Chapter 280. Making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 280.— An Act Making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and for other purposes. February 23, 1931.[[H. R. 16110](/us/bill/71/hr/16110).][[Public, No. 719](/us/pl/71/719).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following Appropriations for Departments of State and Justice, the Judiciary, and Departments of Commerce and Labor, fiscal year, 1932.sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, namely:
TITLE I— DEPARTMENT OF STATE Department of State. office of the secretary of state Salaries: For Secretary of State, $15,000; Undersecretary of Secretary, Undersecretary, and office personnel.Temporary and piecework employees.State, $10,000; and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including temporary employees, and not to exceed $6,500 for employees engaged on piecework at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of State, $1,960,588; in all, $1,985,588: *Provided*, That in expending *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](/us/usc/p65); Supp. IV, p. 25.Exceptions.appropriations or portions of appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the four Assistant Secretaries of State, the Assistant to the Attorney General and six Assistant Attorneys General, the Assistant Secretaries of Commerce, the Assistant Secretary and the Second Assistant Secretary of Labor, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, as If only one position in a grade.amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious Advances, in unusually meritorious cases.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)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or
(2)to Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical services.No reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490.[U. S. C., p. 66](/us/usc/p66); Supp. IV, p. 29.Transfers to another position without reduction.Higher salary rates permitted.require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, or
(4)to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law. contingent expenses, department of state For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including stationery, Department contingent expenses.furniture, fixtures, typewriters, exchange of same, repairs and material for repairs; books, maps, and periodicals, domestic and foreign, and when authorized by the Secretary of State for dues for library membership in societies or associations which issue publications to members only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers who are not members, not exceeding $15,880; newspapers not exceeding $1,500; maintenance, repair, and storage of motor-propelled vehicles, to be used only for official purposes; automobile mail wagons, including storage, repair, and exchange of same; street-car fare not exceeding $150; refund of fees erroneously 1310charged and paid for the issue of passports to persons who are exempted from the payment of such fee by section 1 of the Act malting appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service Vol. 41, p. 750; Vol. 44, p. 887.[U. S. C., p. 657](/us/usc/p657); Supp. IV, p. 308.for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, approved June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 22, sec. 214a); the examination of estimates of appropriations in the field; and other miscellaneous items not included in the foregoing, $137,500. printing and binding Printing and binding.For all printing and binding in the Department of State, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $285,000. Passport agencies. passport agencies Salaries and expenses.For salaries and expenses of maintenance, traveling expenses not to exceed $1,000, and rent outside the District of Columbia, for passport agencies at New York City, New York; San Francisco, California; Chicago, Illinois; Seattle, Washington; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Boston, Massachusetts, $79,030. Official papers of Territories. collecting and editing official papers of territories of the united states Collecting, etc., for publication.For the expenses of collecting, editing, copying, and arranging for publication the official papers of the Territories of the United States, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, Vol. 45, p. 1412.Balance reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 174.printing and binding, and contingent and traveling expenses, as provided by the Act approved February 28, 1929, $15,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for this purpose for the fiscal year 1931. Foreign intercourse. foreign intercourse ambassadors and ministers Ambassadors, etc.Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Spain, and Turkey, at $17,500 each, $245,000; Belgium and minister to Luxemburg.For ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Belgium and envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Luxemburg, $17,500; Ministers.China and Netherlands.Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to China and the Netherlands, at $12,000 each, $24,000; Other countries.Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Albania, Austria, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Dominion of Canada, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Liberia and Union of South Africa added.*Ante*, pp. 502, 1040.*Post*, p. 1578.Irish Free State, Liberia, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Persia, Portugal, Rumania, Salvador, Siam, Union of South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, and Venezuela, at $10,000 each; to the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, $10,000; and to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuana, $10,000; in all, $360,000; Agent, etc., Tangier.Agent and consul general at Tangier, $7,500; *Proviso*.Double salary restriction.*Ante*, p. 1210.*Provided*, That no salary herein appropriated shall be paid to any official receiving any other salary from the United States Government; Total, ambassadors and ministers, $654,000. 1311 For salaries of Foreign Service officers or vice consuls while acting Chargés d’affaires ad interim, etc.as chargés d’affaires ad interim or while in charge of a consulate general or consulate during the absence of the principal officer, $30,000. clerks at embassies and legations For the employment of necessary clerks at the embassies and legations, Clerks at embassies and legations.*Ante*, p. 1207.including salary during transit to and from homes in the United States upon beginning and after termination of services, $482,350. contingent expenses, foreign missions To enable the President to provide at the public expense all such Contingent expenses, missions.stationery, blanks, record and other books, seals, presses, flags, and signs as he shall think necessary for the several embassies and legations in the transaction of their business, and also for repairs including minor alterations, repairs, supervision, preservation, and Government properties abroad.Vol. 44, p. 403; Vol. 45, pp. 67, 971.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 309](/us/usc/p309).maintenance of Government-owned diplomatic properties in foreign countries, and properties acquired under the Act approved May 7, 1926, as amended (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 22, secs. 291, 296), and including also custodial service, water, materials, supplies, tools, Newspapers, etc.seeds, plants, shrubs, and similar objects; newspapers (foreign and domestic), postage, telegrams, advertising, ice, and drinking water for office purposes, hire of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and purchase, maintenance, operation, and hire of Uniforms.Furniture and furnishings.Exceptions.other passenger-carrying vehicles, uniforms, furniture, household furniture and furnishings, except as provided by the Act of May 7, 1926, as amended, for Government-owned or rented buildings when in the judgment of the Secretary of State it would be in the public interest to do so, not to exceed $50,000, typewriters and exchange of same, messenger service, purchase of launch for embassy at Constantinople Launch, Constantinople.Purchase, etc.not exceeding $15,000, and operation, maintenance, and rental of launch for embassy at Constantinople not exceeding $3,500, compensation of kavasses, guards, dragomans, porters, interpreters, translators, and supervisors of construction, compensation of agents and employees of and rent and other expenses for dispatch agencies Dispatch agencies.at London, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and New Orleans, traveling expenses of Diplomatic and Foreign Service officers, including attendance at trade and other conferences or congresses Attendance at meetings, etc.Vol. 43, p. 143; Vol. 44, p. 333.[U. S. C., p. 643](/us/usc/p643); Supp. IV, p. 307.under orders of the Secretary of State as authorized by section 14 of the Act approved May 24, 1924 (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 16; U. S. C., Supp. III, title 22, sec. 16), miscellaneous expenses of embassies and Loss by exchange.legations, and for loss on bills of exchange to and from embassies and legations, including such loss on bills of exchange to officers of the United States Court for China, and payment in advance of rent of Rental advances of dispatch agencies.dispatch agencies, cost, not exceeding $350 per annum each of the tuition of Foreign Service officers assigned for the study of the languages of Asia and Eastern Europe, telephone and other similar services under this appropriation are hereby authorized, $912,740: *Provided*, *Proviso*.No payment for clerical services to persons not citizens.That no part of this sum appropriated for contingent expenses, foreign missions, shall be expended for salaries or wages of persons (except interpreters, translators, and messengers) not American citizens performing clerical services, whether officially designated as clerks or not, in any foreign mission. expenses of foreign service inspectors For the traveling expenses of Foreign Service officers detailed Foreign Service inspectors.*Ante*, p. 1208.for inspection while traveling and inspecting under instructions from the Secretary of State, $25,000. 1312 allowance for clerk hire at united states consulates Clerk hire at consulates.For allowance for clerk hire at consulates, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, including salary during transit to and from homes in the United States upon beginning and after termination of services, $2,234,088. contingent expenses, united states consulates Contingent expenses, consulates.For expenses of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and other books, seals, presses, Hags, signs, repairs, including minor Government owned consular properties abroad.Vol. 44, p. 403; Vol. 45, pp. 67, 971.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 309](/us/usc/p309).alterations, supervision, preservation, and maintenance of Government-owned consular properties in foreign countries, and properties acquired under the Act approved May 7, 1926, as amended (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 22, secs. 291, 296), and including also custodial service, water, materials, supplies, tools, seeds, plants, shrubs, and similar Furniture, etc.objects, postage, furniture, household furniture and furnishings, Exceptions.except as provided by the Act of May 7, 1926, as amended, for Government-owned or rented buildings when in the judgment of the Secretary of State it would be in the public interest to do so, not to exceed $25,000, typewriters and exchange of same, statistics, newspapers (foreign and domestic), freight, telegrams, advertising, ice and drinking water for office purposes, hire of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and purchase, maintenance, operation, and hire of other passenger-carrying vehicles, uniforms, messenger service, traveling Attendance at trade conferences, etc.Vol. 43, p. 143.[U. S. C., p. 643](/us/usc/p643); Supp. IV, p. 307.*Ante*, p. 1209.expenses of Consular and Foreign Service officers, including attendance at trade and other conferences or congresses under orders of the Secretary of State as authorized by section 14 of the Act approved May 24, 1924 (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 16; U. S. C., Supp. III, title 22, sec. 16); compensation of interpreters, kavasses, guards, dragomans, translators, Chinese writers, and supervisors of construction, Loss by exchange.loss by exchange, and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may think necessary for the several consulates and Advance payments.consular agencies in the transaction of their business and payment in advance of telephone, and other similar services under this appropriation are hereby authorized, $905,931. relief and protection of american seamen Relief, etc., of American seamen.*Ante*, p. 261.For relief, protection, and burial of American seamen in foreign countries, in the Panama Canal Zone, and in the Philippine Islands, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, in Porto Rico, and in the Virgin Islands, $50,000. Foreign Service officers. salaries of foreign service officers Salaries.For salaries of Foreign Service officers as provided in the Act Vol. 43, p. 140.[U. S. C., p. 642](/us/usc/p642).entitled “An Act for the reorganization and improvement of the Foreign Service of the United States, and for other purposes,” *Ante*, p. 1207.approved May 24, 1924 (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 3), $3,373,500. salaries, diplomatic, consular, and foreign service officers while receiving instructions and in transit Instruction and transit pay.[R. S., sec. 1740, p. 309](/us/rs/s1740/p309).[U. S. C., p. 650](/us/usc/p650).To pay the salaries of ambassadors, ministers, consuls, vice consuls, and other officers of the United States for the period actually and necessarily occupied in receiving instructions and in making transits to and from their posts, and while awaiting recognition and authority to act in pursuance with the provisions of section 1740 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 121), $23,000. 1313 transportation of diplomatic, consular, and foreign service officers To pay the traveling expenses of Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Transportation, etc. expenses.Service officers, and other employees of the Foreign Service, including officers and employees of the United States Court for China, and the itemized and verified statements of the actual and necessary expenses of transportation and subsistence, under such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, of their families and effects, in going to and returning from their posts, including not to exceed $110,000 incurred in connection with leaves of absence, On leaves of absence.*Ante*, p. 1210.and of the preparation and transportation of the remains of those officers and said employees of the Foreign Service, who have died Bringing home remains of officers, etc., dying abroad.or may die abroad or in transit while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country or to a place not more distant for interment and for the ordinary expenses of such interment, $518,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available *Proviso*.Officials of United States Court for China.also for the authorized expenses of the judge and district attorney of the United States Court for China while attending sessions of the court at other cities than Shanghai, not to exceed $8 per day each, and for the authorized subsistence expenses of Consular and Foreign Service officers while on temporary detail under commission. emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in Emergencies.the Diplomatic and Consular Service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States and to meet the necessary Neutrality Act, expenses.[R. S., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/s291/p49).[U. S. C., p. 982](/us/usc/p982).expenses attendant upon the execution of the Neutrality Act, to be expended pursuant to the requirement of section 291 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 107), $400,000. allowance to widows or heirs of diplomatic, consular, and foreign service officers who die abroad For payment under the provisions of section 1749 of the Revised Allowances for officers dying abroad.[R. S., sec. 1749, p. 311](/us/rs/s1749/p311).[U. S. C., p. 650](/us/usc/p650). Statutes (U. S. C., title 22 sec. 130) to the widows or heirs at law of Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Service officers of the United States dying in foreign countries in the discharge of their duties, $2,000. post allowances to diplomatic, consular, and foreign service officers Post allowances. To enable the President, in his descretion, and in accordance with Special allowances, to meet cost of living.such regulations as he may prescribe, to make special allowances by way of additional compensation to Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign *Ante*, p. 1209.Service officers, and officers of the United States Court for China in order to adjust their official income to the ascertained cost of living at the posts to which they may be assigned, $100,000. foreign service buildings fund Foreign Service buildings fund. For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the Acquisition of buildings, etc., for Government use in foreign countries.Vol. 44, p. 403.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 310](/us/usc/p310).“Foreign Service Building Act, 1926” (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 22, sec. 295), and for each and every object thereof, including the initial alterations, repair, and furnishing of buildings heretofore acquired under specific authorization of Congress for the use of the diplomatic and consular establishments in foreign countries, $2,000,000, to 1314*Proviso*.Limitation on expenditure. remain available until expended: *Provided*, That in expending appropriations for the foregoing purposes obligations shall not be incurred which will require expenditures in excess of the total of $10,000,000 now authorized by law. Foreign Service retirement, etc., fund. foreign service retirement and disability fund Federal contribution.For financing the liability of the United States, created by the Act entitled “An Act for the reorganization and improvement of the Vol. 43, p. 144; Vol. 44, p. 902.[U. S. C., p. 643](/us/usc/p643); Supp. IV, p. 307.Foreign Service of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved May 24, 1924 (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 21), as amended by the Act of July 3, 1926 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 22, sec. 21), *Ante*, p. 1211.$215,000, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the “Foreign Service retirement and disability fund.” representation allowances Representation allowances.Vol. 43, p. 142.[U. S. C., p. 643](/us/usc/p643).*Ante*, p. 1209.For representation allowances, as authorized by section 12 of the Act of May 24, 1924 (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 12), $125,000. rent, heat, fuel, and light, foreign service Rent, heat, fuel, and light.U. S. Court for China included.Tokyo, ground rent.Living quarters, etc.*Ante*, p. 818.For rent, heat, fuel, and light for the Foreign Service and the United States Court for China for officers and grounds, including annual ground rent of the embassy at Tokyo, Japan, for the year ending March 15, 1932, and, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 818), for living quarters and for allowances for *Proviso*.Advance payment for rent.Leases authorized.living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, $1,587,709: *Provided*, That payment for rent may be made in advance: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of State may enter into leases for such offices, grounds, and living quarters for periods not exceeding ten years. International obligations, etc. international obligations, commissions, bureaus, and so forth cape spartel light, coast of morocco Cape Spartel, etc., Light.For annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangier Light on the coast of Morocco, including loss by exchange, $868.50. rescuing shipwrecked american seamen Life saving testimonials.For expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of the services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from shipwreck or other catastrophe at sea, $2,000. international bureau of weights and measures International Bureau of Weights and Measures.Vol. 26, p. 1714.For contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, in conformity with the terms of the conventions of May 20, 1875, and October 6, 1921, the same to be paid, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to said bureau on its certificate of apportionment, $4,342.50. international bureau for publication of customs tariffs International Customs Tariffs Bureau.Vol. 26, p. 1518.To meet the share of the United States in the annual expense for the year ending March 31, 1932, of sustaining the international bureau at Brussels for the translation and publication of customs tariffs, pursuant to the convention proclaimed December 17, 1890, $1,400. 