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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 49 STAT. · June 30, 1935 · Public Law 270

Public Law 270.

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(/us/pl/74/260).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the followingSecond 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 for prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1935, and June 30, 1936, and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I—General appropriations.Legislative. GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS LEGISLATIVE senateSenate. The unobligated balance of the appropriation for expenses of Inquiries and investigations, expenses. Vol. 48, p. 820.inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, contingent fund of the Senate, for the fiscal year 1935, is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1936. For the purchase of furniture, fiscal year 1936, $2,089.18.Furniture. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fiscal year 1936, $50,000.Miscellaneous. house of representativesHouse of Representatives.
For payment to the widow of Cap R. Carden, late a RepresentativeCap R. Carden.Pay to widow. from the State of Kentucky, $10,000, to be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House. Speaker’s office: Effective on the date of the enactment of this Act, the positions of clerk to Speaker at $2,400 and clerk to Speaker at $1,440 are abolished and in lieu thereof there are hereby established three clerical positions at $2,400 each per annum; and the appropriations for the fiscal year 1936 in the Legislative BranchSpeaker’s office.
Reclassification of positions under. Appropriation available. Appropriation Act, 1936, for compensation of the positions hereby abolished are made available for compensation of the positions*Ante*, p. 463. hereby created and in addition there is appropriated for the fiscal year 1936 the sum of $3,360. Parliamentary Precedents: For reimbursement to Clarence Cannon Hinds’ Parliamentary Precedents.Expenses of compiling, etc.*Ante*, p. 509.for expenses incurred by him in compiling, preparing, correcting, and revising Hinds’ Parliamentary Precedents of the House of Representatives up to and including the Seventy-third Congress, $20,000.
Contingent expenses: For stenographic reports of hearings of committeesContingent expenses. other than special and select committees, for the following fiscal years: For 1934, $55.50; For 1935, $12,500. For telegraph and telephone service, Telegraph and telephone service.exclusive of personal services, fiscal year 1935, $15,000. office of architect of the capitolArchitect of the Capitol. Air-conditioning, Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings:Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings.
Air conditioning systems. For providing and installing air-conditioning systems, Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, including all necessary structural alterations required for such installations, fiscal years 1936 and 1937, 572Expenditures included.Vol. 36, p. 699; [U. S. C., p. 1787](/us/usc/1787).Services.Vol. 42, p. 1488; Vol. 46, p. 1003; [U. S. C., p. 85](/us/usc/85).$2,550,000, to be expended by the Architect of the Capitol and to include expenditures for material, supplies, equipment, accessories, advertising, traveling expenses, and, without regard to section 35 of the Public Buildings Act, approved June 25, 1910, as amended, or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, the employment of necessary personnel (including professional, architectural, and engineering services).
Senate Office Building.Construction, etc., expenses.Senate Office Building; For letter-filing cabinets, $5,000; for fire-proofing attic and wire-mesh partitions, $5,040; and two cut-off partitions with fire doors, $1,500; for remodelling and painting rooms in the Senate Office Building, $45,500; in all, fiscal year 1936, $57,040. House Office Building.Maintenance.House Office Building: For an additional amount for maintenance, including the same objects specified under this head in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1935, $5,000.
Capitol Buildings.Capitol Buildings: For an additional amount for the Capitol Buildings for the fiscal year 1936, including the same objects specified under this head in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1936, $5,000. Capitol Power Plant.Maintenance, etc.Capitol Power Plant: For an additional amount for lighting, heating, and power for the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1935, $56,100.
Feed water deaerator, heater, etc.Sums available.Vol. 48, p. 827.The sum of $25,600 of the appropriation for the Capitol Power Plant, contained in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1935, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1936, and shall be available for the purchase and installation of a feed water deaerator heater, auxiliaries, and so forth, including housing and all expenses in connection therewith, together with an additional amount of $35,000, to remain available for the same purposes until June 30, 1936.
Travel expenses.Amount increased.Vol. 48, p. 827.The limitation of $1,750 placed on expenses for travel on official business under the Architect of the Capitol contained in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1935, is hereby increased to $2,500. library of congressLibrary of Congress. Books for adult blind.Vol. 47, p. 1570. [U. S. C., p. 10](/us/usc/10).Books for adult blind: For an additional sum required to enable the Librarian of Congress to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide books for the adult blind”, approved March 3, 1931, as amended (U.
S. C., Supp. VII, title 2, sec, 135a), fiscal year 1936, $75,000. government printing officeGovernment Printing Office. Designated messengers on night duty.For payment to Samuel Robinson, William Madden, Preston L. George, and William S. Houston, messengers on night duty during the first session of the Seventy-fourth Congress, $900 each; in all, $3,600, to be paid from the appropriation for printing and binding for Congress for the fiscal year 1935. INDEPENDENT OFFICESIndependent Offices. executiveExecutive.
Naval oil reserves.Expenses, canceling, etc.Protection of interests of the United States in matters affecting oil lands in former naval reserves: For an additional amount for compensation and expenses of special counsel and for all other expense, including employment of experts and other assistants at such rates as may be authorized or approved by the President, in Vol. 43, p. 15.connection with carrying into effect the “Joint resolution directing the Secretary of the Interior to institute proceedings touching sections 57316 and 36, township 30 south, range 23 east, Mount Diablo meridian”, approved February 21, 1924, $62,500, of which $36,000 shall be available for the fiscal year 1936 and no part of such sum of $36,000 shall be used to compensate any person at a rate in excess of $10,000 per annum, and $26,500, to be available for services rendered during the fiscal year 1934 and prior fiscal years, and to be expended by the President. civil service commissionCivil Service Commission.
Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and Salaries and expenses.*Ante*, p. 7.*Post*, p. 1111.expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1936, $25,000. Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing andPrinting and binding. binding, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, fiscal years 1935 and 1936, $10,900. district of columbia alley dwelling authorityD.
C. Alley Dwelling Authority. Conversion of inhabited-alleys fund: The unexpended balance ofFunds for, continued available.Vol. 48, p. 930.*Post*, p. 1601. the “Conversion of inhabited-alleys fund” of $500,000 established pursuant to the provisions of the District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Act, approved June 12, 1934, is hereby continued available for the purposes of said Act until June 30, 1936. employees’ compensation commissionEmployees’ Compensation Commission. Salaries and expenses:
For an additional amount for salaries andSalaries and expenses.Vol. 44, p. 1074. expenses for the United States Employees’ Compensation Commission, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1928, $1.25. federal trade commissionFederal Trade Commission. Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for the FederalSalaries and expenses.*Ante*, p. 10.*Post*, p. 1111. Trade Commission, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1936, including $4,000 for printing and binding, $200,000, to remain available until December 31, 1936. george rogers clark sesquicentennial commissionGeorge Rogers Clark Sesquicentennial Commission.
For payment of the General Accounting Office settlement, datedD. Frank Culbertson.Payment to.Vol. 48, p. 364. April 16, 1935, in favor of D. Frank Culbertson, vice chairman of the Commission, for per diem in lieu of subsistence and for reimbursement of expenses incurred by him when on official business during the period from January 2, 1930, to October 26, 1934, both inclusive, $1,875.67, to be payable from the unexpended balances of the appropriations continued available to the Commission during the fiscal year 1935. george washington bicentennial commissionGeorge Washington Bicentennial Commission.
For an additional amount for the George Washington BicentennialDefinitive edition of writings of George Washington.Vol. 48, p. 1210.*Ante*, p. 38.*Post*, p. 1896. Commission, to be available only for completing the printing and binding at the Government Printing Office of the remaining volumes of the definitive edition of the writings of George Washington as authorized by Public Resolution Numbered 6, Seventy-fourth Congress, approved March 4, 1935, $103,606, to remain available until December 31, 1936. 574 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.national advisory committee for aeronautics Expenses, scientific research, etc.*Ante*, p. 13.*Post*, p. 1602.For an additional amount for scientific research, technical investigations, and special reports in the field of aeronautics, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1936, fiscal year 1936, $338,050, of which sum not to exceed $20,000 may be used for personal services in the District of Columbia.
National Capital Park and Planning Commission.national capital park and planning commission Incidental expenses.Vol. 46, p. 482.*Post*, p. 1602.For the work of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission necessary toward carrying into effect the provisions of section 4 of the Act approved May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), providing for a comprehensive park, parkway, and playground system of the Personal services.[U. S. C., p. 85](/us/usc/85).National Capital, and so forth; personal services in the District of Columbia, including real-estate and other technical services, at rates of pay to be fixed by the Commission not exceeding those usual for similar services and without reference to civil-service rules and the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; travel expenses; survey, searching of titles, and all other costs incident to the acquisition of land; reimbursements to be made as prescribed in such Act, as amended, fiscal year 1936, $800,000.
National Railroad Adjustment Board.national railroad adjustment board Expenses.*Ante*, p. 23.*Post*, pp. 1178, 1603.Not to exceed $25,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the National Railroad Adjustment Board for the fiscal year 1935, contained in Public Resolution Numbered 3, Seventy-fourth Congress, approved February 13, 1935, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1936, of which amount not to exceed $12,500 shall be available for the payment of salaries and expenses of referees of the National Railroad Adjustment Board, and not to exceed $12,500 shall be available for printing and binding.
United States officers and employees in foreign countries.payment to officers and employees of the united states in foreign countries due to appreciation of foreign currencies Payments, due to appreciation of foreign currencies.*Ante*, pp. 14, 71.For an additional amount for payment to officers and employees of the United States in foreign countries due to appreciation of foreign currencies, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1936, $1,478,652.
Petroleum Administration.petroleum administration Expenses.*Ante*, p. 30.For administering and enforcing the provisions of the Act approved February 22, 1935 (Public, Numbered 14, Seventy-fourth Congress), entitled “An Act to regulate interstate and foreign commerce in petroleum and its products by prohibiting the shipment in such commerce of petroleum and its products produced in violation of State law and for other purposes”, and to include necessary personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere without regard to the civil-service laws and regulations, traveling expenses, contract stenographic reporting services, rent, stationery and office supplies, not to exceed $10,000 for printing and binding, not to exceed $1,500 for books and periodicals, not to exceed $20,000 for the purchase, exchange, hire, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $20,000 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of boats, fiscal year 1936, $500,000. 575 railroad retirement boardRailroad Retirement Board.
Salaries and Expenses: For each and every expense necessary toSalaries and expenses.Vol. 48, p. 1287.*Post*, p. 1098. liquidate the affairs of the former Railroad Retirement Board, as established in section 9 of the Railroad Retirement Act, approved June 27, 1934, which is hereby reestablished to effect such liquidation, including compensation of members of said Board and its employees heretofore and hereafter employed for services rendered from May 1 to 6, 1935, inclusive, and subsequently thereto but not beyond September 30, 1935; to pay any expense heretofore incurred by the Board and not yet paid, for the preparation of a report upon its activities and experiences to the President for transmission to Congress as contemplated in section 2
(b)of the Railroad Retirement Act, and for arranging for turning over the records, papers, and property of the Board to such agency as the President shall designate, fiscal years 1935 and 1936, $35,000; and in addition thereto refundment is hereby authorized to past and present members and employees of the Board of all compensation earned by them but withheld as employees’ contribution to the Railroad Retirement Fund and deposited to the credit of said fund in the Treasury, and the amount necessary for this purpose is hereby appropriated from said fund: *Provided*, That no member of the Board or of its staff*Proviso*.Personal liability. shall be personally liable for any action heretofore taken within the terms of the authority sought to be granted by the Railroad Retirement Act. tariff commissionTariff Commission. Salaries and expenses: The sum of $19,000 of the unobligatedSalaries and expenses.Vol. 48, pp. 517,1027.*Ante*, p. 16. balance of the appropriation and other funds of $877,942 for salaries and expenses of the United States Tariff Commission, 1935, contained in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1935, and the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, is hereby continued available for the fiscal year 1936, and the limitation of $870,000 on the amount which may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, contained in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1936, under this head, is hereby increased to $908,000. Printing and binding: The sum of $1,000 of the unobligated balancePrinting and binding. of the appropriation and other funds of $15,775 for printing and binding for the Tariff Commission, 1935, contained in theSum of unexpended balance continued.Vol. 48, pp. 518, 1027. Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1935, and the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, is hereby continued available for the fiscal year 1936. texas centennial expositionTexas Centennial Exposition. For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the publicParticipation expenses.*Ante*, pp. 431, 541, 542, resolution entitled “Joint resolution providing for the participation of the United States in the Texas Centennial Exposition and celebrations to be held in the State of Texas during the years 1935 and 1936, and authorizing the President to invite foreign countries and nations to participate therein, and for other purposes”, approved June 28, 1935, and for each and every object thereof, and within the limits of the cost specified therein, $3,000,000, said sumSum for Texas Memorial Museum. to include $300,000 toward the Texas Memorial Museum to be granted to the board of directors of such museum for expenditures for such purpose, to remain available until expended. 576 Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission.thomas jefferson memorial commission Expenses.Vol. 48, p. 1244.For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the performance of the duties of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission, created by Public Resolution Numbered 49, Seventy-third Congress, approved June 26, 1934 (48 Stat. 1244), including personal services without regard to the provisions of the civil-service laws and regulations, and the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, purchase or preparation of plans, designs, and estimates, printing and binding, office equipment and supplies, contract stenographic reporting service, books and periodicals, traveling expenses of members and employees of the Commission (including such expenses and allowances for members of the Commission when required to be in Washington, District of Columbia, in connection with the work of the Commission), and such other contingent and miscellaneous expenses as may be necessary, fiscal years 1935 and 1936, *Proviso*.Purchases or services.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/3709/733).[U. S. C., p. 1803](/us/usc/1803).$15,000: *Provided*, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for the Commission. District of Columbia.DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA office of corporation counselCorporation Counsel’s Office. Salaries.*Ante*, p. 342.Salaries: For an additional amount for personal services, fiscal year 1934, $522.50. Coroner’s office.coroner’s office Maintenance.*Ante*, p. 342.Maintenance: For additional amount for maintenance, Coroner’s Office, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for the following fiscal years: For 1934, $931.50; For 1935, $740. Contingent and miscellaneous expenses.contingent and miscellaneous expenses Judicial expenses.*Ante*, p. 345.Judicial expenses: For an additional amount for judicial expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for the following fiscal years: For 1934, $911.37; For 1935, $2,095.50. Advertising.General advertising: For an additional amount for general advertising, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for the following fiscal years: For 1934, $2,515.74; For 1935, $1,494.31. Employees’ Compensation Fund.employees’ compensation fund; district of columbia Burial expenses.Vol. 41, p. 104.*Ante*, p. 344.For an additional amount for carrying out the provisions of section 11 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, approved July 11, 1919, extending to the employees of the government of the District of Columbia the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide Vol. 39, p. 745.compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes”, approved September 7, 1916, fiscal year 1935, $6,000. 577 public schoolsPublic schools. Fuel, gas, and so forth: For an additional amount for fuel, gas, Operating supplies.*Ante*, p. 355.and electric light and power, for the following fiscal years: For 1934, $11,303.01; For 1935, $45,000. Furniture and equipment: The unexpended balance of the appropriationFurniture, etc.Vol. 48, p. 859.*Ante*, p. 355. of $150,000, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, for furniture and equipment, including pianos and window shades, for the Woodrow Wilson Senior High School, is continued available for the same purposes during the fiscal year 1936: *Provided*, That the total amount expended under*Proviso*.Limitation. this appropriation and the appropriation for the same purposes in the District of Columbia Appropriation. Act for the fiscal year 1936 shall not exceed $150,000. Education of deaf, dumb, and blind: For an additional amountEducation of deaf, dumb, and blind.*Ante*, p. 354. for maintenance and instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section 4864 of the Revised Statutes, and as provided for[R. S., sec. 4884, p. 942](/us/rs/4884/942).Vol. 31, p. 844; Vol. 35, p. 1422. in the Act approved March 1, 1901 (U. S. C., title 24, sec. 238), and under a contract entered into with the said institution by the Commissioners, fiscal year 1935, $500. fire departmentFire Department. For an additional amount for fuel, fiscal year 1935, $4,000.Fuel. health departmentHealth Department. Salaries: For an additional amount for personal services, fiscalSalaries.*Ante*, p. 359. year 1936, $45,000. Prevention of contagious diseases: For an additional amount for Contagious diseases prevention.