Chapter 289. Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, and for other purposes
16,968 words·~77 min read·
/statutes-at-large/vol-46/chapter-289-1661485·A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
CHAP. 289.— An Act Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, and for other purposes. May 15, 1930.[[H. R. 8531](/us/bill/71/hr/8531).][[Public, No. 229](/us/pl/71/229).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, TITLE I— TREASURY DEPARTMENT That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money inTreasury Department appropriations, fiscal year, 1931. the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, namely: 336 Secretary’s Office.office of the secretary Secretary, Undersecretary, Assistants, and office personnel.Salaries:
Secretary of the Treasury, $15,000; Undersecretary of the Treasury, $10,000; three Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $144,375; *Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.Vol. 42, p. 1488; Vol. 45, p. 776.[U. S. C., p. 65, Supp. IV, p. 25](/us/usc/p65/p25).*Post*, p. 1003.in all, $169,375: *Provided*, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations contained in this Act for the payment of personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended (U.
S. C., title 5, secs. 661–673, Supp. III, title 5, secs. 673, 675), with the exception of the Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended, If only one position in grade.and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position Advances in unusually meritorious cases.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*, Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.No reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490.Transfers to another position without reduction.[U.
S. C., p. 66, Supp. IV, p. 25](/us/usc/p66/p25)\.That this restriction shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, Higher salary rates permitted.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. Transfers allowed between appropriations for any bureau, etc., to meet reallocation increases.When specifically approved by the Secretary of the Treasury transfers may be made between the appropriations or allocations of appropriations in this title under the respective jurisdiction of any bureau, office, institution, or service, in order to meet increases in compensation resulting from the reallocation by the Personnel Classification Board of positions under any such organization unit. Chief Clerk’s office.office of chief clerk and superintendent Chief Clerk, and office personnel.Salaries: For the chief clerk, who shall be the chief executive officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary, Undersecretary, and Assistant Secretaries of the department, and for other personal services in Operating force of Department buildings.the District of Columbia, including the operating force of the Treasury, Liberty Loan, and Auditors’ Buildings and the Treasury Department Annex, Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place, and of other buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, $550,033. contingent expenses, treasury department Department contingent expenses.Operating expenses, Department buddings.Reference books, periodicals, etc.For miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the bureaus and offices of the department, including operating expenses of the Treasury, Treasury annex, Auditors, Liberty Loan Buildings, and buildings occupied by the Treasury Department in square numbered 226 in the District of Columbia; newspaper clippings, financial journals, law books, and other books Freight, etc.of reference; freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks and337one passenger automobile for the Secretary of the Treasury, all to be used for official purposes only; file holders and cases; fuel, oils,Fuel, etc. grease, and heating supplies and equipment; gas and electricityLighting, etc. for lighting, heating, and power purposes, including materials, fixtures, and equipment therefor; purchase, exchange, and repair ofTypewriters, etc. typewriters and labor-saving machines and equipment and supplies for same; floor coverings and repairs thereto; furniture and officeFurniture, etc. equipment, including supplies therefor and repairs thereto; awnings, window shades, and fixtures; cleaning supplies and equipment; drafting equipment; ammonia for ice plant; flags; hand trucks, ladders, miscellaneous hardware; street-car fares not exceeding $375; thermometers; lavatory equipment and supplies; tools and sharpening same; laundry service; removal of rubbish, postage, and other absolutely necessary articles, supplies, and equipment not otherwise provided for, $200,000: *Provided*, That the appropriations for public*Proviso*.Other appropriations available. debt service, Internal Revenue Service, and Bureau of Prohibition for the fiscal year 1931 are hereby made available for the payment of items otherwise properly chargeable to this appropriation, theVol. 37, p. 414.[U. S. C., p. 1019](/us/usc/p1019). provisions of section 6, Act of August 23, 1912 (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 669), to the contrary notwithstanding. For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use ofRent, D. C. the Treasury Department, $12,500. division of supplySupply Division. Salaries: For the Chief, Division of Supply, and other personalChief, and other personal services. services in the District of Columbia, $190,580. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the TreasuryPrinting and binding. Department, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, including materials for the use of the bookbinder located in the Treasury Department, but not including work done at the New YorkWork excluded. customhouse bindery authorized by the Joint Committee onVol. 40, p. 1270.[U. S. C., p. 1421](/us/usc/p1421). Printing in accordance with the Act of March 1, 1919 (U. S. C., title 44, sec. 1ll), $715,000. Stationery: For stationery for the Treasury Department and itsStationery. several bureaus and offices, and field services thereof, including tags, labels, and index cards, printed in the course of manufacture, packing boxes and other materials necessary for shipping stationery supplies, and cost of transportation of stationery supplies purchased free on board point of shipment and of such supplies shipped from Washington to field offices, $425,000. General Supply Committee: For personal services in the DistrictGeneral Supply Committee.Personal services and office expenses. of Columbia not exceeding $125,080; necessary expenses, including one five-ton truck, office supplies and materials, maintenance of motor trucks, telegrams, telephone service, traveling expenses, office equipment, fuel, light, electric current, and other necessary expenses for carrying into effect regulations governing the transfer andTransfer of supplies, etc. disposition of supplies and unusable Government materials, supplies, and equipment in the District of Columbia ; in all, $135,080. Repairs to typewriting machines (except bookkeeping and billingTypewriter repairs by Supply Committee. machines) in the Government service in the District of Columbia may be made at cost by the General Supply Committee, payment therefor to be effected by transfer and counterwarrant, charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, General Supply Committee.” No part of any money appropriated by this or any other ActTypewriting machines. shall be used during the fiscal year 1931 for the purchase of any standard typewriting machines, except bookkeeping and billing machines, at a price in excess of the following for models with car-338riages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to Prices of standard machines for fiscal year, 1931.wit: Ten inches (correspondence models), $70; twelve inches, $75; fourteen inches, $77.50; sixteen inches, $82.50; eighteen inches, $87.50; twenty inches, $94; twenty-two inches, $95; twenty-four inches, $97.50; twenty-six inches, $103.50; twenty-eight inches, $104; thirty inches, $105; thirty-two inches, $107.50; or, for standard typewriting machines distinctively quiet in operation, the maximum prices shall be as follows for models with carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches, $87.50; twelve inches, $90.54; fourteen inches, $93.34; eighteen inches, $96.26: *Provided*, Proviso.Quiet machines.That standard typewriting machines distinctively quiet in operation purchased during such fiscal year by any such department, establishment, or municipal government shall only be purchased on the written order of the head thereof. All purchases to be from stock of Committee,All purchases of typewriting machines during the fiscal year 1931 by executive departments and independent establishments Tor use in the District of Columbia or in the field, except as hereinafter provided, shall be made from the surplus machines in the stock of the Unserviceable machines allowed for exchange.Acceptance in part payment.General Supply Committee. If the General Supply Committee is unable to furnish serviceable machines to any such service of the Government, it shall furnish unserviceable machines, if available, at current exchange prices, and such machines shall then be applied by the service of the Government receiving them as part payment for new machines from commercial sources in accordance with the prices fixed in the preceding paragraph. And in selling typewriting machines to the various services the General Supply Committee may accept an equal number of unserviceable machines as part payment thereon at the exchange prices quoted in the current general schedule of supplies. Office of Accounts and Deposits.office of commissioner of accounts and deposits Commissioner, and office personnel.For Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $89,980. Reference books, periodicals, etc.For books of reference, law books, books on finance, technical and scientific books, newspapers, for which payment may be made in advance, and periodicals, for expenses incurred in completing imperfect series, for library cards, supplies, and for all other necessary expenses, $1,000. Bookkeeping and Warrants Division.division of bookkeeping and warrants Chief, and office personnel.For the chief of the division, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $155,000. Contingent expenses, public moneys.[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/sec3653/719).[U. S. C., p. 1010](/us/usc/p1010).Contingent expenses, public moneys: For contingent expenses under the requirements of section 3653 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 545), for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, salaries of special agents, Examination of depositories.actual expenses of examiners detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several depositories, including national banks acting as depositaries under the requirements of section 3649 of [R. S., sec. 3649, p. 719](/us/rs/sec3649/p719).[U. S. C., p. 1010](/us/usc/p1010).the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 548), also including examinations of cash accounts at mints and cost of insurance on shipments of money by registered mail when necessary, $200,000. Rocoinage of gold coins.Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of uncurrent gold coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of [R. S., sec. 3512, p. 696](/us/rs/sec3512/p696).[U. S. C., p. 995](/us/usc/p995).the Treasury, as required by section 3512 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 319), $4,500. 339 Recoinage of minor coins: To enable the Secretary of the TreasuryRecoinage of minor coins. to continue the recoinage of worn and undercurrent minor coins of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse the Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of such coins and the amount the same will produce in new coins, $20,000. public debt servicePublic Debt Service. For necessary expenses connected with the administration of anyCommissioner, personnel, and other services. public debt issues and United States paper currency issues with which the Secretary of the Treasury is charged, including the purchase of law books, directories, books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, and newspapers, and including the Commissioner of the Public Debt and other personal sendees in the District of Columbia, $2,400,000:Provisos.Services in the District.Indefinite appropriation discontinued.Vol. 40, p. 292,[U. S. C., p. 1027](/us/usc/p1027). *Provided*, That the amount to be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia shall not exceed $2,375,000: *Provided further*, That the indefinite appropriation “Expenses of loans, Act of September 24, 1917, as amended and extended” (U. S. C., title 31, secs. 760, 761 ), shall not be used during the fiscal year 1931 to supplement the appropriation herein made for the current work of the Public Debt Service. For the payment of expenses of radio advertising in connectionRadio advertising expenses. with public-debt issues and refunding operations in the public debt for the fiscal year 1931, $10,000, to be payable from the Vol. 40, p. 292.[U. S. C., p. 1027](/us/usc/p1027).appropriation “Expenses of loans, Act of September 24, 1917, as amended and extended” (U. S. C., title 31, secs. 760, 761). Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctiveDistinctive paper for securities.Quantity authorized. paper for United States currency, national-bank currency, and Federal reserve bank currency, not exceeding two million pounds, including transportation of paper, traveling mill, and other necessary expenses, and salaries of employees, and allowance, in lieu of expenses, of officer or officers detailed from the Treasury Department, not exceeding $50 per month each when actually on duty; in all, $1,000,000. division of appointmentsAppointments Division. Salaries: For the chief of the division, and other personal servicesChief, and office personnel. in the District of Columbia, $66,365. office of disbursing clerk Salaries: For the disbursing clerk and other personal services inDisbursing clerk, and office personnel. the District of Columbia, $55,000. bureau of customsCustoms Bureau. Collecting the revenue from customs: For collecting the revenueCollecting customs revenue. from customs, for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, and not to exceed $10,000 for the securing of evidence of violations of the customs laws, including not to exceed $5,000 for the hire of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $500 for subscriptions to newspapers, for which payment may be made in advance, $22,602,160, of which such amount as may be necessary shall be available for the cost of seizure, storage,Seizure, etc., of any automobile, boat, etc., seized under customs laws. and disposition of any merchandise, vehicle and team, automobile, boat, air or water craft, or any other conveyance, seized under the provisions of the customs laws, when the proceeds of sale are insufficient therefor or where there is no sale, for salaries of general appraisers and justices of the United States Customs Court retiredRetired Customs Court justices.Vol. 42, p. 973. under the provisions of section 518 of the Tariff Act of 1922 (U. S.340[U. S. C., pp. 597, 1948](/us/usc/p597/p1948).Services in the District.Vol. 42, p. 975.