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(/us/pl/72/427).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,*Uintah, etc., bands of Ute Indians, Utah. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to Pro rata payments to members of, from tribal funds.withdraw from the Treasury of the United States the total funds on deposit to the credit of the Uintah, White River, and Uncompahgre Bands of Ute Indians, arising under the provisions of the Act of Vol. 46, p. 1092.February 13, 1931 (46 Stat. 1092), including the accrued interest thereon and cause the total sum to be paid in pro rata shares to all members of the said Uintah, White River, and Uncompahgre Bands of Ute Indians who were alive and entitled to enrollment with such *Proviso*.Deposit of shares.Indians on February 13, 1931: *Provided*, That the said Secretary, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, shall cause the shares of all Indians, including minors, to be deposited as individual Indian money in banks bonded and designated as depositaries for individual Indian moneys, to remain subject to disbursement for the benefit of the Indians entitled thereto as are other individual Indian moneys under existing laws.

Sec. 2. Use of such funds. The funds when so deposited to the credit of each individual Indian shall become immediately available for the purpose of improving their lands, the erection of suitable homes, the purchasing of building material, farming equipment, livestock, feed, food, seed, grain, tools, machinery, implements, household goods, bedding, clothing, and any other equipment or supplies necessary to enable the Indians to fit themselves for or to engage in farming, livestock industry, or such other pursuits or avocations as will enable them to become self-supporting under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for their actual benefit and1489 welfare: *Provided*, That in cases of the aged, infirm, decrepit, or*Proviso*.Maintenance of aged, etc., members. incapacitated members their shares may be used for their proper maintenance and support in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior.

Sec. 3. The funds deposited to the credit of minors, under authorityInvesting funds of minors. of this Act, may be invested or expended in the same manner and for the same purposes as are herein provided for the adults: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Consent required. That where the funds of any minor are invested or expended it shall be done with the consent of the parents and the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. Sec. 4. In no event shall any of this money become liable, payable,Sums not subject to prior debts. or subject to any debt or debts contracted prior to the passage of this Act.

Approved, March 3, 1933. Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, and for other purposes. 1933-03-03 212 Chapter 47 Stat. 1489 72 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 public [CHAPTER 212.] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, and for other purposes.March 3, 1933.[[H.

R. 13520](/us/bill/72/hr/13520).][[Public, No. 428](/us/pl/72/1).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* TITLE I— TREASURY DEPARTMENT That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury Department appropriations, fiscal year 1934.Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, namely: office of the secretarySecretary’s office.

Salaries: Secretary of the Treasury, Under Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary, Under Secretary, Assistants, and office personnel.*Provisos.*Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.Vol. 42, p. 1488; Vol. 46, p. 1003.U. S. C., p. 65; Supp. VI, p. 31.three Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, and other personal office personnel services in the District of Columbia, $145,538 : *Provided,* That in limited to expending appropriations or portions of appropriations contained in average rates under this Act for the payment of personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriations unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates Exception.Not applicable to clerical - mechanical service.No reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490;

Vol. 46, p. 1005.specified for the grade by such Act, as amended: *Provided,* 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 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 Transfers to another position without reduction.position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit,

(4)to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher Higher salary rates permitted.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, or