*Ante*, p. 359.prevention of contagious diseases, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $4,000. Maintenance of motor vehicles: For an additional amount for Motor vehicles.maintenance and operation of motor ambulances and motor vehicles, fiscal year 1935, $300. Garfield Hospital isolating ward: For additional amounts for isolatingGarfield Hospital.Isolating wards. wards for minor contagious diseases at Garfield Memorial Hospital, maintenance, for the following fiscal years: For 1935, $18,000; For 1936, $3,000. courts and prisonsCourts and prisons. Juvenile court: For an additional amount for witness fees and Juvenile court.compensation of jurors, fiscal year 1935, $700. Support of convicts: For an additional amount for support, maintenance,Support of convicts out of the District. and transportation of convicts transferred from District of Columbia, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1934, $55,456.64. Writs of lunacy: For an additional amount for expenses attendingLunacy writs.Expenses of executing.Vol. 33, p. 740. the execution of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to Saint Elizabeths Hospital by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, and expenses of commitments to the District Training School, including personal services, fiscal year 1934, $1,372,16. 578 Public welfare.public welfare Board of Public Welfare, ambulance, etc.*Ante*, p. 363.Board of Public Welfare: For purchase and exchange of one motor ambulance and equipment, fiscal year 1936, $1,500. Child Welfare Division.Division of Child Welfare: For an additional amount for board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said Board by the courts of the District, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $10,000. Jail, maintenance, etc.Jail: For an additional amount for maintenance and support of prisoners of the District of Columbia at the jail, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $13,000. Workhouse and reformatory.Workhouse and reformatory: For an additional amount for maintenance, care, and support of inmates, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $75,000. National Training School for Boys.National Training School for Boys, contract: For an additional amount for care and maintenance of boys committed to the National Training School for Boys by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract made by the Board of Public Welfare with the authorities of such school for the following fiscal years: For 1934, $12,590.19; For 1935, $60,000. National Training School for Girls.National Training School for Girls: For an additional amount for maintenance, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1934, $122.67. Medical charities.Medical charities: For an additional amount for care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts made by the Board of Public Welfare with the following institutions and for not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Children’s Hospital.Children’s Hospital: Fiscal year 1934, $8,948; fiscal year 1935, $45,000; in all, $53,948. Emergency Hospital.Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, fiscal year 1935, $20,000. Casualty Hospital.Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital: Fiscal year 1934, $3,425.10; fiscal year 1935, $20,000; in all, $23,425.10. Tuberculosis Hospital.Tuberculosis Hospital: For an additional amount for provisions, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for the following fiscal years: For 1934, $233.20; For 1935, $15,000. Children’s Tuberculosis Sanatorium.Children’s Tuberculosis Sanatorium: For an additional amount for provisions, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $6,000. Gallinger Municipal Hospital.Gallinger Municipal Hospital: For an additional amount for maintenance of the hospital, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $10,000. Industrial Home School for Colored Children.Industrial Home School for Colored Children: For an additional amount for maintenance, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the following fiscal years: For 1934, $210.53; For 1935, $4,000. 579 Industrial Home School: For an additional amount for maintenance,Industrial Home School. including care of horses, purchase and care of wagon and harness, maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle, fiscal year 1935, $2,000. Home for Aged and Infirm: For an additional amount for provisions,Home for Aged and Infirm. including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the following fiscal years: For 1934, $593.02; For 1935, $10,500. Saint Elizabeths Hospital: For an additional amount for supportSaint Elizabeths Hospital. of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, fiscal year 1935, $29,000. Relief of the poor: For an additional amount for relief of theRelief of the poor. poor, including medical and surgical supplies, artificial limbs, and for pay of physicians to the poor, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Welfare, fiscal year 1935, $2,000. water serviceWater service. Washington Aqueduct: For replacing the pumping equipment andWashington Aqueduct.*Ante*, p. 1615. appurtenant features of the pumping station of the McMillan Filter Plant and for each and every purpose connected therewith, fiscal year 1936, $150,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to beOut of water revenues. paid wholly out of the revenues of the Water Department of the District of Columbia. settlement of claims For the payment of claims approved by the Commissioners underSettlement of claims and suits. Vol. 45, p. 1160; Vol. 46, p. 500. and in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to settle claims and suits against the District of Columbia”, approved February 11, 1929 (45 Stat., 1160), as amended by the Act approved June 5, 1930 (46 Stat., 500), and reported in Senate Document Numbered 78 and House Document Numbered 177, Seventy-fourth Congress, $11,522.30. refund of assessments For payment of refunds of assessments for paving streets, avenues,Paying refunds of street, etc., assessments.Vol. 46, p. 1199. and roads, and laying curbs, as authorized by the provisions of section 11 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for special assessments for the paving of roadways and the laying of curbs and gutters”, approved February 20, 1931, $2,033.87. For payment of refunds of assessments for sewer and water mainsBarry Farm subdivision.Vol. 48, p. 876. in the subdivision of Barry Farm, pursuant to the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $18,121.98. judgments For the payment of final judgments, including costs, renderedPayment of judgments. against the District of Columbia, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 77 and House Document Numbered 188, Seventy-fourth Congress, $12,749.93, together with the further sum to pay the interest at not exceeding 4 per centum per annum on such judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment. 580 Workmen’s Compensation Act.workmen’s compensation act Lyman C. Drake.*Post*, p. 2084.Vol. 45, p. 600.Relief of Lyman C. Drake: For payment to Lyman C. Drake, under the provisions of the Act of June 19, 1935, on account of an award made by the United States Employees’ Compensation Commission on September 6, 1934, under the District of Columbia Workmen’s Compensation Act, case numbered 4927-91, for personal injuries sustained by the said Lyman C. Drake on April 6, 1933, while in the employ of the District of Columbia Committee on *Proviso*.Payment, etc., to be in full settlement.Employment, $1,316.40: *Provided*, That payment to and the receipt by the claimant of the sum herein appropriated shall be in full settlement of any and all claims arising out of said personal injuries. Audited claims.audited claims Payment of.Vol. 18, p. 110.[U. S. C., p. 1410](/us/usc/1410).For the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the accounting officers of the District of Columbia, under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or 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, p. 1022), being for the service of the fiscal year 1932 and prior fiscal years: For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, District of Columbia, 1932, general advertising, $105.60; For playgrounds, District of Columbia, 1932, general maintenance, $63.52; For public schools, District of Columbia, 1931–1932, fuel, gas, and electricity, $5.53; For buildings and grounds, public schools, District of Columbia, 1931–1932, 8-room addition to Janney School, $84.20; For policemen and firemen’s relief fund, District of Columbia, 1932, $10; For police court, District of Columbia, 1932, witness fees, $1.50; For writs of lunacy, District of Columbia, 1932, expenses, $450; For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, District of Columbia, 1931, general advertising, $22.26; For public schools, District of Columbia, 1929–1931, furniture and equipment, E. A. Paul Junior High, $8.75; For public schools, District of Columbia, 1929–1931, furniture and equipment, 24-room building, Nineteenth and Columbia Road NW., $20; For teachers retirement appropriated fund, District of Columbia, 1931, $31.93; For health department, District of Columbia, 1931, dispensaries, $5.88; For child welfare and hygiene service, District of Columbia, 1931, $4.49; For miscellaneous expenses, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, 1931, $130; For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, District of Columbia, 1930, contingent expenses, $3; For Gallinger Municipal Hospital, District of Columbia, 1930, maintenance, $17.25; For miscellaneous expenses, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, 1930, $20; For playgrounds, District of Columbia, 1929, general maintenance, $270;581 For fees of witnesses, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, 1928, $6; For Court of Appeals report, District of Columbia, 1924, $71.50; In all, audited claims, $1,331.41. division of expensesDivision of expenses. The foregoing sums for the District of Columbia, unless otherwiseFrom District revenues.Fiscal years 1921–1924, 1925–1936. therein specifically provided, shall be paid as follows: Such sums as relate to the fiscal years 1921 to 1924, inclusive, 60 per centum out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and 40 per centum out of the Treasury of the United States; and such sums as relate to the fiscal years 1925 to 1936, inclusive, jointly or severally, shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the Treasury of the United States in the manner prescribed by the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for such respective fiscal years. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUREDepartment of Agriculture. bureau of entomology and plant quarantineEntomology and Plant Quarantine Bureau. Grasshopper survey: To provide for a cooperative grasshopperGrasshopper survey.Amount available.Vol. 48, p. 488. survey, the sum of $25,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for “Grasshopper Control, Bureau of Entomology”, provided in the Agricultural Department Appropriation Act of 1935, is continued available during the fiscal year 1936 and added to the amount appropriated for “Cereal and Forage Insects” under Salaries*Ante*, p. 267. and Expenses, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, included in the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1936. West Indian fruit fly and black fly: For determining and applyingWest Indian fruit fly and black fly. such methods of eradication and control of the West Indian fruit fly and black fly as in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture may be necessary to eradicate these pests from the State of Florida, fiscal year 1936, $36,000: *Provided*, That no expenditures*Proviso*.Cooperation by Florida. shall be made for these purposes until there has been provided by the State of Florida funds and means which in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture are fully adequate to effectively cooperate in the accomplishment of these purposes: *Provided further*, That noNo payment for destroyed trees, etc. part of this appropriation shall be used to pay the cost or value of trees or other property destroyed. bureau of biological surveyBiological Survey Bureau. Maintenance of mammal and bird reservations: For an additionalGame, etc., reservations. amount for maintenance of mammal and bird reservations, including the same objects specified under this heading in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1936, $25,000. bureau of agricultural economicsAgricultural Economics Bureau. Enforcement of United StatesCotton Futures and Cotton Standards Act, enforcement. Cotton Futures and United States Cotton Standards Act: For an additional amount to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the provisions of the United States Cotton Futures Act, as amended March 4, 1919 (U. S. C., title 26, secs. 731–752), and the United States Cotton Standards Act, approved March 4, 1923 (U. S. C.,Vol. 39, p. 476; Vol. 40, p. 1351.[U. S. C., p. 1130](/us/usc/1130). title 7, secs. 51–65), includingVol. 42, p. 1517.[U. S. C., p. 112](/us/usc/112). the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1936, $10,000. 582 Miscellaneous.miscellaneous Agricultural research, etc.To carry into effect the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for research into basic laws and principles relating to agriculture and to provide for the further development of cooperative agricultural extension work and the more complete endowment and *Ante*, p. 436.support of land-grant colleges”, approved June 29, 1935, as follows: For special research work by the Department of Agriculture, including the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and for payment to the several States, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico for research work, pursuant to the authorization contained in title I of said Act, $1,000,000; and for payments to the States and the Territory of Hawaii for cooperative agricultural extension work, pursuant to the authorizations contained in section 21 of title II of said Act, $8,000,000; in all, fiscal year 1936, *Proviso*.Assent to provisions of Act by States, etc., to be reported.$9,000,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to ascertain and certify to the Secretary of the Treasury, on or before September 1, 1935, as to Puerto Rico and each State and Territory, whether it has assented to the provisions of the Act of June 29, 1935, and is entitled to receive its share of Allotments to be payable on Treasury certification.[U. S. C., p. 74](/us/usc/74).the appropriations herein provided: *Provided further*, That the allotments due July 1, 1935, shall be payable upon such certification by the Secretary of Agriculture to the Secretary of the Treasury (U. S. C., title 5, secs. 511, 512; Act June 29, 1935). Department of Commerce.DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE contingent expenses Printing and binding.*Ante*, p. 86.Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding for the Department of Commerce, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1935, fiscal years 1935 and 1936, $20,000. Bureau of Lighthouses.bureau of lighthouses General expenses.Allowance for transfer of employees’ effects increased.*Ante*, p. 93.General expenses, Lighthouse Service: The limitation of $2,000 in the appropriation “General Expenses, Lighthouse Service”, for the fiscal year 1936, for packing, crating, and transporting personal household effects of employees when transferred from, one official station to another for permanent duty, is hereby increased to $3,500. Foreign and Domestic Commerce Bureau.bureau of foreign and domestic commerce Promoting commerce in Europe, etc.*Ante*, p. 88.Promoting commerce in Europe and other areas: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, fiscal year 1936, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1936, $30,950. In Latin America.Promoting commerce in Latin America: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, fiscal year 1936, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1936, $10,000. In the Far East.Promoting commerce in the Far East: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, fiscal year 1936, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1936, $18,800. In Africa.Promoting commerce in Africa: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, fiscal year 1936, including the same objects 583specified under this head in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1936, $4,550. Transportation of families and effects of officers and employees, Transporting families and effects of officers, etc.*Ante*, p. 89.Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce: For an additional amount for the fiscal year 1936 for the same purpose specified under this head in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1936, $3,600. Allowance for quarters, Foreign Commerce Service: For an additionalAllowance for living quarters.*Ante*, p. 90. amount for the fiscal year 1936 for the same purpose specified under this head in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1936, $3,000. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORInterior Department office of the secretarySecretary’s office. Contingent expenses: For an additional amount for contingentContingent expenses.*Ante*, p. 178. expenses of the Department of the Interior, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of the Interior Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, fiscal years 1935 and 1936, $10,000. Library: For an additional amount for the purchase or exchangeLibrary.*Ante*, p. 179. of professional and scientific books, law and medical books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the Department, fiscal year 1933, $50.47. Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and Printing and binding.*Ante*, p. 179.binding for the Bureau of Mines, fiscal years 1935 and 1936, $8,000. division of investigationsDivision of Investigations. Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries andExpenses.*Ante*, [a-z]. 177. expenses of the Division of Investigations, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of the Interior Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, $15,000. war minerals reliefWar minerals relief. Administrative expenses: For administrative expenses madeAdministrative expenses.Vol. 40, p. 1272. necessary by section 5 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide relief in cases on contracts connected with the prosecution of the war, and for other purposes”, approved March 2, 1919 (40 Stat., 1272), including personal services, without regard to the civil-service laws and regulations; traveling and subsistence expenses; supplies and all other expenses incident to the proper prosecution of this work, both in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, fiscal year 1936, $19,000. bureau of indian affairsIndian Affairs Bureau. General expenses: For an additional amount for transportationGeneral expenses.Transportation, etc.*Ante*, p. 181. and incidental expenses of officers and clerks of the Bureau of Indian Affairs when traveling on official duty; for telegraph and telephone toll messages on business pertaining to the Indian Service sent and received by the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Washington, and for other necessary expenses of the Indian Service for which no other appropriation is available, fiscal year 1934, $4,800. Field representatives, Indian Service: For an additional amountField representatives. for salaries, traveling and incidental expenses of field representatives of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, fiscal year 1933, $46.45. Menominee Indians: The appropriation of $20,000 from tribalMenominee Indians, Wis.Audit of funds. funds of the Menominee Indians, Wisconsin, for the purpose of making an audit of such funds and for other purposes, contained 584in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936, approved May 9, 1935, is hereby made available for the expenses of such audit from and after February 1, 1935, and the contract or contracts for such audit may be made retroactive to February 1, 1935. Sioux Sanatorium, etc., S. Dak.Balance reappropriated.Vol. 47, pp. 412, 783.*Post*, p. 1777.Conservation of health among Indians (Sioux Sanatorium and employees’ quarters, South Dakota): The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $375,000 (including the amount impounded under section 320 of the Act of June 30, 1932), contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1932, and continued available by the Acts of April 22, 1932, and February 17, 1933, for the construction of the Sioux Sanatorium and employees’ quarters at Pierre, South Dakota, is hereby reappropriated and made available until June 30, 1937, for such a sanatorium and employees’ quarters at such place in South Dakota as the Secretary of the Interior shall select. Public school buildings, construction.