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(/us/pl/73/141).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* TITLE I— APPROPRIATIONS That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1935.Appropriations for fiscal year 1935.the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, namely:
EXECUTIVE OFFICEExecutive Office. compensation of the president and vice presidentCompensation. For compensation of the President of the United States, $75,000.President. For compensation of the Vice President of the United States, Vice President.$13,500. office of the presidentOffice of the President. Salaries: For personal services in the office of the President, Secretaries and office personnel.including the Secretary to the President, and two assistant secretaries to the President at $9,500 each; $113,188: *Provided,* That *Proviso.*Temporary details.employees of the executive departments and other establishments of the executive branch of the Government may be detailed from time to time to the office of the President of the United States for such temporary assistance as may be deemed necessary.
Contingent expenses: For contingent expenses of the Executive Contingent expenses.Office, including stationery, record books, telegrams, telephones, books for library, furniture and carpets for offices, automobiles, expenses of garage, including labor, special services, and miscellaneous items, to be expended in the discretion of the President, $38,452. For printing and binding, $2,700.Printing and binding. Traveling expenses: For traveling and official entertainment Traveling, etc., expenses.expenses of the President of the United States, to be expended in his discretion and accounted for on his certificate solely, $25,000. executive mansion and groundsExecutive Mansion, etc.
For the care, maintenance, repair and alteration, refurnishing, Care, repair, etc.improvement, heating, and lighting, including electric power and fixtures of the Executive Mansion, the Executive Mansion greenhouses, including reconstruction, and the Executive Mansion grounds, and traveling expenses, to be expended as the President may determine, notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act, $174,210, to be immediately available, of which $50,000 shall be available until expended.
Total, Executive Office, $442,050. 510 INDEPENDENT ESTABLISHMENTS Independent Establishments. alien property custodian Alien Property Custodian.Trading with the Enemy Act, amendment.Vol. 42, p. 1516; Vol. 45, p. 276.Recovery by enemy person, etc., of deductions made by custodian for administrative expenses. Subsection
(a)of Section 24 of the Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "“No claim shall be filed with the Alien Property Custodian or allowed by him or by the President of the United States, nor shall any suit be instituted or maintained against the Alien Property Custodian or the Treasurer of the United States, or the United States, under any provisions of law, by any person who was an enemy or ally of enemy as defined in the Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended, and no allowance of any such claim now pending shall be made, nor judgment entered in any such suit heretofore or hereafter instituted, for the recovery of any deduction or deductions, heretofore or hereafter made by the Alien Property Custodian from money or properties, or income therefrom, held by him or by the Treasurer of the United States hereunder, for the general or administrative expenses of the office of the Alien Property Custodian, which deduction or deductions on the collection of any income do not exceed the sum of two per centum of such income or which on the return of any moneys or properties or income therefrom, do not exceed the sum of two per centum of the aggregate value thereof at the time or times Of deductions for expenses administering seized property.as nearly as may be, of such deduction or deductions, or, for the recovery of any deduction or deductions heretofore or hereafter made by the Alien Property Custodian from money or properties or income therefrom held by him or by the Treasurer of the United States hereunder, for any and all necessary expenses incurred and actually disbursed by the Alien Property Custodian or by any depositary for him in securing the possession, collection or control of any such money or properties or income therefrom, or in protecting or administering the same, as said general or administrative and other expenses and said aggregate value of returned money or properties or income therefrom have been heretofore or shall be hereafter determined by said Alien Property Custodian.”" AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION American Battle Monuments Commission. The appropriations heretofore made for the American Battle Monuments Commission are hereby increased in an amount sufficient to cover all losses which have been or may hereafter be incurred by the Commission due to the fluctuation of the Franco-American exchange below the rate of 25.30 francs to $1. BOARD OF MEDIATIONBoard of Mediation.Members of the Board.All other expenses. For five members of the Board, and for other authorized expenditures of the Board of Mediation in performing the duties imposed by law, including personal services; contract stenographic reporting services; supplies and equipment; law books and books of reference; not to exceed $200 for newspapers; periodicals; traveling expenses; and rent of quarters outside the District of Columbia; $124,764, of which amount not to exceed $110,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, including the sum of $4,250, Payments to designated persons.which shall be immediately available and shall be paid in equal portions to the folio wing-named persons, heirs at law of Frank P. Glass, late a member of the board, who served without compensation as such member from July 14, 1933, to January 10, 1934, the date of 511his death: Frank P. Glass, Junior; J. Purnell Glass, Christine Glass, Louise Glass Marzoni, Evelyn Byrd Glass McCoy, and H. Boyson Glass. Arbitration boards: To enable the Board of Mediation to pay Arbitration boards.Vol. 44, p. 586.U.S.C., p. 2110.*Ante,* p. 286.necessary expenses of arbitration boards, including compensation of members and employees of such boards, together with their necessary traveling expenses and expenses actually incurred for subsistence while so employed, and printing of awards, together with proceedings and testimony relating thereto, as authorized by the Railway Labor Act, including also contract stenographic reporting service, and rent of quarters when suitable quarters cannot be supplied in any Federal building, the unexpended balances of the appropriations for this purpose available for the fiscal year 1934 are hereby continued available for the fiscal year 1935. Emergency boards: For expenses of emergency boards appointed Emergency boards.Vol. 44, p. 586.U.S.C., Supp. VII, p. 948.Balance reappropriated.*Ante,* p. 286.Printing and binding.by the President to investigate and report respecting disputes between carriers and their employees, as authorized by section 10, Railway Labor Act, approved May 20, 1926 (U.S.C., Supp. VI, title 45, sec. 154), the unexpended balances of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1934 are hereby continued available for the fiscal year 1935. For all printing and binding for the Board of Mediation, $800. Total, Board of Mediation, $125,564. BOARD OF TAX APPEALS Board of Tax Appeals. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of All expenditures.Vol. 43, p. 336; Vol. 44, p. 105; Vol. 45, p. 871; Vol. 47, p. 286.the Board of Tax Appeals as authorized under title IX, section 900, of the Revenue Act of 1924, approved June 2, 1924, as amended by title X of the Revenue Act of 1926, approved February 26, 1926, and title IV of the Revenue Act of 1928, approved May 29, 1928, and title IX of the Revenue Act of 1932, approved June 6, 1932, including personal services and contract stenographic reporting services, rent outside the District of Columbia, traveling expenses, car fare, stationery, furniture, office equipment, purchase and exchange of typewriters, law books and books of reference, periodicals, and all other necessary supplies, $482,116, of which amount not to exceed $436,350 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.For all printing and binding for the Board of Tax Appeals, Printing and binding.$20,000.Total, Board of Tax Appeals, $502,116. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION Civil Service Commission. For three Commissioners and other personal services in the District Commissioners and office personnel.Examination of Presidential postmasters.of Columbia, including personal services required for examination of Presidential postmasters, and including not to exceed $1,000 for employment of expert examiners not in the Federal service on special subjects for which examiners within the service are not available, and for personal services in the field; for necessary traveling Traveling expenses, etc.expenses, including those of examiners acting under the direction of the Commission, and for expenses of examinations and investigations held elsewhere than at Washington, including not to exceed $1,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings of public officials when specifically directed by the Commission; for furniture and other Miscellaneous expenses.equipment and repairs thereto; supplies; advertising; telegraph, telephone, and laundry service; freight and express charges; streetcar fares not to exceed $300; stationery; purchase and exchange of 512law books, books of reference, directories, subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals, not to exceed $1,000; charts; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks, motorcycles, and bicycles; garage rent; postage stamps to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries; special-delivery stamps; and other like miscellaneous necessary expenses not hereinbefore provided for, $1,467,816, of which not to exceed $200,000 shall be immediately *Provisos.