[U. S. C., p. 597](/us/usc/p597).Proviso.Advances to disbursing officers.[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/sec3648/p718).[U. S. C., p. 1009](/us/usc/p1009).C., title 19, secs. 405, 405a, 405b), and $243,370 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia exclusive of eight persons from the field force authorized to be detailed under section 525 of the Tariff Act of 1922 (U. S. C., title 19, sec. 414): *Provided*, That not to exceed $10,000 of the total amount appropriated shall be available for advances to be made by disbursing officers when authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury, the provisions of section 3648 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 529) to the contrary notwithstanding. Automatic scales.Scales for Customs Service: For construction and installation of special automatic and recording scales for weighing merchandise, and so forth, in connection with imports at the various ports of entry under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, including not to exceed $5,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $100,000. Compensation in lieu of moieties.Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under the custom laws, $250,000. Budget Bureau.bureau of the budget Director, Assistant, office personnel, and other expenses.Director, $10,000; for the Assistant Director, and all other necessary expenses of the bureau, including compensation of attorneys and other employees in the District of Columbia; contract stenographic reporting services, telegrams, telephone service, law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery, furniture, office equipment, other supplies, traveling expenses, street-car fares, $166,000; in all, $176,000. Printing and binding.For printing and binding, $32,000. Federal Farm Loan Bureau.federal farm loan bureau Members of Board, office and field forces.For six members of the board, at $10,000 each; personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field; traveling expenses of Contingent expenses.the members of the board and its officers and employees; contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including law books, books of reference, periodicals, newspapers, and maps; contract stenographic reporting services, and expert services for the preparation of amortization tables; examination of national farm loan associations; and for the expenses of registrars’ offices, including rent and miscellaneous Payable from assessments on banks.Services in the District.items; in all, $1,020,000, payable from assessments upon Federal and joint-stock land banks and Federal intermediate credit banks; of which not more than $425,000 may be used for personal services in the District of Columbia. Allowance for motor vehicle travel.Whenever, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, the Farm Loan Board shall find that the expenses of travel can be reduced thereby, it may, in lieu of actual operating expenses, under such regulations as it may prescribe, authorize the payment of not to exceed 3 cents per mile for motor cycle or 7 cents per mile for an *Proviso*.Expenses, destruction of paid bonds, etc.automobile, used for necessary travel on official business: *Provided*, That, at the request of the Federal Farm Loan Board, whenever in its opinion the expense will be reduced thereby, the work in Washington incident to the verification for destruction of paid and canceled intermediate credit bank debentures, farm loan bonds and coupons thereof, may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, be performed by the office of the Register of the Treasury, and the appropriation from which salaries of employees in the office of the Register of the Treasury are paid may be reimbursed from this appropriation for the actual expense of such work. 341 office of treasurer of the united statesTreasurer’s Office. Salaries: For Treasurer of the United States, Assistant Treasurer,Treasurer, Assistant, and office personnel. and for other personal services in the District of Columbia, $1,216,320. For personal services in the District of Columbia, in redeemingRedeeming Federal reserve and national currency. Federal reserve and national currency, $325,920, to be reimbursed by the Federal reserve and national banks. office of the comptroller of the currencyOffice of Comptroller of the Currency. Salaries: Comptroller of the Currency, $5,000; for personalComptroller, and office personne. services in the District of Columbia, $254,200; in all, $259,200. For personal services in the District of Columbia, in connectionFederal reserve and national currency.Personal services. with Federal reserve and national currency, $51,863, to be reimbursed by the Federal reserve and national banks. For special examinations of national hanks and bank plates,Special examinations, etc. keeping macerater in Treasury Building in repair, and for other incidental expenses attending the working of the macerater, and for procuring information relative to banks other than national, $1,500. bureau of internal revenueInternal Revenue Bureau. Collecting the internal revenue: For expenses of assessing andCollecting internal revenue.Commissioner, general counsel, and office and field force. collecting the internal-revenue taxes, including the employment of a Commissioner of Internal Revenue at $10,000 per annum, a general counsel for the Bureau of Internal Revenue at $10,000 per annum, an assistant to the commissioner, a special deputy commissioner, three deputy commissioners, one stamp agent (to be reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers), and the necessary officers, collectors, deputy collectors, attorneys, experts, agents, accountants, inspectors, clerks, janitors, and messengers in the District of Columbia, the several collection districts, and the several divisions of internal-revenue agents, to be appointed as provided by law, telegraph and telephone service, rental of quarters outside the District of Columbia and not to exceed $116,153 for rental of quarters in the District ofRent, In District and elsewhere.Miscellaneous expenses. Columbia, postage, freight, express, necessary expenses incurred in making investigations in connection with the enrollment or disbarment of practitioners before the Treasury Department in internal-revenue matters, expenses of seizure and sale, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses, including stenographic reporting services, and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, furniture, mechanical devices, law books and books of reference, and such other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia, the several collection districts, and the several divisions of internal-revenue agents, $34,400,000, of which amount not to exceed $8,969,440 may beServices in the District.*Provisos*.Witness fees. expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That no part of this amount shall be used in defraying the expenses of any officer designated above, subpoenaed by the United States court to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner,*Ante*, p. 190. which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts”: *Provided further*, That not moreDetection and prosecution of violations of revenue laws. than $100,000 of the total amount appropriated herein may be expended by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for detecting and bringing to trial persons guilty of violating the internal revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violation. 342 Allowance for motor vehicle travel.Whenever during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, the Secretary of the Treasury shall find that the expenses of travel of officers and employees of the Internal Revenue Service while on official business can be reduced thereby, he may, in lieu of actual operating expenses, under such regulations as he may prescribe, authorize the payment of not to exceed 3 cents per mile for motor cycle or 7 cents per mile for an automobile used for necessary travel on official business. Refunding taxes.Refunding taxes illegally or erroneously collected: For refunding taxes illegally or erroneously collected, as provided by law, including the payment of claims for the fiscal year 1931 and prior years, *Proviso*.Detailed report of disbursements to Congress.Vol. 45, p. 996.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 327](/us/usc/p327).$130,000,000: *Provided*, That a report shall be made to Congress by internal-revenue districts and alphabetically arranged of all disbursements hereunder in excess of $500 as required by section 3 of the Act of May 29, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 26, sec. 149), including the names of all persons and corporations to whom such payments are made, together with the amount paid to each. Prohibition Bureau.bureau of prohibition Expenses, enforcing National Prohibition and Narcotics Acts.For expenses to enforce the provisions of the National Prohibition Act, as amended, and the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax upon, all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or cocoa Vol. 38, p. 785.leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes,” [U. S. C., pp. 742, 784–787](/us/usc/p742/p784/p787).Vol. 41, p. 305.Vol. 40, p. 1130.Vol. 42, p. 298.approved December 17, 1914 (U. S. C., title 26, sec. 211), as amended by the Revenue Act of 1918 (U. S. C., title 26, secs. 691–708), and the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to prohibit the importation and use of opium for other than medicinal purposes,’ [U. S. C., p. 635](/us/usc/p635).approved February 9, 1909,” as amended by the Act of May 26, 1922 (U. S. C., title 21, secs. 171–184), known as “The Narcotic Drugs [U. S. C., Supp. IV, pp. 19, 302](/us/usc/p19/p302).Executive officers, personnel, etc.*Post*, pp. 427, 1071.Import and Export Act,” and for carrying out the applicable provisions of the Act approved March 3, 1927 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 5, secs. 281—281e), including the employment of executive officers, attorneys, agents, inspectors, chemists, assistant chemists, supervisors, storekeepergaugers, clerks, and messengers in the field and in the Bureau of Prohibition in the District of Columbia, to be appointed as authorized by law ; the securing of evidence of violations or the Acts; the cost of chemical analyses made by others than employees of the Supplies, equipment, etc.United States; the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, laboratory supplies, books, and such other expenditures as may be necessary in the District of Columbia and the several field offices; cost of seizure, storage, and disposition of any vehicle and Vol. 41, p. 315.team or automobile, boat, air or water craft, or any other conveyance, seized pursuant to section 26, Title II, of the National Prohibition Expenses of seizures, etc.Act, when the proceeds of sale are insufficient therefor or where there is no sale; cost incurred by officers and employees of the Bureau of Prohibition in the seizure, storage, and disposition of property under the internal revenue laws when the same is disposed of under section [R. S., sec. 3460, p. 683](/us/rs/sec3460/p683).U. S. C., p. 846.3460, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 26, sec. 1193); hire, maintenance, repair and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; and for rental of necessary quarters; in all, $15,000.000, of which amount not to exceed $733,080 Services in the District.*Provisos*.Use of seized vehicles.Vol. 43, p. 1116.may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That not to exceed $1,661,260 of the foregoing sum shall be expended for enforcement of the provisions of the said Acts of December 17, 1914, and May 26, 1922, and the Secretary of the Treasury may authorize the use, by narcotic agents, of motor vehicles confis-343cated under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1925 (U. S. C.,U. S. C., p. 858. title 27, sec. 43), and pay the maintenance, repair, and operation thereof from this allotment: *Provided further*, That not exceeding Collection, etc., of information regarding law observance.$50,000 may be expended for the collection and dissemination of information and appeal for law observance and law enforcement, including cost of printing and other necessary expenses in connection therewith: *Provided further*, That no money herein appropriated forRestriction on paying for storage of seized goods in private warehouses.*Post*, p. 1572. the enforcement of the National Prohibition Act, the customs laws, or internal revenue laws, shall be used to pay for storage in any private warehouse of intoxicating liquor, or other property in connection therewith seized pursuant to said Acts and necessary to be stored, where there is available for that purpose space in a Government warehouse or other suitable Government property in the judicial district wherein such property was seized, or in an adjacent judicial district, and when such seized property is stored in an adjacent district the jurisdiction over such property in the district wherein it was seized shall not be affected thereby: *Provided further*, That forDistilled spirits may be removed to a warehouse for bottling in bond.