(5)to reduce the compensation If only one position in a grade.of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated. office of chief clerk and superintendentChief clerk’s office. Salaries: For the chief clerk, who shall be the chief executive Chief clerk, and office personnel.of officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to sign official papers and documents during the tem-1490porary absence of the Secretary, Under Secretary, and Assistant Secretaries of the department, and for other personal services in the Operating force, department buildings.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, $514,285. contingent expenses, treasury department Department contingent expenses. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the bureaus and offices of the department, including Operating expenses, department buildings.Reference books, periodicals, etc.Freight, etc.operating expenses of the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Auditors’ and Liberty Loan Buildings; newspaper clippings, financial journals, law books, and other books of reference; freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service; purchase and exchange of motor trucks and one passenger automobile for the Secretary of the Treasury, and maintenance and repair of motor trucks and two passenger automobiles (one for the Secretary of the Treasury and one for general use of the department), all to be used for official purposes only; Fuel, etc.Lighting, etc.file holders and cases; fuel, oils, grease, and heating supplies and equipment; gas and electricity for lighting, heating, and power purposes, including material, fixtures, and equipment therefor; purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriters and labor-saving machines and equipment and supplies for same; floor coverings and repairs Furniture, etc.thereto; furniture and office equipment, including supplies therefor and repairs thereto; awnings, window shades, and fixtures; cleaning supplies and equipment; drafting equipment; ammonia for ice plant; flags; hand trucks, ladders; miscellaneous hardware; streetcar fares not exceeding $500; thermometers; lavatory equipment and supplies; tools and sharpening same; laundry service; laboratory supplies and equipment, removal of rubbish, postage, and other absolutely necessary articles, supplies, and equipment not otherwise *Proviso.*Other funds available.Vol. 37, p. 414.U. S.C., p. 1019.provided for, $180,000: *Provided,* That the appropriations for the Public Debt Service and Internal Revenue Service for the fiscal year 1934 are hereby made available for the payment of items otherwise properly chargeable to this appropriation, the provisions of section 6, Act of August 23, 1912 (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 669), to the contrary notwithstanding. division of supply Division of Supply.Chief, and other personal services. Salaries: For the Chief, Division of Supply, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $178,704.Printing and binding. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, including materials for the use of the bookbinder located in the Work excluded.Vol. 40, p. 1270.U. S. C., p. 1421.Treasury Department, but not including work done at the New York customhouse bindery authorized by the Joint Committee on Printing in accordance with the Act of March 1, 1919 (U. S. C., title 44, sec. 111), $575,000.Stationery. Stationery: For stationery for the Treasury Department and its 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, $325,000. 1491 general supply committeeGeneral Supply Committee.Salaries and expenses. For personal services in the District of Columbia not exceeding and $148,500; necessary expenses, including two one-ton trucks, office supplies and materials, maintenance of motor trucks, telegrams, telephone service, traveling expenses, office equipment, fuel, light, electric current, and other necessary expenses for carrying into effect regulations governing the transfer and disposition of supplies and unusable Government materials, supplies, and equipment in the District of Columbia; in all, $160,000: *Provided,* That advance payments may *Provisos.*Advance payments.be made by the heads of executive departments and independent establishments to the general supply fund authorized by the Act Vol. 45, p. 1342.U. S. C., Supp. VI, p. 765.approved February 27, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 41, sec. 7c), of all or any part of the estimated amount of their purchases through such fund during the fiscal year 1934, and so much of these advances Unused sums returned to original appropriations.are not needed to meet the cost of purchases made during the year shall be transferred from the fund back to the appropriation from which originally transferred: *Provided further,* That not to exceed Reimbursing, for inspection services.$5,000 of the general supply fund may be used during the fiscal year 1934 for the purpose of reimbursing, when necessary, other departments and establishments for services rendered in the inspection of supplies procured through the General Supply Committee during that fiscal year, the cost of such inspections to be added to the cost of the supplies when billing the requisitioning departments for them. Repairs to typewriting machines (except bookkeeping and billing Typewriter repairs.machines) in the Government service in the District of Columbia may be made at cost by the General Supply Committee, payment therefor to be effected by 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 Act shall Typewriting, etc., machines.be used during the fiscal year 1934 for the purchase of any standard typewriting machines, except bookkeeping and billing machines, at a price in excess of the following for models with carriages which Prices of standard machines established for 1934.will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches (correspondence 11 So in original. 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, $80; twelve inches, $85; fourteen inches, $87.50; eighteen inches, $95: *Provided,* That standard typewriting *Proviso.*Quiet machines.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. office of commissioner of accounts and depositsAccounts and Deposits Office. For Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits and other personal Commissioner, and office personnel.and services in the District of Columbia, $99,087. For books of reference, law books, books on finance, technical and Reference books, periodicals, etc.scientific books, newspapers, and periodicals, for expenses incurred in completing imperfect series, for library cards, supplies, and for all other necessary expenses, $1,000. 1492 division of bookkeeping and warrantsBookkeeping and Warrants Division.Chief, and office personnel. For the chief of the division, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $153,584.Contingent expenses, public moneys.R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719.U. S. C., p. 1010. Contingent expenses, public moneys: For contingent expenses under the requirements of section 3653 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 545), for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, salaries of special agents, actual expenses of examiners detailed to examine the books, Examination of depositories.R. S., sec.3649, p.718.U. S. C., p. 1010.accounts and money on hand at the several depositories, including national banks acting as depositories under the requirements of section 3649 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 548), also including examinations of cash accounts at mints and cost of insurance on shipments of money by registered mail when necessary, $130,000. public debt service Public Debt Service.Commissioner, personnel and other services. For necessary expenses connected with the administration of any public debt issues and United States paper currency issues with which the Secretary of the Treasury is charged, including the purchase Reference books, etc.of law books, directories, books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, and newspapers, and including the Commissioner of the Public Debt and other personal services in the District of Columbia, *Provisos.*Services in the District.Use of indefinite appropriation.Vol. 40, p. 292.U. S. C., p. 1027.$2,150,000: *Provided,* That the amount to be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia shall not exceed $2,125,000: *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 1934 to supplement the appropriation herein made for the current work of the Public Debt Service.Distinctive paper for securities.Quantity authorized. Distinctive paper for Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive paper for United States currency, national-bank currency, and Federal reserve bank currency, not exceeding two million pounds, including transportation of paper, traveling, mill, and other necessary expenses, and salaries of employees, and allowance, in lieu of expenses, of officer or officers detailed from the Treasury Department, not exceeding $50 per month each when actually on duty; in *Provisos.*Price limitation.all, $550,000: *Provided,* That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of such paper at a price per pound m Division of awards, Division of awards.excess of 32¼ cents: *Provided further,* That in order to foster competition in the manufacture of distinctive paper for United States securities, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized, in his discretion, to split the award for such paper for the fiscal year 1934 between the two bidders whose prices per pound are the lowest received after advertisement, but not in excess of the price fixed herein.Cumulative sinking fund.Additional authorizations.*Ante,* p. 724. Addition to cumulative sinking fund (section 308 of Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932) : To carry into effect the provisions of section 308 of the Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932, approved July 21, 1932 (47 Stat., p. 709), there is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year 1934, out of any money in the Treasury Vol. 40, p. 1311.not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes of the cumulative sinking fund provided in section 6 of the Victory Liberty Loan Act, Construction of public works.*Ante,* pp. 716, 720.as amended, in addition to amounts otherwise appropriated, a sum equal to 2½ per centum of the aggregate of the expenditures during the fiscal year 1933 from appropriations made or authorized in sections 301 and 302, Title III, of the Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932. 1493 division of appointmentsAppointments Division. Salaries: For the chief of the division, and other personal services Chief, and office personnel.in the District of Columbia, $42,570. office of disbursing clerk Salaries: For the disbursing clerk and other personal services in Disbursing clerk, and office personnel.the District of Columbia, $50,362. bureau of customsCustoms Bureau. Collecting the revenue from customs: For collecting the revenue Collecting 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, for expenses of transportation and transfer of customs receipts from points where there Transfer of receipts from points lacking Government depositories.Living quarters, allowances, etc.Vol. 46, p. 818.U. S. C., Supp. VI, p. 20.Vehicles, newspapers, etc.are no Government depositories, not to exceed $35,000 for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 5, sec. 118a), but not to exceed $720 for any one person, not to exceed $5,000 for the hire of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, not to exceed $500 for subscriptions to newspapers, and including the purchase (not to exceed $25,000), exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary for official use in field work, $19,900,000, or which such amount as may be necessary shall be available for the cost of seizure, storage and diseizures Expenses of seizures, under customs laws.position of any merchandise, vehicle and team, automobile, boat, air or water craft, or any other conveyance seized under the provisions of the customs laws, and $435,000 shall be available for personal Services in the District.Field details.Vol. 46, p. 741.services in the District of Columbia exclusive of ten persons from the field force authorized to be detailed under section 525 of the Tariff Act of 1930: *Provided,* That no part of this appropriation *Proviso.*Motor vehicle restriction.shall be expended for maintenance or repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for use in the District of Columbia except one for use in connection with the work of the customhouse in Georgetown. bureau of the budget Bureau of the Budget. Salaries and expenses: Director, Assistant Director, and all other Director, Assistant, personnel, and other expenses.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; $145,700. For printing and binding, $32,000.Printing and binding. federal farm loan bureau Federal Farm Loan Bureau. salaries and expenses For six members of the board and other personal services in the Members of board, office and field forces.District of Columbia and in the field; traveling expenses of the members of the board and its officers and employees; contingent and Contingent expenses.miscellaneous expenses, including law books, books of reference, periodicals, newspapers, and maps; contract stenographic reporting services, and expert services for the preparation of amortization tables; examination of national farm loan associations; and for the expenses of registrars’ offices, including rent and miscellaneous items; 1494Services in the District.*Proviso.*Examiners’ expenses to be assessed against land banks, etc.in all, $900,000, of which not more than $400,000 may be used for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided,* That the amount of the expenses and salaries of the employees engaged in the work of the division of examinations of the Federal Farm Loan Bureau shall be assessed in accordance with the provisions of existing law by the Federal Farm Loan Board against Federal land banks, joint-stock land banks and Federal intermediate credit banks, and the proceeds covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.Cooperation of Register’s office permitted. 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 Reimbursement for service rendered.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. office of treasurer of the united states Treasurer’s office.Treasurer, Assistant, and office personnel. Salaries: For Treasurer of the United States, Assistant Treasurer, and for other personal services in the District of Columbia $1,145,840.Redeeming Federal reserve and national currency. For personal services in the District of Columbia, in redeeming currency. Federal reserve and national currency, $332,746, to be reimbursed by the Federal reserve and national banks. office of the comptroller of the currency Office of Comptroller of the Currency. Salaries: Comptroller of the Currency and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $240,460.Federal reserve and national currency.Personal services; reimbursable. For personal services in the District of Columbia in connection with Federal reserve and national currency, $51,280, to be reimbursed by the Federal reserve and national banks. bureau of internal revenue Internal Revenue Bureau.Collecting internal revenue.Commissioner, general counsel, and office and field personnel. Collecting the internal revenue: For expenses of assessing and collecting the internal-revenue taxes, including the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, general counsel for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, 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 Outside rent.Miscellaneous.telephone service, rental of quarters outside the District of Columbia, postage, freight, express, necessary expenses incurred in making investigations in connection with the enrollment or disbarment of practitioners before the Treasury Department in internal-revenue matters, expenses of seizure and sale, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses, including stenographic reporting services, and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, furniture, mechanical devices, law books and books of reference, and such other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia, the several collection districts, and the several divisions of internal-revenue agents, Services in the District.*Provisos.*Witness fees.$30,800,000, of which amount not to exceed $8,275,000 may be 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, subpœnaed by the United States court to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary 1495examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts”: *Provided further,* That not more than $100,000 of Detection and prosecution of revenue law violations.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. Refunding taxes illegally or erroneously collected: For refunding Refunding taxes.taxes illegally or erroneously collected, as provided by law, including the payment of claims for the fiscal year 1934 and prior years, $55,000,000: *Provided,* That a report shall be made to Congress by *Proviso.*Detailed report to Congress.Vol. 45, p. 996.*Ante,* p. 219.U. S. C., Supp. VI, p. 412.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. V, title 26, sec. 149), including the names of all persons and corporations to whom such payments are made, together with the amount paid to each. bureau of industrial alcohol Industrial Alcohol Bureau. Salaries and expenses: For expenses to administer the applicable Salaries and expenses.Vol. 41, p. 305; Vol. 42, p. 222; Vol. 44, p. 1381; Vol. 46, p. 430.U.S. C., p. 853; Supp. VI, pp. 24, 596.provisions of the National Prohibition Act as amended and supplemented (U. S. C., title 27) and internal revenue laws, pursuant to the Act of March 3, 1927 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 5, secs. 281–281e), and the Act of May 27, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 27, secs. 103–108), including the employment of executive officers, attorneys, inspectors, chemists, assistant chemists, supervisors, storekeeper-gaugers, clerks, messengers, and other necessary employees in the field and in the Bureau of Industrial Alcohol in the District of Columbia, to be appointed as authorized by law; the securing of evidence of violations of the Acts; the cost of chemical analyses made by others than employees of the United States and expenses incident to such chemists testifying when necessary; the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, laboratory supplies, books, and such other expenditures as may be necessary in the several field offices; Field service.cost of acquisition and maintenance of automobiles delivered to the Secretary of the Treasury for use in administration of the law under his jurisdiction; hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled Vehicles.or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary, for official use in field work; and for rental of necessary quarters; in all, $4,000,000, of which amount not to exceed $325,000 Services in the District.may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia : *Provided,* That for purpose of concentration, upon the initiation of *Proviso.*Distilled spirits may be removed to warehouse for bottling in bond.the Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol 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 sum of bond covering distilled spirits in internal-revenue bonded warehouses and in transit between such warehouses. bureau of narcoticsNarcotics Bureau. Salaries and expenses: For expenses to enforce the Act of December Salaries and expenses.Vol. 38, p. 785; Vol. 40, p. 1130; Vol. 35, p. 614; Vol. 42, p. 596.U. S. C., pp. 635, 742, 785.Vol. 44, p. 1381; Vol. 46, p. 585.U. S. C., Supp. VI, pp. 24, 25.17, 1914 (U. S. C., title 26, sec. 211), as amended by the Revenue Act of 1918 (U. S. C., title 26, secs. 691–708), the Act approved February 9, 1909, as amended by the Act of May 26, 1922 (U. S. C., title 21, secs. 171–184), known as the Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act, pursuant to the Act of March 3, 1927 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 5, secs. 281–281e), and the Act of June 14, 1930 (U. S. C., 1496Executive officers, personnel, etc.Supp. V, title 5, secs. 282–282c), including the employment of executive officers, attorneys, agents, inspectors, chemists, supervisors, clerks, messengers, and other necessary employees in the field and in the Bureau of Narcotics in the District of Columbia, to be appointed Securing evidence of law violations.Chemical analyses.as authorized by law; the securing of evidence of violations of the Acts; the costs of chemical analyses made by others than employees of the United States; the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, books, and such other expenditures as may be necessary in the several field offices; cost incurred by officers and Seizures, etc.R. S., sec. 3460, p. 685.U. S. C., p. 846.employees of the Bureau of Narcotics in the seizure, storage, and disposition of property under the internal revenue laws when the same is disposed of under section 3460, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 26, sec. 1193); hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary for official use in field work; and for rental of necessary quarters; in all, $1,400,000, of which amount not to exceed $185,000 may be *Provisos.