,983,600,Vehicles, newspapers, etc. of which such amount as may be necessary shall be available for the cost of seizure, storage, and disposition of any merchandise, vehicleExpenses of seizures, under customs laws. and team, automobile, boat, air or water craft, or any other conveyance seized under the provisions of the customs laws, when the proceeds of sale are insufficient therefor or where there is no sale,Services in the District.Field details.*Ante*, p. 741.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 283](/us/usc/p283). and $476,870 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia exclusive of ten persons from the field force authorized to be detailed under section 525 of the Tariff Act of 1930. bureau of the budgetBudget Bureau. Director, $10,000; for the Assistant Director, and all other necessaryDirector, Assistant, personnel, etc, expenses. expenses of the bureau, including compensation of attorneys and other employees in the District of Columbia; contract stenographic reporting services, telegrams, telephone service, law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery, furniture, office equipment, other supplies, traveling expenses, street-car fares, $149,000; in all, $159,000. For printing and binding, $32,000. Printing, etc. federal farm loan bureauFederal Farm Loan Bureau. salaries and expenses For six members of the board,Members of the board, office and field forces. at $10,000 each; personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field; traveling expenses of the members of the board and its officers and employees; contingent andContingent expenses. miscellaneous expenses, including law books, books of reference, periodicals, newspapers, and maps; contract stenographic reporting services, and expert services for the preparation of amortization tables; examination of national farm loan associations; and for the expenses of registrars’ offices, including rent and miscellaneous items; in all,Services in the District. $1,020,000, of which not more than $425,000 may be used for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the amount of*Proviso*.Examiners’ expenses to be assessed against land banks, etc. the expenses and salaries of the employees engaged in the work of the division of examinations of the Federal Farm Loan Bureau shall be assessed in accordance with the provisions of existing law by the Federal Farm Loan Board against Federal land banks, joint-stock land banks and Federal intermediate credit banks, and the proceeds covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. 1222 Allowance for motor vehicle travel.Whenever, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, the Farm Loan Board shall find that the expenses of travel can be reduced thereby, it may, in lieu of actual operating expenses, under such regulations as it may prescribe, authorize the payment of not to exceed 3 cents per mile for motor cycle or 7 cents per mile for an automobile,*Proviso*.Destruction of paid bonds, etc. used for necessary travel on official business: *Provided*, That, at the request of the Federal Farm Loan Board, whenever in its opinion the expense will be reduced thereby, the work in Washington incident to the verification for destruction of paid and canceled intermediate credit bank debentures, farm loan bonds and coupons thereof, may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, be performed by the office of the Register of the Treasury, and the appropriation from which salaries of employées in the office of the Register of the Treasury are paid may be reimbursed from this appropriation for the actual expense of such work. Treasurer’s Office.office of treasurer of the united states Treasurer, Assistant, and office personnel.Salaries: For Treasurer of the United States, Assistant Treasurer, and for other personal services in the District of Columbia, $1,227,800. Redeeming Federal reserve and national currency.For personal services in the District of Columbia, in redeeming Federal reserve and national currency, $332,746, to be reimbursed by the Federal reserve and national banks. Office of Comptroller of the Currency.office of the comptroller of the currency Comptroller, and office personnel.Salaries: Comptroller of the Currency, $5,000; for personal services in the District of Columbia, $257,320; in all, $262,320. Federal reserve and national currency.Personal services.For personal services in the District of Columbia in connection with Federal reserve and national currency, $53,363, to be reimbursed by the Federal reserve and national banks. Special examinations, etc.For special examinations of national banks and bank plates, keeping macerater in Treasury Building in repair, and for other incidental expenses attending the working of the macerater, and for procuring information relative to banks other than national, $1,500. Internal Revenue Bureau.bureau of internal revenue Collecting internal revenue.Commissioner, general counsel, and office and field personnel.Collecting the internal revenue: For expenses of assessing and collecting the internal-revenue taxes, including the employment of a Commissioner of Internal Revenue at $10,000 per annum, a general counsel for the Bureau of Internal Revenue at $10,000 per annum, an assistant to the commissioner, a special deputy commissioner, three deputy commissioners, one stamp agent (to be reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers), and the necessary officers, collectors, deputy collectors, attorneys, experts, agents, accountants, inspectors, clerks, janitors, and messengers in the District of Columbia, the several collection districts, and the several divisions of internalrevenue agents, to be appointed as provided by law, telegraph andRent.Miscellaneous expenses. telephone service, rental of quarters outside the District of Columbia, postage, freight, express, necessary expenses incurred in making investigations in connection with the enrollment or disbarment of practitioners before the Treasury Department in internal-revenue matters, expenses of seizure and sale, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses, including stenographic reporting services, and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, furniture, mechanical devices, law books and books of reference, and such other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia, the several collection districts, and the several divisions of internal-revenue agents,1223 $33,962,560, of which amount not to exceed $8,922,300 may beServices in the District.*Provisos*.Witness fees.*Post*, p. 1325. expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That no part of this amount shall be used in defraying the expenses of any officer designated above, subpoenaed by the United States court to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts”: *Provided further*, That not more thanDetection and prosecution of violations of revenue laws. $100,000 of the total amount appropriated herein may be expended by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for detecting and bringing to trial persons guilty of violating the internal revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violation. Whenever during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, the SecretaryAllowance for motor vehicle travel. of the Treasury shall find that the expenses of travel of officers and employees of the Internal Revenue Service while on official business can be reduced thereby, he may, in lieu of actual operating expenses, under such regulations as he may prescribe, authorize the payment of not to exceed 3 cents per mile for motor cycle or 7 cents per mile for an automobile used for necessary travel on official business. Refunding taxes illegally or erroneously collected: For refundingRefunding taxes. taxes illegally or erroneously collected, as provided by law, including the payment of claims for the fiscal year 1932 and prior years, $26,000,000: *Provided*, That a report shall be made to Congress by*Proviso*.Detailed report to Congress.Vol. 45, p. 996.[U. S. C., Supp. IV. p. 327](/us/usc/p327). internal-revenue districts and alphabetically arranged of all disbursements hereunder in excess of $500 as required by section 3 of the Act of May 29, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 26, sec. 149), including the names of all persons and corporations to whom such payments are made, together with the amount paid to each. bureau of industrial alcoholIndustrial Alcohol Bureau. Salaries and expenses: For expenses to administer the applicableSalaries and expenses*Ante*, p, 430.[U. S. C., p. 853; Supp. IV. pp. 21, 417](/us/usc/p853/pp21/417). provisions of the National Prohibition Act as amended and supplemented (U. S. C., title 27) and internal revenue laws, pursuant to the Act of March 3, 1927 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 5, secs. 281–281e), and the Act of May 27, 1930 (46 Stat., pp. 427–430), including the employment of executive officers, attorneys, inspectors, chemists, assistant chemists, supervisors, storekeeper-gaugers, clerks,Field service.Securing evidence of law violations.Chemical analyses.Supplies, etc.Vehicles. messengers, and other necessary employees in the field and in the Bureau of Industrial Alcohol in the District of Columbia, to be appointed as authorized by law; the securing of evidence of violations of the Acts; the cost of chemical analyses made by others than employees of the United States and expenses incident to such chemists testifying when necessary; the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, laboratory supplies, books, and such other expenditures as may be necessary in the several field offices; cost of acquisition and maintenance of automobiles delivered to the Secretary of the Treasury for use in administration of the law under his jurisdiction; hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; and for rental of necessary quarters; in all, $4,814,420, of which amount not to exceed $370,580 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That not*Provisos*.Collection, etc., of law observance information. exceeding $10,000 may be expended for the collection and dissemination of information and appeal for law observance and law enforcement, including cost of printing, purchase of newspapers, and other1224Distilled spirits may be removed to warehouse for bottling in bond. necessary expenses in connection therewith: *Provided further*, That for purpose of concentration, upon the initiation of the Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol and under regulations prescribed by him, distilled spirits may be removed from any nternal-revenue bonded warehouse to any other such warehouse, and may be bottled[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 327](/us/usc/p327). in bond in any such warehouse before or after payment of the tax, and the commissioner shall prescribe the form and penal sum of bond covering distilled spirits in internal-revenue bonded warehouses and in transit between such warehouses. Bureau of Narcotics.bureau of narcotics Salaries and expenses.Vol. 38, p. 785; Vol. 40, p. 1130; Vol. 41, p. 305; Vol. 42, p. 298; Vol. 43, p. 328.