*Details from Departments, etc., in the District forbidden.available: *Provided,* That no details from any executive department or independent establishment in the District of Columbia or elsewhere to the Commission’s central office in Washington or to any of its district offices shall be made during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, but this shall not affect the making of details for service as members of the boards of examiners outside the immediate Emergency transfers allowed.offices of the district managers: *Provided further,* That the Civil Service Commission shall have power in case of emergency to transfer or detail any of its employees to or from its office or field force: Adjustment of classifications.Vol. 47, p. 416.*Provided further,* That the provisions of section 506 of part II of the Legislative Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1933, shall not operate, after June 30, 1934, to prevent the adjustment of classification or compensation to conform to the duties to which the employees of the Commission may be assigned.Printing and binding. For all printing and binding for the Civil Service Commission, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington and elsewhere, $55,000, of which not to exceed $20,000 shall be immediately available.Total, Civil Service Commission, $1,522,816. EMPLOYEES’ COMPENSATION COMMISSION Employees’ Compensation Commission.Commissioners, and office personnel. For three Commissioners and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including not to exceed $1,000 for temporary experts and assistants in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, to be paid at a rate not exceeding $8 per day, and for personal services in the field, for furniture and other equipment and repairs thereto; law books, books of reference, periodicals; stationery and supplies; traveling expenses; fees and mileage of witnesses; contract stenographic reporting services; rent at the seat of government and elsewhere; and miscellaneous items; $361,510.Printing and binding. For all printing and binding for the Employees’ Compensation Commission, $4,000.Employees’ compensation fund.Vol. 39, pp. 743, 747.U.S.C., p. 80. Employees’ compensation fund: For the payment of compensation provided by “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes”, approved September 7, 1916 (U.S.C., title 5, sec. 785), including medical examinations, traveling and other expenses, and loss of wages payable to employees under sections 21 and 22; all services, appliances, and supplies provided by section 9 as amended, including payments to Army and Navy Burial, etc., expenses.Recoveries.hospitals; the transportation and burial expenses provided by sections 9 and 11; and advancement of costs for the enforcement of recoveries provided in sections 26 and 27 where necessary, accruing during the fiscal year 1935 or in prior fiscal years, $3,987,900. Total, Employees’ Compensation Commission, $4,353,410. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION Federal Power Commission.Expenses.Vol. 41, p. 1063; Vol. 46, p. 797.U.S.C., Supp. VII, p. 336. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Federal Power Commission as authorized by law, including personal services; traveling expenses, including expenses of attendance at meetings which in the discretion of the Commission are 513necessary for the efficient discharge of its responsibilities; contract stenographic reporting services; reimbursement to governmental agencies of the cost of furnishing motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicle service, and not exceeding $2,000 for law books, books of reference, newspapers, and periodicals; $274,803, of which amount not to exceed $234,000 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided,* That not to exceed $20,000 *Proviso.*Sum immediately available.Printing and binding.shall be immediately available. For all printing and binding for the Federal Power Commission, $2,500. Total, Federal Power Commission, $277,303. FEDERAL RADIO COMMISSIONFederal Radio Commission. For five commissioners, and for all other authorized expenditures Commissioners and other expenses.Vol. 44, p. 1162; Vol. 46, p. 50Vol. 36, p. 629; Vol. 37, p. 199.U.S.C., p. 1507; Supp. VII, p.969.Executive Order 5892.Vol. 45, p. 2760.of the Federal Radio Commission in performing the duties imposed by the Radio Act of 1927, approved February 23, 1927, as amended (U.S.C., Supp. VI, title 47, secs. 81–119), the Ship Act of 1910, approved June 24, 1910, as amended (U.S.C., title 46, secs. 484–487), Executive Order Numbered 5892, dated July 20, 1932, and the International Radiotelegraphic Convention (45 Stat., pt. 2, p. 2760), including personal services, contract stenographic reporting services, rental of quarters, newspapers, periodicals, reference books, law books, special counsel fees, supplies and equipment, including purchase and exchange of instruments, which may lie purchased without R.S., sec. 3709. p. 733.U.S.C., p. 1309.regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U.S.C., title 41, sec. 5) when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $25, improvement and care of grounds and repairs to buildings, not to exceed $1,000, traveling expenses, including expenses of attendance at meetings which in the discretion of the Commission are necessary for the efficient discharge of its responsibilities, and other necessary expenses, $651,885, of which amount not to exceed $328,500 may be Services in the District.*Proviso.*Adjustment of classifications, etc.Vol. 47, p. 417.expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided,* That the provisions of section 512 of part II of the Legislative Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1933, shall not operate, after June 30, 1934, to prevent the adjustment of classification or compensation to conform to the duties to which the employees of the Commission may be assigned. For all printing and binding for the Federal Radio Commission, Printing and binding.$15,000. Total, Federal Radio Commission, $666,885. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSIONFederal Trade Commission. For five commissioners, and for all other authorized expenditures Commissioners, and other expenses.Vol. 38, p. 717.U.S.C., p. 356.*Post,* p. 1026.of the Federal Trade Commission in performing the duties imposed by law or in pursuance of law, including secretary to the Commission and other personal services, contract stenographic reporting services; supplies and equipment, law books, books of reference, periodicals, garage rentals, traveling expenses, including not to exceed $900 for expenses of attendance, when specifically authorized by the Commission, at meetings concerned with the work of the Federal Trade Commission, for newspapers and press clippings not to exceed $400, foreign postage, and witness fees and mileage in accordance with Witness fees, mileage.Vol. 38, p. 722.U.S.C., p. 359.section 9 of the Federal Trade Commission Act; $1,708,730, of which $150,000 shall be immediately available. For all printing and binding for the Federal Trade Commission, Printing and binding.$34,000. Total, Federal Trade Commission, $1,742,730. 514 GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE General Accounting Office.Comptroller General, Assistant, and office personnel. Salaries: For Comptroller General, Assistant Comptroller General, and other personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $3,292,920.Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses: For traveling expenses, including stenographic reporting service outside of the District of Columbia not exceeding $2,500, by contract or otherwise; materials, supplies, equipment, and services; rent of buildings and equipment; purchase and exchange of books, law books, books of reference, and periodicals, typewriters, calculating machines, and other office appliances, including their development, repairs, and maintenance, including one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle; and miscellaneous *Proviso.*Minor purchases.R.S., sec. 3709, p. 733.U.S.C., p. 1309.items; $110,000: *Provided,* That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U.S.C., title 41, sec. 5) shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for the General Accounting Office when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $50.Printing and binding. For all printing and binding for the General Accounting Office, including monthly and annual editions of selected decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, $59,000. Total, General Accounting Office, $3,461,920. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION Interstate Commerce Commission. salaries and expenses Salaries and expenses.Commissioners, etc. General administrative expenses: For eleven commissioners, secretary, and for all other authorized expenditures necessary in the execution of laws to regulate commerce, including one chief counsel, one director of finance, and one director of traffic at $10,000 each per annum, field hearings, traveling expenses, and contract stenographic Reporting service.Services in the District.reporting services; $2,526,216, of which amount not to exceed $2,205,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, exclusive of special counsel, for which the Books, furniture, etc.expenditure shall not exceed $50,000; not exceeding $3,000 for purchase and exchange of necessary books, reports, and periodicals; not exceeding $100 in the open market for the purchase of office furniture similar in class or kind to that listed in the general supply schedule.Enforcing accounting by railroads.Vol. 34, p. 593; Vol. 36, p. 556; Vol. 41, p. 493.U.S.C., pp. 1668–1670. Regulating accounts: To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce compliance with section 20 and other sections of the Interstate Commerce Act as amended by the Act approved June 29, 1906 (U.S.C., title 49, sec. 20), and as amended by the Transportation Act, 1920 (U.S.C., title 49, sec. 20), including the Services in the District.employment of necessary special accounting agents or examiners, and traveling expenses, $778,888, of which amount not to exceed $135,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.Safety of employees, etc.Appliances, etc.Vol. 27, p. 531; Vol. 29, p. 85; Vol. 32, p. 943; Vol. 36, p. 298.Accidents.Vol. 36, p. 350.Safety signals.Vol. 34, p. 838; Vol. 35, p. 324; Vol. 38, p. 212.U.S.C., p. 1441. Safety of employees: To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informed regarding and to enforce compliance with Acts to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads; the Act requiring common carriers to make reports of accidents and authorizing investigations thereof: and to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate and test appliances intended to promote the safety of railway operation, as authorized by the joint resolution approved June 30, 1906 (U.S.C., title 45, sec. 35), and the provision of the Sundry Civil Act approved May 27, 1908 (U.S.C., title 45, secs. 36, 37), to investigate, test experimentally, and report on the use and need of any appliances or sys-515tems intended to promote the safety of railway operation, inspectors, inspectors, Inspectors.Services in the District.and for traveling expenses, $461,970, of which amount not to exceed $81,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Signal safety, systems: For all authorized expenditures under Safety systems.Vol. 41, p. 498.U.S.C., p. 1673.section 26 of the Interstate Commerce Act as amended by the Transportation Act, 1920 (U.S.C., title 49, sec. 26), with respect to the provision thereof under which carriers by railroad subject to the Act may be required to install automatic train-stop or train-control Automatic train control.Vol. 34, p. 838.U.S.C., p. 1441.devices which comply with specifications and requirements prescribed by the Commission, including investigations and tests pertaining to block-signal and train-control systems, as authorized by the joint resolution approved June 30, 1906 (U.S.C., title 45, sec. 35), and including the employment of the necessary engineers, and for traveling expenses, $36,590, of which amount not to exceed Services in the District.$31,500 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Locomotive inspection: For all authorized expenditures under Locomotive inspection.Vol. 36, p. 913; Vol. 38, p. 1192; Vol. 40, p. 616; Vol. 43, p. 659.U.S.C., pp. 1439,1441.the provisions of the Act of February 17, 1911, entitled “An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto” (U.S.C., title 45, sec. 22), as amended by the Act of March 4, 1915, extending “ the same powers and duties with respect to all parts and appurtenances of the locomotives and tender ” (U.S.C., title 45, sec. 30), and amendment of June 7, 1924 (U.S.C., title 45, sec. 27), providing for the appointment from time to time Additional inspectors.Vol. 36, p. 914; Vol. 43, p. 659; Vol. 46, p. 823U.S.C., pp. 1439,1441; Supp. VII, p. 947.by the Interstate Commerce Commission of not more than fifteen inspectors in addition to the number authorized in the first paragraph of section 4 of the Act of 1911 (U.S.C., title 45, sec. 26), and the amendment of June 27, 1930 (U.S.C., Supp. VI, title 45, secs. 24, 26), including such legal, technical, stenographic, and clerical help as the business of the offices of the chief inspector and his two assistants may require and for traveling expenses, $449,606, of which amount not to exceed $67,500 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Valuation of property of carriers: To enable the Interstate Commerce Physical valuation of railroads, etc.Vol. 37, p. 701; Vol. 40, p. 271; Vol. 42, p. 624.U.S.C., p. 1667.Commission to carry out the objects of the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate commerce approved February 4, 1887, and all Acts amendatory thereof, by providing for a valuation of the several classes of property of carriers subject thereto and securing information concerning their Issue of stock, etc.stocks, bonds, and other securities”, approved March 1, 1913, as amended by the Act of June 7, 1922 (U.S.C., title 49, sec. 19a), and by the “ Emergency Railroad Transportation Act, 1933 ” (48 Stat., *Ante,* p. 221. p. 221), including one director of valuation at $10,000 per annum, and traveling expenses, $1,052,700. In all, salaries and expenses, Interstate Commerce Commission, $5,305,970. For all printing and binding for the Interstate Commerce Commission, Printing and binding.including reports in all cases proposing general changes in transportation rates and not to exceed $10,000 to print and furnish to the States, at cost, report form blanks, and the receipts from such reports and blanks shall be credited to this appropriation, $125,000: *Provided,* That no part of this sum shall be expended for printing *Proviso.*Schedule of sailings excluded.Vol. 41, p. 497.the Schedule of Sailings required by section 25 of the Interstate Commerce Act. 516Attendance at meetings, etc. Not to exceed $2,500 of the appropriations herein made for the Interstate Commerce Commission shall be available for expenses, except membership fees, for attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Commission. Total, Interstate Commerce Commission, $5,430,970. NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICSNational Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.All expenses, scientific research, etc. For scientific research, technical investigations, and special reports in the field of aeronautics, including the necessary laboratory and technical assistants; contracts for personal services in the making of special investigations and in the preparation of special reports; traveling expenses of members and employees; including not to Attendance at meetings.exceed $500 for expenses, except membership fees, of attendance upon meetings of technical and professional societies; office supplies and other miscellaneous expenses, including technical periodicals and books of reference; equipment, maintenance, and operation of Langley Laboratory.the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory; purchase, maintenance, operation, and exchange of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, including not more than one for general administrative use in the District of Columbia; personal services in the field Services in the District.Living quarters.Vol. 46, p. 818; U.S.C., Supp. VII, p. 20.and the District of Columbia; in all, $707,792, of which amount to exceed $2,000 may be expended for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (46 Stat. 818), but not to exceed $720 may be so used for any one person and not to exceed $84,600 for personal services in the District of Columbia.Printing and binding. For all printing and binding for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, including all of its offices, laboratories, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $18,700. Total, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, $726,492. PUERTO RICAN HURRICANE RELIEF COMMISSIONPuerto Rican Hurricane Relief Commission.Sum available for administrative expenses. To enable the Puerto Rican Hurricane Relief Commission to continue collection and administration of moneys due the. United States on account of loans made under the joint resolutions approved December 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 1067), and January 22, 1930 (46 Stat. 57), not to exceed $25,000 of any unobligated balances of appropriations made by authority of those joint resolutions, including repayment of principal and/or payments of interest on such loans, is hereby made available for administrative expenses during the fiscal *Provisos.*Payments when loan appropriations are not available.New loans.year 1935: *Provided,* That otherwise proper payments made or to be made prior to July 1, 1934, for administrative or other necessary expenses shall not be questioned because of the nonavailability of the loan appropriations for such expenses: *Provided further,* That no part of any unexpended balances available for expenditure by the Commission may be used for making any new loans after January 15, 1934. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Smithsonian Institution.Administrative expenses. For expenses of the general administrative office, Smithsonian Institution, compensation of necessary employees, traveling expenses, purchase or books and periodicals, supplies and equipment, and any other necessary expenses, $34,338.International exchanges. International exchanges: For the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees, 517and purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and traveling expenses, $39,692. American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches among American ethnology.the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, the excavation and preservation of archæologic remains under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees, the preparation of manuscripts, drawings, and illustrations, the purchase of books and periodicals, and traveling expenses, $52,910. Astrophysical Observatory: For maintenance of the Astrophysical Astrophysical Observatory.Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including assistants, purchase of books, periodicals, and apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, repairs and alterations of buildings, preparation of manuscripts, drawings, and illustrations, traveling expenses, and miscellaneous expenses, $27,988. national museum National Museum. For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the Equipment, etc.exhibition and safe-keeping of collections; heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service, repairs and alterations of buildings, shops, and sheds, including approaches and all necessary material; personal services, and traveling and other necessary incidental expenses, $132,622. Preservation of collections: For continuing preservation, exhibition, Preserving collections, etc.and increase of collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including personal services, traveling expenses, purchasing and supplying uniforms Contingent expenses.to guards and elevator conductors, postage stamps and foreign postal cards and all other necessary expenses, and not exceeding $5,500 for preparation of manuscripts, drawings, and illustrations for publications, and not exceeding $3,000 for purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals, $537,839. national gallery of artNational Gallery of Art. For the administration of the National Gallery of Art by the Administrative expenses.Smithsonian Institution, including compensation of necessary employees, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, traveling expenses, uniforms for guards, and necessary incidental expenses, $31,135. printing and binding For all printing and binding for the Smithsonian Institution, Printing and binding.including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $17,500. Total, Smithsonian Institution, $874,024, of which amount not to Services in the District.exceed $792,297 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. TARIFF COMMISSIONTariff Commission. For salaries and expenses of the United States Tariff Commission, Salaries and expenses.*Post,* p. 1027.including purchase and exchange of labor-saving devices, the purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, gloves and other protective equipment for photostat and other machine operators, rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, Reporting.Vol. 46, p. 696.U.S.C., Supp. VII, p. 429.subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals, and contract stenographic reporting services, as authorized by sections 330 to 341 of the Tariff Act of 1930, approved June 17, 1930 (U.S.C., Supp. VI, title 19, secs. 1330–1341), $826,398, of which amount not to exceed $725,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; not to exceed $2,500 for expenses, except membership 518fees, of attendance at meetings concerned with subjects under investigation Living quarters.Vol. 46, p. 818.U.S.C., Supp. VII, p. 20.by the Commission; and not to exceed $7,500 for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U.S.C., Supp. VI, title 5, sec. 118a), but not to exceed $720 may be so used for any one person: *Provisos.*Supplies and services.R.S., sec. 3709, p. 733.U.S.C., p. 1309.Salary restriction.Vol. 46, p. 701.*Provided,* That the Commission may procure supplies and services without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U.S.C., title 41, sec. 5) when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $50: *Provided further,* That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay the salary of any member of the United States Tariff Commission who shall hereafter participate in any proceedings under sections 336.337, and 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, wherein he or any member of his family has any special, direct, and pecuniary interest, or in which he has acted as attorney or special representative.Printing and binding. For all printing and binding for the Tariff Commission, $14,500. Total, Tariff Commission, $840,898. UNITED STATES GEOGRAPHIC BOARD United States Geographic Board.Salaries and expenses. For salaries and expenses of the United States Geographic Board, including personal services in the District of Columbia, and for stationery and office supplies, $8,140.Printing and binding. For printing and binding, $1,300. Total, United States Geographic Board, $9,440. VETERANS’ ADMINISTRATION Veterans’ Administration. military servicesMilitary services.Administration, medical, hospital, and domiciliary services.Salaries and expenses. Administration, medical, hospital, and domiciliary services: For all salaries and expenses of the Veterans’ Administration, including the expenses of maintenance and operation of medical, hospital, and domiciliary services of the Veterans’ Administration, in carrying out the duties, powers, and functions devolving upon it pursuant to the Vol. 46, p. 1016.U.S.C., Supp. VII, p. 831.authority contained in the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to consolidate and coordinate governmental activities affecting war veterans”, approved July 3, 1930 (U.S.C., Supp. VI, title 38, secs. 11–11f), and any and all laws for which the Veterans’ Administration is now or may hereafter be charged with administering, *Provisos.*Payments to State institutions.$86,740,099: *Provided,* That when found to be to the best interest of the United States, not to exceed $500,000 of this amount may be used for payments to State institutions caring for and maintaining veterans, suffering from neuropsychiatric ailments, who are in such institutions on the date of the enactment of this Act: *Provided further,* That not to exceed $3,500 of this amount shall be Membership fees, attendance at meetings, etc.available for expenses, except membership fees, of employees detailed by the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of medical science and annual national Services, rentals, travel, etc., expenses.conventions of organized war veterans: *Provided further,* That this appropriation shall be available also for personal services and rentals in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including traveling expenses; examination of estimates of appropriations in the field, including actual expenses of subsistence or per diem allowance in lieu Transfer of effects.thereof; for expenses incurred in packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of household effects and other property, not exceeding in any one case five thousand pounds, of employees when transferred from one official station to another for permanent duty and when Wearing apparel.specifically authorized by the Administrator; furnishing and laundering of such wearing apparel as may be prescribed for employees in the performance of their official duties; purchase and exchange of 519law books, books of reference, periodicals, and newspapers; for Motor vehicles.passenger-carrying and other motor vehicles, including purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of same, including not more than two passenger automobiles for general administrative use of the Central Office in the District of Columbia; and notwithstanding any provisions of law to the contrary, the Administrator is authorized Transporting employees’ children to schools.to utilize Government-owned automotive equipment in transporting children of Veterans’ Administration employees located at isolated stations to and from school under such limitations as he may by regulation prescribe; and notwithstanding any provisions of law to the contrary, the Administrator is authorized to expend during the Actuarial services.fiscal year 1935 not to exceed $4,000 for actuarial services pertaining to the Government life insurance fund and the civil service retirement fund, to be obtained by contract, without obtaining competition, at such rates of compensation as he may determine to be reasonable; for allotment and transfer to the Public Health Service, the Transfer of applicable funds.War, Navy, and Interior Departments, for disbursement by them under the various headings of their applicable appropriations, of such amounts as are