*Use of forfeited vehicles, etc.Vol. 43, p. 1116.U. S. C., p. 858.expended for personal services in the District of Columbia : *Provided,* That the Secretary of the Treasury may authorize the use by narcotic agents of motor vehicles confiscated under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1925 (U. S. C., title 27, sec. 43) as amended, and to pay the cost of acquisition, maintenance, repair, and operation Law observance information.thereof: *Provided further,* That not exceeding $10,000 may be expended for the collection and dissemination of information and appeal for law observance and law enforcement, including cost of printing, purchase of newspapers, and other necessary expenses in connection therewith and not exceeding $1,500 for attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Bureau of Narcotics: Credits for sums expended, etc.*Provided further,* That moneys expended from this appropriation for the purchase of narcotics and subsequently recovered shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation for enforcement of the narcotic Acts current at the time of the deposit. coast guard Coast Guard.Office personnel. Office of the commandant: For personal services in the District of Columbia, $341,000.Technical services. The services of skilled draftsmen and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Coast Guard in connection with the construction and repair of Coast Guard vessels and boats, to be paid from the appropriation “Repairs to Coast Guard vessels”: *Proviso.*Limitation, etc.*Provided,* That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1934 shall not exceed $11,100. A statement of the persons employed Report to Congress.hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the Budget.Service expenditures. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Coast Guard, including the expense of maintenance, repair, and operation of vessels forfeited to the United States and Vol. 43, p. 1116.U. S. C., p. 858.delivered to the Treasury Department under the terms of the Act approved March 3, 1925 (U. S. C., title 27, sec. 41). and the maintenance, repair, and operation of two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes in the field, as follows:Pay, etc., officers and enlisted men. For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned officers, cadets, warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, active and retired, temporary cooks, surfmen, substitute surfmen, and two civilian instructors, and not exceeding $6,000 for cash prizes for men Death allowance.Vol. 41, p. 824.U. S. C., p. 1143.for excellence in gunnery, target practice, and engineering competitions, for carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., title 34, sec. 943), rations or commutation thereof for cadets, 1497petty officers, and other enlisted men, mileage and expenses allowed by law for officers; and traveling expenses for other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, including transportation of enlisted men and applicants for enlistment, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof, expenses of recruiting for the Coast Guard, rent of rendezvous, and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen; transportation and packing allowances for baggage or household effects of commissioned officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men, $18,900,000; For fuel, lubricating oil. kerosene, and water for vessels, stations, Fuel and water.and houses of refuge, $1,825,000; For outfits, including repairs to portable equipment at shore units, Outfits, stores, etc.ship chandlery, engineers’ stores, and draft animals and their maintenance, $1,800,000; For rebuilding and repairing stations and houses of refuge, temporary Stations, houses of refuge, etc.leases, rent, and improvements of property for Coast Guard purposes, including use of additional land where necessary, $327,040; For coastal communication lines and facilities and their maintenance, Coastal communication.and communication service, $140,000; For compensation of civilian employees in the field, including Civilian field employees.clerks to district commanders, $94,910; For contingent expenses, including subsistence of shipwrecked and Contingent expenses.destitute persons succored by the Coast Guard and of prisoners while in the custody of the Coast Guard; for the recreation, amusement, Custody of prisoners.comfort, contentment, and health of the enlisted men of the Coast Guard, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding $40,000; instruments and apparatus, supplies, technical books and periodicals, services necessary to the carrying on of scientific investigation, and not exceeding $4,000 for experimental and research work; care, transportation, and burial of deceased officers and enlisted men, including those who die in Government hospitals; wharfage, towage, freight, storage, advertising, surveys, medals, labor, newspapers, and periodicals for statistical purposes, and all other necessary expenses which are not included under any other headings, $225,000; For repairs to Coast Guard vessels and boats, $2,000,000;Repairs to vessels.Life Saving Service.Retired pay for former members of.Vol. 46, p. 164.U. S. C., Supp. VI, p. 159. For retired pay for certain members of the former Life-Saving Service authorized by the Act entitled “An Act providing for retired pay for certain members of the former Life-Saving Service, equivalent to compensation granted to members of the Coast Guard.” approved April 14, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 14, sec. 178a), $120,000; Total, Coast Guard, exclusive of commandant’s office, $25,431,950. bureau of engraving and printingEngraving and Printing Bureau. For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work, Work authorized for fiscal year 1934.during the fiscal year 1934, of not exceeding 58,500,000 delivered sheets of United States currency and national-bank currency, 93,675,486 delivered sheets of internal-revenue stamps including opium orders and special-tax stamps required under the Act of December Vol. 38, p. 786.U. S. C., pp. 742, 786.17, 1914 (U. S. C., title 26, sec. 211), 2,614,769 delivered sheets of withdrawal permits, and 10,014,197 delivered sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work, as follows: For the director, two assistant directors, and other personal services Director, assistants, and office personnel.Wages.in the District of Columbia, including wages of rotary press plate printers at per diem rates and all other plate printers at piece 1498rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the Materials,etc.rates usually paid for such work; for engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials, including distinctive and nondistinctive paper, except distinctive paper for United States currency, national-bank currency and Federal reserve bank currency; equipment of, repairs to, and maintenance of buildings and grounds and Books of reference, periodicals, etc.for minor alterations to buildings; directories, technical books and periodicals, and books of reference, not exceeding $300; rent of warehouse in the District of Columbia; traveling expenses not to exceed Emergency room.$2,000; equipment, maintenance, and supplies for the emergency room for the use of all employees in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Miscellaneous.who may be taken suddenly ill or receive injury while on duty; miscellaneous expenses, including not to exceed $1,500 for articles approved by the Secretary of the Treasury as being necessary for the protection Scientific investigations by Standards Bureau.of the person of employees; for transfer to the Bureau of Standards for scientific investigations in connection with the work of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, not to exceed $15,000; and for Vehicles.the maintenance and driving of two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; $5,060,680, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.Proceeds of work to be credited to bureau. During the fiscal year 1934 all proceeds derived from work performed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, not covered and embraced in the appropriation for such bureau for such fiscal year, instead of being covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, as provided by Vol. 24, p. 227.U. S. C., p. 986.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 1934. secret service division Secret Service Division.Chief, and office personnel. Salaries: For the chief of the division and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $30,842. Suppressing counterfeiting, etc. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money and persons engaged in counterfeiting, forging, and altering United States notes, bonds, national-bank notes, Federal reserve notes, Federal reserve bank notes, and other obligations and securities of the United States and for 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; and for no other purpose whatever, except in Protection of the person of the President, etc.the performance of other duties specifically authorized by law, and 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 *Proviso.*Witness fees.the United States, $539,984: *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. White House police: Captain, lieutenant, three sergeants, and forty-three privates, at rates of pay provided by law; in all, $105,412. 1499 For uniforming and equipping the White House police, including Uniforms, equipment, etc.the purchase, issue, and repair of revolvers and the purchase and issue of ammunition and miscellaneous supplies, to be procured in such manner as the President in his discretion may determine, $3,000. public health servicePublic Health Service. Salaries, office of Surgeon General: For personal services in the Office personnel.District of Columbia, $307,890. For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for regular commissioned Pay, allowances, etc.,Surgeon General, officers, etc.medical officers, including the Surgeon General and assistant surgeons general and for other regular commissioned officers, $1,528,393. For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medical Acting assistant surgeons.officers), $325,400. For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth), Other employees.$1,017,750. For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including Freight, transportation, etc.allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. V, Vol. 46, p. 818.U. S. C., Supp. VI, p. 20.Title V, sec. 118a), not to exceed $7,635 but not to exceed $720 for any one person; 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, *Proviso.*Transporting remains of officers, etc.upon permanent change of station, $36,175: *Provided,* That funds expendable for transportation and traveling expenses may also be used for preparation for shipment and transportation to their former homes of remains of officers who die in line of duty. For maintaining the National Institute of Health, $54,775. Health.National Institute of Health.Books.Medical examinations, etc.Vol. 39, p. 885.U. S. C., p. 137. For journals and scientific books, office of Surgeon General. $500. For medical examinations, including the amount necessary for the medical inspection of aliens, as required by section 16 of the Act of February 5, 1917 (U. S. C., title 8. sec. 152), medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies, including prosthetic and orthopedic supplies to be furnished under regulations approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, for beneficiaries (other than patients of the Veterans’ Administration) of the Public Health Service and persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service under the immigration laws and regulations, including necessary personnel and reserve commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including the Services in the District.General expenses.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, the maintenance, exchange, and operation of motor trucks and passenger motor vehicles for official use in field work (including not to exceed $3,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles) and one for use in connection with the administrative work of the Public Health Service in the District of Columbia, purchase of ambulances, transportation, care, maintenance, and treatment of lepers, including Lepers, transportation, care, etc.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 care and treatment of the insane, and reasonable burial expenses (not exceed-Insane, etc.1500*Provisos.*Use of Ellis Island hospitals.ing $100 for any patient dying in hospital), $5,600,000: *Provided,*That the Immigration Service shall permit the Public Health Service to use the hospitals at Ellis Island Immigration Station for the care of Public Health Service patients free of expense for physical upkeep, but with a charge of actual cost of fuel, light, water, telephone, and similar supplies and services, to be covered into the proper Immigration Service appropriations; and money collected by 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 Uses forbidden.miscellaneous receipts: *Provided further,* That no part of this sum shall be used for the quarantine service, the prevention of epidemics, or scientific work of the character provided for under the appropriations which follow.Disposal of receipts. All sums received by the Public Health Service during the fiscal year 1934, except allotments and reimbursements on account of patients of the Veterans’ Administration, allotments and reimbursements on account of medical and other services to the Federal penal and correctional institutions of the Department of Justice, under Vol. 46, p. 273.U. S. C., Supp. VI, p. 249.Vol. 45, pp. 1087, 1088.U. S. C., Supp. VI, pp. 358, 359.the provisions of the Act approved May 13, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 18, secs. 751, 752), and amounts received under the provisions loss of sections 9 and 12 of the Act approved January 19, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. V. title 21, secs. 229, 232), shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.Quarantine service. Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, 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 for official use in field work and not to exceed $3,500 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $475,000.Prevention of epidemics. Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case only of threatened or actual epidemic of infectious or contagious disease, to aid State and local boards or otherwise in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, $333,650, including the purchase of newspapers and clippings from newspapers containing information relating to the prevalence of disease and the public health.Field investigations. Field investigations: For investigations of diseases of man and 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 tor official use in field work, and not to exceed $2,250 for the purchase and exchange of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $353,564.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, $38,454.Rural sanitation. Rural sanitation: For special studies of, and demonstration work in, rural sanitation, including personal services, and including the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying *Proviso.*Local contribution required.vehicles for official use in field work. $150,000: *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 of the expenses of such demonstration work. 1501 Biologic products: To regulate the propagation and sale of viruses, Biologic products.Regulating sale of viruses, etc.serums, toxins, and analogous products, including arsphenamine, and for the preparation of curative and diagnostic biologic products, including personal services of reserve commissioned officers and other personnel, $43,900. For the maintenance and expenses of the Division of Venereal Venereal Diseases Division.Maintenance, etc.Vol. 40, p. 886.U. S. C., p. 1315.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, $75,000, of which amount not to exceed $20,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Division of Mental Hygiene: For expenses incident to carrying Mental Hygiene Division.Vol. 46, pp. 585, 819; Vol. 45, p. 1086.U. S. C., Supp. VI, pp. 357, 358.out the provisions of the Act approved June 14, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 21, secs. 196–198), and of the Act approved January 19, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 21, sec. 225), including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, and the packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of the personal effects of the personnel of the Public Health Service upon permanent change of station; and including field studies and investigations incident to the establishment Narcotic farms.of narcotic farms; personal services of reserve commissioned officers and pharmacists; scientific and educational supplies; law books, books of reference, newspapers, and periodicals in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and the furnishing and laundering of uniforms to employees whose duties make necessary the wearing of the same, including white duck coats, trousers, smocks, aprons, caps, and insignia or other devices for identification purposes, $44,377. Educational exhibits: For the preparation of public-health Educational exhibits.For preventing spread of diseases.exhibits designed to demonstrate the cause, prevalence, methods of spread or diseases, spread, and measures for preventing diseases dangerous to the public health, including personal services and the cost of acquiring, transporting, and displaying exhibit material, $1,500. Bureau of the MintBureau of the Mint. office of director of the mint Salaries: For the Director of the Mint and other personal services Director, and office personnel.in the District of Columbia, $34,742. For transportation of bullion and coin, by registered mail or Transporting bullion and coin.otherwise, between mints and assay offices, $6,000. For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be Contingent expenses.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, $700. For examination of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purpose Examinations, etc.of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations and for the collection of statistics relative to the annual production and consumption of the precious metals in the United States, $5,400. mints and assay officesMints and assay offices. For compensation of officers and employees of the mints at Philadelphia, Employees, and other designated expenses.Pennsylvania, San Francisco, California, Denver, Colorado, and New Orleans, Louisiana, and assay offices at New York, New York, and Seattle, Washington, and for incidental and contingent expenses, including traveling expenses, new machinery, and repairs, cases and enameling for medals manufactured, net 1502wastage 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, $1,250,000. office of supervising architect Supervising Architect’s office. public buildings, construction and rent Public buildings.Construction, etc., of projects authorized.Vol. 44, pp. 632, 633; Vol. 45, p. 137; Vol. 46, p. 1164.U. S. C., Supp. VI, p. 757. For commencement, continuation, or completion of construction in connection with any or all projects authorized under the provisions sections 3 and 5 of the Public Buildings Act, approved May 25, 1926 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 40, secs. 343–345), and the Acts amendatory thereof approved February 24, 1928 (U. 8. C., Supp. V, title 40, sec. 345) and March 31, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. IV, title 40, secs. 341- 349), within the respective limits of cost fixed for such projects, *Proviso.*Coast Guard, etc., buildings.Work discontinued.Vol. 46, p. 1605.$50,000,000: *Provided,* That no part of this appropriation shall be used for work on the building for the Coast Guard or some other Government activity (Apex Building), authorized by Act of March 4, 1931 (46 Stat., p. 1605).Lexington, Ky., narcotic farm.Washington, D. C.National Institute of Health Building.Post Office Building. Lexington, Kentucky, Narcotic Farm: For continuation, $1,300,000. National Institute of Health Building, Washington, District of Columbia : For continuation, $400,000. Washington, District of Columbia, Post-Office Building: For continuation of extension, $600,000.Central heating plant.Extension to Pan American Union Buildings, and Red Cross Building.Vol. 46, p. 1604.*Proviso.*Reimbursement. Washington, District of Columbia, central heating plant: The Extension to Pan authorization contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1931, approved March 4, 1931, is hereby amended so as to include the Pan American Union Buildings, old and new, and the American Red Cross Building: *Provided,* That the Pan American Union and the American Red Cross agree

