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(/us/bill/74/pl/21).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the followingFirst Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1935. sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I— GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS LEGISLATIVEGeneral appropriations. Legislative. House of RepresentativesHouse of Representatives. For payment to the widow of Anthony J. Griffin, late aAnthony J. Griffin. Pay to widow. Representative from the State of New York, $9,500. For payment to the widow of Henry T. Rainey, late a Henry T. Rainey. Pay to widow.Representative from the State of Illinois, $9,500. For payment to the widow of Frederick Landis, late aFrederick Landis. Pay to widow.
Representative-elect from the State of Indiana, $9,500. The three foregoing appropriations to be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House. Committee on Revision of the Laws: For the employment ofCommittee on Revision of the Laws.Vol. 45, p. 1007; [U. S. C., p. 3](/us/usc/p3). competent persons in continuing the work of coinpiling, codifying, and revising the laws and treaties of the United States, fiscal years 1935 and 1936, $3,000. office of architect of the capitolArchitect of the Capitol.
Capitol Building: For the purchase and installation for theAir-conditioning rooms of Senate Committee on Appropriations, expenses. committee rooms of the Senate Committee on Appropriations of complete, improved ventilation, dehumidifying air-conditioning apparatus with automatically controlled ducts and water piping for the connection of the different units of such apparatus, and for all necessary structural alterations required for such installation, including personal services, advertising, traveling, and other necessary expenses incident thereto, $10,000, to be expended by theExpenditure without advertising.[R.
S., secs. 3709, 3744](/us/rs/3709/3744); [U. S. C., pp. 1803, 1805](/us/usc/pp1803/1805). Architect of the Capitol without compliance with sections 3709 and 3744 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, to remain available until June 30, 1936. The unexpended balances on June 30, 1935, of the appropriationSenate and House Office Buildings.Elevators.Vol. 48, p. 1025. for the Senate Office Building and of the appropriation for the House Office Buildings, contained in the Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1934, for installation, repair, and reconditioning of elevators, and of the portion of the appropriation “Capitol Building and Repairs, 1935”, allocated for installation, repair, and reconditioning of elevators, shall continue available for the same purposesAdditional sums available. until June 30, 1936; and in addition there are appropriated, to be merged with, and to be available for the same purposes as, the appropriations hereinbefore extended for the Senate Office Building and the Capitol Building, the following respective sums:
For the Senate Office Building, $5,500; and for the Capitol Building and Repairs, $4,500; in all, $10,000, to remain available until June 30,50*Proviso*. Allocation for Capitol elevators.1936: *Provided*, That $6,000 of the unexpended balance of the foregoing appropriation for the House Office Buildings shall be transferred to and be available under the foregoing allocation for elevator work in the Capitol Building. Independent offices.INDEPENDENT OFFICES California Pacific International Exposition.california pacific international exposition Participation, etc.For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the public *Ante*, p. 40.*Post*, pp. 119, 1107, 1110.resolution entitled “Joint resolution providing for the participation of the United States in the California Pacific International Exposition to be held at San Diego, California, in 1935 and 1936; authorizing an appropriation therefor; and for other purposes”, approved March 7, 1935, and for each and every object thereof, and within the limits of cost specified therein, $350,000, to remain available *Proviso*.Subsistence allowance.until June 30, 1936: *Provided*, That expenses for subsistence authorized by such Act shall be on a per diem allowance basis in lieu of actual expenses and shall not exceed $5 per day for any person.
D, C.-Va. Boundary Commission.district of columbia-virginia boundary commission Expenses.*Ante*, p. 23.*Post*, p. 67.For the District of Columbia-Virginia Boundary Commission, including the same objects specified under this head in Public Resolution Numbered 3, approved February 13, 1935, $10,000, to continue available until December 2, 1935. Farm Credit Administration.farm credit administration Crop production loans.*Ante*, p. 29.*Post*, p. 1458.Crop production loans: To enable the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration to carry into effect the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for loans to farmers for crop production and harvesting during the year 1935, and for other purposes”, approved February 20, 1935, including personal services and Supplies and services. [R.
S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733); [ U. S. C., p. 1803](/us/usc/p1803).rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; paper, printing, and binding; 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; and such other expenses as may be necessary; there is hereby reappropriated and made immediately available and to remain available until June 30, 1936, for the foregoing purposes, a total of $60,000,000 from unobligated balances (to be designated by the President.) under allocations from the Vol. 48, p. 1056.appropriation of $525,000,000 for relief in stricken agricultural areas contained in the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935.
Federal Power Commission.federal power commission Printing and binding.*Ante*, p. 10.*Post*, p. 1111.Printing and binding: For additional printing and binding, Federal Power Commission, to remain available until June 30, 1936, $25,000. Federal Communications Commission.federeal communications commission Grand Island, Nebr., radio station.Additional land. Vol. 48, p. 805.Not to exceed $1,200 of the appropriation for the Federal Communications Commission for the fiscal year 1935 shall lie available for the purchase of an additional tract of land containing approximately ten acres adjacent to that now owned by the United States at Grarnl Island, Nebraska, and for enclosing the same, for use in connection with the constant-frequency monitoring station located at said place, as authorized by the Act approved May 25, 1934 (48 Stat. 805). 51 federal trade commissionFederal Trade Commission.
For an additional amount for the Federal Trade Commission,Expenses.Vol. 48, p. 513; *Ante*, p. 10. including the same objects specified under this caption in Title I, Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1935, $110,000, to remain available until June 30, 1936. national archivesNational Archives. Salaries and expenses: For the Archivist and for all otherSalaries and expenses.Vol. 48, p. 1122. authorized expenditures of the National Archives in performing the duties imposed by law, including personal services; supplies and equipment; purchase and exchange of books and maps; contract stenographic reporting services; purchase of newspapers, periodicals, and press clippings; travel expenses, including not to exceed $500 for theAttendance at meetings. expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the National Archives; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and operation of motor vehicles, including not more than one passenger-carrying automobile for the official use of the National Archives; and all other necessary expenses, fiscal year 1936, $458,000, of which not to exceed $73,000 shall be immediately available: *Provided*, That subsistence*Provisos*.Subsistence. expenses payable under this appropriation shall be on a per diem allowance basis in lieu of actual expenses and shall not exceed $5 per day for any person: *Provided further*, That section 3709 of theMinor purchases, etc.[R.
S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733); [U. S. C., p. 1803](/us/usc/p1803). Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for the National Archives when the aggregate cost involved does not exceed the sum of $50. Printing and binding: For all printing and binding for thePrinting and binding. National Archives, fiscal year 1936, $17.000, of which not to exceed $2,000 shall be immediately available. veterans’ administrationVeterans’ administration.
Pensions: For an additional amount for the payment of pensions,Pensions.Vol. 48, p. 520. gratuities, and allowances, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1935, $94,650,000. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIADistrict of Columbia. public schoolsPublic schools. For the purchase of additional equipment for teaching commercialEquipment for teaching commercial classes. classes in the junior and senior high schools, to continue available until June 30, 1936, $15,000.
For the rehabilitation of the Adams Administration Building forAdams Administration Building. use as an elementary-school building for instruction purposes, to continue available until June 30, 1936, $20,000. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUREDepartment of Agriculture. forest serviceForest Service. Salaries and general expenses (fighting forest fires): For anFighting forest fires.Vol. 48, p. 482. additional amount for fighting and preventing forest fires, including the same objects specified under this head in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $2,348,000. 52 Biological Survey Bureau.bureau of biological survey Predatory animals, etc., control.Vol. 48, p. 489.Salaries and expenses (control of predatory animals and injurious rodents):
For an additional amount for control of predatory animals and injurious rodents, including the same objects specified under this head in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $15,000. Department of Justice.DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Attorney General’s office.office of the attorney general Contingent expenses.Vol. 46, p. 1321.Contingent expenses: For an additional amount for contingent expenses, Department of Justice, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1932, $1.70.
Books.Vol. 46, p. 186.Books: For an additional amount for books, Department of Justice, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1931, $5.02. Additional sum.Vol. 48, p. 536.For an additional amount for books, Department of Justice, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1935, $6,000. Miscellaneous.miscellaneous objects, department of justice Preparation of rules in actions at law.Vol. 48, p. 1064.Preparation of rules in actions at law:
To enable the Attorney General to cooperate with the Supreme Court in the preparation of rules in actions at law, pursuant to the Act entitled “An Act to give the Supreme Court of the United States authority to make and publish rules in actions at law”, approved June 19, 1931 (48 Stat. 1064), including personal services at the seat of government or elsewhere, printing and binding, contingent expenses, and traveling expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $40,000, to remain available until June 30, 1936.
Division of Investigation.division of investigation Salaries and expenses.Vol. 48, pp. 537, 1035.Salaries and expenses: The amount which may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia from the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, Division of Investigation, 1935”, is increased from $600,000 to $696,420. United States Courts.JUDICIAL marshals, district attorneys, clerks, and other expenses of united states courts Marshals.Salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals:
For additional amounts for salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Acts making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the following fiscal years: For 1924, $230.53. For 1931, $372.07. District attorneys.Salaries and expenses of district attorneys: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1933, $188.33. 53 Fees of commissioners:
For additional amounts for fees ofCommissioners. commissioners, United States courts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Acts making appropriation for the Department of Justice for tile following fiscal years: For 1931, $471.60. For 1932, $15,395.89. For 1933, $28,582.02. Conciliation commissioners: For an additional amount for feesConciliation commissioners.Vol. 30, p. 544; Vol. 47, p. 1467.[U. S. C. , [a-z]. 319](/us/usc/p319/p47); Supp. I, p. 47. of conciliation commissioners, and per diem allowance and traveling expenses of supervising conciliation commissioners, as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States ’, approved July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto”, as amended, $135,000, to remain available until June 30, 1936.
Supplies: For an additional amount for supplies for United StatesSupplies. courts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1931, 68 cents. penal and correctional institutionsPenal and correctional institutions. United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, Buildings: ForFederal penitentiaries.Leavenworth, Kans., construction, etc. construction and repair of buildings, including the purchase and installation of machinery and equipment and all expenses incident thereto, to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to inmates of the institution, $65,410, to remain available until June 30, 1936: *Provided*, That the use of the annex by the Bureau*Proviso*.Use of annex. of Prisons, Department of Justice, is hereby continued until July 1, 1936.
United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, maintenance:Maintenance. Vol. 48, p. 544. For an additional amount for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1935, $126,080. United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia, maintenance: ForAtlanta, Ga. an additional amount for the United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1935, $83,180.
United States penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington,McNeil Island, Wash. maintenance: For an additional amount for the United States penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1935, $38,715. United States Northeastern Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Northeastern Penitentiary.Pennsylvania, maintenance: For an additional amount, for the United States penitentiary in the northeast, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1935, $59,180.
United States Industrial Reformatory, Chillicothe, Ohio,Industrial Reformatory. maintenance: For an additional amount for the United States Industrial Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1935, $21,705. United States Southwestern Reformatory, El Reno, Oklahoma,Southwestern Reformatory.Vol. 48, p. 545. maintenance: For an additional amount for the United States Southwestern Reformatory, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1935, $130,500. 54 Federal jails.Vol. 48, p. 545.Federal jails, maintenance:
For an additional amount for Federal jails, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1935, $101,015. Prison camps.Prison camps, maintenance: For an additional amount for prison camps, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1935, $13,140. Petersburg, Va., reformatory camp.Federal Reformatory Camp, Petersburg, Virginia, maintenance: For an additional amount for the Federal Reformatory Camp at Petersburg, Virginia, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1935, $36,090.
Additional, for construction.Vol. 47, p. 1387.Not to exceed $11.000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation “Federal Reformatory Camp, Petersburg, Virginia, maintenance, 1934”, is made available for the payment of obligations which have been incurred for construction and repair of buildings, including the purchase and installation of machinery and equipment and all expenses incident thereto, at such camp. Support of prisoners.Los Angeles County, Calif.Vol. 46, p. 1329.Support of United States prisoners:
For an additional amount for support of United States prisoners, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1932, $35,403, to constitute settlement in full with Los Angeles County, California, for the fiscal year 1932, for the support of United States prisoners. Navy Department.NAVY DEPARTMENT Secretary’s office.secretary’s office Damage claims.Vol. 42. p. 1066. [U. S. C., p. 1550](/us/usc/p1550).Claims for damages by collision with naval vessels:
To pay claims for damages adjusted and determined by the Secretary of the Navy under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to settle claims for damages to private property arising from collisions with naval vessels”, approved December 28, 1922 (U. S. C., title 34, sec. 599), as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 129, Seventy-fourth Congress, and including item numbered 6, page 4, in House Document Numbered 328, Seventy-third Congress, $3,824.66.
Elizabeth Bolger.Vol. 48, p. 1376.Payment to Elizabeth Bolger: For payment to Elizabeth Bolger in full settlement of all claims against the Government on account of personal injuries sustained as the result of the carelessness of the driver of a Navy automobile on April 5, 1919, in Brooklyn, New York, as authorized in the Act approved June 8, 1934 (48 Stat., 1376), $700. Bureau of Navigation.bureau of navigation Naval Reserve.Naval Reserve: For an additional amount for expenses of organizing. administering, and recruiting the Naval Reserve and Naval Militia, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935. $175,000.
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.bureau of supplies and accounts Pay, subsistence, and transportation.Limitation increased.Vol. 47, p. 1531.Pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy: The limitation on expenditures for “transportation of dependents of officers and enlisted men of the Navy” under the appropriation “Pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy”, for the fiscal year 1934, is hereby increased from $450,000 to $575,000. Sue Hall Erwin.Vol. 48, p. 1392.Payment to Sue Hall Erwin:
For payment to Sue Hall Erwin of an amount equal to six months’ pay of her son, the late Marcus Erwin, Junior, ensign, United States Navy, as authorized in the Act approved June 14, 1934 (48 Stat., 1392), $750. 55 POST OFFICE DEPARTMENTPost Office Department. Out of the Postal RevenuesPostal Service. office of first assistant postmaster generalFirst Assistant Post-master General. Clerks, first- and second-class post offices: For an additionalClerks, etc., first- and second-class offices.Vol. 48, p. 445. amount for compensation of clerks and employees at first- and second-class post offices, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1935, $2,500,000.
City delivery carriers: For an additional amount for pay ofCity delivery. letter carriers, City Delivery Service, fiscal year 1935, $500,000. office of the fourth assistant postmaster generalFourth Assistant Postmaster General. Stationery: For an additional amount for stationery for theStationery, etc.Vol. 48, p. 447. Postal Service, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1935, $49,000. DEPARTMENT OF STATEDepartment of State. foreign intercourseForeign intercourse.
Allowance to widows or heirs of Foreign Service officers who dieAllowance to widows or heirs of Foreign Service officers.Vol. 47. p. 479. abroad: For an additional amount for allowance to widows or heirs of Foreign Service officers who die abroad, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of State for the fiscal year 1933, $163,82. Bringing home criminals: For an additional amount forBringing home criminals.Vol. 47, p. 487. bringing home criminals, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of State for the fiscal year 1933, $25.
Bringing home persons charged with crime: For an additionalBringing home pesons charged with crime.Vol 47, p. 1378. amount for bringing home persons charged with crime, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of State for the fiscal year 1934, $125. For an additional amount for bringing home persons charged withAdditional sum.Vol. 48, p. 536. crime, including the same objects specified under this head in Department of State /Appropriation Act, 1935, $1,500.
Payment to the Government of Canada on account of the sinkingPayment to Canada.“I’m Alone”, damage claim.Vol. 46, pp. 113, 1581. of the schooner I’m Alone: For payment to the Government of Canada, upon receipt by the Secretary of State of satisfactory releases from the respective claimants, in full settlement of all claims for damages resulting from the sinking of the schooner I’m Alone in the Gulf of Mexico by the United States Coast Guard on March 22, 1929, as recommended in the joint final report, dated January 5, 1935, of the Commissioners appointed by the United States and Canada pursuant to the provisions of the convention of January 23, 1924, between the United States and Great Britain, $50,666,50.
Narcotics Limitation Convention: For payment of the share ofNarcotics Limitation Convention.Vol. 48. p. 1543. the United States of the expenses for the calendar years 1933 and 1934 in connection with the Convention between the United States and other powers for Limiting the Manufacturing and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs, signed at Geneva, July 13, 1931, $12,086, together with such additional sum, due to increases in rates of exchange, as may be necessary to pay in foreign currency the proportionate share of the United States. 56 International Monetary and Economic Conference;
General Disarmament Conference.Balances reappropriated.Vol. 47. pp. 538, 783; Vol. 48, pp. 278, 1041.*Post*, p. 1633.International Monetary and Economic Conference, 1933–1935, and General Disarmament Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 1933–1935: The unexpended balances of the appropriations “International Monetary and Economic Conference, 1933–1935”, and “General Disarmament Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 1933–1935”, are hereby continued available until June 30, 1936, and are made available, in addition to the purposes for which they were appropriated, Participation in Disarmament Conference.for the expenses of continued participation by the Government of the United States in the General Disarmament Conference and for participation Naval armament limitation conference.Vol. 43, p. 1655.in any naval conference which may be held under the provisions of the treaty between the United States, the British Empire, France, Italy, and Japan, agreeing to a limitation of naval armament, signed at Washington, February 6, 1922, and of the treaty between the United States of America and other powers for the limitation and reduction of naval armament, signed at London, April 22, 1930, and for any meetings or conversations in connection therewith; including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as Services, etc., without advertising.[R.
S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733); [U. S. C., p. 1803](/us/usc/p1803).amended; stenographic reporting, translating, and other services by contract if deemed necessary, without regard to the provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); rent; traveling expenses; purchase of necessary books, documents, newspapers, and periodicals; stationery; official cards; printing and binding; entertainment; hire, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled, passenger-carrying vehicles; and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State, including the reimbursement of other appropriations from which expenditures may be made for any of the purposes herein specified.