necessary for the care and treatment of beneficiaries of the Veterans’ Administration, including minor repairs and improvements of existing facilities under their jurisdiction necessary to such care and treatment; for expenses incidental to the Operating farms, recreational facilities, etc.maintenance and operation of farms; tor recreational articles and facilities at institutions maintained by the Veterans’ Administration; for administrative expenses incidental to securing employment for war veterans; for funeral, burial, and other expenses incidental Funeral, etc., expenses.thereto for beneficiaries of the Veterans’ Administration accruing during the fiscal year 1935 or prior fiscal years: *Provided further,*That the appropriations herein made for the care and maintenance Purchase of tobacco.of veterans in hospitals or homes under the jurisdiction of the Veterans’ Administration shall be available for the purchase of tobacco to be furnished, subject to such regulations as the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs shall prescribe, to veterans receiving hospital treatment or domiciliary care in Veterans’ Administration hospitals or homes: *Provided further,* That the appropriations herein made for medical and hospital services under the jurisdiction of the Veterans’ Administration shall be available, not to exceed $10,000, for Experiments to determine value of different treatments.State, etc., homes; aid to.experimental purposes to determine the value of certain types of treatment: *Provided further,* That this appropriation shall be available for continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers and sailors, in conformity with the Vol. 25, p. 450.U.S.C., p. 677.Act approved August 27, 1888 (U.S.C., title 24, sec. 134), as amended, for those veterans eligible for admission to Veterans’ Administration facilities for domiciliary care. No part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase Use for new hospital site, hospital, etc., forbidden.Amount for improvements, etc.of any site for or toward the construction of any new hospital or home, or for the purchase of any hospital or home; and not more than $3,269,500 of this appropriation may be used to repair, alter, improve, or provide facilities in the several hospitals and homes under the jurisdiction of the Veterans’ Administration either by contract or by the hire of temporary employees and the purchase of materials. For printing and binding for the Veterans’ Administration, Printing and binding.including all its bureaus and functions located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $130,000: *Provided,* That the *Proviso.*Use of branch equipment.Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs is authorized to utilize the printing and binding equipment which the various hospitals and homes of the Veterans’ Administration use for occupational therapy purposes for the purpose of doing such printing and binding as 520may, in his judgment, be found advisable for the use of the Veterans’ Restrictions waived.Vol. 28, p. 622; Vol. 40, p. 1270.U.S.C., p. 1421.Administration, notwithstanding the provisions of section 87 of the Act entitled “An Act providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents”, approved January 12, 1895, and section 11 of the Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes, approved March 1, 1919 (U.S.C., title 44, sec. 111).Pensions. Pensions: For the payment of pensions, gratuities, and allowances, now authorized under any Act of Congress, or regulation of the President based thereon, or which may hereafter be authorized, including emergency officers’ retirement pay and annuities, the administration of which is now or may hereafter be placed in the Veterans’ Administration, $290,291,997, to be immediately available: *Proviso.*Navy from naval fund.*Provided,* That Navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same shall be sufficient for that purpose.Military and naval insurance. For military and naval insurance accruing during the fiscal year 1935 or in prior fiscal years, 1935 or in prior fiscal years, $112,300,000.Adjusted service certificate fund.Vol. 43, p. 128.U.S.C., p. 1232; Supp. VII, p. 853. Adjusted service certificate fund: For an amount necessary under the World War Adjusted Compensation Act (U.S.C., title 38, secs. 591–683; U.S.C., Supp. VI, title 38, secs. 612–682), to provide for the payment of the face value of each adjusted service certificate in twenty years from its date or on the prior death of the veteran, Loans, etc.Vol. 43, p. 128; Vol. 46, p. 1429; Vol. 47, p. 724.U.S.C., p. 1233; Supp. V II, p. 855.and make loans to veterans and repayments to banks in accordance with section 507 of the Act, as amended (U.S.C., Supp. VI, title 38, secs. 642, 647, 650; Act July 21, 1932, 47 Stat., pp. 724–725), $50,000,000, to become available July 1, 1934, and remain available until expended.Adjusted service and dependent pay.Vol. 43, pp. 125, 129, 130; Vol. 44, pp. 828, 829; Vol. 45, pp. 947, 948; Vol. 46, p. 496.U.S.C., pp. 1231, 1233; Supp. VII, p. 857. Adjusted service and dependent pay: For payment of adjusted service credits of not more than $50 each and the quarterly installments due to dependents of deceased veterans, as provided in the Act of May 19, 1924, as amended (U.S.C., title 38, secs. 631–632, 663, 666; U.S.C., Supp. VI, title 38, secs. 661–662, 664–665, 667), $1,286,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended. Total, military services, $546,748,096. civil-service retirement fund Civil Service Retirement Fund.Contribution to.Vol. 41, p. 614; Vol. 44, p. 912; Vol. 46, p. 468. U.S.C., p. 71; Supp. VII, p. 51. For financing of the liability of the United States, created by the Act entitled “An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes”, approved May 22, 1920, and Acts amendatory thereof (U.S.C., Supp. VI, title 5, sec. 707a), $20,850,000, which amount shall be placed to the credit of *Proviso.*Oleomargarine restriction.the “civil-service retirement and disability fund.” Total, Veterans’ Administration, $567,598,096: *Provided,* That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of oleomargarine or butter substitutes except for cooking purposes. Total appropriated by this Act, $588,001,548. Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.Vol. 42, p. 1488; Vol. 45, p. 776; Vol. 46, p. 1003.U.S.C., p. 65; Supp. V II, p. 34. Sec. 2. In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation *Proviso.*Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended: *Provided further,* That this restriction shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or
(2)to require the 521reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed, as No reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490.U.S.C., p. 66.Transfer to another position without reduction.of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade, in the same or different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit,
(4)to prevent the payment of a salary under any Higher rates permitted.grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or
(5)to If only one position in a grade.reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated. TITLE II—ECONOMY PROVISIONS Economy provisions. Sec. 21.
(a)Title II of the Act entitled “An Act to maintain the *Ante,* p. 12.credit of the United States Government”, approved March 20, 1933, is amended as follows:
(1)Section 2 is amended by inserting after “1934” the following: Determination of salaries, part of fiscal year 1934 and all of 1935.Pay readjustments.“and the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935”; and
(2)Section 3
(b)is amended by striking out “15 per centum” and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “10 per centum during the portion of the fiscal year 1934 beginning February 1, 1934, and ending June 30, 1934, and shall not exceed 5 per centum during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935.”
(b)Section 105 (relating to the salaries of the Vice President, Vice President, Speaker, Senators, Representatives, etc.Salary provisions.Vol. 47, p. 401.*Ante,* p. 13.Speaker of the House, Senators, Representatives, Delegates, Resident Commissioners, and persons on the rolls of the Senate or House of Representatives) of the Legislative Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1933 (except subsections
(a)and
(e)thereof), as continued and amended by section 4 of title II of such Act of March 20, 1933, is hereby continued in full force and effect for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, and for the purpose of continuing such section, in the application of such section with respect to the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, the figures “ 1933 ” shall be read as “ 1935 except that in the application of such section with respect to the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, subsection
(a)is amended by striking out “15 per centum” wherever it appears and inserting in lieu thereof “the percentage of reduction applicable to officers and employees of the Federal Government generally.” In the application of such section with respect to the portion of the fiscal year 1934 beginning February 1, 1934, and ending June 30, 1934, the percentage of reduction shall be the percentage applicable to officers and employees of the Federal Government generally.