(a)to reimburse the United States for the cost of connecting such buildings with the Government mains, and

(b)to pay for heat furnished at such rates, not less than cost, as may be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury.Temporary quarters, etc. Rent of temporary quarters: For rent of temporary quarters and 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, $900,000. public buildings, repairs, equipment, and general expenses Repairs, equipment, etc.Buildings under Treasury Department. Repairs and preservation: For repairs and preservation of all completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, and for wire partitions and fly screens therefor; 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 *Provisos.*Marine hospitals, quarantine stations, etc.15 per centum of the annual rental of such buildings: *Provided,* That of the sum herein appropriated not exceeding $200,000 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 1503fly screens for same), and not exceeding $24,000 for the Treasury, Treasury buildings. Treasury Annex, Liberty Loan, and Auditors’ Buildings in the District of Columbia: *Provided further,* That this sum shall not be Personal services restriction.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, $850,000. Mechanical equipment: For installation and repair of mechanical Mechanical equipment.equipment in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including heating, hoisting, Heating, lighting, etc.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, platform scales, 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,* *Provisos.*Marine hospitals, quarantine stations, etc.That of the sum herein appropriated, not exceeding $125,000 may be used for the installation and repair of mechanical equipment in marine hospitals, the national leprosarium, and quarantine stations (including Marcus Hook), and not exceeding $38,000 for the Treasury, Treasury buildings, D. C.Treasury Annex, Liberty Loan, and Auditors’ Buildings in the District of Columbia, but not including the generating plant and its maintenance in the Auditors’ Building, and not exceeding $10,000 for changes in, maintenance of, and repairs to the pneumatic-tube systems Pneumatic tubes, New York City.Vol. 36, p. 120; Vol. 45, p. 533.in New York City installed under franchise of the city of New York approved June 29, 1909, and June 11, 1928, and the payment of any obligations arising thereunder, in accordance with the authority of the Acts approved August 5, 1909 (36 Stat., p. 120), and May 15, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 533), authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to Contracts.enter into contracts with the city of New York to abide by the terms, conditions, and requirements of said franchises: *Provided further,* Personal service restriction.That this sum shall not be available for the payment of personal services except for work done by contract, or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $700,000. Vaults and safes: For vaults and lock-box equipments and repairs Vaults and safes.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, $490,000. General expenses: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to execute General expenses.and give effect to the provisions of section 6 of the Act of May Vol. 35, p. 537.U. S. C., p. 1020.Technical, etc., services.Superintendence, etc.30, 1908 (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 683): For salaries of architectural, engineering, and technical personnel and inspectors in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, not otherwise provided for, not exceeding $2,521,225; 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 Treasury Department; for the transportation Transporting effects, etc.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, 1504together with the necessary expense incident to packing and draying the same, not to exceed in any one year a total expenditure of $10,000; Office rent, field supplies, etc.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: *Provisos.*Transporting operating supplies excluded.*Provided,* 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 and journals; not to exceed $72,000 for the rental of additional quarters in the District of Columbia for the Office of the Supervising Architect Other contingencies.Salamanca, N. Y.and incidental expenses in connection 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 Objects excluded.deem necessary and specially order or approve, but not including heat, light, janitor service, awnings, 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, $3,043,525, of which amount not to exceed $1,283,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.Outside professional services.Vol. 44, p. 631; Vol. 46, p. 137.U. S. C., Supp. VI, p. 758. Outside professional services: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain outside professional and/or technical services, as provided by the Public Buildings Act approved May 25, 1926 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 40, sec. 342), and by the Act approved March 31, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 137), and to pay reasonable compensation for such services, and to employ appraisers, when necessary, by contract or otherwise, $1,900,000, to remain available until expended. public buildings, operating expenses Operating expenses.Operating force.Personal services. Operating force: For such personal services as the Secretary of 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 Assistant custodians, etc.with the grounds thereof and the equipment and furnishings therein, including inspectors of buildings, repairs and equipment, 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, 1505machinists, and painters, but in no case shall the rates of compensation for such mechanical labor force be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services are employed, $12,320,000: *Provided,* That the foregoing appropriations shall be available *Proviso.*Availability.for use in connection with all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including the post office and its annex at North Capitol Street and Massachusetts Avenue 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, and Furniture, 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, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and buildings constructed for other executive departments or establishments of the Government, $4,500,000: *Provided,* That the *Provisos.*Personal services restriction.foregoing appropriation shall not be used for personal services except for work done under contract or for temporary job labor under exigency and not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building: *Provided further,* That all furniture now owned Use of present furniture.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: For fuel, steam, gas for lighting and heating Operating supplies.Fuel, light, power, etc.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, 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 post office and its annex Washington city post office, etc.Buildings excluded.at North Capitol Street and Massachusetts Avenue and the custom-house in the District of Columbia, but excluding any other public building under the control of the Treasury Department within the District of Columbia, and excluding also marine hospitals and quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building), $4,200,000. The appropriation made herein for Gas governors, etc.gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury in writing: *Provided,* That rentals *Provisos.*Rentals thereof.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 1506determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall Contracts for joint telephone switchboards.direct: *Provided further,* 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.U. S. C., p. 1305. 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, $500.Supervising Architect’s office.Personal services. Office of Supervising Architect.—Salaries: For the Supervising Architect, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $715,000. miscellaneous items, treasury department Miscellaneous items. american printing house for the blind American Printing House for the Blind, expenses.Vol. 44, p. 1060.U. S. C., Supp. VI, p. 350. To enable the American Printing House for the Blind more adequately 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. V, title 20, sec. 101), $65,000. TITLE II— POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT Post Office Department.Appropriations for fiscal year, 1934.Vol. 5, p. 80.U. S. C., pp. 49, 1283. The following sums are appropriated in conformity with the Act 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, 1934, namely: post office department, washington, district of ColumbiaDepartment expenses. office of the postmaster general Postmaster General’s office.Postmaster General, and office personnel. Salaries: For the Postmaster General and other personal services in the office of the Postmaster General in the District of Columbia, $214,463. post office department buildingsDepartment buildings.Personal services. For personal services in the District of Columbia for the care, maintenance, and protection of the main Post Office Department Building and the mail equipment shops building, $176,360. salaries in bureaus and offices Department bureaus and offices.Allotments specified. For personal services in the District of Columbia in bureaus and offices of the Post Office Department in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, $471,000. Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, $394,275. Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, $725,532, of which amount $23,040 shall be available only for temporary employees. Office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $328,638. Office of the Solicitor for the Post Office Department, $68,750. 1507 Office of the chief inspector, $188,045. Office of the purchasing agent, $35,411. Bureau of Accounts, $87,083, of which amount $45,000 shall be Accounts Bureau, temporary employees, civil-service records.Vol. 46, p. 476.U. S. C., Supp. VI, p. 44.available only for temporary employees to carry out the provisions of section 15 of the Act of May 29, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 5. sec. 702a), for the maintenance of individual records of civil-service retirement and disability fund deductions so far as they relate to employees of the Postal Service. Contingent Expenses, Post Office DepartmentDepartment contingent expenses. For stationery and blank books, index and guide cards, folders, Stationery, etc.and binding devices, including purchase of free penalty envelopes, $15,000. 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, $37,500. For telegraphing, $6,000.Telegraphing. For miscellaneous items, including purchase, exchange, maintenance, Miscellaneous.and repair of typewriters, adding machines, and other laborsaving devices; maintenance of motor trucks and of two motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes (one tor the Postmaster General and one for the general use of the department); street-car fares not exceeding $540; plumbing; repairs to department buildings; floor coverings; postage stamps for Postage.Vol. 44, pp. 2243, 2245.correspondence addressed abroad, which is not exempt under article 47 of the London convention of the Universal Postal Union, $43,500; and of such sum of $43,500, not exceeding $14,500 may be expended for telephone service, not exceeding $1,800 may be expended for purchase and exchange of law books, books of reference, railway guides, city directories, and books necessary to conduct the business of the department, and not exceeding $2,000 may be expended for expenses, except membership fees, of attendance at meetings or Attendance at meetings.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. For furniture and filing cabinets, $5,000.Furniture, etc. For printing and binding for the Post Office Department, including Printing and binding.all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $950,000. Appropriations hereinafter made for the field service of the Post Field service appropriations not to be used for department.Office Department, except as otherwise provided, shall not be expended for any of the purposes hereinbefore provided for on account of the Post Office Department in the District of Columbia: *Provided,* That the actual and necessary expenses of officials and *Provisos.*Travel expenses, payable from service appropriations.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 1934 of the character heretofore used for such purposes shall be available therefor: *Provided further,* That appropriations hereinafter made, except Use in examining field estimates.such as are exclusively for payment of compensation, shall be immediately available for expenses in connection with the examination of estimates for appropriations in the field including per diem allowances in lieu of actual expenses of subsistence. 1508 Field Service, Post Office DepartmentField service. office of the postmaster generalPostmaster General.Equipment shops building. For gas, electric power, and light, and the repair of machinery, United States Post Office Department equipment shops building, $4,500. Cash rewards to employees for inventions 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 for *Provisos.*Additional to regular pay.Sums limited.that purpose the sum of $1,500 is hereby appropriated: *Provided,*That the sums so paid to employees in accordance with this Act shall be in addition to their usual compensation: *Provided further,* That the total amount paid under the provisions of this Act shall not exceed $1,000 in any month or for any one invention or suggestion: Agreement for Government use required.*Provided further,* 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 Appropriation restricted.heirs, or assigns: *Provided further,* That this appropriation shall be available for no other purpose.Shipment of supplies, 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, $350,000.Travel, etc. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office of the Postmaster General, $1,000.Damage claims.Vol. 42, p. 63.U. S. C., p. 50. To enable the Postmaster General to pay claims for damages, occurring during the fiscal year 1934, or in prior fiscal years, to persons or property in accordance with the provisions of the deficiency Appropriation Act approved June 16, 1921 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 392), $18,000.Inspectors. Office of chief inspector: For salaries of fifteen inspectors in charge of divisions and five hundred and twenty-five inspectors, $1,878,750.Traveling expenses, investigations, etc. For traveling expenses of inspectors, inspectors in charge, the 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, *Proviso.*Allotment for chemical, etc., investigations.$475,000: *Provided,* That not exceeding $24,500 of this sum shall be available for transfer by the Postmaster General to other departments and independent establishments for chemical and other investigations.Miscellaneous. For necessary miscellaneous expenses of division headquarters, $14,000.Clerks at division headquarters. For compensation of one hundred and thirty clerks at division headquarters, $300,700.Rewards for detecting law violations.