1315 water boundary, united states and mexico For expenses of meeting the obligations of the United States Mexican Water Boundary Commission.Vol. 24, p. 1011; Vol. 26, p. 1512; Vol. 34, p. 2593.under the treaties of 1884, 1889, 1905, and 1906 between the United States and Mexico, including rent, purchase, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled vehicles, installation, maintenance, and operation of gauging stations where necessary and their equipment, and so much of the amount herein appropriated as may be necessary for these purposes may be transferred by the Secretary of Transfer to Geological Survey.State to the United States Geological Survey for direct expenditure, $71,060. boundary treaty of 1925 between the united states and great britain: international boundary commission, united states and canada and alaska and canada To enable the President to perform the obligations of the United Boundary treaty of 1925, United States and Great Britain.Expenses under.Vol. 44, p. 2102.States under the treaty between the United States and Great Britain in respect of Canada, signed February 24, 1925; for salaries and expenses, including the salary of the commissioner and salaries of the necessary engineers, clerks, and other employees for duty at the seat of government and in the field; cost of office equipment and supplies; necessary traveling expenses; commutation of subsistence to employees while on field duty not to exceed $4 per day each; for payment for timber necessarily cut in keeping the boundary line clear, not to exceed $500; and for all other necessary and reasonable expenses incurred by the United States in maintaining an Maintenance of established lines.effective demarcation of the international boundary line between the United States and Canada and Alaska and Canada under the terms of the treaty aforesaid, including the employment of one mathematician to complete the remaining work required under the award of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal and existing treaties between the United States and Great Britain, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, $49,790: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.Subsistence of Commissioner and engineer, absent on official business.when the commissioner, or the engineer to the commissioner, shall be absent from Washington or their regular place of residence on official business they shall be allowed actual and necessary expenses of subsistence not to exceed $8 per day each. international prison commission For subscription of the United States as an adhering member of International Prison Commission.the International Prison Commission, and the expenses of a commission, including preparation of reports, $5,500. pan american union Pan American Union. For the payment of the quota of the United States for the support Quota for support, and printing.of the Pan American Union, $160,603.20, and for printing and binding of the union, $20,000; in all, $180,603.20. international bureau of the permanent court of arbitration To meet the share of the United States in the expenses for the International Bureau, Permanent Court of Arbitration.Vol. 36, p. 2222.calendar year 1930 of the International Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, created under article 43 of the convention concluded at The Hague, October 18, 1907, for the pacific settlement of international disputes, $2,000. 1316 Interparliamentary Union for Promoting International Arbitration. bureau of interparliamentary union for promotion of international arbitration Contribution.For the contribution of the United States toward the maintenance of the Bureau of the Interparliamentary Union for the promotion of international arbitration, $10,000. American group.*Ante*, pp. 790, 887.Traveling expenses, etc.American group of the Interparliamentary Union: Toward the expenses of the American group of the Interparliamentary Union, including traveling expenses, subsistence or per diem in lieu of subsistence (notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act), compensation for stenographic and other clerical services, printing and finding, and other necessary expenses, fiscal year 1932, $10,000, to be disbursed on vouchers approved by the president and the executive Balance available.*Ante*, p. 887.secretary of the American group; and any unexpended balance in the appropriation for this purpose contained in the Second Deficiency Act approved July 3, 1930, is hereby made available until June 30, 1932. international commission on annual tables of constants, and so forth International Commission on Tables of Constants, etc.To the International Commission on Annual Tables of Constants and Numerical Data, Chemical, Physical, and Technological, as established by the Seventh International Congress of Applied Chemistry in London and as continued by the eighth congress in New York, as a contribution by the United States toward the publication of annual tables of constants, chemical, physical, and technological, $500. International Institute of Agriculture. international institute of agriculture at rome, italy Quota, including dependencies.For the payment of the quota of the United States, including the territory of Hawaii, and the dependencies of the Philippine Islands, Porto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, for the support of the International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year 1932, $5,400; Translating publications, etc.For the cost of translating into and printing in the English language the publications of the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, $2,000; Clerical, etc., expenses.For clerical assistance and traveling and office expenses, $3,660; Total, $11,060. international railway congress International Rail way Congress.To pay the quota of the United States as an adhering member of the International Railway Congress for the year ending April 15, 1932, $800. pan american sanitary bureau Pan American Sanitary Bureau.For the annual share of the United States for the maintenance of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau for the fiscal year 1932, $28,774.74. international office of public health International Office of Public Health.Vol. 35, pp. 2061, 1834; Vol. 42, p. 1823.For the payment of the quota of the United States for the calendar year 1932 toward the support of the International Office of Public Health, created by the international arrangement signed at Rome, December 9, 1907, in pursuance of article 181 of the International Sanitary Convention signed at Paris on December 3, 1903, $3,860. 1317 international radiotelegraphic convention For the share of the United States for the calendar year 1932 as International Radiotelegraphic Convention.a party to the international radiotelegraphic conventions heretofore signed, of the expenses of the radiotelegraphic service of the International Bureau of the Telegraphic Union at Berne, $7,527. united states section of the inter-american high commission Inter-American High Commission. To defray the actual and necessary expenses on the part of the United States section.Vol. 39, p. 8.United States section of the Inter-American High Commission, $10,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. waterways treaty, united states and great britain: international joint commission, united states and great britain For salaries and expenses, including salaries of commissioners and Canadian Boundary Waters Joint Commission.salaries of clerks and other employees appointed by the commissioners on the part of the United States, with the approval solely of the Secretary of State; for necessary traveling expenses, and for expenses incident to holding hearings and conferences at such places in Canada and in the United States as shall be determined by the commission or by the American commissioners to be necessary, including travel expense and compensation of necessary witnesses, making necessary transcript of testimony and proceedings; for cost of law books, books of reference and periodicals, office equipment Vol. 36, p. 2448.and supplies; and for one-half of all reasonable and necessary joint expenses of the International Joint Commission incurred under the terms of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain concerning the use of boundary waters between the United States and Canada, and for other purposes, signed January 11, 1909, $60,355, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State: *Provided*, That traveling expenses of the commissioners, secretary, *Provisos*.Travel expenses.Vol. 44, p. 688.[U.S.C., Supp. IV, p. 37](/us/usc/p37).Rental allowance.and necessary employees shall be allowed in accordance with the provisions of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926 (U. S. C., title 5, chap. 16): *Provided further*, That a part of this appropriation may be expended for rent of offices for the commission in the District of Columbia in the event that the Public Buildings Commission is unable to supply suitable office space. For an additional amount for necessary special or technical investigations Special and technical investigations.in connection with matters which fall within the scope of the jurisdiction of the International Joint Commission, including personal services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, traveling Personal services.Equipment.expenses, procurement of technical and scientific equipment, and the purchase, exchange, hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, $115,000, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, who is authorized to transfer to any department or independent Transfers of funds to other branches permitted.establishment of the Government, with the consent of the head thereof, any part of this amount for direct expenditure by such department or establishment for the purposes of this appropriation. payment to the government of panama Panama. To enable the Secretary of State to pay to the Government of Annual payment to.Panama the twentieth annual payment, due on February 26, 1932, from the Government of the United States to the Government of Vol. 33, p. 2238.Panama under article 14 of the treaty of November 18, 1903, $250,000. 1318 International Research Council. international research council Specified quotas.To pay the annual share of the United States, as an adhering member of the International Research Council and of the associated unions organized at Brussels, July 18–28, 1919, as follows: International Research Council, $77.20; International Astronomical Union, $694.80; International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, $677; International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, $1,389.60; International Union of Mathematics, $38.60; International Union of Scientific Radiotelegraphy, $154.40; International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, $64; International Geographical Union, $194,80; in all, $3,290.40, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. international hydrographic bureau International Hydrographic Bureau.For the annual contribution of the United States toward the maintenance of the International Hydrographic Bureau, $5,790. foreign hospital at cape town Somerset Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.For annual contribution toward the support of the Somerset Hospital (a foreign hospital), at Cape Town, $50, to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that suffering seamen and citizens of the United States will be admitted to the privileges of said hospital. International Trade Mark Registration Bureau. international trade-mark registration bureau, quota of united states Share of expenses.For the annual share of the United States for the expenses of the maintenance of the International Trade-Mark Registration Bureau Vol. 39, p. 1680; Vol. 41, p. 533.at Habana, including salaries of the director and counselor, assistant director and counselor, clerks, translators, secretary to the director, stenographers and typewriters, messenger, watchmen, and laborers, rent of quarters, stationery and supplies, including the purchase of books, postage, traveling expenses, and the cost of printing the bulletin, $4,961. international bureau of the union for the protection of industrial property Industrial Property Bureau.For the share of the United States in the expense of conducting the International Bureau of the Union for the Protection of Industrial Property, at Berne, Switzerland, $1,700. general and special claims commissions, united states and mexico Mexican Mixed Claims Commission.Vol. 43, pp. 1722, 1730.For the expenses of the settlement and adjustment of claims by the citizens of each country against the other under a convention concluded September 8, 1923, and of citizens of the United States against Mexico under a convention concluded September 10, 1923, between the United States and Mexico, including the expenses which, under the terms of the two conventions, are chargeable in part to the United States, the expenses of the two commissions, and the expenses of an Agency expenses.agency of the United States to perform all necessary services in connection with the preparation of the claims and the presenting thereof before the said commissions, as well as defending the United States in cases presented under the general convention by Mexico, including salaries of an agent and necessary counsel and other assistants and 1319employees and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, law Rent.books and books of reference, printing and binding, contingent expenses, contract stenographic reporting services, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), the employment of special counsel, translators, and other technical experts, by contract, without regard to Advertising for contracts waived.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[U. S. C., p. 1309](/us/usc/p1309).the provisions of any statute relative to employment, traveling expenses and subsistence or per diem in lieu of subsistence notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act, and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the President may deem proper, $367,000. gorgas memorial laboratory The Gorgas Memorial Laboratory: To enable the Secretary of Gorgas Memorial Laboratory.Annual contribution.Vol. 45, p. 491.State to pay the annual contribution of the United States to the maintenance and operation of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, as provided by the Act approved May 7, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 491), $50,000. international fisheries commission For the share of the United States of the expenses of the International International Halibut Fisheries Commission.Share of expenses.Vol. 43, p. 1841.Fisheries Commission, established under the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, concluded March 2, 1923, including salaries of two members and other employees of the commission, traveling expenses, purchase of books, periodicals, furniture, and scientific instruments, contingent expenses, rent in the District of Columbia, and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the President may deem proper, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, $36,500. joint investigation of the fisheries of passamaquoddy and cobscook bays by united states and canada Passamaquoddy and Cobscook Bays. For the share of the United States of the expenses of an investigation Party expenses. Investigating effect on fisheries of, by generating electric power, etc.*Ante*, pp. 530, 888.to be made jontly by the United States and Canada of the probable effects of proposed international developments to generate electric power from the movement of the tides in Passamaquoddy and Cobscook Bays on the fisheries of that region, including travel and subsistence or per diem in lieu of subsistence, compensation of employees, stenographic and other services, by contract if deemed necessary without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes Advertising waived.[R.S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[U. S. C., p. 1309](/us/usc/p1309).(U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), rent in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, printing and binding, purchase of supplies and materials and necessary equipment, charter of vessels, and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, $22,500. american international institute for the protection of childhood For the annual contribution of the United States of $2,000 per American International Institute for Protection of Childhood.annum to the American International Institute for the Protection of Childhood at Montevideo, Uruguay, as authorized by the public Vol. 45, p. 487.resolution approved May 3, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 487). international statistical institute at the hague For the annual contribution of the United States to the International International Statistical Institute.Statistical Bureau at The Hague for the calendar year 1932 as authorized by public resolution approved April 28, 1924 Vol. 43, p. 112.(43 Stat., p. 112), $2,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. 1320 international road congress International Road Congress.Vol. 44, p. 754.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 308](/us/usc/p308).To pay the quota of the United States in the Permanent Association of International Road Congresses, as authorized by the public resolution approved June 18, 1926 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 22, sec. 269), $3,000. central bureau of the international map of the world on the millionth scale International Map of the World.Vol. 44, p. 384.For the annual contribution on the part of the United States toward the expenses incurred by the Central Bureau of the International Map of the World on the Millionth Scale for the calendar year 1931, $50. International Society for Exploration of Arctic Regions by Airship. international society for the exploration of the arctic regions by means of the airship Annual contribution.Vol. 45, p. 1222.To enable the Secretary of State to pay the annual contribution of the United States in the plans of the organization of the International Society for the Exploration of the Arctic Regions by Means of the Airship for the establishment of geophysical observations in the inner Arctic regions, as authorized by Public Resolution Numbered 87, approved February 16, 1929. $300. convention relating to the liquor traffic in africa African Liquor Traffic Convention.Share in Central Office expenses.*Post*, p. 2199.Convention relating to the liquor traffic in Africa: To meet the share of the United States in the expenses for the calendar year 1932 of the Central International Office, created under article 7 of the convention of September 10, 1919, relating to the liquor traffic in Africa, $55. judicial United States Court for China. united states court for china Salaries and expenses.For salaries of the judge, district attorney, and other officers and employees of the court; court expenses, including reference law books, ice, and drinking water for office purposes, $41,650. prisons for american convicts Consular prisons, etc.For expenses of maintaining in China, the former Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, and Persia, institutions for incarcerating American convicts and persons declared insane by the United States Court for China or any consular court; wages of Keepers, quarters, etc.prison keepers; rent of quarters for prisons; ice and drinking water for prison purposes; and for the expenses of keeping, feeding, and transportation of prisoners and persons declared insane by the Countries specified.United States Court for China or any consular court in China, the former Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, and Persia, so much as may be necessary; in all, $9,600. bringing home persons charged with crime Bringing home criminals.[R. S., sec. 5275, p. 1027](/us/rs/s5275/p1027).[U. S. C., p. 511](/us/usc/p511).For every expenditure requisite for or incident to the bringing home from foreign countries of persons charged with crime as authorized by section 5275 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 18, sec. 659), $6,000. 1321 Section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) Minor purchases without advertising.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[U. S. C., p. 1309](/us/usc/p1309).shall not apply to any purchase or service rendered payable from the foregoing appropriations when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $100 or when the purchase or service relates to the packing of personal and household effects of Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Service officers and clerks for foreign shipment. No portion of the sums appropriated in Title I of this Act, shall, Rent restriction in United States.unless expressly authorized, be expended for rent in the District of Columbia or elsewhere in the United States. Wherever the Secretary of State, in his discretion, procures information Expense of securing information for corporations, etc.on behalf of corporations, firms, and individuals, the expense of cablegrams and telephone service involved may be charged against the respective appropriations for the service utilized and reimbursement therefor shall be required from those for whom the information was procured, and, when made, be credited to the appropriation under which the expenditure was charged. TITLE II.— DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Department of Justice. office of the attorney general Salaries: For Attorney General, $15,000; Solicitor General, Attorney General, Solicitor General, Assistant to Attorney General, etc.Solicitors, and office personnel.*Ante*, p. 1214.$10,000; Assistant to the Attorney General, $9,000; and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including the Solicitors of the State, Treasury, Commerce, and Labor Departments, and the office forces of the Solicitors of the Treasury, Commerce, and Labor Departments, $1,248,120; in all, $1,282,120. For the purchase of law books, books of reference, and periodicals, Law books, etc.including the exchange thereof, for the Department of Justice, $9,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $2 per volume shall be paid *Proviso*.Price limit for United States Code, Annotated.for the current and future volumes of the United States Code, Annotated. contingent expenses, department of justice For stationery, furniture and repairs, floor coverings not exceeding Department contingent expenses.