[U. S. C., pp. 211, 635, 742, 784](/us/usc/pp211/635/742/784).Vol 35, p. 614; Vol. 44, p. 1381.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 19](/us/usc/p19).*Ante*, p. 585.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 20](/us/usc/p20).Executive officers, personnel, etc.Salaries and expenses: For expenses to enforce the Act of December 17, 1914 (U. S. C., title 26, sec. 211), as amended by the Revenue Act of 1918 (U. S. C., title 26, secs. 691–708), the Act approved February 9, 1909, as amended by the Act of May 26, 1922 (U. S. C., title 21, secs. 171–184), known as the Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act, pursuant to the Act of March 3, 1927 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 5, secs. 281–281e), and the Act of June 14, 1930 (46 Stat., pp. 585–587), including the employment of executive officers, attorneys, agents, inspectors, chemists, supervisors, clerks, messengers, and other necessary employees in the field and in the Bureau of Narcotics in the District of Columbia, to be appointed as authorizedSecuring evidence of law violations.Chemical analyses. by law; the securing of evidence of violations of the Acts; the costs of chemical analyses made by others than employees of the United States; the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, books, and such other expenditures as may be necessary in the several field offices; cost incurred by officers and employees ofSeizures, etc.R. S. sec., 3460, p. 685.[U. S. C., p. 846](/us/usc/p846). the Bureau of Narcotics in the seizure, storage, and disposition of property under the internal revenue laws when the same is disposed of under section 3460, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 26, sec. 1193); hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; and for rental of necessary quarters; in all, $1,708,528, of which amount not to exceed $211,620 may be expended for personal services in the District*Provisos*.Use of forfeited vehicles, etc.Vol. 43, p. 1116.[U. S. C., p. 858](/us/usc/p858). of Columbia: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury may authorize the use, by narcotic agents, of motor vehicles confiscated under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1925 (U. S. C., title 27, sec. 43), as amended, and to pay the cost of acquisition,Collection, etc., of law observance information. maintenance, repair, and operation thereof: *Provided further*, That not exceeding $10,000 may be expended for the collection and dissemination of information and appeal for law observance and law enforcement, including cost of printing, purchase of newspapers, and other necessary expenses in connection therewith: *Provided further*,Credits for sums expended, etc. That moneys expended from this appropriation for the purchase of narcotics and subsequently recovered shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation for enforcement of the narcotic Acts current at the time of the deposit. Coast Guard.coast guard Office personnel.Office of the commandant: For personal services in the District of Columbia, $374,660. Technical services.The services of skilled draftsmen and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Coast Guard in connection with the construction and repair of Coast Guard vessels and boats, to be paid from the appropriation “Repairs to Coast Guard vessels”:1225 *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year*Proviso*.Limitation, etc. 1932 shall not exceed $12,000, A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall beReport to Congress. made to Congress each year in the Budget. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorizedService expenditure. work of the Coast Guard, including the expense of maintenance, repair, and operation of vessels forfeited to the United States and delivered to the Treasury Department under the terms of the ActVol. 43, p. 1116.[U. S. C., p. 858](/us/usc/p858). approved March 3, 1925 (U. S. C., title 27, sec. 41), as follows, including not to exceed $1,250 for purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, including maintenance, repair, and operation of one for Coast Guard headquarters, to be used only for official purposes: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissionedPay, etc., officers, and enlisted men. officers, cadets, warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, active and retired, temporary cooks, surfmen, substitute surfmen, and two civilian instructors, and not exceeding $6,000 for cash prizes for men for excellence in gunnery, target practice, and engineering competitions, for carrying out the provisions of the ActDeath allowance.Vol. 41, p. 825.[U. S. C., p. 1143](/us/usc/p1143). of June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., title 34, sec. 943), rations or commutation thereof for cadets, petty officers, and other enlisted men, mileage and expenses allowed by law for officers; and traveling expenses for other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, including transportation of enlisted men and applicants for enlistment, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof, expenses of recruiting for the Coast Guard, rent of rendezvous, and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen; transportation and packing allowances for baggage or household effects of commissioned officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men, $20,640,000; For fuel, lubricating oil, kerosene, and water for vessels, stations,Fuel and water. and houses of refuge, $2,596,115; For outfits, ship chandlery, engineers’ stores, and draft animalsOutfits, stores, etc. and their maintenance, $2,218,337; For rebuilding and repairing stations and houses of refuge, temporaryStations, houses of refuge, etc. leases, rent, and improvements of property for Coast Guard purposes, including use of additional land where necessary, $696,450; For costal communication lines and facilities and their maintenance,Coastal communication. and communication service, $250,000; For compensation of civilian employees in the field, includingCivilian field employees. clerks to district commanders, $105,220. For contingent expenses, including subsistence of shipwreckedContingent expenses. persons succored by the Coast Guard; for the recreation, amusement, comfort, contentment, and health of the enlisted men of the Coast Guard, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding $40,000; instruments and apparatus, supplies, technical books and periodicals, services necessary to the carrying on of scientific investigation, and experimental and research work in relation to telephony and radio-telegraphy, not exceeding $4,000; care, transportation, and burial of deceased officers and. enlisted men, including those who die in Government hospitals; wharfage, towage, freight, storage, repairs to station apparatus, advertising, surveys, medals, labor, newspapers and periodicals for statistical purposes, not to exceed $5,000 for cost of special instruction including maintenance of students, and all other necessary expenses which are not included under any other heading, $241,800; For completion of one of the Coast Guard cutters authorizedCompleting cutter.Vol. 44, p. 725. in the Act entitled “An Act to privide for the construction of ten vessels for the Coast Guard,” approved June 10, 1926 (44 Stat., p. 725), $800,000, to be immediately available. 1226 Cutter for Lake Michigan service.Completion.*Ante*, pp. 173, 890.For the completion of the vessel authorized in the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction of a vessel for the Coast Guard for rescue and assistance work on Lake Michigan,” approved April 18, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 890), $200,000; Construction of seaplanes.Patrol boats and equipment.*Post*, p. 1424.Additional vessels: For additional seaplanes and their equipment, including spare parts and accessories, to cost not to exceed $160,000; for additional patrol boats, and their equipment, to be constructed or purchased in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, $440,000; in all, $600,000, to remain available until expended; Repairs to vessels.For repairs to Coast Guard vessels and boats, $2,400,000; Port Orford (Oreg.) Station.Establishing, equipping, etc.For establishing and equipping a Coast Guard station at or near Port Orford on the coast of Oregon as authorized in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, and for otherVol. 26, p. 958. purposes,” approved March 3, 1891 (26 Stat., p. 958), to be immediately available, $83,500. Coast Guard Academy.Construction, etc.Coast Guard Academy: For completing the construction and equipment of buildings and appurtenances for the Coast Guard Academy authorized in the Act entitled “An Act to provide for theVol. 45, p. 1189. acquisition of a site and the construction thereon and equipment of buildings and appurtenances for the Coast Guard Academy,” approved February 16, 1929 (45 Stat., p. 1189), and the Act entitled*Ante*, p. 145. “An Act to change the limit of cost for the construction of the Coast Guard Academy,” approved April 7, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 145), including the preparation of necessary plans, drawings, designs, specifications, and estimates, $1,640,000, to be immediately available*Proviso*.Supervision expenses. and to remain available until expended: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to cause the construction of such buildings and appurtenances to be supervised by the field force of the Office of the Supervising Architect, and the proper appropriations for the support and maintenance of that office shall be reimbursed for the cost of such supervision and the travel incident thereto from appropriations for such construction. Life Saving Service.Retired pay to former members of.