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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 49 STAT. · June 30, 1936 · Public Law 63

Public Law 63.

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(/us/74/pl/62).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the followingDepartment of Agriculture, Farm Credit Administration appropriations, fiscal year, 1936. sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of Agriculture and for the Farm Credit Administration for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, namely: TITLE I— DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURETitle I—Department of Agriculture.
Office of the SecretarySecretary’s office. salaries For the Secretary of Agriculture,Secretary, Undersecretary, Assistant, and other personal services.*Proviso*. Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.Vol. 42, p. 1488; Vol. 45, p. 776; Vol. 46, p. 1003.[U. S. C., p. 85](/us/usc/p85). Under Secretary of Agriculture, Assistant Secretary, and for other personal services in the District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $584,712: *Provided*, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations contained in this Act for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the Assistant Secretary, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act as amended and in grades in which only one position is allocated theWhen only one position in grade. salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate: *Provided further*, That this restriction shall not applyRestriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.No reduction In fixed salaries.
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation 248Vol. 42, p. 1490; [U. S. C., p. 85](/us/usc/p85).Transfers to another position without reduction.was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade, in the same or different bureau, office, or other Higher rates permitted.appropriation unit,
(4)to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, If only one position in a grade.as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or
(5)to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one Contracts for stenographic reporting.position is allocated: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to contract for stenographic reporting services, and the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for such Purchasing options on lands.purposes: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to expend from appropriations available for the purchase of lands not to exceed $1 for each option to purchase any particular Allowances for living quarters abroad.tract or tracts of land: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $33,400 of the appropriations available for salaries and expenses of officers and employees of the Department of Agriculture permanently stationed in foreign countries may be used for payment of allowances Vol. 46, p. 818; [U. S. C., p. 45](/us/usc/p45).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), but the amount so used for any one person shall not exceed the amount permitted by law to be so used, during the fiscal year 1936, for any one person in the foreign service of the Department of Commerce: *Provided further*, Predicting future prices of cotton forbidden.That no part of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be used for the payment of any officer or employee of the Department of Agriculture who, as such officer or employee, or on behalf of the Department or any division, commission, or bureau therof, issues, or causes to be issued, any prediction, oral or written, or forecast with respect to future prices of cotton or the trend of same. miscellaneous expenses, department of agriculture Department contingent expenses.For stationery, blank books, twine, paper, gum, dry goods, soap, brushes, brooms, mats, oils, paints, glass, lumber, hardware, ice, furniture, carpets, and mattings; for freight, express charges, advertising and press clippings, telegraphing, telephoning, postage, washing towels; for the maintenance, repair, and operation of one Motorcycle.motorcycle and not to exceed three motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (including one for the Secretary of Agriculture, one for general utility needs of the entire Department, and one for the Forest Service) and purchase and exchange of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, at a net cost of not to exceed $1,500, for official purposes only; for the payment of the Department Dispatch agent, New York.of Agriculture’s proportionate share of the expense of the dispatch agent in New York; for official traveling expenses, including examination of estimates for appropriations in the field for any bureau, office, or service of the Department; and for other miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for and necessary for the practical and efficient work of the Department, which are authorized by such officer as the Secretary may designate, $116,448: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Maintenance of stationery, etc., stocks.That the Secretary of Agriculture, during the fiscal year 1936, may maintain stocks of stationery, supplies, equipment, and miscellaneous materials sufficient to meet, in whole or in part, requirements of the bureaus and offices of the Department in the Maximum allotment.city of Washington and elsewhere, but not to exceed in the aggregate, $200,000 in value at the close of the fiscal year, and the appropriations Available for miscellaneous expenses.made for such bureaus and offices for such stocks shall be available to reimburse the appropriation for miscellaneous expenses 249current at the time supplies are issued: *Provided further*, That theEmployees handling, etc., supplies. appropriations made hereunder shall be available for the payment of salaries of employees engaged in purchasing, storing, handling, packing, or shipping of supplies and blank forms, and the amount of such salaries shall be charged proportionately as a part of the cost of supplies issued, and in the case of blank forms and supplies not purchased from this appropriation the amount of such salaries shall be charged proportionately to the proper appropriation: *Provided further*, That the facilities of the central storehouse of theUse of central storehouse. Department shall to the fullest extent practicable be used to make unnecessary the maintenance of separate bureau storehouse activities in the Department: *Provided further*, That a separate schedule of Segregation of transactions.expenditures, transfers of funds, or other transactions hereunder shall be included in the annual Budget. rent of buildings in the district of columbiaRent. For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District ofBuildings in the District. Columbia, for use of the various bureaus, divisions, and offices of the Department of Agriculture, $63,000. Total, Office of the Secretary, $764,160. OFFICE OF INFORMATIONInformation Office. salaries and expenses For necessary expenses in connection with the publication,Salaries and expenses. indexing, illustration, and distribution of bulletins, documents, and reports, including labor-saving machinery and supplies, envelopes, stationery and materials, office furniture and fixtures, photographic equipment and materials, artists’ tools and supplies, telephone and telegraph service, freight and express charges; purchase and maintenance of bicycles; purchase of manuscripts; traveling expenses: electrotypes, illustrations, and other expenses not otherwise providedServices in the District. for, $363,282, of which not to exceed $344,260 may be used for personal services in the District of Columbia. printing and binding For all printing and binding for the Department of Agriculture,Printing and binding. including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $800,000, including the purchase of reprints of scientific and technical articles published in periodicals and journals; the Annual ReportAnnual Report of the Secretary.Vol. 28, p. 612; Vol. 34, p. 825; [U. S. C., pp, 1935, 1944](/us/usc/pp1935/1944). of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January 12, 1895 (U. S. C., title 44, secs. Ill, 212–220,222, 241, 244, 257), and in pursuance of the Joint Resolution Numbered 13, approved March 30, 1906 (U. S. C., title 44, secs. 214, 224), and also including not to exceed $250,000 for farmers’ bulletins, which shall be adapted to theFarmers’ bulletins. interests of the people of the different sections of the country, an equal proportion of four-fifths of which shall be delivered to or sent out under the addressed franks furnished by the Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, as they shall direct,Exception.Vol. 40, p. 1270.[U. S. C., pp. 1935, 1945](/us/usc/pp1935/1945). but not including work done at the field printing plants of the Weather Bureau and the Forest Service authorized by the Joint Committee on Printing, in accordance with the Act approved March 1, 1919 (U. S. C., title 44, secs. 111, 220). Total, Office of Information, $1,163,282. 250 Library.LIBRARY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Salaries and expenses.Salaries and expenses: For purchase and exchange of books of reference, law books, technical and scientific books, periodicals, and for expenses incurred in completing imperfect series; not to exceed $1200 for newspapers, and when authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture for dues for library membership in societies or associations which issue publications to members only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers who are not members; for salaries in the city of Washington and elsewhere; for official traveling expenses, and for library fixtures, library cards, supplies, and for all other necessary expenses, $99,812, of which amount not to exceed $70,520 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Experiment Stations Office.OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS payments to states, hawaii, alaska, and puerto rico for agricultural experiment stations Support of stations. Vol. 24, p. 440. [U. S. C., p. 139](/us/usc/p139). Vol. 12, p. 603. [U. S. C., p. 135](/us/usc/p135).To carry into effect the provisions of an Act approved March 2, 1887 (U. S. C., title 7, secs. 362, 363, 365, 368, 377–379), entitled “An Act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States under the provisions of an Act approved July 2, 1862 (U. S. C., title 7, secs. 301–308), and of the Acts supplementary thereto”, the sums apportioned to the several States, to be paid quarterly in advance, $720,000. Allotment of additional appropriations. Vol. 34, p. 63. [U. S. C., p. 139](/us/usc/p139).To carry into effect the provisions of an Act approved March 16, 1906 (U. S. C., title 7, sec. 369), entitled “An Act to provide for an increased annual appropriation for agricultural experiment stations and regulating the expenditure thereof”, and Acts supplementary thereto, the sums apportioned to the several States to be paid quarterly in advance, $720,000. Further allotments. Vol. 43, p. 970. [U. S. C., p. 139](/us/usc/p139).To carry into effect the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the more complete endowment of agricultural experiment stations”, approved February 24, 1925 (U. S. C., title 7, secs. 361, 366, 370, 371, 373–376, 380, 382), $2,880,000. Extending benefits to Hawaii. Vol. 45, p. 571. [U. S. C., p. 141](/us/usc/p141).Hawaii: To carry into effect the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to extend the benefits of certain Acts of Congress to the Territory of Hawaii”, approved May 16, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 7, secs. 386–386b), $30,000. Extension work in Alaska. Vol. 45, p. 1255. [U. S. C., p. 141](/us/usc/p141).Alaska: To carry into effect the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to extend the benefits of the Hatch Act and the Smith Lever Act to the Territory of Alaska”, approved February 23, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 7, sec. 386c), $15,000. Extending benefits to Puerto Rico. Vol. 46, p. 1520. [U. S. C., p. 141](/us/usc/p141).Puerto Rico: To carry into effect the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to coordinate the agricultural experiment station work and to extend the benefits of certain Acts of Congress to the Territory of Puerto Rico”, approved March 4, 1931 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 7, secs. 386d–386f), $30,000. In all, payments to States, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico for agricultural experiment stations, $4,395,000. Salaries and expenses.salaries and expenses Administration of stations, etc. Vol. 21, p. 440; Vol. 34, p. 63; Vol. 43, p. 970; Vol. 45, pp. 571, 1256; Vol. 46, p. 1520. [U. S. C., p. 139](/us/usc/p139).To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to enforce the provisions of the Acts approved March 2, 1887 (U. S. C., title 7, secs. 362, 363, 365, 368. 377–379), March 16, 1906 (U. S. C., title 7, secs. 369, 375), February 24, 1925 (U. S. C.. title 7, secs. 361, 366, 370, 371, 373–376, 380, 382), May 16, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 7, secs, 386–386b), 251February 23, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp, VII, title 7, sec. 38Cc), and March 4, 1931 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 7, secs. 386d–386f), and Acts amendatory or supplementary thereto, relative to their administration and for the administration of agricultural experiment stations in Hawaii and Puerto Rico, including the employment ofTerritorial and insular possessions. clerks, assistants, and other persons in the city of Washington and elsewhere, freight and express charges, official traveling expenses, office fixtures, supplies, apparatus, telegraph and telephone service,Outside rent. gas, electric current, and rent outside the District of Columbia, $156,235; and the Secretary of Agriculture shall prescribe the form Annual financial statements, forms.of the annual financial statement required under the above Acts, ascertain whether the expenditures are in accordance with their provisions, coordinate the work of the Department of Agriculture with that of the State agricultural colleges and experiment stations in the lines authorized in said Acts, and make report thereon to Congress. Insular experiment stations: To enable the Secretary ofInsular experiment stations. Agriculture to establish and maintain agricultural experiment stations in Hawaii and Puerto Rico, including the erection of buildings, the preparation, illustration, and distribution of reports and bulletins,Allotments. and all other necessary expenses, $69,311, as follows: $32,066 for Hawaii, and $37,245 for Puerto Rico: *Provided*, That the Secretary*Proviso*. Transfer of equipment authorized. Vol. 45, p. 571. [U. S. C., p. 141](/us/usc/p141). of Agriculture may, at his discretion, transfer such equipment, including the library, of the Hawaii Experiment Station, as he may deem necessary and advisable to the experiment station of the University of Hawaii, conducted jointly and in collaboration with the Federal station under the Act of May 16, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 7, secs. 386–386b); and the Secretary of Agriculture isSale of products; use of receipts. authorized to sell such products as are obtained on the land belonging to the agricultural experiment stations in Hawaii and Puerto Rico, and the amount obtained from the sale thereof shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts. In all, salaries and expenses, $225,546. Total, Office of Experiment Stations, $4,620,546, of which amount not to exceed $144,605 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $1,500 shall be available forVehicles for field work. the purchase of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of field work outside the District of Columbia. EXTENSION SERVICEExtension Service. payments to states, hawaii, and alaska For cooperative agricultural extension work, to be allotted, paid,Cooperative extension work allotments. Vol. 38, p. 372; Vol. 45, pp. 571, 711. [U. S. C., p. 137](/us/usc/p137). and expended in the same manner, upon the same terms and conditions, and under the same supervision as the additional appropriations made by the Act of May 8, 1914 (U. S. C., title 7, secs. 341–348), entitled “An Act to provide for cooperative agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several States receiving benefits of an Act of Congress approved July 2, 1862 (U. S. C., title 7, secs. 301–308), and of Acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture”, $1,580,000; and all sums appropriated by this Act for use for demonstration or extension workUse, as mutually agreed upon. within any State shall be used and expended in accordance with plans mutually agreed upon by the Secretary of Agriculture and the proper officials of the college in such State which receives the benefits of said Act of May 8, 1914: *Provided*, That of the above*Proviso*.County agents. appropriation not more than $300,000 shall be expended for purposes other than salaries of county agents. 