Allowance to widows of officers.Widows of Foreign Service officers: For the payment of one year’s salary to the following widows of Foreign Service officers as *Proviso*.Limitation on attorneys’, etc., fees.Vol. 48, p. 1397.authorized by law: *Provided*, That such portion of private Act Numbered 262, Seventy-third Congress (48 Stat., 1397), as is contained in the proviso thereof, shall apply with the same force and effect to each of these appropriations as it applies to the authorization for an appropriation in such private Act:
Jeannette S. Jewell.Vol. 48, p. 1396.To Jeannette S. Jewell (Act of June 16, 1934, 48 Stat., 1396), $7,000. Alice M. A. Damm.Vol. 48, p. 1397.To Alice M. A. Damm (Act of June 16, 1934, 48 Stat., 1397). $5,000. Rosemund Pauline Lowry.Vol. 48, p. 1397.Elizabeth Millicent Trammell.Vol. 48, p. 1436.Marcella Leahy McNerney.Vol. 48, p. 1439.Cornelia Claiborne. Vol. 48, p. 1453.To Rosemund Pauline Lowry (Act of June 16, 1934, 48 Stat., 1397), $4,500. To Elizabeth Millicent Trammell (Act of June 26, 1934, 48 Stat., 1436), $3,000.
To Marcella Leahv McNerney (Act of June 26, 1934, 48 Stat., 1439), $2,500. To Cornelia Claiborne (Act of June 26, 1934, 48 Stat., 1453), $7,000. Mary Seeley Watson. Vol. 48, p. 1455.To Mary Seeley Watson (Act of June 26, 1934, 48 Stat., 1455), $5,000. Treasury Department.TREASURY DEPARTMENT Division of Supply.division of supply Printing and binding.Printing and binding, Treasury Department: For an additional amount for printing and binding, Treasury Department, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1935. $17,500. 57 Stationery:
For an additional amount for stationery for theStationery. Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices and field services thereof, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1935, $97,000. coast guardCoast Guard. Pay and allowances: For an additional amount for pay andPay and allowances. Vol. 48, p. 432. allowances, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1935, $371,663.
Fuel and water: For an additional amount for fuel and water,Fuel and water. including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1935, $335,900. Outfits: For an additional amount for outfits, including the sameOutfits. objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1935, $99,943. Rebuilding and repairing stations, and so forth: For an additionalRebuilding and repairing stations, etc. amount for rebuilding and repairing stations, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1935, $12,970.
Communication lines: For an additional amount for Communication lines.communication lines, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1935, $27,028. Contingent expenses: For an additional amount for contingentContingent expenses. expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1935, $10,000. Repairs to Coast Guard vessels: For an additional amount forVessel, etc., repairs.Vol. 48, p. 432. repairs to Coast Guard vessels, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1935, $475,000. procurement division, public works branchProcurement Division, Public Works.
General expenses of public buildings: For an additional amountPublic buildings.General expenses. Vol. 48, p. 438. for general expenses of public buildings, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act approved March 15, 1934, making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1935, $168,317. Rent of temporary quarters, public buildings: For an Rent of temporary quarters.Vol. 48, p. 1043.additional amount for rent of temporary quarters, for the fiscal year 1935, including the same objects specified under this head in the Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1934, approved June 19, 1934, $15,470.
Furniture and furnishings for United States courthouse, NewNew York, N. Y., courthouse.Furnishings, etc.Vol. 44, p. 630. York, New York: The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, out of the lump-sum appropriations available for sites and construction of Federal buildings under the Act of May 25, 1926, as amended, to expend not to exceed $443,772 to provide the necessary furniture and furnishings for the United States courthouse, New York, New York, authorized by the Act of March 4, 1931 (46Vol. 46, p. 1598.
Stat., p. 1598), and the Director of Procurement, Treasury Department, is hereby authorized to make contracts after advertising andContracts. competitive bidding, for the purchase of said furniture and furnishings and to make expenditures for services, supplies, material, and equipment, including the reconditioning of old furniture, and necessary travel and subsistence in connection with the purchase and inspection of commodities to be contracted for or purchased, and, when deemed desirable or advantageous by him, the said Director of Procurement is authorized to employ by contract or otherwise, without regard to civil-service laws and regulations, such temporary58 outside professional or technical services as he may find necessary in furnishing those portions of the said building requiring special *Proviso*.Cost basis.treatment, all within the total amount made available herein: *Provided*, That the cost of furniture and furnishings, except filing equipment in areas devoted exclusively to that purpose, shall be based upon the square-foot area of the rooms to be furnished, and shall not exceed the rates set forth herein, as follows:
For District and Appellate court rooms, $1.75 per square foot; judges’ private and outer offices, United States commissioners’ court rooms, and the law library, $1.50 per square foot; for all other space, $1 per square foot. War Department.WAR DEPARTMENT Military activities.military activities Travel, military and civil personnel.Vol. 48, p. 617.Travel, military and civil personnel: For an additional amount for “Travel, military and civil personnel, War Department”, including the same objects specified under this head in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $500,000.
Pay, etc., of the Army.Aviation increase.Vol. 48, p. 618.Pay, and so forth, of the Army: The limitation on the amount available for aviation increase of pay to commissioned and warrant officers of the Army, as contained in the War Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, approved April 26, 1934, is hereby increased by $150,000. Subsistence.Vol. 48, p. 620.Subsistence of the Army: For an additional amount for “Subsistence of the Army”, including the same objects specified under this head in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $3,465,000.
Regular supplies of the Army.Vol. 48, p. 621.Regular supplies of the Army: For an additional amount for “Regular supplies of the Army”, including the same objects specified under this head in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $1,551,000. Army transportation.Vol. 48, p. 622.Army transportation: For an additional amount for “Army transportation”, including the same objects specified under this head in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $877,124.
Fort Kamehameha, Hawaii.Land for flying field.Vol. 45, p. 750.Acquisition of land, Fort Kamehameha, Hawaii: For acquisition of land in the vicinity of Fort Kamehameha Reservation, Territory of Hawaii, under condemnation proceedings as authorized by the Act approved May 26, 1928 (45 Stat., 750), fiscal year 1935, $1,091,238.62, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest at the rate stipulated and in accordance with the judgments rendered in condemnation to date of payments.
Ordnance Department.Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company.Ordnance Department: For payment of General Accounting Office Settlement Numbered 0301919 dated May 1, 1933, Claim Numbered 027495, in favor of the, Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company, as follows: “Manufacture of Arms, 1926 and 1927”, $1,420.59; “Manufacture of Arms. 1928 and 1929”, $903.40; “Replacing Ordnance and Ordnance Stores, 1928 and 1929”, $4,758.55; in all, $7,082.54. National Guard.Vol. 48, p. 632.National Guard:
For an additional amount for “Arming, equipping, and training the National Guard”, for the procurement of forage, bedding, and so forth, for animals used by the National Guard, $125,000. Philippine Islands.Establishing, etc., office of U. S. High Commissioner to.Vol. 48, p. 461.United States High Commissioner to the Philippine Islands: For the establishment and maintenance of the office of the United States High Commissioner to the Philippine Islands as authorized by subsection 4 of section 7 of the Act approved March 24, 1934 (48 Stat. 456), including salaries and wages; rental, furnishings, equipment,59 maintenance, renovation, and repair of office quarters and living quarters for the High Commissioner; supplies and equipment; purchase and exchange of law books and books of reference, periodicals, and newspapers; traveling expenses, including for persons appointedTravel, etc., expenses. hereunder within the United States and their families, actual expenses of travel and transportation of household effects from their homes in the United States to the Philippine Islands, utilizing Government vessels whenever practicable; purchase, operation, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles, including not to exceed $4,500 for the purchase of three passenger-carrying automobiles, and all other necessary expenses, fiscal year 1936, $165,000, to be immediately available; of which amount not exceeding $10,000 shall be available for expenditure in the discretion of the High Commissioner for maintenance of his household and such other purposes as he may deem proper: *Provided*, That the salary of the legal adviser and the financial*Provisos*.Salary of legal adviser and financial expert.Minor purchases.[R.
S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733); [U. S. C., p. 1803](/us/usc/p1803). expert who may be appointed hereunder shall not. exceed the annual rate of $12,000 and $10,000 each, respectively: *Provided further*, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 45, see. 5), shall not apply to any purchase or service rendered under this appropriation when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $100. TITLE II— JUDGMENTS AND AUTHORIZED CLAIMSJudgments and authorized claims. damage claimsDamage claims.
Section 1. For the payment of claims for damages to or lossesSettlement of, not in excess of $1,000. of privately owned property adjusted and determined by the following respective departments and independent establishments under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for a methodVol. 42. p. 1066; [U. S. C., p. 1309](/us/usc/p1309). for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case”, approved December 28, 1922 (U.
S. C., title 31, secs. 215–217), as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 35 and House Document Numbered 127, Seventy-fourth Congress, as follows: Civil Works Administration, $4,250; Farm Credit Administration, $50; Veterans’ Administration, $81.30; Department of Agriculture. $6,699.30; Department of Commerce, $1,111.35; Department of the Interior, $2,882.66; Department of Justice, $208.11; Navy Department, $846.55; Post Office Department (out of postal revenues), $280.11;
Treasury Department, $1,348.98; War Department, $28,053.37; In all, $45,811.73: *Provided*, That in House Document Numbered*Proviso*.Eugene Pittaluga.Soucie & Lisherness. 127, Seventy-fourth Congress, the amount allowed in item 14, page 91, shall read “$125.20” instead of “$125” and the amount allowed in item 39, page 89, shall read “$106.59” instead of “$106.58”. judgments, united states courtsUnited States courts, judgments. Sec. 2.
(a)For payment of the final judgments and decrees,Payment of judgments; costs of suits. including costs of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1887, entitled “An Act to provide forVol. 24, p. 505; [U. S. C., pp. 1230, 1262, 1308](/us/usc/pp1230/1262/1308). the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States”, as amended by the Judicial Code, approved March 3, 1911 (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 41, par. 20; sec. 258; secs. 761–765), certified to the60 Seventy-fourth Congress in House Document Numbered 124 under the following departments and establishments, namely: Veterans’ Administration, $1,588.51; Department of Labor, $1,000; War Department, $11,239.78; Interest.In all, $13,828.29, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on certain judgments at the rate of 4 per centum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made, and to pay interest at the rate of 6 per centum per annum from November 7, 1927, until date of payment, in the cases of certain judgments as set forth in such document.
(b)Payments; suits in admiralty.Vol. 43, p. 1112. [U. S. C., p. 2054](/us/usc/p2504). For the payment of judgments, including costs of suits, rendered against the Government of the United States by United States District Courts under the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act authorizing suits against the United States in admiralty for damages caused by and salvage services rendered to public vessels belonging to the United States, and for other purposes”, approved March 3, 1925 (U. S. C., title 46, secs. 781–789), certified to the Seventy-fourth Congress in Senate Document Numbered 34 and House Document Numbered 124, under the following departments, namely: Department of Labor, $2,918.38; Navy Department, $79,978.18; War Department, $10,251.60; InterestIn all, $93,148.16, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest, where specified in such judgments, at the rate provided by law.
(c)Judgments under special Acts, etc. Vol. 33, p. 422; [U. S. C., p. 1399](/us/usc/p1399). For the payment of the judgments, including costs of suits, rendered against the Government by United States District Courts in special eases and under the provisions of certain special Acts and certified to the Seventy-fourth Congress in House Document Numbered 124, under the following departments, namely: Navy Department.Navy Department, $122,990.58; together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest as and where specified in such judgments.
(d)Judgment under Food Conservation Act. Vol. 40, p. 276. For the payment of judgment, including costs of suit, rendered against the Government of the United States by the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, under the provisions of the Act of August 10, 1917 (40 Stat., 276–279), certified to the Seventy-fourth Congress in House Document Numbered 124, as follows: War Department, $1,000.
(e)Time of payment. None of the judgments contained under this caption shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired except such as have become final and conclusive against the United States by failure of the parties to appeal or otherwise.
(f)Interest. Payment of interest wherever provided for judgments contained in this Act shall not in any case continue for more than thirty days after the date of approval of the Act. Judgments, Court of Claims. Sec. 3. Payment of.
(a)For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims and reported to the Seventy-fourth Congress in Semite Document Numbered 36 and House Document Numbered 123, under the following departments and establishments, namely: Department of Commerce, $10,360; Department of the Interior, $3,259.17; Navy Department, $86,814.05; 61 Post Office Department, $8,956.91; Treasury Department, $6,782.84; War Department, $64,911.09; In all, $181,084.06, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on certain of the judgments as and where specified in such judgments.
(b)None of the judgments contained under this caption whichTime of payment. have not been affirmed by the Supreme Court or otherwise become final and conclusive against the United States shall be paid until the expiration of the time within which application may be made forVol. 43, p. 939.[U. S. C., p. 1265](/us/usc/p1265). a writ of certiorari under subdivision
(b)section 3, of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Judicial Code, and to further define the jurisdiction of the circuit courts of appeals and of the Supreme Court, and for other purposes”, approved February 13, 1925 (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 288). audited claimsAudited claims. Sec. 4.
(a)For the payment of the following claims, certified toPayment of. be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874 (U. S. C., title 31,Vol. 18, p. 110.[U. S. C., p. 1410](/us/usc/p1410). sec. 713), and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1932 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 266), asVol. 23, p. 254.[U. S. C., p. 59](/us/usc/p59). fully set forth in House Document Numbered 122, Seventy-fourth Congress, there is appropriated as follows: legislative establishment For public printing and binding, Government Printing Office, $2.Government Printing Office. independent offices For operations under Mineral Act of October 5, 1918, $65,078.67.Independent Offices. For administrative expenses, Federal Farm Board, $4.25. For enforcement of wireless communication laws, Federal Radio Commission, $9. For salaries, General Accounting Office, $40.14. For United States Tariff Commission, $36.46. For salaries and expenses, United States Shipping Board, $175. For general expenses, office of public buildings and public parks of the National Capital, $7.20. For loans to farmers in storm and floodstrie ken areas, Southeastern States, $200. For Army pensions, $276.60. For military and naval compensation, Veterans’ Bureau, $90. For military and naval compensation. Veterans’ Administration, $2.21. For medical and hospital services, Veterans’ Bureau, $1,006.02. For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Bureau, $258.13. For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Administration, $862.87. department of agriculture For salaries and expenses, Weather Bureau, $14.04.Department of Agriculture. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $124.43. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $99.84. For salaries and expenses, Forest Service, $709.02. 62 Audited claims, continued.For Upper Mississippi River Wildlife Refuge, $5.52. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, $7.51. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, $4. For salaries and expenses, Plant Quarantine and Control Administration, $16. For eradication of scabies in sheep and goats, Indian Service (Interior transfer to Agriculture, Act February 14, 1931), $9. Department of Commerce.department of commerce For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce, $6. For aircraft in Commerce, $12.06. For air navigation facilities, $1,419.95. For transportation of families and effects of officers and employees, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, $83.78. For enforcement of navigation laws, $7.50. For retired pay, Lighthouse Service, $311.03. For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $1.34. For pay, and so forth, of officers and men, vessels, Coast Survey, $147.51. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $308.04. For salaries and expenses, Patent Office, special fund, 32 cents. Department of the Interior.department of the interior For Saint Elizabeths Hospital, $85.20. For National Park Service, $55.46. For conservation of health among Indians, $906.89. For Indian school support, $2,444.35. For support and civilization of Indians, $68.75. For support of Indians and administration of Indian property, 75 cents. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $14.52. For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $88. For education of natives of Alaska, $104.35. For administration of Indian forests, $40.20. Department of Justice.department of justice For detection and prosecution of crimes, $24.50. For printing and binding, Department of Justice and courts. $32.35. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Prohibition, $272. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $3,811.66. For salaries and expenses of clerks, United States courts, $8.92. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $30.45. For fees of witnesses United States courts, $64. For fees of jurors and witnesses, United States courts, $99.90. For pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, $99.76. For supplies for United States courts, $9,89. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $499.69. For support of United States prisoners, $292.37. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Prisons, $10.50. For United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, $28. For United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia, $23.75. 63 department of laborAudited claims, continued.Department of Labor. For employment service, Department of Labor, $30.22. For expenses of regulating immigration, $53.97. For immigration stations, $598.40. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Naturalization, $5.97. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Labor Statistics, $7.24. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Immigration, $1.99. navy departmentNavy Department. For increase of compensation, Naval Establishment, $403.84. For pay, miscellaneous, $1.10. For organizing the Naval Reserve, $24.21. For engineering, Bureau of Engineering, $1,917.69. For engineering, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $18.24. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, 93 cents. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $133.13. For pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy, $23,979.27. For pay of the Navy, $1,974.66. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $38.81. For gunnery and engineering exercises, Bureau of Navigation, $10. For instruments and supplies, Bureau of Navigation, $2,196. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $199.64. For aviation, Navy, $8,407.06. For pay, Marine Corps, $42,770.80. For general expenses, Marine Corps, $148.64. department of stateDepartment of State. For allowance for clerks at consulates, $58.33. For allowance to widows or heirs of Foreign Service officers who die abroad, $38.19. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $1,108.11. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $37.26. For office and living quarters, Foreign Service, $24.93. For representation, allowances to diplomatic missions and consulates, $77.97. For salaries, Foreign Service officers, $85.42. For transportation of Foreign Service Officers, $14.10. treasury departmentTreasury Department. For collecting the revenue from customs, $29,604.49. For collecting the internal revenue, $69.51. For enforcement of the narcotic and national prohibition acts, internal revenue, $310.82. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Narcotics, $4.50. For Coast Guard, $120. For contingent expenses, Coast Guard, $18.04. For fuel and water, Coast Guard, $50. For pay and allowances, Coast Guard, $5,591.19. For repairs to Coast Guard vessels, $59.10. For retired pay, former life-saving service, $1,295.13. For pay of acting assistant surgeons, Public Health Service, $5. For pay of other employees, Public Health Service, $29.33. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $659,61. 64 Audited claims, continued.For suppressing “Spanish influenza” and other communicable diseases, $2,894. For interstate quarantine service, 55 cents. For suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, $1.99. For United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia (Justice transfer to Treasury, Public Health Service), 75 cents. For compensation of employees, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $5.60. For increase of compensation, Treasury Department, $17.66. For stationery, Treasury Department, $27.83. For general expenses of public buildings, $3.50. For operating supplies for public buildings, $33. For remodeling and enlarging public buildings, $5,075.54. War Department.war department [R. S., Sec. 4818, p. 935](/us/rs/s4818/p935). [U. S. C., p. 880](/us/usc/880).For pay, and so forth, of the Army (estates of deceased soldiers, 4818 Revised Statutes), $18,556.64. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $35,153.19. For pay of the Army, $9,494.45. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, War with Spain, $1,314.45. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $28.56. For mileage of the Army, $34.69. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $3,046.74. For Army transportation, $1,959.88. For barracks and quarters, $833.77. For clothing and equipage, $95.55. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $3,864.85. For horses, draft and pack animals, $32.69. For regular supplies of the Army, $110.40. For subsistence of the Army, $70.46. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $13,437.61. For sites for military purposes, $15.50. For power plant, Fort Mills, Corregidor, Philippine Islands, $20,684.40. For ordnance service and supplies, Army, $193,39. For manufacture of arms, $23.60. For ammunition storage facilities, Army, $126.85. For replacing ordnance and ordnance stores, $28.45. For signal service of the Army, $135.82. For Air Corps, Army, $3,680.22. For armament of fortifications, $2,812.94. For tanks, $15.61. For engineer operations in the field, $200.45. For fortifications in insular possessions, $10.73. For seacoast defenses, insular possessions, ordnance, $19.59. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $584.39. For seacoast defenses, $1.33. For pay of National Guard for armory drills, $206.38. For arms, uniforms, equipment, and so forth, for field service, National Guard, $42.07. Civilian military training camps, $35.97. For organized reserves, $77.01. For reserve officers’ training corps, $768.55. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees. $15. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $1.17. For cemeterial expenses, War Department, $68.98. 65 post office department—postal serviceAudited claims, continued.Post Office Departsment. (Out of the postal revenues) For balances due foreign countries, $28,560.50.Postal service. For car fare and bicycle allowance, 35 cents. For clerks, contract stations, $9.77. For clerks, first- and second-class post offices, $882.52. For clerks, third-class post offices, $131.09. For city-delivery carriers, $161.60. For compensation to postmasters, $4,018.21. For freight, express, or motor transportation of equipment, and so forth, $65.81. For indemnities, domestic mail, $963.20. For indemnities, international mail, $421.91. For labor-saving devices, $4. For miscellaneous items, first- and second-class post offices, $489.50. For railroad transportation and Mail Messenger Service, $716.69. For Railway Mail Service, traveling expenses, $39.05. For rent, light, and fuel, $3,653.08. For Rural Delivery Service, $278.36. For unusual conditions at post offices, $210. For vehicle service, $12,812.75. For Village Delivery Service, $50. Total, audited claims, section 4 (a), $381,945.63, together with suchTotal; additional sum, increases in rate of exchange. additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency as specified in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office.