*Ante*, pp. 164, 890.For retired pay for certain members of the former Life-Saving Service authorized by the Act entitled “An Act providing for retired pay for certain members of the former Life-Saving Service, equivalent to compensation granted to members of the Coast Guard,” approved April 14, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 164), $135,000; Total, Coast Guard, exclusive of commandant’s office, $32,606,422. Engraving and Printing Bureau.bureau of engraving and printing Work authorized for fiscal year 1932.For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work, during the fiscal year 1932, of not exceeding 73,000,000 delivered sheets of United States currency and national-bank currency, 93,033,630 delivered*Post*, p. 1584. sheets of internal-revenue stamps includingVol. 38, p. 786; Vol. 44, p. 99.[U. S. C. p. 742](/us/usc/p742). opium orders and special-tax stamps required under the Act of December 17, 1914 (U. S. C., title 26, sec. 211), 5,243,436 delivered sheets of withdrawal permits, and 9,500,000 delivered sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work, as follows: Director, assistants, and office personnel.Wages.For the director, two assistant directors, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including wages of rotary press plate printers at per diem rates and all other plate printers at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not toMaterials, etc. exceed the rates usually paid for such work; for engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials, including distinctive and nondistinctive paper, except distinctive paper for United States currency, national-bank currency and Federal reserve bank currency; equipment of, repairs to, and maintenance of buildings and1227 grounds and for minor alterations to buildings; directories, technicalBooks of reference, periodicals, etc. books and periodicals, and books of reference, not exceeding $300; rent of warehouse in the District of Columbia; traveling expenses not to exceed $2,000; equipment, maintenance, and supplies for the emergency room for the use of all employees in the Bureau ofEmergency room. Engraving and Printing who may be taken suddenly ill or receiveMiscellaneous expenses. injury while on duty; miscellaneous expenses, including not to exceed $1,500 for articles approved by the Secretary of the Treasury as being necessary for the protection of the person of employees; for transfer to the Bureau of Standards for scientific investigationsScientific investigations by Standards Bureau. in connection with the work of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing not to exceed $15,000; and for purchase, maintenance, and drivingVehicles. of necessary motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury $6,700,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. During the fiscal year 1932 all proceeds derived from workProceeds of work to be credited to Bureau. performed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, not covered and embraced in the appropriation for said bureau for the said fiscal year, instead of being covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, as providedVol. 24, p. 227.[U. S. C., p. 986](/us/usc/p896). by the Act of August 4, 1886 (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 176), shall be credited when received to the appropriation for said bureau for the fiscal year 1932. secret service divisionSecret Service Division. Salaries: For the chief of the division and other personal servicesChief, and office personnel. in the District of Columbia, $33,620. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expensesSuppressing counterfeiting, etc. incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money and persons engaged in counterfeiting, forging, and altering United States notes, bonds, national-bank notes, Federal reserve notes, Federal reserve bank notes, and other obligations and securities of the United States and of foreign governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and other crimes against the laws of the United States relating to the Treasury Department and the several branches of the public service under its control; hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carryingProtection of the person of the President, etc. vehicles when necessary; purchase of arms and ammunition; traveling expenses; and for no other purpose whatever, except in the protection of the person of the President and the members of his immediate family and of the person chosen to be President of the United States, $564,140: *Provided*, That no part of this amount shall be*Proviso*.Witness fees. used in defraying the expenses of any person subpcenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts.” White House police: Captain, $3,600; lieutenant, $3,050; threeWhite House police.Salaries. sergeants at $2,750 each; privates—thirty-three at $2,400 each, one at $2,300, eight at $2,200 each, and one at $2,100; and for automatic promotions as provided by law; in all, $116,299. For uniforming and equipping the White House police, includingUniforms, equipment, etc. the purchase, issue, and repair of revolvers and the purchase and issue of ammunition and miscellaneous supplies, to be procured in such manner as the President in his discretion may determine, $3,500. 1228 Public Health Service.public health service Office personnel.Salaries, office of Surgeon General: For personal services in the District of Columbia, $340,135. Pay, allowance, etc., Surgeon General, officers, etc.For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for commissioned medical officers, including the Surgeon General, and pharmacists,*Proviso*.Use of field appropriations.*Ante*, p. 160. $1,405,968: *Provided*, That field appropriations of the Public Health Service available for personal services during the fiscal years 1931 and 1932 shall be available for the pay and allowances of officers commissioned under the provisions of the Act approved April 9, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 150). Acting assistant surgeons.For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medical officers), $397,984. Other employees.For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth), $1,102,090. Freight, transportation, etc.For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the expenses, except membership fees, of officers when officially detailed to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of public health, and the packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of the personal effects of commissioned officers, scientific personnel, pharmacists, and nurses of the Public Health Service, upon*Proviso*.Transporting remains of officers. permanent change of station $29,000: *Provided*, That funds expendable for transportation and traveling expenses may also be used for preparation for shipment and transportation to their former homes of remains of officers who die in line of duty. National Institute of Health.*Ante*, p. 379.Books.Medical examinations, etc.Vol. 39, p. 885.[U. S. C., p. 137](/us/usc/p137).For maintaining the National Institute of Health, $48,000. For journals and scientific books, office of Surgeon General, $500. For medical examinations, including the amount necessary for the medical inspection of aliens, as required by section 16 of the Act of February 5, 1917 (U. S. C., title 8, sec. 152), medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies, including prosethetic and orthopedic supplies to be furnished under regulations approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, for beneficiaries (other than patients of the United States Veterans’ Bureau) of the Public Health Service and persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service under the immigration laws and regulations, including necessary personnel, regular and reserve commissioned officers of the Public HealthServices in the District.General expenses. Service, personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including the furnishing and laundering of white duck coats, trousers, smocks, aprons, and caps to employees whose duties make necessary the wearing of same, maintenance, minor repairs, equipment, leases, fuel, lights, water, freight, transportation and travel, maintenance, exchange and operation of motor trucks and passenger motor vehicles, and including not exceeding $3,000 for the purchase of passenger motor vehicles (at a cost not to exceed $1,000 each, including the value of any vehicle exchanged, except for ambulances),Lepers, transportation, care, etc. transportation, care, maintenance, and treatment of lepers, including transportation to their homes in the continental United States of recovered indigent leper patients, court costs, and other expenses incident to proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken for commitment of mentally incompetent persons to hospitals for theInsane, care, etc. care and treatment of the insane, and reasonable burial expenses (not exceeding $100 for any patient dying in hospital), $6,563,812:*Provisos*.Use of Ellis Island hospitals. *Provided*, That the Immigration Service shall permit the Public Health Service to use the hospitals at Ellis Island Immigration Station for the care of Public Health Service patients free of expense for physical upkeep, but with a charge of actual cost of fuel, light, water, telephone, and similar supplies and services, to be coveredReceipts covered into Treasury. into the proper Immigration Service appropriations; and money collected by the Immigration Service on account of hospital expenses1229 of persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service under the immigration laws and regulations shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided further*, That no partUses forbidden. of this sum shall be used for the quarantine service, the prevention of epidemics, or scientific work of the character provided for under the appropriations which follow. All sums received by the Public Health Service during the fiscalDisposal of receipts. year 1932, except allotments and reimbursements on account of patients of the Veterans’ Administration, allotments and reimbursements on account of medical and other services to the Federal penal and correctional institutions of the Department of Justice, under the provisions of the Act approved May 13, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 273), and*Ante*, p. 273.