252 Further cooperation with State colleges. Vol. 12, p. 503; Vol. 38, p. 372; Vol. 45, p. 711. [U. S. C., pp. 135, 138](/us/usc/pp135/138).To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the further development of agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several States receiving the benefits of the Act entitled ‘An Act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts approved July 2, 1862 (U. S. C., title 7, secs. 301–308), and all Acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture”, approved May 22, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 7, secs. 343a, 343b), $1,480,000. Extension work in Alaska. Vol. 45, p. 1256. [U. S. C., p. 141](/us/usc/p141).Alaska: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to extend the benefits of the Hatch Act and the Smith-Lever Act to the Territory of Alaska”, approved February 23, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 7, sec. 386c), $12,000. Additional cooperative extension work.Additional cooperative agricultural extension work: For additional cooperative agricultural extension work, including employment of specialists in economics and marketing, to be allotted and paid by the Secretary of Agriculture to the several States and the territory of Hawaii in such amounts as he may deem necessary to accomplish such purposes, $1,000,000. In all, payments to States, Hawaii, and Alaska for agricultural extension work, $4,072,000. salaries and expenses Administrative expenses.General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $13,668. Farmers’ cooperative work.Farmers’ cooperative demonstration work: For farmers’ cooperative demonstration work, including special suggestions of plans and methods for more effective dissemination of the results of the work of the Department of Agriculture and the agricultural experiment stations and of improved methods of agricultural practice, at farmers’ institutes and in agricultural instruction, and for such work on Government reclamation projects, and for personal services in the city of Washington and elsewhere, supplies, and all other necessary *Proviso*. Voluntary contributions within State accepted.expenses, $747,248: *Provided*, That the expense of such service shall be defrayed from this appropriation and such cooperative funds as may be voluntarily contributed by State, county, and municipal agencies, associations of farmers, and individual farmers, universities, colleges, boards of trade, chambers of commerce, other local associations of business men, business organizations, and individuals within the State. Agricultural exhibits et fairs.Agricultural exhibits at fairs: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to make suitable agricultural exhibits at State, interstate, and international fairs held within the United States; for the purchase of necessary supplies and equipment; for telephone and telegraph service, freight and express charges; for travel, and for every other expense necessary, including the employment of assistance in or outside the city of Washington, $85,000. Cooperative farm forestry.Cooperative farm forestry: For cooperation with appropriate officials of the various States or with other suitable agencies to assist the owners of farms in establishing, improving, and renewing wood lots, shelter belts, windbreaks, and other valuable forest growth, Timber growth. Vol. 43, p. 654. [U. S. C., p. 669](/us/usc/p669).and in growing and renewing useful timber crops under the provisions of section 5 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the protection of forest lands, for the reforestation of denuded areas, for the extension of national forests, and for other purposes, in order to promote the continuous production of timber on lands chiefly 253suitable therefor”, approved June 7, 1924 (U. S. C., title 16, secs. 564–570), including personal services in the District of Columbia, $56,838. In all, salaries and expenses, $902,754, of which amount not toServices in the District. exceed $510,536 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Total, Extension Service, $4,974,754. Grand total, office of the Secretary of Agriculture, $11,622,554. WEATHER BUREAUWeather Bureau. salaries and expenses For carrying into effect in the District of Columbia and elsewhereSalaries and expenses. in the United States, in the West Indies, in the Panama Canal, the Caribbean Sea, and on adjacent coasts, in the Hawaiian Islands, inVol. 20, p. 653. [U. S. C., p. 562](/us/usc/p562). Bermuda, and in Alaska the provisions of an Act approved October 1, 1890 (U. S. C., title 15, secs. 311—313, 317), so far as they relate to the weather service transferred thereby to the Department of Agriculture, and the amendment thereof contained in section 5 (e)Air Service reports. Vol. 44, p. 571. [U. S. C., p. 563](/us/usc/p563). of the Air Commerce Act of 1926 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 15, sec. 313), for the employment of professors of meteorology, district forecasters, local forecasters, meteorologists, section directors, observers,Personal services. apprentices, operators, skilled mechanics, instrument makers, foremen, assistant foremen, proofreaders, compositors, pressmen, lithographers, folders and feeders, repair men, station agents, messengers, messenger boys, laborers, special observers, display men, and other necessary employees; for fuel, gas, electricity, freightContingent expenses. and express charges, furniture, stationery, ice, dry goods, twine, mats, oil, paints, glass, lumber, hardware, and washing towels; for advertising; for purchase, subsistence, and care of horses and vehicles, the purchase and repair of harness, for official purposes only; for instruments, shelters, apparatus, storm-warning towers and repairs thereto; for rent of offices; for repair, alterations, and improvements to existing buildings and care and preservation of grounds, including the construction of necessary outbuildings and sidewalks on public streets, abutting Weather Bureau grounds; and the erection of temporary buildings for living quarters of observers; for official traveling expenses; for telephone rentals, and for telegraphing,Telegraphing, etc. telephoning, and cabling reports and messages, rates to be fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture by agreement with the companies performing the service; for the maintenance and repair of Weather Bureau telegraph, telephone, and cable lines; and for every other expenditure required for the establishment, equipment, and maintenance of meteorological offices and stations and for the issuing of weatherIssuing forecasts and warnings. forecasts and warnings of storms, cold waves, frosts, and heavy snows, the gaging and measuring of the flow of rivers and the issuing of river forecasts and warnings; for observations and reports relating to crops; and for other necessary observations and reports,Cooperation with other bureaus, etc. including cooperation with other bureaus of the Government and societies and institutions of learning for the dissemination of meteorological information, as follows: General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses forChief of bureau, and office personnel. general administrative purposes, including the salary of chief of bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $124,840. General weather service and research: For necessary expensesGeneral weather service and research. incident to collecting and disseminating meteorological, climatological, and marine information, and for investigations in meteorology, climatology, seismology, evaporation, and aerology in the District 254Weather relationship to forest fires. Vol. 45, p. 701. [U. S. C., p. 672](/us/usc/p672).of Columbia and elsewhere, including $3,930 for investigations of the relationship of weather conditions to forest fires, under section 6 of the Act approved May 22, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 16, sec. 581e), $2,040,968, of which not to exceed $800 may be expended for the contribution of the United States to the cost of the office International Meteorological Committee.of the secretariat of the International Meteorological Committee, and not to exceed $10,000 may be expended for the maintenance of a printing office in the city of Washington for the printing of weather *Proviso*. Printing restriction.maps, bulletins, circulars, forms, and other publications: *Provided*, That no printing shall be done by the Weather Bureau that can be done, at the Government Office1 1So in original.without impairing the service of said Bureau. Western Montana, meteorological station.Meteorological station, western Montana: For the establishment, equipment, and maintenance of a meteorological station upon a site to be selected by the Secretary for western Montana, $10,000, to be immediately available. Horticultural protection.Horticultural protection: For investigations, observations, and reports, forecasts, warnings, and advices for the protection of horticultural interests, $49,467. Aerological stations. Aerology: For the maintenance of stations for observing, measuring, and investigating atmospheric phenomena, including salaries and other expenses, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $1,213,929. Total, Weather Bureau, $3,439,204, of which amount not to exceed $494,419 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Animal Industry Bureau.BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY salaries and expenses General expenses. Vol. 23, p. 31. [U. S. C., pp. 142, 927](/us/usc/pp142/927). Vol. 26, p. 833. [U. S. C., p. 1960](/us/usc/p1960). Vol. 26, p. 414; Vol. 32, p. 791. [U. S. C., p. 926](/us/usc/p926). For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved May 29, 1884 (U. S. C., title 7, sec. 391; title 21, secs. 112–119, 130), establishing a Bureau of Animal Industry, and the provisions of the Act approved March 3, 1891 (U. S. C., title 45, secs. 75, 76), providing for the safe transport and humane treatment of export cattle from the United States to foreign, countries, and for other purposes; the Act approved August 30, 1890 Contagious diseases. Vol. 33. p. 1261. [U. S. C., p. 929](/us/usc/p929).(U. S. C., title 21, secs. 101–105), providing for the importation of animals into the United States, and for other purposes; and the provisions of the Act approved February 2, 1903 (U. S. C., title 21, secs. 111–113, 120–122), to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to more effectually suppress and prevent the spread of contagious and infectious diseases of livestock, and for other purposes; and also the provisions of the Act approved March 3, 1905 (U. S. C., title 21, secs. 123–128), to enable the Secretary of Agriculture Cattle quarantine.to establish and maintain quarantine districts, to permit and regulate the movement of cattle and other livestock therefrom, and Twenty-eight hour law. Vol. 34, p. 607. [U. S. C., p. 1960](/us/usc/p1960).for other purposes; and for carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 29, 1906 (U. S. C., title 45, secs. 71–74), entitled “An Act to prevent cruelty to animals while in transit by railroad or other means of transportation”; and for carrying out the provisions of the Act Animal viruses, etc. Vol. 37, p. 832. [U. S. C., p. 931](/us/usc/p931).approved March 4, 1913 (U. S. C., title 21, secs. 151–158), regulating the preparation, sale, barter, exchange, or shipment of any virus, serum, toxin, or analogous products manufactured in the United States and the importation of such products intended for use in the Packers and Stock-yards Act. Vol. 42. p. 159. [U. S. C., p. 125](/us/usc/p125).treatment of domestic animals; and for carrying out the provisions of the Packers and Stockyards Act, approved August 15, 1921 (U. S. C., title 7, secs. 181–229); and to enable the Secretary of Agri-255culture to collect and disseminate information concerning livestockCollecting, etc., livestock information. and animal products; to prepare and disseminate reports on animal industry; to employ and pay from the appropriation herein made asPay of employees. many persons in the city of Washington or elsewhere as he may deem necessary; to purchase in the open market samples of all tuberculin,Tuberculin, serums, etc. serums, antitoxins, or analogous products, of foreign or domestic manufacture, which are sold in the United States, for the detection, prevention, treatment, or cure of diseases of domestic animals, to test the same, and to disseminate the results of said tests in such manner as he may deem best; to purchase and destroy diseased or exposedPurchase and destruction of diseased animals.Pleuropneumonia, etc. animals, including poultry, or quarantine the same whenever in his judgment essential to prevent the spread of pleuropneumonia, tuberculosis, contagious poultry diseases, or other diseases of animals from one State to another, as follows: General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses for generalGeneral administrative expenses. administrative purposes, including the salary of chief of bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $178,220. Inspection and quarantine: For inspection and quarantine work,Inspection and quarantine work. including all necessary expenses for the eradication of scabies in sheep and cattle, the inspection of southern cattle, the supervision of the transportation of livestock, and the inspection of vessels, the execution of the twenty-eight hour law, the inspection and quarantine of imported animals, including the establishment and maintenance of quarantine stations and repairs, alterations, improvements, or additions to buildings thereon; the inspection work relative to theMallein testing of animals. existence of contagious diseases, and the mallein testing of animals, $681,174. Eradicating tuberculosis: For investigating the diseases ofEradicating tuberculosis, etc. tuberculosis and paratuberculosis of animals, and avian tuberculosis, for their control and eradication, for the tuberculin testing of animals, and for researches concerning the causes of the diseases, their modesMethods, etc. of spread, and methods of treatment and prevention, including demonstrations, the formation of organizations, and such other means as may be necessary, either independently or in cooperation with farmers, associations, or State, Territory, or county authorities, $2,631,616, of which $1,131,616 shall be set aside for administrative and operating expenses and $1,500,000 for the payment of indemnities: *Provided*, That in carrying out the purpose of this*Proviso*.Indemnities for animals destroyed. appropriation, if in the opinion of the Secretary of Agriculture it shall be necessary to condemn and destroy tuberculous or paratuberculous cattle, if such animals have been destroyed, condemned, or die after condemnation, he may, in his discretion, and in accordance with such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, expend in the city of Washington or elsewhere such sums as he shall determine to be necessary, within the limitations above provided, for the payment of indemnities, for the reimbursement of owners of such animals,Cooperation with States, etc. in cooperation with such States, Territories, counties, or municipalities, as shall by law or by suitable action in keeping with its authority in the matter, and by rules and regulations adopted and enforced in pursuance thereof, provide inspection of tuberculous or paratuberculous cattle and for compensation to owners of cattle so condemned, but no part of the money hereby appropriated shall be used in compensating owners of such cattle except in cooperation with and supplementary to payments to be made by State, Territory, county, or municipality where condemnation of such cattle shall take place, nor shall any payment be made hereunder as compensation for or on account of any such animal if at the time of inspection or test, or at the time of condemnation thereof, it shall belong to or be upon the premises of any person, firm, or corporation to which 256it has been sold, shipped, or delivered for the purpose of being Restriction on payments.slaughtered: *Provided further*, That out of the money hereby appropriated no payment as compensation for any cattle condemned for slaughter shall exceed one-third of the difference between the appraised value of such cattle and the value of the salvage thereof; that no payment hereunder shall exceed the amount paid or to be paid by the State, Territory, county, and municipality where the animal shall be condemned; that in no case shall any payment hereunder be more than $25 for any grade animal or more than $50 for any purebred animal, and that no payment shall be made unless the owner has complied with all lawful quarantine regulations. Eradicating cattle ticks.*Proviso*.Limitation on purchases.Eradicating cattle ticks: For all necessary expenses for the eradication of southern cattle ticks, $613,940: *Provided*, That, except upon the written order of the Secretary of Agriculture, no part of this appropriation shall be used for the purchase of animals or in the purchase of materials for or in the construction of dipping vats upon land not owned solely by the United States, except at fairs or expositions where the Department of Agriculture makes exhibits or Mixtures for dipping vats.demonstrations; nor shall any part of this appropriation be used in the purchase of materials or mixtures for use in dipping vats except in experimental or demonstration work carried on by the officials or agents of the Bureau of Animal Industry. Animal husbandry.Animal husbandry: For all necessary expenses for investigations and experiments in animal husbandry; for experiments in animal Feeding, breeding, etc., experiments.feeding and breeding, including cooperation with the State agricultural experiment stations and other agencies, including repairs and additions to and erection of buildings absolutely necessary to carry on the experiments, including the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, rent outside the District of Columbia, and all other necessary expenses, $757,663, including $12,500 for livestock Big Springs, Tex., demonstrations, etc.experiments and demonstrations at Big Springs or elsewhere in Texas, to be available only when the State of Texas, or other Condition.cooperating agency in Texas shall have appropriated an equal amount or, in the opinion of the Secretary of Agriculture, shall have furnished its equivalent in value in cooperation for the same purpose *Proviso*.Poultry feeding, etc.during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936: *Provided*, That of the sum thus appropriated $231,180 may be used for experiments in poultry feeding and breeding, of which amount $40,000 may be used in cooperation with State authorities in the administration of regulations for the improvement of poultry, poultry products, and hatcheries. Animal disease investigations.Diseases of animals: For all necessary expenses for scientific investigations of diseases of animals, including the construction of Beltsville, Md., station.Bethesda, Md., station.necessary buildings at Beltsville, Maryland, the maintenance of the bureau experiment station at Bethesda, Maryland, and the necessary expenses for investigations of tuberculin, serums, antitoxins, and *Proviso*. Contagious abortion of animals.analogous products, $381,755: *Provided*, That of said sum $74,480 may be used for researches concerning the cause, modes of spread, and methods of treatment and prevention of the disease of contagious abortion of animals. Hog cholera investigations, etc.Eradicating hog cholera: For investigating the disease of hog cholera and related swine diseases, and for their control or eradication by such means as may be necessary, including demonstrations, the formation of organizations, and other methods, either independently or in cooperation with farmers’ associations, State or *Proviso*.Regulating trade in viruses, etc. Vol. 37, p. 832. [U. S. C., p. 931](/us/usc/p931).county authorities, $373,424: *Provided*, That of said sum $218,712 shall be available for expenditure in carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March 4, 1913 (U. S. C., title 21, secs. 151–158), regulating the preparation, sale, barter, exchange, or shipment of any 257virus, serum, toxin, or analogous product manufactured in the United States and the importation of such products intended for use in the treatment of domestic animals: *Provided further*, That of said sumPathological researches. $27,520 shall be available for researches concerning the cause, modes of spread, and methods of treatment and prevention of these diseases. Eradicating dourine: For all necessary expenses for theEradicating dourine. investigation, treatment, and eradication of dourine, $8,613. Packers and Stockyards Act: For necessary expenses in carryingPackers and Stockyards Act. Vol. 42, p. 159. [U. S. C., p. 125](/us/usc/p125). out the provisions of the Packers and Stockyards Act, approved August 15, 1921 (U. S. C., title 7, secs. 181–229), $331,879: *Provided*, That the Secretary of Agriculture may require reasonable*Provisos*. Bonds from agencies and dealers. bonds from every market agency and dealer, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe to secure the performance of their obligations, and whenever, after due notice and hearing, the Secretary finds any registrant is insolvent or has violated any provisions of said Act he may issue an order suspending such registrant for aSuspension for violation. reasonable specified period. Such order of suspension shall take effect within not less than five days, unless suspended or modified or set aside by the Secretary of Agriculture or a court of competent jurisdiction: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of AgricultureFee for inspecting brands. may, whenever necessary, authorize the charging and collection from owners of a reasonable fee for the inspection of brands appearing upon livestock subject to the provisions of the said Act for the purpose of determining the ownership of such livestock: *Provided further*, That such fee shall not be imposed except upon written requestNot imposed unless requested. made to the Secretary of Agriculture by the Board of Livestock Commissioners, or duly organized livestock association of the States from which such livestock have originated or been shipped to market. Meat inspection: For expenses in carrying out the provisions ofMeat inspection. Vol. 34, pp. 674, 1260. [U. S. C., p. 926](/us/usc/p926). the Meat Inspection Act of June 30, 1906 (U. S. C., title 21, sec. 95), as amended by the Act of March 4, 1907 (U. S. C., title 21, secs.Equine meat. Vol. 41, p. 241. [U. S. C., p. 923](/us/usc/p923). 71–94), as extended to equine meat by the Act of July 24, 1919 (U. S. C., title 21, sec. 96), and as authorized by section 2