$1,500, file holders and cases; miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing and telephones, postage, labor, typewriters and adding machines and the exchange thereof and repairs thereto, streetcar fares not exceeding $300, newspapers, press clippings, and other necessaries ordered by the Attorney General; official transportation, including the repair, maintenance, and operation of three motor-driven passenger cars, delivery truck, and motor cycle, to be used only for official purposes, and purchase and repair of bicycles, $90,000. For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Rent, D. C.Columbia, $122,000, if space can not be assigned by the Public Buildings Commission in buildings under the control of that commission. For printing and binding for the Department of Justice and the Printing and binding.courts of the United States, $310,000. For traveling and other miscellaneous and emergency expenses, Travel, miscellaneous, etc., expenses.authorized and approved by the Attorney General, to be expended at his discretion, $25,000. miscellaneous objects, department of justice Miscellaneous. Conduct of customs cases: Assistant Attorney General, special Conduct of customs cases.Assistant Attorney General, special attorneys, etc.attorneys and counselors at law in the conduct of customs cases, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General; necessary clerical assistance and other employees at the seat of government and elsewhere, to be employed and their compensation fixed 1322by the Attorney General, including experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General; supplies, Supreme Court Reports and Digests, and Federal Reporter and Digests, traveling, and other miscellaneous and incidental expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General; in all, $119,940. Defending suits in Claims.Defending suits in claims against the United States: For necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses, procuring evidence, employment of experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, and such other expenses as may be necessary in defending suits in the Court of Indian depredation claims.Claims, including Indian depredation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $70,000. Detection and prosecution of crimes.Protection of the President.Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States; for the protection of the person of the President of the United States; the acquisition, collection, classification, and preservation of criminal identification and other records and their exchange with the officials of States, cities, and other institutions; for such other investigations regarding official matters under the control of the Department of Justice and the Department of State as may be directed by the Attorney General; hire, maintenance, upkeep, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; firearms and ammunition, such stationery, supplies, and equipment for use at the seat of government or elsewhere as the Attorney General may direct, including not to exceed $11,200 for taxicab hire to be used exclusively for the purposes set forth in this paragraph and to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General; traveling expenses; and payment of rewards when specifically authorized by the Attorney General for information leading to the apprehension of Services in the District.fugitives from justice, including not to exceed $414,246 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $2,978,520. examination of judicial offices Examination of judicial offices.Examination of judicial offices: For the investigation of the official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, and clerks of the United States courts and Territorial courts, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the official papers, records, Investigating official acts, records, etc., of court officers, etc.and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney General at any time; and also, when requested by the presiding judge, the official acts, records, and accounts of referees and trustees of such courts; for copying, in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, reports of examiners at folio rates; traveling expenses; and including not to exceed $136,940 Services in the District.for personal services in the District of Columbia; in all, $260,340; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. Enforcing antitrust laws.Enforcement of antitrust laws: For the enforcement of antitrust laws, including experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, including not to exceed $55,560 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $204,160. Bureau of Prisons. bureau of prisons Salaries and expenses.*Ante*, p. 325.Salaries and expenses: For salaries and expenses in connection with the supervision of the maintenance and care of United States prisoners, including not to exceed $194,078 for personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling expenses, and expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of such bureau when authorized by the Attorney General, $234,078. 1323 bureau of prohibition Prohibition Bureau. Salaries and expenses: For expenses to enforce and administer the Salaries and expenses.Vol. 38, p. 785.[U. S. C., pp. 742, 784–787](/us/usc/pp742/784–787).Vol. 41, p. 305; Vol. 40, p. 1130; Vol. 42, p. 298.[U. S. C., p. 635](/us/usc/p635); Supp. IV, p. 19.*Ante*, p. 427.Executive officers, personnel, etc.Securing evidence, etc.applicable 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., p. 427), including the employment of executive officers, attorneys, agents, inspectors, investigators, supervisors, clerks, messengers, and other personnel, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, to be appointed as authorized by law; the securing of evidence of violations of the Acts; the cost of chemical analysis made by other than employees of the United States and expenses incident to the giving of testimony in relation thereto; the purchase of stationery, supplies, equipment, Supplies, etc.mechanical devices, books, and such other expenditures as may be necessary in the District of Columbia and the several field offices; costs incurred in the seizure, storage, and disposition of liquor and property seized under the National Prohibition Act, including seizures Expenses of seizures, etc.made under the internal revenue laws if a violation of the National Prohibition Act is involved and disposition is made under section 3460, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 26, sec 1193); costs [R. S., sec. 3460, p. 683](/us/rs/s3460/p683).[U. S. C., p. 846](/us/usc/p846).incurred in the seizure, storage, and disposition of any vehicle and team or automobile, boat, air or water craft, or any other conveyance, seized pursuant to section 26, Title II, of the National Prohibition Vol. 41, p. 315.Act, when the proceeds of sale are insufficient therefor or where there is no sale; purchase of passenger-carrying motor vehicles at a total cost of not to exceed $50,000 and not to exceed $1,000 each, including the value of any vehicle exchanged, and the hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; and for rental of quarters; in all, $11,369,500, of which Services in the District.amount not to exceed $340,300 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. JUDICIAL Judicial. united states supreme court United States Supreme Court. Salaries: Chief Justice, $20,500; eight Associate Justices, at $20,000 Salaries of Justices.All other officers, etc.each; and all other officers and employees, whose compensation shall be fixed by the court, except as otherwise provided by law, and who may be employed and assigned by the Chief Justice to any office or work of the court, including an additional assistant to the reporter of Additional assistant to reporter.the court, if the court deems one necessary, to enable the reporter to expedite the publication of its reports, $113,276; in all, $293,776. For printing and binding for the Supreme Court of the United Printing and binding.States, $25,000, to be expended as required, without allotment by quarters. The printing and binding for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ, unless it shall otherwise order. miscellaneous expenses, supreme court For miscellaneous expenses of the Supreme Court of the United Miscellaneous expenses.States, including rent of office for the reporter in Washington, to be expended as the Chief Justice may direct, $16,644. For the salary of the reporter, $8,000. Reporter. salaries of judges Judges. For salaries of forty-one circuit judges, at $12,500 each; one Circuit and district.hundred and fifty district judges (including two in the Territory of Hawaii, one in the Territory of Porto Rico, and four in the Territory 1324Retired.Vol. 40, p. 1157.[U. S. C., p. 908](/us/usc/p908).Customs Court.*Ante*, p. 737.General appraiser retired.*Proviso*.Availability. of Alaska), at $10,000 each; and judges retired under section 260 of the Judicial Code, as amended, and section 518 of the Tariff Act of 1930, and general appraiser retired under section 518 of the Tariff Act of 1922; in all, $2,184,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for the salaries of all United States justices and circuit and district judges lawfully entitled thereto, whether active or retired. National Park Commissioners. national park commissioners Salaries.For the salaries of the commissioners in the Crater Lake, Glacier, Mount Rainier, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia and General Grant, Mesa Verde, Lassen Volcanic, Rocky Mountain, and Hawaii National Parks, $20,000, which shall be in lieu of all fees and compensation heretofore authorized. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals. court of customs and patent appeals Salaries.Salaries: Presiding judge and four associate judges, at $12,500 each; and all other officers and employees of the court, $44,320; in all, $106,820. Printing, etc.For printing and binding, $6,600. Books, miscellaneous expenses, etc.For books and periodicals, including their exchange; stationery, supplies, traveling expenses; drugs, chemicals, cleansers, furniture; and for such other miscellaneous expenses as may be approved by the presiding judge, $6,000. Customs Court. customs court Judges.Other officers, etc.Salaries: Presiding judge and eight judges, at $10,000 each; and all other officers and employees of the court, $156,260; in all, $246,260. Books, miscellaneous expenses, etc.For books and periodicals, including their exchange; stationery supplies, traveling expenses; and for such other miscellaneous expenses as may be approved by the presiding judge, $19,350. Printing, etc.For printing and binding, $3,300. Court of Claims. court of claims Salaries.Salaries: Chief justice, $12,500; four judges, at $12,500 each; and all other officers and employees of the court, $67,623; in all, $130,123. Printing, etc.For printing and binding, $38,000. Miscellaneous expenses.For stationery, court library, repairs, including repairs to bicycles, fuel, electric light, electric elevator, and other miscellaneous expenses, $7,500. Commissioners, salaries, etc.Vol. 43, 964.Salaries and expenses of commissioners: For salaries of seven commissioners at $7,500 each, and for travel expenses, compensation of stenographers authorized by the court, and for stenographic and other fees and charges necessary in the taking of testimony and in the performance of the duties as authorized by the Act entitled “An Vol. 43, p. 964, amended.*Ante*, p. 799.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 435](/us/usc/p435).Act amending section 2 and repealing section 3 of the Act approved February 24, 1925 (43 Stat., p. 964, ch. 301), entitled ‘An Act to authorize the appointment of commissioners by the Court of Claims and to prescribe their powers and compensation,’ and for other purposes,” approved June 23, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 799), $84,870. Repairs to buildings.For necessary repairs to the Court of Claims buildings, including furnishings, installation of a new call-bell system, replacement and repairing of window sashes and frames, construction of partitions and other necessary alterations, installation of additional lighting facilities, and cleaning and painting, to be expended under the supervision of the Architect of the Capitol, $12,565, to be immediately available. 1325 territorial courts Territorial courts. Hawaii: Chief justice, $10,500; two associate justices, at $10,000 Hawaii.each; in all, $30,500. For judges of circuit courts at $7,500 each for the first circuit, and $7,000 each for the second, third, fourth, and fifth circuits, $58,000. marshals, district attorneys, clerks, and other expenses of united states courts United States courts. For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and Marshals.Salaries, etc.their deputies, including services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, services in Alaska in collecting evidence for the Alaska.United States when so specially directed by the Attorney General, traveling expenses, purchase, when authorized by the Attorney General, Traveling expenses, etc.of four motor-propelled passenger-carrying vans at not to exceed $2,500 each, and maintenance, alteration, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles used in connection with the transaction of the official business of the United States marshals, $4,350,460. For salaries, traveling, and other expenses of United States district District attorneys.Salaries, etc.attorneys and their regular assistants, clerks, and other employees, including the office expenses of United States district attorneys in Alaska, and for salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the office of the United States district attorney, $3,295,620. For compensation and traveling expenses of special attorneys and Special assistants.assistants to the Attorney General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, and for payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney General Foreign counsel.in special cases, $450,000: *Provided*, That the amount paid as *Proviso*.Pay restriction.compensation out of the funds herein appropriated to any person employed hereunder shall not exceed $10,000. For salaries of clerks of United States circuit courts of appeals Clerks of courts, etc.Salaries, etc.and United States district courts, their deputies, and other assistants, travel expenses pursuant to the subsistence expense Act of 1926 (U. Travel expenses.Vol. 44, p. 688.[U. S. C., p. 1888](/us/usc/p1888).S. C., title 5, secs. 821–833), and other expenses of conducting their respective offices, $2,175,920. For fees of United States commissioners and other committing Commissioners, etc.[R.S., sec. 1014, p. 189](/us/rs/s1014/p189).[U. S. C., p. 506](/us/usc/p506).magistrates acting under section 1014, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 18, sec. 591), $600,000. Fees of jurors and witnesses, United States courts: For mileage Jurors and witnesses.Mileage and per diem.and per diems of jurors; for mileage and per diems of witnesses and for per diems in lieu of subsistence; and for payment of the actual expenses of witnesses, as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes [R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160).[U. S. C., p. 927](/us/usc/p927).(U. S. C., title 28, sec. 604), including the expenses, mileage, and per diems of witnesses on behalf of the Government before the United States Customs Court, such payments to be made on the certification of the attorney for the United States and to be conclusive as provided [R. S., sec. 846, p. 154](/us/rs/s846/p154).[U. S. C., p. 924](/us/usc/p924).by section 846, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 577), $4,150,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $10,000 of this amount shall *Proviso*.Pay on approval of Attorney General.be available for such compensation and expenses of witnesses or informants as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, which approval shall be conclusive. For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers, Rent of court rooms.$115,000. For bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one crier in Bailiffs, criers, etc.each court, except in the southern district of New York and the northern district of Illinois; expenses of circuit and district judges Travel, etc., expenses, judges.of the United States and the judges of the district courts of the 1326United States in Alaska, Porto Rico, and Hawaii, as provided by Vol. 35, p. 1161.[U. S. C., p. 924](/us/usc/p924).section 259 of the Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March 3, 1911 (U. S. C., Jury expenses.title 28, secs. 9 and 596); meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when Alaska.Vol. 31, p. 639.ordered by the court, and meals and lodging for jurors in Alaska, as provided by section 193, Title II, of the Act of June 6, 1900 (31 Jury commissioners.Stat., p. 639); and compensation for jury commissioners, $5 per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, $500,000: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Service restriction.That no per diem shall be paid to any bailiff or crier unless the court is actually in session and the judge present and presiding or present in chambers. Miscellaneous.For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, for the United States courts and their officers, including experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, including also so much as may be necessary in the discretion of the Attorney General Alaska, etc.Travel expenses.Vol. 41, p. 688.[U. S. C., p. 1888](/us/usc/p1888).for such expenses in the District of Alaska and in courts other than Federal courts, and including traveling expenses pursuant to the subsistence expense Act of 1926 (U. S. C., title 5, chap. 16), $1,270,980. Supplies, etc.For supplies, including the exchange of typewriting and adding machines, for the United States courts and judicial officers, including firearms and ammunition therefor, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $90,000. Law books for judicial officers.For the purchase of law books, including the exchange thereof, for United States judges, district attorneys, and other judicial officers, including the libraries of the ten United States circuit courts of Federal Reporter.appeals, for the purchase of the Federal Reporter and continuations thereto as issued, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney *Provisos*.Transmittal to successors.General, $75,000: *Provided*, That such books shall in all cases be transmitted to their successors in office; all books purchased thereunder Price limit for United States Code, Annotated.to be marked plainly, “The property of the United States”: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $2 per volume shall be paid for the current and future volumes of the United States Code, Annotated. Penal, etc., institutions. penal and correctional institutions Services, supplies, etc., for.For all services, supplies, materials, and equipment in connection with or incident to the subsistence and care of inmates and maintenance and upkeep of Federal penal and correctional institutions, including farm and other operations not otherwise specifically provided for, in the discretion of the Attorney General; gratuities for inmates at release, provided such gratuities shall be furnished to inmates sentenced for terms of imprisonment of not less than six months, and transportation to the place of conviction or bona fide residence at the time of conviction or to such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; expenses of interment or transporting remains of deceased inmates to their homes in the United States; maintenance and repair of passenger-carrying vehicles; traveling expenses of institution officials and employees when traveling on official duty, including expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the several institutions when authorized by the Attorney General, and including expenses incurred in pursuing and identifying escaped inmates; traveling expenses of members of advisory boards authorized by law incurred in the discharge of their official duties; rewards for the capture of escaped inmates; newspapers, books, and periodicals; firearms and ammunition; tobacco for inmates; and the purchase and exchange of farm products and livestock, when authorized by the 1327Attorney General: *Provided*, That upon the written order of the *Proviso*.Interchangeable appropriations.Attorney General not to exceed 10 per centum of the amounts herein appropriated under this heading, except the appropriations for construction and repair and working capital funds of penal and correctional institutions and for support of United States prisoners, shall be available interchangeably for expenditures on the objects named, but the total of any appropriation shall not be increased by more than 10 per centum and under the following heads: Prison industries working capital fund: The appropriations Prison industries working capital fund.entitled “Prison industries working capital fund, 1931 and prior years,” and “Prison industries working capital fund, 1931,” are reappropriated as one fund and made available for the fiscal year 1932, including payment of obligations incurred in prior years; and the said working capital fund and all receipts credited thereto may be used as a revolving fund for the fiscal year 1932, for the purposes authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the diversification of employment of Federal prisoners, for their training and schooling in trades and occupations, and for other purposes,” approved May 27, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 391). United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: For the United Penitentiaries, etc., Leavenworth, Kans.Salaries and wages.States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, including not to exceed $690,180 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $1,942,440. United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: For the United Atlanta, Ga.Salaries and wages.States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, including not to exceed $407,652 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $1,198,212. For construction and repair of buildings, including the purchase Building construction, etc.and installation of machinery and equipment, and all expenses incident thereto, to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to inmates of the institution, $100,000. United States penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington: For the NcNeil Island, Wash.Salaries, etc.United States penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington, including not to exceed $200,020 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, and not to exceed $1,600, including the exchange allowance of any vehicle given in part payment therefor, for the purchase Vehicles.of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $516,060. For construction and repair of buildings, including the purchase Construction and repair of buildings.and installation of machinery and equipment, and all expenses incident thereto, to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to inmates of the institution, $214,135. United States Northeastern Penitentiary: For the United States Northeastern Penitentiary.Maintenance, etc.Penitentiary in the Northeast, including not to exceed $129,750 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, and not to exceed $2,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $287,000. Federal Industrial Institution for Women, Alderson, West Virginia: Industrial Institution for Women.Salaries, etc.For the Federal Industrial Institution for Women at Alderson, West Virginia, including not to exceed $173,206 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $352,400. United States Industrial Reformatory, Chillicothe, Ohio: For Industrial Reformatory.Salaries, etc.the United States Industrial Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio, including not to exceed $291,588 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $790,448. Construction: For the remodeling and construction of the necessary Buildings, construction, etc.buildings and appurtenances, purchase of mechanical equipment, and other expenses incident to the construction of buildings in accordance with the provisions of “An Act for the establishment Vol. 43, p. 724.