(b)For the payment of the following claims, certified to be dueAdditional claims, certified by General Accounting Office.Vol. 18, p. 110; Vol. 23, p. 254.[U. S. C., pp. 1410, 59](/us/usc/pp1410/59). by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874 (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 713), and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1932 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 266), as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 37, Seventy-fourth Congress, there is appropriated as follows: independent officesIndependent Offices. For Army pensions, $31.32. For medical and hospital services, Veterans’ Bureau, $4.50. For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Bureau, $1.25. For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Administration, $7. department of commerceDepartment of Commerce. For air navigation facilities, $638.40. department of the interiorDepartment of the Interior. For education, Sioux Nation, $251.30. For fulfilling treaties with Sioux of different tribes, including Santee Sioux of Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, $127.37. For conservation of health among Indians, $85.68. department of justiceDepartment of Justice. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Prohibition, $28.08. For detection and prosecution of crimes, $3. For pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, $10. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $300. For fees of jurors and witnesses, United States courts, $3. 66 Audited claims, continued.Navy Department.navy department For pay of the Navy, $28. Treasury Department.treasury department For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Narcotics, $1. For pay and allowances, Coast Guard, $1,182.86. For freight, transportation, and so forth, Public Health Service, $47.80. War Department.war department For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $1,105.80. For pay of the Army, $701.58. For mileage of the Army, $18.50. For increase of compensation Military Establishment, $21.90. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $297.13. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $71.40. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $5. For Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, $3.60. Post Office Department.post office department—postal service Postal service.(Out of the postal revenues) Railroad transportation and messenger service.Total; additional sum, increases in rate of exchange.For railroad transportation and mail messenger service, $45. Total, audited claims, section 4 (b), $5,020.47, together with such additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency as specified in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office. Sec. 5.Payment of withheld interest.Vol. 18, p. 481; Vol. 47, p. 1516; [U. S. C., p. 1370](/us/usc/p1370). Interest withheld from claimants: For payment of interest on amounts withheld from claimants by the Comptroller General of the United States, Act March 3, 1875, as amended by section 13 of the Act of March 3, 1933 (47 Stat. 1516), as allowed by the General Accounting Office, and certified to the Seventy-fourth Congress in House Document Numbered 126, under the Treasury Department, $4,015.62. Sec. 6.Judgments against collectors of customs. Judgments against collectors of customs: For the payment of claims allowed by the General Accounting Office covering judgments [R. S., sec. 989, p. 185](/us/rs/989/185).[U. S. C., p. 1314](/us/usc/p1314).rendered by United States District Courts against collectors of customs, where certificates of probable cause have been issued as provided for under section 989, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 842), and certified to the Seventy-fourth Congress in House Document Numbered 128, under the Department of Labor, $29,601.23. Sec. 7.Payments, under certain private Acts. Harden F. Taylor.Vol. 48, p. 1343. Claims under certain private Acts: To pay a claim allowed by the Comptroller General of the United States under the provisions of Private Act Numbered 121, Seventy-third Congress, approved May 7, 1934 (48 Stat, 1343), and certified to the Seventy-fourth Congress in House Document Numbered 125, under the Department of Commerce, $500. Alleghany Forging Company.Vol. 48, p. 1304.For the payment of a claim allowed by the General Accounting Office under the provisions of Private Act Numbered 20, Seventy-third Congress, approved February 26, 1934 (48 Stat. 1304), and certified to the Seventy-fourth Congress in House Document Numbered 125, under the War Department, $174.92. Anna H. Jones.Vol. 48, p. 1368.For the payment of a claim allowed by the General Accounting Office under the provisions of Private Act Numbered 185, Seventy-third Congress, approved June 5, 1934 (48 Stat. 1368), and certified to the Seventy-fourth Congress in House Document Numbered 125, under the Navy Department, $1,110. 67 Sec. 8. Settlement of damage claims arising from construction ofPetrolia-Fort Worth, Tex., gas-pipe line. Vol. 48, p. 1323. PetroliaFort Worth gas-pipe line: For the settlement of damage claims arising from the construction of the PetroliaFort Worth gas-pipe line, as authorized by the Act approved April 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 1323), $7,356.75. Sec. 9. This Act may be cited as the “First DeficiencyShort title. Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935.” Approved, March 21, 1935. To continue the commission for determining the boundary line between the District of Columbia and the State of Virginia for not to exceed nine additional months, and to authorize not to exceed $10,000 additional funds for its expenses. 1935-03-21 49 Stat. 67 37 Chapter 74 1 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 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 37.] JOINT RESOLUTION To continue the commission for determining the boundary line between the District of Columbia and the State of Virginia for not to exceed nine additional months, and to authorize not to exceed $10,000 additional funds for its expenses. March 21, 1935.[[H. J. Res. 134](/us/bill/74/hjres/134).][[Pub. Res., No. 9](/us/bill/74/pubres/9).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, District of Columbia Virginia Boundary Commission.Functions, etc., continued.Vol. 48, p. 453. That the commission to determine the boundary line between the District of Columbia and the State of Virginia created under the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the appointment of a commission to establish the boundary line between the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Virginia”, approved March 21, 1934 (48 Stat. 453), as constituted on the date of enactment of this resolution, shallTime limitation. continue to function under such Act until the completion of its report, but not after December 1, 1935. Sec. 2. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of such ActAppropriation authorized. *Ante*, pp. 23, 50. and the payment of salaries and compensation under such Act, the sum of $10,000 is hereby authorized to be appropriated in addition to any sums authorized prior to the date of enactment of this resolution. Approved, March 21, 1935. Making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other purposes. 1935-03-22 49 Stat. 67 39 Chapter 74 1 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 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 39.] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other purposes. March 22, 1935.[[H. R. 5255](/us/bill/74/hr/5255).][[Public, No. 22](/us/bill/74/pl/22).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the followingAppropriations for Departments of State and Justice, the Judiciary, and Departments of Commerce and Labor, fiscal year 1936. sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, namely: TITLE I— DEPARTMENT OF STATEDepartment of State. office of the secretary of state Salaries: For Secretary of State; Under Secretary of State,Secretary, Under Secretary, and office personnel.*Post*, p. 1123.Temporary and piecework employees. $10,000; and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including temporary employees, and not to exceed $6,500 for employees engaged on piecework at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of State; $1,813,000, of which amount, not to exceed $108,640, mayExpenditure without regard to civil service and Classification Acts. be expended by the Secretary of State without regard to civil service laws and regulations or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended: *Provided*, That in expending appropriations or portions of*Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act. appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification68Vol. 42, p. 1488; Vol. 45, p. 776; Vol. 46, p. 1003. [U. S. C., p. 85](/us/usc/p85).Exceptions.Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the four Assistant Secretaries of State and the legal adviser of the Department of State, the Assistant to the Attorney General, the Assistant Solicitor General, and six Assistant Attorneys General, the Assistant Secretaries of Commerce, the Assistant Secretary and the Second Assistant Secretary of Labor, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the If only one position in grade.compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates Advances in unusually meritorious cases.for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate:Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical services. *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 of any person whose compensation was fixed as of No reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490; [U. S. C., p. 86](/us/usc/p86).July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act, or
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, or
(4)to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade Higher salary rates permitted.at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as No reduction, if only one position in grade.amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or
(5)to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated. contingent expenses, department of state Contingent expenses.*Post*, p. 1630.For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including stationery, furniture, fixtures; typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their exchange, not exceeding $6,000; Books, periodicals.repairs and materials for repairs; purchase and exchange of books, maps, and periodicals, domestic and foreign, and when authorized by the Secretary of State for dues for library membership in societies or associations which issue publications to members only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers who are not members, not exceeding Motor vehicles; purchase, repair.$8,000; newspapers not exceeding $1,500; not to exceed $2,500 for the purchase, including exchange, of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle for the official use of the Secretary of State; maintenance, repair, and storage of motor-propelled vehicles, to be used only for official purposes (one for the Secretary of State and two for dispatching mail, and one motorcycle for the general use of the department); automobile mail wagons, including storage, repair, and Refund of passport fees erroneously charged.Vol. 41, p. 750; Vol. 44, p. 887.[U. S. C., p. 960](/us/usc/p960).exchange of same; street-car fare not exceeding $100; traveling expenses; refund of fees erroneously charged and paid for the issue of passports to persons who are exempted from the payment of such fee by section 1 of the Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, approved June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 22, sec. 214a); the examination of estimates of appropriations in the field; and other miscellaneous items not included in the foregoing, $73,000. printing and binding Printing and binding.*Post*, p. 1631.For all printing and binding in the Department of State, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $121,000. 69 passport agencies For salaries and expenses of maintenance, and traveling expensesPassport agencies. not to exceed $500, for not to exceed five passport agencies, $54,000, of which $1,500 shall be immediately available. collecting and editing official papers of territories of the united statesOfficial Papers of Territories. For the expenses of collecting, editing, copying, and arranging forCollecting, etc., for publication. publication the official papers of the Territories of the United States, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere,Printing and binding.Vol. 45, p. 1412; [U. S. C., p. 52](/us/usc/p52).*Proviso*.Edition; distribution. printing and binding, and contingent and traveling expenses, as provided by the Act approved February 28, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. VII. title 5, secs. 168–169), $23,030: *Provided*, That the total number of copies of any volume to be printed and bound under this or any other appropriation for printing and binding of these papers shall not exceed one thousand two hundred and twenty-seven, which shall be distributed as provided in section 3 of such Act, except that each Senator shall receive not to exceed three copies and each Representative not to exceed one. promotion of foreign tradePromotion of foreign trade. For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of sectionExpenses, negotiating agreements. Vol. 48, p. 945. 4 of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Tariff Act of 1930”, approved June 12, 1934 (48 Stat. 945), including personal servicesPersonal services.[U. S. C., pp. 81, 85](/us/usc/pp81/85). without regard to civil service laws and regulations or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, stenographic reporting services, by contract if deemed necessary, without regard to section 3709 of the[U. S. C., p. 1803](/us/usc/p1803). Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), contingent expenses, printing and binding, traveling expenses, and such other expensesSum reappropriated.Vol. 48, p. 1038.*Post*, p. 1311. as the President may deem necessary, $40,000, together with not to exceed $35,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1935. foreign intercourseForeign intercourse. ambassadors and ministers Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Argentina,Salaries.Ambassadors. Brazil, Chile, Cuba, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Spain, Turkey, and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, at $17,500 each; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Belgium and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Luxemburg, $17,500; Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to China andMinisters.China and Netherlands.*Post*, p. 500.Other countries. the Netherlands, at $12,000 each; Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to Albania, Austria, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Dominion of Canada, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Irish Free State, Liberia, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Persia, Portugal, Rumania, Salvador, Siam, Union of South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Yugoslavia, at $10,000 each; and to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, $10,000; In all, not to exceed $642,500; *Provided*, That no salary herein appropriated shall be paid to anyProviso.Salary restriction. official receiving any other salary from the United States Government. 70 Foreign service officers.salaries of foreign service officers Salaries.Vol. 46, p. 1207.[U. S. C., p. 942](/us/usc/p942).For salaries of Foreign Service officers as provided in the Act approved February 23, 1931 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 22, secs. 3, 3a); salaries of Ambassadors, Ministers, consuls, vice consuls, and other Instruction and transit pay.officers of the United States for the period actually and necessarily occupied in receiving instructions and in making transits to and from [R. S. sec. 1740, p. 309](/us/rs/s1740/p309). [U. S. C., p. 952](/us/usc/p952).their posts, and while awaiting recognition and authority to act in pursuance with the provisions of section 1740 of the Revised Statutes Chargés d’Affaires ad interim.(U. S. C., title 22, sec. 121); and salaries of Foreign Service officers or vice consuls while acting as Chargés d’Affaires ad interim or while in charge of a consulate general or consulate during the absence of the principal officer; $3,293,395. transportation of foreign service officers Traveling expenses.*Post*, p. 1631.To pay the traveling expenses of Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Service officers, and other employees of the Foreign Service, including Foreign Service inspectors and under such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, of their families and expenses of transportation of effects, in going to and returning from their posts, including not to exceed $35,000 for expenses incurred in connection Leaves of absence.Bringing home remains of officers, etc., dying abroad.with leaves of absence, and of the preparation and transportation of the remains of those officers and said employees of the Foreign Service, who have died or may die abroad or in transit while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country or to a place not more distant for interment and for the ordinary Allowances to widows, etc.[R. S., sec. 1749, p. 311](/us/rs/s1749/p311).[U. S. C., p. 953](/us/usc/p953).expenses of such interment, and also for payment under the provisions of section 1749 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 130) of allowances to the widows or heirs at law of Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Service officers of the United States dying in *Provisos*.Subsistence expenses, temporary details.foreign countries in the discharge of their duties, $427,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available also for the authorized subsistence expenses of Consular and Foreign Service officers while Assignment of Army and Navy officers for courier service.on temporary detail under commission: *Provided further*, That the President, in his discretion, may assign officers of the Army and the Navy for duty in the courier service of the Department of State and for the inspection of buildings owned or occupied by the United States in foreign countries under the jurisdiction of that Department, and when so assigned they may receive the same traveling expenses as are authorized for officers of the Foreign Service, payable from the applicable appropriations of the Department of State. Rent, heat, fuel, and light allowances.allowances for rent, heat, fuel, and light, foreign service For offices and grounds.Vol. 46, p. 818; [U. S. C., p. 45](/us/usc/p45).Living quarters.For rent, heat, fuel, and light for the Foreign Service for offices and grounds, and, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 5, sec. 118a), for living quarters and not to exceed $1,140,000 for allowances for living quarters, including *Provisos*.Rent payment in advance.Leases.heat, fuel, and light, $2,025,000: *Provided*, That payment for rent may be made in advance: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of State may enter into leases for such offices, grounds, and living Allowances for quarters limited.quarters for periods not exceeding ten years: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light in an amount exceeding $3,000 for an ambassador or a minister, and not exceeding $1,700 Custodial, etc., services, restriction.*Post*, p. 72.for any other Foreign Service officer: *Provided further*, That under this appropriation and the appropriations herein for “Contingent expenses, Foreign Service” and “Micellaneous11 So In original. salaries and allow-71ances, Foreign Service”, not more than $3,000 shall be expended for custodial service, heat, fuel, and light in any Government-owned building used for residence or residence and office purposes for an ambassador or minister, and not more than $1,700 for such purposes in the case of any other Foreign Service officer, except that at anyException. post at which the expenditures for such purposes for the fiscal year 1933 were in excess of the limitation of $3,000 in this last proviso in the case of an ambassador or minister there may be expended during the fiscal year 1936 an amount equal to the sum so authorized to be expended during the fiscal year 1933, but in no event to exceed $5,000; and during the incumbency of a chargé d’affaires the limitation on such expenditures shall be the same as for the occupancy of the principal officer. cost of living allowance, foreign service officers To carry out the provisions of the Act approved February 23,Cost of living allowance.Vol. 46, p. 1207.[U. S. C., pp. 943, 945](/us/usc/pp943/945). 1931 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 22, secs. 12, 23c), relating to allowances and additional compensation to diplomatic, consular, and Foreign Service officers and clerks when such allowances and additional compensation are necessary to enable such officers and clerksAdditional compensation. to carry on their work efficiently: *Provided*, That such allowances*Proviso*.Regulation of expenditure. and additional compensation shall be granted only in the discretion of the President, and under such regulations as he may prescribe, $200,000. foreign service retirement and disability fundForeign Service retirement, etc., fund. For financing the liability of the United States, created by theFederal contribution.Vol. 46, p. 1211.[U. S. C., p. 944](/us/usc/p944). Act approved February 23, 1931 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 22, sec. 21), $162,400, which amount shall be placed to the credit or the “Foreign Service retirement and disability fund.” salaries of clerks in the foreign serviceClerks in Foreign Service. For salaries of clerks in the Foreign Service, as provided inSalaries.Vol. 46, p. 1207.[U. S. C., p. 945](/us/usc/p945). the Act approved February 23, 1931 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 22, sec. 23a), including salaries during transit to and from homes in the United States upon the beginning and after termination of service, $2,216,000. miscellaneous salaries and allowances, foreign service For salaries or compensation of kavasses, guards, dragomans,Miscellaneous salaries and allowances.*Post*, p. 590. porters, interpreters, prison keepers, translators, archive collators, Chinese writers, messengers, couriers, telephone operators, supervisors of construction, and custodial and operating force for maintenance and operation of Government-owned and leased diplomatic and consular properties in foreign countries; compensation of agents and employeesDispatch agencies.Salaries during transit. of dispatch agencies at London, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and New Orleans, including salaries during transit to and from theirVehicle maintenance. homes in the United States upon the beginning and after termination of service in foreign countries; operation of motor-propelled and other passenger and non-passenger-carrying vehicles; for allowancesServices to American seamen, etc.Vol. 23, p. 56.[U. S. C., pp. 950, 1990](/us/usc/pp950/1990). to consular officers, who are paid in whole or in part by fees, for services necessarily rendered to American vessels and seamen, as provided in the Act of June 26, 1884 (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 89; title 46, sec. 101 ); and such other miscellaneous personal services as the President may deem necessary; $580,000: *Provided*, That no part of this*Provisos*.Citizenship requirements. appropriation shall be expended for salaries or wages of persons not American72 citizens performing clerical services (except interpreters, translators, and messengers), whether officially designated as clerks or not, in any Naval assignments as custodians.foreign mission: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized, upon request by the Secretary of State, to assign enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps to serve as custodians, under the immediate supervision of the Secretary of State or the chief of mission, whichever the Secretary of State shall direct, at embassies, legations, or consulates of the United States located in foreign countries. Contingent expenses, Foreign Service.contingent expenses, foreign service Government-owned property.*Post*, pp. 590, 1631.For stationery; blanks; record and other books; seals; presses; flags; signs; repairs, including minor alterations; repairs, preservation, and maintenance of Government-owned diplomatic and consular properties in foreign countries, including water, materials, supplies, tools, seeds, plants, shrubs, and similar objects; newspapers (foreign and domestic); freight; postage; telegrams; advertising; Vehicles.ice and drinking water for office purposes; purchase (at not to exceed $750 for any one automobile), maintenance, and hire of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and purchase, maintenance, and hire of other passenger-carrying vehicles; funds for establishment and maintenance of commissary service; uniforms; Government buildings abroad.Vol. 44, p. 403; Vol. 45, p. 971.