*Post*, pp, 430, 1224. purpose of concentration, upon the initiation of the Commissioner of Prohibition and under regulations prescribed by him, distilled spirits may be removed from any internal-revenue bonded warehouse to any other such warehouse, and may be bottled in bond in any such warehouse before or after payment of the tax, and the commissioner shall prescribe the form and penal sums of bond covering distilled spirits in internal-revenue bonded warehouses, and in transit between such warehouses: *Provided further*, That moneys expended from thisRecoveries from sales of purchased narcotics, etc. appropriation for the purchase of narcotics and subsequently recovered shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropria tion for enforcement of Narcotic and National Prohibition Acts current at the time of the deposit. coast guardCoast Guard. Office of the commandant: For personal services in the District ofOffice personnel. Columbia, $342,100. The services of skilled draftsmen and such other technical servicesTechnical services. as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Coast Guard in connection with the construction and repair of Coast Guard vessels and boats, to be paid from the appropriation “Repairs to Coast Guard vessels”:*Proviso*.Limitation, etc. *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1931 shall not exceed $11,900. A statement of the persons employedReport to Congress. hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the Budget. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorizedService expenditures. work of the Coast Guard, including the expense of maintenance, repair, and operation of vessels forfeited to the United States and delivered to the Treasury Department under the terms of the Act approved March 3, 1925 (U. S. C., title 27, sec. 41), as follows,Vol. 43, p. 1116.[U. S. C., p. 858](/us/usc/p858). including not to exceed $1,250 for purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, including one for Coast Guard headquarters, to be used only for official purposes: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned officers,Pay, etc., officers and enlisted men. cadets, warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, active and retired, temporary cooks, surfmen, substitute surfmen, and two civilian instructors, and not exceeding $6,000 for cash prizes for men for excellence in gunnery, target practice, and engineering competitions, for carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 4, 1920Death allowances. (U. S. C., title 34, sec. 943), rations or commutation thereof forVol. 41, p. 825.[U. S. C., p. 1143](/us/usc/p1143). cadets, petty officers, and other enlisted men, mileage and expenses344allowed by law for officers ; and traveling expenses for other persons traveling on duly under orders from the Treasury Department, including transportation of enlisted men and applicants for enlistment, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof, expenses of recruiting for the Coast Guard, rent of rendezvous, and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen; transportation and packing allowances for baggage or household effects of officers and warrant officers and enlisted men, $20,030,146; Fuel and water.For fuel and water for vessels, stations, and houses of refuge, $2,476,890; Outfits, stores, etc.For outfits, ship chandlery, and engineers’ stores for the same, $2,283,150; Stations, houses of refuge.For rebuilding and repairing stations and houses of refuge, temporary leases, rent, and improvements of property for Coast Guard purposes, including use of additional land where necessary, $694,000; Draft animals.For draft animals and their maintenance, $22,600; Coastal communication.For coastal communication lines and facilities and their maintenance, $162,000; Civilian field employees.For compensation of civilian employees in the field, including clerks to district commanders, $100,976. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, including communication service, subsistence of shipwrecked persons succored by the Coast Guard; for the recreation, amusement, comfort, contentment, and health of the enlisted men of the Coast Guard, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding $30,000 instruments and apparatus, supplies, technical books and periodicals, services necessary to the carrying on of scientific investigation, and experimental and research work in relation to telephony and radiotelegraphy, not exceeding $4,000; care, transportation, and burial of deceased officers and enlisted men, including those who die in Government hospitals; wharfage, towage, freight, storage, repairs to station apparatus, advertising, surveys, medals, labor, newspapers and periodicals for statistical purposes, not to exceed $5,000 for cost of special instruction including maintenance of students, and all other necessary expenses which are not included under any other heading, $251,000; Completing cutter.Vol. 44, p. 725.For completion of one of the Coast Guard cutters authorized in the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction of ten vessels for the Coast Guard,” approved June 10, 1926 (44 Stat., p. 725}, $800,000; Commencing construction of one cutter.Vol. 44, p. 725.For commencing the construction of one of the Coast Guard cutters authorized in the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction of ten vessels for the Coast Guard,” approved June 10, 1926 (44 Stat., p. 725), $100,000, to be available until June 30, 1932, of which not exceeding $750 shall be available for the purchase of such equipment and drafting supplies as may be required at Coast Guard headquarters in connection with the construction of *Provisos*.Limit of cost.such cutter: *Provided*, That the total cost of this vessel and equipment shall not exceed $900,000, and the Secretary of the Treasury is Contracts authorised.authorized to enter into contracts for its construction and equipment in sums not to exceed this aggregate amount. Construction of seaplanes.Additional vessels: For additional seaplanes and their equipment, including spare parts and accessories, to cost not to exceed $320,000; Patrol boats and equipment.for additional patrol boats and their equipment to be constructed or purchased in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, and Vessels transferred from Navy Department.for repairs, alterations, equipping and placing in commission vessels or boats transferred from the Navy Department to the Treasury Department for the use of the Coast Guard, $2,650,000, to be immediately *Proviso*.available and to remain available until expended: *Provided*,345That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $144,000 forAppropriation available.Vol. 45, p. 1654. the fiscal years 1929 and 1930, contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1929, approved March 4, 1929 (45 Stat., p. 1654), for seaplanes and their equipment for use of the Coast Guard, is hereby continued and made available until expended; For repairs to Coast Guard vessels and boats, $2,165,394;Repairs to vessels. For establishing and equipping new Coast Guard stations on theEstablishing, etc., new stations. sea and lake coasts of the United States, as authorized by law, $45,000, to be available until expended; Total, Coast Guard, exclusive of commandant’s office, $31,781,156. bureau of engraving and printingEngraving and Printing Bureau. For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work,Work authorized for fiscal year 1931.*Post*, p. 1584. during the fiscal year 1931, of not exceeding 68,050,000 delivered sheets of United States currency and national-bank currency, 93,033,201 delivered sheets of internal-revenue stamps including opium orders and special-tax stamps required under the Act ofVol. 38. p. 786; Vol. 40, p. 1130; Vol. 42, p. 295; Vol. 44, p. 99.[U. S. C., p. 742](/us/usc/p742). December 17, 1914 (U. S. C., title 26, sec. 211), 5,193,602 delivered sheets of withdrawal permits, and 7,817,431 delivered sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work, as follows: For the director, two assistant directors, and other personalDirector, assistants, and office personnel. services in the Dictrict of Columbia, including wages of rotary press plate Wages.printers at per diem rates and all other plate printers at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work; for engravers’ and printers’ materialsMaterials, etc. and other materials, including distinctive and nondistinctive paper, except distinctive paper for United States currency, national-bank currency, and Federal reserve bank currency; equipment of, repairs to, and maintenance of buildings and grounds and for minor alterations to buildings; directories, technical books and periodicals, andBooks of reference, periodicals, etc. books of reference, not exceeding $300; rent of warehouse in the District of Columbia; traveling expenses not to exceed $2,000; equipment, maintenance, and supplies for the emergency room forEmergency room. the use of all employees in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing who may be taken suddenly ill or receive injury while on duty; miscellaneous expenses, including not to exceed $1,500 for articlesMiscellaneous expenses. approved by the Secretary of the Treasury as being necessary for the protection of the person of employees; for transfer to the Bureau of Standards for scientific investigations in connection with the work of the BureauScientific investigations by Bureau of Standards. of Engraving and Printing not to exceed $15,000; and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessaryVehicles. motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, $6,125,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. During the fiscal year 1931 all proceeds derived from workProceeds of work to bo credited to Bureau. performed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, not covered and embraced in the appropriation for said bureau for the said fiscal year, instead of being covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, asVol. 24, p. 227.[U. S. C., p. 986](/us/usc/p986). provided by the Act of August 4, 1886 (U. S. C,, title 31, sec. 176), shall be credited when received to the appropriation for said bureau for the fiscal year 1931. secret service divisionSecret Service Division. Salaries: For the chief of the division and other personal servicesChief, and office personnel. in the District of Columbia, $30,760. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses incurredSuppressing counterfeiting, etc. tinder the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the346Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money and persons engaged in counterfeiting, forging, and altering United States notes, bonds, national-bank notes, Federal reserve notes, Federal reserve bank notes, and other obligations and securities of the United States and of foreign governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and other crimes against the laws of the United States relating to the Treasury Department and the several branches of the public service under its control; hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; purchase of arms and ammunition; traveling expenses; Protection of person of the President, etc.*Ante*, p. 328.and for no other purpose whatever, except in the protection of the person of the President and the members of his immediate family and of the person chosen to be President of the United States, *Proviso*.Witness fees.$552,140: *Provided*, That no part of this amount shall be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts.” White House police.Salaries.*Ante*, p. 329.Miscellaneous supplies.*Post*, p. 891.White House police: First sergeant, $2,700; three sergeants at $2,400 each; and thirty-five privates at $2,100 each; in all, $83,400. For uniforming and equipping the White House police, including the purchase, issue, and repair of revolvers and the purchase and issue of ammunition and miscellaneous supplies, to be procured in such manner as the President in his discretion may determine, $2,500. Public Health Service.public health service Office personnel.Salaries, office of Surgeon General: For personal services in the District of Columbia, $329,615. Pay, allowance, etc., Surgeon General, etc.For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for commissioned medical officers, including the Surgeon General, assistant surgeons general at large not exceeding three in number, and pharmacists, $1,361,028. Acting assistant surgeons.For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medical officers), $375,840. Other employees.For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth), $1,081,650. Freight, transportation, etc.For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the expenses, except membership fees, of officers when officially detailed to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of public health, and the packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of the personal effects of commissioned officers, scientific personnel, pharmacists, and nurses of the Public Health Service, upon permanent change of *Proviso*.Transporting remains of officers.station, $29,000: *Provided*, That funds expendable for transportation and traveling expenses may also be used for preparation for shipment and transportation to their former homes or remains of officers who die in line of duty. Hygienic Laboratory.*Post*, p. 379.Books.For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, $43,000. For journals and scientific books, office of Surgeon General, $500. Medical examinations, etc.Vol. 39, p. 885.