[U. S. C., p. 520](/us/usc/p520).of a United States Industrial Reformatory,” approved January 7, 13281925 (U. S. C., title 18, sec. 832), to be expended under the direction and upon the written order of the Attorney General, or his authorized representative, by contract or purchase of material and hire of labor and services and utilization of labor of United States prisoners, as the Attorney General may direct, $1,000,000, to be immediately *Provisos*.Cost limitation.available and to remain available until expended: *Provided*, That the total sum to be expended for such purposes shall not exceed Outside architects, etc., authorized.$3,000,000: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Treasury, if in his discretion it would be impracticable to cause the plans, drawings, designs, specifications, and estimates for the remodeling and construction of the necessary buildings to be prepared in the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, and the work of remodeling and constructing the said buildings to be supervised by the field force of said office, may contract for all or any portion of such work to be performed by such suitable person or firm as he may select. Reno Quartermaster Depot, Okla.Establishment of reformatory, etc., at.United States Reformatory, construction: For a United States reformatory, including any cost incident to the acquisition and occupation Remodeling buildings thereon.Equipment, etc., expenses.of the site selected on the Reno Quartermaster Depot Military Reservation, Oklahoma, and for remodeling, constructing, and equipping the necessary buildings thereon, purchase of mechanical equipment, and other expenses incident thereto, as authorized by *Ante*, p. 388.the Act entitled “An Act establishing two institutions for the confinement Supervision by Attorney General.of United States prisoners, approved May 27, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 388), to be expended under the direction and upon the written order of the Attorney General, by contract or purchase of material and hire of labor and services and utilization of labor of United States prisoners, as the Attorney General may direct, *Proviso*.Cost limitation.Contracts authorized.$500,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: *Provided*, That the total sum to be expended for such purposes shall not exceed $3,000,000, and authority is hereby granted to enter into contracts for not to exceed such amount. Federal jails.Maintenance, etc.*Ante*, p. 325.Federal jails: For maintenance and operation of Federal jails established under authority of the Act of May 14, 1930 (46 Stat., House of detention.New York City.p. 325), and the house of detention for Federal prisoners in New York City, including not to exceed $439,152 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $871,220. Establishing, etc., Federal jails.For the purchase of sites, constructing, remodeling, and equipping necessary buildings, purchase and installation of machinery and equipment, and all necessary expenses incident thereto, for establishing new Federal jails and altering and adapting other Government property for jail purposes, as authorized by the Act entitled *Ante*, p. 325.“An Act to reorganize the administration of Federal prisons; to authorize the Attorney General to contract for the care of United States prisoners; to establish Federal jails, and for other purposes,” approved May 14, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 325), to be expended under the direction and upon the written order of the Attorney General, by contract or purchase of material and hire of labor and services and utilization of labor of United States prisoners, as the Attorney General may direct, $500,000, to remain available until expended; Contracts authorized.and the Attorney General may contract with such suitable person or film as he may select for the work of preparing plans, drawings, designs, specifications, and estimates for remodeling and construction of the necessary buildings. Prison camps.Construction, repair, etc.Prison camps: For the construction and repair of buildings at prison camps, the purchase and installation of machinery and equipment, and all necessary expenses incident thereto, and for the maintenance of United States prisoners at prison camps, including the purchase at a cost not to exceed $15,000, and maintenance, alteration, repair, and operation of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying 1329bus, to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment *Proviso*.Repayment basis.to prisoners, $837,640: *Provided*, That reimbursements from this appropriation made to the War or other departments for supplies or subsistence shall be at the net contract or invoice price notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act. National Training School for Boys, Washington, District of National Training School for Boys, D. C.Salaries and expenses.Columbia: For the National Training School for Boys, Washington, District of Columbia, including not to exceed $126,080 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, and not to exceed $2,000, including the exchange allowance of any vehicle given in part payment Motor vehicles.therefor, for the purchase of two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $258,260. For construction and repair of buildings, including the purchase Buildings, construction, etc.and installation of machinery and equipment, and all expenses incident thereto, to be expended so as to give the maximum amount Employment of inmates.of employment to inmates of the institution, $200,000 to be immediately available. Probation system, United States courts: For salaries and expenses Probation system.Pay, etc., of officers.*Ante*, p. 503.of probation officers, as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act of March 4, 1925, chapter 521, and for other purposes,” approved June 6, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 503), $230,400: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Conditions, etc., imposed.That no part of this or any other appropriation shall be used to defray the salary or expenses of any probation officer who does not comply with the official orders, regulations, and probation standards promulgated by the Attorney General. Support of prisoners: For support of United States prisoners, Support of prisoners.including necessary clothing and medical aid, discharge gratuities provided by law and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, or such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; and including rent, repair, alteration, and maintenance Rent, etc., of buildings.[R. S., secs. 5537, 5538, p. 1073](/us/rs/s5537/5538/p1073).[U. S. C., p. 513](/us/usc/p513).of buildings occupied under authority of sections 5537 and 5538 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 18, secs. 691, 692); support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, and who continue insane after expiration of sentence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent; shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their friends or relatives in the United States, and interment of deceased prisoners whose remains are unclaimed; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners and for rewards for their recapture; and for repairs, betterments, and improvements of United States jails, including sidewalks, $3,996,040. TITLE III.— DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Department of Commerce. office of the secretary Salaries: Secretary of Commerce, $15,000; Assistant Secretary Secretary, Assistant, and office personnel.and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including the chief clerk and superintendent, who shall be chief executive officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary of Commerce to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary of the department, $328,160; in all, $343,160. contingent expenses, department of commerce For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and Contingent and miscellaneous expenses.bureaus of the department, except the Patent Office, including those for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are specifically made, including professional and scientific books, 1330law books, books of reference, periodicals, blank books, pamphlets, maps, newspapers (not exceeding $2,500); purchase of atlases or maps; stationery; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges; fuel, lighting, and heating; purchase and exchange of motor trucks and bicycles; maintenance, repair, and operation of three motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motor trucks and bicycles, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; postage to foreign countries; telegraph and telephone service; typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange; first-aid outfits for use in the buildings occupied by employees of this department; street-car fares, not exceeding $500; and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $280,000, which sum shall constitute the appropriation for contingent expenses of the department, except the Patent Available for field service.Office, and shall also be available for the purchase of necessary supplies and equipment for field services of bureaus and offices of the department for which contingent and miscellaneous appropriations Purchases.are specifically made in order to facilitate the purchase through the *Proviso*.Restriction on maintenance, etc., of passenger vehicles.central purchasing office (Division of Supplies), as provided by law: *Provided*, That expenditures from appropriations contained in this Act for the maintenance, upkeep, and repair, exclusive of garage rent, pay of operator, fuel, and lubricants on any one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle used by the Department of Commerce shall not exceed one-third of the market price of a new vehicle of the same make or class, and in any case more than $500. Printing and binding.For all printing and binding for the Department of Commerce, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, except the Patent Office and the *Proviso*.Copy editors.Bureau of the Census, $750,000: *Provided*, That an amount not to exceed $2,000 of this appropriation may be expended for salaries of persons detailed from the Government Printing Office for service as copy editors. Radio Division. radio division Wireless communication on steam vessels.Enforcement of laws requiring.Wireless communication laws: To enable the Secretary of Commerce to enforce the Acts of Congress “to require apparatus and operators for radio communication on certain ocean steamers” and Vol. 36, p. 629; Vol. 37, pp. 199, 1565; Vol. 44, p. 1164.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 621](/us/usc/p621).“to regulate radio communication” and carry out the provisions of the international radiotelegraphic convention, examine and settle international radio accounts, including personal services in the District of Columbia, and to employ such persons and means as may be necessary, traveling and subsistence expenses, purchase and exchange of instruments, technical books, tabulating, duplicating, and other office machinery and devices, rent and all other miscellaneous items, including rubber gloves, aprons, rubber boots, and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $646,700, of which Services in the District.amount not to exceed $80,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. aircraft in commerce Aircraft in commerce. Personal services and all expenses.Vol. 44, p. 568.[U. S. C., p. 2119](/us/usc/p2119).Aircraft in commerce: To carry out the provisions of the Act approved May 20, 1926, entitled “An Act to encourage and regulate the use of aircraft in commerce, and for other purposes” (U. S. C., title 49, secs. 171–184), as amended by the Act approved February 28, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 49, sec. 173d), including salary Vol. 45, p. 1404.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 650](/us/usc/p650).of Assistant Secretary of Commerce (provided for in the Act cited above), and other personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $320,320) and elsewhere; rent in the District of Columbia 1331and elsewhere; traveling expenses; contract stenographic reporting services; fees and mileage of witnesses; purchase of furniture and equipment; stationery and supplies, including medical supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs; purchase, including exchange, not to exceed $3,000; maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; purchase and replacement, including exchange, of airplanes (not to exceed $57,000); purchase of airplane motors, airplane Purchase of airplanes, accessories, etc.and motor accessories; and spare parts; maintenance, operation, and repair of airplanes and airplane motors; purchase of special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment for aviation purposes; purchase of books of reference and periodicals; newspapers, reports, documents, plans, specifications, maps, manuscripts, and all other publications; and all other necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, in all, $1,369,660. Air-navigation facilities: For the establishment and maintenance Air navigation facilities.Establishing and maintaining aids, mail routes, etc.of aids to air navigation, including the equipment of additional air-mail routes for day and night flying; the construction of necessary lighting, radio, and other signaling and communicating structures and apparatus; repairs, alterations, and all expenses of maintenance and operation; investigation, research, and experimentation to develop and improve aids to air navigation; for personal services in Services in the District, etc.the District of Columbia (not to exceed $153,380) and elsewhere; purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled, passenger-carrying vehicles, including their exchange; replacement, including exchange, of not to exceed four airplanes, maintenance, operation, and repair of airplanes, including accessories and spare parts and special clothing, wearing apparel, and suitable equipment for aviation purposes; and for the acquisition of the necessary sites by lease or grant, $8,992,640: *Provided*, That no part of this *Proviso*.Use restricted.Vol. 44, p. 568.appropriation shall be used for any purpose not authorized by the Air Commerce Act of 1926. Appropriations herein made for aircraft in commerce and air Attendance at meetings.Appropriations available.navigation facilities shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the promotion of civil aeronautics, and also expenses of illustrating the work of the Aeronautics Branch by showing of maps, charts, and graphs at such meetings, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce. bureau of foreign and domestic commerce Foreign and Domestic Commerce Bureau. Salaries: For the director and other personal services in the District Director, and office personnel.of Columbia, $273,000. For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March 3, Foreign Commerce Service.Expenses of.Vol. 44, p. 1394.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 129](/us/usc/p129).1927 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 15, secs. 197–197f), to establish in the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Department of Commerce a Foreign Commerce Service of the United States, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, Personal services.the compensation of a clerk or clerks for each commercial atatché at the rate of not to exceed $3,000 per annum for each person so employed, rent outside the District of Columbia, telephone Outside rent.service, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, duplicating, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, law books, books of reference and periodicals, uniforms, maps, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, newspapers (foreign and domestic) not exceeding $4,000, and all other publications, traveling expenses of officers and employees, ice and drinking water for office purposes, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to be expended under the 1332Classification. direction of the Secretary of Commerce, and under the following heads: Promoting commerce In Europe, etc.Promoting commerce in Europe and other areas: Investigations in Europe and other areas for the promotion and development of the foreign commerce of the United States, $909,400; Promoting commerce in Latin America.Promoting commerce in Latin America: Investigations in Latin America for the promotion and development of the foreign commerce of the United States, $528,700; Promoting commerce in the Far East.Promoting commerce in the Far East: Investigations in the Far East for the promotion and development of the foreign commerce of the United States, $420,260; Promoting commerce in Africa.Promoting commerce in Africa: Investigations in Africa for the promotion and development of the foreign commerce of the United States, $105,940; District and Cooperative Office Service.Maintaining offices, outside rent, etc.District and cooperative office service: For all expenses necessary to operate and maintain district and cooperative offices, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, rent outside of the District of Columbia, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, purchase of maps, books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, not exceeding $1,200 for newspapers, both foreign and domestic, and all other publications necessary for the promotion of the commercial interests of the United States, and all other incidental *Proviso*.Condition on opening new offices.expenses not included in the foregoing, $736,280: *Provided*, That the Secretary of Commerce may require as a condition for the opening of a new office or the continuation of an existing office that commercial organizations in the district affected provide suitable quarters without cost to the Government or at rentals at lower Discretionary authority of the Secretary.than prevailing rates. The Secretary may, at his discretion, refuse to open a new office or continue an existing office where such assistance from local commercial organizations is not provided; China Trade Act.Enforcement expenses.Vol. 42, p. 849; Vol. 43, p. 995.