(c)Section 107 (except paragraph
(5)of subsection
(a)thereof Special salary reductions.Vol. 47, p. 402.*Ante,* pp. 13, 307.Insular possessions, employees.Retired judges.Civilian disability compensation.Certain private pensions.Pensions for service prior to 1898.Continuance during fiscal year 1935.and subsection
(b)thereof) of part II of the Legislative Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1933 (relating to certain special salary reductions); section 12 (relating to compensation reductions of officers and employees of insular possessions), section 13 (relating to the retired pay of certain judges), section 14 (relating to reduction in compensation benefits to certain civilian employees), and section 15 (relating to reductions in certain private pensions) of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1934; and section 18 (relating to pensions for military service prior to the Spanish-American War) of title I of such Act of March 20, 1933, are hereby continued in full force and effect for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, and for the purpose of continuing such sections with respect to the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, the figures “ 1933 ” (except in such sections 13, 14, and 15) shall be read as “ 1935 ” and the figures “ 1934 ” shall be read as “ 1935 ”; except that in the application of 522such sections 12, 13, and 18 with respect to the fiscal year ending for Percentage reduction for 1935.June 30, 1935, the percentage of reduction shall be the percentage applicable to officers and employees of the Federal Government For portion of 1934.generally. In the application of such sections 12, 13, and 18 with respect to the portion of the fiscal year 1934 beginning February 1, 1934, and ending June 30, 1934, the percentage of reduction shall be the percentage applicable to officers and employees of the Federal Government generally. Deficiencies may be incurred to meet differences in payments.Vol. 34, p. 49, waived.
(d)Notwithstanding the provisions of the antideficiency Acts, deficiencies in their respective appropriations made during the second session of the Seventy-third Congress and available for obligation during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, may be incurred during such fiscal year by any executive department or independent establishment and the municipal government of the District of Columbia, upon written order of the President specifying the amount of the deficiency which may be incurred, and by the legislative branch of the Government and the agencies customarily considered a part of such branch; but such deficiencies may be incurred only to the extent necessary to enable the payment to officers and employees of such activities of sums for which the available appropriation is inadequate by reason of a diminution in the *Ante,* p. 13.percentage of reduction of compensation in pursuance of action of the President under the provisions of section 3 of title II of such Act of March 20, 1933, as continued for the fiscal year 1935. Appropriation of necessary funds.
(e)There is hereby appropriated so much as may be necessary for the payment of sums due, and payable out of the Treasury of the United States, by reason of the diminution under this title in the percentage of reduction of compensation, and other amendments to existing laws made hereby; and limitations on amounts for personal services are hereby respectively increased in proportion to the increase in appropriations for personal services made in this Salaries, etc., government of the District of of Columbia.subsection. In the case of officers and employees of the municipal government of the District of Columbia, such sums shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the Treasury of the United States in the manner prescribed by the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for the respective fiscal years. Weekly compensation of mechanics, etc., to be reestablished. Sec. 23. The weekly compensation, minus any general percentage reduction which may be prescribed by Act of Congress, for the several trades and occupations, which is set by wage boards or other wage-fixing authorities, shall be reestablished and maintained at rates not lower than necessary to restore the, full weekly earnings of such employees in accordance with the full-time weekly earnings *Proviso.*Hours of employment.under the respective wage schedules in effect on June 1, 1932: *Provided,* That the regular hours of labor shall not be more than forty per week; and all overtime shall be compensated for at the rate of not less than time and one half. *Ante,* p. 16. Sec. 24. Title, II of the Act entitled “An Act to maintain the Automatic promotions suspended.credit of the United States Government”, approved March 20, 1933, is amended by inserting at the end thereof the following: Certain related sections of Legislative Act of 1933 continued.Vol. 47, p. 403. " “ Sec. 10.
(a)The following sections, as amended, of Part II of the Legislative Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1933, are hereby continued in full force and effect during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935: Sections 201 (suspending automatic increases in compensation), 203 (prohibiting filling of vacancies), 206 (except subsection
(a)thereof) (reducing travel allowances), 214 (authorizing temporary assignments in the Postal Service), 315 (restricting transfer of noncivilian personnel), 317 (authorizing transfers of appropriations), and 323 (reducing jurors’ and witnesses’ fees). 523 “(b) The following sections of the Treasury-Post Office Appropriation Administrative promotions.Provision in Treasury-Post Office Act of 1934 continued in force.Vol. 47, p. 1515.*Proviso.*Charges not so considered.Act, fiscal year 1934, are hereby continued in full force and effect during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935: Sections 7 (prohibiting administrative promotions): *Provided,* That adjustments of charges for quarters, subsistence or laundry, or other similar charges, shall not be interpreted as constituting administrative promotions, and 18 (suspending reenlistment allowances). “(c) Section 9
(a)of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, Rotative furlough provisions continued.*Ante,* p. 306.1934 (relating to rotative furlough), is hereby continued in full force and effect during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935. “(d) For the purpose of continuing the sections enumerated in Filling vacancies during 1935 prohibited. subsections (a), (b), and
(c)of this section, in the application of such sections with respect to the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935: The figures ‘1933’ shall be read as ‘1935’; the figures ‘1934’ as ‘ 1935 ’ (except in the case of the second proviso of such section 317) ; in the case of the first proviso of such section 317, the figures ‘ 1935 ’ shall be read as ‘ 1937 the figures ‘ 1934 ’ shall be read as ‘ 1936 ’, and the figures ‘ 1933 ’ shall be read as ‘ 1935 and in the case of section 203, the figures ‘ 1932 ’ shall be read as ‘ 1934 ’. “(e) In the application of the sections enumerated in subsections (a), (b), and
(c)of this section with respect to the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935 (but not with respect to the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934), the following amendments shall apply: “(1) Section 201 (suspending automatic increases in compensation) Suspension of automatic increases in compensation. of Part II of the Legislative Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1933, is amended by inserting at the end thereof the following: ‘This section shall not apply during the fiscal year ending June 30, Not applicable during 1935; except longevity increases.Vol. 42, p. 625.1935, except to the extent that it suspends the longevity increases provided for in the tenth paragraph of section 1 of the Pay Adjustment Act of 1922. This amendment shall not authorize the payment No back pay.of back compensation.’ “(2) Section 7 (prohibiting administrative promotions) of the Administrative promotions.Vol. 47, p. 1515.Treasury-Post Office Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1934, is amended by adding after the first proviso thereof a colon and the following: *‘ Provided further,* That administrative promotions may be made Provisions for, during fiscal year 1935.during the fiscal year 1935 to the extent that funds are available therefor, on an annual basis, from savings made in the amounts apportioned for personal services from the applicable appropriations for the fiscal year 1935 ’. “(f) No part of the appropriations made during the second session Restriction on use of appropriations.of the Seventy-third Congress shall be used to pay any increase in the salary of any officer or employee of the United States Government or the municipal government of the District of Columbia by reason of the reallocation of the position of such officer or employee to a Reallocation of position after June 30, 1932.higher grade after June 30, 1932, by the Personnel Classification Board or the Civil Service Commission, and salaries paid accordingly shall be payment in full. “(g) Each permanent specific annual appropriation available during Proportionate reduction in permanent appropriations.the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, 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 title.” " Sec. 25. Section 8 of title II of such Act of March 20, 1933, is Impounding unexpended sums.*Ante,* p. 15.hereby amended by inserting after the word “Act” the following: “during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934,”. 524 TITLE III—VETERANS PROVISIONSVeterans’ provisions.Loss of use of both eyes.Restoration of compensation.Vol. 43, p. 618.*Ante,* p. 8. Sec. 26. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, in no event shall the compensation being paid on March 19, 1933, under subsections