*Post*, p. 1773.Construction, enlargement, or improvement of public-school buildings: For cooperation with public-school districts in the construction, enlargement, or improvement of local public elementary or high schools, including purchase of necessary equipment, as authorized by and in conformity with numerous Acts of the Seventy-fourth *Ante*, pp. 327–331.Congress approved June 7, 1935, fiscal year 1936, $931,000, as follows: Queets, Washington, $10,000 (Public, Numbered 111); Glacier County, Montana, $100,000 (Public, Numbered 103); Wolf Point, Montana, $50,000 (Public, Numbered 104); Polson, Montana, $40,000 (Public, Numbered 105); Lake and Missoula Counties, Montana, $100,000 (Public, Numbered 106); Brockton, Montana, $40,000 (Public, Numbered 107); Poplar, Montana, $25,000 (Public, Numbered 108); Marysville, Washington, $38,000 (Public, Numbered 110); Frazer, Montana, $25,000 (Public, Numbered 109); White Swan, Washington, $50,000 (Public, Numbered 112); Covelo, California, $50,000 (Public, Numbered 113); Shannon County, South Dakota, $125,000 (Public, Numbered 114); Big Horn County, *Ante*, pp. 333, 336.Montana (district numbered 27), $80,000 (Public, Numbered 119); Blaine County, Montana, $15,000 (Public, Numbered 120); Medicine Lake, Montana, $25,000 (Public, Numbered 127); Hardin and Crow *Provisos*.Plans, etc.Agency, Big Horn County, Montana (district 17-H), $158,000 (Public, Numbered 126): *Provided*, That plans and specifications for construction, enlargement, or improvement of structures shall be furnished by local or State authorities, without cost to the United States, and upon approval thereof by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs actual work shall proceed under the direction of such local Monthly payments.or State officials. Payment for work in place shall be made monthly, on vouchers properly certified by local officials of the Indian Service: >United States to recoup expenditures.*Provided further*, That any amount expended on any project hereunder shall be recouped by the United States within a period of thirty years, commencing with the date of occupancy of the project, through reducing the annual Federal tuition payments for the education of Indian pupils enrolled in public or high schools of the district involved, or by the acceptance of Indian pupils in such schools without cost to the United States; and in computing the amount of recoupment for each project interest at 3 per centum per annum shall be included on unrecouped balances. National Park Service.national park service Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park.*Ante*, p, 423.*Post*, p. 179.Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park: To carry out the purposes of Public Act Numbered 167, Seventy-fourth Congress, entitled “An Act to create a national memorial military park at 585and in the vicinity of Kennesaw Mountain in the State of Georgia, and for other purposes”, approved June 26, 1935, fiscal year 1936, $70,000. office of educationOffice of Education. Further endowment of colleges of agriculture and the mechanicAgricultural, etc., college aid.*Ante*, p. 439.[U. S. C., p. 135](/us/usc/135). arts: For carrying out the provisions of section 22 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for research into basic laws and principles relating to agriculture and to provide for the further development of cooperative agricultural extension work and the more complete endowment and support of land-grant colleges”, approved June 29, 1935 (Public Act Numbered 182, Seventy-fourth Congress), fiscal year 1936, $980,000. government in the territoriesGovernment in the Territories. Insane of Alaska: For an additional amount for care and custodyAlaska.Care of insane. of persons legally adjudged insane in Alaska, including the same objects and for the same services specified in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $15,900. Legislative expenses, Territory of Alaska: For additional legislativeLegislative expenses. expenses for the fiscal year 1935, including $29 for mileage of members, and $3,021 for printing, indexing, comparing proofs, and binding laws, printing, indexing and binding journals, stationery, supplies, printing of bills, reports, and so forth; in all, $3,050, to be expended under the direction of the Governor or Alaska. columbia institution for the deafColumbia Institution for the Deaf. For an additional amount for support of the institution, includingMaintenance, etc. salaries and incidental expenses, books and illustrative apparatus, and general repairs and improvements, fiscal year 1935, $4,000. howard universityHoward University. General expenses: For an additional amount for general expenses,Expenses. Howard University, fiscal year 1933, including the same objects specified under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1933, $240.60. freedmen’s hospitalFreedmen’s Hospital. For an additional amount for the maintenance and operation ofMaintenance, etc. Freedmen’s Hospital, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of the Interior Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, fiscal years 1935 and 1936, $4,000, of which amount one-half shall be chargeable to the District of Columbia and paid in like manner as other appropriations of the District of Columbia are paid. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICEDepartment of Justice. office of the attorney general Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing andPrinting and binding. binding for the Department of Justice and the courts of the United States, fiscal year 1932, $198.10. Contingent expenses: For an additional amount for contingentContingent expenses. expenses, Department of Justice, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, fiscal years 1935 and 1936, $25,000. 586 Federal Bureau of Investigation.federal bureau of investigation Purchase, etc., of automobiles.Salaries and expenses, Federal Bureau of Investigation: That portion of the appropriation for the Federal Bureau of Investigation contained in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, *Ante*, p. 78.1936, reading “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” is amended to read “purchase and exchange not to exceed $50,000, hire, maintenance, upkeep, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only on official business.” Judicial.judicial United States Supreme Court.Preparing unified system of rules in equity and at law.*Post*, p. 1625.United States Supreme Court, miscellaneous expenses: For miscellaneous expenses of the Supreme Court of the United States to provide for expenses of the advisory committee appointed by the Court to assist it in the preparation of a unified system of general rules for cases in equity and actions at law in the District Courts Vol. 48, p. 1064.of the United States and in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia 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, 1934 (48 Stat. 1064), including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere and printing and binding, to be expended as the Chief Justice in his discretion may direct, including such per diem allowances in lieu of actual expenses for subsistence at rates to be fixed by him not to exceed $10 per day, fiscal years 1935 and 1936, $25,000. United States Court for China.Living quarters, etc.*Ante*, p. 81.Vol. 46, p. 818.[U. S. C., p. 45](/us/usc/45).United States Court for China: The appropriation “Salaries and Expenses, United States Court for China, 1936”, shall be available also for allowances for living quarters, including fuel, heat, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 5, sec. 118a), not to exceed $1,700 for any one person. United States Courts.marshals, district attorneys, clerks, and other expenses of united states courts Marshals.Salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals: For an additional amount for salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, 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 1931, $72.33. 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, $245.68. Special assistants to Attorney General.Payment to special assistants to Attorney General: For compensation in ful to special assistants to the Attorney General for services rendered by them in the case of the United States versus Pan American Petroleum Company (B-115M, in equity) in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, fiscal year 1936, $176,767. Commissioners.Fee of commissioners: For additional amounts for fees of commissioners, 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 1930, $1.65; For 1931, $8: For 1933, $2,702.32. 587 Fees and expenses of conciliation commissioners: For an additionalConciliation commissioners. amount for fees of conciliation commissioners, and per diem allowance and traveling expenses of supervising conciliation commissioners, as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to amendVol. 30, p. 544; Vol. 47, p. 1467.[U. S. C., p. 319](/us/usc/319). 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, fiscal years 1935 and 1936, $209,000. Fees of jurors and witnesses: For an additional amount for feesJurors and witnesses. of jurors and witnesses, United States courts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, $140,000. Rent of court rooms: For an additional amount for rent of roomsRent. for the United States courts and judicial officers, fiscal year 1935, $17,000. Supplies: For an additional amount for supplies for UnitedSupplies. States courts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1934, $863.61. penal and correctional institutionsPenal and correctional institutions. Building and equipment: For construction and repair of buildings,Construction, etc. 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, fiscal year 1936, at the following institutions: United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, $22,000; United States Penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington, $55,000; United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California, $48,000; United States Industrial Reformatory, Chillicothe, Ohio, $4,500; United States Hospital for Defective Delinquents, $24,500. Support of United States prisoners: For an additional amount for Support of United States prisoners.support of United States prisoners, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, $390,000. United States Penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington, buildings McNeil Island, Wash.Construction, etc.Balance available.Vol. 48, p. 544.and equipment: The unexpended balance of the appropriation “United States Penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington, buildings and equipment, 1935”, is continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1936. DEPARTMENT OF LABORDepartment of Labor. office of the secretarySecretary’s office. Commissioners of Conciliation, salaries and expenses: For an additionalCommissioners of Conciliation. amount for salaries and expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1936, $281,000, to be immediately available, of which not to exceed $125,000 may be expended for personal services in the District*Provisos*.Competitive civil-service examinations waived. of Columbia: *Provided*, That, officers and employees may be appointed and paid from the amount herein appropriated without regard to the provisions of the civil-service laws requiring competitive examinations: *Provided further*, That said officers andNonassembled examinations required. employees (except Commissioners of Conciliation) shall be required to take nonassembled examinations. 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 588made, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1936, $5,500. Printing and binding.Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Department of Labor, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1936, $13,500. International Labor Organization.Liaison with; salaries and expenses.Liaison with the International Labor Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, salaries and expenses: For a United States Labor Commissioner and other personal services in Geneva, Switzerland; compensation of interpreters, translators, and porters; traveling expenses of employees, including transportation of employees, their families, and effects, in going to and returning from foreign posts; rent, heat, light, and Kiel; hire, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled, passenger-carrying vehicles; purchase and exchange of foreign and domestic books, periodicals, and newspapers; purchase of furniture, stationery, and supplies; printing and binding; postage; telephone and other similar expenses, for which payment may be made in advance; necessary technical or special investigations in connection with matters falling within the Living quarters.Vol. 46. p. 818.[U. S. C., p. 45](/us/usc/45).scope of the International Labor Organization; allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 5, sec. 118a), not to exceed $1,700 for any person, and contingent and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the Secretary of Labor may deem necessary, fiscal year 1936, $28,000. Navy Department.NAVY DEPARTMENT Secretary’s office.office of the secretary Naval Observatory.Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Observatory: Not to exceed $6,000 of the appropriation of $110,000 for the purchase and installation of equipment, utilities, and appurtenances for Vol. 47, p. 443.astrographic and research work and modernization of astronomical plant of the Naval Observatory, as contained in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1933, approved June 30, 1932, is hereby reappropriated and made available until June 30, 1936, for the payment of obligations heretofore incurred under said appropriation. Collision damage claims.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 Vol. 42. p. 1066; [U. S. C., p. 1550](/us/usc/1550).claims for damages to private property arising from collision with naval vessels”, approved December 28, 1922 (U. S. C., title 34, sec. 599), as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 202, Seventy-fourth Congress, $291. Navy and Marine Memorial to Americans lost at sea.Vol. 43, p. 14; Vol. 48, p. 1243.*Post*, p. 1627.Navy and Marine Memorial Monument: For payment in full for the transportation of the Navy and Marine Memorial Monument to the site on Columbia Island, District of Columbia, chosen for such memorial, for the erection of such memorial on the granite pedestal base constructed on such site, and for the landscaping and approach work of land adjacent to such base, as authorized by Public Resolution Numbered 5, approved February 16, 1924 (43 Stat. 14), as amended by Public Resolution Numbered 47, approved June 26, 1934 (48 Stat. 1243), fiscal year 1936, $13,000. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.bureau of supplies and accounts Limitation on number of Dental Corps officers increased.Pay, subsistence and transportation of naval personnel: The limitation on the number of officers of the Dental Corps contained in the *Ante*, p. 407.Navy Department Appropriation Act approved June 24, 1935, is 589hereby increased from one hundred and eighty-six officers of the Dental Corps to two hundred and thirty-four officers of the Dental Corps. Fuel and transportation: For an additional amount for coal andFuel and transportation.*Ante*, p. 411. other fuel for submarine bases and steamers’ and ships’ use, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year 1935, $1,970,000. bureau of navigationBureau of Navigation. Transportation: For travel allowances, and so forth, including theTravel allowances. same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, $10. bureau of yards and docksBureau of Yards and Docks. Public Works, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For the following-named Public works.public works and public-utilities projects at a limit of cost not to exceed the amount stated for each project enumerated, respectively: Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida: Barracks and mess hall, Pensacola, Fla., air station.$650,000; assembly and repair shop, $675,000; quarters for student officers, $500,000; improvement to power plant and distributing systems, roads, walks, and sewer systems, $175,000; Marine Barracks, Quantico, Virginia: Quarters for officers,Quantico, Va., marine barracks. $1,050,000; In all, $3,050,000, which, together with unexpended balances ofTotal; accounted as one fund. appropriations heretofore made under this head, shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law and shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, That of the amount herein appropriated*Proviso*.Bureau of Yards and Docks; personal services. not to exceed $90,000 shall be available for the employment or classified personal services in the Bureau of Yards and Docks and in the field service to be engaged upon such work and to be in addition to employees otherwise provided for. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENTPost Office Department. out of the postal revenues office of the chief inspectorChief Inspectors office. Payment of rewards: For an additional amount for payment ofPayment of rewards. rewards, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year 1934, $15,000. office of the second assistant postmaster generalSecond Assistant Postmaster General. Star-route service, Alaska: For an additional amount for inland Star routes, Alaska.transportation by star routes in Alaska, fiscal year 1935, $5,000. Rural Delivery Service : For an additional amount for pay ofRural delivery service. rural carriers, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year 1935, $2,685,000. Foreign-mail transportation: For transportation of foreign mailForeign-mail transportation. by aircraft, including mail for island possessions and territories of the United States, across the Pacific Ocean between the United States and Asia, fiscal year 1936, $1,000,000, to be expended under a contract or contracts which will not create annual obligations for the fiscal year 1936 or for any subsequent fiscal year in excess of $1,850,000. 590 Department of State.DEPARTMENT OF STATE Foreign Service.Ambassador to China.Vol. 48, p. 530; *Ante*, p. 69.Salaries of Ambassadors and Ministers, fiscal years 1935 and 1936: So much as may be necessary of the appropriations for salaries of Ambassadors and Ministers contained in the Department of State Appropriations Acts for the fiscal years 1935 and 1936 shall be available for the salary of an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to China at the rate of $17,500 per annum. Miscellaneous salaries and allowances.*Ante*, p. 71.Miscellaneous salaries and allowances, Foreign Service: For an additional amount for miscellaneous salaries and allowances, Foreign Service, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1936, $9,000. Contingent expenses.*Ante*, p. 72.Contingent expenses, Foreign Service: For an additional amount for contingent expenses, Foreign Service, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1936, $41,000. Emergencies.*Ante*, p. 73.Emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service: For an additional amount for emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1936, $25,000. Foreign Service Buildings Fund.Vol. 44, p. 404.[U. S. C., p. 967](/us/usc/967).Foreign Service buildings fund: For the purpose of further carrying into effect the provisions of the Foreign Service Buildings Act, 1926, as amended (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 22, sec. 295), and for each and every object thereof, including the acquisition of a site, erection of buildings, and the furnishings thereof, for the use of the Helsingfors, Finland.diplomatic and consular establishments of the United States at *Ante*, p. 377.Helsingfors, Finland, as authorized by Public Act Numbered 145, approved June 15, 1935, $300,000, to remain available until expended. International Labor Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.Participation expenses.International Labor Organization, Geneva, Switzerland: For the expenses of participation by the Government of the United States in the General Conference and in the meetings of the Governing Body of the International Labor Organization, to be held at Geneva, Vol. 48, p. 1182.Switzerland, including personal services without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, in the District of Columbia Services, etc.,and elsewhere; stenographic reporting and translating services by [R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/3709/733).[U. S. C., p. 1803](/us/usc/1803).contract if deemed necessary, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); rent; traveling expenses; purchase of books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, and charts; 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 payments may have been made for any of the purposes herein specified, fiscal year 1936, $27,300. General and Special Claims Conventions with Mexico.*Ante*, p. 75.General and Special Claims Conventions, United States and Mexico: For an additional amount for General and Special Claims Conventions, United States and Mexico, including the same objects specified under this head in Department of State Appropriation Act, 1936, $65,120. Special Mexican Claims Commission.Vol. 48, p. 1844.*Ante*, p. 151.*Post*, p. 1321.Special Mexican Claims Commission : For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a commission for the settlement of the special claims comprehended within the terms of the convention between the United States of America and the United Mexican States concluded April 24, 1934”, approved April 10, 1935, including personal services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, without regard to the provisions of any statute relating to employment; rent in the District of Columbia or elsewhere; furniture; office supplies, and equipment, including law books and books of reference; stenographic reporting, translating, 591and other services by contract if deemed necessary, without regard to[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/3709/733).