(a)of theVol. 48, p. 1225. Act of June 26, 1934 (48 Stat. 1224), including the purchase of tags, labels, stamps, and certificates printed in course of manufacture, $5,355,135. eradication of foot-and-mouth and other contagious diseases of animalsContagious of diseases animals. In case of an emergency arising out of the existence of foot-and-mouthEmergency eradicating foot-and-mouth, etc., diseases. disease, rinderpest, contagious pleuropneumonia, or other contagious or infectious disease of animals, which, in the opinion of the Secretary of Agriculture, threatens the livestock industry of the country, he may expend, in the city of Washington or elsewhere, anyUse of balances. unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for this purpose in the arrest and eradication of any such disease, including the payment of claims growing out of past and future purchases andPayment for destroyed animals. destruction, in cooperation with the States, of animals affected by or exposed to, or of materials contaminated by or exposed to, any such disease, wherever found and irrespective of ownership, under like or substantially similar circumstances, when such owner has complied with all lawful quarantine regulations: *Provided*, That the*Proviso*. Appraisement based on meat, etc., value. payment for animals hereafter purchased may be made on appraisement based on the meat, dairy, or breeding value, but in case of appraisement based on breeding value no appraisement of any animal shall exceed three times its meat or dairy value, and, except in case of an extraordinary emergency, to be determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, the payment by the United States Government 258for any animals shall not exceed one-half of any such appraisements: *Provided further*, Eradicating European fowl pest. Vol. 43, p. 682.That the sum of $5,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $3,500,000, contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1924, approved December 5, 1924, for the eradication of the foot-and-mouth disease and other contagious or infectious diseases of animals, is hereby made available during the fiscal year 1936 to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to control and eradicate the European fowl pest and similar diseases in poultry. Total, Bureau of Animal Industry, $11,313,419, of which amount not to exceed $789,029 may be expended for departmental personal Services In the District.services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $55,325 shall Vehicles.be available for the purchase of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of field work outside the District of Columbia. Dairy Industry Bureau.BUREAU OF DAIRY INDUSTRY Salaries and expenses.salaries and expenses Vol. 43, p. 243. [U. S. C., p. 142](/us/usc/p142).For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved May 29, 1924 (U. S. C., title 7, secs. 401–104), establishing a Bureau of Dairying, for salaries in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and for all other necessary expenses, as follows: Administrative expenses.General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes, including the salary of the chief of bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $66,075. Investigations, demonstrations, etc.Dairy investigations: For conducting investigations, experiments, and demonstrations in dairy industry, cooperative investigations or the dairy industry in the various States, and inspection of renovated-butter factories, including repairs to buildings, not to exceed $5,000 for the construction of buildings, $570,104. Services in the District.Total, Bureau of Dairy Industry, $636,179, of which amount not to exceed $306,720 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Plant Industry Bureau.BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY Salaries and expenses.salaries and expenses Investigating fruits, plants, products, etc.For all necessary expenses in the investigation of fruits, fruit trees, grain, cotton, tobacco, vegetables, grasses, forage, drug, medicinal, poisonous, fiber, and other plants and plant industries in cooperation with other branches of the department, the State experiment stations, and practical farmers, and for the erection of necessary farm *Proviso*.Cost limit far buildings.Field, etc., expenses.buildings: *Provided*, That the cost of any building erected shall not exceed $1,500; for field and station expenses, including fences, drains, and other farm improvements; for repairs in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; for rent outside the District of Columbia; and for the employment of all investigators, local and special agents, agricultural explorers, experts, clerks, illustrators, assistants, and all labor and other necessary expenses in the city of Washington and elsewhere required for the investigations, experiments, and demonstrations herein authorized, as follows: Administrative expenses.General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes, including the salary of chief of bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $189,242. Arlington, Va., farm.Arlington Farm: For continuing the necessary improvements to establish and maintain a general experiment farm and agricultural 259station on the Arlington estate, in the State of Virginia, inVol. 31, p. 135. accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress approved April 18, 1900 (31 Stat., pp. 135, 136), $49,414: *Provided*, That the limitations*Proviso*.Cost limitation not applicable. in this Act as to the cost of farm buildings shall not apply to this paragraph. Botany: For investigation, improvement, and utilization of wildWild plants and grazing lands. plants and grazing lands, and for determining the distribution of weeds and means of their control, $76,635, of which $40,000 shall be expended for scientific investigation concerning control and eradication of bind weed and other noxious weeds. Cereal crops and diseases: For the investigation and improvementCereal crops and diseases, improvement, etc. of cereals, including corn, and methods of cereal production and for the study and control of cereal diseases, and for the investigation of the cultivation and breeding of flax for seed purposes, includingFlax, broomcorn, etc. a study of flax diseases, and for the investigation and improvement of broomcorn and methods of broom com production, $501,923. Cotton and other fiber crops and diseases: For investigation ofCotton production and diseases. the production of cotton and other fiber crops, including the improvement by cultural methods, breeding, and selection, fiber yield and quality, and the control of diseases, $406,435, of which sum not exceeding $15,000 shall be used for experimenting in Sea Island cotton, including its hybridization with other varieties. Drug and related plants: For the investigation, testing, andDrug, etc., plants. improvement of plants yielding drugs, spices, poisons, oils, and related products and byproducts, $47,139. Dry-land agriculture : For the investigation and improvement ofDry-land agriculture. methods of crop production under subhumid, semiarid, or dry-land conditions, $215,578: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation*Proviso*.New field stations forbidden. shall be used for the establishment of any new field station. Experimental greenhouse maintenance: For maintenance andExperimental greenhouse. operation of experimental greenhouses and adjacent experimental grounds and plots, $78,632. Forage crops and diseases: For the purchase, propagation, testingForage crops and diseases. and distribution of new and rare seeds; for the investigation and improvement of grasses, alfalfa, clover, and other forage crops, including the investigation and control of diseases, $290,346. Forest pathology: For the investigation of diseases of forest andForest pathology. ornamental trees and shrubs, including a study of the nature and habits of the parasitic fungi causing the chestnut-tree bark disease, the white-pine blister rust, and other epidemic tree diseases, for the purpose or discovering new methods of control and applying methods of eradication or control already discovered, and including $127,357Vol. 45, p. 701. [U. S. C., p. 672](/us/usc/p672). for investigations of diseases of forest trees and forest products, under section 3 of the Act approved May 22, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 16, sec. 581b), $252,092. Fruit and vegetable crops and diseases: For investigation andFruit and vegetable crops and diseases. control of diseases, for improvement of methods of culture, propagation, breeding selection, and related activities concerned with the production of fruits, nuts, vegetables, ornamentals, and related plants, for investigation of methods of harvesting, packing, shipping, storing, and utilizing these products, and for studies of the physiological and related changes of such products during processes of marketing and while in commercial storage, $1,151,192. Genetics and biophysics: For biophysical investigations inGenetics and biophysics. connection with the various lines of work herein authorized, $31,675. Mycology and disease survey: For mycological collections and thePlant disease survey, etc. maintenance of a plant-disease survey, $42,818. 260 National Arboretum.Vol. 44, p. 1422.[U. S. C., p. 914](/us/usc/p914).National Arboretum: For the maintenance of the National Arboretum established under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a National Arboretum, and for other purposes”, approved March 4, 1927 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 20, secs. 191–194), including the erection of buildings, salaries in the city of Washington and elsewhere, traveling expenses of employees and advisory council, and other necessary expenses, $19,307, of which such amounts as may be necessary may Landscape architects.be expended by contract or otherwise for the services of consulting landscape architects without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, or civil service rules. Nematology.Nematology: For crop technological investigations, including the study of plant-infesting nematodes, $43,961. Plant exploration and Introduction.Plant exploration and introduction: For investigations in seed and plant introduction, including the study, collection, purchase, testing, propagation, and distribution of rare and valuable seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants from foreign countries and from our possessions, and for experiments with reference to their introduction and cultivation in this country, $204,483. Plant nutrition investigations.Reserve stations, investigations, etc.Plant nutrition: For plant-nutrition investigations, $16,024. Plant reserve stations: For investigations and production of plants for revegetation, soil protection, and related purposes, including the study, collection, purchase, testing, improvement, propagation, distribution and utilization of trees, shrubs, grasses, and other plants, and the maintenance of supplies of promising plants for revegetation, soil protection, and related uses, $483,198. Rubber, etc., plants.Rubber and other tropical plants: For investigation of crops, from tropical regions, and for the study and improvement of rubber plants by cultural methods, breeding, acclimatization, adaptation, and selection, and for investigation of their diseases, $46,749. Seed investigations.Testing commercial seeds and grasses.Seed investigations: For studying and testing commercial seeds, including the testing of samples of seeds of grasses, clover, or alfalfa, and lawn-grass seeds secured in the open market, and where such samples are found to be adulterated or misbranded the results of the tests shall be published together with the names of the persons by whom the seeds were offered for sale, and for carrying out the Preventing admission, etc. Vol. 37, p. 506; Vol. 44, p. 325. [U. S. C., p. 117](/us/usc/p117).provisions of the Act approved August 24, 1912 (U. S. C., title 7, secs. 111–114), entitled “An Act to regulate foreign commerce by prohibiting the admission into the United States of certain adulterated grain and seeds unfit for seeding purposes”, as amended by the Act approved April 26, 1926 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 7, secs. 111, *Proviso*.International Seed Testing Congress.115, 116), $67,293: *Provided*, That not to exceed $250 of this amount may be used for meeting the share of the United States in the expenses of the International Seed Testing Congress in carrying out plans for correlating the work of the various adhering governments on problems relating to seed analysis or other subjects which the congress may determine to be necessary in the interest of international seed trade. Soil fertility investigations.Soilfertility investigations: For soil investigations into causes of infertility; maintenance of productivity; effects of soil composition, cultural methods, fertilizers, and soil amendments on yield and quality of crops; and the properties, composition, formation, and transformation of soil organic matter, $172,157. Soil microbiology Investigations.Soil microbiology investigations: For investigations of the microorganisms of the soil and their activities, including the testing of Inoculating legumes, etc.samples procured in the open market, of cultures for inoculating legumes, other crops, or soil, and the publication of results, and if any such samples are found to be impure, nonviable, or misbranded, the results of the tests may be published, together with the names 261of the manufacturers and of the persons by whom the cultures were offered for sale, $39,854. Sugar-plant investigations: For sugar-plant investigations,Sugar plant investigations. including studies of diseases and the improvement of sugar beets and sugar-beet seed, $312,079. Tobacco investigations: For the investigation and improvementTobacco investigations. of tobacco and the methods of tobacco production and handling, $137,744. Western irrigation agriculture: For investigations in connectionWestern irrigation agriculture.Utilizing reclaimed lands. with western irrigation agriculture, the utilization of lands reclaimed under the Reclamation Act, and other areas in the arid and semiarid regions, $122,527. Total, Bureau of Plant Industry, $4,998,497, of which amount not toServices in the District. exceed $1,691,221 may be expended for departmental personal services in the District of Columbia and not to exceed $15,675 shall be available for the purchase of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of field work outside the District of Columbia. FOREST SERVICEForest Service. salaries and expensesGeneral expenses. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to experiment and to makeExperiments, etc.*Post*, p. 1617. and continue investigations and report on forestry, national forests, forest fires, and lumbering, but no part of this appropriation shallRestricted to United States. be used for any experiment or test made outside the jurisdiction of the United States; to advise the owners of woodlands as to the proper care of the same; to investigate and test American timber and timber trees and their uses, and methods for the preservative treatment of timber; to seek, through investigations and the planting of native and foreign species, suitable trees for the treeless regions; to erect necessary buildings: *Provided*, That the cost of any*Provisos*.Cost of buildings. building purchased, erected, or as improved, exclusive of the cost of constructing a water-supply or sanitary system and of connecting the same with any such building, and exclusive of the cost of any tower upon which a lookout house may be erected, shall not exceed $2,500; to pay all expenses necessary to protect, administer, and improveProtecting, etc., national forests. the national forests, including tree planting in the forest reserves to prevent erosion, drift, surface wash, and soil waste and the formation of floods, and including the payment of rewards under regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture for information leading to the arrest and conviction for violation of the laws and regulations' relating to fires in or near national forests, or for the unlawful taking of, or injury to Government property; to ascertain the natural conditions upon and utilize the national forests, to transport andCare of fish and game. care for fish and game supplied to stock the national forests or the waters therein; to employ agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor required in practical forestry and in the administration of national forests in the city of Washington and elsewhere; to collate, digest, report, and illustrate the results of experiments and investigations made by the Forest Service; to purchase necessary supplies,Supplies, etc. apparatus, office fixtures, law books, reference and technical books and technical journals for officers of the Forest Service stationed outside of Washington, and for medical supplies and services and other assistance necessary for the immediate relief of artisans, laborers, and other employees engaged in any hazardous work under the Forest Service: *Provided further*, That the appropriations for theWarehouse maintenance. work of the Forest Service shall be available for meeting the expenses of warehouse maintenance and the procurement, care, and handling 262of supplies and materials stored therein for distribution to projects under the supervision of the Forest Service and for sale and distribution to other Government activities, the cost of such supplies and materials, including the cost of supervision, transportation, and handling, to be reimbursed to appropriations current at the time additional supplies and materials are procured for warehouse stocks from the appropriations chargeable with the cost of stock issued; to pay freight, express, telephone, and telegraph charges; for electric light and power, fuel, gas, ice, and washing towels, and official traveling and other necessary expenses, including traveling expenses for legal Outside rent.and fiscal officers while performing Forest Service work; and for rent outside the District of Columbia, as follows: Chief Forester and office personnel.General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes, including the salary of the Chief Forester and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $358,300. National forests.national forest administration Administrative, etc., expenses.For the administration, protection, and development of the national forests, including the compensation and traveling expenses of field personnel; the purchase or materials, supplies, and equipment; the establishment and maintenance of forest tree nurseries, including the procurement of tree seed and nursery stock by purchase, production, or otherwise, seeding and tree planting and the care of plantations and young growth; the maintenance and operation of aerial fire control by contract or otherwise, but not including the purchase of landing fields or aircraft; the maintenance of roads and trails and the construction and maintenance of all other improvements necessary for the proper and economical administration, protection, development, and use of the national forests: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Direct purchases.That where, in the opinion of the Secretary of Agriculture, direct purchases will be more economical than construction, improvements may be purchased; the construction and maintenance of sanitary facilities and for fire preventive and other measures incident to recreational developments and use; control of destructive forest tree diseases and insects; timber cultural operations; development and application of fish and game management plans; propagation and transplanting of plants suitable for planting on semi-arid portions Lands opened to entry, etc.of the national forests; estimating and appraising of timber and other resources and development and application of plans for their effective management, sale and use; examination, classification, surveying, and appraisal of land incident to effecting exchanges authorized by law and of lands within the boundaries of the national forests that may be opened to homestead settlement and entry Vol. 34, p. 233; Vol. 37, [a-z]p. 287, 842.