(3)and
(5)of section 202 of the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, as amended, to veterans for the loss of the use of both eyes, where such veterans were, except by fraud, mistake, or misrepresentation, in receipt of compensation on March 19, 1933, be reduced or discontinued, except in accordance with the regulations issued under the Act entitled “An Act to maintain the credit of the United States Government”, approved March 20, 1933, pertaining to hospitalized cases. Service connected disability, etc. Sec. 27. Where service connection for a disease, injury, or disability not caused by his own willful misconduct was on March 19, Vol. 43, p. 615.1933, established in accordance with section 200 of the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, as amended, and such connection has been *Ante,* p. 8.severed through the application of, or regulations or instructions promulgated under Public Law Numbered 2, Seventy-third Congress, or Public Law Numbered 78, Seventy-third Congress, service connection is hereby reestablished and as to such cases the provisions of the first paragraph of section 200 of the World War Veterans’ Act, *Proviso.*Service requirement.1924, as amended, are hereby reenacted: *Provided,* That the provisions of this section shall not apply
(1)to persons entering the active military or naval service subsequent to the date of November Not contracted in service.11, 1918,
(2)to persons as to whom clear and unmistakable evidence discloses that the disease, injury, or disability had inception before or after the period of active military or naval service, unless such disease, injury, or disability is shown to have been aggravated Service connection, established by fraud.during service,
(3)to persons as to whose cases service connection was established by fraud, clear or unmistakable error as to conclusions of fact or law, or misrepresentation of material facts; and as to all such cases enumerated in this proviso, all reasonable doubts shall be resolved in favor of the veteran, the burden of proof being on the Government. Sec. 28. The fourth paragraph of section 20, Public Law Numbered 78, Seventy-third Congress, is hereby amended to read as follows : No reduction of payments for service-connected disabilities.*Ante,* pp. 8, 310. "“ Notwithstanding any of the provisions of Public Law Numbered 2, Seventy-third Congress, in no event shall the compensation being paid on March 19, 1933, for service-connected disabilities to those veterans who entered the active military or naval service on or before November 11, 1918, and whose disabilities are not the result of their own misconduct, where they were, except by fraud, misrepresentation of a material fact, or unmistakable error as to conclusions of fact or law, in receipt of compensation on March 19, 1933, be reduced or discontinued, except in accordance with the regulations issued under Public Law Numbered 2, Seventy-third Congress, pertaining *Provisos.*When benefits not applicable.to hospitalized cases: *Provided, * That the provisions of this section shall not apply to persons as to whom clear and unmistakable evidence discloses that the disease, injury, or disability had inception before or after the period of active military or naval service, Exception.Review of case.unless such disease, injury, or disability is shown to have been aggravated during service; and in any review of the case of any veteran to whom compensation was being paid on March 19, 1933, Burden of proof.for service-connected disability, reasonable doubts shall be resolved in favor of the veteran, the burden of proof being on the Government : Restoration of rate to veteran whose service-connected disability is established.*Provided further,* That, subject to the limitations above prescribed, except as to receipt of compensation on March 19, 1933, and notwithstanding the provisions of Public Law Numbered 2, 525Seventy-third Congress, or any other law, veterans whose disease, injury, or disability is established on or after this paragraph as amended takes effect as service-connected in accordance with the provisions of section 200 of the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, as amended, shall be entitled to receive compensation in accordance with the provisions of such Act, as amended, and the rating schedule in effect on March 19, 1933; but veterans whose disease, injury, or compensation where disability is reestablished as service-connected under such section Compensation where disability, etc., reestablished as service-connected.*Ante,* p. 524.200 by section 27 of Title III of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1935, shall be paid 75 per centum of the compensation under the provisions of the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, as amended, and such rating schedule: *Provided further,* That whenever Change in degree of disability.there is a change in the degree of disability of any such veteran the amount of compensation to be paid shall be determined pursuant Determination of compensation.to the provisions of the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, as amended, and the rating schedule in effect on March 19, 1933, and such amount shall not be reduced or discontinued. In no event shall Death compensation.death compensation being paid, except by fraud, misrepresentation of a material fact, or unmistakable error as to conclusions of fact or law, to widows, children, and dependent parents of deceased World War veterans under the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, as amended, on March 19, 1933, be reduced or discontinued, whether the death of the veteran on whose account compensation is being paid was directly or presumptively connected with service. In any case where a World War veteran dies or has died from disease or injury, and service connection for such disease or injury has been reestablished on or after the date this paragraph as amended takes effect as service-connected under section 200 of the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, as amended, or which would have been established under such section 200 had the veteran been living on March 19, 1933, and reestablished on or after the date this paragraph as amended takes effect, the surviving widow, child, or children and/or dependent parents shall be entitled to receive compensation at the rates prescribed in Veterans’ Regulation Numbered 1 (a), part I, paragraph IV, and amendments thereto.”" Sec. 29. Section 6 of Public Law Numbered 2, Seventy-third Congress, Domiciliary care and hospitalization of needy veterans.*Ante,* pp. 9, 301.as amended by Public Law Numbered 78, Seventy-third Congress, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following proviso: *“ Provided,* That any veteran of any war who was not dishonorably discharged, suffering from disability, disease, or defect, who is in need of hospitalization or domiciliary care, and is unable to defray the necessary expenses therefor (including transportation to and Transportation.from the Veterans’ Administration facility), shall be furnished necessary hospitalization or domiciliary care (including transportation) in any Veterans’ Administration facility, within the limitations existing in such facilities, irrespective of whether the disability, disease, or defect was due to service. The statement under Prescribed oath to be accepted as sufficient.oath of the applicant on such form as may be prescribed by the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs shall be accepted as sufficient evidence of inability to defray necessary expenses.” Sec. 30. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of Public Law Spanish War., etc., veterans, their widows and dependents.Restriction on reducing pension.Numbered 2, Seventy-third Congress, no pension being paid on March 19, 1933, to any veteran of the Spanish-American War, including the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection, or to the widow as long as she remains unmarried and/or dependents of any such veteran, shall be reduced by more than 25 per centum, except in accordance with the regulations issued pursuant to Public Law Numbered 2, Seventy-third Congress, pertaining to hospitalized 526cases and except where his disability is the result of his own willful *Provisos.*Excepted cases.misconduct: *Provided,* That the provisions of this section shall not apply
(1)to persons to whom payments were being made on March 19, 1933, through fraud, clear or unmistakable error as to conclusions of fact or law, or misrepresentation of a material fact, except that decisions as to degree of disability rendered prior to March 20, 1933, shall be conclusive, or