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 305](/us/usc/p305). amounts received under the provisions of sections 9 and 12 of the Act approved January 19, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 21, secs. 229, 232), shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, exclusiveQuarantine service. of pay of officers and employees, of United States quarantine stations, including the exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and including not exceeding $3,500 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (at a cost not to exceed $1,000 each, including the value of any vehicle exchanged except for ambulances), $617,150. Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case onlyPrevention of epidemics. of threatened or actual epidemic of infectious or contagious disease, to aid State and local boards or otherwise in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, $400,000, including the purchase of newspapers and clippings from newspapers containing information relating to the prevalence of disease and the public health. Field investigations: For investigations of diseases of man andField investigations. conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof, including sanitation and sewage, and the pollution of navigable streams and lakes of the United States, including personal service, and including the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and not exceeding $2,400 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (at a cost not to exceed $800 each, including the value of any vehicle exchanged), $414,700. Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State andInterstate quarantine service. municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, $68,040. Rural sanitation: For special studies of, and demonstration workRural sanitation. in, rural sanitation, including personal services, and including not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $338,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Local contributions. That no part of this appropriation shall be available for demonstration work in rural sanitation in any community unless the State, county, or municipality in which the community is located agrees to pay one-half the expenses of such demonstration work. Biologic products: To regulate the propagation and sale of viruses,Biologic products.Regulating sale of viruses, etc. serums, toxins, and analogous products, including arsphenamine, and for the preparation of curative and diagnostic biologic products, including personal services of reserve commissioned officers and other personnel, $46,620. For the maintenance and expenses of the Division of VenerealVenereal Diseases Division.Maintenance.Vol. 40, p. 886.[U. S. C., p. 1315](/us/usc/p1315). Diseases, established by sections 3 and 4, Chapter XV, of the Act approved July 9, 1918 (U. S. C., title 42, secs. 24, 25), including personal and other services in the field and in the District of Columbia,1230 $100,000, of which amount not to exceed $24,680 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Mental Hygiene Division.*Ante*, p. 586.Division of Mental Hygiene: For expenses incident to carrying out the provisions of the Act approved June 14, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 585) and of the Act approved January 19, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp.Vol. 45, p. 1086.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 304](/us/usc/p304). III, title 21, sec. 225), including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, and the packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of the personal effects of the personnel of the Public Health Service upon permanent change of station; and including field studies andNarcotic farms.[U. S. C, Supp. IV, p. 303](/us/usc/p303). investigations incident to the establishment of narcotic farms; personal services of reserve commissioned officers and pharmacists; scientific and educational supplies; law books, books of reference, newspapers, and periodicals in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and the furnishing and laundering of uniforms to employees whose duties make necessary the wearing of the same, including white duck coats, trousers, smocks, aprons, caps, and insignia or other*Proviso*.Selection of sites. derices for identification purposes; $41,355: *Provided*, That appropriations for the office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury for the fiscal year 1932 shall be available for the payment of expenses incident to the selection of sites, as provided in section 2 of theVol. 45, p. 1085. Act authorizing the establishment of two narcotic farms approved January 19, 1929. Educational exhibits.For prevention of spread of diseases.Educational exhibits: For the preparation of public-health exhibits designed to demonstrate the cause, prevalence, methods of spread, and measures for preventing diseases dangerous to the public health, including personal services and the cost of acquiring, transporting, and displaying exhibit material, $2,500. Bureau of the Mint.Bureau of the Mint Director’s office.office of director of the mint Director, and office personnel.Salaries: For the Director of the Mint and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $39,060. Transporting bullion and coin.For transportation of bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints and assay offices, $10,000. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expended under the direction of the director: For assay laboratory chemicals. fuel, materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, $900. Examinations, etc.For examination of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purpose of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations and for the collection of statistics relative to the annual production and consumption of the precious metals in the United States, $5,600. Mints and assay offices.mints and assay offices Employees, and other designated expenses.For compensation of officers and employees of the mints at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, San Francisco, California, Denver, Colorado, Carson City, Nevada, and New Orleans, Louisiana, and assay offices at New York, New York, Boise, Idaho, Helena, Montana, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Seattle, Washington, and for incidental and contingent expenses, including traveling expenses, new machinery, and repairs, cases and enameling for medals manufactured, net wastage in melting and refining and in coining departments, loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coins, not to exceed $500 for the expenses of the annual assay commission, and not exceeding $1,000 in value of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint at Philadelphia, $1,576,360. 1231 office of supervising architectSupervising Architect’s office. public buildings, construction and rentPublic buildings. For the acquisition of sites or of additional land, commencement,Acquisition of sites for construction, etc., of projects authorized by Public Buildings Acts.Vol. 44, pp. 632, 687.[U. S. C. Supp. IV, p. 562](/us/usc/p562). Treasury Department, vault. continuation, or completion, of construction in connection with any or all projects authorized under the provisions of sections 3 and 5 of the Public Buildings Act, approved May 25, 1926 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 40, secs. 343, 345), and the Acts amendatory thereof, approved February 24, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 40, sec. 345) and March 31, 1930 (46 Stat., pp. 136, 137), within the respective limits of cost fixed for such projects, $60,000,000. Washington, District of Columbia, Treasury Building: For the construction of a two-story vault in the north court of the Treasury Building, including all necessary mechanical and vault equipment for same, and incidental changes to the building in connection therewith, $1,250,000. Fort Monroe, Virginia, Quarantine Station: For rebuilding ofFort Monroe, Va.Quarantine station. bulkhead and removal of certain buildings, $55,000. The foregoing work under quarantine stations shall be performed under the supervision and direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. Remodeling, and so forth, public buildings: For remodeling,Remodeling, etc., occupied buildings. enlarging, and extending completed and occupied public buildings, including any necessary and incidental additions to or changes in mechanical equipment thereof, so as to provide or make available additional space in emergent cases, not to exceed an aggregate of $25,000 at any one building, $500,000. Acquisition of triangle properties under the Act approved JanuaryAcquiring triangle properties, etc., for sites, D. C.Vol. 45, pp, 51, 1663.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 561](/us/usc/561).*Ante*, p. 136. 13, 1928: For continuing the acquisition of property as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to acquire certain lands within the District of Columbia to be used as sites for public buildings,” approved January 13, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 40, sec. 341), as amended by the Act approved March 31, 1930 (46 Stat., pp. 136, 137), $5,000,000. Rent of temporary quarters: For rent of temporary quarters andTemporary quarters, etc. alterations of same for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into leases for this purpose for periods not exceeding three years, $1,000,000. PUBLIC BUILDINGS, REPAIRS, EQUIPMENT, ANDRepairs, equipment, etc. GENERAL EXPENSES Repairs and preservation: For repairs and preservation of allRepairs, preservation, etc., of completed and occupied buildings.