[U. S. C., p. 137](/us/usc/p137).For medical examinations, including the amount necessary for the medical inspection of aliens, as required by section 16 of the Act of February 5, 1917 (U. S. C., title 8, sec. 152), medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies, including prosthetic and orthopedic supplies to be furnished under regulations approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, for beneficiaries (other than patients of the United States Veterans’ Bureau) of the Public Health Service347and persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service under the immigration laws and regulations, including necessary personnel, regular and reserve commissioned officers of the Public HealthServices in the District, etc.General expenses. Service, personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including the furnishing and laundering of white duck coats, trousers, smocks, aprons, and caps to employees whose duties make necessary the wearing of same, maintenance, minor repairs, equipment, leases, fuel, lights, water, freight, transportation and travel, maintenance, exchange and operation of motor trucks and passenger motor vehicles, and including not exceeding $3,000 for the purchase of passenger motor vehicles (at a cost not to exceed $1,000 each, including the value of any vehicle exchanged, except for ambulances),Lepers, transportation, care, etc.transportation, care, maintenance, and treatment of lepers, including transportation to their homes in the continental United States of recovered indigent leper patients, court costs, and other expenses incident to proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken for commitment of mentally incompetent persons to hospitals for the careInsane, care, etc. and treatment of the insane, and reasonable burial expenses (not exceeding $100 for any patient dying in hospital), $5,861,776: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Use of Ellis Island hospitals. That the Immigration Service shall permit the Public Health Service to use the hospitals at Ellis Island Immigration Station for the care of Public Health Service patients free of expense for physical upkeep, but with a charge of actual cost of fuel, light, water, telephone, and similar supplies and services, to be covered into the proper Immigration Service appropriations; and money collected byReceipts to be covered into Treasury. the Immigration Service on account of hospital expenses of persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service under the immigration laws and regulations shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided further*, That no part of this sumUses forbidden. shall be used for the quarantine service, the prevention of epidemics, or scientific work of the character provided for under the appropriations which follow. All sums received by the Public Health Service during the fiscalDisposal of receipts. year 1931, except allotments and reimbursements on account of patients of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, Quarantine service. exclusive of pay of officers and employees, of United States quarantine stations, including the exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and including not exceeding $2,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passengercarrying vehicles (at a cost not to exceed $1,000 each, including the value of any vehicle exchanged except for ambulances), $660,000, of which $200,000 shall be immediately available. Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case only ofPrevention of epi demies. threatened or actual epidemic of infectious or contagious disease, to aid State and local boards or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, $400,000, including the purchase of newspapers and clippings from newspapers containing information relating to the prevalence of disease and the public health. Field investigations: For investigations of diseases of man andField investigations. conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof, including sanitation and sewage, and the pollution of navigable streams and lakes of the United States, including personal service, and including the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and not exceeding $2,400 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (at a cost not348to exceed $800 each, including the value of any vehicle exchanged), $391,000. Interstate quarantine service.Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State and municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, $68,520. Rural sanitation.Rural sanitation: For special studies of, and demonstration work in, rural sanitation, including personal services, and including not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation *Proviso*.Subject to local contributions.of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $338,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for demonstration work in rural sanitation in any community unless the State, county, or municipality in which the community is located agrees to pay one-half the expenses of such demonstration work. Biological products.Regulation of sale of viruses, etc.Biologic products: To regulate the propagation and sale of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products, including arsphenamine, and for the preparation of curative and diagnostic biologic products, including personal services of reserve commissioned officers and other personnel, $46,620. Venereal Diseases Division.Maintenance.Vol. 40, p. 886.[U. S. C., p. 1315](/us/usc/p1315).Services in the District.For the maintenance and expenses of the Division of Venereal Diseases, established by sections 3 and 4, Chapter XV, of the Act approved July 9, 1918 (U. S. C., title 42, secs. 24, 25), including personal and other services in the field and in the District of Columbia, $100,000, of which amount not to exceed $25,480 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Narcotic farms.Establishment of.Vol. 45, p. 10S5.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 304](/us/usc/p304).Narcotic farms: For expenses incident to carrying out the provisions of the act approved January 19, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 21, sec. 225), authorizing the establishment of two narcotic farms, including personal services in the District of Columbia and Transportation, etc., of effects and personnel of Public Health Service.elsewhere; freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, and the packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of the personal effects of the personnel of the Public Health Service upon permanent change *Proviso*.Selection of sites.of station, $10,900: *Provided*, That appropriations for the office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury for the fiscal year 1931 shall be available for the payment of expenses incident to the selection of sites, as provided in section 2 of the act authorizing the establishment of two narcotic farms approved January 19, 1929. Educational exhibits.For prevention of spread of diseases.Educational exhibits: For the preparation of public-health exhibits designed to demonstrate the cause, prevalence, methods of spread, and measures for preventing diseases dangerous to the public health, including personal services and the cost of acquiring, transporting, and displaying exhibit material, $2,500. Bureau of the Mint.Bureau of the Mint Director’s Office.office of directors of the mint Director, and office personnel.Salaries: For the Director of the Mint and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $38,180. Transporting bullion and coin.For transportation of bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints and assay offices, $10,000. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expended under the direction of the director: For assay laboratory chemicals, fuel, materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, $900. Examinations, etc.For examination of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purpose of superintending the annual settlements, and for special Precious metal statistics.examinations and for the collection of statistics relative to the annual production and consumption of the precious metals in the United States, $5,600. 349 mints and assay officesMints and assay offices. For compensation of officers and employees of the mints atEmployees and expenses of designated. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, San Francisco, California, Denver, Colorado, Carson City, Nevada, and New Orleans, Louisiana, and assay offices at New York, New York, Boise, Idaho, Helena, Montana, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Seattle, Washington, and for incidental and contingent expenses, including traveling expenses, new machinery, and repairs, cases and enameling for medals manufactured, net wastage in melting and refining and in coining departments, loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coins, not to exceed $500 for the expenses of the annual assay commission, and not exceeding $1,000 in value of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint at Philadelphia, $1,634,480. office of supervising architectSupervising Architect’s office. public buildings, construction and rentPublic buildings. For the acquisition of sites or of additional land, commencement,Acquisition of sites, for construction, etc., of projects authorized by Public Buildings Acts.Vol. 44, pp. 632, 687.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, pp. 562, 563](/us/usc/p562/p563). continuation, or completion, of construction in connection with any or all projects authorized under the provisions of sections 3 and 5 of the Public Buildings Act, approved May 25, 1926 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 40, secs. 343, 345), and the Act amendatory thereof, approved February 24, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 40, sec. 345), within the respective limits of cost for said projects as heretofore or*Post*, p. 1063. hereinafter fixed, $23,000,000: Albany, New York, post office, courthouse, customhouse, and soAlbany, N. Y. forth, continuation. Albuquerque, New Mexico, post office, courthouse, and so forth,Albuquerque, N. Mex. continuation. Alburg, Vermont, inspection station, continuation.Alburg, Vt. Alexandria, Virginia, customhouse, post office, and so forth,Alexandria, Va. continuation. Altoona, Pennsylvania, post office, and so forth, continuation.Altoona, Pa. Amsterdam, New York, post office, and so forth, continuation.Amsterdam. N. Y. Anderson, Indiana, post office, and so forth, completion.Anderson, Ind. Appleton, Wisconsin, post office, and so forth, continuation.Appleton, Wis. Asheville, North Carolina, post office, courthouse, and so forth,Asheville, N. C. completion. Atlanta, Georgia, post office, and so forth, continuation.Atlanta, Ga. Aurora, Illinois, post office, and so forth, continuation.Aurora, Ill. Babb-Piegan, Montana, inspection station, continuation.BabbPiegan, Mont. Baltimore, Maryland, marine hospital, continuation.Baltimore, Md., marine hospital. Baltimore, Maryland, post office, and so forth, continuation.Post office, etc. Bartlesville, Oklahoma, post office, and so forth, continuation.Bartlesville, Okla. Battle Creek, Michigan, post office, and so forth, completion.Battle Creek, Mich. Beaumont, Texas, post office and courthouse, continuation.Beaumont, Tex. Beecher Falls, Vermont, inspection station, continuation.Beecher Palls, Vt. Bellows Falls, Vermont, post office, and so forth, continuation.Bellows Balls, Vt. Benton Harbor, Michigan, post office, and so forth, continuation.Benton Harbor, Mich. Blaine, Washington, inspection station, continuation.Blaine, Wash. Bloomington, Illinois, post office, and so forth, continuation.Bloomington, Ill. Bogalusa, Louisiana, post office, and so forth, continuation.Bogalusa, La. Boise, Idaho, post office, courthouse, and so forth, completion.Boise, Idaho. Boston, Massachusetts, post office, courthouse, and so forth, continuation.Boston, Mass. Bridgeport, Connecticut, post office, and so forth, continuation.Bridgeport, Conn. Brockton, Massachusetts, post office, continuation.Brockton, Mass. 350 Brooklyn, N. Y.Brooklyn, New York, post office, courthouse, and so forth, com pletion. Brunswick, Me.Brunswick, Maine, post office, and so forth, continuation. Buena Vista, Va.Buena Vista, Virginia, post office, continuation. Calexico, Calif.Calexico, California, inspection station, continuation. Camden, N. J.Camden, New Jersey, post office, courthouse, and so forth, continuation. Canon City, Colo.Canon City, Colorado, post office, and so forth, continuation. Canton, Ohio.Canton, Ohio, post office, and so forth, continuation. Carbondale, Ill.Carbondale, Illinois, post office, and so forth, continuation. Casper, Wyo.Casper, Wyoming, post office, courthouse, and so forth, continuation. Cedar Rapids, Iowa.Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Post Office, courthouse, and so forth, continuation. Champlain, N. Y.Champlain, New York, inspection station, continuation. Chateaugay, N, Y.Chateaugay, New York, inspection station, continuation. Chicago, Ill.Chicago, Illinois, post office and other Government offices, continuation. Claremont, N. H.Claremont, New Hampshire, post office, and so forth, continuation. Clarksburg, W. Va.Clarksburg, West Virginia, post office, courthouse, and so forth, continuation. Cleveland, Ohio.Cleveland, Ohio, post office, continuation. Clovis, N. Mex.Clovis, New Mexico, post office, and so forth, continuation. Conway, Ark.Conway, Arkansas, post office, and so forth, completion. Corvallis, Oreg.Corvallis, Oregon, post office, and so forth, continuation. Crete, Nebr.Crete, Nebraska, post office, and so forth, continuation. Cumberland, Md.Cumberland, Maryland, post office, courthouse, and so forth, continuation. Dallas, Tex.Dallas, Texas, post office, courthouse, and other Government offices, completion. Denver, Colo.Denver, Colorado, customhouse, and so forth, continuation: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Limit of cost increased.Vol. 45, p. 178, amended.That the limit of cost fixed in the Act of March 5, 1928, is hereby increased from $1,060,000 to $1,235,000, and appropriations heretofore made are hereby made available for the acquisition of additional land and toward the construction of said building. Derby Line, Vt.Derby Line, Vermont, inspection station, continuation. Detroit, Mich.Detroit, Michigan, customhouse and other Government offices, continuation. Dodge City, Kans.Dodge City, Kansas, post office, and so forth, continuation. Douglas, Ariz.Douglas, Arizona, inspection station, continuation. Duluth, Minn.Duluth, Minnesota, post office, courthouse, customhouse, and so forth, completion. East Chicago, Ind.East Chicago, Indiana, post office, and so forth, completion. East Richford, Vt.East Richford, Vermont, inspection station, continuation. El Dorado, Ark.El Dorado, Arkansas, post office, courthouse, and so forth, continuation. El Paso, Tex.El Paso, Texas, Federal office building, continuation. Erie, Pa.Erie, Pennsylvania, post office, and so forth, continuation. Eustis, Me.Eustis, Maine, inspection station, continuation. Fairfield, Iowa.Fairfield, Iowa, post office, and so forth, completion. Fall River, Mass.Fall River, Massachusetts, customhouse and post office, continuation. Fargo, N. Dak.Fargo, North Dakota, post office, courthouse, and so forth, continuation. Fitchburg, Mass.Fitchburg, Massachusetts, post office, and so forth, completion. Flint, Mich.Flint, Michigan, post office, and so forth, continuation. Fort Fairfield, Me.Fort Fairfield, Maine, inspection station, completion. Fort Wayne, Ind.Fort Wayne, Indiana, post office, courthouse, and so forth, continuation. 