[U. S. C., p. 1803](/us/usc/1803). section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); traveling expenses; transportation of things; printing and binding; and such other necessary expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State, fiscal year 1936, $90,000. International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy: ForInternational Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy.*Ante*, p. 291. the expenses of participation by the United States in the Eighth International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy to be held at Brussels, Belgium, in 1935, as authorized by Public Resolution Numbered 21, approved May 24, 1935, including personal services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; stenographic reporting and other services by contract if deemed necessary without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); rent; traveling expenses; purchase of necessary books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, and maps; stationery; official cards; printing and binding; entertainment; and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State, including the reimbursement ofReimbursement of other appropriations. other appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of the purposes herein specified ; to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of State; fiscal year 1935, $8,000, to remain available until June 30, 1936. Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany: The unexpendedMixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany.Unexpended balance available.Vol. 48, p. 1041. balance of the appropriation “Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany, 1934–1935”, contained in the Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1934, is continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1936. International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, Italy, 1934: SoInternational Institute of Agriculture.Use of balance for publications of.Vol. 48, p. 303. much as may be necessary of the unexpended balance of the appropriation “International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, Italy, 1934”, contained in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1934, is made available to pay for publications of the International Institute of Agriculture received by the Department of Agriculture during the years 1931, 1932, 1933, and 1934. Third Pan American Financial Conference, Santiago, Chile, andThird Pan American Financial Conference.Vol. 48, p. 1040. Commercial Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina: The unexpended balance of the appropriation “Third Pan American Financial Conference, Santiago, Chile, and Commercial Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1934 and 1935” is continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1936. Bureau of Interparliamentary Union for Promotion of InternationalInterparliamentary Union for Promoting International Arbitration.*Ante*, pp. 73, 425. Arbitration: For an additional amount for United States’ contributions to international commissions, congresses, and bureaus, including $2,500 for the contribution of the United States toward the maintenance of the Bureau of Interparliamentary Union for Promotion of International Arbitration in addition to the amount contained in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1936; and $10,000 for the expenses of the American group of the Interparliamentary Union, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, stenographic reporting and other services by contract if deemed necessary, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), traveling expenses, purchase of necessary books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, and maps, stationery, official cards, printing and binding, entertainment, and other necessary expenses, to be disbursed on vouchers approved by the President and executive secretary of the American group; in all, fiscal year 1936, $12,500. 592 James G. Finley.Payment to widow of.*Post*, p. 2085.Payment to Germaine M. Finley: For payment to Germaine M. Finley, widow of James G. Finley, late a Foreign Service officer of the United States at Havre, France, of one year’s salary of her deceased husband, who died while in the Foreign Service, as authorized by the Act approved June 24, 1935, $2,750. Ransford S. Miller.Payment to widow of.*Post*, p. 2097.Payment to Lily M. Miller: For payment to Lily M. Miller, widow of Ransford S. Miller, late American consul general, of one year’s salary of her deceased husband, who died while in Foreign Service, as authorized by the Act approved June 29, 1935, $9,000. Clarence Carrigan.Payment to widow of.*Post*, p. 2045.Payment to Anna S. Carrigan: For payment to Anna S. Carrigan, widow of Clarence Carrigan, late American consul at Montevideo, Uruguay, of one year’s salary of her deceased husband, who died of illness incurred while in the Consular Service, as authorized by the Act approved March 4, 1935, $7,000. Hernando de Soto.Payment to widow of.*Post*, pp. 2046, 2377.Payment to Sophie de Soto: For payment to Sophie de Soto, widow of Hernando de Soto, late American consul at Leipzig, Germany, of one year’s salary of her deceased husband, who died of illness incurred while in the Consular Service, as authorized by the Act approved March 14, 1935, $6,000. Henry S. Hitchcock.Payment to widow of.*Post*, p. 2055.Payment to Sarah J. Hitchcock: For payment to Sarah J. Hitchcock, widow of Henry S. Hitchcock, late American Consul at Nagasaki, Japan, of one year’s salary of her deceased husband, who died while in the Foreign Service, as authorized by the Act approved May 6, 1935, $5,000. Treasury Department.TREASURY DEPARTMENT Secretary’s office.office of the secretary Payment to Federal land banks on account of interest rate reductions on mortgages.Vol. 48, p. 43.Payments to Federal land banks on account of reductions in interest rate on mortgages: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay each Federal land bank such amount as the land bank commissioner certifies to the Secretary of the Treasury is equal to the amount by which interest payments on mortgages held by such bank have been reduced, in accordance with the provisions of section 24 of *Ante*, p. 314.the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933, approved May 12, 1933 (48 Stat. 31), as amended by section 3 of the Farm Credit Act of 1935, approved June 3, 1935 (Public, Numbered 87), fiscal year 1936, *Proviso.*Balance of appropriation continued available.Vol. 48, p. 1060.*Post*, pp. 1635, 1829.$36,000,000: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $7,950,000 made in the Emergency Appropriation Act of June 19, 1934 (48 Stat. 1060), for the purposes of said section 24, shall be available for the purposes named herein until June 30, 1936. Subscriptions to paid-in surplus of Federal land banks.Vol. 48, p. 43.Subscriptions to paid-in surplus of Federal land banks: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay for subscriptions to the paid-in .surplus of Federal land banks under section 23 of the Emergency *Proviso.*Balance of appropriation continued available.*Post*, pp. 1635, 1829.Farm Mortgage Act of 1933, approved May 12, 1933 (48 Stat. 31), fiscal year 1936, $20,000,000: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $75,000,000 made in the Emergency Appropriation Act approved June 19, 1934 (48 Stat. 1060) for the purpose of said section 23, shall remain available until June 30, 1936. Emergency Banking, Gold Reserve, and Silver Purchase Acts.Balances of designated appropriations consolidated.Vol. 48, pp. 1, 1060.Expenses, Emergency Banking, Gold Reserve, and Silver Purchase Acts: The unobligated balance of the appropriation of $2,000,000 for “National Banking Emergency, Act March 9, 1933”, contained in the Emergency Banking Act, approved March 9, 1933, and the unobligated balance of the appropriation of $4,500,000 for “Expenses, Emergency Banking, Gold Reserve, and Silver Purchase Vol. 48, p. 1178.Acts, 1934 and 1935”, contained in the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, approved June 19, 1934, are hereby consolidated, 593effective July 1, 1935, into an appropriation account, “Expenses, Emergency Banking, Gold Reserve and Silver Purchase Acts”, to remain available until June 30, 1936, and to be expended under thePurposes. direction of the Secretary of the Treasury for any purpose in connection with the carrying out of the provisions of the Emergency Banking Act, approved March 9, 1933 (48 Stat. 1), the GoldVol. 48, pp. 1, 337, 1178. Reserve Act of 1934, approved January 30, 1934 (48 Stat. 337), the Silver Purchase Act of 1934, approved June 19, 1934 (48 Stat. 1178), any Executive orders, proclamations, and regulations issued underExpenses of fiscal agents.[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/3653/719).[U. S. C., p. 1396](/us/usc/1396). the foregoing Acts, and section 3653 of the Revised Statutes, including costs of transportation, insurance, and protection of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates transferred to Federal Reserve banks and branches, United States mints and assay offices, and the Treasury, after March 9, 1933, losses sustained by Federal Reserve banks due to abrasion of gold coin, and reimbursement to Federal Reserve banks and branches for expenses incurred by them in carrying out instructions issued by the Secretary of the Treasury after March 4, 1933. The Comptroller General of the United States is authorized andNational Banking Emergency Act expenses. directed to allow credit in the accounts of Guy F. Allen, chief disbursing officer, Division of Disbursement, and J. L. Summers, disbursing clerk. Division of Disbursement, for disbursements made from the fund “Expenses, National Banking Emergency, Act March 9, 1933, Comptroller of Currency”, during the period March 6, 1933, to July 1, 1934, in connection with the emergency arising out of the national banking crisis and disallowed by the Comptroller General of the United States for any reason except fraud: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Limitation. That such total credit shall not exceed the sum of $25,000. division of supplyDivision of Supply. Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printingPrinting and binding. 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, fiscal years 1935 and 1936, $48,760. office of commissioner of accounts and depositsOffice of Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits. Payment of unclaimed moneys: To enable the Secretary of thePayment of unclaimed moneys.Vol. 48, p. 1231. Treasury to meet any expenditures of the character formerly chargeable to the appropriation accounts abolished under section 17 of the Permanent. Appropriation Repeal Act of 1934, approved June 26, 1934, payable from the funds held by the United States in the trust fund receipt account “Unclaimed moneys of individuals whose whereabouts are unknown”, fiscal year 1936, $10,000. bureau of the budgetBureau of the Budget. Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries andSalaries and expenses. *Ante*, p, 222. expenses, Bureau of the Budget, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1936, $25,000. bureau of engraving and printingEngraving and Printing Bureau. Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries andSalaries and expenses.Vol. 48, p. 432. expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appro-594*Proviso*.Internal revenue, etc., stamps.Number of sheets increased.[U. S. C., p. 1124](/us/usc/1124).priation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $491,780: *Provided*, That the limitations in said Act as to the number of delivered sheets of internal-revenue stamps, including opium orders and special-tax stamps required under the Act of December 17, 1914, is increased from 97,175,283 to 132,175,283 and as to the number of delivered sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work, from 10,438,121 to 10,738,121. Secret Service Division.secret service division White House police, salaries.*Ante*, p. 228.White House Police: For an additional amount for salaries at the rates of pay provided by law, fiscal year 1936, $28,800. Uniforms and equipment.*Ante*, p. 228.For an additional amount for uniforming and equipping the White House Police, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1936, $750. Bureau of the Mint.bureau of the mint Mints and Assay Offices.*Ante*, p. 231.Salaries and expenses, Mints and Assay Offices: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, Mints and Assay Offices, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1936, and in addition thereto the purchase of uniforms, arms, ammunition, and accessories for guards; procurement and installation of emergency gasoline-driven generator sets, emergency electric call systems, alarms, flood lights, radio-communication systems, tear-gas equipment, bullet-proof booths and window shields, wire screens and bars for windows, armor-plate covers for doors, heavy fences, and any other protective devices, fiscal year 1936, $150,000. Procurement Division—Public Works Branch.procurement division—public works branch New York, N. Y.Old appraisers’ stores.Vol. 45, p. 1659; Vol. 46, p. 901.New York, New York, appraisers’ stores (old): The limit of cost fixed in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1930 (46 Stat. 901), for remodeling the New York, New York, appraisers’ stores (old), is hereby increased from $600,000 to $604,154.31. >Relief of contractors.Vol. 48, p. 974.*Post*, p. 1843.Payment of claims for relief of contractors, Act of June 16, 1934: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to make payment of claims settled and certified by the Comptroller General of the United States under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide relief to Government contractors whose costs of performance were increased as a result of compliance with the Act approved June 16, 1933, and for other purposes”, approved June 16, 1934 (48 Stat. 974), fiscal year 1936, $700,000. memorial to personnel of american expeditionary forces Pershing Hall, Paris, France.Settlement of indebtedness.For settlement of any indebtedness in connection with Pershing Hall, a memorial already erected in Paris, France, under the auspices of the American Legion, Inc., to the commander in chief, officers, men, and auxiliary services of the American Expeditionary Forces, “Pershing Hall Memorial Fund”, created.Vol. 48, p. 1573.and for the creation by the Secretary of the Treasury of a special fund to be known as the “Pershing Hall Memorial Fund”, to be derived from the “Recreation fund, Army”, created by the War *Proviso*.Vested title.Department Appropriation Act approved March 4, 1933: *Provided*, That the amount herein appropriated shall not be used until the legal title to said property shall have been vested in the Government of the United States for the use and benefit of all American officers and *Ante*, p. 426.enlisted men of the World War, all as authorized by the Act approved June 28, 1935, to remain available until expended, $482,032.92. 595 WAR DEPARTMENTWar Department. military activitiesMilitary activities. quartermaster corpsQuartermaster Corps. Subsistence of the Army: For an additional amount for “SubsistenceSubsistence. of the Army, 1935”, including the same objects specified under this head in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $1,800,000. Claim of the Public Service Coordinated Transport of Newark,Public Service Coordinated Transport of Newark, N. J. Payment of claim. New Jersey: For payment of the claim of the Public Service Coordinated Transport of Newark, New Jersey, upon settlement and adjustment by the Comptroller General of the United States, arising out of the removal by the War Department during the late war of certain tracks, car house, storage tracks, and so forth, belonging to said company or its predecessor, as authorized and directed in*Post*, p. 2054. Private Act Numbered 25, Seventy-fourth Congress, approved April 24, 1935, $122,422.43, or so much thereof as may be necessary. ordnance departmentOrdnance Department. Seacoast defenses, insular possessions: For payment of General Wharton and Northern Railroad Company.Accounting Office settlement, dated January 14, 1935, in favor of Wharton and Northern Railroad Company, fiscal year 1929, $117.10. Replacing ordnance and ordnance stores: For payment of GeneralCarlos M. Aquino. Accounting Office settlement, dated February 6, 1935, in favor of Carlos M. Aquino, fiscal years 1926 and 1927, $23.60. For payment of General Accounting Office Settlement NumberedColt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company. 0301581, in favor of the Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company, chargeable to the appropriation “Replacing Ordnance and Ordnance Stores, 1926 and 1927”, $812.91. nonmilitary activitiesNonmilitary activities. Construction of buildings for United States representative in theBuildings in Philippine Islands for United States representative. Philippine Islands: For the necessary housing for office and residence purposes for the establishment of the United States representative in the Philippine Islands, including the acquisition of land, the purchase, construction, and reconstruction of buildings, and the procurement of furniture, furnishings, and equipment, as authorized*Ante*, p. 394. by the Act approved June 24, 1935, to remain available until expended, $750,000. Cemeterial expenses: For the purchase of ten thousand additionalCemeterial expenses. headstones, fiscal year 1936, $90,300. Protective works and measures, Lake of the Woods and RainyLake of the Woods and Rainy River, Minn. River, Minnesota : For an additional amount for purchase of flowage easements and for protective works and measures along the shoresProtective works, etc.Vol. 44, p. 2108. of Lake of the Woods and the banks of Rainy River as authorized by sections 1 and 2 of the Act entitled “An Act to carry into effect provisions of the convention between the United States and Great Britain to regulate the level of Lake of the Woods, concluded on the 24th day of February 1925”, approved May 22, 1926, including the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carryingContingent expenses. vehicles, printing and binding, and any other necessary expenses connected therewith, $125,000, to remain available until expended, and in addition thereto the unexpended balance of the appropriationBalances reappropriated.Vol. 45, p. 930; Vol. 47, p. 542. of $375,000 made by the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1928, approved May 29, 1928 (45 Stat. 930), as extended by the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1932, approved July 1, 1932 (47 Stat. 542), is hereby continued and made available until expended. 596 Sec. 2. Pending Indian suits in Court of Claims. In all suits now pending in the Court of Claims by an Indian tribe or Offset against amounts due, for gratuities, etc.band which have not been tried or submitted, and in any suit hereafter filed in the Court of Claims by any such tribe or band, the Court of Claims is hereby directed to consider and to offset against any amount found due the said tribe or band all sums expended gratuitously by the United States for the benefit of the Amount of Federal expense to be expressed in Court findings.said tribe or band; and in all cases now pending or hereafter filed in the Court of Claims in which an Indian tribe or band is party plaintiff, wherein the duty of the court is merely to report its findings of fact and conclusions to Congress, the said Court of Claims is hereby directed to include in its report a statement of the amount of money which has been expended by the United States gratuitously for the *Proviso*.Pending claims not affected.benefit of the said tribe or band: *Provided*, That expenditures made prior to the date of the law, treaty, agreement, or Executive order under which the claims arise shall not be offset against the claims or Vol. 48, p. 984.claim asserted; and expenditures under the Act of June 18, 1934 Exceptions.(48 Stat. L. 984), except expenditures under appropriations made pursuant to section 5 of such Act, shall not be charged as offsets against any claim on behalf of an Indian tribe or tribes now Tribal expenditures not gratuities.pending in the Court of Claims or hereafter filed: *Provided further*, That funds appropriated and expended from tribal funds shall not be construed as gratuities; and this section shall not be deemed to amend or affect the various Acts granting jurisdiction to the Court of Claims to hear and determine the claims listed on page 678 of the hearings before the subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations on the second deficiency appropriation bill for the fiscal Designated activities, etc., excluded.year 1935: *And provided further*, That no expenditure under any emergency appropriation or allotment made subsequently to March 4, 1933, and generally applicable throughout the United States for relief in stricken agricultural areas, relief from distress caused by unemployment and conditions resulting therefrom, the prosecution of public works and public projects for the relief of unemployment or to increase employment, and for work relief (including the civil-works program) shall be considered in connection with the operation of this section. Sec. 3. “Civilian Conservation Corps” construed.