[U. S. C., p. 967](/us/usc/p967).furniture, household furniture and furnishings, except as provided by the Act of May 7, 1926, as amended, for Government-owned or rented buildings, when, in the judgment of the Secretary of State, it would be in the public interest to do so, not to exceed $65,000; typewriters and exchange of same; maintenance and rental of launch for embassy in Turkey, not exceeding $3,500, including personnel Dispatch agencies.for operation; rent and other expenses for dispatch agencies at London, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and New Orleans; Attendance at trade conferences, etc.Vol. 46, p. 1209.[U. S. C., p. 943](/us/usc/p943).traveling expenses, including attendance at trade and other conferences or congresses under orders of the Secretary of State as authorized by the Act approved February 23, 1931 (U. S. C., Supp. Loss by exchange.VII, title 22, sec. 16); loss by exchange; payment in advance for telephone and other similar services, expenses of vice consulates and Language study.consular agencies for any of the foregoing objects; cost, not exceeding $350 per annum each, of the tuition of Foreign Service officers assigned for the study of the languages of Asia and eastern Europe; Relief, etc., American seamen.for relief, protection, and burial of American seamen in foreign countries, in the Panama Canal Zone, and in the Philippine Islands, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, in Puerto Rico, and in the Virgin Islands, and for expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgement of the services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from shipwreck or other catastrophe Consular prisons.at sea; for expenses of maintaining in China, the former Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, and Muscat institutions for Care of insane.incarcerating American convicts and persons declared insane by any consular court, rent of quarters for prisons, ice and drinking water for prison purposes, and for the expenses of keeping, feeding, and transportation of prisoners and persons declared insane by any consular court in China, the former Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, and Muscat; for every expenditure requisite for Bringing home persons charged with crime. [R. S., sec. 5275, p. 1022](/us/rs/s5275/p1022).[U. S. C., p. 774](/us/usc/p774).or incident to the bringing home from foreign countries of persons charged with crime as authorized by section 5275 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 18, sec. 659); and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may deem necessary; $853,500. 73 emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising inEmergencies; diplomatic and consular service.*Post*, p. 590.Neutrality Act, expenses.[R. S., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/s291/p49).[U. S. C., p. 1362](/us/usc/p1362). the Diplomatic and Consular Service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States and to meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the Neutrality Act, to be expended pursuant to the requirement of section 291 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 31, sec, 107), $175,000. contribution, quotas, and so forth For payment of the annual contributions, quotas and expenses,Contributions, quotas. etc. including loss by exchange, in discharge of the obligations of the United States in connection with international commissions, congresses, bureaus, and other objects, in not to exceed the respective amounts, as follows: Cape Spartel and Tangier Light, Coast of Morocco, $784; International Bureau of Weights and Measures, $4,342.50; International Bureau for Publication of Customs Tariffs, $1,318.77; Pan American Union, $189,888.58, including not to exceed $20,000 for printing and binding; International Bureau of Permanent Court of Arbitration, $1,658.25; Bureau of *Post*, p. 591.Interparliamentary Union for Promotion of International Arbitration, $7,500;International Institute of Agriculture. International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, Italy, $49,911, including not to exceed $12,855 for the salary of the American member of the permanent committee (at not more than $7,500 per annum), compensation of subordinate employees without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, expenses for the maintenance of the office at Rome, including purchase of necessary books,Printing and binding. maps, documents, and newspapers and periodicals (foreign andAllowances. domestic), printing and binding, allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approvedVol. 46, p. 818.[U. S. C., p. 45](/us/usc/p45). June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 5, sec. 118a), for the use of the American member of the permanent committee, and traveling expenses to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State; Pan American Sanitary Bureau, $30,438.41; International Office of Public Health, $3,015.62; Bureau of International Telecommunication Union, Radio Section, $5,790; Government of Panama, $250,000; International Hydrographic Bureau, $4,323.20; Inter-American Trade-Mark Bureau, $14,330.20; International Bureau for Protection of Industrial Property, $1,277.47; Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, $50,000; American International Institute for the Protection of Childhood, $2,000; International Statistical Bureau at The Hague, $2,000; International Map of the World on the Millionth Scale, $50; International Technical Committee of Aerial Legal Experts, $250; Convention Relating to Liquor Traffic in Africa, $55; International Penal and Penitentiary Commission,International Penal and Penitentiary Commission. $4,282, including not to exceed $750 for the necessary expenses of the commissioner to represent the United States on the commission at its annual meetings, personal services without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, traveling expenses, and such other expenses as the Secretary of State may deem necessary; Permanent Association of International Road Congresses, $588; International Labor Organization, $174,630; and Implementing the Narcotics Convention of 1931, $8,037; in all $806,470, together with such additional sums, due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay in foreign currencies the quotas and contributions required by the several treaties, conventions, or laws establishing the amount of the obligation. 74 international boundary commission, united states and mexico International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico.Vol. 24, p. 1011; Vol. 26, p. 1512; Vol. 34, p. 2953.Vol. 44, p. 1403; Vol. 46, p. 1162; Vol. 47, p. 480.For expenses of meeting the obligations of the United States under the treaties of 1884, 1889, 1905, 1906, and 1933 between the United States and Mexico, and of compliance with public resolutions approved March 3, 1927 and February 14, 1931, and the Act making appropriations for the Department of State for the fiscal year 1933, including operation of gaging stations where necessary and their equipment; personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; fees for professional services at rates and in amounts to be determined by the Secretary of State; travel expenses, including Printing and binding.transportation of effects; printing and binding; subscriptions to foreign and domestic newspapers and periodicals; purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled, passenger- and freight-carrying vehicles; purchase of rubber boots and waders for official use of employees; purchase of ice; drilling [R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[U. S. C., p. 1803](/us/usc/p1803).and testing of dam sites, by contract if deemed necessary, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec, 5); equipment and such other miscellaneous expenses as the Secretary of State may deem proper, $119,000. American section, expenses.*Ante*, p. 24.*Post*, p. 1463.For an additional amount for the International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico, for the purposes provided in Public Resolution Numbered 4 entitled “Joint resolution to provide for defraying the expenses of the American section, International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico”, approved February 13, 1935, to be immediately available, $60,000. International Boundary Commission; United States and Canada.Obligations under treaty with Great Britain.Vol. 44, p. 2102.international boundary commission, united states and canada and alaska and canada To enable the President to perform the obligations of the United States under the treaty between the United States and Great Britain in respect of Canada, signed February 24, 1925; for salaries and expenses, including the salary of the commissioner and salaries of the necessary engineers, clerks, and other employees for duty at the seat of government and in the field; cost of office equipment and supplies; necessary traveling expenses; commutation of subsistence to employees while on field duty, not to exceed $4 per day each, but not to exceed $1,75 per day each when a member of a field party and subsisting in camp; for payment for timber necessarily cut in keeping the boundary line clear, not to exceed $500; and for all Boundary lines, United States and Canada and Canada and Alaska.other necessary and reasonable expenses incurred by the United States in maintaining an effective demarcation of the international boundary line between the United States and Canada and Alaska and Canada under the terms of the treaty aforesaid, including the completion of such remaining work as may be required under the award of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal and existing treaties between the United States and Great Britain, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, $43,000. International Joint Commission, United States and Great Britain.waterways treaty, united states and great britain: international joint commission, united states and great britain Salaries, expenses, etc.For salaries and expenses, including salaries of commissioners and salaries of clerks and other employees appointed by the commissioners on the part of the United States, with the approval solely of the Secretary of State; for necessary traveling expenses, and for expenses incident to holding hearings and conferences at such places in Canada and the United States as shall be determined by the Commission or by the American commissioners to be necessary, including75 traveling expense and compensation of necessary witnesses, making necessary transcript of testimony and proceedings; for cost of law books, books of reference and periodicals, office equipment and supplies; and for one-half of all reasonable and necessary joint expenses of the International Joint Commission incurred under the terms of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain concerningVol. 36, p. 2448. the use of boundary waters between the United States and Canada, and for other purposes, signed January 11, 1909; $30,600, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State: *Provided*, That*Provisos*.Salary restriction. the salaries of the American Commissioners shall not exceed $5,000 each per annum: *Provided further*, That traveling expenses of theTraveling expenses.Vol. 44, p. 688.[U. S. C., p. 103](/us/usc/p103). commissioners, secretary, and necessary employees shall be allowed in accordance with the provisions of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, as amended (U. S. C., title 5, ch. 16). For an additional amount for necessary special or technicalSpecial or technical investigations. investigations in connection with matters which fall within the scope of the jurisdiction of the International Joint Commission, including personal services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, travelingPersonal services. expenses, procurement of technical and scientific equipment, and the purchase, exchange, hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, $67,000, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, who is authorized to transfer to any department or independent establishment of the Government, with the consent of the head thereof, any part of this amount for direct expenditure by such department or establishment for the purposes of this appropriation. general and special claims convention, united states and mexico For the expenses of settlement and adjustment of claims of theMexican general and special claims convention.Vol. 43, pp. 1722, 1730; Vol. 48, p. 1844.*Post*, p. 590. citizens of each country against the other under a convention concluded September 8, 1923, as extended, and of citizens of the United States against Mexico under a convention concluded September 10, 1923, as extended, and the protocol and convention signed April 24, 1934, between the United States and Mexico, including the expenses which, under the terms of the above agreements, are chargeable in part to the United States, the expenses of an agency of the United States to perform all necessary services in connectionPreparation of claims and defenses. with the preparation of American claims and the defense of the United States in cases presented by Mexico, and of a general claims commissioner to act as a joint appraiser in appraising the claims, and for the expenses of the joint committee in determining the proper classification of claims which have heretofore been filed as both general and special claims, as provided by the agreements of AprilSalaries. 24, 1934, including salaries of an agent and necessary counsel and other assistants and employees and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, law books and books of reference, printing andPrinting and binding. binding, contingent expenses, contract stenographic reporting[U. S. C., p. 1803](/us/usc/p1803). services, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), the employment of special counsel, translators, and other technical experts, by contract, without regard to the provisions of any statute relative to employment, traveling expenses, the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of the purposes herein specified, and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the President may deem proper, $164,000, together with the unexpected 11 So in original. balance of the appropriation made available for this purpose for the fiscal year 1935: *Provided*, That the salary of the American commissioners of*Provisos*.Commissioner’s salaries.76 general and special claims shall not exceed $10,000 per annum each:Deductions. *Provided further*, That from any sums received from the Mexican Government in settlement of a general claim of an American citizen against it, there shall be deducted and deposited in the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts, 5 per centum thereof in reimbursement of the Government of the United States of expenses incurred by it in respect of such claim. International Fisheries Commission.international fisheries commission Share of expenses.*Post*, p. 1321.For the share of the United States of the expenses of the International Fisheries Commission, under the convention between the United States and Great Britain, concluded May 9, 1930, including Vol. 47, p. 1872.salaries of two members and other employees of the Commission, traveling expenses, charter of vessels, purchase of books, periodicals, furniture, and scientific instruments, contingent expenses, rent in the District of Columbia, and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the Secretary of State may deem proper, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, $25,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this *Proviso*.Attendance at meetings.purpose for the fiscal year 1935: *Provided*, That not to exceed $700 shall be expended by the Commissioner and his staff in attending meetings of the Commission. claims, adjustment, united states and turkey Claims adjustment; Turkey.Vol. 48, pp. 1018, 1041.Such portion as may be necessary of the appropriation “Claims adjustment, United States and Turkey”, contained in the Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1934, approved June 19, 1934, and authorized by public resolution entitled “Joint resolution authorizing appropriation for expenses of representatives of United States to meet at Istanbul, Turkey, with representatives of Turkish Republic for purpose of examining claims of either Government against Sum available.*Post*, p. 1633.the other and for expense of proceedings before an umpire, if necessary”, approved June 18, 1934, fiscal year 1934, to remain available until June 30, 1935, is made available as of November 1, 1934, for services which have been or which may be rendered subsequent to that date by the said representatives of the United States, and shall continue to be available in the District of Columbia until June 30, 1936, for the expenses, including all items of expenditure specified in said resolution and personal services and rent of offices in the District of Columbia, of making an examination of the claims by Report.the said representatives of the United States to determine their merits and of preparing, in the District of Columbia, a report to enable the Secretary of State to make a distribution in final settlement of said claims, after making the deductions provided for in said resolution, of the amount received or to be received from the Turkish Government in settlement of said claims. Minor purchases.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[U. S. C., p. 1803](/us/usc/p1803).Section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) shall not apply to any purchase or service rendered payable from the foregoing appropriations when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $100 or when the purchase or service relates to the packing of personal and household effects of Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Service officers and clerks for foreign shipment. Rent restrictions.No portion of the sums appropriated in title I of this Act shall, unless expressly authorized, be expended for rent or rental allowances in the District of Columbia or elsewhere in the United States. Procuring information for corporations, etc.Hereafter, whenever the Secretary of State, in his discretion, procures information on behalf of corporations, firms, and individuals, the expense of cablegrams and telephone service involved may be77 charged against the respective appropriations for the service utilized; and reimbursement therefor shall be required from those for whom the information was procured and, when made, be credited to the appropriation under which the expenditure was charged. This title may be cited as the “Department of State AppropriationShort title. Act, 1936.” TITLE II— DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICEDepartment of Justice. office of the attorney general Salaries: For the Attorney General, Solicitor General, AssistantAttorney General, Solicitor General, etc. to the Attorney General, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $1,617,500. Contingent expenses: For stationery, furniture and repairs, floorContingent expenses.*Post*, p. 1624. coverings not exceeding $1,000, file holders and cases; miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing and telephones, postage, labor, typewriters and adding machines and the exchange thereof and repairs thereto, street-car fares not exceeding $300, newspapers, press clippings, and other necessaries ordered by the Attorney General; official transportation, including the repair, maintenance, andVehicles. operation of five motor-driven passenger cars (one for the Attorney General, two for general use of the Department, two for the Bureau of Investigation for investigative work), delivery truck, and motorcycle, to be used only for official purposes; purchase, including exchange, of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying automobile for the Attorney General at not to exceed $2,500; purchase of law books, books of reference, and periodicals, including the exchange thereof; traveling and other miscellaneous and emergency expenses, authorized and approved by the Attorney General, to be expended at his discretion, $153,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation may be*Provisos*.Reimbursement for car expenses. reimbursed for expenditures in connection with cars herein authorized for the Bureau of Investigation from the appropriation for the expenses of said Bureau when approved in writing by the Attorney General: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $2 per volume shallU. S. Code, Annotated, price limitation. be paid for the current and future volumes of the United States Code, Annotated. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for thePrinting and binding. Department of Justice and the courts of the United States, including not to exceed $6,000 for printing and binding the decisions of the District Court of the Panama Canal Zone, $288,000. Federal Bureau of InvestigationFederal Bureau of Investigation. Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection andDetection and prosecution of crimes. prosecution of crimes against the United States; for the protection of the person of the President of the United States: the acquisition,Protection of the President.Identification records. collection, classification, and preservation of identification and other records and their exchange with the duly authorized officials of the Federal Government, of States, cities, and other institutions; for investigation of the official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, Investigations.attorneys, clerks of the United States courts and Territorial courts, probation officers, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the official papers, records, and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at any time; and also, when requested by the presiding judge, the official acts, records, and accounts of referees78Matters under control of Departments of Justice and State. and trustees of such courts; for such other investigations regarding official matters under the control of the Department of Justice and the Department of State as may be directed by the Attorney General; Vehicles.*Post*, p. 586.hire, purchase and exchange not to exceed $50,000, maintenance, upkeep, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only on official business; for copying in the District of Columbia or elsewhere; reports of examiners at folio rates; Supplies.firearms and ammunition; such stationery, supplies, and equipment for use at the seat of government or elsewhere as the Attorney General may direct; not to exceed $10,000 for taxicab hire to be used exclusively for the purposes set forth in this paragraph and to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General; traveling expenses, including expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of such Bureau when authorized by the Attorney Awards for apprehending fugitives.General; payment of awards when specifically authorized by the Attorney General for information leading to the apprehension of fugitives from justice, including not to exceed $20,000 to meet unforeseen Emergencies.emergencies of a confidential character, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, who shall make a certificate of the amount of such expenditure as he may think it advisable not to specify, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended; and including not to exceed $988,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia; $5,000,000. Miscellaneous.miscellaneous objects, department of justice Conduct of customs cases.Conduct of customs cases: Assistant Attorney General, special attorneys and counselors at law in the conduct of customs cases, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General; necessary clerical assistance and other employees at the seat of government and elsewhere, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General, including experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General; expenses of procuring evidence, supplies, Supreme Court Reports and Digests, and Federal Reporter and Digests, traveling, and other miscellaneous and incidental expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General; in all, $140,000. Defending suits in claims against United States.Defending suits in claims against the United States: For necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses, procuring evidence, employment of experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, and such other expenses as may be necessary in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including Indian depredation claims, and contested proceedings involving inventions, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $45,000. Taxes and Penalties Unit.Enforcing designated Acts, etc., under.*Post*, p. 1624.Taxes and Penalties Unit: For salaries and expenses in connection with the enforcement of liability for internal-revenue taxes and penalties involving violation .of the National Prohibition Act, as amended and supplemented, the determination of the remission or mitigation of forfeitures under the internal-revenue laws and of liability for internal-revenue taxes and penalties in connection with violations of the National Prohibition Act occurring prior to the repeal of the eighteenth amendment, the institution of suits upon any cause of action under the National Prohibition Act or under the internal-revenue laws involving a violation of the National Prohibition Act arising prior to, and not affected by the repeal of the79 eighteenth amendment, and the compromise of any such cause of action before or after suit is brought, personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling expenses, and such other expenditures as may be necessary, $200,000. Enforcement of antitrust and kindred laws: For the enforcementEnforcement of anti-trust, etc., laws.