*Provisos.*Death of offender. For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction of post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers, $45,000: *Provided,* That rewards may be paid, in the discretion of the Postmaster General, when an offender of the class mentioned was killed in the act of committing the crime or in resisting lawful arrest: 1509*Provided further,* That no part of this sum shall be used to pay any Rates.rewards at rates in excess of those specified in Post Office Department Order 9955, dated February 28, 1930: *Provided further,* That Securing information.of the amount herein appropriated not to exceed $20,000 may be expended, in the discretion of the Postmaster General, for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the postal laws and for services and information looking 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, etc.light, fuel, and equipment to postmasters of the fourth class, $46,000,000. For compensation to assistant postmasters at first and second class Assistant postmasters.post offices, $6,200,000. For compensation to clerks and employees at first and second class Clerks, 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, $161,000,000. For compensation to clerks in charge of contract stations, Contract station clerks.$1,800,000. For separating mails at third and fourth class post offices, $450,000.Separating mails. For unusual conditions at post offices, $50,000.Unusual conditions. For allowances to third-class post offices to cover the cost of clerical Clerks, third-class offices.services, $8,000,000. For miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to the operation Miscellaneous, first and second class offices.and protection of post offices of the first and second classes, and the business conducted in connection therewith, not provided for in other appropriations, $2,000,000. For village delivery service in towns and villages having post Village delivery.offices of the second or third class, and in communities adjacent to cities having city delivery, $1,400,000. For Detroit River postal service, $15,995.Detroit River service. For car fare and bicycle allowance, including special-delivery car Car fare and bicycle allowance.fare, $1,250,000. For pay of letter carriers, City Delivery Service, $113,000,000.City delivery, carriers.Special delivery, fees.Rural Delivery Service. For fees to special-delivery messengers, $7,450,000. 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, $95,000,000. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office Travel, etc.of the First Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. office of the second assistant postmaster general Second Assistant Postmaster General. For inland transportation by star routes (excepting service in Star routes, except Alaska.Alaska), including temporary service to newly established offices, and not to exceed $200,000 for Government-operated star-route service, $14,000,000. For inland transportation by star routes in Alaska, $135,000.Star routes, Alaska.Steamboat, etc., routes. For inland transportation by steamboat or other power-boat routes, including ship, steamboat, and way letters, $1,350,000. For inland transportation by railroad routes and for mail messenger Railroad routes and messenger service.*Provisos.*Freight train conveyance.service, $100,000,000: *Provided,* That not to exceed $1,500,000 of this appropriation may be expended for pay of freight and incidental charges for the transportation of mails conveyed under special arrangement in freight trains or otherwise: *Provided further,* That Accounting, messenger service.separate accounts be kept of the amount expended for mail messenger 1510Services in the District.Vol. 39, p. 429; Vol. 43, p. 1069.U. S. C., pp. 1269, 1286.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 $75,750 to carry out the provisions of section 5 of the Act of July 28, 1916 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 562) (the space basis Act), and not exceeding the sum of $37,250 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.Division superintendents. Railway Mail Service: For fifteen division superintendents, fifteen 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, $51,000,000.Travel allowance to clerks. For travel allowance to railway postal clerks and substitute railway postal clerks, $2,466,667.Expenses, away from headquarters. For actual and necessary expenses, general superintendent and assistant general superintendent, division superintendents, 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, $60,000.Miscellaneous. For rent, light, heat, fuel, telegraph, miscellaneous and office expenses, telephone service, badges tor railway postal clerks, for the Arms for mail protection.Rent, etc., terminal offices.purchase or rental of arms and miscellaneous items necessary for the protection of the mails, and rental of space for terminal railway 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, $975,000.Electric and cable car service.Foreign mails.Vol. 41, p. 988; Vol. 45, p. 689.U. S. C., p. 1537; Supp. VI, p. 818. For electric and cable car service, $450,000. 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 1928 (U. S. C., title 46, secs. 861–889; Supp. V, title 46, secs. 886–891x), *Provisos.* Payment to the Seatrain Company forbidden. Aircraft allowance; contract restrictions.$35,500,000: *Provided,* That no part of the money herein appropriated shall be paid on contract numbered 56 to the Seatrain Company: *Provided further,* That not to exceed $7,000,000 of this sum may be expended for carrying foreign mail by aircraft under contracts which will not create obligations for the fiscal year 1935 in excess of Sea post service.$7,000,000: *Provided further,* That the Postmaster General is authorized to expend such sums as may be necessary, not to exceed $250,000, to cover the cost to the United States for maintaining sea-post service on ocean steamships conveying the mails to and from the Assistant Director, International Postal Service Division.United States including the salary of the Assistant Director, Division of International Postal Service, with headquarters at New York City.Balances due foreign countries.Travel, etc. For balances due foreign countries, $1,000,000. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, $1,200.Aircraft contract, inland service. For the inland transportation of mail by aircraft, under contract as authorized by law, and for the incidental expenses thereof, including not to exceed $27,500 for supervisory officials and clerks at air mail transfer points, and not to exceed $34,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia and incidental and travel expenses, $15,000,000. 1511 For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of international Indemnity, lost international mail.mail in accordance with convention, treaty, or agreement stipulations, $15,000. office of the third assistant postmaster general Third Assistant Postmaster General. For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-delivery Stamps, stamped envelopes, postal cards, etc.stamps, books of stamps, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, postal cards, and for coiling of stamps, $4,900,000. For pay of agent and assistants to examine and distribute stamped Distributing agency.envelopes and newspaper wrappers, and expenses of agency, $21,775. For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of pieces Indemnity, lost domestic mail.of domestic registered matter, insured and collect-on-delivery mail, and for failure to remit collect-on-delivery charges, $700,000. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office Travel, etc.of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. office of the fourth assistant postmaster general Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. For stationery for the Postal Service, including the money-order Stationery, etc.and registry systems; and also for the purchase of supplies for the Postal Savings System, including rubber stamps, canceling devices, Postal Savings System, supplies.certificates, envelopes and stamps for use in evidencing deposits, and free penalty envelopes; and for the reimbursement of the Secretary of the Treasury for expenses incident to the preparation, issue, and Bond expenses.Vol. 36; p. 917.U. S. C., p. 1282.registration of the bonds authorized by the Act of June 25, 1910 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 760), $575,000. For miscellaneous equipment and supplies, including the purchase Miscellaneous equipment and supplies.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 repair of presses and dies for use in the manufacture of letter boxes; for postmarking, rating, money-order stamps, and electrotype Postmarking, etc., stamps.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 (exclusive of dormant or built-in platform scales in Federal buildings), 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 preparation and publication of post-route maps and rural delivery maps or blue prints, including Post-route maps.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, $1,200,000; and the Postmaster General may authorize the sale to the public of post-route maps and rural Sale of maps.delivery maps or blue prints at the cost of printing and 10 per centum thereof added; of this amount $1,500 may be expended in the purchase of atlases and geographical and technical works: *Provided,* That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for *Proviso.*Furniture, etc., third-class offices.the purchase of furniture and complete equipment for third-class post offices except miscellaneous equipment of the general character furnished such offices during the fiscal year 1931. For wrapping twine and tying devices, $310,000.Twine, etc. 1512Shipping supplies. For expenses incident to the shipment of supplies, including hardware, boxing, packing, and not exceeding $40,000 for the pay of employees in connection therewith in the District of Columbia, $50,000.Canceling and labor saving devices, etc. For rental, purchase, exchange, and repair of canceling machines and motors, mechanical mail-handling apparatus, and other laborsaving devices, including cost of power in rented buildings and miscellaneous Traveling mechanicians, etc.expenses of installation and operation of same, including salaries of seven traveling mechanicians and thirty-nine scale mechanicians, and for traveling expenses, $500,000.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 necessary for same, and for incidental expenses pertaining thereto; also material, machinery, and tools Equipment shops, materials, etc.necessary for the manufacture and repair in the equipment shops at Washington, District of Columbia, of such other equipment for the Postal Service as may be deemed expedient; for compensation to labor employed in the equipment shops at Washington, District of Services in the District.*Proviso.*Distinctive equipment for departments Alaska, and island possessions.Columbia, $900,000, of which not to exceed $550,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia : *Provided,* That out of this appropriation the Postmaster General is authorized to use as much of the sum, not exceeding $15,000, as may be deemed necessary for the purchase of material and the manufacture in the equipment shops of such small quantities of distinctive equipments as may be required by other executive departments; and for service in Alaska, Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, or other island possessions.Rent, light, etc., for first, second, and thin class offices. For rent, light, fuel, and water, for first, second, and third class post offices, and the cost of advertising for lease proposals for such offices, $16,000,000.Pneumatic tubes New York City. For the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similar devices in the city of New York, including the Borough of Brooklyn of the city of New York, at an annual rate not in excess of $19,500 per mile of double line of tubes, including power, labor, and all other operating expenses, $524,000.Boston, Mass. For the rental of not exceeding two miles of pneumatic tubes, not including labor and power in operating the same, for the transmission *Proviso.*Provisions applicable.Vol. 32, p. 114; Vol. 35 p. 412.U. S. C., p. 1260.of mail in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, $24,000: *Provided,* That the provisions not inconsistent herewith of the Acts of April 21, 1902 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 423), and May 27, 1908 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 423), relating to the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similar devices shall be applicable hereto.Vehicle allowance for delivery, collection, etc. For vehicle service; the hire of vehicles; the rental of garage facilities; the purchase, exchange, and maintenance of motor vehicles; the hire of supervisors, clerical assistance, mechanics, drivers, garagemen, and such other employees as may be necessary in providing vehicles and vehicle service for use in the collection, transportation, *Provisos.*Garage rental.and delivery of the mail, $14,918,734: *Provided,* That the Postmaster General may, in his disbursement of this appropriation, apply a part thereof to the leasing of quarters for the housing of Government-owned motor vehicles at a reasonable annual rental for Tractors and trailer trucks.a term not exceeding ten years: *Provided further,* That the Postmaster General, during the fiscal year 1934, may purchase and maintain from the appropriation “Vehicle service” such tractors and trailer trucks as may be required in the operation of the vehicle Restriction.service: *Provided further,* That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for maintenance or repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for use in connection with the administrative work of the Post Office Department in the District of Columbia. 1513 For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office Travel, etc.of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $4,000. In the disbursement of appropriations contained in this Act for Sums transferred to Standards Bureau for investigations of materials.for the field service of the Post Office Department the Postmaster General may transfer to the Bureau of Standards not to exceed $20,000 for scientific investigations in connection with the purchase of materials, equipment, and supplies necessary in the maintenance and operation of the Postal Service. If the revenues of the Post Office Department shall be insufficient Appropriations from 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, 1934, 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 1934 available for Appropriations for travel expenses, fiscal year 1934.Availability.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 *Proviso.*Transfers for convenience of officers.concerned in the order directing such transfer : *Provided,* That such expenses shall not be allowed for any transfer effected for the convenience of any officer or employee. Sec. 3. No appropriation available for the executive departments Restrictions on expenditure.and independent establishments of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, whether contained in this Act or any other Act, shall be expended—