351 Fort Worth, Texas, post office, and so forth, continuation.Fort Worth, Tex. Framingham, Massachusetts, post office, continuation.Framingham, Mass. Freeport, Illinois, post office, and so forth, continuation.Freeport, Ill. Galveston, Texas, marine hospital, continuation.Galveston, Tex. Georgetown, Delaware, post office, and so forth, continuation.Georgetown, Del. Gloucester, Massachusetts, post office, and so forth, continuationGloucester, Mass. Greensboro, North Carolina, post office, courthouse, and so forth,Greensboro, N. C. continuation. Hamilton, Ohio, post office, continuation.Hamilton, Ohio. Hammond, Indiana, post office, courthouse, and so forth, Hammond, Ind.completion. Hanover, New Hampshire, post office, and so forth, continuation.Hanover, N. H. Harrodsburg, Kentucky, post office, continuation.Harrodsburg, Ky. Hartford, Connecticut, post office, courthouse, and so forth,Hartford, Conn. continuation. Hartsville, South Carolina, post office, and so forth, continuation.Hartsville, S. C. Haverhill, Massachusetts, post office, and so forth, completion.Haverhill, Mass. Havre, Montana, post office, and so forth, continuation.Havre, Mont. Highgate Springs, Vermont, inspection station, continuation.Highgate Springs, Vt. Hoboken, New Jersey, post office, continuation.Hoboken, N, J. Honolulu, Hawaii, post office, courthouse, and customhouse,Honolulu, Hawaii. continuation. Hoquiam, Washington, post office, and so forth, continuation.Hoquiam, Wash. Houlton, Maine, inspection station, completion.Houlton, Me. Iowa City, Iowa, post office, and so forth, continuation.Iowa City, Iowa. Ironwood, Michigan, post office, and so forth, continuation.Ironwood, Mich. Jackson, Mississippi, post office, courthouse, and so forth,Jackson, Miss. continuation. Jacksonville, Florida, post office, and so forth, continuation.Jacksonville, Fla. Junction City, Kansas, post office, and so forth, continuation.Junction City, Kans. Juneau, Alaska, Federal and Territorial Building, continuation.Juneau, Alaska. Kansas City, Missouri, post office, and so forth, continuation.Kansas City, Mo. Kenosha, Wisconsin, post office, and so forth, continuation.Kenosha, Wis. Kingsport, Tennessee, post office, and so forth, continuation.Kingsport, Tenn. Klamath Falls, Oregon, post office, and so forth, continuation.Klamath Falls, Oreg. Kokomo, Indiana, post office, continuation.Kokomo, Ind. Kosciusko, Mississippi, post office, and so forth, continuation.Kosciusko, Miss. La Crosse, Wisconsin, post office, courthouse, and so forth,La Crosse, Wis. continuation. Lafayette, Indiana, post office, and so forth, continuation.Lafayette, Ind. Lakeland, Florida, post office, continuation.Lakeland, Fla. Lancaster, Pennsylvania, post office, and so forth, completion.Lancaster, Fa. Lawrence, Kansas, post office, and so forth, completion.Lawrence, Kans. Lenoir, North Carolina, post office, continuation.Lenoir, N. C. Lewistown, Montana, post office, and so forth, continuation.Lewiston, Mont. Lexington, Kentucky, courthouse, and so forth, continuation.Lexington, Ky. Lima, Ohio, post office, and so forth, continuation.Lima, Ohio. Limestone, Maine, inspection station, continuation.Limestone, Me. Little Rock, Arkansas, post office, courthouse, and so forth,Little Rock, Ark. continuation. Long Beach, California, post office, and so forth, continuation.Long Beach, Calif. Long Island City, New York, post office and other GovernmentLong Island City, N. Y. offices, completion. Louisville, Kentucky, post office, courthouse, customhouse, and soLouisville, Ky. forth, continuation. Lowell, Massachusetts, post office, and so forth, continuation.Lowell, Mass. Lubbock, Texas, post office, and so forth, continuation.Lubbock, Tex. Lumberton, Mississippi, post office, and so forth, continuation.Lumberton, Miss. Lynchburg, Virginia, post office and courthouse, continuation.Lynchburg, Va. 352 Manchester, N. H.Manchester, New Hampshire, post office, and so forth, continuation. Mansfield, La.Mansfield, Louisiana, post office, and so forth, continuation. Marshfield, Wis.Marshfield, Wisconsin, post office, and so forth, continuation. Mason City, Iowa.Mason City, Iowa, post office, courthouse, and so forth, continuation. McMinnville, Tenn.McMinnville, Tennessee, post office, and so forth, continuation. Memphis, Tenn.Memphis, Tennessee, customhouse, courthouse, and post office, continuation. Subpost office.Memphis, Tennessee, subpost office, continuation. Mexia, Tex.Mexia, Texas, post office, and so forth, continuation. Miami, Fla.Miami, Florida, post office, courthouse, customhouse, and so forth, continuation. Milford, Conn.Milford, Connecticut? post office, and so forth, continuation. Milwaukee, Wis.Milwaukee, Wisconsin, post office, courthouse, and customhouse, continuation. Minneapolis, Minn.Minneapolis, Minnesota, post office, courthouse, and so forth, continuation. Mitchell. S. Dak.Mitchell, South Dakota, post office, and so forth, continuation. Morgantown, W. Va.Morgantown, West Virginia, post office, and so forth, continuation. Nampa, Idaho. Nampa, Idaho, post office, and so forth, continuation. Newark, N. J.Newark, New Jersey, post office, courthouse, and so forth, continuation. New Bern, N. C.New Bern, North Carolina, post office, courthouse, customhouse, and so forth, continuation. New Britain, Conn.New Britain, Connecticut, post office, and so forth, continuation. Newburgh, N. Y.Newburgh, New York, post office, and so forth, continuation. New Orleans, La., marine hospital.Quarantine station.New Philadelphia, Ohio.New York, N. Y. appraisers’ stores.Assay office.New Orleans, Louisiana, marine hospital, continuation. New Orleans, Louisiana, quarantine station, continuation. New Philadelphia, Ohio, post office, and so forth, completion. New York, New York, appraisers’ stores, continuation. New York, New York, assay office, continuation. Courthouse.New York, New York, courthouse, and so forth, continuation. Marine hospital.New York, New York, marine hospital, continuation. Parcel-post building.New York, New York, parcel-post building, and so forth, continuation. Noyes, Minn. Noyes, Minnesota, inspection station, completion. Oakland, Calif.Oakland, California, post office, customhouse, and so forth, continuation. Ogden, Utah.Ogden, Utah, post office and courthouse, continuation. Oklahoma City, Okla.Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse, continuation. Okmulgee, Okla.Okmulgee, Oklahoma, post office, courthouse, and so forth, continuation. Oshkosh, Wis.Oshkosh, Wisconsin, post office, and so forth, completion. Ottawa, Ill.Ottawa, Illinois, post office, and so forth, completion. Parkersburg, W. Va.Parkersburg, West Virginia, post office, and so forth, continuation. Passaic, N. J.Passaic, New Jersey, post office, and so forth, continuation. Paterson, N. J.Paterson, New Jersey, post office, and so forth, continuation. Pawtucket, R. I.Pawtucket, Rhode Island, post office, and so forth, continuation. Peekskill, N. Y.Peekskill, New York, post office, continuation. Pembina, N. Dak.Pembina, North Dakota, customhouse, and so forth, continuation. Pittsburgh, Pa.Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, post office, courthouse, and so forth, continuation. Pittsfield, Mass.Pittsfield, Massachusetts, post office, and so forth, continuation. Plattsburg, N. Y.Plattsburg, New York, customhouse and post office, continuation. Pomona, Calif.Pomona, California, post office, and so forth, continuation. Portal, N. Dak.Portal, North Dakota, inspection station, continuation. Portland, Me.Portland, Maine, post office, and so forth, continuation. 353 Portland, Oregon, courthouse, and so forth, continuation.Portland, Oreg.Portsmouth, Va. Portsmouth, Virginia, post office, customhouse, and so forth, continuation. Prescott, Arizona, post office, courthouse, and so forth,Prescott, Ariz. continuation. Price, Utah, post office, and so forth, completion.Price, Utah. Princeton, New Jersey, post office, and so forth, continuation.Princeton, N. J. Pullman, Washington, post office, and so forth, completion.Pullman, Wash. Racine, Wisconsin, post office, and so forth, continuation.Racine, Wis. Red Bank, New Jersey, post office, continuation.Red Bank. N. J. Reno Nevada, post office, and so forth, continuation.Reno, Nev. Richford, Vermont, inspection station, continuation.Richford, Vt. Richmond, Virginia, post office, courthouse, and customhouse, continuation.Richmond, Va. Roanoke, Virginia, post office, courthouse, and so forth,Roanoke, Va. continuation. Rouses Point, New York, inspection station, completion.Rouses Point, N. Y. Rushville, Indiana, post office, and so forth, continuation.Rushville, Ind. Rutland, Vermont, post office, courthouse, and so forth, continuation.Rutland, Vt. Sabine Pass, Texas, quarantine station, continuation.Sabine Pass, Tex. Sacramento, California, post office, courthouse, and so forth,Sacramento, Calif. continuation. Saint Johns, North Dakota, inspection station, completion.Saint Johns, N. Dak. Saint Louis, Missouri, courthouse, customhouse, and so forth,Saint Louis, Mo. continuation. Saint Paul, Minnesota, post office, customhouse, and so forth,Saint Paul, Minn. continuation. Salisbury, North Carolina, post office, courthouse, and so forth, continuation.Salisbury, N. C. Salt Lake City, Utah, post office, courthouse, and so forth,Salt Lake City, Utah. continuation. San Bernardino, California, post office, and so forth, continuation.San Bernardino, Calif.San Francisco, Calif. San Francisco, California, Federal office building, continuation. San Francisco, California, marine hospital, continuation.Marine hospital. San Luis, Arizona, inspection station, continuation.San Luis, Ariz. San Pedro, California, post office, customhouse, and so forth,San Pedro, Calif. continuation. Santa Ana, California, post office, and so forth, continuation.Santa Ana, Calif. San Ysidro, California, inspection station, continuation.San Ysidro, Calif. Savannah, Georgia, post office, courthouse, and so forth,Savannah, Ga.continuation. Scottsbluff, Nebraska, post office, and so forth, continuation.Scottsbluff, Nebr. Scranton, Pennsylvania, post office, courthouse, and so forth,Scranton, Pa. continuation. Seattle, Washington, Federal office building, continuation.Seattle, Wash. Seattle, Washington, immigrant station, assay office, and so forth,Immigrant station, etc. continuation. Sedalia, Missouri, post office, and so forth, continuation.Sedalia, Mo. Sheffield, Alabama, post office, and so forth, continuation.Sheffield, Ala. Sioux Falls, South Dakota, post office, courthouse, and so forth,Sioux Falls, S. Dak. continuation. South Bend, Indiana, post office, courthouse, and so forth,South Bend, Ind. continuation. South Saint Paul, Minnesota, post office, and so forth, continuation.South Saint Paul, Minn.Spartanburg, S. C. Spartanburg, South Carolina, post office, courthouse, and so forth, continuation. Springfield, Illinois, post office, courthouse, Weather Bureau, andSpringfield, Ill. so forth, completion. Springfield, Massachusetts, post office, courthouse, and so forth,Springfield, Mass. continuation. 354 Sumas, Wash.Sumas, Washington, inspection station, continuation. Sweetgrass, Mont. Sweetgrass, Montana, inspection station, continuation. Sterling, Colo.Sterling, Colorado, post office, courthouse, and so forth, continuation. Tampa, Fla.Tampa, Florida, courthouse, post office, customhouse, and so forth, continuation. Taylor, Tex.Taylor, Texas, post office, and so forth, completion. Tecate, Calif.Tecate, California, inspection station, continuation. Toledo, Ohio.Toledo, Ohio, courthouse, customhouse, and other Government offices, continuation. Trenton, Mo. Trenton, Missouri, post office, continuation. Trenton, N. J.Trenton, New Jersey, post office, courthouse, and so forth, continuation. Trout River, N. Y. Trout River, New York, inspection station, completion. Tucson, Ariz.Tucson, Arizona, post office, courthouse, and so forth, completion. Tulsa, Okla.Tulsa, Oklahoma, post office, courthouse, and so forth, continuation. Tyrone, Pa.Tyrone, Pennsylvania, post office, and so forth, completion. Union Springs, Ala.Union Springs, Alabama, post office, continuation. Uniontown, Pa.Uniontown, Pennsylvania, post office, and so forth, continuation. Urbana, Ohio. Urbana, Ohio, post office, and so forth, continuation. Vermilion, S. Dak.Vermilion, South Dakota, post office, continuation. Warren, Pa.Warren, Pennsylvania, post office, and so forth, continuation. Waterbury, Conn.Waterbury, Connecticut, post office, and so forth, continuation. Watertown, N. Y.Watertown, New York, post office, completion. Waukegan, Ill.Waukegan, Illinois, post office, and so forth, continuation. Waynesburg, Pa.Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, post office and other Government offices, completion. West Warwick, R. L.West Warwick, Rhode Island, post office, and so forth, continuation. White Plains, N. Y.White Plains, New York, post office, and so forth, continuation. Wichita, Kans.Wichita, Kansas, post office, courthouse, and so forth, continuation. Wilkes-Barre, Pa.Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, post office, and so forth, continuation. Woonsocket, R. I.Woonsocket, Rhode Island, post office, and so forth, continuation. Worcester, Mass.Worcester, Massachusetts, post office, courthouse, and so forth, completion. Youngstown, Ohio.Youngstown, Ohio, post office, courthouse, and so forth, continuation. Washington, D. C.Department of Agriculture.Washington, District of Columbia, Department of Agriculture Buildings: Administrative and Extensible Buildings.Administration Building, completion. Extensible Building, continuation. Archives Building.Washington, District of Columbia, Archives Building, continuation. Department of Commerce Building.Washington, District of Columbia, Department of Commerce Building, continuation. Government Printing Office.Washington, District of Columbia, Government Printing Office, continuation. Internal Revenue Building.Washington, District of Columbia, Internal Revenue Building, completion. Remodeling, etc., occupied buildings.Remodeling, and so forth, public buildings: For remodeling, enlarging, and extending completed and occupied public buildings, including any necessary and incidental additions to or changes in mechanical equipment thereof, so as to provide or make available additional space in emergent cases, not to exceed an aggregate of $25,000 at any one building, $500,000. Washington, D. C.Acquiring triangle properties for sites, etc.Vol. 45, pp. 51, 1663.