*Post*, p. 1605. completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, and for wire partitions and fly screens therefor; the wharf and monument at Jamestown,Jamestown, Va., wharf, etc. Virginia, and other Government wharves and piers under the control of the Treasury Department, together with the necessary dredging adjacent thereto; care of vacant sites under the control of the Treasury Department, such as necessary fences, filling dangerous holes, cutting grass and weeds, but not for any permanent improvements thereon; repairs and preservation of buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargement of public buildings, the expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed 15 per centum of the annual rental of such buildings: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Marine hospitals, quarantine stations, etc. That of the sum herein appropriated not exceeding $200,000 may be used for the repair and preservation of marine hospitals, the1232 national leprosarium, and quarantine stations (including MarcusTreasury buildings, D. C. Hook) and completed and occupied outbuildings (including wire partitions and fly screens for same), and not exceeding $24,000 for the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Liberty Loan, and Auditors’ BuildingsRestriction on personal services. in the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That this sum shall not be available for the payment of personal services except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $1,635,000. Mechanical equipment.Mechanical equipment: For installation and repair of mechanical equipment in all completed and occupied public buildings under theHeating, lighting, etc.*Post*, p. 1605. control of the Treasury Department, including heating, hoisting, plumbing, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum cleaning, and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic-tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit, wiring, call-bell and signal systems, and for maintenance and repair of tower clocks; for installation and repair of mechanical equipment, for any of the foregoing items, in buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargements of public buildings, the total expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed 10 per centum of the annual rentals of such buildings: *Provided*, That of the sum herein appropriated, not exceeding $125,000 may be used for the installation and repair of mechanical equipment in marine hospitals, the national leprosarium, and quarantine stations (including MarcusTreasury buildings. Hook), and not exceeding $38,000 for the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Liberty Loan, and Auditors’ Buildings in the District of Columbia, but not including the generating plant and its maintenance in the Auditors’ Building, and not exceeding $10,000 for the maintenance,Pneumatic-tube service, New York City. changes in, and repairs of pneumatic-tube system between the appraisers’ warehouse and the new customhouse in Bowling Green, Borough of Manhattan, in the city of New York, including repairs to the street pavement and subsurface necessary, incident to, or resulting from, such maintenance, changes, or repairs: *Provided further*,Personal-service restriction. That this sum shall not be available for the payment of personal services except for work done by contract, or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $700,000. Vaults and safes.Vaults and safes: For vaults and lock-box equipments and repairs thereto in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, and for the necessary safe equipments and repairs thereto in all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, whether completed and occupied or in course of construction, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $50 at any one building, $165,000. General expenses.Vol. 35, p. 537.[U. S. C., p. 1020](/us/usc/p1020).Technical, etc., services.General expenses: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to execute and give effect to the provisions of section 6 of the Act of May 30, 1908 (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 683): For salaries of architectural and engineering personnel and inspectors in the District ofExpenses of superintendence. Columbia and elsewhere, not exceeding $1,727,900; expenses of superintendence, including expenses of all inspectors and other officers and employees, on duty or detailed in connection with work on public buildings and the furnishing and equipment thereof, and the work of the Supervising Architect’s Office, under orders from the TreasuryTransporting effects. Department; for the transportation of household goods, incident to change of headquarters of district engineers, construction engineers, inspection engineers, and inspectors, not in excess of five thousand pounds at any one time, together with the necessary expense incident to packing and draying the same, not to exceed in any one year a total1233 expenditure of $4,500; office rent and expenses of field force, includingOffice rent, field supplies, etc. temporary, stenographic, and other assistance, in the preparation of reports and the care of public property, and so forth; advertising; office supplies, including drafting materials, especially prepared paper, typewriting machines, adding machines, and other mechanical labor-saving devices, and exchange of same; furniture, carpets, electric-light fixtures, and office equipment; telegraph and telephone service; freight, expressage, and postage incident to shipments of drawings, furniture and supplies for the field forces, testing instruments, and so forth, including articles and supplies not usually payable from other appropriations: *Provided*, That no expenditures*Proviso*.Transporting operating supplies excluded. shall be made hereunder for transportation of operating supplies for public buildings; not to exceed $1,000 for books of reference, law books, technical periodicals and journals; maintenance, operation,Other contingencies. and repair of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle to be used for official purposes only; ground rent at Salamanca, NewSalamanca, N. Y.Ground rent. York, for which payment may be made in advance; contingencies of every kind and description, traveling expenses of site agents, and of employees directed by the Secretary of the Treasury to attend meetings of technical and professional societies in connection with the work of the Office of the Supervising Architect, recording deeds and other evidences of title, photographic instrument, chemicals, plates, and photographic materials, and such other articles and supplies and such minor and incidental expenses not enumerated, connected solely with work on public buildings, the acquisition of sites, and the administrative work connected with the annual appropriations under the Supervising Architect’s Office as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order or approve, but not including heat, light, janitor service, awnings, curtains, orObjects excluded. any expenses for the general maintenance of the Treasury Building, or surveys, plaster models, progress photographs, test-pit borings, or mill and shop inspections, $1,938,300, of which amount hot to exceed $1,259,600 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Outside professional services: To enable the Secretary of theOutside professional services.Vol. 44, p. 631.*Ante*, p. 137.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p, 561](/us/usc/p561) Treasury to obtain outside professional and/or technical services, as provided by the Public Buildings Act approved May 25, 1926 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 40, sec. 342), and by the Act approved March 31, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 137), and to pay reasonable compensation for such services, and to employ appraisers, when necessary, by contract or otherwise, $2,400,000, to remain available until expended. public buildings, operating expensesOperating expenses. Operating force: For such personal services as the Secretary of theOperating force.Personal services, assistant custodians, etc. Treasury may deem necessary in connection with the care, maintenance, and repair of all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department (except as hereinafter provided), together with the grounds thereof and the equipment and furnishings therein, including assistant custodians, janitors, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen; telephone operators for the operation of telephone switchboards or equivalent telephone switchboard equipment in Federal buildings, jointly serving in each case two or more governmental activities; engineers, firemen, elevator conductors, coal passers, electricians, dynamo tenders, lampists, and wiremen; mechanical labor force in connection with said buildings, including carpenters,Pay restriction. plumbers, steam fitters, machinists, and painters, but in no case shall the rates of compensation for such mechanical labor force be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such1234*Proviso*.Buildings for which available. services are employed, $8,460,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriation shall be available for use in connection with all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including the wharf and monument at Jamestown, Virginia, and the customhouse in the District of Columbia, but not including any other public building in the District of Columbia, and exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices. Furniture, etc.Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture, carpets, and repairs of same, for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for gas and electric lighting fixtures and repairs of same for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including marine hospitals and quarantineExclusions. stations, but exclusive of mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for furniture and carpets for public buildings and extension of public buildings in course of construction which are to remain under the custody and control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and buildings constructed for other executive departments*Provisos*.Personal services restriction. or establishments of the Government, $1,150,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriation shall not be used for personal services except for work done under contract or for temporary job labor under exigency and not exceeding at one time the sum ofUse of present furniture. $100 at any one building: *Provided further*, That all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings or in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not. Operating supplies.Fuel, light, power, water, etc.Operating supplies: For fuel, steam, gas for lighting and heating purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for lighting, heating, and power purposes, telephone service for custodial forces; removal of ashes and rubbish, snow, and ice; cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodial forces in the care and maintenance of completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, including the wharf and monument at Jamestown, Virginia, and in the care and maintenance of the equipment and furnishings in such buildings; miscellaneous supplies, tools, and appliances required in the operation (not embracing repairs) of the mechanical equipment, including heating, plumbing, hoisting, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum-cleaning and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic-tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit wiring, call-bell and signal systems in such buildings, and for the transportation ofBuildings excluded. articles or supplies, authorized herein (including the customhouse in the District of Columbia, but excluding any other public building under the control of the Treasury Department within the District of Columbia, and excluding also marine hospitals and quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any oneGas governors. building), $3,242,800. The appropriation made herein for gas shall*Provisos*.Rentals thereof. include the rental and use of gas governors when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury in writing: *Provided*, That rentals shall not be paid for such gas governors greater than 35 per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall1235 direct: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Treasury isJoint telephone switchboard contracts authorized. authorized to contract for telephone service in public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department by means of telephone switchboards or equivalent telephone-switching equipment jointly serving in each case two or more Government activities where he finds that joint service is economical and in the interest of the Government, and to secure reimbursement for the cost of such joint service from available appropriations for telephone expenses of the bureaus and offices receiving the same. Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care,Custody of lands, etc. protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, acquired and held under sections 3749 and 3750 of[R. S., secs. 3749, 3750, p. 739](/us/rs/s3749/p739).[U. S. C., p. 1305](/us/usc/p1305). the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 40, secs. 301, 302), the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers’ fees in connection therewith, $550. Office of Supervising Architect.—Salaries: For the SupervisingSupervising Architect’s office.Supervising Architect, and office personnel. Architect, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $427,800. miscellaneous items, treasury department american printing house for the blindAmerican Printing House for the Blind. To enable the American Printing House for the Blind more adequatelyExpenses. to provide books and apparatus for the education of the blind in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved FebruaryVol. 44, p. 1060.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 296](/us/usc/p296). 8, 1927 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 20, sec. 101), $65,000. TITLE II.— POST OFFICE DEPARTMENTPost Office Department. The following sums are appropriated in conformity with the ActAppropriations, fiscal year 1932.Vol. 5, p. 80.[U. S. C., p. 49](/us/usc/p49). of July 2, 1836 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 380, title 39, sec. 786), for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, namely: post office department; washington, district of columbiaDepartment expenses. office of the postmaster generalPostmaster General’s office. Postmaster General, $15,000; for personal services in the office ofPostmaster General, and office personnel. the Postmaster General in the District of Columbia, $220,790; in all, $235,790. When specifically approved by the Postmaster General, transfersTransfers allowed between appropriations for bureaus, etc., to meet reallocation increases. may be made between the appropriations or allocations of appropriations in this title under the respective jurisdiction of any bureau, office, institution, or service, in order to meet increases in compensation resulting from the reallocation by the Personnel Classification Board of positions under any such organization unit. Any suchReport thereof to Congress. transfers shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. post office department buildingsDepartment buildings. For personal services in the District of Columbia for the care,Personal services, operating force. maintenance, and protection of the main Post Office Department Building, the Washington City Post Office Building, and the mail equipment shops building, $279,445. salaries in bureaus and officesDepartment bureaus and offices. For personal services in the District of Columbia in bureaus andAllotments specified. offices of the Post Office Department in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, $540,240. Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, $444,820.1236 Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, $775,890. Office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $369,150. Office of the Solicitor for the Post Office Department, $80,640. Office of the chief inspector, $207,140. Office of the purchasing agent, $38,630. Bureau of Accounts, $47,370. Department contingent expenses.Contingent Expenses, Post Office Department Stationery.For stationery and blank books, index and guide cards, folders, and binding devices, including purchase of free penalty envelopes, $20,000. Heating, lighting, power, etc.For fuel and repairs to heating, lighting, ice, and power plant, including repairs to elevators, purchase and exchange of tools and electrical supplies, and removal of ashes, $48,000. Telegraphing.For telegraphing, $6,000. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous items, including purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; not to exceed $3,000 for purchase, exchange, hire, and maintenance of motor trucks and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles; street-car fares not exceeding $540; plumbing; repairsPostage.Vol. 44, p. 2243. to department buildings; floor coverings; postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad, which is not exempt under article 47 of the London convention of the Universal Postal Union, $56,000; and of such sum of $56,000, not exceeding $14,500 may be expended for telephone service, not exceeding $1,800 may be expended for purchase and exchange of law books, books of reference, railway guides, city directories, and books necessary to conduct the business of the department, and not exceeding $2,000 may be expended forAttendance at meetings. expenses, except membership fees, of attendance at meetings or conventions concerned with postal affairs, when incurred on the written authority of the Postmaster General, and not exceeding $800 may be expended for expenses of the purchasing agent and of the solicitor and attorneys connected with his office while traveling on business of the department. Furniture, etc.For furniture and filing cabinets, $7,500. Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Post Office Department, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, and includingPostal Laws and Regulations.Revised edition. printing, binding, and wrapping a revised edition of the Postal raws and Regulations, such edition to be prepared under the direction of the Postmaster General, and printed at the Government Printing Office, $1,210,000. Reimbursement for heating, etc., Washington City Post Office Building.For reimbursement of the Government Printing Office or Capitol power plant for the cost of furnishing steam for heating and electric current for lighting and power to the Post Office Department Building at Massachusetts Avenue and North Capitol Street, District of Columbia, $50,000. Field service appropriations not to be used for department.Appropriations hereinafter made for the field service of the Post Office Department, except as otherwise provided, shall not be expended for any of the purposes hereinbefore provided for on account of the Post Office Department in the District of Columbia:*Provisos*.Travel expenses payable from sendee appropriations. *Provided*, That the actual and necessary expenses of officials and employees of the Post Office Department and Postal Service, when traveling on official business, may continue to be paid from the appropriations for the service in connection with which the travel is performed, and appropriations for the fiscal year 1932 of the character heretofore used for such purposes shall be available therefor:Funds available for examining estimates for field appropriations. *Provided further*, That appropriations hereinafter made, except such as are exclusively for payment of compensation, shall be1237 immediately available for expenses in connection with the examination of estimates for appropriations in the field including per diem allowances in lieu of actual expenses of subsistence. Field Service, Post Office DepartmentField Service. office of the postmaster generalPostmaster General. For gas, electric power, and light, and the repair of machinery,Equipment shops building. United States Post Office Department equipment shops building, $7,000. The Postmaster General is hereby authorized to pay a cash rewardCash rewards to employees for inventions improving the service. for any invention, suggestion, or series of suggestions for an improvement or economy in device, design, or process applicable to the Postal Service submitted by one or more employees of the Post Office Department or the Postal Service which shall be adopted for use and will clearly effect a material economy or increase efficiency, and for that purpose the sum of $1,500 is hereby appropriated: *Provided*, That the sums so paid to employees in accordance with*Provisos*.Additional to regular pay.Amounts limited. this Act shall be in addition to their usual compensation: *Provided further*, That the total amount paid under the provisions of this Act shall not exceed $1,000 in any month or for any one invention or suggestion: *Provided further*, That no employee shall be paid aAgreement for Government use required. reward under this Act until he has properly executed an agreement to the effect that the use by the United States of the invention, sug gestion, or series of suggestions made by him shall not form the basis of a further claim of any nature upon the United States by him, his heirs, or assigns: *Provided further*, That this appropriationAppropriation restricted. shall be available for no other purpose. For the transportation and delivery of equipment, materials, andShipment of equipment, etc. supplies for the Post Office Department and Postal Service by freight, express, or motor transportation, and other incidental expenses, $500,000. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, officeTravel, etc. of the Postmaster General, $1,000. To enable the Postmaster General to pay claims for damages,Damage claims.Vol. 41, p. 63.[U. S. C., p 50](/us/usc/p50). occurring during the fiscal year 1932 or in prior fiscal years, to persons or property in accordance with the provisions of the Deficiency Appropriation Act approved June 16, 1921 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 392), $18,000. Office of chief inspector: For salaries of fifteen inspectors inInspectors. charge of divisions, at $4,500 each; and five hundred and twenty-five inspectors, $1,995,450; in all, $2,062,950. For traveling expenses of inspectors, inspectors in charge, theTraveling expenses, investigations of. chief post-office inspector, and the assistant chief post-office inspector, and for the traveling expenses of four clerks performing stenographic and clerical assistance to post-office inspectors in the investigation of important fraud cases, and for tests, exhibits, documents, photographs, office and other necessary expenses incurred by post-office inspectors in connection with their official investigations, $520,000: *Provided*, That not exceeding $26,440 of this sum shall be*Proviso*.Allotment for chemical investigations. available for transfer by the Postmaster General to other departments and independent establishments for chemical and other investigations. For necessary miscellaneous expenses of division headquarters, $14.000. For compensation of one hundred and thirty clerks at divisionClerks at division headquarters. headquarters,Miscellaneous. $329,862. For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and convictionRewards for detecting law violations. of post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers, $45,000: 1238*Provisos*.Death of offender.*Provided*, That rewards may be paid, in the discretion of the Postmaster General, when an offender of the class mentioned was killed in the act of committing the crime or in resisting lawful arrest:Rates limited. *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall be used to pay any rewards at rates in excess of those specified in Post Office Department Order 7708, dated July 1, 1922, except that not more than $2,000 may be paid, in the discretion of the Postmaster General,Robbing postal employees. for the arrest and conviction of any person on the charge of robbing a postmaster or any employee of a post office of money or propertySecuring information. of the United States: *Provided further*, That of the amount herein appropriated not to exceed $20,000 may be expended, in the discretion of the Postmaster General, for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the postal laws and for services and information looking towarch the apprehension of criminals. First Assistant Postmaster General.office of the first assistant postmaster general Postmasters, etc.For compensation to postmasters and for allowances for rent, light, fuel, and equipment to postmasters of the fourth class, $53,000,000. Assistant postmasters.For compensation to assistant postmasters at first and second class post offices, $7,300,000. Clerks, etc., first and second class offices.For compensation to clerks and employees at first and second class post offices, including auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter post offices, printers, mechanics, skilled laborers, watchmen, messengers, laborers, and substitutes, $190,000,000. Contract station clerks.For compensation to clerks in charge of contract stations, $2,100,000. Separating mails.For separating mails at third and fourth class post offices, $500,000. Unusual conditions.For unusual conditions at post offices, $100,000. Clerks, third class offices.For allowances to third-class post offices to cover the cost of clerical services, $8,800,000. Miscellaneous, first and second class offices.For miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to the operation and protection of post offices of the first and second classes, and the business conducted in connection therewith, not provided for in other appropriations, $2,500,000. Village delivery.For village delivery service in towns and villages having post offices of the second or third class, and in communities adjacent to cities having city delivery, $1,500,000. Detroit River service.For Detroit River postal service, $16,900. Car fare and bicycles.For car fare and bicycle allowance, including special-delivery car fare, $1,400,000. City delivery, carriers.Special delivery fees.For pay of letter carriers, City Delivery Service, $130,000,000. For fees to special-delivery messengers, $10,000,000. Rural Delivery Service.For pay of rural carriers, auxiliary carriers, substitutes for rural carriers on annual and sick leave, clerks in charge of rural stations, and tolls and ferriage, Rural Delivery Service, and for the incidental expenses thereof, $107,550,000. Travel, etc.For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. Second Assistant Postmaster General.office of the second assistant postmaster general Star routes, except Alaska.For inland transportation by star routes (excepting service in Alaska ), including temporary service to newly established offices, and not to exceed $200,000 for Government-operated star-route service, $15,400,000. Star routes, Alaska.For inland transportation by star routes in Alaska, $165,000. Steamboat, etc., routes.For inland transportation by steamboat or other power-boat routes, including ship, steamboat, and way letters, $1,450,000. 1239 For inland transportation by railroad routes and for mail-messengerRailroad routes and messenger service.*Provisos*.Freight train conveyance. service, $127,000,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $1,500,000 of this appropriation may be expended for pay of freight and incidental charges for the transportation of mails conveyed under special arrangement in freight trains or otherwise: *Provided further*,Messenger service accounting.Service in the District. That separate accounts be kept of the amount expended for mailmessenger service: *Provided further*, That there may be expended from this appropriation for clerical and other assistance in the District of Columbia not exceeding the sum of $82,000 to carry outVol. 39, p. 429; Vol. 43, p. 1069.[U. S. C. pp. 1269, 1286](/us/usc/pp1269/1286). the provisions of section 5 of the Act of July 28, 1916 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 562) (the space basis Act), and not exceeding the sum of $40,400 to carry out the provisions of section 214 of the Act of February 28, 1925 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 826) (cost ascertainment). Railway Mail Service: For fifteen division superintendents, fifteenRailway Mail Service.Division superintendents. assistant division superintendents, two assistant superintendents at large, one assistant superintendent in charge of car construction, one hundred and twenty-one chief clerks, one hundred and twenty-one assistant chief clerks, clerks in charge of sections in the offices of division superintendents, railway postal clerks, substitute railway postal clerks, joint employees, and laborers in the Railway Mail Service, $57,000,000. For travel allowance to railway postal clerks and substitute railwayTravel allowance to clerks. postal clerks, $4,100,000. For actual and necessary expenses, general superintendent andExpenses, away from headquarters. assistant general superintendent, division superintendent, assistant division superintendents, assistant superintendents, chief clerics, and assistant chief clerks, Railway Mail Service, and railway postal clerks, while actually traveling on business of the Post Office Department and away from their several designated headquarters, $70,000. Miscellaneous. For rent, light, heat, fuel, telegraph, miscellaneous and office expenses, telephone service, badges for railway postal clerks, for the purchase or rental of arms and miscellaneous items necessary forArms for mail protection. the protection of the mails, and rental of space for terminal railway post offices for the distribution of mails when the furnishing of spaceRent, etc., terminal offices. for such distribution can not, under the Postal Laws and Regulations, properly be required of railroad companies without additional compensation, and for equipment and miscellaneous items necessary to terminal railway post offices, $1,200,000. For electric and cable car service, $610,000. Electric and cable cars.Foreign mails. For transportation of foreign mails by steamship, aircraft, or otherwise, including the cost of advertising in connection with the award of contracts authorized by the Merchant Marine Act of 1928Vol. 45, p. 689.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 617](/us/usc/p617). (U. S. C., title 46, secs. 861–889; Supp. III, title 46, secs. 886–891x), $36,600,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $7,000,000 of this sum may*Provisos*.Aircraft allowance. be expended for carrying foreign mail by aircraft under contracts which will not create obligations for the fiscal year 1933 in excess of $7,000,000: *Provided further*, That the Postmaster General isSea post service. authorized to expend such sums as may be necessary, not to exceed $250,000, to cover the cost to the United States for maintaining sea post service on ocean steamships conveying the mails to and from the United States and not to exceed $3,600 for the salary of the AssistantAssistant Director, New York City. Director, Division of International Postal Service, with headquarters at New York City. For balances due foreign countries, $2,100,000. Balances due foreign countries.Travel, etc. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, $1,200. For the inland transportation of mail by aircraft, under contractAircraft contract, inland service.Vol. 44, pp. 692, 1049.*Ante*, pp. 259. 