[U. S. C., p. 509](/us/usc/p509). of antitrust and kindred laws, including experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, including not to exceed $100,020 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $420,000, together with not to exceed $15,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1935. bureau of prisonsBureau of Prisons. Salaries and expenses: For salaries and expenses in connectionSalaries and expenses. with the supervision of the maintenance and care of United States prisoners, including not to exceed $204,500 for personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling expenses, and expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of such bureau when authorized by the Attorney General, $238,000. veterans’ insurance litigationVeterans’ Insurance Litigation. Salaries and expenses: For salaries and expenses incident to theSalaries and expenses. defense of suits against the United States under section 19, of the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, approved June 7, 1924, as amended,Vol. 43, pp. 612, 1302; [U. S. C., p. 1662](/us/usc/p1662).Vol. 48, p. 302. or the compromise of the same under the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1934, approved June 16, 1933, including traveling and office expenses, law books, supplies, equipment, stenographic reporting services by contract or otherwise, including notarial fees or like services and stenographic work in taking depositions at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, printing and binding, the employment of experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, and personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $850,000. JUDICIALJudicial. united states supreme courtUnited States Supreme Court. Salaries: For the Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices;Salaries, Chief Justice and Associate Justices.Reporter and other officers and employees. Reporter of the Court; and all other officers and employees, whose compensation shall be fixed by the Court, except as otherwise provided by law, and who may be employed and assigned by the Chief Justice to any office or work of the Court; $416,000. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the SupremePrinting and binding. Court of the United States, $20,000, to be expended as required without allotment by quarters, and to be executed by such printer as the court may designate. Miscellaneous expenses: For miscellaneous expenses of theMiscellaneous expenses. Supreme Court of the United States, to be expended as the Chief Justice may direct, $25,000. Structural and mechanical care of the building and grounds: ForCare of building and grounds. such expenditures as may be necessary to enable the Architect of the Capitol to carry out the duties imposed upon him by the Act approved May 7, 1934 (48 Stat., 668), including improvements,Vol. 48, p. 668. maintenance, repairs, equipment, supplies, materials, and appurtenances, and personal and other services, $49,080. 80 Judges.salaries of judges Salaries of.*Post*, p. 1625.Salaries of judges: For forty-one circuit judges; one hundred and fifty district judges (including two in the Territory of Hawaii, one Retired judges.[U. S. C., p. 1273](/us/usc/p1273).Vol. 46, p. 737; [U. S. C., p. 892](/us/usc/p892).*Proviso*.Availability.in the Territory of Puerto Rico, four in the Territory of Alaska, and one in the Virgin Islands); and judges retired under section 260 of the Judicial Code, as amended, and section 518 of the Tariff Act of 1930; in all, $2,195,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for the salaries of all United States justices and circuit and district judges lawfully entitled thereto, whether active or retired. expenses of judges Expenses of judges.Expenses of judges: For expenses of circuit and district judges of the United States and the judges of the district courts of the United States in Alaska, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii, as provided by law, $85,000. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.court of customs and patent appeals Salaries.Salaries: Presiding judge and four associate judges and all other officers and employees of the court, $100,040. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For books and periodicals, including their exchange; stationery, supplies, traveling expenses; drugs, chemicals, cleansers, furniture; and for such other miscellaneous expenses as may be approved by the presiding judge, $13,500, of which $10,000 shall be available only for the compiling, editing, and printing, by contract or otherwise, of a digest of the decisions of the United [R. S., sec. 3709. p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[U. S. C., p. 1803](/us/usc/p1803).Vol. 40. p. 1270; [U. S. C., p. 1935](/us/usc/p1935).States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, without regard to the provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) and section 11 of the Act approved March 1, 1919 (U. S. C., title 44, sec. 1ll ). Printing and binding.Printing and binding: For printing and binding, $6,250. Customs Court.united states customs court Salaries.Salaries: Presiding judge and eight judges; and all other officers and employees of the court, $228,280. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For books and periodicals, including their exchange; stationery, supplies, traveling expenses; and for such other miscellaneous expenses as may be approved by the presiding judge, $15,000. Printing and binding.Printing and binding: For printing and binding, $1,000. Court of Claims.court of claims Salaries.Salaries: Chief justice and four judges; chief clerk at not exceeding $6,500; auditor at not exceeding $5,000; and all other officers and employees of the court, $122,160. Printing and binding.Printing and binding: For printing and binding, $25,000. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For stationery, court library, repairs, fuel, electric light, electric elevator, and other miscellaneous expenses, $6,000. Commissioners, salaries and expenses.Salaries and expenses of commissioners: For salaries of five regular commissioners and one temporary commissioner at $7,500 each, and for traveling expenses, compensation of stenographers authorized by the court, and for stenographic and other fees and charges necessary Vol. 43, p. 964; [U. S. C., p. 1263](/us/usc/p1263).in the taking of testimony and in the performance of the duties as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act amending section 2 and repealing section 3 of the Act approved February 24, 1925 (U. S. C., 81title 28, secs. 269, 270), entitled ‘An Act to authorize the appointmentVol. 46, p. 799; [U. S. C., p. 1264](/us/usc/p1264). of commissioners by the Court of Claims and to prescribe their powers and compensation’ and for other purposes”, approved June 23, 1930 (U. S. C.. Supp. VII, title 28, sec. 270), $63,840. Repairs, furnishings, and so forth: For necessary repairs,Repairs, etc., to buildings. furnishings, and improvements to the Court of Claims buildings, to be expended under the supervision of the Architect of the Capitol, $15,000. territorial courtsTerritorial Courts. Hawaii: For salaries of the chief justice and two associate justices,Hawaii. and for judges of the circuit courts, $88,500. district court, panama canal zone Salaries, District Court, Panama Canal Zone: For salaries of theDistrict Court, Panama Canal Zone. officials and employees of the District Court of the United States for the Panama Canal Zone, $45,785. united states court for chinaUnited States Court for China. United States Court for China: For salaries of the judge, districtSalaries and expenses.*Post*, pp. 586, 1625. attorney, and other officers and employees of the United States Court for China; court expenses, including reference and law books, printing and binding, ice and drinking water for office purposes, traveling expenses of officers and employees of the court, and under such regulations as the Attorney General may prescribe of their families and effects, in going to and returning from their posts; preparation and transportation of remains of officers and employees who may dieBringing home remains of officers, etc., dying abroad. abroad or in transit while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in the United States, or to a place not more distant for interment and for the ordinary expenses of such interment; the expense of maintaining in China, American convicts and persons declared insane by the court, rent of quarters for prisoners, ice and drinking water for prison purposes, including wages of prison keepers, and the expense of keeping, feeding, and transporting prisoners and persons declared insane by the court, $40,000. marshals and other expenses of united states courtsUnited States Courts. Salaries and expenses of marshals, and so forth: For salaries, fees,Marshals.Salaries and expenses.*Post*, p. 1625. and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, including services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, servicesServices in Alaska. in Alaska in collecting evidence for the United States when so specifically directed by the Attorney General, traveling expenses, purchase, when authorized by the Attorney General, of ten motor-propelled passenger-carrying vans at not to exceed $2,000 each, and maintenance, alteration, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles used in connection with the transaction of the official business of the United States marshals, $3,270,000. Salaries and expenses of district attorneys, and so forth: For salaries,District attorneys.Salaries and expenses.*Post*, p. 1625. traveling, and other expenses of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, clerks, and other employees, including the office expenses of United States district attorneys in Alaska, and for salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the office of the United States district attorney, $2,913,000. Salaries and expenses of special attorneys, and so forth: ForSpecial attorneys.Salaries and expenses.Assistants. compensation and traveling expenses of special attorneys and assistants to the Attorney General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, and for82Foreign counsel. payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney General in *Provisos*.Compensation limited.Reports to Congress.special cases, $700,000: *Provided*, That the amount paid as compensation out of the funds herein appropriated to any person employed hereunder shall not exceed $10,000: *Provided further*, That reports be submitted to the Congress on the 1st day of July and January showing the names of the persons employed hereunder, the annual, rate of compensation or amount of any fee paid to each together with a description of their duties. Clerks of courts.Salaries and expenses.*Post*, p. 1626.Salaries and expenses, clerks of courts: For salaries of clerks of United States circuit courts of appeals and United States district courts, their deputies, and other assistant, traveling expenses pursuant Vol. 44, p. 688.[U. S. C., p. 103](/us/usc/p103).to the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, as amended (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 5, secs. 821–833), and other expenses of conducting their respective offices, $2,070,000. Commissioners, fees.[R. S., sec. 1014, p. 189](/us/rs/s1014/p189).[U. S. C., p. 770](/us/usc/p770).Fees of commissioners: For fees of the United States commissioners and other committing magistrates acting under section 1014, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 18, sec. 591), $350,000. Conciliation commissioners.Fees; per diem, etc., allowances.Conciliation commissioners, United States courts: For fees of conciliation commissioners, and per diem allowance and traveling expenses of supervising conciliation commissioners, as authorized by Vol. 30, p. 544; Vol. 47, p. 1467.[U. S. C., p. 333](/us/usc/p333).Vol. 48, p. 911.the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States’ approved July 1 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto”, approved March 3, 1933, as amended by the Act approved June 7, 1934 (48 Stat. 911), $30,000. Jurors and witnesses.Fees, mileage, and per diem.*Post*. p. 1236.Fees of jurors and witnesses: For mileage and per diems of jurors; for mileage and per diems of witnesses and for per diems in lieu of subsistence; and for payment of the expenses of witnesses, [R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160).[U. S. C., p. 1295](/us/usc/p1295).as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 604), including the expenses, mileage, and per diems of witnesses on behalf of the Government before the United States Customs Court, such payments to be made on the certification of the attorney [R. S., sec. 846. p. 159](/us/rs/s846/p159); [U. S. C., p. 1291](/us/usc/p1291).*Provisos*.Pay, etc., on approval of Attorney General.for the United States and to be conclusive as provided by section 846, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 577), $2,100,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $10,000 of this amount shall be available for such compensation and expenses of witnesses or informants as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, which Limitation on attendance fee.approval shall be conclusive: *Provided further*, That no part of the sum herein appropriated shall be used to pay any witness more than one attendance fee for any one calendar day. Bailiffs.Salaries and expenses. *Post*, p. 1626.Salaries and expenses of bailiffs, and so forth: For bailiffs, not exceeding three bailiffs in each court, except in the southern district of New York and the northern district of Illinois; meals and lodging Jury expenses.for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when ordered by the court, and meals and lodging Alaska.Vol. 31, p. 362.[U. S. C., pp. 1226, 1289, 1293](/us/usc/pp1226/1289/1293).Jury commissioners.*Provisos*.Service restriction.for jurors in Alaska, as provided by section 193, title II, of the Act of June 6, 1900 (U. S. C., title 28, secs, 9, 557–570, 595, 596), and compensation for jury commissioners, $5 per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, $247,000: *Provided*, That no per diem shall be paid to any bailiff unless the court is actually in session and the judge present and presiding or present in chambers:Use limited. *Provided further*, That none of this appropriation shall be used for the pay of bailiffs when deputy marshals or marshals are available for the duties ordinarily executed by bailiffs, the fact of unavailability to be determined by the certificate of the marshal. Miscellaneous expenses.*Post*, p. 1626.Miscellaneous expenses: For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, for the United States courts and their officers, including experts, and notarial fees or like services and stenographic work in taking depositions, at such83 rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, so much as may be necessary in the discretion of the Attorney General for such expenses in the District of AlaskaAlaska. and in courts other than Federal courts, and traveling expensesTravel expenses. pursuant to the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, as amended (U. S. C.,Vol. 44, p. 688.[U. S. C., p. 103](/us/usc/p103).Rent, supplies, etc. Supp., VII, title 5, ch. 16); rent of rooms for United States courts and judicial officers; supplies, including the exchange of typewriting and adding machines, for the United States courts and judicial officers, including firearms and ammunition therefor; purchase ofLaw books for judicial officers. law books, including the exchange thereof, for United States judges, district attorneys, and other judicial officers, including the libraries of the ten United States circuit courts of appeals, and the FederalFederal Reporter. Reporter and continuations thereto as issued, $1,069,000: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Transmittal to successors. That such books shall in all cases be transmitted to their successors in office; all books purchased hereunder to be marked plainly, “The Property of the United States”: *Provided further*, That not toU. S. Code, Annotated, price limitation. exceed $2 per volume shall be paid for the current and future volumes of the United States Code, Annotated: *Provided further*, ThatMaximum salary, stenographer or law clerk. the maximum salary paid to any stenographer or law clerk to any circuit or district judge shall not exceed $2,500 per annum: *Provided further*, That this limitation shall not operate to reduce the compensationPresent stenographers not affected. of any stenographer now employed nor shall the salary of any stenographer drawing more than $2,500 per annum hereafter be increased. penal and correctional institutionsPenal and correctional institutions. For all services, including personal services compensated upon feeServices, supplies, etc.*Post*, p 1120. basis, supplies, materials, and equipment in connection with or incident to the subsistence and care of inmates and maintenance and upkeep of Federal penal and correctional institutions, including farm and other operations not otherwise specifically provided for in the discretion of the Attorney General; gratuities for inmates at release, provided such gratuities shall be furnished to inmates sentenced for terms of imprisonment of not less than six months, and transportation to the place of conviction or bona fide residence at the time of conviction or to such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; expenses of interment or transporting remains of deceased inmates to their homes in the United States; maintenance and repair of passenger-carrying vehicles; traveling expenses of institution officials and employees when traveling on official duty, including expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the several institutions when authorized by the Attorney General, and including expenses incurred in pursuing and identifying escaped inmates; traveling expenses of members of advisory boards authorized by law incurred in the discharge of their official duties; packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of household effects, not exceeding in any one case, five thousand pounds, of employees when transferred from one official station to another for permanent duty and uniforms for the guard force, when specifically authorized by the Attorney General; rewards for the capture of escaped inmates; newspapers, books, and periodicals; firearms and ammunition; tobacco for inmates: and the purchase and exchange of farm products and livestock, when authorized by the Attorney General:*Proviso*.Prison commissaries. *Provided*, That any part of the appropriations under this heading used for payment of salaries of personnel employed in the operation of prison commissaries shall be reimbursed from commissary earnings, and such reimbursement shall be in addition to the amounts appropriated herein. 84 medical and hospital service Medical and hospital service.Medical and hospital service: F or medical relief for, and incident to the care and maintenance of, inmates of penal and correctional institutions, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, medical, surgical, and hospital supplies, materials, equipment, and appliances, together with appliances necessary for Patients, $487,500, which amount, in the discretion of the Attorney General, may be transferred to the Public Health Service for direct expenditure under the laws appropriations, and regulations governing *Proviso*.Amount for hospital for defective delinquents.the Public Health Service: *Provided*, That of this appropriation not to exceed $148,090 may be expended for the hospital for defective delinquents. Federal penitentiaries.Construction and repair.Buildings and equipment: For construction and repair of buildings, including the purchase and installation of machinery and equipment, and all expenses incident thereto, to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to inmates of the institutions, as follows: United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, $29,600; United States penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington, $18,110; United States Southwestern Reformatory, El Reno, Oklahoma, $10,400; United States Hospital for Defective Delinquents, Springfield, Missouri, $20,000; Federal jail, Milan, Michigan, $1,890, in all, $80,000. Leavenworth, Kans.United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: For the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, including not to exceed $607,840 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $1,240,670. Atlanta, Ga.United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: For the United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, including not to exceed $353,660 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $767,660. McNeil Island, Wash.United States penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington: For the United States penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington, including not to exceed $226,100 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $444,000. Northeastern Penitentiary.United States Northeastern Penitentiary: For the United States penitentiary in the Northeast, including not to exceed $342,500 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $633,840. Alcatraz Island, Calif.United States penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California: For the United States penitentiary at Alcatraz Island, California, including not to exceed $154,000 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $363,000. Federal Industrial Institution for Women, Alderson, W. Va.Federal Industrial Institution for Women, Alderson, West Virginia: For the Federal Industrial Institution for Women at Aiderson, West Virginia, including not to exceed $127,000 for salaries and wages of all officer’s and employees, and including also the purchase of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $258,520. Industrial Reformatory, Chillicothe, Ohio.United States Industrial Reformatory, Chillicothe, Ohio; For the United States Industrial Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio, including not to exceed $293,500 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $531,000. Southwestern Reformatory.United States Southwestern Reformatory: For the United States Southwestern Reformatory, including not to exceed $196,000 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $390,000. Hospital for Defective Delinquents.United States Hospital for Defective Delinquents: For the United States Hospital for Defective Delinquents, including not to exceed $132,000 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $305,510. Federal jails.Federal jails: For maintenance and operation of Federal jails, including not to exceed $300,000 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $528,940. 85 Prison camps: For the construction and repair of buildings atPrison camps, construction, etc. prison camps, the purchase and installation of machinery and equipment, and all necessary expenses incident thereto, and for theMaintenance. maintenance of United States prisoners at prison camps, including the maintenance, alteration, repair, and operation of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying bus, to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to prisoners, $234,460 together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the Federal Correctional Camp, Eustis, Virginia, fiscal year 1935: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Reimbursements authorized. reimbursements from this appropriation made to the War or other departments for supplies or subsistence shall be at the net contract or invoice price notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act. Federal Reformatory Camp, Petersburg, Virginia: For theFederal Reformatory Camp, Petersburg, Va. Federal Reformatory Camp at Petersburg, Virginia, including not to exceed $111,000 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $246,430. National Training School for Boys, Washington, District ofNational Training School for Boys, D. C.*Post*, p. 1626. Columbia: For the National Training School for Boys, Washington, District of Columbia, including the purchase of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, and expenses of a suitable attendant to accompany the remains of deceased inmates to their homes for burial; and including not to exceed $109,000 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $203,000. Probation system, United States courts: For salaries andProbation system, United States courts.Vol. 43, p. 1259; Vol. 46. p. 503.