*Post*, p. 907.Acquisition of triangle properties under the Act approved January 13, 1928: For continuing the acquisition of property as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to acquire certain lands within the District of Columbia to be355used as sites for public buildings,” approved January 13, 1928 (45 Stat, pp. 51, 52), $7,000,000. Rent of temporary quarters: For rent of temporary quarters andTemporary quarters, etc. alterations of same for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into leases for this purpose for periods not exceeding three years, $1,200,000. public buildings, repairs, equipment, and general expensesRepairs, equipment, etc. Repairs and preservation: For repairs and preservation of allRepairs, preservation, etc., of completed and occupied buildings. completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, and for wire partitions and fly screens therefor; the wharf and monument at Jamestown, Virginia, and other Government wharves and piers under the control of the Treasury Department, together with the necessary dredging adjacent thereto; care of vacant sites under the control of the Treasury Department, such as necessary fences, filling dangerous holes, cutting grass and weeds, but not for any permanent improvements thereon; repairs and preservation of buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargement of public buildings, the expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed 15 per centum of the annual rentals of such buildings: *Provided*, That of the sum herein appropriated not*Provisos*.Marine hospitals, quarantine stations, etc. exceeding $234,000 may be used for the repair and preservation of marine hospitals, the national leprosarium, and quarantine stations (including Marcus Hook) and completed and occupied outbuildings (including wire partitions and fly screens for same), and not exceeding $24,500 for the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Liberty Loan,Treasury Department buildings, D. C. and Auditors’ Buildings in the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That this sum shall not be available for the payment of personalPersonal services restriction. services except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $1,635,000. Mechanical equipment: For installation and repair of mechanicalMechanical equipment.Heating, lighting, electricity, etc. equipment in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including heating, hoisting, plumbing, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum cleaning, and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic-tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit, wiring, call-bell and signal systems, and for maintenance and repair of tower clocks; for installation and repair of mechanical equipment, for any of the foregoing items, in buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargements of public buildings, the total expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed 10 per centum of the annual rentals of such buildings: *Provided*, That of the sum*Provisos*.Marine hospitals, quarantine stations, etc. herein appropriated, not exceeding $125,000 may be used for the installation and repair of mechanical equipment in marine hospitals, the national leprosarium, and quarantine stations (including Marcus Hook), and not exceeding $38,000 for the Treasury, Treasury Annex,Treasury Department buildings, D. C. Liberty Loan, and Auditors’ Buildings, in the District of Columbia, but not including the generating plant and its maintenance in the Auditors’ Building, and not exceeding $10,000 for the maintenance, changes in, and repairs of pneumatic-tube system between thePneumatic-tube service, New York City. appraisers’ warehouse and the new customhouse in Bowling Green, Borough of Manhattan, in the city of New York, including repairs to the street pavement and subsurface necessary incident to or356Personal service restriction.resulting from such maintenance, changes, or repairs: *Provided further*, That this sum shall not be available for the payment of personal services except for work done by contract, or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $640,000. Vaults, safes, and locks.Vaults and safes: For vaults and lock-box equipments and repaire thereto in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, and for the necessary safe equipments and repairs thereto in all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, whether completed and occupied or in course of construction, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $50 at any one building, $165,000. General expenses.Vol. 35, p. 537.[U. S. C., p. 1020](/us/usc/p1020).Technical salaries.General expenses: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to execute and give effect to the provisions of section 6 of the Act of May 30, 1908 (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 683): For salaries of architectural and engineering personnel and inspectors in the District of Expenses of superintendence, etc.Columbia and elsewhere, not exceeding $1,427,800; expenses of superintendence, including expenses of all inspectors and other officers and employees, on duty or detailed in connection with work on public buildings and the furnishing and equipment thereof, and the work of the Supervising Architect’s Office, under orders from the Transporting household goods of technical officials.Treasury Department; for the transportation of household goods, incident to change of headquarters of district engineers, construction engineers, inspection engineers, and inspectors, not in excess of five thousand pounds at any one time, together with the necessary expense incident to packing and draying the same, not to exceed Office rent, field supplies, etc.in any one year a total expenditure of $4,500; office rent and expenses of field force, including temporary, stenographic, and other assistance, in the preparation of reports and the care of public property, and so forth; advertising; office supplies, including drafting materials, especially prepared paper, typewriting machines, adding machines, and other mechanical labor-saving devices, and exchange of same; furniture, carpets, electric-light fixtures, and office equipment; telegraph and telephone service; freight, expressage, and postage incident to shipments of drawings, furniture and supplies for the field forces, testing instruments, and so forth, including articles and supplies not usually payable from other appropriations: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Transporting operating supplies excluded.That no expenditures shall be made hereunder for transportation of operating supplies for public buildings; not to exceed $1,000 for books of reference, law books, technical periodicals Other contingencies.and journals; and not to exceed $10,000 for the rental of additional quarters in the District of Columbia for the Office of the Supervising Architect, including other incidental expenses in connection Salamanca, N. Y.Ground rent.with the occupancy of such quarters; ground rent at Salamanca, New York, for which payment may be made in advance: contingencies of every kind and description, traveling expenses of site agents, and of employees directed by the Secretary of the Treasury to attend meetings of technical and professional societies in connection with the work of the Office of the Supervising Architect, recording deeds and other evidences of title, photographic instruments, chemicals, plates, and photographic materials, and such other articles and supplies and such minor and incidental expenses not enumerated, connected solely with work on public buildings, the acquisition of sites, and the administrative work connected with the annual appropriations under the Supervising Architect’s Office as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially Objects excluded.order or approve, but not including heat, light, janitor service, awn-357ings, curtains, or any expenses for the general maintenance of the Treasury Building, or surveys, plaster models, progress photographs, test-pit borings, or mill and shop inspections, $1,644,670, of which amount not to exceed $976,800 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Outside professional services: To enable the Secretary of theOutside professional services.Provision for obtaining.Vol. 44, p. 631.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 561](/us/usc/p561).Preparing working drawings, etc. Treasury to obtain architectural services, as provided in the Public Buildings Act approved May 25, 1926 (U. S. C., Supp. Ill, title 40, sec. 342), namely, “to procure by contract the floor plans and designs of buildings developed sufficiently to serve as guides for the preparation of working drawings and specifications, or to employ advisory assistance involving design or engineering features, and to employ, to the extent deemed necessary by him in connection with the construction of buildings for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, the Architects for Departments of Commerce and Labor Buildings.architects who were successful in competition heretofore held for a building for the then Department of Commerce and Labor, and to pay reasonable compensation for such services,” and to employ appraisers, when necessary, by contract or otherwise, $275,000. public buildings, operating expensesOperating expenses. Operating force: For such personal services as the Secretary ofOperating force.Personal services, assistant custodians, etc. the Treasury may deem necessary in connection with the care, maintenance, and repair of all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department (except as hereinafter provided), together with the grounds thereof and the equipment and furnishings therein, including assistant custodians, janitors, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen; telephone operators for the operation of telephone switchboards or equivalent telephone switchboard equipment in Federal buildings, jointly serving in each case two or more governmental activities; engineers, firemen, elevator conductors, coal passers, electricians, dynamo tenders, lampists, and wiremen; mechanical labor force in connection with said buildings, including carpenters, plumbers, steam fitters, machinists, and painters, but in no case shallPay restriction. the rates of compensation for such mechanical labor force be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services are employed, $8,000,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing*Proviso*.Buildings for which available. appropriation shall be available for use in connection with all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including the wharf and monument at Jamestown, Virginia, and the customhouse in the District of Columbia, but not including any other public building in the District of Columbia, and exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices. Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture, carpets, andFurniture, etc. repairs of same, for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for gas and electric lighting fixtures and repairs of same for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including marine hospitals and quarantine stations, but exclusive of mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for furniture and carpets for public buildings and extension of public buildings in course of construction which are to remain under the custody and control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals,Buildings excluded. quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and buildings constructed for other executive departments or establishments of the Government, $1,090,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing*Provisos*.Personal services restriction. appropriation shall not be used for personal services except for work done under contract or for temporary job labor under exigency and not358Use of present furniture.exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building: *Provided further*, That all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings or in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not. Operating supplies.Fuel, light, power, water, etc.Operating supplies: For fuel, steam, gas for lighting and heating purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for lighting, heating, and power purposes, telephone service for custodial forces; removal of ashes and rubbish, snow, and ice; cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodial forces in the care and maintenance of completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, including the wharf and monument at Jamestown, Virginia, and in the care and maintenance of the equipment and furnishings in such buildings; miscellaneous supplies, tools, and appliances required in the operation (not embracing repairs) of the mechanical equipment, including heating, plumbing, hoisting, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum-cleaning and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic-tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit wiring, call-bell and signal systems in such buildings, and for the transportation of articles or supplies, authorized herein (including the customhouse in the Buildings excluded.District of Columbia, but excluding any other public building under the control of the Treasury Department within the District of Columbia, and excluding also marine hospitals and quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one Gas governors.building), $3,168,500. The appropriation made herein for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors when ordered by the *Provisos*.Rentals thereof.Secretary of the Treasury in writing: *Provided*, That rentals shall not be paid for such gas governors greater than 35 per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct: *Provided further*, Joint telephone-switchboard contracts authorized.That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to contract for telephone service in public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department by means of telephone switchboards or equivalent telephone-switching equipment jointly serving in each case two or more Government activities where he finds that joint service is economical and in the interest of the Government, and to secure reimbursement for the cost of such joint service from available appropriations for telephone expenses of the bureaus and offices receiving the same. Custody of lands, etc.[R. S. secs. 3749, 3750, p. 739](/us/rs/sec3749/sec3750/p739).[U. S. C., p. 1305](/us/usc/p1305).Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, acquired and held under sections 3749 and 3750 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 40, secs. 301, 302), the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers’ fees in connection therewith, $550. Supervising Architect’s Office.Supervising Architect, and office personnel.Office of Supervising Architect.—Salaries: For the Supervising Architect, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $390,670. miscellaneous items, treasury department American Printing House for the Blind.american printing house for the blind Expenses.To enable the American Printing House for the Blind more adequately Vol. 44, p. 1060.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 296](/us/usc/p296).to provide books and apparatus for the education of the blind in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved February 8, 1927 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 20, sec. 101), $65,000. 359 TITLE II.— POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT The following sums are appropriated in conformity with the ActPost Office Department appropriations, fiscal year, 1931.Vol. 5, p. 80.[U. S. C., p. 49](/us/usc/p49). of July 2, 1836 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 380, title 39, sec. 786), for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, namely: post office department; washington, district of columbiaDepartment expenses. office of the postmaster generalPostmaster General’s Office. Postmaster General, $15,000; for personal services in the officePostmaster General, and office personnel. of the Postmaster General in the District of Columbia, $217,990; in all, $232,990. When specifically approved by the Postmaster General, transfersTransfers allowed between appropriations for bureaus, etc., to meet reallocation increases. may be made between the appropriations or allocations of appropriations in this title under the respective jurisdiction of any bureau, office, institution, or service, in order to meet increases in compensation resulting from the reallocation by the Personnel Classification Board of positions under any such organization unit. post office department buildingsDepartment buildings. For personal services in the District of Columbia for the care,Personal services. operating force. maintenance, and protection of the main Post Office Department Building, the Washington City Post Office Building, and the mail equipment shops building, $275,745. salaries in bureaus and officesDepartment bureaus and offices. For personal services in the District of Columbia in bureaus andAllotments for personal services. offices of the Post Office Department in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, $526,860. Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, $409,180. Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, $752,010. Office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $314,270. Office of the Solicitor for the Post Office Department, $67,540. Office of the chief inspector, $192.500. Office of the purchasing agent, $37,390. Bureau of Accounts, $42,430. Contingent Expenses, Post Office DepartmentDepartment contingent expenses. For stationery and blank books, index and guide cards, folders, andStationery. binding devices, including purchase of free penalty envelopes, $20,000. For fuel and repairs to heating, lighting, ice, and power plant,Heating, lighting, power, etc. including repairs to elevators, purchase and exchange of tools and electrical supplies, and removal of ashes, $50,000. For telegraphing, $6,500.Telegraphing. For miscellaneous items, including purchase, exchange,Miscellaneous. maintenance, and repair of typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; not to exceed $3,000 for purchase, exchange, hire,Vehicles. and maintenance of motor trucks and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles; street-car fares not exceeding $540; plumbing; repairs to department buildings; floor coverings; postage stamps forPostage.Vol. 44. p. 2243. correspondence addressed abroad, which is not exempt under article 47 of the London convention of the Universal Postal Union, $56,000; and of such sum of $56,000, not exceeding $14,500 may be expended for360telephone service, not exceeding $1,800 may be expended for purchase and exchange of law books, books of reference, railway guides, city directories, and books necessary to conduct the business of the department, and not exceeding $2,000 may be expended for expenses, Attendance at meetings.except membership fees, of attendance at meetings or conventions concerned with postal affairs, when incurred on the written authority of the Postmaster General, and not exceeding $800 may be expended for expenses of the purchasing agent and of the solicitor and attorneys connected with his office while traveling on business of the department. Furniture, etc.For furniture and filing cabinets, $7,500. Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Post Office Department, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $1,165,000. Reimbursement for heating, etc., Washington City Post Office building.For reimbursement of the Government Printing Office or Capitol power plant for the cost of furnishing steam for heating and electric current for lighting and power to the Post Office Department Building at Massachusetts Avenue and North Capitol Street, District of Columbia, $50,000. Field service appropriations not to be used for the Department.Appropriations hereinafter made for the field service of the Post Office Department, except as otherwise provided, shall not be expended for any of the purposes hereinbefore provided for on account of the *Proviso*.Traveling expenses of officials payable from service appropriations.Post Office Department in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the actual and necessary expenses of officials and employees of the Post Office Department and Postal Service, when traveling on official business, may continue to be paid from the appropriations for the service in connection with which the travel is performed, and appropriations for the fiscal year 1931 of the character heretofore used for such purposes shall be available therefor. Field Service.Field Service, Post Office Department Postmaster General.office of the postmaster general Equipment shops building.For gas, electric power, and light, and the repair of machinery, United States Post Office Department equipment shops building, $7,500. Cash rewards to employees for inventions for improving the service.The Postmaster General is hereby authorized to pay a cash reward for any invention, suggestion, or series of suggestions for an improvement or economy in device, design, or process applicable to the Postal Service submitted by one or more employees of the Post Office Department or the Postal Service which shall be adopted for use and will clearly effect a material economy or increase efficiency, and *Provisos*.Additional to regular pay.for that purpose the sum of $1,500 is hereby appropriated: *Provided*, That the sums so paid to employees in accordance with this Act Amount limited.shall be in addition to their usual compensation: *Provided further*, That the total amount paid under the provisions of this Act shall not exceed $1,000 in any month or for any one invention or suggestion: *Provided further*, Agreement for Government use required.That no employee shall be paid a reward under this Act until he has properly executed an agreement to the effect that the use by the United States of the invention, suggestion, or series of suggestions made by him shall not form the basis of a further claim of any nature upon the United States by him, his heirs, or Restriction on appropriation.assigns: *Provided further*, That this appropriation shall be available for no other purpose. Shipment of equipment, etc.For the transportation and delivery of equipment, materials, and supplies for the Post Office Department and Postal Service by freight, express, or motor transportation, and other incidental expenses, $500,000. 361 For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, officeTravel, etc. of the Postmaster General, $1,000. To enable the Postmaster General to pay claims for damages, Damage claims.occurring during the fiscal year 1931 or in prior fiscal years, to persons or property in accordance with the provisions of theVol. 41, p. 63.[U. S. C., p. 50](/us/usc/p50). Deficiency Appropriation Act approved June 16, 1921 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 392), $15,000. Office of chief inspector: For salaries of fifteen inspectors inInspectors. charge of divisions, at $4,500 each; and five hundred and twenty-five*Post*, p. 1578. inspectors, $1,984,125; in all, $2,051,625. For traveling expenses of inspectors, inspectors in charge, theTraveling expenses, Investigations, etc. chief post-office inspector, and the assistant chief post-office inspector, and for the traveling expenses of four clerks performing stenographic and clerical assistance to post-office inspectors in the investigation of important fraud cases, and for tests, exhibits, documents, photographs, office and other necessary expenses incurred by post-office inspectors in connection with their official investigations, $505,000: *Provided*, That the Postmaster General may transfer to theProviso.Sum for chemical investigations. Department of Agriculture not exceeding $26,440 of this sum for chemical investigations. For necessary miscellaneous expenses of division headquarters,Miscellaneous. $14,000. For compensation of one hundred and thirty clerks at divisionClerks at division headquarters. headquarters, $327,687. For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and convictionRewards for detecting law violations. of post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers, $45,000: *Provided*, That rewards may be paid, in the discretion of the*Provisos*.Death of offender. Postmaster General, when an offender of the class mentioned was killed in the act of committing the crime or in resisting lawful arrest: *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall be used to pay anyRates limited. rewards at rates in excess of those specified in Post Office Department Order 7708, dated July 1, 1922, except that not more than $2,000 may be paid, in the discretion of the Postmaster General, for the arrest and conviction of any person on the charge of robbingRobbing postal employees. a postmaster or any employee of a post office of money or property of the United States: *Provided further*, That of the amount hereinSecuring Information. appropriated not to exceed $20,000 may be expended, in the discretion of the Postmaster General, for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the postal laws and for services and information looking toward the apprehension of criminals. office of the first assistant postmaster generalFirst Assistant Postmaster General. For compensation to postmasters and for allowances for rent,Postmasters. light, fuel, and equipment to postmasters of the fourth class, $54,000,000. For compensation to assistant postmasters at first and second classAssistant postmasters. post offices, $7,400,000. For compensation to clerks and employees at first and second classClerks, etc., first and second class offices. post offices, including auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter post offices, printers, mechanics, skilled laborers, watchmen, messengers, laborers, and substitutes, $192,500,000. For compensation to clerks in charge of contract stations,Contract station clerks. $1,970,000. For separating mails at third and fourth class post offices, $500,000.Separating mails. For unusual conditions at post offices, $100,000.Unusual conditions. For allowances to third-class post offices to cover the cost of clericalClerks, third class offices. services, $8,900,000. For miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to the operationMiscellaneous, first and second class offices. and protection of post offices of the first and second classes, and the362business conducted in connection therewith, not provided for in other appropriations, $2,370,000. Village delivery.For village delivery service in towns and villages having post offices of the second or third class, and in communities adjacent to cities having city delivery, $1,625,000. Detroit River.For Detroit River postal service, $16,900. Car fare and bicycles.For car fare and bicycle allowance, including special delivery car fare, $1,375,000. City delivery carriers.Special delivery fees.Rural Delivery Service, etc., carriers.For pay of letter carriers, City Delivery Service, $130,500,000. For fees to special-delivery messengers, $9,500,000. For pay of rural carriers, auxiliary carriers, substitutes for rural carriers on annual and sick leave, clerks in charge of rural stations, and tolls and ferriage, Rural Delivery Service, and for the incidental expenses thereof, $107,550,000. Travel, etc.For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. Second Assistant Postmaster General.office of the second assistant postmaster general Star routes, except Alaska.For inland transportation by star routes (excepting service in Alaska), including temporary service to newly established offices, and not to exceed $200,000 for Government-operated star-route service, $15,100,000. Star routes, Alaska.For inland transportation by star routes in Alaska, $175,000. Steamboat, etc., routes.For inland transportation by steamboat or other powerboat routes, including ship, steamboat, and way letters, $1,500,000. Railroad routes and messenger service.*Provisos*.Freight-train conveyance.For inland transportation by railroad routes and for mail-messenger service, $128,750,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $1,500,000 of this appropriation may be expended for pay of freight and incidental charges for the transportation of mails conveyed under special Messenger service accounting.arrangement in freight trams or otherwise: *Provided further*, That separate accounts be kept of the amount expended for mail-messenger Services in the District.service: *Provided further*, That there may be expended from this appropriation for clerical and other assistance in the District of Columbia not exceeding the sum of $82,000 to carry out the provisions Vol. 39, p. 429; Vol. 43, p. 1069.