[U. S. C., pp. 664, 665](/us/usc/pp664/665).under the Act of June 11, 1906 (U. S. C., title 16, secs. 506–509), and the Act of August 10, 1912 (U. S. C., title 16, sec. 506), as provided by the Act of March 4, 1913 (U. S. C., title 16, sec. 512), and all other expenses necessary for the use, maintenance, improvement, Purchase or acquisition.Vol. 36, p. 963; Vol. 43, p. 655; [U. S. C., pp, 657–670](/us/usc/pp657–670).protection, and general administration of the national forests and lands under contract for purchase or for the acquisition of which condemnation proceedings have been instituted under the Act of March 1, 1911 (U.S.C., title 16, sec. 521), and the Act of June 7, 1924 (U. S. C., title 16, secs. 471, 499, 505, 564–570). Allotments.In national forest region 1, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and *Proviso*.Care of graves of fire fighters.South Dakota, $1,424,678: *Provided*, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to use not to exceed $200 in caring for the graves of fire fighters buried at Wallace, Idaho; Newport, Washington; and Saint Maries, Idaho; 263 In national forest region 2, Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Oklahoma, $737,408: *Provided*, That not to exceed*Provisos*.Longborned cattle, Wichita National Forest. $1,000 of this appropriation may be expended for the maintenance of the herd of longhorned cattle on the Wichita National Forest; In national forest region 3, Arizona and New Mexico, $618,279; In national forest region 4, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, and Colorado, $873,047; In national forest region 5, California and Nevada, $1,252,630; In national forest region 6, Washington, Oregon, and California, $1,274,647; In national forest region 7, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, New Hampshire, Maine, Puerto Rico, Kentucky, and Vermont, $417,607; In national forest region 8, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas, $743,945; In national forest region 9, Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin, $566,527: *Provided*, ThatCass Lake, Minn., repair, etc., of dam. not to exceed $1,000 of this appropriation may be used for the repair and maintenance of the dam at Cass Lake, Minnesota; In national forest region 10, Alaska, $100,809; In all, for the use, maintenance, improvement, protection, andAggregate.*Provisos*.Interchangeable funds for fire protection. general administration of the national forests, $8,009,577: *Provided*, That the foregoing amounts appropriated for such purposes shall be available interchangeably in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture for the necessary expenditures for fire protection and other unforeseen exigencies: *Provided further*, That the amounts soLimitation. interchanged shall not exceed in the aggregate 10 per centum of all the amounts so appropriated. Fighting forest fires: For fighting and preventing forest fires onFighting forest fires.*Post*, p. 1115. or threatening the national forests and for the establishment and maintenance of a patrol to prevent trespass and to guard against and check fires upon the lands revested in the United States by theRevested Oregon California lands, etc.Vol. 39, p. 218. Act approved June 9, 1916 (39 Stat., p. 218), and the lands known as the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands involved in the case of Southern Oregon Company against United States (numbered 2711), in the Circuit Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit, $100,000, which amount shall be immediately available. forest researchForest research. For forest research in accordance with the provisions of sectionsDevelopment of timber, etc.Vol. 45, p. 699.[U. S. C., p. 672](/us/usc/p672). 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, and 10 of the Act entitled “An Act to insure adequate supplies of timber and other forest products for the people of the United States, to promote the full use for timber growing and other purposes of forest lands in the United States, including farm wood lots and those abandoned areas not suitable for agricultural production, and to secure the correlation and the most economical conduct of forest research in the Department of Agriculture through research in reforestation, timber growing, protection, utilization, forest economics, and related subjects”, approved May 22, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 16, secs. 581, 581a, 581f-581i), as follows: Forest management: Fire, silvicultural, and other forestForest management.Vol. 45, p. 701. investigations and experiments under section 2, at forest experiment stations or elsewhere. $504,494. Range investigations: Investigations and experiments to developManagement of ranges, etc.Vol. 45, p. 701. improved methods of management of forest and other ranges under section 7, at forest or range experiment stations or elsewhere, $154,435. 264 Forest products experiments.Vol. 45, p. 701.Forest products: Experiments, investigations, and tests of forest products under section 8, at the Forest Products Laboratory, or elsewhere, $508,361. Forest survey. Vol. 45, p. 701.Forest survey: A comprehensive forest survey under section 9, $250,000. Forest economics. Vol. 45, p. 702.Forest economics: Investigations in forest economics under section 10, $73,295. Aggregate; additional, from cooperative forest fund contributions.In all, salaries and expenses, $9,958,462; and in addition thereto there are hereby appropriated all moneys received as contributions toward cooperative work under the provisions of section 1 of the Vol. 43. p. 1132. [U. S. C., p. 670](/us/usc/p670). Vol. 38, p. 430. [U. S. C., p. 663](/us/usc/p663).Act approved March 3, 1925 (U. S. C., title 16, sec. 572), which funds shall be covered into the Treasury and constitute a part of the special funds provided by the Act of June 30, 1914 (U. S. C., *Provisos*.Services in the District.title 16, sec. 498): *Provided*, That not to exceed $485,244 may be expended for departmental personal services in the District of International Union of Forefit Research Stations, contribution.Columbia: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $1,000 may be expended for the contribution of the United States to the cost of the office of the secretariat of the International Union of Forest Research Stations. Forest-fire prevention.forest-fire cooperation Cooperation with States, etc.For cooperation with the various States or other appropriate agencies in forest-fire prevention and suppression and the protection of timbered and cut-over lands in accordance with the provisions of Vol. 43, p. 653. [U. S. C., p. 669](/us/usc/p669).sections 1, 2, and 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the protection of forest lands, for the reforestation of denuded areas, for the extension of national forests, and for other purposes, in order to promote continuous production of timber on lands chiefly valuable therefor”, approved June 7, 1924 (U. S. C., title 16, secs. 564–570), Tax laws and timber insurance.as amended, including also the study of the effect of tax laws and the investigation of timber insurance as provided in section 3 of said Act, $1,578,632, of which $23,788 shall be available for departmental Services In the District.Supplies and equipment.personal services in the District of Columbia and not to exceed $1,500 for the purchase of supplies and equipment required for the purposes of said Act in the District of Columbia. Forest planting stock.cooperative distribution of forest planting stock Cooperation with States, etc., in reforestation.For cooperation with the various States in the procurement, production, and distribution of forest-tree seeds and plants in establishing windbreaks, shelter belts, and farm wood lots upon denuded or nonforested lands within such cooperating States, under the provisions Vol. 43, p. 654 [U. S. C., p. 669](/us/usc/p669).of section 4 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the protection of forest lands, for the reforestation of denuded areas, for the extension of national forests, and for other purposes, in order to promote the continuous production of timber on lands chiefly suitable therefor”, approved June 7, 1924 (U. S. C., title 16, sec. 567), and Acts supplementary thereto, $56,379, of which amount not to Services in the District.exceed $1,000 may be expended for departmental personal services in the District of Columbia. National Forest Reservation Commission.national forest reservation commission Salaries and expenses. Vol. 36, p. 962. [U. S. C., p. 665](/us/usc/p665).For the necessary expenses of the National Forest Reservation Commission established by section 4 of the Act approved March 1, 1911, and authorized by section 14 of said Act, including the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $7,500. Vehicles.Total, Forest Service, $11,600,973, of which amount not to exceed $41,885 shall be available for the purchase of motor-propelled and 265horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of field work outside the District of Columbia, and in addition thereto there is authorized for expenditure from funds provided for carrying out the provisions of the Federal Highway Act of Vol. 42, p. 217. [U. S. C., p. 972](/us/usc/p972). November 9, 1921 (U. S. C., title 23, secs. 21, 23), not to exceed $7,425 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for use by the Forest Service in the construction and maintenance of national forest roads. BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY AND SOILSChemistry and Soils Bureau. salaries and expensesGeneral expenses. For all necessary expenses connected with the investigations,Investigations, demonstrations, etc. experiments, and demonstrations hereinafter authorized, independently or in cooperation with other branches of the Department of Agriculture, other departments or agencies of the Federal Government, States, State agricultural experiment stations, universities and other State agencies and institutions, counties, municipalities, business or other organizations and corporations, individuals,Employees, etc. associations, and scientific societies, including the employment of necessary persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere; rent outside the District of Columbia, and other necessary supplies and expenses, and for erection, alteration, and repair of buildings outside the District of Columbia at a total cost not to exceed $5,000, as follows: General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses forGeneral administrative expenses. general administrative purposes, including the salary of chief of bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $90,241. Agricultural chemical investigations: For conducting theChemical investigations.Vol. 12. p. 387.[U. S. C., p. 74](/us/usc/p74). investigations contemplated by the Act of May 15, 1862 (U. S. C., title 5, secs. 511, 512), relating to the application of chemistry to agriculture; for the biological, chemical, physical, microscopical, andBiological, etc., Investigations. technological investigation of foods, feeds, drugs, and insecticides and substances used in the manufacture thereof, including investigations of the physiological effects of such products; for the investigation and development of methods for the manufacture of sugars andMethods of sugar manufacture, etc. sugar sirups and the utilization of new agricultural materials for such purposes; for investigation of the action and changes produced by microorganisms, including molds and fungi; for investigation and development of methods for the utilization of agriculturalUtilizing wastes, etc. wastes and residues, in cooperation with the Bureau of Standards, Department of Commerce, without duplication of work; for investigation and development of methods for the prevention of heating of agricultural products and the prevention of farm fires and fires in cotton gins, cotton-oil mills, grain elevators, and other structures, and to cooperate with associations and scientific societies in the Cooperation with scientific, etc., societies.development of methods of analysis, $383,930. Color investigations: For investigation and experiment in theUtilizing raw materials for colorants, etc. utilization, for coloring, medicinal, and technical purposes, of raw materials grown or produced in the United States, $69,757. Plant dust explosions: For the investigation and development ofPlant dust explosions. methods for the prevention of grain-dust, smut-dust, and other dustMethods for preventing. explosions not otherwise provided for and resulting fires, including fires in cotton gins, cotton-oil mills, and grain elevators, $34,881. Naval stores investigations: For the investigation andNaval stores investigations. demonstration of improved methods or processes of preparing naval stores, the weighing, handling, transportation, and the uses of same, $76,741. Fertilizer investigations: For investigations within the UnitedFertilizers. States of fertilizers, fertilizer ingredients, including phosphoric acid 266and potash, and other soil amendments and their suitability for agricultural use, $269,595. Soil types, composition, etc., investigations.Soil chemical and physical investigations: For chemical, physical, and physical-chemical investigations of soil types, soil composition, and soil minerals, the soil solution, solubility of soil, and all chemical and physical properties of soils in their relation to soil formation, soil texture, erosibility, and soil productivity, $68,081. Soil survey.Soil survey : For the investigation of soils and their origin, for survey of the extent of classes and types, and for indicating upon maps and plats, by coloring or otherwise, the results of such investigations and surveys, $286,208, of which $10,000 shall be immediately available. Services in the District.Vehicles.Total, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, $1,279,434, of which amount not to exceed $963,646 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $1,770 shall be available for the purchase of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of field work outside the District of Columbia. Entomology and Plant Quarantine Bureau.Salaries and expenses.BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE salaries and expenses Investigations, etc., of insects.For necessary expenses connected with investigations, experiments, and demonstrations for the promotion of economic entomology, for investigating and Plant Quarantine Act, enforcement.Vol. 37, p. 315; Vol. 39, p. 1165; Vol. 44, p. 250.[U. S. C., p. 122](/us/usc/p122).ascertaining the best means of destroying insects and related pests injurious to agriculture, for investigating and importing useful and beneficial insects and bacterial, fungal, and other diseases of insects and related pests, for investigating and ascertaining the best means of destroying insects affecting man and animals, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912, as amended, to conduct other activities hereinafter authorized, and for the eradication, control, and prevention of spread of injurious insects and plant pests; independently or in cooperation with other branches of the Federal Government, States, counties, municipalities, corporations, agencies, individuals, or with foreign governments; including the employment of necessary persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, rent, construction, or repair of *Proviso*.Cost of buildings.necessary buildings outside the District of Columbia : *Provided*, That the cost for the construction of any building shall not exceed $1,500, and that the total amount expended for such construction in any one year shall not exceed $7,000, as follows: General administrative expenses.General administrative expenses : For general administrative purposes, including the salary of chief of bureau and other personal services, $162,288. Fruit insects.Fruit insects: For insects affecting fruits, grapes, and nuts, $399,531. Japanese beetle.Japanese beetle control: For the control and prevention of spread of the Japanese beetle, $350,000. Mexican fruit fly.Mexican fruit fly control: For the control and prevention of spread of the Mexican fruit fly, including necessary surveys and control operations in Mexico in cooperation with the Mexican Government or local Mexican authorities, $140,460. Citrus canker eradication.Citrus-canker eradication: For determining and applying such methods of eradication or control of the disease of citrus trees known as “citrus canker” as in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture may be necessary, including cooperation with such authorities of the States concerned, organizations of growers, or individuals, as 267he may deem necessary to accomplish such purposes, $13,485:*Proviso*.No indemnity for destroyed trees. *Provided*, That no part or the money herein appropriated shall be used to pay the cost or value of trees or other property injured or destroyed. Phony-peach eradication: For determining and applying suchPhony-peach eradication. methods of eradication, control, and prevention of spread of the disease of peach trees known as “phony peach” as in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture may be necessary, including cooperation with such authorities of the States concerned, organizations of growers, or individuals, as he may deem necessary to accomplish such purposes, including the certification of products out of the infested areas to meet the requirements of State quarantines, $49,828:*Proviso*.No indemnity for destroyed trees. *Provided*, That no part of the money herein appropriated shall be used to pay the cost or value of trees or other property injured or destroyed. Date scale control: For the control and prevention of spread ofDate scale control. Parlatoria date scale, $24,856. Forest insects: For insects affecting forests and forest products,Forest insects.Preventing infestation, etc.Vol. 45, p. 701.