(a)To purchase any motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle Cost limit of automobiles.(exclusive of busses, ambulances, and station wagons), at a cost, completely equipped for operation, and including the value of any vehicle exchanged, in excess of $750, unless otherwise specifically provided for in the appropriation.

(b)For the maintenance, operation, and repair of any Government-owned Maintenance, etc., not used for official purposes, exclusively.“Official purposes” what not to include.motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle not used exclusively for official purposes; and “official purposes” shall not include the transportation of officers and employees between their domiciles and places of employment, except in cases of medical officers on outpatient medical services and except in cases of officers and employees engaged in field work the character of whose duties makes such transportation necessary and then only as to such latter cases when the same is approved by the head of the department or establishment concerned. The limitations of this subsection

(b)shall not apply Limitations not applicable.to any motor vehicles for official use of the President, or of the heads of the executive departments.

(c)For the maintenance, upkeep, and repair (exclusive of garage Cost limitation of maintenance, etc.rent, pay of operators, tires, fuel, and lubricants) on any one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, except busses and ambulances, in excess of one-third of the market price of a new vehicle of the same make and class and in no case in excess of $400. Sec. 4.

(a)The provisions of the following sections of Part II of Economy Act.*Ante,* p. 399.Sections continued in effect.Vol. 48, p. 13.the Legislative Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1933, are hereby continued in full force and effect during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, namely, sections 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107 (except paragraph

(5)of subsection

(a)thereof), 108, 109, 112, 201, 203, 205, 206 (except subsection

(a)thereof), 211, 214, 216, 304, 315, 317, 318, and 323, and, for the purpose of continuing such sections, in the application of such sections with respect to the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, the figures “1933” shall be read as “1934” ; the figures “1934” 1514as “1935”; and the figures “1935” as “1936”; and, in the case of sections 102 and 203, the figures “1932” shall be read as “1933”; except that in the application of such sections with respect to the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934 (but not with respect to the fiscal Amendments.Special delivery messengers, Postal Service, not included.*Ante,* p. 400.year ending June 30, 1933), the following amendments shall apply:

(1)Section 104

(a)is amended by striking out. the period at the end thereof and inserting a semicolon and the following: “and

(12)special delivery messengers in the Postal Service.”; and section 105

(2)is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: Sum not included in calculation of compensation rate.“special delivery messengers in the Postal Service, but in the case of such messengers, the sum of $400 shall not be included in the calculation of the rate of their compensation for the purposes of this title;”. Retired pay reductions.Judges, exemptions.*Ante,* p. 401.

(2)Section 106 is amended by striking out “except judges whose compensation may not, under the Constitution, be diminished during their continuance in office” and inserting in lieu thereof “except judges, whose compensation, prior to retirement or resignation, could not, under the Constitution, have been diminished”. Furlough of Government employees during fiscal year, 1934.*Ante,* p. 407.Period limited.

(3)Section 216 is amended by striking out the period at the end thereof and inserting in lieu thereof a colon and the following: *“Provided further,* That no employee under the classified civil service shall be furloughed under the provisions of this section for a total of more than ninety days during the fiscal year 1934, except after full and complete compliance with all the provisions of the civil service laws and regulations relating to reductions in personnel.” Transfer of appropriations.*Ante,* p. 411.Prohibited when for “public works.”

(4)Section 317 is amended by striking out the period at the end thereof and inserting in lieu thereof a colon and the following: “*Provided further,* That no part of any appropriation for ‘public works’, nor any part of any allotment or portion available for ‘public works’ under any appropriation, shall be transferred pursuant to the authority of this section to any appropriation for expenditure for personnel unless such personnel is required upon or in connection ‘Public works’ construed.with ‘public works’. ‘Public works’ as used in this section shall comprise all projects falling in the general classes enumerated in Budget Statement Numbered 9, pages A177 to A182, inclusive, of the Budget for the fiscal year 1934, and shall also include the procurement of new airplanes and the construction of vessels under appropriations When interpretation conclusive.for ‘Increase of the Navy.’ The interpretation by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, or by the President in the cases of the War Department and the Navy Department, of ‘public works’, as defined and designated herein, shall be conclusive.” “Compensation” includes retired, etc., pay of Army, etc., enlisted personnel.Compensation reductions.*Ante,* pp. 400, 401.