[U. S. C., p. 367](/us/usc/p367).Enforcement of China Trade Act: To carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “China Trade Act, 1922” (U. S. C., title 15, secs. 141–162), including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding and computing machines, accessories and repairs, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, maps, manuscripts, and all other publications; Outside rent.rent outside the District of Columbia; ice and drinking water for office purposes, and all necessary expenses not included in *Proviso*.Advance payments authorized.the foregoing, $30,800: *Provided*, That payment in advance for telephone and other similar services under this appropriation is hereby authorized; Export industries.Investigating problems relating to.Export industries: To enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to investigate and report on domestic as well as foreign problems relating to the production, distribution, and marketing, in so far as they relate to the important export industries of the United States, including personal services in the District of Columbia, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, Outside rent.manuscripts, and all other publications, rent outside of the District of Columbia, ice and drinking water for office purposes, and all other incidental expenses connected therewith, $1,013,131; 1333 Domestic commerce and raw-materials investigations: For all Domestic raw materials and manufactures.Compiling data as to disposition of, etc.expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, medical supplies and first-aid outfits, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, maps, and all other publications, rent outside of the District of Columbia, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to collect and compile information regarding the disposition and handling of raw materials and manufactures within the United States: and to investigate the conditions of production and marketing of foreign raw materials essential for American industries Foreign raw materials.$518,220; Customs statistics: For all expenses necessary for the operation Customs statistics.Expenses of collecting, compiling, etc.of the section of customs statistics transferred to the Department of Commerce from the Treasury Department by the Act approved Vol. 42, p. 1109.[U. S. C., p. 373](/us/usc/p373).January 5, 1923 (U. S. C., title 15, sec. 194), including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; rent of or purchase of tabulating, punching, sorting, and other mechanical labor-saving machinery or devices, including adding, typewriting, billing, computing, mimeographing, multigraphing, photostat, and other duplicating machines and devices, including their exchange and repair; telegraph and telephone service; subsistence and traveling expenses of officers and employees while traveling on official business; freight, express, drayage; tabulating cards, stationery, and miscellaneous office supplies; books of reference and periodicals; furniture and equipment; ice, water, heat, light, and power; street-car fare; and all other necessary and incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, $387,592; Lists of foreign buyers: For all necessary expenses, including Directory of foreign buyers.personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, Expenses of compiling.adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, lists of foreign buyers, books of reference, periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, rent outside of the District of Columbia, traveling Outside rent.and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to collect and compile lists of foreign buyers, $78,200: *Provided*, That the Secretary of *Proviso*.Charges authorized.Commerce may make such charges as he deems reasonable for lists of foreign buyers, special statistical services, special commodity news bulletins, and World Trade Directory Reports, and the amounts collected therefrom shall be deposited in the Treasury as “Miscellaneous receipts”; Investigation of foreign trade restrictions: For all necessary Foreign trade restrictions.Expenses of collecting, compiling, etc., information as to.expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, and all other publications, rent Outside rent.outside of the District of Columbia, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to collect and compile information regarding the restrictions and regulations of trade imposed by foreign countries, $62,599; 1334 Transportation of families and effects.Paying officers etc., transit expenses.Transportation of families and effects of officers and employees: To pay the itemized and verified statements of the actual and necessary expenses of transportation and subsistence, under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce may prescribe, of families and effects of officers and employees of the Bureau of Foreign and Transporting remains, etc.Domestic Commerce in going to and returning from their posts, or when traveling under the order of the Secretary of Commerce, and also for defraying the expenses of preparing and transporting the remains of officers and employees of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce who may die abroad or in transit, while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country, or to a place not more distant for interment, and for the ordinary expenses of such interment, $60,000; Furnishing living quarters, etc.To enable the Secretary of Commerce, under such regulations as he may prescribe, in accordance with the provisions of the Act *Ante*, p. 163.entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act to establish in the Bureau of Foreign ’and Domestic Commerce of the Department of Commerce, a Foreign Commerce Service of the United States, and for other purposes,’ approved March 3, 1927,” approved April 12, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 163), to furnish the officers in the Foreign Commerce Service of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce stationed in a foreign country, without cost to them and within the [R. S., sec. 1765, p. 314](/us/rs/s1765/p314).[U. S. C., p. 32](/us/usc/p32).limits of this appropriation, allowances for living quarters, heat, and light, notwithstanding the provisions of section 1765 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 70), $210.000; Allowance to employees using their automobiles.Employees of the bureau may be paid in lieu of all transportation expenses not to exceed 7 cents per mile for the use of their own automobiles when used for necessary travel on official business; Expenses of attending meetings, etc.Appropriations herein made for the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the promotion of foreign and domestic commerce, or either, and also expenses of illustrating the work of the bureau by showing of maps, charts, and graphs at such meetings, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce; Minor purchases in foreign countries in open market.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[U. S. C., p. 1309](/us/usc/p1309).The purchase of supplies and equipment or the procurement of services for the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, in foreign countries, may be made in open market without compliance with section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), in the manner common among business men, when the aggregate amount of the purchase or the service does not exceed $100 in any instance; Services in the District.Total, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, $5,334,122, of which amount not to exceed $2,055,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Census Bureau. bureau of the census Fifteenth Census.Salaries and expenses for taking, etc.For salaries and necessary expenses for preparing for taking, compiling, and publishing the Fifteenth Census of the United States and for carrying on during the decennial census period all other *Ante*, p. 21.work authorized and directed by law (Act June 18, 1929, 46 Stat., p. 21), at a total cost of not to exceed $39,593,000, including rent Services in the District.of office quarters in and outside the District of Columbia; salaries of employees in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including *Provisos*.Leaves of absence to temporary employees.temporary employees in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That such temporary employees in the District of Columbia may be allowed leave of absence with pay at the rate of two and one-half days per month; the employment by contract of personal services 1335for the preparation of monographs on census subjects; per diem Special agents, etc.compensation of special agents and expenses of the same and of detailed employees, whether employed in the District of Columbia or elsewhere; expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with Attendance at meetings.the collection of statistics, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce; the purchase of supplies and equipment, including books of reference, periodicals, maps, newspapers, manuscripts, punch cards and materials, street car fares, first-aid outfits for use in the buildings occupied by the employees of this bureau, and other contingent expenses; the maintenance, operation, Motor vehicle allowance.and repair of a passenger-carrying automobile to be used on official business; the purchase, rental, repair, and exchange of typewriters, Typewriting, tabulating, etc., machines.calculating machines, punching, tabulating, and sorting machines, and other office appliances; the construction of punching, tabulating, and sorting machines, including technical, mechanical, and other services in connection therewith, whether in the District of Columbia or elsewhere; and printing and binding at the Government Printing and binding.Printing Office, $6,270,580, to continue available until December 31, 1932: *Provided further*, That existing law shall not Purchase of supplies, etc.operate to prevent the use of such portion of this appropriation as may be necessary for the purchase of supplies, printing and binding, and other contingent expenses: *Provided further*, That the Secretary Discretionary suspension of other work during decennial period.of Commerce is authorized, in his discretion, to suspend during the decennial census period such work of the Bureau of the Census, other than the Fifteenth Census, as he may deem advisable. steamboat inspection service Steamboat Inspection Service. Salaries: For the Supervising Inspector General and other personal Supervising Inspector General and office personnel.Inspectors.Assistants at designated ports.services in the District of Columbia, $45,120. Steamboat inspectors: For eleven supervising inspectors; inspectors of hulls and inspectors of boilers; assistant inspectors, as authorized by law, for the following ports: New York, forty-seven; Pittsburgh, two; New Orleans, ten; Baltimore, ten; Providence, four; Boston, ten; Philadelphia, twelve; San Francisco, eighteen; Buffalo, eight; Cleveland, eight; Milwaukee, four; Chicago, six; Grand Haven, two; Detroit, four; Norfolk, eight; Seattle, fourteen; Portland (Oregon), six; Albany, two; Portland (Maine), four; Los Angeles, six; Galveston, four; Mobile, four; Savannah, two; Toledo, two; and six traveling inspectors; in all, $984,300. Clerk hire, Steamboat Inspection Service: For compensation of Clerk hire.clerks to boards of steamboat inspectors, to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce in accordance with the provisions of law, $186,200. Contingent expenses: For the payment of fees to witnesses; for Contingent expenses.traveling and other expenses when on official business of the Supervising Inspector General, Deputy Supervising Inspector General, supervising inspectors, traveling inspectors, local and assistant Contracts without advertising.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733), waived.[U. S. C., p. 1309](/us/usc/p1309).inspectors, and clerks; for instruments, furniture, stationery, streetcar fares not to exceed $25, janitor service, contract stenographic reporting services without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), and every other thing necessary to carry into effect the provisions of title 46, chapter 14, United States Code, $179,500. bureau of navigation Navigation Bureau. Salaries: For the commissioner and other personal services in the Commissioner, and office personnel.District of Columbia, $74,680. 1336 Admeasurement of vessels.Admeasurement of vessels: To enable the Commissioner of Navigation to secure uniformity in the admeasurement of vessels, including the employment of an adjuster of admeasurements, purchase and exchange of admeasuring instruments, traveling and incidental expenses, $7,200. Motor boats to enforce navigation laws.Enforcement of navigation laws: To enable the Secretary of Commerce to provide and operate such motor boats and employ thereon such persons as may be necessary for the enforcement, under his direction, of laws relating to navigation and inspection of vessels, boarding of vessels, and counting of passengers on excursion boats, including insignia, braid, and chin straps, and coats, caps, and aprons, for stewards’ departments on vessels, $183,040, of which $65,000 shall be immediately available. Preventing overcrowding of vessels.Preventing overcrowding of passenger vessels: To enable the Secretary of Commerce to employ, temporarily, such persons as may be necessary, of whom not more than two at any one time may be employed in the District of Columbia, to enforce the laws to prevent overcrowding of passenger and excursion vessels, and all expenses in connection therewith, $18,840. Shipping commissioners.Shipping commissioners: For salaries of shipping commissioners, $48,000. Clerk hire.Clerk hire: For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce, to each person or clerk in the offices of shipping commissioners, $118,820. Contingent expenses, office of commissioners.Contingent expenses: For rent, stationery, and other requisites for transaction of the business of shipping commissioners’ offices, including janitor service; in all, $13,550. Load lines on American vessels.Enforcing law regulating, etc.Load lines on American vessels: To enable the Secretary of Commerce to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to establish load lines for American vessels, and for other purposes.” Vol. 45, p. 1492.[U. S. C. Supp. IV, p. 609](/us/usc/p609).approved March 2, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 46, secs. 85–85g), including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling expenses, rentals, purchase of instruments and other equipment, furniture, stationery and office supplies, repairs to equipment, books of reference and other necessary publications, documents, Advertising.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733), waived.[U. S. C., p. 1309](/us/usc/p1309).plans and specifications, contract stenographic reporting services without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), and all other incidental expenses not included in Services in the District.the foregoing, $32,150, of which not to exceed $17,500 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Standards Bureau. bureau of standards Director, and office personnel.Salaries: For the director and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $732,740. Equipment.Equipment: For apparatus, machinery, tools, and appliances used in connection with buildings or work of the bureau, typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, laboratry supplies, materials, and supplies used in the construction of apparatus, machinery, or other appliances, including their exchange; piping, wiring, and construction incident to the installation of apparatus, machinery, or appliances; furniture for laboratories and offices, cases for apparatus, $213,000, including $76,000 for repairs and necessary alterations to buildings, of which amount $35,000 may be Dynamometer laboratory, addition.used for an addition to the dynamometer laboratory, including contract architectural services; General expenses.General expenses: For fuel for heat, light, and power; office expenses, stationery, cleaning and toilet supplies, books and periodicals, which may be exchanged when not needed for permanent use; traveling expenses; street-car fares not exceeding $100; expenses 1337of the visiting committee; expenses of attendance of American member at the meeting of the International Committee of Weights and International Committee of Weights and Measures.Measures; purchase of gloves, goggles, rubber boots, and aprons; supplies for operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger automobiles and motor trucks for official use, including their exchange; and contingencies of all kinds, $64,000. Improvement and care of grounds: For grading, construction of Care, etc., of grounds.roads and walks, piping grounds for water supply, lamps, wiring for lighting purposes, and other expenses incident to the improvement and care of grounds, including foreman and laborers in the District of Columbia, $14,400. Testing structural materials: For continuation of the investigation Structural materials investigations.of structural materials, such as stone, clays, cement, and so forth, Services in the District.including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the Services in the District.field, $333,200: *Provided*, That as much of this sum as necessary shall *Proviso*.Disseminating Information as to housing. etc.be used to collect and disseminate such scientific, practical, and statistical information as may be procured, showing or tending to show approved methods in building, planning and construction, standardization, and adaptability of structural units, including building materials and codes, economy in the manufacture and utilization of building materials and supplies, and such other matters as many tend to encourage, improve, and cheapen construction and housing. Testing machines: For maintenance and operation of testing Testing machines for physical constants.machines, including personal service in connection therewith in the District of Columbia and in the field, for the determination by the Bureau of Standards of the physical constants and the properties of materials as authorized by law, $54,700. Investigation of fire-resisting properties: For investigation of Fire-resisting building materials.fire-resisting properties of building materials and conditions under which they may be most efficiently used, and for the standardization of types of appliances for fire prevention, including personal services Services in the District.in the District of Columbia and in the field, $34,820. Investigation of public-utility standards: For investigation of the Public utilities standards, etc., investigations.standards of practice and methods of measurements of public utilities, such as gas, electric light, electric power, water, telephone, central station heating, and electric railway service, and the solution of the problems which arise in connection with standards in such service, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $106,570. Testing miscellaneous materials: For testing miscellaneous Testing miscellaneous materials.materials, such as varnish materials, soap materials, inks, and chemicals, including supplies for the Government departments and independent establishments, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, as authorized by law, $46,160. Radio research: For investigation and standardization of methods Radio standardization.and instruments employed in radio communication, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $85,280. Color standardization: To develop color standards and methods of Industrial color standardization.manufacture and of color measurements, with special reference to their industrial use in standardization and specification of colorants, such as dyestuffs, inks, and pigments, and other products, paint, paper, and textiles, in which color is a pertinent property, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $15,680. Investigation of clay products: To study methods of measurement Clay products processes.and technical processes used in the manufacture of pottery, brick, tile, terra cotta, and other clay products, and the study of the properties of the materials used in that industry, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $48,760; 1338 Mechanical appliances.Testing mechanical, hydraulic, and aeronautic devices, etc.Standardizing mechanical appliances: To develop methods of testing and standardizing machines, motors, tools, measuring instruments, and other apparatus and devices used in mechanical, hydraulic, and aeronautic engineering; for the comparative study or types of apparatus and methods of operation, and for the establishment of standards of performance; for the accurate determination of fundamental physical constants involved in the proper execution of this work; and for the scientific experiments and investigations needed in solving the problems which may arise in connection therewith, especially in response to the requirements of aeronautics and aviation for information of a purely scientific nature, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $51,020; Optical glass production problems.Investigation of optical and other types of glass: For the investigation of the problems involved in the production of optical and other types of glass, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $27,180; Textiles, paper, etc., standardization.Investigation of textiles: To investigate textiles, paper, leather, and rubber in order to develop standards of more durable quality and methods of measurement, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $60,600; Sugar standardization.Sugar standardization: For the standardization and design of sugar-testing apparatus; the development of technical specifications