[U. S. C., p. 672](/us/usc/p672). under section 4 of the Act approved May 22, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 16, sec. 581c), entitled “An Act to insure adequate supplies of timber and other forest products for the people of the United States, to promote the full use for timber growing and other purposes of forest lands in the United States, including farm wood lots and those abandoned areas not suitable for agricultural production, and to secure the correlation and the most economical conduct of forest research in the Department of Agriculture, through research in reforestation, timber growing, protection, utilization, forest economics, and related subjects”, and for insects affecting ornamental trees and shrubs, $160,015, of which $1,000 shall be immediately available. Gypsy and brown-tail moth control: For the control andGypsy and brown-tail moth control. prevention of spread of the gypsy and brown-tail moths, $400,000. Blister rust control: For applying such methods of eradication,Blister met control. control, and prevention of spread of the white pine blister rust as in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture may be necessary to accomplish such purposes, and in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture no expenditures shall be made for these purposes until a sum or sums at least equal to such expenditures shall have been appropriated, subscribed, or contributed by State, county, or local authorities, or by individuals or organizations concerned, $250,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay*Proviso*.No indemnity for destroyed trees. the cost or value of trees or other property injured or destroyed. Dutch elm disease eradication : For control and prevention ofDutch elm disease, eradication. spread of the Dutch elm disease in the United States, $261,156, to be immediately available : *Provided*, That no part of this*Proviso*.No indemnity for destroyed trees. appropriation shall be used to pay the cost or value of trees or other property injured or destroyed. Truck crop and garden insects: For insects affecting truck crops,Truck and garden crops. ornamental, and garden plants, including tobacco, sugar beets, and greenhouse and bulbous crops, $361,418. Cereal and forage insects: For insects affecting cereal and forageCereal and forage insects.*Post*, p. 581.Mormon cricket control. crops, including sugarcane and rice, and including research on the European corn borer, $347,229, including not exceeding $15,000 for investigation of the means of control of the Mormon cricket. European corn borer control: For the control and prevention ofEuropean corn borer. spread of the European corn borer and for the certification of products out of the infested areas to meet the requirements of State quarantines on account of the European corn borer, $32,939. 268 Barberry eradication.Barberry eradication: For the eradication of the common barberry and for applying such other methods of eradication, control and prevention of spread of cereal rusts as in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture may be necessary to accomplish such purposes, *Provisos*.Local contributions required.$200,000: *Provided*, That $30,000 of this amount shall be available for expenditure only when an equal amount shall have been appropriated, subscribed, or contributed by States, counties, or local authorities, or by individuals or organizations for the accomplishment No indemnity for property destroyed.of such purposes: *Provided further*, That no part of the money herein appropriated shall be used to pay the cost or value of property injured or destroyed. Cotton insects.Cotton insects: For insects affecting cotton, $147,244. Pink bollworm control.Pink bollworm control : For the control and prevention of spread of the pink bollworm, including the establishment of such cotton-free areas as may be necessary to stamp out any infestation, and for Cooperation with Mexico.necessary surveys and control operations in Mexico in cooperation with the Mexican Government or local Mexican authorities, $276,839. Thurberia weevil.Thurberia weevil control: For the control and prevention of spread of the Thurberia weevil, $2,808. Bee culture.Bee culture: For bee culture and apiary management, $68,000. Insects affecting man and animals.Insects affecting man and animals : For insects affecting man, household possessions, and animals, $120,148. Identification and classification of insects.Insect pest survey and identification: For the identification and classification of insects, including taxonomic, morphological, and related phases of insect-pest control, the importation and exchange of useful insects, and the maintenance of an insect pest survey for Disseminating information.the collection and dissemination of information to Federal, State, and other agencies concerned with insect-pest control, $134,798. Control investigations.Control investigations : For developing equipment or apparatus to aid in enforcing plant quarantines, eradication and control of plant pests, determining methods of disinfecting plants and plant products to eliminate injurious pests, determining the toxicity of insecticides, and related phases of insect pest control, $62,518. Insecticide and fungicide investigations.Insecticide and fungicide investigations: For the investigation and development of methods of manufacturing insecticides and fungicides, and for investigating chemical problems relating to the composition, action, and application of insecticides and fungicides, $168,984. Transit inspection.Vol. 37, p. 315; Vol. 44, p. 250; Vol. 45, p. 468.[U. S. C., p. 123](/us/usc/p123).Transit inspection: For the inspection in transit or otherwise of articles quarantined under the Act of August 20, 1912 (U. S. C., Supp. VII title 7, secs. 161, 164a), as amended, and for the interception and disposition of materials found to have been transported interstate in violation of quarantines promulgated thereunder, $29,059. Foreign plant quarantines.Foreign plant quarantines : For enforcement of foreign plant quarantines, at the port of entry and/or port of export, and to prevent Mexican cotton, etc.the movement of cotton and cottonseed from Mexico into the United States, including the regulation of the entry into the United States of railway cars and other vehicles, and freight, express, baggage, or Cleaning, etc.other materials from Mexico, and the inspection, cleaning, and disinfection thereof, including construction and repair of necessary buildings, plants, and equipment, for the fumigation, disinfection, or cleaning of products, railway cars, or other vehicles entering the *Proviso*.Receipts covered in.United States from Mexico, $625,956: *Provided*, That any moneys received in payment of charges fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture on account of such cleaning and disinfection shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Export inspection and certification.Certification of exports: For the inspection, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe, of 269domestic plants and plant products when offered for export and to certify to shippers and interested parties as to the freedom of such products from injurious plant diseases and insect pests according to the sanitary requirements of the foreign countries affected and to make such reasonable charges and to use such means as may be necessary to accomplish this object, $31,862: *Provided*, That moneys*Proviso*.Receipts covered in. received on account of such inspection and certification shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Chinchbug control: For the application of such methods ofChinchbug control. control of chinch bugs as, in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture, may be necessary, in cooperation with authorities of the States concerned, organizations, or individuals, to accomplish such purposes, printing and binding, and for other expenses, to be immediately available and to remain available until December 31, 1935, $2,500,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for*Proviso*.Use of fund.Vol. 48, p. 926. expenditures of general administration and supervision, purchase and transportation of materials used for the control of chinch bugs, and such other expenses as in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture may be deemed necessary, and that the cooperating State shall be responsible for the local distribution and utilization of such materials on privately owned lands, including full labor costs: *Provided further*, That, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture,State cooperation required. no part of this appropriation shall be expended for chinchbug control in any State until such State has provided the necessary organization for the cooperation herein indicated: *Provided further*, That procurements under this appropriation may be made byOpen market purchases.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[U. S. C., p. 1803](/us/usc/p1803).Payments forbidden. open-market purchases notwithstanding the provisions of section 3709 Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec, 5): *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay the cost or value of farm animals, farm crops, or other property injured or destroyed. Screw worm control: For the determination and application ofScrew worm control. such methods of contol11So in original. of screw worms as, in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture, may be necessary, in cooperation with authorities of the States concerned, organizations, or individuals to accomplish such purposes; printing and binding; traveling expenses; research, education, and demonstration; purchase and transportation of materials; construction of treating pens and chutes, and such other expenses as may be deemed necessary, to be immediately available and to remain available until June 30, 1936, $480,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Responsibility in handling, etc., livestock. That the cooperating State, organization or individual shall be responsible for the handling and treatment of livestock, including full labor costs: *Provided further*, That, in the discretion of theLocal cooperation. Secretary of Agriculture, no part of this appropriation shall be expended for control of screw worms in any State until such State or organization or individuals therein have made provision for cooperation satisfactory to him: *Provided further*, That no partNo payment for property destroyed, etc. of this appropriation shall be used to pay the cost or value of animals, farm crops, or other property injured or destroyed: *Provided further*, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41,Minor purchases.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[U. S. C., p. 1803](/us/usc/p1803). sec. 5) shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service under this appropriation when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $100. Total, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, $7,801,421,Sendees in the District. of which amount not to exceed $828,749 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $44,375Vehicles. shall be available for the purchase of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of field work outside the District of Columbia. 270 Biological Survey Bureau.BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY General expenses.salaries and expenses Salaries, supplies, etc.For salaries and employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, furniture, supplies, including the purchase of bags, tags, and labels printed in the course of manufacture} traveling, and all other expenses necessary in conducting investigations and carrying out the work of the Bureau, including cooperation with Federal, State, county, or other agencies or with farm bureaus, organizations, or individuals, as follows: General administrative expenses.General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes, including the salary of chief of bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $79,595. Mammal and bird reservations.Montana bison range.Maintenance of mammal and bird reservations: For the maintenance of the Montana National Bison Range and other reservations and for the maintenance of game introduced into suitable localities on public lands, under supervision of the Biological Survey, including construction of fencing, wardens’ quarters, shelters for animals, landings, roads, trails, bridges, ditches, telephone lines, rockwork, bulkheads, and other improvements necessary for the economical Protection of reserves.Vol. 35, p. 1104; Vol. 43, p. 98.[U. S. C., p. 731](/us/usc/p731).Vol. 45, p. 1221.[U. S. C., p. 688](/us/usc/p688).administration and protection of the reservations, and for the enforcement of section 84 of the Act approved March 4, 1909 (U. S. C., title 18, see. 145), entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States”, and Acts amendatory thereto, and section 10 of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act of February *Proviso*.Game for reserves.18, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 16, sec. 715i), $56,727: *Provided*, That $2,500 may be used for the purchase, capture, and transportation of game for national reservations. Food habits of birds and animals.Food habits of birds and animals: For investigating the food habits and economic value of North American birds and animals in relation to agriculture, horticulture, and forestry, including methods of conserving beneficial and controlling injurious birds and animals, $60,640. Control of predatory animals, etc.Control of predatory animals and injurious rodents: For investigations, demonstrations, and cooperation in destroying animals injurious to agriculture, horticulture, forestry, animal husbandry, and wild game; and in protecting stock and other domestic animals through the suppression of rabies and other diseases in predatory wild animals, $600,000. Fur-bearing animals.Investigating production, etc.Production of fur-bearing animals: For investigations, experiments, demonstrations, and cooperation in connection with the production and utilization of fur-bearing animals raised for meat and fur, in the United States and Alaska, $56,112. Biological Investigations.Biological investigations: For biological investigations, including the relations, habits, geographic distribution, and migration of animals and plants, and the preparation of maps of the life zones, and including $15,738 for investigations of the relations of wild animal Vol. 45, p. 701.[U. S. C., p. 672](/us/usc/p672).life to forests, under section 5 of the Act approved May 22, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 16, sec. 581d), and for investigations, experiments, and demonstrations in the establishment, improvement, Reindeer, musk oxen, and mountain sheep in Alaska.and increase of the reindeer industry and of musk oxen and mountain sheep in Alaska, including the erection of necessary buildings, and other structures, $118,149. Migratory bird taction.Vol. 40. p. 755.[U. S. C., p. 686](/us/usc/p686).Vol. 39, p. 1702.Protection of migratory birds: For al] necessary expenses for enforcing the provisions of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (U. S. C., title 16, secs. 703–711), to carry into effect the treaty with Great Britain for the protection of birds migrating between 271the United States and Canada (39 Stat. pt. 2, p. 1702) , and for cooperation with local authorities in the protection of migratory birds, and for necessary investigations connected therewith, $222,978:*Proviso*.Traffic in injurious, etc., birds.Vol. 35, p. 1137.[U. S. C., p. 753](/us/usc/p753). *Provided*, That of this sum not more than $20,500 may be used for the enforcement of sections 241, 242, 243, and 244 of the Act approved March 4, 1909 (U. S. C., title 18, secs. 391–394), entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States”, and for the enforcement of section 1 of the Act approved May 25,Carrying illegally killed game.Vol. 31, p. 187.[U. S. C., p. 686](/us/usc/p686). 1900 (U. S. C., title 16, sec. 701), entitled “An Act to enlarge the powers of the Department of Agriculture, prohibit the transportation by interstate commerce of game killed in violation of local laws, and for other purposes”, including all necessary investigations in connection therewith. Enforcement of Alaska game law: For the enforcement of theEnforcing Alaska game law.Vol. 43, p. 739; Vol. 46, p. 1111.[U. S. C., p. 2119](/us/usc/p2119). provisions of the Alaska game law, approved January 13, 1925 (U. S. C., title 48, secs. 192–211), and as amended by the Act of February 14, 1931 (46 Stat., pp. 1111–1115), $96,596. Upper Mississippi River refuge: For the acquisition of areas ofUpper Mississippi River Refuge.Acquiring areas for. Vol. 43, pp. 650, 1354.[U. S. C., p. 690](/us/usc/p690). land or land and water pursuant to the Act entitled “An Act to establish the Upper Mississippi River Wildlife and Fish Refuge”, approved June 7, 1924 (U. S. C., title 16, secs. 721–731), as amended, and for all necessary expenses incident thereto, including the employment of persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $1,943, which shall be available until expended, being part of the sum of $1,500,000 authorized to be appropriated for such purpose by section 10 of said Act; and for all necessary expenses of the Secretary of Agriculture authorized by section 9 of said Act, $34,683; in all, $36,626. Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge: For administration andBear River Migratory Bird Refuge.Maintenance, etc.Vol. 45, p. 448.