[U. S. C., p. 781](/us/usc/p781). expenses of probation officers, as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act of March 4, 1925, chapter 521, and for other purposes,” approved June 6, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 18, sec. 726), $631,035: *Provided*, That not to exceed $120,000 of this*Provisos*.Travel expenses. appropriation may be expended for traveling expenses: *Provided further*, That no part of the appropriation herein made shall beSalary restriction. used to pay any probation officer a salary in excess of $2,600 per annum: *Provided further*, That no part of any appropriation inConditions imposed. this Act shall be used to defray the salary or expenses of any probation officer who does not comply with the official orders, regulations, and probation standards promulgated by the Attorney General. Support of prisoners: For support of United States prisoners, inSupport of prisoners. non-Federal institutions and in the Territory of Alaska, including necessary clothing and medical aid, discharge gratuities provided by law and transportation to place or conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, or such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; and including rent, repair, alteration, and maintenance of buildings and the maintenance of prisoners therein, occupied under authority of sections 4 and 5 of the Act of May 14, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. VII,Vol. 46, p. 326. [U. S. C., p. 785](/us/usc/p785). title 18, sec. 696); support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, and who continue insane after expiration of sentence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent; shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their friends or relatives in the United States, and interment of deceased prisoners whose remains are unclaimed; expenses incurred in identifying, pursuing, and returning escaped prisoners and for rewards for their recapture; and for repairs, betterments, and improvements of United States jails, including sidewalks, $1,950,000: *Provided*, That a report be*Proviso*.Report to Congress. submitted to Congress on the 1st day of the next regular session showing the names of the persons employed hereunder, the annual rate of compensation paid to each together with a description of their duties. This title may be cited as the “Department of JusticeShort title. Appropriation Act, 1936.” 86 TITLE III—Department of Commerce.DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Secretary’s office.office of the secretary Salaries.Salaries: Secretary of Commerce, two Assistant Secretaries, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including the chief clerk and superintendent, who shall be chief executive officer of the Department and who may be designated by the Secretary of Commerce to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries, of the Department, $350,000. Contingent and miscellaneous expenses.Contingent expenses: For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureaus of the Department, except the Patent Office, including those for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are specifically made, including professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, blank books, pamphlets, maps, newspapers (not exceeding $1,500); purchase of atlases or maps; stationery; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges; fuel, fighting, and heating; purchase and exchange of motor trucks and bicycles and not to exceed $2,500 for purchase, including exchange, of one motor-propelled, passenger-carrying vehicle for the official use of the Secretary of Commerce; maintenance, repair, and operation of three motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (one for the Secretary of Commerce and two for the general use of the Department), and motor trucks and bicycles, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; postage to foreign countries; telegraph and telephone service: type-writers, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange: first-aid outfits for use in the buildings occupied by employees of this Department; street-car fares, not exceeding $500; and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $125,000, which sum shall constitute the appropriation for contingent expenses of the Department, except the Patent Office, and shall also be available for the purchase of necessary supplies and equipment for field services of bureaus and offices of the Department for which contingent and miscellaneous appropriations are specifically made in order to facilitate the purchase through the central purchasing office (Division of Purchases and Sales), as provided by law. Printing and binding.*Post*, p. 582.Printing and binding: For all printing and binding for the Department of Commerce, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, except the Patent Office, $425,000: *Provided*, That an amount not to exceed $2,000 of this appropriation may be expended for salaries of persons detailed from the Government Printing Office for service as copy editors. Bureau of Air Commerce.bureau of air commerce Air navigation facilities.Establishment, etc., of aids, mail routes.*Post*, p. 1618.Air-navigation facilities: For the establishment and maintenance of aids to air navigation, including the equipment of additional air-mail routes for day and night flying; the construction of necessary lighting, radio, and other signaling and communicating structures and apparatus; repairs, alterations, and all expenses of maintenance and operation; investigation, research, and experimentation to develop and improve aids to air navigation, aircraft, aircraft Services in the District.power plants, and accessories; for personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $123,071) and elsewhere; purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carry-87ing vehicles for official use in field work, including their exchange; replacement, including exchange, of not to exceed two airplanes for service use and two for experimental purposes, maintenance, operation, and repair of airplanes, including accessories and spare parts and special clothing, wearing apparel, and suitable equipment for aviation purposes; and for the acquisition of the necessary sites by lease or grant, $5,175,000: *Provided*, That no part of this*Proviso*.Use restricted.Vol. 44, p. 568; Vol. 45, p. 1404.[U. S. C., p. 2249](/us/usc/p2249). appropriation shall be used for any purpose not authorized by the Air Commerce Act of 1926 as amended. Aircraft in commerce: To carry out the provisions of the ActAircraft in commerce.Services and expenses.Vol. 44, p. 568; Vol. 45, p. 1404; Vol. 48, pp. 1113, 1116.[U. S. C., p. 2250](/us/usc/p2250). approved May 20, 1926, entitled “An Act to encourage and regulate the use of aircraft in commerce, and for other purposes” (U. S. C., title 49, secs. 171–184), as amended by the Act approved February 28, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 49, sec. 173d), and Acts approved June 19 and 20, 1934 (48 Stat. 1113, 1116), including personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $235,956), and elsewhere; rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses; contract stenographic reporting services; fees and mileage of witnesses; purchase of furniture and equipment; stationery and supplies, including medical supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories, and repairs; purchase, including exchange (not to exceed $2,000), maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use inPurchase, etc., of airplanes, accessories, etc. field work; purchase and replacement, including exchange, of airplanes (not to exceed $16,500); purchase of airplane motors, airplane and motor accessories and spare parts; maintenance, operation, and repair of airplanes and airplane motors; purchase of special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment for aviation purposes; purchase of books of reference and periodicals; newspapers, reports, documents, plans, specifications, maps, manuscripts, and all other publications; and all other necessary expenses not included in the foregoing; in all, $734,800. Appropriations herein made for aircraft in commerce andAttendance at meetings, etc. air-navigation facilities shall be available in an amount not to exceed $2,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the promotion of civil aeronautics, and also expenses of illustrating the work of the Bureau of Air Commerce by showing of maps, charts, and graphs at such meetings, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce. bureau of foreign and domestic commerceBureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.Salaries. Salaries: For the director and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $321,400. For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March 3,Foreign Commerce Service.Vol. 44, p. 1394.[U. S. C.. p. 553](/us/usc/t553). 1927 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 15, secs. 197–197f), to establish in the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Department of Commerce a Foreign Commerce Service of the United States, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, thePersonal services. compensation of a clerk or clerks for each commercial attaché at the rate of not to exceed $3,000 per annum for each person so employed, rent outside the District of Columbia, telephone service,Rent, etc. purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, duplicating, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, law books, books of reference and periodicals, uniforms, maps, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, newspapers (foreign and domestic, not exceeding $2,000), and all other publications, traveling expenses of officers and employees, ice and drinking water for office purposes, and all other incidental expenses88 not included in the foregoing, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, and under the following heads: Promoting commerce in Europe.*Post*, p. 582.Promoting commerce in Europe and other areas: Investigations in Europe and other areas for the promotion and development of the foreign commerce of the United States, $363,400. In Latin America.Promoting commerce in Latin America: Investigations in Latin America for the promotion and development of the foreign commerce of the United States, $182,400. In the Far East.Promoting commerce in the Far East: Investigations in the Far East for the promotion and development of the foreign commerce of the United States, $98,000. In Africa.Promoting commerce in Africa: Investigations in Africa for the promotion and development of the foreign commerce of the United States, $29,200. District and cooperative office service.District and cooperative office service: For all expenses necessary to operate and maintain district and cooperative offices, including personal services, rent outside of the District of Columbia, traveling expenses of officers and employees, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, purchase of maps, books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, not exceeding $300 for newspapers, both foreign and domestic, and all other publications necessary for the promotion of the commercial interests of the United States, and all other incidental *Proviso*.New offices.expenses not included in the foregoing, $328,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of Commerce shall require as a condition for the opening of a new office or the continuation of an existing office, except in cases where space is available in Federal buildings or in Federal buildings for the construction of which contracts have been let, that commercial organizations in the district affected provide suitable quarters without cost to the Government on and after September 1, 1932. China Trade Act.Enforcement expenses. Vol. 42, p. 849; Vol. 43, p. 995.[U. S. C., p. 546](/us/usc/p546).Enforcement of China Trade Act: To carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “China Trade Act, 1922” (U. S. C., title 15, secs. 141–162), including personal services, traveling expenses of officers and employees, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, maps, manuscripts, and all other publications, rent outside the District of Columbia, ice and drinking water for office purposes; and all necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $9,000, of which amount not to exceed $3,200 may *Proviso*.Advance payments.be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That payment in advance for telephone and other similar services under this appropriation is hereby authorized. Export industries.Investigations and reports.*Post*, pp. 205, 1118.Export industries: To enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to investigate and report on domestic as well as foreign problems relating to the production, distribution? and marketing, insofar as they relate to the important export industries of the United States, including personal services, traveling expenses of officers and employees, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, and all other publications, rent outside of the District of Columbia, ice and drinking water for office purposes, and all other incidental expenses connected therewith, $527,000, of which amount not to exceed $520,522 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. 89 Domestic commerce and raw materials investigations: ForInvestigating domestic commerce and raw materials. personal services and traveling expenses of officers and employees to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to collect and compile information regarding the disposition and handling of raw materials and manufactures within the United States; and to investigate the conditions of production and marketing of foreignForeign raw materials. raw materials essential for American industries, $224,800, of which amount not to exceed $217,700 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Customs statistics: For all expenses necessary for the operation ofCustoms statistics.Expenses of collecting. etc.Vol. 42, p. 1109.[U. S. C., p. 552](/us/usc/p552). the section of customs statistics transferred to the Department of Commerce from the Treasury Department by the Act approved January 5, 1923 (U. S. C., title 15, sec. 194), including personal services; rent of or purchase of tabulating, punching, sorting, and other mechanical labor-saving machinery or devices, including adding, typewriting, billing, computing, mimeographing, multigraphing, photostat, and other duplicating machines and devices, including their exchange and repair; telegraph and telephone service; traveling expenses of officers and employees while traveling on official business; freight, express, drayage; tabulating cards, stationery, and miscellaneous office supplies; books of reference and periodicals; furniture and equipment; ice, water, heat, light, and power; street-car fare; and all other necessary and incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, $312,300, of which amount not to exceed $77,230 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Lists of foreign buyers: For all necessary expenses, includingLists of foreign buyers.Expenses of compiling. personal services, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, lists or foreign buyers, books of reference, periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, rent outside of the District of Columbia, traveling expenses of officers and employees, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to collect and compile lists of foreign buyers, $45,000, of which amount not to exceed $34,200 may be expended for permanent personal services and not to exceed $10,080 for temporary personal services in the District of Columbia *Provided*, That the Secretary of Commerce may*Proviso*.Charge for service authorised. make such charges as he deems reasonable for lists of foreign buyers, special statistical services, special commodity news bulletins, and World Trade Directory Reports, and the amounts collected therefrom shall be deposited in the Treasury as “Miscellaneous receipts”. Investigation of foreign trade restrictions: For all necessaryInvestigation of foreign trade restrictions. expenses, including personal services, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, and all other publications, rent outside of the District of Columbia, traveling expenses of officers and employees, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to collect and compile information regarding the restrictions and regulations of trade imposed by foreign countries, $96,200, of which amount not to exceed $95,310 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Transportation of families and effects of officers and employees:Transportation of families and effects of officers, employees.*Post*, p. 583. To pay the traveling expenses and expenses of transportation, under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce may prescribe, of families and effects of officers and employees of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce in going to and returning from their posts, or when traveling under the order of the Secretary of90 Commerce, and also for defraying the expenses of preparing and Bringing home remains of officers, etc., dying abroad.transporting the remains of officers and employees of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce who may die abroad or in transit, while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country, or to a place not more distant, for interment, and for the ordinary expenses of such interment; $35,000. Allowance for living quarters, heat, and light.Vol. 44, p. 1394; Vol. 46, p. 163.[U. S. C., p. 554](/us/usc/p554).*Post*, p. 583.Allowances for living quarters: To enable the Secretary of Commerce, under such regulations as he may prescribe, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act to establish in the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Department of Commerce, a Foreign Commerce Service of the United States, and for other purposes ’, approved March 3, 1927”, approved April 12, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 15, sec. 197f), to furnish the officers in the Foreign Commerce Service of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce stationed in a [R. S., sec. 1765, 314](/us/rs/s1765/314).[U. S. C., p. 40](/us/usc/p40).foreign country, without cost to them and within the limits of this appropriation, allowances for living quarters, heat and light, notwithstanding the provisions of section 1765 of the Revised Statutes *Proviso*.Maximum allowance.(U. S. C., title 5, sec. 70), $103,400: *Provided*, That the maximum allowance to any officer shall not exceed $1,700. Operation, etc., foreign-trade zones.Operation, and so forth, of foreign-trade zones: To enable the Secretary of Commerce to comply with the provisions of the Act Vol. 48. p. 998.[U. S. C., p. 799](/us/usc/p799).entitled “An Act to provide for the establishment, operation, and maintenance of foreign-trade zones in ports of entry of the United States, to expedite and encourage foreign commerce, and for other purposes”, approved June 18, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 998), including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling expenses, contract stenographic reporting services, supplies and equipment, books of reference and periodicals, newspapers and other publications, fees and mileage of witnesses, and all other necessary expenses, $30,000. Attendance at meetings.Appropriations herein made for the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce shall be available in an amount not to exceed $2,500 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the promotion of foreign and domestic commerce, or either, and also expenses of illustrating the work of the Bureau by showing of maps, charts, and graphs at such meetings, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce. Minor purchases foreign countries.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[U. S. C., p. 1803](/us/usc/p1803).The purchase of supplies and equipment or the procurement of services for the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, in foreign countries, may be made in open market without compliance with section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), in the manner common among business men, when the aggregate amount of the purchase or the service does not exceed $100 in any instance. Census Bureau.bureau of the census Services and expenses.For expenses for securing information for and compiling the census reports provided for by law, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; compensation and expenses of enumerators, special agents, supervisors, supervisor’s clerks, and interpreters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses; the cost of transcribing State, municipal, and other records; Temporary, etc., services.temporary rental of quarters outside the District of Columbia; not to exceed $2,500 for the employment by contract of personal services for the preparation of monographs on census subjects; not to exceed $54,000 for constructing tabulating machines and repairs to such machinery and other mechanical appliances, including technical, mechanical, and other personal services in connection therewith91 in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and the purchase of necessary machinery and supplies; and not to exceed $1,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the collection of statistics when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce; $1,934,000, of which amount not to exceed $1,425,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, including not to exceed $51,000 for temporary employees who may be appointed by the Director of the Census under civil-service rules, at per diem rates to be fixed by him without regard to the provisions of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, for the purpose of assisting in periodical inquiries. Census of Agriculture: For salaries and necessary expenses forCensus of agriculture.Salaries and expenses.*Post*, p. 1337.Vol. 46, p. 25.[U. S. C., p. 492](/us/usc/p492). preparing for, taking, compiling, and publishing the Census of Agriculture of the United States for 1935, as provided by law (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 13, p. 11 So in original. 216), including rent for quarters in and outside the District of Columbia; salaries of employees in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including temporary employees in the District of Columbia who may be appointed by the Director of the Census under civil-service rules for any period not extending beyond December 31, 1936, at rates of pay to be fixed by the Director of the Census without regard to the provisions of the Classification Act as amended: *Provided*, That such temporary employees in the District*Proviso*.Leave of absence to temporary employees. of Columbia may be allowed leave of absence with pay at the rate of one and one-fourth days per month; for the employment by contract of personal services for the preparation of monographs in connectionPersonal services. with the Census of Agriculture; for the compensation of supervisors, supervisors’ clerks, special agents, enumerators, and interpreters, and for the necessary traveling expenses of such field employees and of detailed employees of the Bureau; the purchase of supplies and equipment, including books of reference, periodicals, maps, manuscripts, street-car fares, punch cards, and materials; the purchase, rental, repair, and exchange of typewriters, calculating machines, punching, tabulating, and sorting machines, and other office appliances; the construction of punching, tabulating, and sorting machines, including technical, mechanical, and other services in connection therewith, whether in the District of Columbia or elsewhere; purchase and exchange of motor trucks, first-aid outfits, and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing; printing and binding at the Government Printing Office; 1,500,000, to continue available until December 31, 1936, of which sum $500,000 shall be immediately available. bureau of navigation and steamboat inspectionBureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection.Departmental salaries. Departmental salaries: For the director and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $123,169. Salaries and general expenses: For salaries of shippingGeneral expenses. *Post*, p. 1118. commissioners, steamboat inspectors, and other personal services; to enable the Secretary of Commerce to provide and operate such motor boats and employ such persons (including temporary employees) as may be necessary for the enforcement, under his direction, of laws relatingEnforcement of inspection, etc., laws. to navigation and inspection of vessels, boarding of vessels, counting of passengers on excursion boats, and to prevent overcrowding of passenger and excursion boats; to enable the Secretary of CommerceLoad lines for American vessels.Vol. 45. p. 1492.[U. S. C., p. 1987](/us/usc/p1987). to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to establish load lines for American vessels, and for other purposes”, approved March 2, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 46, secs. 85–85g), and to secure uniformity in the admeasurement of vessels, including personal services; fees to witnesses; traveling expenses of the personnel of the Bureau and field offices; materials, supplies, equipment, and92 services, including rent and janitor service; purchase, exchange, and repair of instruments; plans and specifications; insignia, braid, and chin straps; coats, caps, and aprons for stewards’ departments on vessels; and other incidental expenses of field offices, including contract stenographic reporting services; $1,474,831. Bureau of Standards.national bureau of standards Salaries and expenses.Salaries and expenses: For carrying out the provisions of the Act Vol. 31, p. 1449.