for the various grades of sugars, especially involving the standardization and manufacture of sugars; for the study of the technical problems incidental to the collection of the revenue on sugar and to determine the fundamental scientific constants of sugars and other Rare and unusual types.substances; for the standardization and production of rare and unusual types of sugars required for the medical service of the Government departments; and for other technical and scientific purposes, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $94,520; Gauges and screw threads.Cooperative standardization of, etc.Gauge standardization: To provide by cooperation of the Bureau of Standards, the War Department, and the Navy Department for the standardization and testing of the standard gauges, screw threads, and standards required in manufacturing throughout the United States, and to calibrate and test such standard gauges, screw threads, and standards, including necessary equipment and personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $49,700; Testing large scales, etc.Testing railroad-track, mine, and other scales: For investigation and testing of railroad-track scales, elevator scales, and other scales used in weighing commodities for interstate shipments and to secure equipment and assistance for testing the scales used by the Government in its transactions with the public, such as post-office, navy-yard, and custom-house scales, and for the purpose of cooperating with the States in securing uniformity in the weights and measures laws and in the methods of inspection; for investigating the conditions Mine scales and cars.and methods of use of scales and mine cars used for weighing and measuring coal dug by miners, for the purpose of determining wages due, and of conditions affecting the accuracy of the weighing or measuring of coal at the mines, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $62,060; High temperature measurements.High temperature investigations: For laboratory and field investigations of suitable methods of high temperature measurements and control in various industrial processes and to assist in making available directly to the industries the results of the bureau’s investigations in this field, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,080; Metallurgical research.Metallurgical research: For metallurgical research, including alloy steels, foundry practice, and standards for metals and sands; 1339casting, rolling, forging, and the properties of aluminum alloys; prevention of corrosion of metals and alloys; development of metal substitutes, as for platinum; behavior of bearing metals; preparation of metal specifications; investigation of new metallurgical processes and study of methods of conservation in metallurgical manufacture and products; investigation of materials used in the construction of rails, wheels, axles, and other railway equipment, and Railway equipment.the cause of their failure, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $60,640; Sound investigation: For the investigation of the principles of Sound investigation.sound and their application to military and industrial purposes, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $11,140; Industrial research: For technical investigations in cooperation Industrial research.Cooperative investigations.with the industries upon fundamental problems involved in industrial development, with a view to assisting in the permanent establishment of new American industries, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $248,860; Standarization of equipment: To enable the Bureau of Standards Cooperative standardization of industrial devices, etc.to cooperate with Government departments, engineers, and manufacturers in the establishment of standards, methods of testing, and inspection of instruments, equipment, tools, and electrical and mechanical devices used in the industries and by the Government, including the practical specifications for quality and performance of such devices, and the formulation of methods of inspection, laboratory, and service tests, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $258,620; Standard materials: For purchase, preparation, analysis, and Standards for checking chemical analyses.distribution of standard materials to be used in checking chemical analyses in the testing of physical measuring apparatus, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,540; Investigation of radioactive substances and X rays: For an investigation Radioactive sub stances and X-ray investigations.of radioactive substances and the methods of their measurements and testing; for investigations relative to the development of standard specifications for X-ray equipment and operation; for the investigation of the hazards of X-ray practice; for the testing and standardization of X-ray protective materials; for the standardization and design of X-ray testing equipment; for the determination of fundamental physical constants essential to X-ray diagnosis and therapy to X-ray analysis of materials and to other technical and scientific applications, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $31,320; Utilization of waste products from the land: For the survey of Utilizing waste products from the land.the possibilities of the industrial utilization of waste products from the land, including cooperation with colleges, other institutions, and manufacturers, including personal services in the District of Columbia *Proviso*.Cooperation with Chemistry, etc., Bureau without duplicating work.and in the field, $52,400: *Provided*, That the Bureau of Standards cooperates with the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Department of Agriculture, without duplication of work; Investigation of automotive engines: For the promotion of economy Automotive engines Investigations, etc.and efficiency in automotive transportation by land and by air through investigations of the basic principles underlying the design, performance, operation, and testing of automotive engines, their fuels, lubricants, accessories, and the power-transmitting system used in connection with them, also such elements as brakes and brake linings; to promote economy in the use of liquid fuels and safety in vehicular traffic, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $49,760; 1340 Dental materials investigations.Investigation of dental materials: To investigate the physical and chemical properties of dental materials, including the method of their application and the causes of deterioration of such materials in service, for the purpose of developing standards of quality and standard methods of test, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $9,940; Hydraulic laboratory research.*Ante*, p. 327.Hydraulic laboratory research: For the determination of fundamental data useful in hydraulic research and engineering, including laboratory research relating to the behavior and control of river and harbor waters, the study of hydraulic structures and water flow, and the development and testing of hydraulic instruments and accessories, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $36,880; Cooperative work with departments, etc., in scientific investigations, etc.During the fiscal year 1932 the head of any department or independent establishment of the Government having funds available for scientific investigations and requiring cooperative work by the Bureau of Standards on scientific investigations within the scope of the functions of that bureau, and which the Bureau of Standards is unable to perform within the limits of its appropriations, may, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce, transfer to the Bureau of Standards such sums as may be necessary to carry on such investigations. The Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer Transfer of funds to credit of bureau.on the books of the Treasury Department any sums which may be authorized hereunder, and such amounts shall be placed to the credit of the Bureau of Standards for the performance of work for the department or establishment from which the transfer is made, including, where necessary, compensation for personal services in. the District of Columbia and in the field; Attendance at technical, etc., meetings.Appropriations herein made for the Bureau of Standards shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with standardization and research, or either, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce, and for the compensation and expenses of medical officers of the Public Health Service detailed to the Bureau of Standards for the purpose of maintaining a first-aid station and making clinical observations; Total, Bureau of Standards, $2,874,570, of which amount not to Services in the District.exceed $2,249,790 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Lighthouses Bureau. bureau of lighthouses Commissioner, and office personnel.Salaries: For the commissioner and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $121,790. General expenses.Objects specified.General expenses: For supplies, including replacement of and necessary additions to existing equipment, repairs, maintenance, and incidental expenses of lighthouses and other lights, beacons, buoyage, fog signals, lighting of rivers heretofore authorized to be lighted, light vessels, other aids to navigation, and lighthouse tenders, including the establishment, repair, and improvement of beacons and day marks, and purchase of land for same; establishment of post lights, Oil, etc., houses.buoys, submarine signals, and fog signals; establishment of oil or *Provisos*.Limit for buildings.carbide houses, not to exceed $10,000: *Provided*, That any oil or carbide house erected hereunder shall not exceed $1,000 in cost; construction of necessary outbuildings at a cost not exceeding $1,000 at any one light station in any fiscal year; improvement of grounds Restoring stations, etc.and buildings connected with light stations and depots; restoring light stations and depots and buildings connected therewith: *Provided further*, Limitation on use, etc.That such restoration shall be limited to the original purpose of the structures; wages of persons attending post lights; temporary employees and field force while engaged on works of gen-1341eral repair and maintenance, and laborers and mechanics at lighthouse depots; rations and provisions or commutation thereof for Rations, etc.working parties in the field, officers and crews of light vessels and tenders, and officials and other authorized persons of the Lighthouse Service on duty on board of such tenders or vessels, and money accruing from commutation for rations and provisions for the above-named persons on board of tenders and light vessels or in working parties in the field may be paid on proper vouchers to the person having charge of the mess of such vessel or party; not exceeding $2,000 for packing, crating, and transporting personal household Transferring household effects on change of station.effects of employees when transferred from one official station to another for permanent duty; purchase of rubber boots, oilskins, rubber gloves, and coats, caps, and aprons for stewards’ departments on vessels; reimbursement under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce of keepers of light stations and masters of light vessels Relief of ship wrecked persons.and of lighthouse tenders for rations and provisions and clothing furnished shipwrecked persons who may be temporarily provided for by them, not exceeding in all $5,000 in any fiscal year; fuel, light, and rent of quarters where necessary for keepers of lighthouses; purchase of land sites for fog signals; rent of necessary Purchase of land sites, etc.ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or to mark changeable channels and which in consequence can not be made permanent; rent of offices, depots, and wharves; traveling Traveling expenses.expenses, including travel for the examinations authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to provide for retirement for disability in the Retirement examinations.Vol. 43, p. 1261.[U. S. C., p. 1095](/us/usc/p1095).Lighthouse Service,” approved March 4, 1925 (U. S. C., title 33, sec. 765); mileage; library books for light stations and vessels, and technical books and periodicals not exceeding $1,000; traveling and subsistence expenses of teachers while actually employed by States or private persons to instruct the children of keepers of lighthouses; all other contingent expenses of district offices and depots, including Contingent expenses.the purchase of provisions for sale to lighthouse keepers at isolated stations, and the appropriation reimbursed, purchase not to exceed $3,600, exchange, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use; payment of Vehicles.Rewards, etc.rewards for the apprehension and conviction, or for information helpful to the apprehension and conviction of persons found interfering with aids to navigation maintained by the Lighthouse Service, in violation of section 6 of the Act of May 14, 1908 (U. S. C., title 33, Vol. 35, p. 162.[U. S. C., p. 1094](/us/usc/p1094).sec. 761), and not exceeding $8,500 for contingent expenses of the office of the Bureau of Lighthouses in the District of Columbia, $4,550,000. Keepers of lighthouses: For salaries of not exceeding one thousand Keepers.eight hundred lighthouse and fog-signal keepers and persons attending lights, exclusive of post lights, $2,105,280. Lighthouse vessels: For salaries and wages of officers and crews Officers and crews of vessels.of light vessels and lighthouse tenders, including temporary employment when necessary, $2,402,260. Superintendents, clerks, and so forth: For salaries of eighteen Superintendents, clerks in the field, etc.superintendents of lighthouses, and of assistant superintendents, clerks, draftsmen, and other authorized permanent employees in the district offices and depots of the Lighthouse Service, exclusive of those regularly employed in the office of the Bureau of Lighthouses, District of Columbia, $653,080. Retired pay: For retired pay of officers and employees engaged Retired pay.in the field service or on vessels of the Lighthouse Service, except persons continuously employed in district offices and shops, $380,000. Public works: For constructing or purchasing and equipping Public works.Vessels.lighthouse tenders and light vessels for the Lighthouse Service as may be specifically approved by the Secretary of Commerce not to 1342Aids to navigation. exceed $950,000 and for establishing and improving aids to navigation and other works as may be specifically approved by the Secretary of Commerce, $920,000; in all, $1,870,000, to be immediately available. Coast and Geodetic Survey. coast and geodetic survey All expenses.Objects specified.For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn vehicles for use in field work, purchase of motor cycles with side cars, including their exchange, not to exceed $1,000, surveying instruments, including their exchange, rubber boots, canvas and rubber gloves, goggles, and caps, coats, and aprons for stewards’ departments on vessels, extra compensation at not to exceed $1 per day for each station to employees of the Lighthouse Service and the Weather Bureau while observing tides or currents, services of one tide observer in the District of Columbia at not to exceed $1 per day, and compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate not exceeding $3 per day each, and for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey Distribution.subscribed by the Secretary of Commerce, and under the following heads: Field expenses.Atlantic coast.Field expenses, Atlantic coast: For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United *Proviso*.Outlying islands.States, $174,500: *Provided*, That not more than $45,000 of this amount shall be expended on the coasts of said outlying islands and the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal; Pacific coast.Pacific coast: For surveys and necessary resurveys of coasts on the Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of the United States, including not to exceed $3,000 for construction of temporary shelter for the care of equipment and housing of personnel, $315,000; Physical hydrography.Tides, currents, and so forth: For continuing researches in physical hydrography, relating to harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, $27,000; Coast Pilot.Coast Pilot: For compilation of the Coast Pilot, including the employment of such pilots and nautical experts, and stenographic help in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, $6,500; Magnetic and seismological investigations.Magnetic work: For continuing magnetic and seismological observations and to establish meridian lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States; making magnetic and seismological observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States; purchase of additional magnetic and seismological instruments; lease of sites where necessary and the erection of temporary magnetic and seismological buildings; and including the employment in the field and office of such magnetic and seismological observers and stenographic services as may be necessary, $79,940. Federal, State, etc., surveys.Determining lines of exact levels.Federal, boundary, and State surveys: For continuing lines of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; determining geographic positions by triangulation and traverse for the control of Federal, State, boundary, county, city, and other surveys and engineering works in all parts of the United States; including special geodetic surveys of first-order triangulation and leveling in regions subject to earthquakes, not exceeding $10,000; determining 1343field astronomic positions and the variation of latitude, including the maintenance and operation of the latitude observatories at Ukiah, California, and Gaithersburg, Maryland, not exceeding $2,500 each; Ukiah and Gaithersburg observatories.establishing lines of exact levels, determining geographic positions by triangulation and traverse, and making astronomic observations in Alaska; and continuing gravity observations in the United States and Alaska observations.for making such observations in regions under the jurisdiction of the United States and also on islands and coasts adjacent thereto, $326,800, of which amount not to exceed $30,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, Miscellaneous.including the preparation or purchase of plans and specifications of vessels and the employment of such hull draftsmen in the field and office as may be necessary for the same; the reimbursement, under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce, of officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey for food, clothing, medicines, and other supplies furnished for the temporary relief of distressed persons in remote localities and to shipwrecked persons temporarily provided for by Relieving ship wrecked persons, etc.them, not to exceed a total of $550; actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office in the District of Columbia for consultation with the director, and not exceeding $1,000 for the expenses of the attendance of representatives of the Coast and Geodetic Survey who may be designated as delegates from the United States at the meetings of the International Research Council or of its branches and of the International Hydrographic Bureau, and not exceeding $3,000 for special surveys that may be required by the Bureau of Lighthouses or other proper authority, Special surveys.$7,080; In all, field expenses, $936,820. Vessels: For repairs of vessels, including traveling expenses of Vessels.Repairs, etc.persons inspecting the repairs, and exclusive of engineer’s supplies and other ship chandlery, $143,000, of which amount not to exceed “Guide,” “Pathfinder,” and “Pioneer.”$52,000 shall be immediately available for extraordinary repairs to ships Guide, Pathfinder, and Pioneer. For all necessary employees to man and equip the vessels, including Equipment employees.professional seamen serving as mates on vessels of the survey, to execute the work of the survey herein provided for and authorized by law, $717,000. Pay, commissioned officers: For pay and allowances prescribed by Pay, etc., commissioned officers.law for commissioned officers on sea duty and other duty, holding relative rank with officers of the Navy, including one director, with relative rank of captain, six hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of captain, ten hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of commander, seventeen hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of lieutenant commander, forty-seven hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of lieutenant, sixty-one junior hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of lieutenant (junior grade), twenty-nine aides with relative rank of ensign, and including officers retired in accordance with existing law, $662,313: *Provided*, That the Secretary of *Proviso*.Assistant director.Commerce may designate one of the hydrographic and geodetic engineers to act as assistant director. Office force: For personal services, $549,620. Office force. Office expenses: For purchase of new instruments (except surveying Office expenses.instruments), including their exchange, materials, equipment, and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and chart division; books, scientific and technical books, journals, books of reference, maps, charts, and subscriptions; copper plates, chart paper, 1344printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, rubber gloves, and electrotyping supplies; photolithographing and printing charts for immediate use; stationery for office and field parties; transportation of instruments and supplies when not charged to party expenses; heating, lighting, and power; telephones, including operation or switchboard; telegrams, ice, and washing; office furniture, repairs, traveling expenses of officers and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office; miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, not exceeding $90 for street-car fares, $67,180. Subsistence expenses restricted.Appropriations herein made for the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall not be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the director), except as now provided by law. Fisheries Bureau. bureau of fisheries Commissioner, and office personnel.Commissioner’s office: For the commissioner and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $201,660. Office expenses, etc.Administration: For expenses of the office of the commissioner, including stationery, scientific and reference books, periodicals and newspapers for library, furniture and equipment, telegraph and telephone service, street-car fares not exceeding $150, compensation of temporary employees, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $4,400. Propagation expenses.Propagation of food fishes: For maintenance, repair, alteration, improvement, equipment, and operation of fish-cultural stations, general propagation of food fishes and their distribution, including movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment (including rubber boots and oilskins) and apparatus, contingent expenses, pay of permanent employees not to exceed $452,270, temporary labor, and not to exceed $10,000 for propagation and distribution of fresh-water mussels and the necessary expenses connected therewith, $1,022,760. Vessels.Maintenance.Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance and operation of vessels and launches, including purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hire of vessels, temporary employees, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith including not to exceed $1,000 for the purchase of plans and specifications for vessels or for contract personal services for the preparation thereof, and money accruing from commutation of rations and provisions on board vessels may be paid on proper vouchers to the persons having charge of the mess of such vessels, $316,920, of which not to exceed $48,600 may be expended for pay of officers and employees of vessels of the Atlantic coast and not to exceed $98,820 for pay of officers and crews of vessels for the Alaska Service.Alaska Fisheries Service, and $10,000 shall be immediately available Immediate shipment to Pribilof Islands.for the procurement of supplies and equipment required for shipment to the Pribilof Islands for the service of the fiscal year 1932. Commutation of rations.Commutation of rations (not to exceed $1 per day) may be paid to officers and crews of vessels of the Bureau of Fisheries during the fiscal year 1932 under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce. Food fishes inquiry.Inquiry respecting food fishes: For inquiry into the cause of the decrease of food fishes in the waters of the United States, and for investigation and experiments in respect to the aquatic animals, plants, and waters, and screening of irrigation ditches in fishways, in the interests of fish culture and the fishery industries, including 1345pay of permanent employees not to exceed $155,140, temporary employees, maintenance, repair, improvement, equipment, and operations of biological stations, expenses of travel and preparation of reports, $300,340. Fishery industries: For collection and compilation of statistics of Statistical, etc., inquiries.the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, and the methods of preservation and utilization of fishery products, including pay of permanent employees not to exceed $40,200, compensation of temporary employees, travel and preparation of reports, including temporary employees in the District of Columbia not to exceed $1,800, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, including the purchase not to exceed $1,250, and maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of the field work of the Bureau of Fisheries, $116,620. Sponge fisheries: For protecting the sponge fisheries, including Sponge fisheries.Protecting.employment of inspectors, watchmen, and temporary assistants, hire of boats, rental of office and storage, care of seized sponges and other Vol. 38, p. 692.[U. S. C., p. 440](/us/usc/p440).property, travel, and all other expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act of August 15, 1914 (U. S. C., title 16, secs. 781–785), to regulate the sponge fisheries, $3,100. Alaska, general service: For protecting the seal fisheries of Alaska, Alaska.Seal fisheries protection, food to natives, etc.including the furnishing of food, fuel, clothing, and other necessities of life to the natives of the Pribilof Islands, of Alaska; not exceeding $57,000 for construction, improvement, repair, and alteration of buildings and roads, transportation of supplies to and from the islands, expenses of travel of agents and other employees and subsistence while on said islands, hire and maintenance of vessels, purchase of sea otters, and for all expenses necessary to carry out the Vol. 36, p. 326.[U. S. C., p. 431](/us/usc/p431).provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to protect the seal fisheries of Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved April 21, 1910 (U. S. C., title 16, secs. 631–658), and for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska, including pay of permanent employees not to exceed $92,940, contract stenographic reporting service, travel, subsistence (or per diem in lieu of subsistence) of employees while on duty in Alaska, hire of boats, employment of temporary labor, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $446,240, of which $100,000 shall be immediately available. Mississippi wild life and fish refuge: For construction of buildings, Mississippi wild life and fish refuge.Construction, equipment, etc., expenses.boats, and ponds, for purchase of equipment, including boats, for maintenance, operation, repair, and improvements, including expenditures for personal services at the seat of government and elsewhere Vol. 43, p. 650.[U. S. C., p. 437](/us/usc/p437).as may be necessary, as authorized in the Act approved June 7, 1924 (U. S. C., title 16, secs. 721–731), $25,000. Construction of stations: To complete the establishment of Bureau Fish cultural, etc., stations.Construction expenses in States designated.of Fisheries stations as follows: A fish-cultural station in each of the States of New Mexico, Louisiana, and Idaho; a fish-cultural substation in the State of Wisconsin; and an experimental bass and trout station in the State of Maryland or West Virginia, $240,000; and to establish, or to commence the establishment of, Bureau of Fisheries stations as follows: A fish-cultural station in each of the States of Alabama, Indiana, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania (including a substation in Pennsylvania); a fish-cultural substation in the State of South Carolina, including the enlargement of the Orangeburg station in said State, and in the States of Texas and New York; including the acquisition of land, the construction of buildings and ponds, water supply, improvements to grounds, purchase of equipment, and all necessary expenses in connection with the establishment of said stations and substations; and including the purchase of the Mill 1346Creek station in the State of California, and the purchase and repair *Ante*, p. 371.of the Rogue River substation in the State of Oregon, $208,500; in all, $448,500, to be immediately available; as authorized by the Act or May 21, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 371), at not to exceed the costs therein specified. Black bass law.Enforcement expenses.*Ante*, p. 845.Enforcement of black bass law: To enable the Secretary of Commerce to carry into effect the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate interstate transportation of black bass, [U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 182](/us/usc/p182).Services in the District.and for other purposes,’ approved May 20, 1926” (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 16, secs. 851–856), approved July 2, 1930 (46 Stat., pp. 845–847), $20,000, of which not to exceed $3,500 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Attendance at meetings, etc.Not to exceed $1,000 of the appropriations herein made for the Bureau of Fisheries shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of said bureau when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce, and not to exceed $1,500 shall be available for the rental of suitable quarters in the District of Columbia for laboratory and storage purposes. Patent Office. patent office Sums from available revenues thereof.*Ante*, p. 156.The following sums are appropriated for the Patent Office for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, out of the revenues of such office in conformity with section 5 of the Act approved April 11, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 155), to the extent that such revenues are sufficient therefor and any remainder out of the general fund of the Treasury, namely: Commissioner, and office personnel.*Proviso*.Temporary typists, etc.For the Commissioner of Patents and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $3,502,000: *Provided*, That of the amount herein appropriated not to exceed $25,000 may be used for special and temporary services of typists certified by the Civil Service Commission, who may be employed in such numbers, at $4 per diem, as may, in the judgment of the Commissioner of Patents, be necessary to keep current the work of furnishing manuscript copies of records. Reference books, etc.For purchase of law, professional, and other reference books and publications and scientific books, including their exchange, and expenses of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments, directories, and for other contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the Patent Office, $44,980. Copies of weekly issue of patents, reproductions, etc.For producing copies of weekly issue of drawings of patents and designs; reproduction of copies of drawings and specifications of exhausted patents, designs, trade-marks, and other papers, such other papers when reproduced for sale to be sold at not less than cost plus 10 per centum; reproduction of foreign patent drawings; photo prints of pending application drawings; and photostat and photographic supplies and dry mounts, $310,000. Multigraphed headings allowed.The headings of the drawings for patented cases may be multigraphed in the Patent Office for the purpose of photolithography. Investigating prior use of inventions.For investigating the question of public use or sale of inventions for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents, and such other questions arising in connection with applications for Defense in suits.patents and the prior art as may be deemed necessary by the Commissioner Attendance at meetings, etc.of Patents; for expense attending defense of suits instituted against the Commissioner of Patents, $800, and for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Patent Office when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce. Furniture, etc.For furniture and filing cases, $228,970. Printing and binding.For printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, trade-marks, prints, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, engrav-1347ing illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly Official Gazette.and annual indices, $1,090.000; for miscellaneous printing and binding, $60,000; in all, $1,150,000. bureau of mines Mines Bureau. salaries and general expenses Salaries and general expenses.Director, and office and field personnel.Salaries and general expenses: For general expenses, including pay of the director and necessary assistants, clerks, and other employees, in the office in the District of Columbia, and in the field, and every other expense requisite for and incident to the general work of the bureau in the District of Columbia, and in the field, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, $90,895, of which amount not to exceed $79,265 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Investigating mine accidents: For investigations as to the causes Investigating mine explosions, accidents, etc.of mine explosions, causes of falls of roof and coal, methods of mining, especially in relation to the safety of miners, the appliances best adapted to prevent accidents, the possible improvement of conditions under which mining operations are carried on, the use of explosives and electricity, the prevention of accidents, and other inquiries and technologic investigations pertinent to the mining industry, including Mining industry.all equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel and subsistence, purchase not exceeding $2,400, exchange as part payment for, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, purchase of laboratory gloves, goggles, rubber boots and aprons, $433,660, of which amount not to exceed $50,192 may be Services in the District.expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Mining investigations in Alaska: For investigations and the dissemination Mining investigations, etc., in Alaska.Additional experiment stations.of information with a view to improving conditions in the mining, quarrying, and metallurgical industries as provided in the Act authorizing additional mining experiment stations, approved Vol. 38, p. 959.[U. S. C., p. 963](/us/usc/p963).March 3, 1915 (U. S. C., title 30, sec. 8), and to provide for the inspection of mines and the protection of the lives of miners in the Territory of Alaska, including personal services, equipment, supplies, Alaska mines.and expenses of travel and subsistence, $11,460; Operating mine rescue cars and stations: For the investigation Mine rescue cars and stations.Improvement, etc.and improvement of mine rescue and first-aid methods and appliances and the teaching of mine safety, rescue, and first-aid methods, including the exchange in part payment for, operation, maintenance, and repair of mine rescue trucks, and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, the expenditure for the purchase of passenger-carrying vehicles not to exceed $4,200, the construction of temporary structures and the repair, maintenance, and operation of mine rescue Rescue stations, etc.cars and Government-owned mine rescue stations and appurtenances thereto, personal services, traveling expenses and subsistence, equipment, and supplies; travel and subsistence, and other incidental expenses of employees in attendance at meetings and conferences Attendance at meetings.held for the purpose of promoting safety and health in the mining and allied industries; the purchase and exchange in part payment therefor of cooks’ uniforms, goggles, gloves, and such other articles or equipment as may be necessary in the operation of mine rescue cars and stations, for the erection, at a cost not to exceed $500, of a Construction, etc.Services in the District.*Proviso*.Rescue trophies, etc.garage at Jellico, Tennessee, including not to exceed $18,940 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $359,520: *Provided*, That of this amount not to exceed $500 may be expended for the purchase and bestowal of trophies in connection with mine rescue and first-aid contests; 1348 Investigating mineral fuel, etc.Testing fuel: To conduct inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and use of mineral fuels, and for investigation of mineral fuels belonging to or for the use of the United States, with a view to their most efficient utilization; to recommend to various departments such changes in selection and use of fuel as may result in greater economy, and, upon request of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, to investigate the fuel-burning equipment in use by or proposed for any of the departments, establishments, or institutions of the United States in the District of Columbia, $180,610, of which amount not Services in the District.to exceed $32,060 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Mineral mining.Studies, investigations, etc., for improveing conditions in.Mineral mining investigations: For inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and mineral substances, other than fuels, with a view to improving health conditions and increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting these industries; and including all equipment, supplies, expenses of travel and subsistence, and the purchase, not to exceed $2,500, including exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, including not to exceed Services in the District.*Proviso*.Private work forbidden.$17,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $165,460: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation may be expended for an investigation in behalf of any private party; Oil, gas, and oil shale investigations.Oil, gas, and oil-shale investigations: For inquiries and investigations and dissemination of information concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of petroleum, natural gas, and oil shale, including economic conditions affecting the industry, with a view to economic development and conserving resources through the prevention of waste; for the purchase of newspapers *Proviso*.Purchase of newspapers, etc.[R. S., sec. 102, p. 30](/us/rs/s102/p30).[U. S. C., p. 34](/us/usc/p34).relating to the oil, gas, and allied industries: *Provided*, That section 192 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 102) shall not apply to such purchase of newspapers from this appropriation; and for every other expense incident thereto, including supplies, All other expenses.equipment, expenses of travel and subsistence, purchase, not to exceed $7,000, exchange as part payment for, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, purchase of laboratory gloves, goggles, rubber boots and aprons, $232,860, of which Services in the District.amount not to exceed $26,180 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Mining experiment stations.Personal services, etc.Mining experiment stations: For the employment of personal services, purchase of laboratory gloves, goggles, rubber boots and aprons, the purchase not to exceed $3,000, exchange as part payment for, maintenance and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and all other expenses in connection with the establishment, Vol. 38, p. 959.[U. S. C., p. 31](/us/usc/p31).maintenance, and operation of mining experiment stations, as provided in the Act authorizing additional mining experiment stations, approved March 3, 1915 (U. S. C., title 30, sec. 8), $231,570, of Services in the District.which amount not to exceed $15,700 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Pittsburgh, Pa., station.Expenses of.Buildings and grounds, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: For care and maintenance of buildings and grounds at Pittsburgh and Bruceton, Pennsylvania, including personal services, the purchase, exchange as part payment for, operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger automobiles for official use, and all other expenses requisite for and incident thereto, including not to exceed $5,000 for additions and improvements, $82,300; 1349 Persons employed during the fiscal year 1932 in field work outside Temporary details from the field for service in the District.of the District of Columbia under the Bureau of Mines may be detailed temporarily for service in the District of Columbia for purposes of preparing results of their field work; all persons so detailed shall be paid in addition to their regular compensation only traveling expenses in going to and returning therefrom: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.Necessary expenses allowed.nothing herein shall prevent the payment to employees of the Bureau of Mines of their necessary expenses, or per diem in lieu of subsistence, while on temporary detail in the District of Columbia for purposes only of consultation or investigations on behalf of the United States. All details made hereinunder, and the purposes of each, Report to Congress.during the preceding fiscal year shall be reported in the annual estimates of appropriations to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof; The Secretary of the Treasury may detail medical officers of the Details from Public Health Service.Public Health Service for cooperative health, safety, or sanitation work with the Bureau of Mines, and the compensation and expenses of the officers so detailed may be paid from the applicable appropriations made herein for the Bureau of Mines; Government fuel yards: For the purchase and transportation of Government fuel yards.Purchase of fuel, maintenance, etc.fuel; storing and handling of fuel in yards; maintenance and operation of yards and equipment, including motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for inspectors, purchase of equipment, rentals, and all other expenses requisite for and incident thereto, including personal services in the District of Columbia, the unexpended balance Balance reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 212.of the appropriations heretofore made for these purposes is reappropriated and made available for such purposes for the fiscal year 1932, and for payment of obligations for such purposes of prior years, and for such sum not exceeding $500 shall be available to settle claims for damages caused to private property by motor vehicles used in delivering fuel: *Provided*, That all moneys received from the sales of fuel *Provisos*.Sales credited to appropriation.shall be credited to this appropriation and be available for the purposes of this paragraph: *Provided further*, That the term “fuel” “Fuel” to include fuel oil.wherever used in this appropriation shall be understood to include fuel oil: *Provided further*, That the requirements of sections 3711 and Inspection requirement laws not applicable.