(5)Section 104

(b)and section 106 are amended by striking out “(except enlisted)”; section 104

(b)is amended by striking out “does not include the active or retired pay of the enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard; and”; and section 105

(d)is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: Army, etc., enlisted personnel. " “(8) The enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard.” " Suspension of inconsistent Acts.

(b)All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions of such sections, as amended, are hereby suspended during the period in which such sections, as amended, are in effect. Jurisdiction in suits.

(c)No court of the United States shall have jurisdiction of any suit against the United States or (unless brought by the United States) against any officer, agency, or instrumentality of the United *Ante,* pp. 399–403.States arising out of the application, as provided in this section, of such sections 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, or 112, as amended, unless such suit involves the Constitution of the United States. 1515

(d)The appropriations or portions of appropriations unexpended Impounding of unexpended balances.by reason or the operation of the amendments made in subsection

(a)of this section shall not be used for any purpose, but shall be impounded and returned to the Treasury.

(e)Each permanent specific annual appropriation available during Reduction of annual appropriations.the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, is hereby reduced for that fiscal year by such estimated amount as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget may determine will be equivalent to the savings that will be effected in such appropriation by reason of the application of this section and section 7. Sec. 5. Effective the first day of the month next following the Limitation on reduction of annual compensation.*Ante,* p. 399.passage of this Act, in the application of Title I of Part II of the Legislative Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1933, and section 4 of this Act, in any case where the annual rate of compensation of any position is in excess of $1,000, the provisions reducing compensation shall not operate to reduce the total amount paid for any month to any incumbent of any such position unless the total amount earned by such incumbent in such month exceeds $83.33: *Provided,* That any *Provisos.*Average to be maintained.such reduction made in any case where the total amount earned by any such incumbent in any month exceeds $83.33 shall not operate to reduce the total amount to be paid to such incumbent for such month to less than $83.33. Sec. 6.

(a)Sections 103 and 215 of the Legislative Appropriation Annual leave provisions.Act, fiscal year 1933, shall be held applicable to the officers and employees of The Panama Canal and Panama Railroad Company on the Isthmus of Panama, and to officers and employees of the United States (including enlisted personnel) holding official station outside the continental United States, only to the extent of depriving each of them of one month’s leave of absence with pay during each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 1933, and June 30, 1934.

(b)During the fiscal year 1934, deductions on account of legislative Deductions, legislative furlough.furlough shall be made" each month from the compensation of each officer or employee subject to the furlough provisions of Title I of Part II of the Legislative Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1933, as *Ante,* p. 399.continued by section 4

(a)of this Act, at the rate of 8⅓ per centum per month regardless of the number of days of such furlough actually taken by any such officer or employee in any month. Sec. 7. No administrative promotions in the civil branch of the Administrative promotions.United States Government or the government of the District of Columbia shall be made during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934: *Provided,* That the filling of a vacancy, when authorized by the *Provisos.*Filling vacancy, not so construed.President, by the appointment of an employee of a lower grade, shall not be construed as an administrative promotion, but no such appointment shall increase the compensation of such employee to a Compensation.rate in excess of the minimum rate of the grade to which such employee is appointed, unless such minimum rate would require an actual reduction in compensation: *Provided further,* That the restoration Restoration to former grade.of employees to their former grades or their advancement to intermediate grades following reductions of compensation for disciplinary reasons shall not be construed to be administrative promotions for the purposes of this section. The provisions of this section Coast Guard personnel.shall not apply to commissioned, commissioned warrant, warrant, and enlisted personnel, and cadets, of the Coast Guard. Sec. 8. All officers and employees of the United States GovernmentAnnuity of officers, etc., reaching retirement age on or before July 1, 1932.or of the government of the District of Columbia who had reached the retirement age prescribed for automatic separation from the service on or before July 1, 1932, and who were continued in active service for a period of less than thirty days after June 30, 1932, *Ante,* p. 404.pursuant to an Executive order issued under authority of section 204 1516of Part II of the Legislative Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1933, shall be regarded as having been retired and entitled to annuity beginning with the day following the date of separation from active service, instead of from August 1, 1932, and the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs is hereby authorized and directed to make payments accordingly from the civil service retirement and disability fund. Allowances; operation of motor cycles and automobiles.Vol. 46, p. 1103.U. S. C., Supp. VI, p. 19.Rates. Sec. 9. The allowance provided for in the Act entitled “An Act to permit payments for the operation of motor cycles and automobiles used for necessary travel on official business, on a mileage basis in lieu of actual operating expenses,” approved February 14, 1931 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 5, sec. 73a), for travel ordered after the date of enactment of this Act shall not exceed 2 cents per mile in the case of travel by motor cycle or 5 cents per mile in the case of travel by automobile. Travel expenses. Sec. 10. Whenever by or under authority of law actual expenses for travel may be allowed to officers or employees of the United States, such allowances, in the case of travel ordered after the date of enactment of this Act, shall not exceed the lowest first-class rate by the transportation facility used in such travel. Saturday half holiday.Vol. 46, p. 1482.U. S. C., Supp. VI, p. 17.Employees of Veterans’ Administration Homes, etc. Sec. 11. From and after the date of enactment of this Act, the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1931 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 5, sec. 26a), shall not apply to any employees of the Veterans’ Administration Homes, Hospitals, or Combined Facilities where, in the discretion of the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs, the public interest requires that such employees should be excepted from the provisions thereof. As to those employees excepted from the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1931, seven hours shall constitute a workday on Saturday and labor in excess of four hours on Saturdays shall not entitle such employees to an equal shortening of the workday on some other day or to additional compensation therefor. Foreign assignments of Army, etc., officers. Sec. 12. Assignments of officers of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps to permanent duty in the Philippines, on the Asiatic Station, or in China, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or the Panama Canal Zone shall be for not less than three years. No such officer shall be transferred to duty in the continental United States before the expiration of such period unless the health of such officer or the public interest requires such transfer, and the reason for the transfer shall be stated in the order directing such transfer. Judgments recovered against United States.Vol. 18, p. 481.U. S. C., p. 990. Sec. 13. The Act entitled “An Act to provide for deducting any debt due the United States from any judgment recovered against the United States by such debtor,” approved March 3, 1875 (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 227), is hereby amended to read as follows: Payment of. " “That when any final judgment recovered against the United States duly allowed by legal authority shall be presented to the Comptroller General of the United States for payment, and the plaintiff therein shall be indebted to the United States in any manner, whether as principal or surety, it shall be the duty of the Comptroller Set-off of debts due.General of the United States to withhold payment of an amount of such judgment equal to the debt thus due to the United States; and if such plaintiff assents to such set-off, and discharges his judgment or an amount thereof equal to said debt, the Comptroller General of Discharge upon plaintiff’s assent.Payment withheld, when indebtedness denied.the United States shall execute a discharge of the debt due from the plaintiff to the United States. But if such plaintiff denies his indebtedness to the United States, or refuses to consent to the set-off, then the Comptroller General of the United States shall withhold payment of such further amount of such judgment, as in his opinion will be sufficient to cover all legal charges and costs in prosecuting Prosecution of United States claim.the debt of the United States to final judgment. And if such debt is not already in suit, it shall be the duty of the Comptroller General 1517of the United States to cause legal proceedings to be immediately commenced to enforce the same, and to cause the same to be prosecuted to final judgment with all reasonable dispatch. And if in such Payments on final determination.action judgment shall be rendered against the United States, or the amount recovered for debt and costs shall be less than the amount so withheld as before provided, the balance shall then be paid over to such plaintiff by such Comptroller General of the United States with 6 per centum interest thereon for the time it has been withheld from the plaintiff.” " Sec. 14. Section 319 of Part II of the Legislative Appropriation Judgments and overpayments, interestrate.*Ante,* p. 412.Act, fiscal year 1933, is repealed as of June 30, 1932; and the rate of interest to be allowed upon judgments against the United States and overpayments in respect of internal-revenue taxes shall be the rate applicable thereto prior to the enactment of section 319 of such Act. Sec. 15. Section 322 of Part II, of the Legislative Appropriation Restriction on building rentals.Act, fiscal year 1933, is amended by adding at the end of the section the following proviso : “: *Provided further,* That the provisions of *Proviso.*Applicable to higher rentals.this section as applicable to rentals, shall apply only where the rental rentals to be paid shall exceed $2,000 per annum.” Sec. 16. Title IV of Part II of the Legislative Appropriation Application.Act, fiscal year 1933, is amended to read as follows: " “TITLE IV— REORGANIZATION OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS Reorganization of Executive Departments. “declaration of standard “Sec. 401. The Congress hereby declares that a serious emergency Declaration of standard.exists by reason of the general economic depression; that it is imperative to reduce drastically governmental expenditures; and that such reduction may be accomplished in great measure by proceeding immediately under the provisions of this title. “Accordingly, the President shall investigate the present organization President to investigate organization.*Ante,* p. 413.of all executive and administrative agencies of the Government and shall determine what changes therein are necessary to accomplish the following purposes : “(a) To reduce expenditures to the fullest extent consistent with Purposes.the efficient operation of the Government; “(b) To increase the efficiency of the operations of the Government to the fullest extent practicable within the revenues; “(c) To group, coordinate, and consolidate executive and administrative agencies of the Government, as nearly as may be, according to major purposes; “(d) To reduce the number of such agencies by consolidating those having similar functions under a single head, and by abolishing such agencies and/or such functions thereof as may not be necessary for the efficient conduct of the Government; “(e) To eliminate overlapping and duplication of effort; and “(f) To segregate regulatory agencies and functions from those of an administrative and executive character. “definition of executive agency “Sec. 402. When used in this title, the term ‘executive agency’ “Executive agency” defined.means any commission, independent establishment, board, bureau, division, service, or office in the executive branch of the Government and, except as provided in section 403, includes the executive departments. 1518 “power of president Power of President.Consolidations, transfers, etc., by Executive order.*Ante,* p. 413. “Sec. 403. Whenever the President, after investigation, shall find and declare that any regrouping, consolidation, transfer, or abolition of any executive agency or agencies and/or the functions thereof is necessary to accomplish any of the purposes set forth in section 401 of this title, he may by Executive order— “(a) Transfer the whole or any part of any executive agency and/or the functions thereof to the jurisdiction and control of any other executive agency; “(b) Consolidate the functions vested in any executive agency; or “(c) Abolish the whole or any part of any executive agency and/or the functions thereof; and “(d) Designate and fix the name and functions of any consolidated activity or executive agency and the title, powers, and duties of its executive head; except that the President shall not have authority under this title to abolish or transfer an executive department and/or all the functions thereof. Disposition of records, etc., included. “Sec. 404. The President’s order directing any transfer, consolidation, or elimination under the provisions of this title shall also make provision for the transfer or other disposition of the records, property (including office equipment), and personnel, affected by Transfer of balances.such transfer, consolidation, or elimination. In any case of a transfer or consolidation under the provisions of this title, the President’s order shall also make provision for the transfer of such unexpended balances of appropriations available for use in connection with the function or agency transferred or consolidated, as he deems necessary by reason of the transfer or consolidation, for use in connection with the transferred or consolidated function or for the use of the agency to which the transfer is made or of the agency resulting from such consolidation. saving provisions Saving provisions.Orders, rules, etc., to continue in force. “Sec. 405.