[U. S. C., p. 684](/us/usc/p684).Vol. 45, p. 1186. maintenance of the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge established under the Act approved April 23, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 16, secs. 690–69011), and the resolution approved February 15, 1929 (45 Stat., p. 1186), including the construction of necessary buildings and for personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere. $16,559. Migratory bird conservation refuges: For carrying into effect theMigratory bird conservation refuges.Vol. 39, p. 1702. provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to more effectively meet the obligations of the United States under the migratory-bird treaty with Great Britain (39 Stat., pt. 2, p. 1702) by lessening the dangers threatening migratory game birds from drainage and other causes by the acquisition of areas of land and water to furnish inAcquiring areas. perpetuity reservation for the adequate protection of such birds; and authorizing appropriations for the establishment of such areas, their maintenance and improvement, and for other purposes”, approved February 18, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 16, secs.Vol. 45, p. 1222.[U. S. C., p. 687](/us/usc/p687). 715–715r), $77,510, authorized by section 12 of the Act, which sum is a part of the remaining $727,589 of the $1,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Currituck Sound, N. C., repairs. That $10,000 of this appropriation shall be immediately available for purchase of material for repair of sand barrier excluding ocean waters from Currituck Sound, North Carolina. Total, Bureau of Biological Survey, $1,421,492, of which amountServices in the District. not to exceed $321,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $19,425 shall be available for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of field work outside the District of Columbia. 272 Public Roads Bureau.BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS Salaries and expenses.*Post*, p. 1892.For necessary expenses of the Bureau of Public Roads, including salaries and the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, supplies, office and laboratory fixtures and apparatus, traveling, and other necessary expenses: for conducting research and investigational studies, either independently or in cooperation with State highway departments, or other agencies, including studies of highway administration, legislation, finance, economics, transport, construction, operation, maintenance, utilization, and safety, and of Road making investigations.street and highway traffic control; investigations and experiments in the best methods of road making, especially by the use of local materials; studies of types of mechanical plants and appliances used for road building and maintenance and of methods of road repair and maintenance suited to the needs of different localities; and maintenance and repairs of experimental highways, including the purchase of materials and equipment; for furnishing expert advice on these subjects; for collating, reporting, and illustrating the results Vol. 30, p. 355; Vol. 42, p. 212.[U. S. C., p. 969](/us/usc/p969).of same; and for preparing, publishing, and distributing bulletins and reports; to be paid from any moneys available from the administrative funds provided under the Act of July 11, 1916 (39 Stat., pp. 355–359), as amended, or as otherwise provided. Federal-Aid Highways.federal-aid highway system Cooperating with States in constructing rural post roads.For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes”, approved July 11, Vol. 39, p. 355; Vol. 40, p. 1201; Vol. 42, pp. 660,1157; Vol. 43, p. 889; Vol. 44, pp. 760, 1398.[U. S. C., p. 969](/us/usc/p969).1916 (39 Stat., pp. 355–359), and all Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, to be expended in accordance with the provisions of said Act, as amended, including not to exceed $556,000 for departmental personal services in the District of Columbia, $48,559,256.14, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, of which sum $8,559,256.14 is the remainder of the sum of $125,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year Vol. 46, p. 141.ending June 30, 1933, by section 1 of the Act approved April A 1930 (46 Stat., p. 141), and $40,000,000 is part of the sum of $125,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending Vol. 48, p. 994.June 30, 1936, by section 4 of the Act approved June 18, 1934 (48 Provisos.Aid in rural post-road construction.Secretary’s approval required.Vol. 48. p. 994.*Post*, pp. 1447, 1892.Stat. 994): *Provided*, That the Secretary of Agriculture shall act upon projects submitted to him under his apportionment of the $125,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, by section 4 of the Act approved June 18, 1934 (Public, numbered 393, Seventy-third Congress, 48 Stat. 994), and his Deemed contractual obligation.approval of any such project shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of its proportional Convict labor.contribution thereto: *Provided further,* That none of the money herein appropriated shall be paid to any State on account of any project on which convict labor shall be employed, except this provision shall not apply to convict labor performed by convicts on Purchase of motor vehicles.Vol. 42, p. 217.[U. S. C., p. 972](/us/usc/p972).parole or probation: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $45,000 of the funds provided for carrying out the provisions of the Federal Highway Act of November 9, 1921 (U. S. C., title 23, secs. 21 and 23), shall be available for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles necessary for carrying out the provisions of said Act, including the replacement of not to exceed one such vehicle for use in the administrative work of the Bureau of Public Roads Deduction for depreciation, etc.in the District of Columbia: *Provided further,* That, during the fiscal year 1936, whenever performing authorized engineering or other services in connection with the survey, construction, and main-273tenance, or improvement of roads for other Government agencies the charge for such services may include depreciation on engineering and road-building equipment used, and the amounts received on account of such charges shall be credited to the appropriation concerned: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $140,000 from the Laboratory, construction.Vol. 42, p. 212: Vol. 46, p. 417.*Post*, p. 1448. administrative funds authorized by the Act approved November 9, 1921, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, in addition to the amount remaining available under the authorization contained in the Agricultural Appropriation Act approved May 27, 1930, shall be available for the construction of a laboratory, on a site already acquired, for permanent quarters for the testing and research work or the Bureau of Public Roads. For the survey, construction, reconstruction, and maintenance ofMain roads, construction, etc. main roads through unappropriated or unreserved public lands, nontaxable Indian lands, or other Federal reservations other than the forest reservations, under the provisions of the Act of June 24,Vol. 46, p. 805; Vol. 48, p. 994. 1930 (46 Stat. 805), and as authorized by section 6 of the Highway Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 994), $2,500,000, to be immediately available and remain available until expended. national industrial recovery highway fundsNational Industrial Recovery Highway Funds. For emergency construction of public highways and other related Emergency construction.Vol. 48, p. 993.projects in accordance with section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act to increase employment by authorizing an appropriation to provide for emergency construction of public highways and related projects, and to amend the Federal Aid Road Act, approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, and for other purposes”, approved June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 993), the sum of $100,000,000 (being the remainder of the amount of $200,000,000 authorized to be appropriated byImmediately available. section I of such Act) shall be made immediately available for the foregoing purposes from the appropriation in section 1’ of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 and continue available until expended. The appropriation of $2,000,000 for roads on unappropriated orPublic land highways, emergency construction.Vol. 47, p. 717. unreserved public lands, non taxable Indian lands, and so forth, contained in the Act entitled “An Act to relieve destitution, to broaden the lending powers of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and to create employment by providing for and expediting a public-works program approved July 21, 1932, is hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1936, and not to exceed $4,760 may be usedServices in the District. for personal services in the District of Columbia. Total, Bureau of Public Roads, $51,059,256.14. BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERINGAgricultural Engineering Bureau. salaries and expensesSalaries and expenses. General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses forGeneral administrative expenses. general administrative purposes, including the salary of chief of bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $37,600. Agricultural engineering: For investigations, experiments, andAgricultural engineering. demonstrations involving the application of engineering principles to agriculture, independently or in cooperation with Federal, State, county, or other public agencies or with farm bureaus, organizations, or individuals; for investigating and reporting upon the utilization of water in farm irrigation and the best methods to apply in practice; the different kinds of power and appliances; the flow of water in ditches, pipes, and other conduits; the duty, apportionment, and measurement of irrigation water; the customs, regulations, and laws 274affecting irrigation; snow surveys and forecasts of irrigation water supplies, and the drainage of farms and of swamps and other wet lands which may be made available for agricultural purposes; for preparing plans for the removal of surplus water by drainage; for developing equipment for farm irrigation and drainage; for investigating and reporting upon farm domestic water supply and drainage disposal, upon the design and construction of farm buildings and their appurtenances and of buildings for processing and storing farm products; upon farm power and mechanical farm equipment; upon the engineering problems relating to the processing, transportation, and storage of perishable and other agricultural products; and upon the engineering problems involved in adapting physical characteristics Cotton ginning.Vol. 46. p. 248.[U. S. C., p. 144](/us/usc/p144).of farm land to the use of modern farm machinery; for investigations of cotton ginning under the Act approved April 19, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 7, secs. 424, 425); for giving expert advice and assistance in agricultural engineering; for collating, reporting, and illustrating the results of investigations and preparing, publishing, and distributing bulletins, plans, and reports; and for other necessary expenses, including travel, rent, repairs, and not to exceed $5,000 for construction of buildings, $385,669. Services in the DistrictTotal, Bureau of Agricultural Engineering, $423,269, of which amount not to exceed $150.469 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $5,750 shall be available for the purchase of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of field work outside the District of Columbia. Agricultural Economics Bureau.BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS General expenses.salaries and expenses Salaries, supplies, etc.For salaries and the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, furniture, supplies, traveling expenses, rent outside the District of Columbia, and all other expenses necessary in conducting investigations, experiments, and demonstrations as follows: General administrative expenses.General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes, including the salary of chief of bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $236,306. Farm management and practice.Farm management and practice: To investigate and encourage the adoption of improved methods of farm management and farm practice, and for ascertaining the cost of production of the principal staple agricultural products, $344,080. Marketing and distributing farm products.Marketing and distributing farm products: For acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful information, on subjects connected with the marketing, handling, utilization, grading, transportation, and distributing of farm and nonmanufactured food products and the purchasing of farm supplies, including the Promoting uniform standards.demonstration and promotion of the use of uniform standards of classification of American farm products throughout the world, including scientific and technical research into American-grown cotton and its byproducts and their present and potential uses, including new and additional commercial and scientific uses for Cotton and byproducts research.Vol. 46. p. 248.[U. S. C., p. 144](/us/usc/p144).cotton and its byproducts, and including investigations of cotton ginning under the Act approved April 19, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 7, secs. 424, 425), and for collecting and disseminating information on the adjustment of production to probable demand for the different farm and animal products, independently and in cooperation with other branches of the Department, State agencies, purchasing and consuming organizations, and persons engaged in 275the marketing, handling, utilization, grading, transportation, and distributing of farm and food products, and for investigation of the economic costs of retail marketing of meat and meat products, $743,654: *Provided*, That practical forms of the grades recommended*Proviso*.Forms of wool and mohair grades to be sold. or promulgated by the Secretary for wool and mohair may be sold under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, and the receipts therefrom deposited in the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts. Crop and livestock estimates: For collecting, compiling,Crop and livestock estimates.Collecting, etc., data. abstracting, analyzing, summarizing, interpreting, and publishing data relating to agriculture, including crop and livestock estimates, acreage, yield, grades, staples of cotton, stocks, and value of farm crops, and numbers, gracies, and value of livestock and livestock products on farms, in cooperation with the Extension Service and other Federal, State, and local agencies, $661,289: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Restriction on expenditure. no part of the funds herein appropriated shall be available for any expense incident to ascertaining, collating, or publishing a report stating the intention of farmers as to the acreage to be planted in cotton. Foreign competition and demand: To enable the Secretary ofSecuring information as to foreign competition and demand.Vol. 46, p. 497.[U. S. C., p. 153](/us/usc/p153). Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to promote the agriculture of the United States by expanding in the foreign field the service now rendered by the United States Department of Agriculture in acquiring and diffusing useful information regarding agriculture, and for other purposes”, approved June 5, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp., VII, title 7, secs. 541–545), and for collecting and disseminating to American producers,Dissemination to American producers, etc. importers, exporters, and other interested persons information relative to the world supply of and need for American agricultural products, marketing methods, conditions, prices, and other factors, a knowledge of which is necessary to the advantageous disposition of such products in foreign countries, independently and in cooperation with other branches of the Government, State agencies, purchasing and consuming organizations, and persons engaged in the transportation, marketing, and distribution of farm and food products, including the purchase of such books and periodicals and not to exceed $1,000 for newspapers as may be necessary in connection with this work, $298,000. Market inspection of farm products: For enabling the SecretaryMarket inspection of farm products. of Agriculture, independently and in cooperation with other branches of the Government, State agencies, purchasing and consuming organizations, boards of trade, chambers of commerce, or other associations of business men or trade organizations, and persons or corporations engaged in the production, transportation, marketing, and distribution of farm and food products, whether operating in one or more jurisdictions, to investigate and certify to shippers and otherCertifying condition of shipment. interested parties the class, quality, and condition of cotton, tobacco, fruits, and vegetables, whether raw, dried, or canned, poultry, butter, hay, and other perishable farm products when offered for interstate shipment or when received at such important central markets as the Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time designate, or at points which may be conveniently reached therefrom, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, including payment of such fees as will be reasonable and as nearly as may be to cover the cost for the service rendered: *Provided*, That certificates issued by*Proviso*.Certificates as evidence. the authorized agents of the department shall be received in all courts of the United States as prima facie evidence of the truth of the statements therein contained, $431,203. 276 Market news service.Collecting, publishing, etc.Market news service: For collecting, publishing, and distributing, by telegraph, mail, or otherwise, timely information on the market supply and demand, commercial movement, location, disposition, quality, condition, and market prices of livestock, meats, fish, and animal products, dairy and poultry products, fruits and vegetables, peanuts and their products, grain, hay, feeds, tobacco, and seeds, and other agricultural products, independently and in cooperation with other branches of the Government, State agencies, purchasing and consuming organizations, and persons engaged in the production, transportation, marketing, and distribution of farm and food products, $1,076,492. Cotton statistics.Vol. 44, p. 1372.[U. S. C., p. 146](/us/usc/p146).Cotton grade and staple statistics: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to collect and publish statistics of the grade and staple length of cotton”, approved March 3, 1927 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 7, secs. 471–476), $224,517. Tobacco stocks and standards.Vol. 45. p. 1079.[U. S. C., p. 152](/us/usc/p152).Tobacco stocks and standards: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the collection and publication of statistics of tobacco by the Department of Agriculture”, approved January 14, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 7, secs. 501—508), including the employment of persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $17,187. Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.Vol. 46. p. 531.