[U. S. C., pp. 1269, 1286](/us/usc/p1269/p1286).of section 5 of the Act of July 28, 1916 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 562) (the space basis Act), and not exceeding the sum of $40,400 to carry out the provisions of section 214 of the Act of February 28, 1925 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 826) (cost ascertainment). Railway Mail Service.Railway Mail Service: For fifteen division superintendents, fifteen Division superintendents, etc.assistant division superintendents, two assistant superintendents at large, one assistant superintendent in charge of car construction, one hundred and twenty-one chief clerks, one hundred and twenty-one assistant chief clerks, clerks in charge of sections in the offices of division superintendents, railway postal clerks, substitute railway postal clerks, joint employees, and laborers in the Railway Mail Service, $59,000,000. Travel allowance to clerks.For travel allowance to railway postal clerks and substitute railway postal clerks, $4,300,000. Traveling expenses, etc., away from head quarters.For actual and necessary expenses, general superintendent and assistant general superintendent, division superintendent, assistant division superintendents, assistant superintendents, chief clerks, and assistant chief clerks, Railway Mail Service, and railway postal clerks, while actually traveling on business of the Post Office Department and away from their several designated headquarters, $70,000. Miscellaneous.For rent, light, heat, fuel, telegraph, miscellaneous and office expenses, telephone service, badges for railway postal clerks, for Arms for mail protection.Rent, etc., terminal offices.the purchase or rental of arms and miscellaneous items necessary for the protection of the mails, and rental of space for terminal363railway post offices for the distribution of mails when the furnishing of space for such distribution can not, under the Postal Laws and Regulations, properly be required of railroad companies without additional compensation, and for equipment and miscellaneous items necessary to terminal railway post offices, $1,600,000. For electric and cable car service, $625,000.Electric and cable cars.Foreign mails. For transportation of foreign mails by steamship, aircraft, or otherwise, including the cost of advertising in connection with the award of contracts authorized by the Merchant Marine Act of 1928Vol. 45, p. 689.[U. S. C., p. 1536; Supp. IV, p. 617](/us/usc/p1536/p617). (U. S. C., title 46, secs. 861–889 ; Supp. III, title 46, secs. 886–891x), $29,500,000, and in addition thereto any unexpended balances underBalances available. the appropriations for foreign mail transportation for the fiscal year 1930 are continued and made available: *Provided*, That not to*Provisos*.Aircraft allowance. exceed $6,600,000 of this sum may be expended for carrying foreign mail by aircraft under contracts which will not create obligations for the fiscal year 1932 in excess of $7,000,000: *Provided further*, That the Postmaster General is authorized to expend such sums asSea post service. may be necessary, not to exceed $250,000, to cover the cost to the United States for maintaining sea post service on ocean steamships conveying the mails to and from the United States and not to exceed $3,600 for the salary of the Assistant Director, Division ofAssistant Director, New York City. International Postal Service, with headquarters at New York City: *Provided further*, That not exceeding $10,000 of this appropriationPan American Postal Congress, Madrid.Expenses of delegates to. may be available for expenses of delegates designated from the Post Office Department by the Postmaster General to the Pan American Postal Congress of Madrid, including traveling expenses, subsistence or per diem in lieu thereof (notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act), entertainment, and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Postmaster General. For balances due foreign countries, $2,200,000.Balances due foreign countries.Travel, etc. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, $1,200. For the inland transportation of mail by aircraft, under contractAircraft contract, inland service. as authorized by law, and for the incidental expenses thereof, including not to exceed $35,000 for supervisory officials and clerks at airVol. 43, p. 805; Vol. 44, pp. 692, 1049. mail transfer points, and not to exceed $40,000 for personal services*Ante*, p. 259. in the District of Columbia and incidental and travel expenses, $15,000,000. For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss ofIndemnity, lost international mail. international mail in accordance with convention, treaty, or agreement stipulations, $50,000. office of the third assistant postmaster generalThird Assistant Postmaster General. For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-deliveryStamps, stamped envelopes, postal cards, etc. stamps, books of stamps, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, postal cards, and for coding of stamps, $6,000,000. For pay of agents and assistants to examine and distribute stampedDistribution agency. envelopes and newspaper wrappers, and expenses of agency, $23,750. For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of piecesIndemnity, lost domestic mail. of domestic registered matter, insured and collect-on-delivery mail, and for failure to remit collect-on-delivery charges, $1,800,000. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, officeTravel, etc. of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. office of the fourth assistant postmaster generalFourth Assistant Postmaster General. For stationery for the Postal Service, including the money-orderStationery. and registry systems; and also for the purchase of supplies for thePostal Savings System supplies. Postal Savings System, including rubber stamps, canceling devices,364certificates, envelopes and stamps for use in evidencing deposits, and free penalty envelopes; and for the reimbursement of the Secretary Bond expenses.Vol. 36, p. 917.[U. S. C., p. 1282](/us/usc/p1282).of the Treasury for expenses incident to the preparation, issue, and registration of the bonds authorized by the Act of June 25, 1910 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 760), $770,000. Miscellaneous equipment and supplies.For miscellaneous equipment and supplies, including the purchase and repair of furniture, package boxes, posts, trucks, baskets, satchels, straps, letter-box paint, baling machines, perforating machines, duplicating machines, printing presses, directories, cleaning supplies, and the manufacture, repair, and exchange of equipment, the erection Letter boxes.and painting of letter-box equipment, and for the purchase and Postmarking, etc., stamps.repair of presses and dies for use in the manufacture of letter boxes; for postmarking, rating, money-order stamps, and electrotype plates and repairs to same; metal, rubber, and combination type, dates and figures, type holders, ink pads for canceling and stamping purposes, and for the purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriting machines, envelope-opening machines, and computing machines, copying presses, numbering machines, time recorders, letter balances, scales, test weights, and miscellaneous articles purchased and furnished directly to the Postal Service, including complete equipment and furniture for post offices in leased quarters; for miscellaneous expenses in the Post-route maps.preparation and publication of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blue prints, including tracing for photolithographic reproduction; for other expenditures necessary and incidental to post offices of the first, second, and third classes, and offices of the fourth class having or to have rural-delivery service, and for letter boxes, Sale of maps.$1,580,000; and the Postmaster General may authorize the sale to the public of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blue prints at the cost or printing and 10 per centum thereof added; of this amount $1,500 may be expended in the purchase of atlases and geographical and technical works. Twine, etc.For wrapping twine and tying devices, $470,000. Shipping supplice.For expenses incident to the shipment of supplies, including hardware, boxing, packing, and not exceeding $49,750 for the pay of employees in connection therewith in the District of Columbia, $70,000. Canceling and labor saving devices, etc.*Post*, p. 1578.For rental, purchase, exchange, and repair of canceling machines and motors, mechanical mail-handling apparatus, and other labor-saving devices, including cost of power in rented buildings and miscellaneous expenses of installation and operation of same, including Traveling mechanicians.salaries of seven traveling mechanicians and for traveling expenses, $700,000. Mail bags, locks, etc.For the purchase, manufacture, and repair of mail bags and other mail containers and attachments, mail locks, keys, chains, tools, machinery, and material Equipment shops, materials, etc.necessary for same, and for incidental expenses pertaining thereto; also material, machinery, and tools necessary for the manufacture and repair in the equipment shops at Washington, District of Columbia, of such other equipment for the Labor.Postal Service as may be deemed expedient; for compensation to labor employed in the equipment shops at Washington, District of Services in the District.Columbia, $2,650,000, of which not to exceed $710.000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Distinctive equipment for departments, Alaska and island possessions.That out of this appropriation the Postmaster General is authorized to use as much of the sum, not exceeding $15,000, as may be deemed necessary for the purchase of material and the manufacture in the equipment shops of such small quantities of distinctive equipments as may be required by other executive departments; and for service in Alaska, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, or other island possessions. 365 For rent, light, and fuel for first, second, and third class postRent, light, etc., for first, second, and third class offices.Post, p. 1578.*Proviso*.Restriction on payment (or Commercial Station, Saint Paul, Minn. offices, $18,710,000: *Provided, however*, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the payment of any rents or other expenses to the Commercial Station Post Office, Incorporated, its agents, attorneys, representatives, or assigns, for use of premises known as Commercial Station, at Third and Sibley Streets, Saint Paul, Minnesota. For the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similarPneumatic tubes, New York City. devices in the city of New York, including the Borough of Brooklyn of the city of New York, including power, labor, and all other operating expenses, $530,000. For the rental of not exceeding two miles of pneumatic tubes, notBoston, Mass. including labor and power in operating the same, for the transmission of mail in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, $24,000: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Provisions applicable.Vol. 32, p. 114; Vol. 35, p. 412.[U. S. C., p. 1260](/us/usc/p1260). the provisions not inconsistent herewith of the Acts of April 21, 1902 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 423), and May 27, 1908 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 423), relating to the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similar devices shall be applicable hereto. For vehicle allowance, the hiring of drivers, the rental of vehicles,Vehicle allowance for delivery, collection, etc. and the purchase and exchange and maintenance, including stable and garage facilities, of wagons or automobiles for, and the operation of, screen-wagon and city delivery and collection service, $19,600,000: *Provided*, That the Postmaster General may, in his disbursement ofProvisos.Rental of garages. this appropriation, apply a part thereof to the leasing of quarters for the housing of Government-owned automobiles at a reasonable annual rental for a term not exceeding ten years: *Provided further*, ThatGarage at Washington, D. C. this appropriation is available for the maintenance of the Government-owned post-office garage at Washington, District of Columbia, including such changes and additions to the mechanical equipment as, in the opinion of the Postmaster General, may be necessary:Tractors and trailer trucks. *Provided further*, That the Postmaster General, during the fiscal year 1931, may purchase and maintain from the appropriation “Vehicle service” such tractors and trailer trucks as may be required in the operation of the screen-wagon and city delivery and collection service: *Provided further*, That in the disbursement of thisSums transferred to Bureau of Standards for investigations of material. appropriation the Postmaster General may transfer to the Bureau of Standards not to exceed $10,000 for scientific investigations in connection with the purchase of material, equipment, and supplies necessary in the maintenance and operation of the vehicle service. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, officeTravel, etc. of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. If the revenues of the Post Office Department shall be insufficientAppropriations from the Treasury for field service to supply deficiencies. to meet the appropriations made under Title II of this Act, a sum equal to such deficiency in the revenues of such department is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply such deficiency in the revenues of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, and the sum needed may be advanced to the Post Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster General. Sec. 2. Appropriations for the fiscal year 1931 available forTravel expenses of civilians, authorised when transferred from official stations. expenses of travel of civilian officers and employees of the executive departments and establishments shall be available also for expenses of travel performed by them on transfer from one official station to another when authorized by the head of the department or establishment concerned in the order directing such transfer: *Provided*, ThatProviso.Restriction. such expenses shall not be allowed for any transfer effected for the convenience of any officer or employee. Sec. 3. Expenditures from appropriations made herein for theLimit on motor vehicle expenditures. maintenance, upkeep, and repair, exclusive of garage rent, pay of operator, fuel and lubricants, on any one passenger-carrying vehicle 366used by the Treasury or Post Office Department shall not exceed one-third of the market price of a new vehicle of the same make or class and in any case more than $500. Approved, May 15, 1930.