(a)All orders, rules, regulations, permits, or other privileges made, issued, or granted by or in respect of any executive agency or function transferred or consolidated with any other executive agency or function under the provisions of this title, and in effect at the time of the transfer or consolidation, shall continue in effect to the same extent as if such transfer or consolidation had not occurred, until modified, superseded, or repealed. Suits, actions, etc., not to abate. “(b) No suit, action, or other proceeding lawfully commenced by or against, the head of any executive agency or other officer of the United States, in his official capacity or in relation to the discharge of his official duties, shall abate by reason of any transfer of authority, power, and duties from one officer or executive agency of the Government to another under the provisions of this title, but the court, on motion or supplemental petition filed at any time within twelve months after such transfer takes effect, showing a necessity for a survival of such suit, action, or other proceeding to obtain a settlement of the questions involved, may allow the same to be maintained by or against the head of the executive agency or other officer of the United States to whom the authority, powers, and duties are transferred. Applicable laws to remain in force. “(c) All laws relating to any executive agency or function transferred or consolidated with any other executive agency or function under the provisions of this title, shall, in so far as such laws are not inapplicable, remain in full force and effect, and shall be administered by the head of the executive agency to which the transfer is made or with which the consolidation is effected. 1519 “winding up affairs of agencies Winding up of affairs of agencies. “Sec. 406. In the case of the elimination of any executive agency When eliminated.or function, the President’s order providing for such elimination shall make provision for winding up the affairs of the executive agency eliminated or the affairs of the. executive agency with respect to the functions eliminated, as the case may be. “effective date of executive orderExecutive orders; effective date. “Sec. 407. Whenever the President makes an Executive order Submission to Congress.Vol. 48, p. 16.under the provisions of this title, such Executive order shall be submitted to the Congress while in session and shall not become effective until after the expiration of sixty calendar days after such transmission, When effective.unless Congress shall by law provide for an earlier effective date of such Executive order or orders: *Provided,* That if Congress *Proviso.*Status of order if Congress adjourns.shall adjourn before the expiration of sixty calendar days from the date of such transmission such Executive order shall not become effective until after the expiration of sixty calendar days from the opening day of the next succeeding regular or special session. “appropriations impounded “Sec. 408. The appropriations or portions of appropriations unexpended Appropriations impounded.by reason of the operation of this title shall not be used for any purpose but shall be impounded and returned to the Treasury. “termination of power Termination of Executive power. “Sec. 409. The authority granted to the President under section Two years from date of enactment.Vol. 48, p. 16.403 shall terminate upon the expiration of two years after the date of enactment of this Act unless otherwise provided by Congress.” " Sec. 17. The Bureau of Efficiency and the office of chief of such Bureau of Efficiency abolished.Vol. 39, p. 15, repealed.Designation of officer to serve on boards.bureau are hereby abolished; and the President is authorized to designate another officer to serve in place of the Chief of the Bureau of Efficiency on any board, commission, or other agency of which the Chief of the Bureau of Efficiency is now a member. All records and property, including office furniture and equipment of Records, etc., transferred.the bureau, shall be transferred to the Bureau of the Budget. Appropriations and unexpended balances of appropriations available Unexpended balances impounded.for expenditure by the Bureau of Efficiency shall be impounded and returned to the Treasury. This section shall take effect at the Effective date. beginning of the third calendar month after the passage of this Act. Sec. 18. So much of sections 9 and 10 of the Act entitled “An Payment of enlistment allowance.Vol. 42, p. 629.U. S. C., pp. 1187, 1188.Act to readjust the pay and allowances of the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service,” approved June 10, 1922 (U. S. C., title 37, secs. 13 and 16), as provides for the payment of enlistment allowance to enlisted men for reenlistment within a period of three months from date of discharge is hereby Suspended, reenlistments during fiscal year 1934.suspended as to reenlistments made during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934. Sec. 19.

(a)The Court of Claims of the United States is authorized Court of Claims; fees.and directed, under such rules as it may prescribe, to impose a fee in an amount not in excess of $10 to be fixed by the court for the filing of any petition in any case instituted after the enactment of Filing or petition.this Act, and for the hearing of any case before the court, a judge, or a commissioner thereof, pending at the time of the enactment of this Act. 1520Preparing, etc., transcript.

(b)The court is authorized and directed to charge and collect a fee of 10 cents a folio for preparing and certifying a transcript of Furnishing certified copies of judgments.the record for the purpose of a writ of certiorari sought by the plaintiff and for furnishing certified copies of judgments or other *Proviso.*Minimum fee, certified copy of findings filed in Supreme Court.documents in cases in said court: *Provided,* That not less than $5 shall be charged for each certified copy of findings of fact and opinion of the court to be filed in the Supreme Court of the United States. Fees for certified copy of findings of fact and opinion.

(c)The court is also authorized and directed to charge and collect for each certified copy of its findings of fact and opinion a fee of 25 cents for five pages or less, 35 cents for those over five and not more than ten pages, 45 cents for those over ten and not more than twenty pages, and 50 cents for those of more than twenty pages. Accounting and deposit.

(d)The clerk of the Court of Claims shall account to the Attorney General for all such fees and shall deposit such fees to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States in the same manner as is provided in the case of collections by clerks of district courts as provided by section 9 of the Act entitled “An Act to fix the salaries of clerks of the United States district courts and to provide for their office expenses, and for other purposes,” approved February 26, 1919, as amended (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 567). TITLE IIITerms construed.“United States.” Sec. 1. That when used in this title—

(a)The term “United States,” when used in a geographical sense, includes the United States and any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof; “Public use”; “public building”; “public work.”

(b)The terms “public use,” “public building,” and “public work” shall mean use by, public building of, and public work of, the United States, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, the Philippine Islands, American Samoa, the Canal Zone, and the Virgin Islands. Manufactured articles, etc., produced in United States acquired for public use. Sec. 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and unless the head of the department or independent establishment concerned shall determine it to be inconsistent with the public interest, or the cost to be unreasonable, only such unmanufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been mined or produced in the United States, and only such manufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been manufactured in the United States substantially all from articles, materials, or supplies mined, produced, or manufactured, as the case may be, in the United States, shall be acquired for public Articles used outside United States.use. This section shall not apply with respect to articles, materials, or supplies for use outside the United States, or if articles, materials, or supplies of the class or kind to be used or the articles, materials, or supplies from which they are manufactured are not mined, produced, or manufactured, as the case may be, in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available commercial quantities and of a satisfactory quality. Materials for construction, etc., public buildings. Sec. 3.

(a)Every contract for the construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work in the United States growing out of an appropriation heretofore made or hereafter to be made shall contain a provision that in the performance of the work the contractor, subcontractors, material men, or suppliers, shall use only such unmanufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been mined or produced in the United States, and only such manufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been manufactured in the United States substantially all from articles, materials, or supplies mined, produced, or manufactured, as the case 1521may be, in the United States except as provided in section 2: *Provided, *Proviso.*Exception when cost increased.however,* That if the head of the department or independent establishment making the contract shall find that in respect to some particular articles, materials, or supplies it is impracticable to make such requirement or that it would unreasonably increase the cost, an exception shall be noted in the specifications as to that particular article, material, or supply, and a public record made of the findings which justified the exception.

(b)If the head of a department, bureau, agency, or independent Contractors, etc., failing to comply.establishment which has made any contract containing the provision required by subsection

(a)finds that in the performance of such contract there has been a failure to comply with such provisions, he shall make public his findings, including therein the name of the contractor obligated under such contract, and no other contract for the construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work in the United States or elsewhere shall be awarded to such contractor, subcontractors, material men, or suppliers with which such contractor is associated or affiliated, within a period of three years after such finding is made public. Sec. 4. This title shall take effect on the date of its enactment, but Effective date.shall not apply to any contract entered into prior to such effective date. Sec. 5. If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof Separability of provisions.to any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of the Act, and the application thereof to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby. Approved, March 3, 1933. Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, and for other purposes. 1933-03-03 213 Chapter 47 Stat. 1521 72 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 public [CHAPTER 213.] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, and for other purposes.March 3, 1933.[[H. R. 14724](/us/bill/72/hr/14724).][

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