[U. S. C., p. 148](/us/usc/p148).Perishable agricultural commodities Act: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to suppress unfair and fraudulent practices in the marketing of perishable agricultural commodities in interstate and foreign commerce” (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 7, secs. 551–568), $131,466. Cotton Futures Act.Vol. 39, p. 476; Vol. 40, p. 1351.[U. S. C., p. 1130](/us/usc/p1130).United States Cotton Futures and United States Cotton Standards Acts: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to Cotton Standards Act.Vol. 42. p. 1517. [U. S. C., p. 112](/us/usc/p122).carry into effect the provisions of the United States Cotton Futures Act, as amended March 4, 1919 (U. S. C., title 26, secs. 731–752), and to carry into effect the provisions of the United States Cotton Standards Act, approved March 4, 1923 (U. S. C., title 7, secs. 51–65), including all expenses necessary for the purchase of equipment and supplies; for travel; for the employment of persons in the city of Washington and elsewhere; and for all other expenses, including rent outside the District of Columbia, that may be necessary in Effectuating agreements as to standards, etc., in foreign countries.executing the provisions of these Acts, including such means as may be necessary for effectuating agreements heretofore or hereafter made with cotton associations, cotton exchanges, and other cotton organizations in foreign countries, for the adoption, use, and observance of universal standards of cotton classification, for the ar bi traction or settlement of disputes w’ith respect thereto, and for the preparation, distribution, inspection, and protection of the practical forms or copies thereof under such agreements, $477,111. Grain Standards Act, enforcement.Vol. 39. p. 482.[U. S. C., p. 114](/us/usc/p114).United States Grain Standards Act: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the United States Grain Standards Act, including rent outside the District of Columbia and the employment of such persons and means as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem necessary, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $708,941. Warehouse Act, administration expenses.Vol. 39, p. 480; Vol. 42, p. 1282; Vol. 46, p. 1463.[U. S. C., p. 131](/us/usc/p131).United States Warehouse Act: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the United States Warehouse Act, including the payment of such rent outside the District of Columbia and the employment of such persons and means as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem necessary in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $316,665. 277 Standard Container, Hamper, and Produce Agency Acts: ToStandard Container, Hamper, and Produce Agency Acts.Vol. 39, p. 673; Vol. 45. p. 685.[U. S. C., p. 557](/us/usc/p557). enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the Act entitled “An Act to fix standards for Climax baskets for grapes and other fruits and vegetables, and to fix standards for baskets and other containers for small fruits, berries, and vegetables, and for other purposes”, approved August 31, 1916 (U. S. C., title 15, secs. 251–256), the Act entitled “An Act to fix standards for hampers, round stave baskets, and splint baskets for fruits and vegetables, and for other purposes”, approved May 21, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp.Vol. 44, p. 1356.[U. S. C., p. 558](/us/usc/p558). VII, title 15, secs. 257—2571), and the Act entitled “An Act to prevent the destruction or dumping, without good and sufficient cause therefor, of farm produce received in interstate commerce by commission merchants and others and to require them truly and correctly to account for all farm produce received by them”, approved March 3, 1927 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 7, secs. 491—497), including the Purchase of perishable products.purchase of such perishable farm products as may be necessary for detection of violations of the latter Act: *Provided*, That all receipts*Proviso*.Receipts from sales credited to appropriate fund. from the sale of such products shall be credited to this appropriation, and shall be reexpendable therefrom, and including the employment of such persons and means as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem necessary in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $30,238. In all, salaries and expenses, $5,697,149. wool marketing studiesWool marketing studies. Not to exceed $27,652 of the funds collected from persons, firms, orAppropriation of certain funds. corporations which handled any part of the wool clip of 1918, which the Secretary of Agriculture finds it impracticable to distribute among woolgrowers, shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of a special fund which is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year 1936 for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the ActEstablishing wool standards.[U. S. C., p. 143](/us/usc/p143). entitled “An Act to authorize the appropriation for use by the Secretary of Agriculture of certain funds for wool standards, and for other purposes”, approved May 17, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 7, secs. 415b-415d), including personal services and other necessaryServices, etc., in the District. expenses in the District of Columbia and elsewhere. Total, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, $5,724,801, of which amount not to exceed $2,132,215 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $22,200 shall be available for the purchase of motor-propelled and horse-drawnVehicles. passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of field work outside the District of Columbia. BUREAU OF HOME ECONOMICSHome Economics Bureau. salaries and expensesSalaries and expenses. General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses forGeneral administrative expenses. general administrative purposes, including the salary of chief of bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $26,135. Home-economics investigations: For conducting, eitherHome economics investigations. independently or in cooperation with other agencies, investigations of the relative utility and economy of agricultural products for food, clothing, and other uses in the home, with special suggestions of plans and methods for the more effective utilization of such products for these purposes, and for disseminating useful information on this subject, including travel and all other necessary expenses, $167,350. Total, Bureau of Home Economics, $193,485, of which amountServices in the District. not to exceed $183,880 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. 278 Grain Futures Act.ENFORCEMENT OF THE GRAIN FUTURES ACT Enforcement expenses.Vol. 42, p. 998.[U. S. C., p. 109](/us/usc/p109).To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Grain Futures Act, approved September 21, 1922 (U. S. C., title 7, secs. 1–17), $196,500, of which amount not to exceed $51,360 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Food and Drug Administration.FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION Salaries and expenses.salaries and expenses Items specified.For all necessary expenses, for chemical apparatus, chemicals, and supplies, repairs to apparatus, gas, electric current, official traveling expenses, telegraph and telephone service, express and freight charges, for the employment of such assistants, clerks, and other persons as the Secretary of Agriculture may consider necessary for the purposes named, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, in conducting investigations; collecting, reporting, and illustrating the Outside rent.results of such investigations; and for rent outside the District of Columbia for carrying out the investigations and work herein authorized, as follows: General administrative expenses.General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes, including the salary of chief of administration and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $100,802. Pure Food and Drugs Act, enforcement.Vol. 34, p. 768. [U. S. C., p. 917](/us/usc/p917).Enforcement of the Food and Drugs Act: For enabling the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Act of June 30, 1906 (U. S. C., title 21, secs. 1–15), entitled “An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated, or misbranded, or poisonous, or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes”; to cooperate with associations and scientific societies in the Revision of Pharmacopoeia.revision of the United States Pharmacopoeia and development of methods of analysis, and for investigating the character of the Foreign tests of American food products.chemical and physical tests which are applied to American food products in foreign countries, and for inspecting the same before shipment when desired by the shippers or owners of these products intended for countries where chemical and physical tests are required before the said products are allowed to be sold therein, $1,540,879: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Travel allowance.That not more than $4,280 shall be used for travel outside the United States. Tea Importation Act enforcement.Vol. 29, p. 604; Vol. 41, p. 712.[U. S. C., p. 921](/us/usc/p921).Enforcement of the Tea Importation Act: For enabling the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Act approved March 2, 1897 (U. S. C., title 21, secs. 41–50), entitled “An Act to prevent the importation of impure and unwholesome tea”, as amended, including payment of compensation and expenses of the members of the board appointed under section 2 of the Act and all other necessary officers and employees, $40,094. Naval Stores Act.Vol. 42, p. 1435.[U. S. C., p. 116](/us/usc/p116).Naval Stores Act: For enabling the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Naval Stores Act of March 3, 1923 (U. S. C., title 7, secs. 91–99), $34,700. Insecticide Act, enforcement.Vol. 36, p. 331.[U. S. C., p. 118](/us/usc/p118).Enforcement of the Insecticide Act: For enabling the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Act of April 26, 1910 (U. S. C., title 7, secs. 121–134), entitled “An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded Paris greens, lead arsenates, other insecticides, and also fungicides, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes”, $208,180. 279 Enforcement of the Milk Importation Act: For enabling theMilk Importation Act, enforcement.Vol. 44, p. 1101. [U. S. C., p. 930](/us/usc/p930). Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of an Act approved February 15, 1927 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 21, secs. 141–149), entitled “An Act to regulate the importation of milk and cream into the United States for the purpose of promoting the dairy industry of the United States and protecting the public health”, $19,241. Enforcement of the Caustic Poison Act: For enabling theCaustic Poison Act, enforcement.Vol. 44, p. 1406. [U. S. C., p. 567](/us/usc/p567). Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of an Act approved March 4, 1927 (U. S. C., Supp. VII. title 15, secs. 401–411), entitled “An Act to safeguard the distribution and sale of certain dangerous caustic or corrosive acids, alkalies, and other substances in interstate and foreign commerce”, $24,741. Total, Food and Drug Administration, $1,968,637, of which amountAggregate.Services in the District. not to exceed $595,262 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $21,860 shall be available for the purchase of motor-propelled and horse-drawn Vehicles.passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of field work outside the District of Columbia. INTERCHANGE OF APPROPRIATIONSInterchange of appropriations. Not to exceed 10 per centum of the foregoing amounts for the miscellaneous expenses of the work of any bureau, division, or office herein provided for shall be available interchangeably for expenditures on the objects included within the general expenses of such bureau, division, or office, but no more than 10 per centum shall be added to any one item or appropriation except in cases of extraordinary emergency, and then only upon the written order of the Secretary of Agriculture: *Provided*, That a statement of any transfers*Proviso*.Statement to be included in Budget. of appropriations made hereunder shall be included in the annual Budget. MISCELLANEOUSMiscellaneous. work for other departmentsWork for other Departments. During the fiscal year 1936 the head of any department orTransfers of funds for inspection, etc., of food, authorized. independent establishment of the Government requiring inspections, analyses, and tests of food and other products, within the scope of the functions of the Department of Agriculture and which that Department is unable to perform within the limits of its appropriations, may, with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture, transfer to the Department of Agriculture for direct expenditure such sums as may be necessary for the performance of such work. experiments in livestock production in southern united statesLivestock production in Southern States.Cooperative experiments, etc., in developing. To enable, the Secretary of Agriculture, in cooperation with the authorities of the States concerned, or with individuals, to make such investigations and demonstrations as may be necessary in connection with the development of livestock production in the cane-sugar and cotton districts of the United States, $39,900. passenger-carrying vehiclesPassenger vehicles. Within the limitations specified under the several headings theAllowance for, from lump-sum appropriations for field work. lump-sum appropriations herein made for the Department of Agriculture shall be available for the purchase of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of the field work of the Department of Agriculture outside the District 280*Proviso*.Use restricted to official service.of Columbia: *Provided*, That such vehicles shall be used only for official service outside the District of Columbia, but this shall not prevent the continued use for official service of motor trucks in the Interchangeable funds.District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That the limitation on expenditures for purchase of passenger-carrying vehicles in the field service shall be interchangeable between the various bureaus and offices of the Department, to such extent as the exigencies of the Available for maintenance, etc.service may require: *Provided further*, That appropriations contained in this Act shall be available for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying Exchanges allowed.vehicles: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of Agriculture may exchange motor-propelled and horse-drawn vehicles, tractors, road equipment, and boats, and parts, accessories, tires, or equipment thereof, in whole or in part payment for vehicles, tractors, road equipment, or boats, or parts, accessories, tires, or equipment of such vehicles, tractors road equipment, or boats purchased by him: *Provided further*, Purchase of automobile.That the funds available for carrying into effect the Agricultural Adjustment Act may be used during the fiscal year 1936 for the purchase, at a cost of not to exceed $2,500, and the maintenance, repair, and operation, of one passenger-carrying vehicle for official purposes. Soil erosion.soil-erosion investigations Investigations, etc.To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to make investigation not otherwise provided for of the causes of soil erosion and the possibility of increasing the absorption of rainfall by the soil in the United States, and to devise means to be employed in the preservation of soil, the prevention or control of destructive erosion, and the conservation of rainfall by terracing or other means, independently or in cooperation with other branches of the Government, State agencies, counties, farm organizations, associations of business men, or individuals, including necessary expenses, $281,362, of which amount not to exceed $22,032 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, and $875 shall be available for the purchase of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of field work outside the District of Columbia. Beltsville Research Center.beltsville research center General expenses.For general administrative purposes, including maintenance, operation, Additional funds.repairs, and other expenses, $75,000; and, in addition thereto, this appropriation may be augmented, by transfer of funds or by reimbursement, from applicable appropriations, to cover the cost, including handling and other related charges, of services, and supplies and materials furnished, stores of which may be maintained at the Center, and the applicable appropriations may also be charged their proportionate share of the necessary general expenses of the *Proviso*.Motor vehicles.Center not covered by this appropriation: *Provided*, That not to exceed $1,000 may be expended from this appropriation for the purchase of one passenger-carrying automobile and two motorcycles for official purposes. International production control committees.international production control committees Expenses.During the fiscal year 1936 the Secretary of Agriculture may expend not to exceed $10,000, from the funds available for carrying Vol. 48, p. 38.into effect the Agricultural Adjustment Act approved May 12, 1933 (48 Stat., p. 38), the share of the United States as a member of the International Wheat Advisory Committee.International Wheat Advisory Committee or like events or bodies concerned with the reduction of agricultural surpluses or other objec-281tives of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, together with traveling and all other necessary expenses relating thereto. forest roads and trialsFederal highways. For carrying out the provisions of section 23 of the FederalForest roads and trails.Vol. 42. pp. 218, 661.