(2)to any person during any year following a year for which such person was not entitled Federal employees.to exemption from the payment of a Federal income tax: *Provided, however,* That a veteran in Federal employ shall not receive more than $6 per month if his salary if single exceeds $1,000 and if married Enlistment after August 12, 1898.$2,500: *Provided further,* That this section shall not apply to any person who enlisted after August 12, 1898, and who did not serve in either the Boxer Rebellion or the Philippine Insurrection. Reenactment of laws granting monetary benefits. All laws in effect on March 19, 1933, granting monetary benefits to veterans of the Spanish-American War, including the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection, are hereby reenacted in their entirety, and such laws shall be effective from and after the effective date of this Act, subject to the limitations of this section and to such reduction in pensions as may be made hereunder. Veteran suffering injury, etc., during training, hospitalization, etc. Sec. 31. Where any veteran suffers or has suffered an injury, or an aggravation of any existing injury, as the result of training, hospitalization, or medical or surgical treatment, awarded him under any of the laws granting monetary or other benefits to World War veterans, or as the result of having submitted to examination under authority of the War Risk Insurance Act or the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, as amended, and not the result of his misconduct, and such injury or aggravation results in additional disability to or the death of such veteran, the benefits of Public Law Numbered Award.2, of Public Law Numbered 78, and of this title shall be awarded in the same manner as if such disability, aggravation, or death were Application for benefits.service connected within the meaning of such laws; except that no benefits under this section shall be awarded unless application be made therefor within two years after such injury or aggravation was suffered, or such death occurred, or after the passage of this Benefits to be in lieu of those of Workmen’s Compensation Act.Vol. 39, p. 7421, U.S.C., p. 77.Act, whichever is the later date. The benefits of this section shall be in lieu of the benefits under the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes ”, approved September 7, 1916, as amended. *Ante,* p. 10.Participation by beneficiary in decision.Service connected benefits termed “compensation.” Sec. 32. The last sentence of section 9 of Public Law Numbered 2, Seventy-third Congress, is hereby repealed. Sec. 33. Service-connected money benefits payable to World War veterans under this title and Public Law Numbered 2, Seventy-third Congress, shall be entitled “ compensation ” and not “ pension ”. Effective date. Sec. 34. This title shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act, and no payments of any benefits conferred under the provisions of this title shall be made for any period prior to such date. Yearly renewable term insurance.Existing provisions modified.*Ante,* pp. 11, 309. Sec. 35. That notwithstanding the provisions of section 17 of title I of an Act entitled “An Act to maintain the credit of the United States Government”, approved March 20, 1933, and section 20 of an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, and for other purposes”, approved June 16, 1933, any claim for yearly renewable term insurance under the provisions of laws repealed by said section 17, wherein claim was duly filed prior to March 20, 1933, and on which maturity of the insurance contract 527had been determined by the Veterans’ Administration prior to March 20, 1933, and where payments could not be made because of the provisions of the Act of March 20, 1933, or under the provisions of the Act of June 16, 1933, may be adjudicated by the Veterans’ Administration, and any person found entitled to yearly renewable term insurance benefits claimed shall be paid such benefits in accordance with and in the amounts provided by such prior laws. Sec. 40. This Act may be cited as the “ Independent Offices Title of Act.Appropriation Act, 1935.” Henry T. Rainey Speaker of the House of Representatives. Jno. N. Garner Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate. In the House of Representatives of the United States, March 27, 1934.Certificate of House of Representatives. The House of Representatives having proceeded to reconsider the bill (H.R. 6663) entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935. and for other purposes,” returned by the President of the United States with his objections, to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, it was— Resolved, That the said bill pass, two-thirds of the House of Representatives agreeing to pass the same. Attest: South Trimble, Clerk. In the Senate of the United States, Certificate of senate. March 28, 1934. The Senate having proceeded to reconsider the bill (H.R. 6663) entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Executive Offices and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, and for other purposes.” returned by the President of the United States to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, with his objections, and passed by the House on a reconsideration of the same, it was RESOLVED, That the said bill pass, two-thirds of the Senators present having voted in the affirmative. Attest: Edwin A. Halsey. Secretary I certify that this Act originated in the House of Representatives. South Trimble, Clerk. To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act so as to include cattle and other products as basic agricultural commodities, and for other purposes. 1934-04-07 103 Chapter 48 Stat. 528 73 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 2024-12-11 public 528 [CHAPTER 103.] AN ACT To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act so as to include cattle and other products as basic agricultural commodities, and for other purposes.April 7, 1934.[[H. R. 7478](/us/bill/73/hr/7478).][[Public, No. 142](/us/pl/73/142).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That section 11 Agricultural Adjustment Act, amendments.*Ante,* p. 38; Post, p. 670.Cattle as basic agricultural commodity.of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, is amended by adding after the word “hogs” a comma and the. word “cattle”. Sec. 2. Subsection
(a)of section 12 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph as follows: Appropriation authorized.Financing surplus reductions of dairy and beef-cattle industries.*Post,* p. 805. "“To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to finance, under such terms and conditions as he may prescribe, surplus reductions and production adjustments with respect to the dairy- and beef -cattle industries, and to carry out any of the purposes described in subsections
(a)and
(b)of this section
(12)and to support and balance the markets for the dairy and beef cattle industries, there is authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $200,000,000: *Provided,* That not more *Proviso.*Restriction on expenditure.than 60 per centum of such amount shall be used for either of such industries.”" *Ante,* p. 36.Processing tax.*Post,* pp. 675, 1242. Sec. 3.
(a)Subsection
(d)of section 9 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, is amended by renumbering paragraph
(5)as paragraph
(6)and by adding after paragraph
(4)a new paragraph as follows: Peanuts; processing of. " “(5) In case of peanuts, the term ‘ processing' means the cleaning, polishing, grading, shelling, crushing, or other processing thereof." As basic agricultural commodity.
(b)Section 11 of such Act, as amended, is amended by adding after the word “tobacco” a comma and the word “peanuts”. Rye, flax, and barley, added. Sec. 4. Section 11 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, is amended by adding after the word “wheat” a comma and the words “rye, flax, barley”. Grain sorghums. Sec. 5. Section 11 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, is amended by adding after the words “field corn” a comma and the words “grain sorghums”. Appropriation authorized.Advances to Federal Surplus Relief Corporation.*Post,* p. 805. Sec. 6. There is authorized to be appropriated the sum of Advances to Federal $50,000,000 to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to make advances to the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation for the purchase of dairy and beef products for distribution for relief purposes, and to enable the Secretary of Agriculture, under rules and regulations to be promulgated by him and upon such terms as he may prescribe, to eliminate diseased dairy and beef cattle, including cattle suffering from tuberculosis or Bangs’ disease, and to make payments to owners with respect thereto. *Ante,* p. 34.Powers of Secretary of Agriculture.Marketing agreements. Sec. 7. The first sentence of subsection
(2)of section 8 of the of Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, is amended to read as follows: “After due notice and opportunity for hearing, to enter into marketing agreements with processors, producers, associations of producers, and others engaged in the handling of any agricultural commodity or product thereof, in the current of or in competition with, or so as to burden, obstruct, or in any way affect, interstate or foreign commerce.” Approved, April 7, 1934. Making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, and for other purposes. 1934-04-07 104 Chapter 48 Stat. 529 73 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 2024-12-11 public 529 [CHAPTER 104.] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, and for other purposes. April 7, 1934.[[H. R. 7513](/us/bill/73/hr/7513).][
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