[U. S. C., pp. 78, 560](/us/usc/pp78/560).establishing the National Bureau of Standards, approved March 3, 1901 (U. S. C., title 5, secs. 591, 597; title 15, secs. 271–278), and of Acts supplementary thereto affecting the functions of the Bureau, and specifically including the functions as set forth under the Bureau of Vol. 48, p. 552.Standards in the “Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1935”, approved April 7, 1934, and for all necessary expenses, purchases, and personnel connected with administration and operation, testing, inspection and technical information service, research and development, and standards for commerce, including rental of laboratories in the field, communication service, transportation service; travel, street-car fares not exceeding $100, expenses of the visiting Attendance at meeting of International Committee of Weights and Measures.committee, attendance of American member at the meeting of the International Committee of Weights and Measures, attendance at meetings concerned with standardization and research, or either, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce Detailed Public Health Service officers.not to exceed $4,500; compensation and expenses of medical officers of the Public Health Service detailed to the National Bureau of Standards for the purpose of maintaining a first-aid station and making clinical observations; compiling and disseminating scientific and technical data; demonstrating the results of the Bureau’s work Supplies.by exhibits or otherwise as may be deemed most effective; purchases of supplies, materials, stationery, electric power, fuel for heat, light, and power, and accessories of all kinds needed in the work of the Bureau, including supplies for office, laboratory, shop, and plant, and cleaning and toilet supplies, gloves, goggles, rubber boots, and aprons; contingencies of all kinds; supplies for operation, maintenance and repair of motor trucks and a passenger automobile for official use, including their exchange; purchases of equipment of all kinds, including its repair and exchange, including apparatus, machines, and tools, furniture, typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, books, periodicals, and reference books, Equipment.including their exchange when not needed for permanent use; translation of technical articles when required; salary of the director and other personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended: Operation, etc.Operation and administration: For the general operation and administration of the Bureau; improvement and care of the grounds; plant equipment; necessary repairs and alterations to buildings; $263,000. Testing, inspection, and information.Testing, inspection, and information service: For calibrating and certifying measuring instruments, apparatus, and standards in terms of the national standards; the preparation and distribution of standard materials; the broadcasting of radio signals of standard frequency; the testing of equipment, materials, and supplies in connection with Government purchases; the improvement of methods of testing; advisory services to governmental agencies on scientific and technical matters; and supplying available information to the public, upon request, in the field of physics, chemistry, and engineering; $758,000. 93 Research and development: For the maintenance and developmentResearch and development. of national standards of measurement; the development of improved methods of measurement; the determination of physical constants and the properties of materials; the investigation of mechanisms and structures, including their economy, efficiency, and safety; the study of fluid resistance and the flow of fluids and heat; the investigation of radiation, radioactive substances, and X-rays; the study of conditions. affecting radio transmission; the development of methods of chemical analysis and synthesis, and the investigation of the properties of rare substances; investigations relating to the utilization of materials, including lubricants and liquid fuels; the study of new processes and methods of fabrication; and the solutions of problems arising in connection with standards; $671,500. Standards for commerce: For cooperation with GovernmentStandards for commerce. purchasing agencies, industries, and national organizations in developing specifications and facilitating their use; for encouraging the application of the latest developments in the utilization and standardization of building materials; for the development of engineering and safety codes, simplified practice recommendations, and commercial standards of quality and performance, $110,000. During the fiscal year 1936 the head of any department orCooperative work with departments, etc., on scientific investigations. independent establishment of the Government having funds available for scientific investigations and requiring cooperative work by the National Bureau of Standards on scientific investigations within the scope of the functions of that Bureau, and which the National Bureau of Standards is unable to perform within the limits of its appropriations, may, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce, transfer to the National Bureau of Standards such sums asTransfer of funds authorized. may be necessary to carry on such investigations. The Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer on the books of the Treasury Department any sums which may be authorized hereunder, and such amounts shall be placed to the credit of the National Bureau of Standards for performance of work for the department or establishment from which the transfer is made, including, where necessary, compensation for personal services in the District or Columbia and in the field. Total, National Bureau of Standards, $1,802,500, of which amountTotal.Services in the District. not to exceed $1,600,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. bureau of lighthousesBureau of Lighthouses. Salaries: For the Commissioner and other personal services in theSalaries. District of Columbia, $113,800. General expenses: For supplies, including replacement of andGeneral expenses. *Post*, p. 82. necessary additions to existing equipment, repairs, maintenance, and incidental expenses of lighthouses and other lights, beacons, buoyage, fog signals, lighting of rivers heretofore authorized to be lighted, light vessels, other aids to navigation, and lighthouse tenders,Aids to navigation. including the establishment, repair, and improvement of beacons and day marks, and purchase of land for same; establishment of post lights, buoys, submarine signals, and fog signals; establishment of oil or carbide houses, not to exceed $10,000: *Provided*, That any oil or*Provisos*.Limit on construction cost. carbide house erected hereunder shall not exceed $1,000 in cost; construction of necessary outbuildings at a cost not exceeding $1,000 at any one light station in any fiscal year; improvement of grounds and buildings connected with lightRestoring stations, etc. stations and depots; restoring light stations and depots and buildings connected therewith: *Provided*94Limited to original purpose.*further*, That such restoration shall be limited to the original purpose of the structures; wages of persons attending post lights; temporary Personal services.employees and field force while engaged on works of general repair and maintenance, and laborers and mechanics at lighthouse depots; rations and provisions or commutation thereof for working parties in the field, officers and crews of light vessels and tenders, and officials and other authorized persons of the Lighthouse Service on duty on board of such tenders or vessels, and money accruing from commutation for rations and provisions for the above-named persons on board of tenders and light vessels or in working parties in the field may be paid on proper vouchers to the person having charge of the mess of such vessel or party; not exceeding $2,000 Transferring effects.for packing, crating, and transporting personal household effects of employees when transferred from one official station to another for permanent duty; purchase of rubber boots, oilskins, rubber gloves, and coats, caps, and aprons for stewards’ departments on vessels; reimbursement under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce of keepers of light stations and masters of light vessels and of lighthouse Rations, clothing, etc.tenders for rations and provisions and clothing furnished ship-wrecked persons who may be temporarily provided for by them, not exceeding in all $2,000 in any fiscal year; fuel, light, and rent of quarters where necessary for keepers of lighthouses; purchase of land sites for fog signals; rent of necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or to mark changeable channels and which in consequence cannot be made permanent; rent Travel expenses. Vol. 43, p. 1261.[U. S. C., p. 1496](/us/usc/p1496).of offices, depots, and wharves; traveling expenses, including travel for the examinations authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to provide for retirement for disability in the Lighthouse Service”, approved March 4, 1925 (U. S. C., title 33, sec. 765); mileage; library books for light stations and vessels, and technical books and periodicals not exceeding $200; traveling expenses of teachers while actually employed by States or private persons to instruct the children of keepers of lighthouses; all other contingent expenses of district offices and depots, including the purchase of provisions for sale to lighthouse keepers at isolated stations, and the appropriation reimbursed, purchase not to exceed $3,600, exchange, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use Paying rewards.Vol. 35, p. 162.[U. S. C., p. 1496](/us/usc/1496).in field work, payment of rewards for the apprehension and conviction, or for information helpful to the apprehension and conviction of persons found interfering with aids to navigation maintained by the Lighthouse Service, in violation of section 6 of the Art of May 14, 1908 (U. S. C., title 33, sec. 761); $4,025,000. Keepers.Keepers of lighthouses: For salaries of not exceeding one thousand four hundred lighthouse and fog-signal keepers and persons attending lights, exclusive of post lights, $1,850,300. Lighthouse vessels.Lighthouse vessels: For salaries and wages of officers and crews of light vessels and lighthouse tenders, including temporary employment when necessary, $2,189,000. Superintendents, clerks, etc.Superintendents, clerks, and so forth: For salaries of eighteen superintendents of lighthouses, and of assistant superintendents, clerks, draftsmen, and other authorized permanent employees in the district offices and depots of the Lighthouse Service, exclusive of those regularly employed in the office of the Bureau of Lighthouses, District of Columbia, $682,900. Retired pay.*Post*, p. 1618.Retired pay: For retired pay of officers and employees engaged in the field service or on vessels of the Lighthouse Service, except persons continuously employed in district offices and shops, $570,000. 95 coast and geodetic surveyCoast and Geodetic Survey. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work ofExpenses. the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn vehicles for official use in field work, purchase of motorcycles with side cars, including their exchange, not to exceed $500, surveying instruments, including their exchange, rubber boots, canvas and rubber gloves, goggles, and caps, coats, and aprons for stewards’ departments on vessels, extra compensation at not to exceed $1 per day for each station to employees of the Lighthouse Service and the Weather Bureau while observing tides or currents, services of one tide observer in the District of Columbia at not to exceed $1 per day, and compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, for travel and other expenses incident to the execution of field work upon approval by the head of the Bureau, and for expenses (in an amount not to exceed $150) of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the CoastAttendance at meetings. and Geodetic Survey when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey subscribed by the Secretary of Commerce, and under the following heads: Field expenses, Atlantic and Gulf coast: For surveys andField expenses.Atlantic, etc., coasts. necessary resurveys of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States, and including the employment in the field and office of one physicist to develop survey methods based on transmission of sound through sea water, $98,500: *Provided*, That not more than*Proviso*.Outlying islands. $35,000 of this amount shall be expended on the coasts of said outlying islands and the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal. Pacific coast: For surveys and necessary resurveys of coasts onPacific Coast. the Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of the United States, and including the employment in the field and office of one physicist to develop survey methods based on transmission of sound through sea water, $146,000. Tides, currents, and so forth: For continuing researches in physicalPhysical hydrography. hydrography, relating to harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, $14,000. Coast Pilot: For compilation of the Coast Pilot, including theCoast Pilot. employment of such pilots and nautical experts, and stenographic help in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, $5,200. Magnetic and seismological work: For continuing magnetic andMagnetic and seismological work. seismological observations and to establish meridian lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States; making magnetic and seismological observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States; purchase of additional magnetic and seismological instruments; lease of sites where necessary and the erection of temporary magnetic and seismological buildings; and including the employment in the field and office of such magnetic and seismological observers and stenographic services as may be necessary, $58,500. Federal, boundary, and State surveys: For continuing lines ofFederal, boundary, and State surveys. exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; determining geographic positions by triangulation and traverse for the control of Federal, State, boundary, county, city, and other surveys and engineering works in all parts of the United States; including special geodetic surveys of first-order triangulation and leveling in regions subject to earthquakes, not exceeding $10,000; determining96 field astronomic positions and the variation of latitude, including Ukiah and Gaithersburg observatories.the maintenance and operation of the latitude observatories at Ukiah, California, and Gaithersburg, Maryland, not exceeding $2,500 each; establishing lines of exact levels, determining geographic positions by triangulation and traverse, and making astronomic observations Alaska.in Alaska; and continuing gravity observations in the United States and for making such observations in regions under the jurisdiction of the United States and also on islands and coasts adjacent thereto, $121,700, of which amount not to exceed $31,300, may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Miscellaneous.For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, including the preparation or purchase of plans and specifications of vessels and the employment of such hull draftsmen in the field and office as may be necessary for the same; the reimbursement, under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce, of officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey for food, clothing, medicines, and Relief of distressed persons.other supplies furnished for the temporary relief of distressed persons in remote localities and to shipwrecked persons temporarily provided for by them, not to exceed a total of $500; actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office in the District of Columbia for consultation with the director, Attendance at meetings.and not exceeding $750 for the expenses of the attendance of representatives of the Coast and Geodetic Survey who may be designated as delegates from the United States at the meetings of the International Hydrographic Bureau, and not exceeding $3,000 for special surveys that may be required by the Bureau of Lighthouses or other proper authority, $4,100. Vessels, repair, etc.Vessels: For repairs of vessels, including traveling expenses of persons inspecting the repairs, and exclusive of engineer’s supplies and other ship chandlery, $65,000. Officers and men on vessels, pay.Pay of officers and men on vessels: For all necessary employees to man and equip the vessels, including professional seamen serving as mates on vessels of the Survey, to execute the work of the Survey herein provided for and authorized by law, $484,400. Pay and allowances, commissioned officers.Pay, commissioned officers: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned officers on sea duty and other duty, holding relative rank with officers of the Navy, including one director with relative rank of captain, six hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of captain, ten hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of commander, seventeen hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of lieutenant commander, forty-seven hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of lieutenant, sixty-one junior hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of lieutenant (junior grade), twenty-nine aides with relative rank of ensign, and including officers retired in *Proviso*.Assistant director.accordance with existing law, $760,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of Commerce may designate one of the hydrographic and geodetic engineers to act as assistant director. Office force.Office force: For personal services, $548,500. Office expenses.Office expenses: For purchase of new instruments (except surveying instruments), including their exchange, materials, equipment, and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and chart division; books, scientific and technical books, journals, books of reference, maps, charts, and subscriptions; copper plates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, rubber gloves, and electrotyping supplies; photolithographing and printing charts for immediate use; stationery for office and field parties; transportation of instruments and supplies when not charged to97 party expenses; telegrams; washing; office furniture, repairs; traveling expenses of officers and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office; miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, not exceeding $90 for street-car fares, $55,000. Appropriations herein made for the Coast and Geodetic SurveySubsistence restrictions. shall not be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the director), except as now provided by law. Appropriations herein made for the field expenses of the CoastApplication of airplane to field work. and Geodetic Survey shall be available for expenditures in the application of the airplane to the field work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and not to exceed a total of $25,000 of said appropriations shall be available for the purchase or construction of cameras and other photographic apparatus, for equipment, except airplanes, and for employment of personnel in the field and office in connection with such work. bureau of fisheriesBureau of Fisheries. Commissioner’s office: For the commissioner and other personalCommissioner and office personnel. services in the District of Columbia, $154,800. Propagation of food fishes: For maintenance, repair, alteration,Propagation of food fishes. improvement, equipment, and operation of fish-cultural stations, general propagation of food fishes and their distribution, including movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment (including rubber boots and oilskins) and apparatus, contingent expenses, pay of permanent employees not to exceed $387,030, temporary labor, and not to exceed $10,000 for propagation and distribution of fresh-water mussels and the necessary expenses connected therewith, and not to exceed $10,000 for the purchase, collection, and transportation of specimens and other expenses incidental to the maintenance and operation of aquarium, of which not to exceed $5,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, $632,500. Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance and operation of vesselsMaintenance of vessels. and launches, including purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hire of vessels, temporary employees, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, including not to exceed $750 for the purchase of plans and specifications for vessels or for contract personal services for the preparation thereof, and money accruing from commutation of rations and provisions on board vessels may be paid on proper vouchers to the persons having charge of the mess of such vessels, $145,100, of which not to exceed $4,980 may be expendedAllotment for Atlantic coast and Alaska. for pay of officers and employees of vessels of the Atlantic coast and not to exceed $75,000 for pay of officers and crews of vessels for the Alaska Fisheries Service. Commutation of rations (not to exceed $1 per day) may be paidCommutation of rations. to officers and crews of vessels of the Bureau of Fisheries during the fiscal year 1936 under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce. Inquiry respecting food fishes: For inquiry into the cause of theFood fishes inquiry. decrease of food fishes in the waters of the United States, and for investigation and experiments in respect to the aquatic animals, plants, and waters, and screening of irrigation ditches in fishways, in the interests of fish culture and the fishery industries, including pay of permanent employees not to exceed $115,880, temporary98 employees, maintenance, repair, improvement, equipment, and operation of biological stations, expenses of travel and preparation of reports, $164,700. Fishery industries.Statistical studies.Fishery industries: For collection and compilation of statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, and the methods of preservation and utilization of fishery products, including pay of permanent employees not to exceed $25,160, compensation of temporary employees, travel and preparation of reports, including temporary employees in the District of Columbia not to exceed $1,800, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, including the purchase (not to exceed $500), exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in the field work of the Bureau of Fisheries, $60,800. Alaska, general service.Seal fisheries.Alaska, general service: For protecting the seal fisheries of Alaska, including the furnishing of food, fuel, clothing, and other necessities of life to the natives of the Pribilof Islands of Alaska; not exceeding $20,000 for construction, improvement, repair, and alteration of buildings and roads, transportation of supplies to and from the islands, expenses of travel of agents and other employees and subsistence while on said islands, hire and maintenance of vessels, purchase of sea otters, and for all expenses necessary to carry out Vol. 36, p. 326.[U. S. C., p. 677](/us/usc/p677).the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to protect the seal fisheries of Alaska, and for other purposes”, approved April 21, 1910 (U. S. C., title 16, secs. 631–658), and for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska, including pay of permanent employees not to exceed $69,900, contract stenographic reporting service, travel of employees while on duty in Alaska, hire of boats, employment of temporary labor, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $263,300, of which $100,000 shall be immediately available. Black bass law, enforcement.Vol. 44, p. 576; Vol. 46. p. 845.[U. S. C., p. 708](/us/usc/p708).Enforcement of black bass law: To enable the Secretary of Commerce to carry into effect the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate interstate transportation of black bass, and for other purposes ’, approved May 20, 1926” (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 16, secs. 851–856), approved July 2, 1930 (46 Stat.. pp. 845–847), $15,000, of which not to exceed $1,800 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Mississippi Wild Life and Fish Refuge.Construction, maintenance, etc., expenses.Vol. 43, p. 650.[U. S. C., p. 690](/us/usc/p690).Mississippi Wild Life and Fish Refuge: For construction of buildings, boats, and ponds, for purchase of equipment, including boats, for maintenance, operation, repair, and improvements, including expenditures for personal services at the seat of government and elsewhere as may be necessary, as authorized in the Act approved June 7, 1924 (U.'S. C., title 16, secs. 721–731), $15.500. Fisheries Cooperative Marketing Act.Expenses, enforcing, etc.Vol. 48, p. 1213.[U. S. C., p. 571](/us/usc/571).Fisheries Cooperative Marketing Act: To enable the Secretary of Commerce to execute the functions imposed upon him by the Act entitled “An Act authorizing associations of producers of aquatic products”, approved June 25, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 1213), including traveling expenses and contract stenographic reporting services, $12,500, of which not to exceed $9,500 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Shellfish investigation.Shellfish investigation: To provide for the investigation, control, and eradication of marine organisms injurious to shellfish in the Atlantic and Gulf States, including purchase of equipment and supplies, including boats and floating equipment and the maintenance and operation thereof; hire and charter of vessels and boats; pay of officers and crews and other personal services, including temporary employees (not exceeding $4,000 in the District of Columbia) as Printing and binding.may be necessary; printing and binding; and all other necessary expenses connected therewith; $100,000, of which $50,000 shall be immediately available. 