1049. as authorized by law, and for the incidental expenses thereof, including not to exceed $30,000 for supervisory officials and clerks at air1240 mail transfer points, and not to exceed $46,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia and incidental and travel expenses, $20.000,000. Indemnity, lost in ternational mail.For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of international mail in accordance with convention, treaty, or agreement stipulations, $30,000. Third Assistant Postmaster General.office of the third assistant postmaster general Stamps, stamped envelopes, postal cards, etc.For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-delivery stamps, books of stamps, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers,Distribution agency. postal cards, and for coiling of stamps, $6,100,000. For pay of agent and assistants to examine and distribute stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, and expenses of agency, $23,750. Indemnity, lost domestic mail.For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of pieces of domestic registered matter, insured and collect-on-delivery mail, and for failure to remit collect-on-delivery charges, $1,500,000. Travel, etc.For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General.office of the fourth assistant postmaster general Stationery.For stationery for the Postal Service, including the money-order and registry systems; and also for the purchase of supplies for thePostal Savings System supplies. Postal Savings System, including rubber stamps, canceling devices, certificates, envelopes and stamps for use in evidencing deposits, andBond expanses. free penalty envelopes; and for the reimbursement of the Secretary of the Treasury for expenses incident to the preparation, issue, andVol. 36, p. 917.[U. S. C., p. 1282](/us/usc/p1282). registration of the bonds authorized by the Act of June 25, 1910 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 760), $770,000.Miscellaneous equipment and supplies.For miscellaneous equipment and supplies, including the purchase and repair of furniture, package boxes, posts, trucks, baskets, satchels, straps, letter-box paint, baling machines, perforating machines, duplicating machines, printing presses, directories, cleaning supplies, and the manufacture, repair, and exchange of equipment, the erectionLetter boxes. and painting of letter-box equipment, and for the purchase and repair of presses and dies for use in the manufacture of letterPostmarking, etc., stamps. boxes; for postmarking, rating, money-order stamps, and electrotype plates and repairs to same; metal, rubber, and combination type, dates and figures, type holders, ink pads for canceling and stamping purposes, and for the purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriting machines, envelope-opening machines, and computing machines, copying presses, numbering machines, time recorders, letter balances, scales, test weights, and miscellaneous articles purchased and furnished directly to the Postal Service, including complete equipment and furniture for post offices in leased and rented quarters; for miscellaneous expenses in the preparation and publication ofPost route maps. post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blue prints, including tracing for photolithographic reproduction; for other expenditures necessary and incidental to post offices of the first, second, and third classes, and offices of the fourth class having or to have rural-delivery service, and for letter boxes, $2,200,000; and the PostmasterSale of maps. General may authorize the sale to the public of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blue prints at the cost of printing and 10 per centum thereof added; of this amount $1,500 may be expended in the purchase of atlases and geographical and technical works.Twine, etc.For wrapping twine and tying devices, $450,000. 1241 For expenses incident to the shipment of supplies, including hardware,Shipping supplies. boxing, packing, and not exceeding $54,100 for the pay of employees in connection therewith in the District of Columbia, $70,000. For rental, purchase, exchange, and repair of canceling machinesCanceling and labor-saving devices, etc. and motors, mechanical mail-handling apparatus, and other labor-saving devices, including cost of power in rented buildings and miscellaneous expenses of installation and operation of same, including salaries of seven traveling mechanicians and for traveling expenses,Traveling mechanicians. $650,000. For the purchase, manufacture, and repair of mail bags and otherMail bags, locks, etc. mail containers and attachments, mail locks, keys, chains, tools, machinery, and material necessary for same, and for incidental expenses pertaining thereto; also material, machinery, and tools necessary for the manufacture and repair in the equipment shops atEquipment shops, materials, etc. Washington, District of Columbia, of such other equipment for the Postal Service as may be deemed expedient; for compensation toLabor. labor employed in the equipment shops at Washington, District of Columbia, $2,350,000, of which not to exceed $710,000 may beServices in the District.*Proviso*.Distinctive equipment for departments, Alaska, and island possessions. expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That out of this appropriation the Postmaster General is authorized to use as much of the sum, not exceeding $15,000, as may be deemed necessary for the purchase of material and the manufacture in the equipment shops of such small quantities of distinctive equipments as may be required by other executive departments; and for service in Alaska, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, or other island possessions. For rent, light, and fuel for first, second, and third class postRent, light, etc., for first, second, and third class offices.*Proviso*.Restriction of payment for Commercial Station, Saint Paul, Minn. offices, $18,500,000: *Provided, however*, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the payment of any rents or other expenses to the Commercial Station Post Office, Incorporated, its agents, attorneys, representatives, or assigns, for use of premises known as Commercial Station, at Third and Sibley Streets, Saint Paul, Minnesota. For the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similarPneumatic tubes, New York City. devices in the city of New York, including the Borough of Brooklyn of the city of New York, including power, labor, and all other operating expenses, $530,000. For the rental of not exceeding two miles of pneumatic tubes,Boston, Mass. not including labor and power in operating the same, for the transmission of mail in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, $24,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Provisions applicable.Vol. 32, p. 114; Vol. 35, p. 412.[U. S. C., p. 1260](/us/usc/p1260). That the provisions not inconsistent herewith of the Acts of April 21, 1902 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 423), and May 27, 1908 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 423), relating to the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similar devices shall be applicable hereto. For vehicle allowance, the hiring of drivers, the rental of vehicles,Vehicle allowance for delivery, collection, etc. and the purchase and exchange and maintenance, including stable and garage facilities, of wagons or automobiles for, and the operation of, screen-wagon and city delivery and collection service, $19,700,000: *Provided*, That the Postmaster General may, in his*Provisos*.Rental of garages. disbursement of this appropriation, apply a part thereof to the leasing of quarters for the housing of Government-owned automobiles at a reasonable annual rental for a term not exceeding ten years: *Provided further*, That this appropriation is available for theGarage at Washington, D. C. maintenance of the Government-owned post-office garage at Washington, District of Columbia, including such changes and additions to the mechanical equipment as, in the opinion of the Postmaster1242 General, may be necessary: *Provided further*, That the PostmasterTractors and trailer trucks. General, during the fiscal and maintain from the appropriation “Vehicle service ’ such tractors and trailer trucks as may be required in the operation of the screen-wagon and city delivery and collection service: *Provided further*, That in theSums transferred to Standards Bureau for investigations of materials. disbursement of this appropriation the Postmaster General may transfer to the Bureau of Standards not to exceed $10,000 for scientific investigations in connection with the purchase of material, equipment, and supplies necessary in the maintenance and operation of the vehicle service. Travel, etc.For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $5,000. Appropriations from the Treasury for field service to supply deficiencies.If the revenues of the Post Office Department shall be insufficient to meet the appropriations made under Title II of this Act, a sum equal to such deficiency in the revenues of such department is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply such deficiency in the revenues of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and the sum needed may be advanced to the Post Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster General. Sec. 2. Travel expenses of civilians, authorized when transferred from official stations. Appropriations for the fiscal year 1932 available for expenses of travel of civilian officers and employees of the executive departments and establishments shall be available also for expenses of travel performed by them on transfer from one official station to another when authorized by the head of the department or establishment concerned in the order directing such transfer:*Proviso*.Restriction. *Provided*, That such expenses shall not be allowed for any transfer effected for the convenience of any officer or employee. Sec. 3. Limit on motor-vehicle expenditure. Expenditures from appropriations made herein for the maintenance, upkeep, and repair, exclusive of garage rent, pay of operator, fuel and lubricants, on any one passenger-carrying vehicle used by the Treasury or Post Office Department shall not exceed one-third of the market price of a new vehicle of the same make or class and in any case more than $500. Approved, February 23, 1931.