*Ante*, p. 115. The term “Civilian Conservation Corps” as used in section 1 of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act for 1935, approved April 8, 1935, shall be construed as embracing emergency conservation work of the character carried on prior to April 1, 1935, under authority of the Act of March 31, 1933, as amended. TITLE II— General Public Works.GENERAL PUBLIC WORKS tennessee valley authority Tennessee Valley Authority.For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “The Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933”, approved May 18, Continuance, etc., of projects.Vol. 48, p. 58.1933 (48 Stat. 58), including the continued construction of Norris Dam, Wheeler Dam, Pickwick Landing Dam, and the beginning of construction on a dam at or near Guntersville, Alabama, and a dam at or near Chickamauga Creek, both on the Tennessee River, and a dam on the Hiwassee River, a tributary of the Tennessee River, at or near Fowlers Bend, and the continuation of preliminary investigations as to the location and desirability of a dam at or near Aurora Landing and a dam at or near Whites Creek, and the acquisition of necessary land, the clearing of such land, relocation of highways, and the construction or purchase of transmission lines and other facilities, and all other necessary works authorized by 597said Act, and for printing and binding, law books, books of reference, newspapers, periodicals, purchase, maintenance, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles, rents in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and all necessary salaries and expenses connected with the organization, operation, and investigations of the Tennessee Valley Authority, $36,000,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation*Proviso*.Sundry appropriations to be considered one fund.*Post*, p. law. and all appropriations, allotments, and other funds made available heretofore to the Tennessee Valley Authority, including any unexpended balances remaining from the appropriation of $50,000,000 made to the Tennessee Valley Authority by the Fourth Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1933, the allocation of $25,000,000 made to the Tennessee Valley Authority under the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, and the receipts of the Tennessee Valley Authority from all sources, except as limited by section 26 of theVol. 48, p. 71. Tennessee Valley Authority Act approved May 18, 1933 (48 Stat. 58), shall be covered into and accounted for as one fund to be known as the “Tennessee Valley Authority Fund” and shall remain available until June 30, 1936: *Provided further*, That not to exceedHiwassee River dam. $1,000,000 shall be expended on the dam on the Hiwassee River. veterans’ administrationVeterans’ Administration. Hospital and domiciliary facilities: For hospital and domiciliaryHospital and domiciliary facilities.*Proviso*.Use of, in extending facilities.Vol. 46, p. 1550. facilities, $21,250,000, to remain available until expended: *Provided*, That this amount is authorized to be used by the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs, with the approval of the President, for extending any of the facilities under the jurisdiction of the Veterans’ Administration or for any of the purposes set forth in sections 1 and 2 of the Act approved March 4, 1931 (46 Stat. 1550): *Provided further*,Personal services. That not to exceed 3 per centum of this amount shall be available for the employment in the District of Columbia and in the field of necessary technical and clerical assistants at the customary rates of compensation exclusively to aid in the preparation of the plans and specifications for the projects authorized herein and for the supervision of the execution thereof, and for traveling expenses, rentals in the District of Columbia, field office equipment, and supplies in connection therewith. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORInterior Department. bureau of reclamationReclamation Bureau. Boulder Canyon project: For the continuation of construction ofBoulder Canyon project, construction, etc. the Boulder Canyon Dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Black Canyon, to create a storage reservoir, and of a complete plant and incidental structures suitable for the fullest economic development of electrical energy from the water discharged from such reservoir; to acquire by proceedings in eminent domain or otherwise, all lands, rights-of-way, and other property necessary for such purposes; and for incidental operations, as authorized by the Boulder Canyon Project Act, approved DecemberVol. 45, p. 1057.[U. S. C., p. 1870](/us/usc/1870). 21, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. V, I, title 43, ch. 12A): $14,000,000, to remain available until advanced to the Colorado River Dam fund, which amount shall be available for personal services in the DistrictPersonal services. of Columbia and in the field without regard to the civil-service laws and the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and for all other objects of expenditure that are specified for projects included*Ante*, p. 197. in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 598*Proviso*.Investigations and reports.Vol. 45, p. 1065.1936, under the caption “Bureau of Reclamation”: *Provided*, That of this fund not to exceed $35,000, reimbursable, shall be available for investigation and reports as authorized by section 15 of the Boulder Canyon Project Act. Navy Department.NAVY DEPARTMENT Bureau of Yards and Docks.bureau of yards and docks Public works.Public Works, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For public works *Ante*, p. 155.and public utilities as authorized by the Act approved April 15, 1935 (Public Act Numbered 36, Seventy-fourth Congress), and for Pearl Barbor Fleet Air Base, fresh water system.improvement of fresh-water system at the Fleet Air Base, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, $13,874,000, of which not to exceed $416,000 shall be available for the employment of classified personal services in the Bureau of Yards and Docks and in the field service to be engaged upon such work and to be in addition to employees otherwise *Proviso*.Designated projects authorised.provided for: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to commence, continue, or complete the construction of, or make provision for, by contract or otherwise, the following-named public-works and public-utilities projects at a limit of cost not to exceed the amount stated for each project enumerated, respectively: Pearl Harbor, floating dry dock.Navy Yard, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Floating dry dock, type B, including mooring facilities and accessories, $10,000,000; floating dry dock, type D, including mooring facilities and accessories, $750,000; Balboa, and Coco Solo, C. Z., ammunition depots.Naval Ammunition Depots, Balboa, and Coco Solo, Canal Zone: Ammunition storage facilities, including buildings and accessories, $2,000,000; Pearl Harbor, Fleet Air Base.Fleet Air Base, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Barracks and mess hall for enlisted men, $587,000; quarters for officers, $200,000; quarters for chief petty officers, $180,000; paint and oil storehouse building and accessories, $30,000; garage and fire-station buildings and accessories, $22,000; boathouse building and accessories, $25,000; improvement of fresh-water system, $80,000. Puget Sound, navy yard.Navy Yard, Puget Sound, Washington: For purchase of land for foundry extension, $10,000. Increase of the Navy.increase of the navy Armor, etc., for authorized vessels.Armor, armament, and ammunition: For an additional amount toward the armor, armament, and ammunition for vessels heretofore authorized, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Navy Department for the fiscal year 1935, $6,110,000, to remain available until expended. Department of State.DEPARTMENT OF STATE Foreign Service building fund.Shanghai, China.For the erection and initial furnishing of a building on the site at Shanghai, China, owned by the Government of the United States; and for the acquisition of an embassy residence and the initial alteration, repair and furnishing thereof and the conversion by alteration, repair and furnishing of the government owned combined Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.office and residence building, to provide office accommodations for the use of the diplomatic and consular and other establishments of Ottawa, Canada.the United States at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and for the acquisition of a legation residence and the initial alteration, repair, and furnishing thereof, at Ottawa, Canada, $1,325,000, which shall be avail599able for the purposes and subject to the applicable provisions of the Foreign Service Buildings Act of 1926, as amended (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 22, secs. 292–299). TREASURY DEPARTMENTTreasury Department. procurement division—public works branch Public buildings outside the District of Columbia: For emergencyProcurement Division-Public Works Branch.Public buildings outside the District of Columbia.*Post*, p. 1638. construction of public building projects outside of the District of Columbia (including the acquisition, where necessary, by purchase, condemnation, exchange, or otherwise of sites and additional land for such buildings; the demolition of old buildings where necessary and construction, remodeling, or extension of buildings; rental of temporary quarters during construction, including moving expenses; purchase of necessary equipment for buildings and such additional administrative expenses and salaries as may be required solely for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this paragraph), $60,000,000; such projects, including the sites therefor, to be selected by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster General, acting jointly, from the public-building projects specified in Statement Numbered 1 contained in House Report Numbered 1879 Seventy-third Congress, second session, as revised April 15, 1935, and Statement Numbered 2 attached thereto, and the projects so selected shall be carried out within the respective estimates of proposed limits of cost specified in such Statement Numbered 1 and those hereafter fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster General for projects selected from Statement Numbered 2 and otherwise, except that the unobligated balance of the $2,500,000 fund established by the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal yearEmergency construction fund.Vol. 48, p. 1061. 1935, approved June 19, 1934 (48 Stat. 1061), shall be available also for the augmentation of limits of cost of projects selected under the provisions of this Act in an amount not exceeding 10 per centum for any project and including $70,000 for the, completion of the OakOak Park, Ill. Park (Illinois), post-office building as planned by the Treasury Department, and $56,000 for the Marquette (Michigan), post-officeMarquette, Mich. and courthouse building, in order to award the contract therefor to the lowest responsible bidder: *Provided*, That with a view to relieving*Proviso*.Equitable distribution of projects. country-wide unemployment the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster General, in the selection of towns or cities in which buildings are to be constructed, shall endeavor to distribute the projects equitably throughout the country so far as may be consistent with the needs of the public service; and the Secretaiy of the Treasury andSelection of other projects. the Postmaster General may also select for prosecution under this appropriation such projects not included in such revised report as in their judgment are economically sound and advantageous to the public service: *Provided further*, That thePreparation of plans, contracts. Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to direct the preparation of all sketches, estimates, plans and specifications (including supervision and inspection thereof), and to enter into all contracts necessary for carrying out the purposes of this paragraph, and he is hereby authorized, when deemed by him desirable and advantageous to employ by contract or otherwise, temporary professional,Technical services. technical, or nontechnical employees, firms, or corporations to such extent as may be required to carry out the purposes of this paragraph, without reference to civil-service laws, rules, regulations, or to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, or to section 3709 of[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/3709/733).[U. S. C., p. 1803](/us/usc/1803).Acquisition of sites, building plans, etc.Vol. 47, pp. 722–723. the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5): *Provided further*, That in the acquisition of land or sites for the purposes of Federal public buildings and in the construction of such buildings provided 600for in this paragraph, the provisions of sections 305 and 306 of the Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932, as amended, shall apply. Public buildings, District of Columbia.Contracts authorized.Public buildings, District of Columbia: The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into contracts for construction of the following public-building projects in the District of Columbia, in amounts not exceeding the following respective estimated limits of cost, which limits of cost shall include salaries and other expenses required solely for the purpose of carrying out said public-building projects; and the Secretary of the Treasury is Plans, etc.authorized to direct the preparation of all sketches, estimates, plans, and specifications (including supervision and inspection thereof), and to enter into all contracts necessary for carrying out the purposes of this paragraph, and he is hereby authorized, when deemed by him desirable and advantageous, to employ, by contract or Technical, etc., services.otherwise, temporary professional, technical, or nontechnical employees, firms, or corporations, to such extent as may be required to carry out the purposes of this paragraph, without reference to civil-service [U. S. C., p. 85](/us/usc/85).laws, rules, and regulations, or to the Classification Act of 1923, as [U. S. C., p. 1803](/us/usc/1803).amended, or to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5): Engraving and Printing Bureau, addition.*Post*, p. 1640.Bureau of Engraving and Printing: For site and construction of an additional building for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and other Treasury Department activities, including furniture, equipment, moving expenses, rental of temporary quarters during Economics Building.construction, demolition of the Economics Building located on the proposed site and, if necessary, the replacement thereof on Government-owned land, railroad sidings, and all necessary tunnels connecting the proposed building with the railroad sidings and with the main Bureau of Engraving and Printing Building, $2,000,000, within a total limit of cost not to exceed $5,500,000. Government Printing Office, annex.*Post*, p. 1639.Government Printing Office: For necessary land and construction of annex buildings for the Government Printing Office, including rights-of-way, furniture, moving expenses, rental of temporary quarters during construction, railroad sidings, alterations to existing buildings, all necessary tunnels connecting proposed and existing buildings, demolition of existing structures, all necessary changes in mechanical equipment, $2,000,000, within a total limit of cost not to exceed $5,885,000. General Accounting Office, extension.General Accounting Office: For the extension on land owned by the Government and remodeling of the old Pension Office Building now occupied by the General Accounting Office, including furniture, equipment, rent of temporary quarters during construction, and moving expenses, $2,000,000, within a total limit of cost not to exceed $4,700,000. War Department.WAR DEPARTMENT Quartermaster Corps.quartermaster corps Military posts, etc., construction, remodeling, etc.Construction of buildings, utilities, and appurtenances at military posts: For construction, remodeling, reconditioning, and installation at military posts of buildings and appurtenances thereto, including interior facilities, necessary services, roads, connections to water, [U. S. C., pp. 293, 1787](/us/usc/293/1787).sewer, gas, and electric mains, and similar improvements without reference to sections 1136 and 3734, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title [U. S. C., p. 1803](/us/usc/1803).10, sec. 1339; title 40, sec. 267), including also the engagement by contract or otherwise without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), and without regard to the restrictions of existing law governing the employment or compensation of 601employees of the United States, and at such rates of compensationPersonal services. as the Secretary of War may determine of the services of architects or firms or corporations thereof and other technical and professional personnel as may be necessary, and including also general overhead expenses of transportation, engineering, supplies, inspection and supervision, travel connected therewith, and such services as may be necessary in the office of the Quartermaster General, to remain available until expended, $9,850,000 as follows: Toward construction at the United States Military Academy, $5,324,250; toward construction of an airdrome in Hawaii, $4,525,750. corps of engineersEngineer Corps. River and Harbor Works: For an additional amount for the construction,River and Harbor Works. preservation, and maintenance of works of river and harbor improvement, including the same objects specified under this head in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $10,000,000, to remain available until expended. TITLE III— JUDGMENTS AND AUTHORIZED CLAIMSJudgments, and authorized claims. damage claimsDamage claims. Section 1.
(a)For the payment of claims for damages to or lossesPayment of. of privately owned property adjusted and determined by the following respective departments and independent establishments under the provisionsVol. 42, p. 1066. of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case”,[U. S. C., p. 1369](/us/usc/1369). approved December 28, 1922 (U. S. C., title 31, secs. 215–217), as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 209, Seventy-fourth Congress, as follows: Civil Works Administration, $1,231.03; Federal Emergency Relief Administration, $131; Veterans’ Administration, $25; Department of Agriculture, $5,197.49; Department of Commerce, $465.70; Department of the Interior, $672.96; Department of Justice, $104.69; Department of Labor, $36.72; Navy Department, $279.90; Post Office Department (out of postal revenues), $92.25; Department of State, $19.26; Treasury Department, $530.04; War Department, $7,238.77; In all, $16,024.81: *Provided*, That in such document Numbered*Proviso*.Textual correction. 209 the amount allowed in item 50, page 10, shall read “$108.56” instead of “$108.06.”
(b)For the payment of claims for damages to or losses ofSettlement of, not in excess of $1,000. privately owned property, adjusted and determined by the following respective departments and an independent office, under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide a method for theVol. 42, p. 1066. 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[U. S. C., p. 1369](/us/usc/1369). forth in Senate Document Numbered 80 of the Seventy-fourth Congress, as follows: Federal Civil Works Administration, $2,897.71; Department of Agriculture, $2,350.42; Department of the Interior, $685.98;602 Navy Department, $392.43; Treasury Department, $1,086.40; War Department, $3,091.88; Post Office Department (payable from postal revenues), $45.03; In all, $10,549.85. United States courts, judgments.judgments, united states courts Sec. 2. Payment of, under War Department.
(a)For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1887, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United [U. S. C., pp. 1229, 1262, 1308](/us/usc/1229/1262/1308).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 the Seventy-fourth Congress in House Document Numbered 205 under the following departments and establishments, namely: War Department, $21,483.64; Interest.In all, $21,483.64, 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.
(b)Payment of, for suits in admiralty. For the payment of judgments, including costs of suits, rendered against the Government of the United States by United Vol. 43, p. 1112.[U. S. C., p. 2054](/us/usc/2054).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 House Document Numbered 205, under the following departments, namely: Navy Department, $6,151.60; Treasury Department, $2,500; War Department, $388; Interest.In all, $9,039.60, 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, in special cases. For the payment of the judgments, including costs of suits, rendered against the Government by United States District Courts [U. S. C., p. 1399](/us/usc/1399).in special cases and under the provisions of certain special Acts and certified to the Seventy-fourth Congress in House Document Numbered 205, under the following departments, namely: Department of Labor, $2,664.60; Navy Department, $112,023.64; In all, $114,688.24.