[R. S., secs. 3711, 3713, pp. 733, 734](/us/rs/s3711/3713/pp733/734).[U. S. C., p. 1296](/us/usc/p1296).3713 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 40, sec. 109) relative to the weighing of coal and wood and the separate certificate as to the weight, measurement, or quantity of coal and wood purchased shall not apply to purchases by the Government fuel yards at free-onboard destinations outside of the District of Columbia; Helium production and investigations: The sums made available Helium production, etc.Advances for, from Army and Navy appropriations.Vol. 44, p. 1387.for the fiscal year 1932 in the Acts making appropriations for the War and Navy Departments for the acquisition of helium from the Bureau of Mines shall be advanced from time to time upon requisition by the Secretary of Commerce in such amounts as may be determined *Ante*, p. 1289.by the President not in excess of the sums needed for the *Post*, p. 1445.economical and efficient operation and maintenance of the plants for the production of helium for military and/or naval purposes, including purchase, not to exceed $2,500, and exchange as part payment for, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying Services in the District.vehicles, and including not to exceed $13,460 for personal services in the District of Columbia; For investigations of resources of helium-bearing gas and the conservation Investigating sources of helium bearing gas.thereof, and of processes and methods of producing, storing, purifying, and utilizing helium and helium-bearing gas, including supplies and equipment, stationery, furniture, expenses of travel and subsistence, purchase, not exceeding $1,200, exchange as part payment for, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, purchase of laboratory gloves, goggles, 1350Services in the District. rubber boots and aprons, and all other necessary expenses, including not to exceed $25,080 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $74,760. Helium plants.Production, etc.Purchase of plants, etc.Helium plants: For helium production and conservation, including acquisition of helium-bearing gas land or wells by purchase, exchange, lease, or condemnation, or interest in such land or wells, the purchase, lease, construction, or modification of plants, pipe lines and accessories, compressor stations, camp buildings, and other facilities for the production, transportation, storage, and purification of helium and helium-bearing gas, including acquisition of sites and rights of way therefor, by purchase, lease, or condemnation, and including supplies and equipment, expenses of travel and subsistence, maintenance and operation of motor-propelled, passenger-carrying vehicles, and all other necessary expenses, including not to exceed Services in the District.$6,560 for personal services in the District of Columbia, and including the payment of obligations incurred under the contract authorization carried under this heading in the Department of Commerce Appropriation *Provisos*.Balance reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 213.Act for the fiscal year 1931, $93,010: *Provided*, That in addition thereto the unexpended balance of the appropriation made under this heading for the fiscal year 1931 is reappropriated and made available for the above purposes for the fiscal year 1932: *Provided further*, Subject to approval of President.That no part of the appropriation herein made may be expended except with the approval of the President: *Provided further*, Contracts for additional obligations.That the Secretary of Commerce may, with the approval of the President, enter into contracts incurring additional obligations not in excess of $500,000, and his action in so doing shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government: *Provided further*, Terms for leases, etc.That the acquirement of leases, sites, and rights of way under terms customary in the oil and gas industry, including obligations to pay rental in advance and to pay damages to lands, crops, or structures arising out of the Government’s operations is authorized: Disposal of products in wells other than helium bearing gas.*Provided further*, That should valuable products other than helium-bearing gas be discovered in wells acquired or drilled for helium-bearing gas under this appropriation the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to provide for the disposal of said wells or the products therefrom, by the contracts under which the property is acquired, or otherwise, in accordance with the interests of the Government therein and in the manner which, in his opinion, is most advantageous to the Government; Economics of mineral industries.Investigations for disseminating information as to problems of, etc.Economics of mineral industries: For inquiries and investigations, and the dissemination of information concerning the economic problems of the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries, with a view to assuring ample supplies and efficient distribution of the mineral products of the mines and quarries, including studies and reports relating to uses, reserves, production, distribution, stocks, consumption, prices, and marketing of mineral commodities Reports of mineral resources.and primary products thereof; preparation of the reports of the mineral resources of the United States, including special statistical inquiries; statistical studies and reports relating to mine accidents; and including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; purchase of furniture and equipment; stationery and supplies; typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs; newspapers; traveling expenses; purchase, not exceeding $1,200, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; and for all other necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $322,660, of which amount not to exceed Services in the District.$252,960 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; 1351 During the fiscal year 1932 the head of any department or independent Scientific investigations for departments, etc., by the bureau.establishment of the Government having funds available for scientific investigations and requiring cooperative work by the Bureau of Mines on scientific investigations within the scope of the functions of that bureau and which it is unable to perform within the limits of its appropriations may, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce, transfer to the Bureau of Mines such sums as may be necessary to carry on such investigations. The Secretary Transfer of funds to credit of bureau.of the Treasury shall transfer on the books of the Treasury Department any sums which may be authorized hereunder, and such amounts shall be placed to the credit of the Bureau of Mines for the performance of work for the department or establishment from which the transfer is made: *Provided*, That any sums transferred *Proviso*.Expenditure of funds transferred.by any department or independent establishment of the Government to the Bureau of Mines for cooperative work in connection with this appropriation may be expended in the same manner as sums appropriated herein may be expended; The purchase of supplies and equipment or the procurement of Open market purchases of minor supplies.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[U. S. C., p. 1309](/us/usc/p1309).services for the Bureau of Mines, at the seat of government, as well as in the field outside of the District of Columbia, may be made in open market without compliance with section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in the manner common among business men, when the aggregate amount of the purchase or the service does not exceed $100 in any instance; For the purchase or exchange of professional and scientific books, Purchase of books, etc.law books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories; and other books of reference relating to the business of the Bureau of Mines, there is hereby made available from any appropriations made for such bureau not to exceed $3,500; For necessary traveling expenses of the director and employees Attendance upon meetings.of the bureau, acting under his direction, for attendance upon meetings of technical, professional, and scientific societies, when required in connection with the authorized work of the Bureau of Mines and incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce, there is hereby made available from any appropriations made to the Bureau of Mines not to exceed in all $3,000; Total, Bureau of Mines, $2,278,765. TITLE IV.— DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Department of Labor. office of the secretary Salaries: Secretary of Labor, $15,000; Assistant Secretary, Second Secretary, Assistants, and office personnel.Assistant Secretary, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $201,060; in all, $216,060. Commissioners of conciliation: To enable the Secretary of Labor Commissioners of conciliation.Vol. 37, p. 738.[U. S. C., p. 61](/us/usc/p61).to exercise the authority vested in him by section 8 of the Act creating the Department of Labor (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 611) and to appoint commissioners of conciliation, traveling expenses, and not to exceed $16,260 for personal services in the District of Columbia, and telegraph and telephone service, $205,000. contingent expenses, department of labor For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and Contingent expenses.bureaus of the department, for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specifically made, including the purchase of stationery, furniture, and repairs to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, laundry, street-car fares not exceeding $200; lighting and heating; pur-1352chase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor cycles and motor trucks; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; newspaper clippings not to exceed $1,800, postage to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; Additional, from immigration expenses, for supplies.purchase of law books, books of reference, newspapers, and periodicals, not exceeding $5,000; in all, $61,800; and in addition thereto such sum as may be necessary, not in excess of $25,000, to facilitate the purchase, through the central purchasing office as provided in Vol. 36, p. 531.[U. S. C., p. 1309](/us/usc/p1309).the Act approved June 17, 1910 (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 7), of certain supplies for the Immigration Service, shall be deducted from the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Immigration” made for the fiscal year 1932 and added to the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of Labor,” for that year; and the total sum thereof shall be and constitute the appropriation for contingent Expenditures through Publications and Supplies Division.*Provisos*.Expenses of motor vehicles limited.expenses for the Department of Labor, to lie expended through the central purchasing office (Division of Publications and Supplies), Department of Labor: *Provided*, That expenditures from appropriations contained in this Act for the maintenance, upkeep, and repair, exclusive of garage rent, pay of operator, fuel, and lubricants, on any one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle used by the Department of Labor shall not exceed one-third of the market price of a new vehicle of the same make or class and in any case not more Purchase of minor supplies.[R. S., sec., 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[U. S. C., p. 1300](/us/usc/p1300).than $500: *Provided*, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for the Department of Labor when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $50. Rent.Rent: For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the Department of Labor, $68,000. Printing and binding.Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Department of Labor, including all its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $296,500. Labor Statistics Bureau. bureau of labor statistics Commissioner, and office personnel.Salaries and expenses: For personal services, including temporary statistical clerks, stenographers and typewriters in the District of Columbia, and including also experts and temporary assistants for Special agents, experts, etc.Traveling expenses.field service outside of the District of Columbia; traveling expenses, including expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Bureau of Labor Statistics when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor; purchase of periodicals, documents, envelopes, price quotations, and reports and materials for reports and bulletins of said bureau, $440,480, of which amount not to exceed $361,240 may be expended for the salary of the commissioner and other personal services in the District of Columbia. Immigration Bureau. bureau of immigration Salaries and expenses.Salaries and expenses: For enforcement of the laws regulating the immigration to, the residence in, and the exclusion and deportation Vol. 43, p. 155.[U. S. C., p. 133](/us/usc/p133); Supp. IV, p. 62.from the United States of aliens, and persons subject to the Chinese exclusion laws; salaries, transportation, traveling, and other expenses of officers, clerks, and other employees appointed to enforce Deportation expenses.said laws; care, detention, maintenance, transportation, and traveling expenses incident to the deportation and exclusion of aliens, and persons subject to the Chinese exclusion laws, as authorized by law, in the United States and to, through, or in foreign countries; purchase of supplies and equipment, including alterations and repairs; 1353cost of reports of decisions of the Federal courts and digests thereof for the use of the Commissioner General of Immigration; refunding Refund of head tax, etc.of head tax, maintenance bills, immigration fines, registry fees, and reentry permit fees, upon presentation of evidence showing conclusively that collection and deposit was made through error of Government officers; and for all other expenses necessary to enforce said laws; $10,534,160, of which sum $500,000 shall be immediately available, all to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Labor, of which amount not to exceed $385,530 may be expended Commissioner General, etc.for the salary of the Commissioner General and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including services of persons authorized by law to be detailed there for duty, and $2,368,800 Coast and land border patrol.shall be available only for coast and land border patrol: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Motor vehicles.That not to exceed $165,000 of the sum herein appropriated shall be available for the purchase, exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor vehicles, and of such sum of $165,000 not more than $125,000 shall be available for the same purposes for the coast and land border patrol: *Provided further*, That the Commissioner General Allowance to employees using their automobiles, etc.of Immigration, with the approval of the Secretary of Labor, may contract with officers and employees stationed outside of the District of Columbia whose salaries are payable from this appropriation, for the use, on official business outside of the District of Columbia, of privately owned motor vehicles and horses, and the consideration agreed upon shall be payable from the funds herein appropriated: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $70,000 of the Allowances for living quarters.*Ante*, p. 818.total amount herein appropriated shall be available for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 818). Immigration stations: For remodeling, repairing (including Immigrant stations.Remodeling, etc.repairs to the ferryboat, Ellis Island), renovating buildings, and purchase of equipment, $400,000. bureau of naturalization Naturalization Bureau. Salaries and expenses: For the expenses of carrying on the work Salaries and expenses.of the Bureau of Naturalization, as provided in the Acts authorizing a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States, and establishing the Bureau of Naturalization, Vol. 34, p. 596; Vol. 37, p. 376; Vol. 40, p. 542.[U. S. C., p. 157](/us/usc/p157); Supp. IV, p. 66.approved June 29, 1906, and March 4, 1913, and subsequent Acts (U. S. C., title 8, secs. 331–416; U. S. C., Supp. III, title 8, secs. 355–384); including personal services; traveling expenses, and not to exceed $400 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned Attendance at meetings.with the naturalization of aliens when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor; street-car fare, telegrams, verifications of legal papers, telephone service in field offices and telephone toll service in the bureau; necessary supplies and equipment for the Naturalization Service; refunding of naturalization fees upon presentation of evidence showing conclusively that the collection and deposit was made through error; not to exceed $25,000 for rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia where suitable Outside rent.quarters can not be obtained in public buildings; and for mileage and fees to witnesses subpoenaed on behalf of the United States, the expenditures from this appropriation to be made in the manner and under such regulations as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe, $1,149,020, of which not to exceed $272,280 may be expended for the Commissioner, etc.salary of the commissioner and other personal services in the bureau in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation *Proviso*.Clerks of Federal courts excluded.shall be available for the compensation of assistants to clerks of United States courts. 1354 Children’s Bureau. children’s bureau Salaries and expensesChild welfare, infant mortality, etc., investigations.Salaries and expenses: For expenses of investigating and reporting upon matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life, and especially to investigate the questions of infant mortality; personal services, including experts and temporary assistants; traveling expenses, including expenses of attendance at meetings for the promotion of child welfare when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor; purchase of reports and material for the Bureau publications, etc.publications of the Children’s Bureau and for reprints from State, city, and private publications for distribution when said reprints can be procured more cheaply than they can be printed by the Government, and other necessary expenses, $395,500, of which Services in the District.amount not to exceed $306,740 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Women’s Bureau. women’s bureau Salaries and expenses.Vol. 41, p. 987.[U. S. C., p. 947](/us/usc/p947); Supp. IV, p. 447.For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to establish in the Department of Labor a bureau to be known as the Women’s Bureau,” approved June 5, 1920 (U. S. C., title 29, secs. 11–16; U. S. C., Supp. III, title 29, secs. 12–14), including personal services in the District of Columbia, not to exceed $146,780; purchase of material for reports and educational exhibits, and traveling Attendance at meetings.expenses $179,900, which sum shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of said bureau when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor. Employment Service. employment service Promoting welfare of wage earners.To enable the Secretary of Labor to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, including juniors legally employed, to improve their working conditions, to Objects designated.advance their opportunities for profitable employment by regularly collecting, furnishing, and publishing employment information as to opportunities for employment; maintaining a system for clearing labor between the several States; cooperating with the Veterans’ Administration to secure employment for veterans; cooperating with and coordinating the public employment offices throughout the country, including personal services in the District of Columbia and Traveling expenses.elsewhere; traveling expenses, including expenses of attendance at Attendance at meetings.meetings concerned with the work of the Employment Service when specifically authorized by the Secretary of Labor; supplies and equipment, telegraph and telephone service, and miscellaneous expenses; Services in the District.$383,780, of which amount not to exceed $37,280 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Sec. 2. Transfers allowed between appropriations to meet changes in reallocations. When specifically approved by the head of any of the executive departments provided for herein, transfers may be made between the appropriations in this Act under the respective jurisdiction of any bureau, office, institution, or service, including any appropriations for the Foreign Service under the Department of State, in order to meet increases in compensation resulting from the reallocation by the Personnel Classification Board of positions under Report thereof to Congress.any such organization unit. Any such transfers shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. Approved, February 23, 1931.