99 Not to exceed $750 of the appropriations herein made for theAttendance at meetings. Bureau of Fisheries shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of said Bureau when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce, and not to exceed $500 shall be available for the rental of suitable quarters in the District of Columbia for laboratory and storage purposes. patent officePatent Office. Salaries: For the Commissioner of Patents and other personalSalaries, Commissioner and office personnel.*Proviso*.Temporary typists. services in the District of Columbia, $3,420,000: *Provided*, That of the amount herein appropriated not to exceed $25,000 may be used for special and temporary services of typists certified by the Civil Service Commission, who may be employed in such numbers, at $4 per diem, as may, in the judgment of the Commissioner of Patents, be necessary to keep current the work of furnishing manuscript copies of records. Photolithographing: For producing copies of weekly issue ofPhotolithographing, etc. drawings of patents and designs; reproduction of copies of drawings and specifications of exhausted patents, designs, trade marks, and other papers, such other papers when reproduced for sale to be sold at not less than cost plus 10 per centum; reproduction of foreign patent drawings; photo prints of pending application drawings; and photostat and photographic supplies and dry mounts, $250,000. The headings of the drawings for patented cases may be multigraphedMultigraphed headings. in the Patent Office for the purpose of photolithography. Miscellaneous expenses: For purchase and exchange of law,Miscellaneous expenses. professional, and other reference books and publications and scientific books; expenses of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments; directories, furniture and filing cases; for investigating the question of public use or sale of inventions for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents, and such other questions arising in connection with applications for patents and the prior art as may be deemed necessary by the Commissioner of Patents; for expense attending defense of suits instituted against the Commissioner of Patents; for expenses (in an amount not to exceed $500) of attendance at meetings concernedAttendance at meetings. with the work of the Patent Office when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce, and for other contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the Patent Office; $50,000. Printing and binding: For printing the weekly issue of patents,Printing and binding. designs, trade marks, prints, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly and annual indices, $940,000; for miscellaneous printing and binding, $55,000; in all, $995,000. united states shipping board bureauUnited States Shipping Board Bureau. Salaries and expenses: To carry out the provisions of theSalaries and expenses.Vol. 39, p. 728; Vol. 41, p. 988; Vol. 45, p. 689.[U. S. C., pp. 2055, 2062, 2068](/us/usc/pp2055/2062/2068).Vol. 48, p. 566. Shipping Act, 1916, as amended, and the Merchant Marine Acts of 1920 and 1928, as amended (U. S. C., title 46, secs. 804, 805, 861–889: Supp. VII, title 46, secs. 891–891x), the Act of April 7, 1934 (48 Stat. 566–568), and Executive Order Numbered 6166 (June 10, 1933), including the compensation of attorneys, officers, naval architects, special experts, examiners, and clerks, one technical expert in connection with construction loan fund, and other employees in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and for other expenses of the Bureau, including the rental of quarters outside the District of Columbia, traveling expenses of employees of the Bureau, while100 upon official business away from their designated posts of duty, including not to exceed $300 for attendance at meetings or conventions of members of any society or association the purpose of which is of interest to the development and maintenance of an American merchant marine, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce, and for the employment by contract of expert stenographic reporters for its official reporting work, $211,000, of which amount not to exceed $204,000 may be expended for personal *Provisos*.Salary restriction.Personnel statement to accompany estimates.services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay any salary at a rate in excess of $8,000 per annum: *Provided*, That the annual estimates of the Shipping Board Bureau for the fiscal year 1937 shall be accompanied by a statement showing the number and compensation of employees of the Fleet Corporation assigned to that Bureau: *Provided further*, Salary status, Merchant Fleet Corporation transfers.That employees of the Merchant Fleet Corporation assigned to and serving with the Shipping Board Bureau whose compensation is within the range of salary prescribed for the appropriate grade to which the position has been allocated under the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, shall not be subject to reduction in salary by reason of their transfer during the fiscal year 1936 to the pay roll of the Bureau. Shipping fund.Expenses of Merchant Fleet Corporation.Shipping fund: For expenses of the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, for administrative purposes, including the salaries of employees (not to exceed $178,400) of the Fleet Corporation assigned to the Shipping Board Bureau, miscellaneous adjustments, losses due to the maintenance and operation of ships, including operation through an agreement to pay a lumpsum compensation, for the repair of ships, for the purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor vehicles for official purposes only; for the payment of premiums for liability, fire, theft, property damage, and collision insurance and for other forms of insurance, including schedule and fidelity bonds, commonly carried by commercial corporations Merchant Marine Act, 1920.Vol. 41, p. 988; Vol. 48, p. 596.[U. S. C., p. 2062](/us/usc/p2062).engaged in the same or a similar business, and for carrying out the provisions of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, and amendments thereto,
(a)the amount of operating funds on hand July 1, 1935;
(b)all amounts received during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, other than the proceeds of sales of ships and surplus property;
(c)so much of the total proceeds of sales of ships and surplus property received during the fiscal year 1936, but not exceeding $2,000,000, of which sum not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be available to meet the expenses of liquidation, including the cost incident to the delivery of vessels to purchasers, the cost of maintaining the laid-up fleet, and the salaries and expenses of the personnel engaged in liquidation, and not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be available upon the written approval of the Secretary of Commerce for use for reconditioning and operating ships for carrying coal, cotton, grain, lumber, and other basic commodities to foreign ports; and
(d)so much of the total proceeds of sales of ships and surplus property received during the seal year 1936 as is necessary for the protection of the interests of the United States in any vessel or property on which the United *Proviso*.Use restricted.States holds a mortgage: *Provided*, That no part of these sums, (a), (b), (c), and
(d)shall be used for the payment of claims arising out of the construction and requisitioning of vessels. Payment of claims.Vol. 42, pp. 647, 1242.That portion of the special claims appropriation contained in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923 committed prior to July 1, 1923, and remaining unexpended on June 30, 1935, shall continue available until June 30, 1936, for the same purposes and under the same conditions. 101 To enable the United States Shipping Board Merchant FleetOperation of ships. Corporation to operate ships or lines of ships which have been or may be taken back from purchasers by reason of competition or other methods employed by foreign shipowners or operators, there is herebyVol. 44, p. 318. reappropriated the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $10,000,000 made for similar purposes in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1927: *Provided*, That no*Proviso*.Approval of President. expenditure shall be made for the purposes of this paragraph from this sum without the prior approval of the President of the United States. No part of the sums appropriated in this Act shall be used to payAttorneys. Approval of contract of employment. the compensation of any attorney, regular or special, for the United States Shipping Board Bureau or the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation unless the contract of employment has been approved by the Attorney General of the United States. No part of the funds of the United States Shipping BoardSalary restriction. Merchant Fleet Corporation shall be available to pay any salary at a rate in excess of $8,000 per annum. No part of the funds of the United States Shipping BoardRent. Merchant Fleet Corporation shall be available for the rent of buildings in the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1936 if suitable space is provided for said corporation by the Office of NationalVol. 48, p. 389. Parks, Buildings, and Reservations of the Department of the Interior. No part of the funds of the United States Shipping BoardFuel oil of foreign production.Purchase, use, etc., restricted. Merchant Fleet Corporation shall be available during the fiscal year 1936 for the purchase of any kind of fuel oil of foreign production for issue, delivery, or sale to ships at points either in the United States or its possessions, where oil of the production of the United States or its possessions is available, if the cost of such oil compared with foreign-oil costs be not unreasonable. Of the sums herein made available under the United StatesCompensation of attorneys. Shipping Board Bureau, not to exceed an aggregate of $150,000 shall be expended for compensation of regular attorneys employed on a yearly salary basis, including their clerical and legal assistants. This title may be cited as the “Department of CommerceShort title. Appropriation Act, 1936.” TITLE IV— DEPARTMENT OF LABORDepartment of Labor. office of the secretaryOffice of the Secretary. Salaries: Secretary of Labor, Assistant Secretary, SecondSalaries. Assistant Secretary, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $257,000. Promotion of health, safety, employment, and so forth: ForPromotion of health, safety, employment, etc. salaries and expenses in connection with the promotion of health, safety, employment stabilization, and amicable industrial relations for labor and industry, $125,000, of which amount not to exceed $70,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Contingent expenses: For contingent and miscellaneous expensesContingent expenses. of the offices and bureaus of the Department, for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specifically made, including the purchase of stationery, furniture, and repairs to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloths, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, laundry, street-car fares not exceeding $200; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motorcycles and motor trucks; purchase and exchange (not exceeding $2,500), maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying102 vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; newspaper clippings not to exceed $1,200, postage to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; purchase of law books, books of reference, newspapers and periodicals, not exceeding $4,500; contract stenographic services; all other necessary miscellaneous items and expenses not included in the foregoing; and not to exceed $25,000 for purchase of certain supplies for the Immigration and Naturalization Service; in all, $95,000, of which $2,500 shall be *Proviso*.Minor purchases.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[U. S. C., p. 1803](/us/usc/p1803).immediately available: *Provided*, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for the Department of Labor when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $100. Printing and binding.*Post*, p. 1626.Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Department of Labor, including all its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $230,000. Commissioners of conciliation.Vol. 37. p. 738.[U. S. C., p. 81](/us/usc/p81).Commissioners of conciliation; To enable the Secretary of Labor to exercise the authority vested in him by section 8 of the Act creating the Department of Labor (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 611) and to appoint commissioners of conciliation, traveling expenses, telegraph and telephone service, and not to exceed $17,260 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $207,300. Bureau of Labor Statistics.bureau of labor statistics Salaries and expenses.Salaries and expenses: For personal services, including temporary statistical clerks, stenographers and typewriters in the District of Columbia, and including also experts and temporary assistants for field service outside of the District of Columbia; traveling expenses, including expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Bureau of Labor Statistics when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor; purchase of periodicals, documents, envelops, price quotations, and reports and materials for reports and bulletins of said Bureau, $884,600, of which amount not to exceed $640,000 may be expended for the salary of the commissioner and other personal services in the District of Columbia. Investigating cost of living.Investigation of cost of living in the United States: For personal services, including temporary statistical clerks, stenographers and typewriters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses; supplies and equipment; telegraph and telephone service; rent of tabulating machines; and any other necessary expense in connection with the conduct of the study and printing the report, $200,000. Immigration and Naturalization Service.immigration and naturalization service Salaries and expenses.*Post*, pp. 1121, 1626.Salaries and expenses: For enforcement of the laws regulating the immigration to, the residence in, and the exclusion and deportation from the United States of aliens and persons subject to the Chinese exclusion laws; for enforcement of the laws authorizing a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens; salaries, transportation, traveling, and other expenses of officers, clerks, and other employees appointed to enforce said laws; care, detention, maintenance, transportation, Deportation, etc., of aliens.and traveling expenses incident to the deportation and exclusion of aliens and persons subject to the Chinese exclusion laws, as authorized by law, in the United States and to, through, or in foreign countries; purchase of supplies and equipment, including alterations103 and repairs; purchase, exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled vehicles, including passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work; arms, ammunition and accessories; cost of reports of decisions of the Federal courts and digests thereof for official use; verifications of legal papers; refunding of head tax, maintenance bills, immigration fines, upon presentation of evidence showing conclusively that collection and deposit was made through error; mileage and fees to witnesses subpenaed on behalf of theWitness fees, etc. United States, and for all other expenses necessary, to enforce said laws; $9,495,000, all to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Labor; of which amount not to exceed $540,000 may be expended for the salary of the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization and other personal services in the District ofPersonal services in District. Columbia, including services of persons authorized by law to be detailed there for duty: *Provided*, That not to exceed $45,000 of the sum*Provisos*.Vehicles. herein appropriated shall be available for the purchase, including exchange, of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles:Privately owned horses. *Provided further*, That the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, with the approval of the Secretary of Labor, may contract with officers and employees stationed outside of the District of Columbia whose salaries are payable from this appropriation, for the use, on official business outside of the District of Columbia, of privately owned horses, and the consideration agreed upon shall be payable from the funds herein appropriated: *Provided further*, That not toAllowances for living quarters, etc. exceed $36,000 of the total amount herein appropriated shall be available for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C.,Vol. 46, p. 818.[U. S. C., p. 45](/us/usc/p45). Supp. VII, title 5, sec. 118a), not to exceed $1,700 for any person: *Provided further*, That $60,000 of the amount herein appropriatedOvertime services of inspectors, etc.*Post*, p. 1627. shall be available only for the payment of extra compensation for overtime services of inspectors and employees of the Immigration and Naturalization Service for which the United States receivesVol. 46, p. 1467.[U. S. C., p. 184](/us/usc/p184). reimbursement in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March 2, 1931 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 8, secs. 109a and 109b):*Provisos*.Attendance at meetings. *Provided further*, That not to exceed $400 of the sum herein appropriated may be expended for attendance at meetings concerned with the naturalization of aliens when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriationPay of assistants to clerks of courts forbidden.Payment of rewards. shall be available for the compensation of assistants to clerks of United States courts: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $10,000 of the stun herein appropriated may be expended for payment of rewards, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of Labor, for information leading to the detection, arrest, or conviction of persons violating the immigration or naturalization laws. Immigration stations: For remodeling, repairing (includingImmigration stations. repairs to the ferryboat, Ellis Island), renovating buildings, and purchase of equipment, $100,000. children’s bureauChildren’s Bureau. Salaries and expenses: For expenses of investigating andSalaries and expenses.Investigations. reporting upon matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life, and especially to investigate the questions of infant mortality; personal services, including experts and temporary assistants; traveling expenses, including not to exceed $3,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings for the promotion of child welfare when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor; purchase of reports and material for the publications of the Children’s Bureau and for reprints from State, city, and private publications for distribution104when said reprints can be procured more cheaply than they can be printed by the Government, and other necessary expenses, $403,300, of which amount not to exceed $313,5,00 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Women’s Bureau.women’s bureau Salaries and expenses.Vol. 41, p. 987.[U. S. C., p. 1320](/us/usc/p1320).Salaries and expenses: For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to establish in the Department of Labor a bureau to be known as the Women’s Bureau”, approved June 5, 1920 (U. S. C., title 29, secs. 11–16; U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 29, secs. 12–14), including personal services in the District of Columbia, not to exceed $134,500; purchase of material for reports and educational exhibits, and traveling expenses, $153,500, of which sum not to exceed $3,000 shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of said bureau when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor. Employment Service.united states employment service Providing for promotion of employment.Vol. 48, p. 113.For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the establishment of a national employment system and for cooperation with the States in the promotion of such system, and for other purposes”, approved June 6, 1933; personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses, Attendance at meetings.including expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the United States Employment Service when specifically Books, etc.authorized by the Secretary of Labor; law books, books of reference and periodicals, printing and binding, supplies and equipment, telegraph and telephone service, and miscellaneous expenses, $3,200,000, of which amount not to exceed $775,000 shall be available for all administrative purposes including not to exceed $175,000 for personal *Proviso*.Basis of apportionment.services in the Department in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That apportionments under the provisions of such Act for the fiscal year 1936 shall be on the basis of a total apportionment to all States of $3,000,000 and in order to supply the Government’s apportionments to States qualifying under such Act for the first time, which are not capable of being supplied under the foregoing appropriation, there is hereby appropriated so much as may be necessary to supply such apportionments. United States Housing Corporation.united states housing corporation Salaries and expenses.Salaries and expenses: For officers, clerks, and other employees, and for contingent and miscellaneous expenses, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including blank books, maps, stationery, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, freight and express charges, Printing and binding.communication service, traveling expense, printing and binding not to exceed $100, and all other miscellaneous items and expenses not included in the foregoing and necessary to collect and account for the receipts from the sale of properties and the receipts from the operation of unsold properties of the United States Housing Corporation, the Bureau of Industrial Housing and Transportation, property commandeered by the United States through the Secretary of Labor, and to collect the amounts advanced to transportation facilities and others; for payment of special assessments and other utility, municipal, State, and county charges or assessments unpaid by purchasers, and which have been assessed against property in which the United States Housing Corporation has an interest, and to defray expenses incident to foreclosing mortgages, conducting105 sales under deeds of trusts, or reacquiring title or possession of real property under default proceeding, including attorney fees, witness fees, court costs, charges, and other miscellaneous expenses; for the maintenance and repair of houses, buildings, and improvements which are unsold; in all, $9,300: *Provided*, That no person shall be*Provisos*.Salary restriction. employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $4,000 per annum, and only one person may be employed at that rate:Expenditures restricted. *Provided further*, That no part of the appropriations heretofore made and available for expenditure by the United States Housing Corporation shall be expended for the purposes for which appropriations are made herein. Sec. 2. That no part of the money appropriated under this ActRestriction on expenditure of appropriation. shall be paid to any person for the filling of any position for which he or she has been nominated after the Senate has voted not to approve of the nomination of said person. Sec. 3. Section 323 of part II of the Legislative AppropriationJurors and witnesses.Per diem fees reduced.Subsistence excepted.Vol. 47, p. 413. Act, approved June 30, 1932, except so much thereof as suspends the per diem for expenses of subsistence for witnesses, is hereby continued in full force and effect during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936; and for the purpose of making such section applicable to such fiscal year the figures “1933” shall be read as “1936”. Sec. 4. This title may be cited as the “Department of LaborShort title. Appropriation Act, 1936.” Approved, March 22, 1935. To authorize the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Naw to lend Army and Navy equipment for use at the national jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America. 1935-04-01 49 Stat. 105 40 Chapter 74 1 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 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 40.] AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Naw to lend Army and Navy equipment for use at the national jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America. April 1, 1935.[[S. 935](/us/bill/74/s/935).][
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- to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous and unsafe buildings and parts thereof, and for other purposes”, and to further amend said Act by adding at the end thereof new sections numbered 5 and 6. 1935-04-05 49 Stat. 105 41 Chapter 74 1 United States Government PPublic Law 24
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