(d)Time of payments. 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.
(e)Interest payment restriction. 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.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 Senate Document Numbered 83 and House Document Numbered 199, under the following departments and establishments, namely: Department of the Interior (Indians), $622,465.57; Navy Department, $90,361.70;603 Post Office Department, $849.48; Treasury Department, $3,995.27; War Department, $298,145.58; In all, $1,015,817.60.
(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 for a writ of certiorari under subdivision
(b)section 3, of the ActVol. 43, p. 939; [U. S. C., p. 1265](/us/usc/1265). 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).
(c)For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims and reported to Congress in House Document Numbered 174, Seventy-second Congress, first session, as follows: Number H-320, in favor of Tillett S. Daniel, $648;Tillett S. Daniel. Number K-138, in favor of William B. Hetfield, $2,510.93;William B. Hetfield. In all, $3,158.93. audited claimsAudited claims. Sec. 4.
(a)For the payment of the following claims, certifiedPayment of. to 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.,Vol. 18, p. 110, [U. S. C., p, 1410](/us/usc/1410). 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 House Document Numbered 210, Seventy-fourth Congress, there is appropriated as follows: **Independent offices:** For traveling expenses, Civil Service Commission,Independent offices. $2. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $11.48. For Federal Trade Commission, $89.60. For agricultural credits and rehabilitation, emergency relief, $25,000. For Army pensions, $25.83. For medical and hospital services, Bureau of War Risk Insurance, $4. For medical and hospital services, Veterans’ Bureau, $429.97. For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Administration, $4,257.38. **Department of Agriculture:** For salaries and expenses, WeatherDepartment of Agriculture. Bureau, $279.84. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $1.11. **Department of Commerce:** For aircraft in commerce, 17 cents.Department of Commerce. For air navigation facilities, $22. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $1. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $1.19. **Department of the Interior:** For National Park Service, $2.75.Department of the Interior. For Saint Elizabeths Hospital, $3.64. For general expenses, Bureau of Mines, $10.82. For support and civilization of Indians, $14.50. For education of natives of Alaska, $4.90. For conservation of health among Indians, $5. For support of Indians and administration of Indian property, $3.49.604 Department of Justice.**Department of Justice:** For printing and binding, Department of Justice and courts, $31.60. For detection and prosecution of crimes, $2.80. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Prohibition, $29.51. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $231.15. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $13.89. For Federal jails, $12.60. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Prisons, $1. For pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, $2.50. Department of Labor.**Department of Labor:** For expenses of regulating immigration, $14.67. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Immigration, 87 cents. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Naturalization, $2.99. Navy Department.**Navy Department:** For organizing the Naval Reserve, $1. For engineering, Bureau of Engineering, $109,300.65. For pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy, $2,926.03. For pay of the Navy, $122.51. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $2,825.29. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $3.03. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $1.43. For aviation, Navy, $1,512.25. For pay, Marine Corps, $3,253.53. For general expenses, Marine Corps, $21.65. Department of State.**Department of State:** For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $407.50. Treasury Department.**Treasury Department:** For collecting the revenue from customs, $6. For pay and allowances, Coast Guard, $218.56. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $2,017.25. For pay of other employees, Public Health Service, $23.47. For quarantine service, $1.09. For enforcement of the Narcotic and National Prohibition Acts, internal revenue, $70.60. For operating force for public buildings, $12.86. For operating supplies for public buildings, $37.67. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $7. War Department.**War Department:** For registration and selection for military service, $170. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $7,547.29. For pay of the Army, $3,469.02. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, War with Spain, $12.18. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $114.26. For Army transportation, $785.15. For clothing and equipage, $213.89. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $1,448.46. For replacing clothing and equipage, $2.14. For replacing ordnance and ordnance stores, $14.10. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $37.60. For organized reserves, $12.32. For Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, $178.62. For barracks and quarters, $313.72. For terminal storage and shipping buildings, $3,200. For regular supplies of the Army, $40.62. For horses, draft and pack animals, $4.26. For pay of Military Academy, $30. For repairs of arsenals, $20.605 **Post Office Department—Postal Service, (out of the postalPost Office Department. revenues):** For balances due foreign countries, $3,653.86. For clerks, first- and second-class post offices, $333.43. For compensation to postmasters, $1,183.95. For freight, express, or motor transportation of equipment, and so forth, $62.91. For indemnities, domestic mail, $146.66. For indemnities, international mail, $73.94. For personal or property-damage claims, $25. For railroad transportation and mail messenger service, $38.79. For rent, light, and fuel, $4,887.01. For Rural Delivery Service, $215.03. For vehicle service, $3,071.04. Total, audited claims, section 4 (a), $184,588.87, 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 duePayment of. 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/1410). 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 85, Seventy-fourth Congress, there is appropriated as follows: **Independent offices:** For loans to farmers in drought and stormIndependent offices. stricken areas, emergency relief, 27 cents. For salaries and expenses, United States Shipping Board, $33. For Army pensions, $54.26. For medical and hospital services, Veterans’ Bureau, $180.28. For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Administration, $94.45. **Department of Agriculture:** For salaries and expenses, BureauDepartment of Agriculture. of Dairy Industry, $1.75. **Department of Commerce:** For promoting commerce, DepartmentDepartment of Commerce. of Commerce, $22.01. For air navigation facilities, $145.83. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $157.13. For salaries and expenses, Patent Office, $7,73. For improvement and care of grounds, Bureau of Standards, $290. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $30.91. **Department of the Interior:** For Fredericksburg and SpotsylvaniaDepartment of the Interior. County battlefields memorial, Virginia, $50. For administration of Indian forests, $79.80. **Department of Justice:** For salaries and expenses, Bureau ofDepartment of Justice. Prohibition, $129.14. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $34.85. For fees of jurors and witnesses, United States courts, $9.15. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $24. For support of United States prisoners, $1,052.70. **Navy Department:** For organizing the Naval Reserve, $3.60.Navy Department. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $797.50. For pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy, $56.24. For pay of the Navy, $215.90. For instruments and supplies, Bureau of Navigation, $136.01. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $37.84.606 For aviation, Navy, $12,336.12. For pay, Marine Corps, $121.60. For general expenses, Marine Corps, $1. Department of State.**Department of State:** For transportation of Foreign Service officers, $350. For salaries of ambassadors and ministers, $7.50. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $99.04. Treasury Department.**Treasury Department:** For outfits, Coast Guard, $21. For pay and allowances, Coast Guard, $1.80. For collecting the internal revenue, $3.70. For refunding internal revenue collections, $5. For enforcement of narcotic and national prohibition acts, internal revenue, $20. For mechanical equipment of public buildings, $12.65. For operating force for public buildings, $1,338.10. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $278.72. For printing and binding, Treasury Department, $5. For operating supplies for public buildings, $8.70. War Department.**War Department:** For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $5,309.27. For pay of the Army, $345.97. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $267.34. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $519.34. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $5. For arms, uniforms, and equipment for field service, National Guard, $209.12. For Army transportation, $130.21. For pay of National Guard for armory drills, $64.13. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, War with Spain, $12.99. For registration and selection for military service, $56.50. For organized reserves, $11.66. For barracks and quarters, $9.75. For clothing and equipage, $16.69. For regular supplies of the Army, $35.64. For ordnance service and supplies, Army, 79 cents. For Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, $28.20. Post Office Department.**Post Office Department—Postal Service (out of the postal revenues):** For city delivery carriers, $81.39. For compensation to postmasters, $1,202.88. For freight on stamped paper and mail bags, $3.53. For indemnities, domestic mail, $87.21. For indemnities, international mail, $13.50. Total; additional sum, increases in rate of exchange.Total, audited claims, section 4 (b), $26,665.39, 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. Judgements against collectors of customs. Judgments against collectors of customs: For the payment of claims allowed by the General Accounting Office covering judgments rendered by United States District Courts against collectors of customs, where certificates of probable cause have been issued as [R. S., sec. 989, p. 185](/us/rs/989/185).[U. S. C., p 1314](/us/usc/1314).provided for under section 989, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 842), and certified to the Seventy-fourth Congress in Senate Document Numbered 84, under the Department of Labor, $7,711.14. Sec. 6. Title. This Act may be cited as the “Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935.” Approved, August 12, 1935. To amend the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended. 1935-08-12 509 Chapter 49 Stat. 607 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 607 [CHAPTER 509.] AN ACT To amend the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended. August 12, 1935.[[S. 1633.](/us/bill/74/s/1633)][[Public, No. 261.](/us/pl/74/261)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Interstate Commerce Act, amendment.Vol. 24, p. 380; [U. S. C., p. 2215](/us/usc/p2215). That paragraph
(1)of section 3 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: " “(1) It shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to theUndue preference or prejudice prohibited. provisions of this Act to make, give, or cause any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, company, firm, corporation, association, locality, port, port district, gateway,Ports, port districts, etc. transit point, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever or to subject any particular person, company, firm, corporation, association, locality, port, port district, gateway, transit point, or any particular description of traffic to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever.” " Approved, August 12, 1935. To safeguard the estates of veterans derived from payments of pension, compensation, emergency officers’ retirement pay and insurance, and for other purposes. 1935-08-12 510 Chapter 49 Stat. 607 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 510.] AN ACT To safeguard the estates of veterans derived from payments of pension, compensation, emergency officers’ retirement pay and insurance, and for other purposes. August 12, 1935.[[H. R. 3979.](/us/bill/74/hr/3979)][[Public, No. 262.](/us/pl/74/262)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section 21World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, amendment.Vol. 44, p. 791; [U. S. C., p. 1664](/us/usc/p1664). of the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, as amended (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 38, sec. 450), is hereby amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 21.
(1)Where any payment of comPayments to persons under legal disability.*Post*, p. 1101.pensation, adjusted compensation, pension, emergency officers’ retirement pay, or insurance under any Act administered by the Veterans’ Administration is to be made to a minor, other than a person in the military or naval forces of the United States, or to a person mentally incompetent, or under other legal disability adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction, such payment may be made to the person who is constituted guardian, curator, or conservator by the laws of the State of residence of claimant, or is otherwise legally vested with the*Provisos*.Authority to refuse to make payments. care of the claimant or his estate: *Provided*, That where in the opinion of the Administrator any guardian, curator, conservator, or other person is acting as fiduciary in such a number of cases as to make it impracticable to conserve properly the estates or to supervise the persons of the wards, the Administrator is hereby authorized to refuse to make future payments in such cases as he mayDirect payments to claimant. deem proper: *Provided further*, That prior to receipt of notice by the Veterans’ Administration that any such person is under such other legal disability adjudged by some court of competent jurisdiction, payment may be made to such person direct: *Provided further*, That where no guardian, curator, or conservator of the person underDetermination of person legally vested with care of claimant. a legal disability has been appointed under the laws of the State of residence of the claimant, the Administrator shall determine the person who is otherwise legally vested with the care of the claimant or his estate. “(2) Whenever it appears that any guardian, curator, conservator,Misappropriation of funds by fiduciary.Vol. 45, p. 964. or other person, in the opinion of the Administrator, is not properly executing or has not properly executed the. duties of his trust or has collected or paid, or is attempting to collect or pay, fees, commissions, or allowances that are inequitable or in excess of those allowed608 by law for the duties performed or expenses incurred, or has failed to make such payments as may be necessary for the benefit of the ward or the dependents of the ward, then and in that event thePresentation to appointing court. Administrator is hereby empowered by his duly authorized attorney to appear in the court which has appointed such fiduciary, or in any court having original, concurrent, or appellate jurisdiction over said cause, and make proper presentation of such matters: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Suspension of payments on refusal to render account.That the Administrator, in his discretion, may suspend payments to any such guardian, curator, conservator, or other person who shall neglect or refuse, after reasonable notice, to render an account to the Administrator from time to time showing the application of such payments for the benefit of such incompetent or minor beneficiary, or who shall neglect or refuse to administer the estate according to Appearance of Administrator as interested, party.law: *Provided further*, That the Administrator is hereby authorized and empowered to appear or intervene by his duly authorized attorney in any court as an interested party in any litigation instituted by himself or otherwise, directly affecting money paid to such fiduciary under this section. Fiduciaries; appointment; costs of investigating.“Authority is hereby granted for the payment of any court or other expenses incident to any investigation or court proceeding for the appointment of any guardian, curator, conservator, or other person legally vested with the care of the claimant or his estate or the removal of such fiduciary and appointment of another, and of expenses in connection with the administration of such estates by such fiduciaries, or in connection with any other court proceeding hereby authorized, when such payment is authorized by the Administrator. “(3) Payments to legal custodians. Vol. 46, p. 993. All or any part of the compensation, pension, emergency officers’ retirement pay, or insurance the payment of which is suspended or withheld under this section may, in the discretion of the Administrator, be paid temporarily to the person having custody and control of the incompetent or minor beneficiary to be used solely for the benefit of such beneficiary, or in the case of an incompetent veteran, may be apportioned to the dependent or dependents, if any, of such veteran. Any part not so paid and any funds of a mentally incompetent or insane veteran not paid to the chief officer of the institution in which such veteran is an inmate nor apportioned to his dependent or dependents may be ordered held in the Treasury to Disbursement of funds.the credit of such beneficiary. All funds so held shall be disbursed under the order and in the discretion of the AdministratorBalance remaining unpaid. for the benefit of such beneficiary or his dependents. Any balance remaining in such fund to the credit of any beneficiary may be paid to him if he recovers and is found competent, or, if a minor, attains majority, or otherwise to his guardian, curator, or conservator, or, in the event of his death, to his personal representative, except as otherwise provided by law: *Provided*, That payment will not be *Provisos*.Payments to personal representatives.made to his personal representative if, under the law of the State of his last legal residence, his estate would escheat to the State:Escheats. *Provided further*, That any funds in the hands of a guardian, curator, conservator, or person legally vested with the care of the beneficiary or his estate, derived from compensation, automatic or term insurance, emergency officers’ retirement pay, or pension, payable under said Acts, which under the law of the State wherein the beneficiary had his last legal residence would escheat to the State, shall escheat to the United States and shall be returned by such guardian, curator, conservator, or person legally vested with the care of the beneficiary or his estate, or by the personal representative of609 the deceased beneficiary, less legal expenses of any administration necessary to determine that an escheat is in order, to the Veterans’ Administration, and shall be deposited to the credit of the current appropriations provided for payment of compensation, insurance, or pension.” " Sec. 2. Whoever, being a guardian, curator, conservator, committee,Misappropriation of funds by fiduciary, etc.; penalty. or person legally vested with the responsibility or care of a claimant or his estate, or any other person having charge and custody in a fiduciary capacity of money paid under the War Risk Insurance Act, as amended, the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, as amended, the Emergency Officers’ Retirement Act, as amended, the World War Adjusted Compensation Act, as amended, the pension laws in effect prior to March 20, 1933, Public Law Numbered 2, Seventy-third Congress, as amended, Public Law Numbered 484, Seventy-third Congress, or under any Act or Acts amendatory of such Acts, for the benefit of any minor, incompetent, or other beneficiary, shall lend, borrow, pledge, hypothecate, use, or exchange for other funds or property, except as authorized by law, or embezzle or in any manner misappropriate any such money or property derived therefrom in whole or in part and coming into his control in any manner whatever in the execution of his trust, or under color of his office or service as such fiduciary, shall be fined not exceeding $2,000 or imprisoned for a term not exceeding five years, or both. Any willful neglectRefusal to file accountings. or refusal to make and file proper accountings or reports concerning such money or property as required by law, shall be taken to be sufficient evidence, prima facie, of such embezzlement or misappropriation. Section 505 of the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, sectionRepeals. Vol. 43, p. 1312; Vol. 48, p. 11. [R. S., sec. 4783. p. 929](/us/rs/s4783/p292); [U. S. C., p. 1631](/us/usc/p1631).Prosecutions. 16 of Public Law Numbered 2, Seventy-third Congress, and section 4783 of the Revised Statutes are hereby repealed; but any offense committed before the enactment of this Act may be prosecuted and punishment may be inflicted in accordance with the terms of said sections notwithstanding the repeal of said sections. Sec. 3. Payments of benefits due or to become due shall not beAssignment of payments prohibited; exemptions. assignable, and such payments made to, or on account of, a beneficiary under any of the laws relating to veterans shall be exempt from taxation, shall be exempt from the claims of creditors, and shall not be liable to attachment, levy, or seizure by or under any legal or equitable process whatever, either before or after receipt by the beneficiary. Such provisions shall not attach to claims of the United States arising under such laws nor shall the exemption herein contained as to taxation extend to any property purchased in part or wholly out of such payments. Section 4747 of the Revised StatutesRepeals.[R. S., sec. 4747, p. 924](/us/rs/s4747/p924); [U. S. C., p. 1627](/us/usc/p1627).Vol. 43, p. 613; [U. S. C., p. 1665](/us/rs/p1665).Assignment of converted insurance. and section 22 of the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, are hereby repealed, and all other Acts inconsistent herewith are hereby modified accordingly. The provisions of this section shall not be construed to prohibit the assignment by any person, to whom converted insurance shall be payable under title III of the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, of his interest in such insurance to any other member of the permitted class of beneficiaries. Sec. 4. If any provision, sentence, or clause of this Act or theSeparability of provisions. application thereof to any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of this Act, and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not. be affected thereby. Sec. 5. That this Act shall take effect and be in force from andEffective date. after its passage, but the provisions hereof shall apply to payments made heretofore under any of the Acts mentioned herein. Approved, August 12, 1935. To authorize the selection, construction, installation, and modification of permanent stations and depots for the Army Air Corps and frontier air-defense bases generally. 1935-08-12 511 Chapter 49 Stat. 610 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 610 [CHAPTER 511.] AN ACT To authorize the selection, construction, installation, and modification of permanent stations and depots for the Army Air Corps and frontier air-defense bases generally. August 12, 1935.[[H. R. 7022.](/us/bill/74/hr/7022)][[Public, No. 263.](/us/pl/74/263)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Army Air Corps stations.Location of essential stations; enlargement of existing, authorized. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to determine in all strategic areas of the United States, including those of Alaska and our overseas possessions and holdings, the location of such additional permanent Air Corps stations and depots as he deems essential, in connection with the existing Air Corps stations and depots and the enlargement of the same when necessary, for the effective peace-time training of the General Headquarters Air Force and the Air Corps Regions to be considered.components of our overseas garrisons. In determining the locations of new stations and depots, consideration shall be given to the following regions for the respective purposes indicated:
(1)The Atlantic Northeast—to provide for training in cold weather and in fog;
(2)the Atlantic Southeast and Carribbean areas—to permit training in long-range operations, especially those incident to reinforcing the Panama Canal;
(3)the Southeastern States—to provide a depot essential to the maintenance of the General Headquarters Air Force;
(4)the Pacific Northwest—to establish and maintain air communication with Alaska;
(5)Alaska—for training under conditions of extreme cold;
(6)the Rocky Mountain area—to provide a depot essential to the maintenance of the General Headquarters Air Force, and to afford, in addition, opportunity for training in operations from fields in high altitudes; and
(7)such intermediate stations as will provide for transcontinental movements incident to the concentration of the General Headquarters Air Force for maneuvers. Selection of sites.Requirements to be considered.In the selection of sites for new permanent Air Corps stations and depots and in the determination of the existing stations and depots to be enlarged and/or altered, the Secretary of War shall give consideration to the following requirements: First. The stations shall be suitably located to form the nucleus of the set-up for concentrations of General Headquarters Air Force units in war and to permit, in peace, training and effective planning, by responsible personnel in each strategic area, for the utilization and expansion, in war, of commercial, municipal, and private flying installations. Second. In each strategic area deemed necessary, there shall be provided adequate storage facilities for munitions and other essentials to facilitate effective movements, concentrations, maintenance, and operations of the General Headquarters Air Force in peace and in war. Third. The stations and depots shall be located with a view to affording the maximum warning against surprise attack by enemy aircraft upon our own aviation and its essential installations, consistent with maintaining, in connection with existing or contemplated additional 11 So In original. landing fields, the full power of the General Headquarters Air Force for such close and distant operations over land and sea as may be required in the defense of the continental United States and in the defense and the reinforcement of our overseas possessions and holdings. Fourth. The number of stations and depots shall be limited to those essential to the foregoing purposes. 611 Sec. 2. To accomplish the purposes of this Act, the Secretary ofAcquisition of sites. War is authorized to accept, on behalf of the United States, free of encumbrances and without cost to the United States, the title in fee simple to such lands as he may deem necessary or desirable for new permanent Air Corps stations and depots and/or the extension of or addition to existing Air Corps stations or depots; or, with the written approval of the President, to exchange for such lands existing military reservations or portions thereof; or, if it be found impracticable to secure the necessary lands by either of these methods, to purchase the same by agreement or through condemnation proceedings. Sec. 3. The Secretary of War is further authorized and directed to construct, install, and equip, or complete the construction, installation, and equipment,Construction of buildings and utilities. inclusive of bomb-proof protection as required, at each of said stations and depots, such buildings and utilities, technical buildings and utilities, landing fields and mats, and all utilities and appurtenances thereto, ammunition storage, fuel and oil storage and distribution systems therefor, roads, walks, aprons, docks, runways, sewer, water, power, station and aerodrome lighting, telephone and signal communications, and other essentials, including the necessary grading and removal or remodeling of existing structures and installations. He is authorized, also, to direct theTransportation of personnel and materials. necessary transportation of personnel, and purchase, renovation, and transportation of materials, as in his judgment may be required to carry out the purposes of this Act. The Secretary of War is furtherAcquisition of bombing and machine-gun ranges. authorized to acquire by gift, purchase, lease, or otherwise, at such locations as may be desirable, such bombing and machine-gun ranges as may be required for the proper practice and training of tactical units. Sec. 4. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of anyAppropriation authorized.*Post*, pp. 1640, 1641. money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, such sums of money as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War for the purposes of this Act, including the expenses incident to the necessary surveys, which appropriation shall continue available until expended: *Provided*, *Proviso*.[R. S., sec. 1136, p. 206](/us/rs/s1664); [U. S. C., p. 293](/us/usc/p293).That the provisions of section 1136, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 10, par. 1339), shall not apply to the construction of the aforesaid stations and depots. Approved, August 12, 1935. To authorize the issuance and sale to the United States of certain bonds of municipal governments in Puerto Rico, and for other purposes. 1935-08-13 516 Chapter 49 Stat. 611 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 516.] AN ACT To authorize the issuance and sale to the United States of certain bonds of municipal governments in Puerto Rico, and for other purposes. August 13, 1935.[[S. 1227.](/us/bill/74/s/1227)][[Public, No. 263.](/us/pl/74/262)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That bonds orPuerto Rico.Sale of bonds of municipal governments. other obligations of Puerto Rico or any municipal government therein, payable solely from revenues derived from any public improvement or undertaking (which revenues may include transfers by agreement or otherwise from the regular funds of the issuer in respect of the use by it of the facilities afforded by such improvement or undertaking), and issued and sold to the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof, shall not be considered public indebtedness of the issuer within the meaning of section 3 of an Act approved March 2, 1917, entitled “An Act toVol. 39, p. 953; [U. S. C., p. 2163](/us/usc/p2163). provide a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes”, as amended. Approved, August 13, 1935. To provide for the construction, extension, and improvement of public-school buildings in Duchesne County, Utah. 1935-08-13 517 Chapter 49 Stat. 612 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 612 [CHAPTER 517.] AN ACT To provide for the construction, extension, and improvement of public-school buildings in Duchesne County, Utah. August 13, 1935.[[S. 2193.](/us/bill/74/s/2193)][[Public, No. 265.](/us/pl/74/265)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Duchesne County.Utah; public school buildings.Appropriation for. That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $50,000 to be used by the Secretary of the Interior in making payments to the Duchesne County school district in accordance with the provisions of section 2. Sec. 2. Requirements. The Duchesne County school district shall submit to thePlans for extensions. Secretary of the Interior for his approval
(1)plans for extensions and improvements of existing public-school buildings within such county, and for the construction of such other school buildings as Estimates of cost.such district may consider necessary, and
(2)estimates as to the cost Approval of plans.of carrying out such plans. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to approve such plans and cost estimates in whole or in Payment; conditions.part, or to require, modifications or revisions thereof. Upon approval by the Secretary of any such plans and cost estimates, and upon agreement by such school district that the public schools maintained by it shall be open to Indian children who reside in such district, the Secretary shall pay to such district, but not in excess of the appropriation made in section 1, an amount equal to the Expenditure.approved cost estimate of carrying out such approved plan. Such amount shall be expended by such district for the purpose of carrying out such approved plan and for no other purpose. Sec. 3. Restriction on payment. No payments shall be made to the Duchesne County school district under the provisions of this Act, unless such district maintains books, records, accounts, and memoranda and permits the examination of and produces such books, records, accounts, and memoranda, in accordance with such reasonable regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Approved, August 13, 1935. To provide funds for acquisition of the property of the Haskell Students Activities Association on behalf of the Indian School known as “Haskell Institute”, Lawrence, Kansas. 1935-08-13 518 Chapter 49 Stat. 612 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 518.] AN ACT To provide funds for acquisition of the property of the Haskell Students Activities Association on behalf of the Indian School known as “Haskell Institute”, Lawrence, Kansas. August 13, 1935.[[S. 2545.](/us/bill/74/s/2545)][[Public, No. 268.](/us/pl/74/268)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas.Appropriation authorized for. *Post*, p. 1119. That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $30,500 to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior for the purpose of meeting indebtedness of the Haskell Students Activities Association, and acquiring title to the property of this association for use of the Government Indian school known as *Provisos*.Use of funds.“Haskell Institute”, located at Lawrence, Kansas: *Provided*, That funds hereby authorized for this purpose may lie used to pay off any outstanding mortgages, liens, judgments, or other valid indebtedness against the above-mentioned association: *And provided further*, Transfer of title.That upon payment of all outstanding obligations against the Haskell Students Activities Association, not to exceed in all $30,500, the title to all property belonging to the said association shall be transferred to the United States, and upon such transfer such property shall become a part of the Government Indian School known as “Haskell Institute”, Lawrence, Kansas. Approved, August 13, 1935. To authorize the transfer to the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Treasury of portions of the property within the Fort Knox Military Reservation, Kentucky, for the construction thereon of certain public buildings, and for other purposes. 1935-08-13 519 Chapter 49 Stat. 613 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 613 [CHAPTER 519.] AN ACT To authorize the transfer to the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Treasury of portions of the property within the Fort Knox Military Reservation, Kentucky, for the construction thereon of certain public buildings, and for other purposes. August 13, 1935.[[S. 3329.](/us/bill/74/s/3329)][[Public, No. 267.](/us/pl/74/267)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the SecretaryFort Knox Military Reservation, Kentucky.Transfer of portion, authorized. of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to make transfers to the jurisdiction and control of the Secretary of the Treasury of such portions of the property at present included within the Fort Knox Military Reservation, Kentucky, and upon such conditions, as may be mutually agreed upon by the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary of the Treasury is herebyConstruction. authorized to construct within the limits of the property so transferred such building or buildings, appurtenances, and approaches thereto as he may deem adequate and suitable for the use of the Treasury Department as a depository, and for use in carrying out any other functions or duties of the Treasury Department: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Reversionary provision.That upon cessation of such use the premises or any part thereof so transferred shall revert to the jurisdiction of the War Department. Approved, August 13, 1935. To amend sections 1, 2, and 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the commemoration of the termination of the War between the States at Appomattox Court House, Virginia”, approved June 18, 1930, and to establish the Appomattox Court House National Historical Monument, and for other purposes. 1935-08-13 520 Chapter 49 Stat. 613 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 520.] AN ACT To amend sections 1, 2, and 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the commemoration of the termination of the War between the States at Appomattox Court House, Virginia”, approved June 18, 1930, and to establish the Appomattox Court House National Historical Monument, and for other purposes. August 13, 1935.[[H. R. 4507.](/us/bill/74/hr/4507)][[Public, No. 268.](/us/pl/74/261)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That sections 1, 2,Appomattox Court House National Historical Monument.Vol. 46, p. 777. and 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the commemoration of the termination of the War between the States at Appomattox Court House, Virginia”, approved June 18, 1930, are hereby amended to read as follows: " “That when title to all the land, structures, and other propertyEstablishment. within a distance of one and one-half miles from the Appomattox Court House site, Virginia, as shall be designated by the Secretary of the Interior in the exercise of his discretion as necessary or desirable for national monument purposes, shall have been vested in the United States in fee simple, such area or areas shall be, and they are hereby, established, dedicated, and set apart as a public monument for the benefit and enjoyment of the people and shall be known as the ‘Appomattox Court House National Historical Monument.’ “Sec. 2. That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary,Appropriation authorized.*Post*, p. 1794. to carry out the provisions of this Act as amended hereby. “Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby,Acquisition of land. authorized to accept donations of land and/or buildings, structures, and so forth, within the boundaries of said park as determined and fixed hereunder and donations of funds for the purchase and/or maintenance thereof: *Provided*, That he may acquire on behalf of the United States, by purchase when purchasable at prices deemed by*Proviso*.Purchases; condemnation proceedings.Vol. 25, p. 357; [U. S. C., p. 1785](/us/usc/p1785). him reasonable, otherwise by condemnation under the provisions of the Act of August 1, 1888, such tracts of land within the said park as may be necessary for the completion thereof within the limits of the appropriation as authorized in Section 2.” " 614 Sec. 2. Vol. 46, p. 777. Such Act of June 18, 1930, is amended by adding at the end thereof a new section to read as follows: " “Sec. 4. Jurisdiction. The administration, protection, and development of the Appomattox Court House National Historical Monument shall be exercised under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior’ by the National Park Service, subject to the provisions of the Act of Vol. 39, p. 535; [U. S. C., p. 591](/us/usc/p591).August 25, 1916, entitled ‘An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes ’, as amended.” " Approved, August 13, 1935. Granting pensions to veterans of the Spanish-American War, including the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection, their widows and dependents, and for other purposes. 1935-08-13 521 Chapter 49 Stat. 614 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 521.] AN ACT Granting pensions to veterans of the Spanish-American War, including the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection, their widows and dependents, and for other purposes. August 13, 1935.[[H. R. 6995.](/us/bill/74/hr/6995)][[Public, No. 269.](/us/pl/74/269)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Spanish-American War, Boxer Rebellion and Philippine Insurrection veterans, etc.Reenactment of laws granting pensions to. That all laws in effect on March 19, 1933, granting pensions to veterans of the Spanish-American War, including the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection, their widows and dependents, are hereby reenacted into law and such laws shall be effective from and after the date of the approval of this Act. Sec. 2. Repeals. That all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with or inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. Approved, August 13, 1935. Authorizing the appropriation of funds for the maintenance of public order and the protection of life and property during the period August 16, 1935, to August 31, 1935, both inclusive. 1935-08-13 522 Chapter 49 Stat. 614 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 522.] JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the appropriation of funds for the maintenance of public order and the protection of life and property during the period August 16, 1935, to August 31, 1935, both inclusive. August 13, 1935.[[S. J. Res. 145.](/us/bill/74/sjres/145)][[Public, No. 48.](/us/pl/74/48)] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, District of Columbia.Sum authorized for maintenance of order, August 16–31, 1935. That the sum of $35,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized to be appropriated, payable wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, to maintain public order and protect life and property in the District of Columbia from the 16th day of August 1935 to the 31st of August 1935, both inclusive, including the employment of personal service, the payment of allowances, traveling expenses, hire of means of transportation, and other incidental expenses in the For construction.discretion of the said Commissioners. There is hereby further authorized to be appropriated the sum of $4,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, payable as aforesaid, for the construction rent, maintenance, and for incidental expenses in connection with the operation of temporary public-convenience stations, first-aid stations, and information booths, including the employment of personal services in connection therewith during such period. Approved, August 13, 1935. To amend the air-mail laws and to authorize the extension of the Air Mail Service. 1935-08-14 530 Chapter 49 Stat. 614 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 530.] AN ACT To amend the air-mail laws and to authorize the extension of the Air Mail Service. August 14, 1935.[[H. R. 6511](/us/bill/74/hr/6511).][[Public, No. 270](/us/pl/74/270).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Air Mail Act of 1934, amendments.Vol. 48, pp. 933, 1243.*Post*, p. 1175. That subsection
(a)of section 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to revise air-mail laws, and to establish a commission to make a report to the Congress 615recommending an aviation policy”, approved June 12, 1934, as amended (48 Stat. 933, 1243), is amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 3.
(a)The Postmaster General is authorized to award contractsContracts for carrying air mail. for the transportation of air mail by airplane between such points as he may designate, and for initial periods of not exceedingInitial contract periods. three years, to the lowest responsible bidders tendering sufficient guaranty for faithful performance in accordance with the terms of the advertisement at fixed rates per airplane-mile: *Provided*, That*Provisos*.Right of low bidder to appeal if refused contract. where the Postmaster General holds that a low bidder is not responsible or qualified under this Act, such bidder shall have the right to appeal to the Comptroller General, who shall speedily determine the issue, and his decision shall be final: *Provided further* Maximum base rate of pay.That the base rate of pay which may be bid and accepted in awarding such contracts shall in no case exceed 33⅓ cents per airplane-mile for transporting a mail load not exceeding three hundred pounds. PayBasis of computation.ment for transportation shall be at the base rate fixed in the contract for the first three hundred pounds of mail or fraction thereof plus one-tenth of such base rate for each additional one hundred pounds of mail or fraction thereof, computed at the end of each calendar month on the basis of the average mail load carried per mile over the route during such month, except that in no case shall payment exceed 40 cents per airplane-mile.” " Sec. 2. Subsection
(c)of section 3 of such Act is amended to readVol. 48, p. 934. as follows: " “(c) If, in the opinion of the Postmaster General, the public interRoute extensions.est requires it, he may grant extensions of any route: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Limitation. the aggregate mileage of all such extensions on any route in effect at one time shall not exceed two hundred and fifty miles, and that the rate of pay for such extensions shall not be in excess of the rate per mile fixed for the service thus extended.” " Sec. 3. The first sentence of subsection **(d)** of section 3 of suchClassification of routes.Vol. 48, p. 934. Act is amended to read as follows: " “The Postmaster General may designate certain routes as primaryPrimary or secondary may be designated. or as secondary routes. He shall designate as primary routes at least three transcontinental routes, with such termini as he may deem advisable, and, in addition thereto, such other routes as he may consider in the public interest, but no route less than seven hundred and fifty miles in length shall be designated as a primary route: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Coastal routes. That the present routes from Seattle to San Diego and from Newark (or New York, as the case may be) to Miami, Florida, may be held and regarded as other than primary routes: *Provided further*,Designated transcontinental routes included as primary. That the Southern Transcontinental Route from Boston via New York (or Newark, as the case may be) and Washington to Los Angeles, shall be designated as a primary route.” " Sec. 4. Subsection
(f)of section 3 of such Act is amended to readVol. 48, p. 934. as follows: " “(f) The Postmaster General shall not award contracts for air-mailMileage limitation, etc. routes or extend such routes in excess of an aggregate of thirty-two thousand miles, and shall not pay for air-mail transportation on such routes and extensions in excess of an annual aggregate of forty-five million airplane-miles. Subject to the foregoing, the PostmasterSchedules, etc. General shall prescribe the number and frequency of schedules, inter mediate regular stops, and time of departure of all planes carrying air mail, with due regard for the volume of mail carried over each route and for connecting schedules, and he may, under such regulations as he may prescribe, authorize and, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, compensate for a special schedule or an extraEmergency, etc., trips. or emergency trip in addition to any regular schedule over air-mail routes or portions thereof at the same mileage rate paid for regular 616schedules on the contract route or routes, or at a lesser rate if agreed to by the contractor and the Postmaster General, and he may utilize therefor any scheduled passenger or express flight of the contractor between the terminal points or over a portion of any route whenever*Proviso*.Nonmail schedule or plane. the needs of the service may so require: *Provided*, That the Postmaster General may, upon application by an air-mail contractor, authorize said contractor for his own convenience to transport air mail on any nonmail schedule or plane, with the understanding that the weights of mail so transported will be credited to regular mail schedules and no mileage compensation will be claimed therefor and the miles flown in such cases will not be computed in the annual aggregate of flown mileage authorized under this section.” " Sec. 5. Vol. 48, p. 935. Subsection
(a)of section 6 of such Act is amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 6 Interstate Commerce Commission to fix compensation rates.
(a)The Interstate Commerce Commission is hereby empowered and directed, after notice and hearing, to fix and determine by order, as soon as practicable and from time to time, the fair and reasonable rates of compensation within the limitations of this Act for the transportation of air mail by airplane and the service connected therewith over each air-mail route, and over each section thereof covered by a separate contract, prescribing the method or methods by weight or space, or both, or otherwise, for ascertaining such rates of compensation, and to publish the same, which shall continue in force until changed by the said Commission after due notice and hearing, Conflicting clauses repealed.Vol. 48, p. 934.Vol. 48, p. 936.and so much of subsection
(g)of section 3 of this Act as is in conflict with this section is hereby repealed.” " Sec. 6. Subsection
(e)of section 6 of such Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: " Determining fair transportation rates.Losses resulting from maintenance of non-mail schedules.“In arriving at such determination the Commission shall disregard losses resulting, in the opinion of the Commission, from the unprofitable maintenance of nonmail schedules, in cases where the Commission may find that the gross receipts from such schedules fail to meet the additional operating expense occasioned thereby. In fixing and Burden of proof when insufficiency of compensation rate alleged.determining such rates, if it shall be contended or alleged by the holder of an air-mail contract that the rate of compensation in force for the service involved is insufficient, the burden of establishing such Rate restriction.insufficiency and the extent thereof shall be assumed by him. In no case shall the rates fixed and determined by the said Commission hereunder exceed the limits prescribed in section 3
(a)of this Act. Report to Congress.“The Commission is hereby authorized and directed, after having made a full and complete examination and audit of the books, and after having examined and carefully scrutinized all expenditures and purported expenditures, of the holders of the contracts hereinafter referred to, for goods, lands, commodities, and services, in order to determine whether or not such expenditures were fair and just, and were not improper, excessive, or collusive, in the cases of the eight air-mail contracts which are allowed, by a previous report of the Commission, the rate of 33⅓ cents per mile, under the provisions of the Act of June 12, 1934, on routes Numbered 7, 12, 13, 14, 19, 25, 27, and 32, and the Commission shall make a report to the Congress, not later than January 15, 1936, whether or not, in its judgment, a fair and reasonable rate of compensation on each of said eight contracts, under the other provisions and conditions of said Act, as herein amended, is in excess of 33⅓ cents per mile; together with full facts and reasons in detail why it recommends for or against any claim for increase.” " 617 Sec. 7. Subsection
(b)of section 6 of such Act is amended to readVol. 48, p. 938. as follows: " “(b) The Interstate Commerce Commission is hereby directed atExamination of contractors’ records; purpose. least once in each calendar year from the date of the award of any contract to examine the books, accounts, contracts, and entire business records of the holder of each air-mail contract, and to review the rates of compensation being paid to such holder in order to be assured that no unreasonable profit is being derived or accruing therefrom, and in order to fix just rates. In determining what mayUnreasonable profit; factors to be considered. constitute an unreasonable profit the said Commission shall take into consideration the income derived from the operation of airplanes over the routes affected, and in addition to the requirements of section 3
(f)of this Act, shall take into consideration all forms of expenditures of said companies in order to ascertain whether or not the expenditures have been upon a fair and reasonable basis on the part of said company and whether or not the said company has paid more than a fair and reasonable market value for the purchase or rent of planes, engines, or any other types or kind, or class, or goods, or services, including spare parts of all kinds, and whether or not the air-mail contracting company has purchased or rented any kind of goods, commodities, or services from any individuals who own stock in or are connected with the said contracting companies or has purchased such goods and services from any company or corporations in which any of the individuals employed by or owning stock in the air-mail contracting company have any interest or from which such purchase or rents any of the employees or stockholders of air-mail contracting companies would be directly or indirectly benefited. Within thirty days after a decision has been reached upon suchReport to be submitted. review by the Interstate Commerce Commission touching such profit a full report thereof shall be made to the Postmaster General, to the Secretary of the United States Senate, and to the Clerk of the House of Representatives.” " Sec. 8. The first sentence of subsection
(c)of section G of suchVol. 48, p. 935. Act is amended to read as follows: " “Any contract
(1)let, extended, or assigned pursuant to the provisionsExtensions of contracts if satisfactorily performed of this Act, and in full force and effect on March 1, 1935, or
(2)which may be let subsequent to such date pursuant to the provisions of this Act and shall have been satisfactorily performed by the contractor during its full initial period, shall, from and after such date, or from and after the termination of its initial period, as the case may be, be continued in effect for an indefinite period, and compensation therefor, on and after March 1, 1935, during such period of indefinite continuance, shall be paid at the rate fixed byRates and conditions. order of the Commission under this Act, subject to such additional conditions and terms as the Commission may prescribe, upon recommendation of the Postmaster General, which shall be consistent with the requirements and limitations contained in section 1 of this Act; but any contract so continued in effect may be terminated by theTermination, upon 60 days’ notice.Notice and hearing. Commission upon sixty days’ notice, upon such hearing and notice thereof to interested parties as the Commission may determine to be reasonable; and may also be terminated, in whole or in part, by mutual agreement of the Postmaster General and the contractor, or for cause by the contractor upon sixty days’ notice.” " Sec. 9. Subsection
(d)of section 7 of such Act is amended toVol. 48, p. 936. read as follows: " “(d) No person shall be qualified to enter upon the performance of,Air mail contractors.Qualifications and salaries of officers, etc., of. or thereafter to hold an air-mail contract
(1)if, at or after the time specified for the commencement of mail transportation under such618 contract, such person is (or, if a partnership, association, or corporation, has a member, officer, or director, or an employee performing general managerial duties, that is) an individual who has theretofore entered into any unlawful combination to prevent the making of any*Provisos*.Affidavits respecting activities in regard to bidding, etc. bids for carrying the mails: *Provided*, That whenever required by the Postmaster General or Interstate Commerce Commission the bidder shall submit an affidavit executed by the bidder, or by such of its officers, directors, or general managerial employees as the Postmaster General or Interstate Commerce Commission may designate, sworn to before an officer authorized and empowered to administer oaths, stating in such affidavit that the affiant has not entered nor proposed to enter into any combination to prevent the making of any bid for carrying the mails, nor made any agreement, or given or performed, or promised to give or perform, any consideration whatever to induce Salary, etc., provision.any other person to bid or not to bid for any mail contract, or
(2)if it pays any officer, director, or regular employee compensation in any form, whether as salary, bonus, commission, or otherwise, at a rate exceeding $17,500 per year for full time: *Provided further*,Limitation on amount. That it shall be unlawful for any officer or regular employee to draw a salary of more than $17,500 per year from any air-mail contractor, or a salary from any other company if such salary from any company makes his total compensation more than $17,500 per year.” " Sec. 10. Vol. 48, p. 937. Section 10 of such Act is amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 10. Records and accounts; requirement. All persons holding air-mail contracts shall be required to keep their books, records, and accounts under such regulations as may be promulgated by the Postmaster General, and he is hereby Examination by Post Office Department.authorized, if and when he deems it advisable to do so, to examine and audit the books, records, and accounts of such contractors, and to require such contractors to submit full financial reports in such form and under such regulations as he may prescribe. By Interstate Commerce Commission.“Whenever an audit of the books, records, or accounts of any air-mail contractor is made by the auditors of the Interstate Commerce Commission, a full and complete report thereof shall be made to the Post Office Department within thirty days, and that report shall contain all instances in which the contractor has failed to comply with any of the provisions of the uniform system of accounts prescribed by the Post Office Department; and the Postmaster General shall, upon request, have at all times access to the records and reports of Auditing expenses.the Commission concerning air mail and air-mail contracts. There is authorized to be used from the appropriations for Contract Air Mail Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, a sum not in excess of $25,000 for the purpose of auditing the books and records of air-mail contractors by the Post Office Department.” " Sec. 11. Vol. 48, p. 937. Section 13 of such Act is amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 13. Compensation rates, labor conditions, etc. It shall be a condition upon the holding of any air-mail contract that the rate of compensation and the working conditions and relations for all pilots and other employees of the holder of such contract shall conform to decisions heretofore or hereafter made by the National Labor Board, or its successor in authority, notwithstanding any limitation as to the period of its effectiveness included Collective bargaining.in any such decision heretofore rendered. This section shall not be construed as restricting the right of any such employees by collective bargaining to obtain higher rates of compensation or more favorable working conditions and relations.” " Sec. 12. Vol. 48, pp. 938, 1243. Section 15, as amended, of such Act is amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 15. Number of contracts to contractor limited. After June 30, 1935, no person holding a contract or contracts for carrying air mail on a primary route shall be awarded or619 hold any contract for carrying air mail on any other primary route, nor on more than three additional routes other than primary routes. In case one person holds several contracts covering different sections of one air-mail route as designated by the Postmaster General, such several contracts shall be counted as one contract for the purpose of the preceding sentence. It shall be unlawful for air-mail contractors,Unlawful practices. competing in parallel routes, to merge or to enter into any agreement, express or implied, which may result in common control or ownership. After June 30, 1935, no air-mail contractor shall be allowed to maintain passenger or express service off the line of his air-mail route which in any way competes with passenger or express service available upon another air-mail route, except that off-line competitive service which has been regularly maintained on and prior to July 1, 1935, and such seasonal schedules as may have been regularly maintained during the year prior to July 1, 1935, may be continued if restricted to the number of schedules and to the stops scheduled and in effect during such period or season. “Upon application of the Postmaster General or of any interestedInquiries as to alleged unfair practices authorized. air-mail contractor, setting forth that the general transport business or earnings upon an air-mail route are being adversely affected by any alleged unfair practice of another air-mail contractor, or by any competitive air-transport service supplied by an air-mail contractor other than that supplied by him on the line of his prescribed air-mail route, or by any service inaugurated by him after July 1, 1935, through the scheduling of competitive nonmail flights over an air-mail route, the Interstate Commerce Commission shall, after giving reasonable notice to the air-mail contractor complained of, inquire fully into the subject matter of the allegations; and if thePowers of Commission. Commission shall find such practice or competition or any part thereof to be unfair, or that such competitive service in whole or in part is not reasonably required in the interest of public convenience and necessity, and if the Commission shall further find that in either case the receipts or expenses of an air-mail contractor are so affected thereby as to tend to increase the cost of air-mail transportation, then it shall order such practice or competitive service, or both, as the case may be, discontinued or restricted in accordance with such findings, and the respondent air-mail contractor named in the order shall comply therewith within a reasonable time to be fixed in such order. If the Commission shall find after like application, notice,Additional service ordered if necessary. and hearing that the public convenience and necessity requires additional service or schedules and such service or schedules do not tend to increase the cost of air-mail transportation, it may permit the institution and maintenance of such schedules and prescribe the frequency thereof. The compensation of any air-mail contractorWithholding pay for violation. shall be withheld during any period that it continues to violate any order of the Commission or any provision of this Act. " Sec. 13. Section 6 of such Act is hereby amended by adding at theVol. 48, p. 936. end thereof a new subsection to read as follows: " “(f) Each holder of an air-mail contract shall file with the InterRebates and passes.state Commerce Commission, in such form as the Commission shall require, on July 1st and January 1st of each year, a full statement of all free transportation hereafter furnished during the preceding semiannual period to any persons, including in each case the regular tariff value thereof, the name and address of the donee, and a statement of the reason for furnishing such free transportation.” " Approved, August 14, 1935. To provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the several States to make more adequate provision for aged persons, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of their unemployment compensation laws; to establish a Social Security Board; to raise revenue; and for other purposes. 1935-08-14 531 Chapter 49 Stat. 620 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 620 [CHAPTER 531.] AN ACT To provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the several States to make more adequate provision for aged persons, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of their unemployment compensation laws; to establish a Social Security Board; to raise revenue; and for other purposes. August 14, 1935.[[H. R. 7260](/us/bill/74/hr/7260).][
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