[U. S. C., p. 973](/us/usc/p973).Vol. 46, p. 261. Highway Act approved November 9, 1921 (U. S. C., title 23, sec. 23), including not to exceed $82,320 for departmental personal services in the District of Columbia, $7,082,600, which sum is composed of $582,600, the balance of the amount authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1933 by the Act approved May 5, 1930, and $6,500,000, part of the sum of $10,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1936 by the Act approved June 18, 1934: *Provided*, That the Secretary of Agriculture shall, upon*Proviso*.Apportionment among States, etc. the approval of this Act, apportion and prorate among the several States, Alaska, and Puerto Rico, as provided in section 23 of said Federal Highway Act, the sum of $10,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, by the Act approved June 18, 1934: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of Contracts, etc., authorized.Agriculture shall incur obligations, approve projects, or enter into contracts under his apportionment and prorating of this authorization, and his action in so doing shall be deemed a contractual obligation on the part of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof: *Provided further*, That total expenditures on accountExpenditure restriction. of any State or Territory shall at no time exceed its authorized apportionment: *Provided further*, That this appropriation shall beStorage facilities. available for the rental, purchase, or construction of buildings necessary for the storage of equipment and supplies used for road and trail construction and maintenance, but the total cost of any such building purchased or constructed under this authorization shall not exceed $2,500: *Provided further*, That during the fiscal Forest highways in Alaska.year ending June 30, 1936, the expenditures on forest highways in Alaska from the amount herein appropriated shall not exceed $250,000: *Provided further*, That there shall be available from thisSites and buildings for equipment storage. appropriation not to exceed $15,000 for the acquisition by purchase, condemnation, gift, grant, dedication, or otherwise of land and not to exceed $200,000 for the acquisition by purchase or construction of a building or buildings for the storage and repair of Government equipment for use in the construction and maintenance of roads. Sec. 2. The processing tax authorized by Public Act numbered 10, Cotton processing tax; payment of. Vol. 48, p. 32. Seventy-third Congress (48 Stat. 31), when levied upon cotton, shall be payable ninety days after the filing of the processor’s report:*Proviso*. Extension permitted. *Provided*, That, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, the time for payment of such tax upon cotton may be extended, but in no case to exceed six months from the date of the filing of the report. This title may be cited as the “Department of AgricultureShort title. Appropriation Act, 1936.” TITLE II— FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATIONTitle II—Farm Credit Administration. salaries and expenses For salaries and expenses of the Farm Credit Administration inSalaries and expenses. the District of Columbia and the field; traveling expenses of officers and employees; printing and binding contingent and miscellaneousPrinting and binding. expenses, including law books, books of reference, and not to exceed $750 for periodicals, newspapers, and maps; contract stenographic reporting services, and expert services for the preparation of amortization tables; membership fees or dues in organizations which issue 282publications to members only or to members at a lower price than to others, payment for which may be made in advance; purchase of manuscripts, data, and special reports by personal service without [R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[U. S. C., p. 1803](/us/usc/p1803).regard to the provisions of any other Act; procurement of supplies and services without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, see. 5) when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $50; purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motor trucks to be used only for official purposes; typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange; garage rental in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; Traveling expenses.payment of actual transportation expenses and not to exceed $10 per diem to cover subsistence and other expenses while in conference and en route from and to his home to any person other than an employee or a member of an advisory commodity committee who may from time to time be invited to the city of Washington and elsewhere for conference and advisory purposes in furthering the work Special services.of the Farm Credit Administration; employment of persons, firms, and others for the performance of special Collection of Joans made under designated acts.services, including legal services, and other miscellaneous expenses; collection of moneys due the United States on account of loans made under the provisions of the Acts of March 3, 1921 (41 Stat., p. 1347), March 20, 1922 (42 Stat., p. 467), April 26, 1924 ( 43 Stat., p. 110), February 28, 1927 (44 Stat., p. 1251), February 25, 1929 (45 Stat., p. 1306), as amended May 17, 1929 (46 Stat., p. 3), March 3, 1930 (46 Stat., pp. 78, 79), December 20, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 1032), February 14, 1931 (46 Stat., p. 1160), and February 23, 1931 (46 Stat., p. 1276); January 22, 1932 (47 Stat., p. 5), February 4, 1933 (47 Stat., p. 795), March 4, 1933 (47 Stat., p. 1547), May 12, 1933 (Public, No. 10, 73d Cong.), February 23, 1934 (Public, No. 97, 73d Cong.), March 10, 1934 (Public Resolution No. 16, 73d Cong.), June 19, 1934 (Public, No, 412, 73d Examinations, etc.Cong.); examination of corporations, banks, associations, credit unions, and institutions operated, supervised, or regulated by the *Proviso*.Assessment for expensesFarm Credit Administration: *Provided*, That the expenses and salaries of employees engaged in such examinations shall be assessed against the said corporations, banks or institutions in accordance with the provisions of existing laws; in all, $4,000,000: *Provided further*, Additional fund.Vol. 48, p. 355.That there shall be transferred and added to this appropriation the sum of $1,975,000 from the funds made available under section 5 of the Emergency Crop Loan Act of February 23, 1934 (48 Stat, p. 354). Short title.This title may be cited as the “Farm Credit Administration Appropriation Act, 1936.” Approved, May 17, 1935. Concerning the incorporated town of Seward, Territory of Alaska. 1935-05-20 49 Stat. 282 133 Chapter 74 1 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 133.] AN ACT Concerning the incorporated town of Seward, Territory of Alaska. May 20, 1935.[[H. R. 3808](/us/bill/74/hr/3808).][[Public, No. 63](/us/74/pl/63).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Seward, Alaska.May construct municipal electric system. That the incorporated town of Seward, Territory of Alaska, is hereby authorized and empowered
(a)by contract or contracts, or by its own agents and employees, or otherwise than by contract, to construct a municipal electric system, together with all parts thereof and appurtenances thereto necessary or convenient for the generation, production, To acquire land and water rights.transmission, and distribution of electric energy, and to acquire by gift, purchase, or the exercise of the power of eminent domain, lands, easements, or rights in land or water rights in connection Operation, Etc.therewith;
(b)to operate and maintain said system for its own283use and benefit and for the use and benefit of public and private consumers or users within and without the territorial boundaries of said town;
(c)to issue its bonds to finance in whole or in part theBond issue. cost of the construction of said system;
(d)to prescribe and collectService fees. rates, fees, or charges for the services, facilities, and commodities furnished by said system;
(e)to pledge to the punctual payment ofPledge payment of obligations. said bonds and interest thereon all or any part of the gross or net revenues of said system (including improvements, betterments, or extensions thereto thereafter constructed or acquired);
(f)to enterEnter contracts. into contract with the United States of America or any Federal agency created or continued by or pursuant to the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935; and
(g)to subscribe to and complyComply with prescribed rules, etc.*Ante*, p. 115. with all rules and regulations prescribed or continued by the President of the United States of America pursuant to the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935. The common council of said Construction costs.town in determining the cost of the construction of said system may include all costs and estimated costs of the issuance of said bonds, all engineering, inspection, fiscal and legal expenses, andInterest. interest which it is estimated will accrue during the construction period and for six months thereafter on money borrowed or which it is estimated will be borrowed pursuant to this Act. Sec. 2. The construction of said system may be authorized underCommon council of town may authorize construction and bond issue. this Act, and bonds may be authorized to be issued under this Act by resolution or resolutions of the common council of said town. Said bonds shall bear interest at such rate or rates not exceedingInterest rate, maturity, etc. 6 per centum per annum, payable semiannually, may be in one or more series, may bear such date or dates, may mature at such time or times not exceeding forty years from their respective dates, may be payable in such medium of payment, at such place or places, may carry such registration privileges, may be subject to such terms of redemption, with or without premium, may be executed in such manner, may be in such form, either coupon or registered, may contain such terms, covenants and conditions, and may be declared or become due before the maturity date thereof, as such resolution or subsequent resolutions may provide. Said bonds shall be sold forBond sale, etc. not less than par and may be sold at either public or private sale. Pending the preparation of the definitive bonds, interim receipts orInterim receipts; certificates. certificates in such form and with such provisions as the common council of said town may determine, may be issued to the purchaser or purchasers of bonds sold pursuant to this Act. Said bonds andNegotiability. interim receipts or certificates shall be negotiable for all purposes. Said bonds bearing the signatures of officers in office on the date of the signing thereof shall be valid and binding obligations, notwithstanding that before the delivery thereof and payment therefor any or all the persons whose signatures appear thereon shall have ceased to be officers of the town. Sec. 3. Any resolution or resolutions authorizing the issuance ofCovenants in resolution authorizing bond issue. bonds under this Act may contain covenants as to
(a)the purpose or purposes to which the proceeds of sale of said bonds may be applied and the use and disposition thereof,
(b)the use and disposition of the revenue of said system, including the creation and maintenance of reserves,
(c)the transfer from the general funds of the town to the account or accounts of said system a sum or sums of money for furnishing such town or any of its departments, boards, or agencies with the services, facilities, and commodities of said system,
(d)the issuance of other or additional bonds payable from the revenue of said system,
(e)the operation and maintenance of said system,
(f)the insurance to be carried thereon and the use and disposition of insurance moneys,
(g)books of account 284and the inspection and audit thereof, and (h)‘the terms and conditions upon which the holders of said bonds or any proportion of them or any trustee therefor shall be entitled to the appointment of a receiver by the District Court for the Territory of Alaska, which court shall have jurisdiction in such proceedings, and which receiver may enter and take possession of said system, operate and maintain the same, prescribe rates, fees, or charges, and collect, receive, and apply all revenue thereafter arising therefrom in the Enforcing provisions.same manner as the town itself might do. The provisions of this Act and any such resolution or resolutions shall be a contract with the holder or holders of said bonds, and the duties of the town and of its common council and officers under this Act and any such resolution or resolutions shall be enforceable by any bondholder, by mandamus or other appropriate suit, action, or proceeding in any court of competent jurisdiction. Sec. 4. Service fees, etc. The common council of said town shall prescribe and collect reasonable rates, fees, or charges for the services, facilities, and commodities of said system, and shall revise such rates, fees, or charges from time to time whenever necessary so that said system shall be andRate provisions. always remain self-supporting. The rates, fees, or charges prescribed shall be such as will produce revenue at least sufficient
(a)to pay when due all bonds and interest thereon, for the payment of which such revenue is or shall have been pledged, charged, or otherwise encumbered, including reserves therefor, and
(b)to provide for all expenses of operation and maintenance of said system, including reserves therefor. Sec. 5. Redemption, etc., restrictions. No holder of any bond issued under this Act shall have the right to compel the levy of a tax by said town to pay the principal of or interest on such bonds. All bonds issued under this Act shall be payable solely from the. revenues pledged to the payment thereof and shall contain a recital to that effect. Such bonds may be issued notwithstanding any debt or other limitation or restriction prescribed by any other law. Sec. 6. Effective date. This Act shall become effective thirty days after its passage: *Provided, however*, *Proviso*.Restriction on exercise of powers granted.Sale by Seward Light and Power Company of holdings.That none of the powers herein granted to the said town of Seward, Alaska, shall be exercised by said town in the event that the Seward Light and Power Company, a corporation, shall within one week after a copy of this Act is served on said Seward Light and Power Company, offer in writing to sell and convey to the said town of Seward all right, title, and interest in and to its electric generating plant or plants, electric distributing system, pipe lines, and water rights now owned by it and used and employed in supplying electric energy to the inhabitants of said Price.town, said offer of sale to be for the sum of $75,000, and to guarantee that delivery of said title, free from encumbrance and debt of any kind, shall be made to said town upon payment of said sum, anytime within six months from date of said written offer to sell: *Provided further*, Time limitation.That said offer and agreement to convey title must be delivered by said Seward Light and Power Company, to the town clerk of said town of Seward, Alaska, within the time specified above. Service of copy of this Act on the Seward Light and Power Company shall be made by delivery thereof to its president, S. M. Graff, or any other officer of the corporation: *And provided further*, Bond issue authorized.That in the event the said Seward Light and Power Company offers to sell and convey its properties as provided for in this section? the said town is authorized to purchase such properties and to issue bonds for such purpose in an amount not to exceed $75,000, such bonds to be issued in the manner provided for in this Act. Approved, May 20, 1935. For the establishment of a commission for the construction of a Washington-Lincoln Memorial Gettysburg Boulevard connecting the present Lincoln Memorial in the city of Washington with the battlefield of Gettysburg in the State of Pennsylvania. 1935-05-20 134 Chapter 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 49 Stat. 285 74 1 public 285 [CHAPTER 134.] JOINT RESOLUTION For the establishment of a commission for the construction of a Washington-Lincoln Memorial Gettysburg Boulevard connecting the present Lincoln Memorial in the city of Washington with the battlefield of Gettysburg in the State of Pennsylvania. May 20, 1935.[[S. J. Res. 43](/us/bill/74/sjres/43).][[Pub. Res., No. 19](/us/bill/74/pubres/19).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there isWashington-Lincoln Memorial Gettysburg Boulevard Commission. Establishment, composition, etc. hereby established a commission to be known as the United States Commission for the construction of a Washington-Lincoln Memorial Gettysburg Boulevard connecting the present Lincoln Memorial in the city of Washington with the battlefield of Gettysburg in the State of Pennsylvania (hereinafter referred to as the Commission), and to be composed of thirteen commissioners, as follows: The President of the United States; Presiding Officer of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the President of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, ex officio; two persons to be appointed by the President of the United States; one Senator from the State of Maryland and one Senator from the State of Pennsylvania, to be appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate; the Chief of the Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Agriculture; the Director, National Park Service, Department of Interior; Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia; and one Representative from the State of Maryland and one from the State of Pennsylvania, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The commissioners shall serveNo compensation. without compensation and shall select a chairman from among their number. Sec. 2. That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out ofAppropriation authorized. any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $10,000, to be expended by the Commission in accordance with the provisions of this resolution. Sec. 3. That it shall be the duty of the Commission to prepare aPreparation of plans, etc. plan or plans in cooperation with the Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Agriculture; the Highway Departments of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and District of Columbia to further commemorate the public services of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln by the construction of a boulevard or highway connecting the present Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument in the city of Washington with the Gettysburg battlefield in the State of Pennsylvania; and to give due and proper consideration to any plan or plans which may be submitted to it. Sec. 4. That the Commission, after selecting a chairman and aChairman, vice chairman and secretary. vice chairman from among its members, may employ a secretary and such other assistants as may be needed for clerical work connectedOther personal services. with the duties of the Commission and may also engage the services of expert advisers, and may fix their respective compensations within the amount appropriated for such purposes. Sec. 5. That the commissioners shall be paid their actual andTravel, etc., expenses. necessary traveling, hotel, and other expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties out of the amount appropriated. Sec. 6. That the Commission shall on or before one year afterReport to Congress. the date of enactment of this resolution, make a report to the Congress, in order that enabling legislation may be enacted, provided such enabling legislation stipulates that the said highway or boulevard shall be constructed by the Highway Departments of Pennsylvania,Construction under Federal supervision. Maryland, and District of Columbia, under the supervision of the Chief of the Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Agriculture, from funds provided by the said State of Pennsylvania, 286the said State of Maryland and the District of Columbia, including any future allocation of Federal-aid highway funds or grants to the said States of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and to the District of No Federal expense.Columbia. The passage of this Act does not commit the United States to build the said highway or boulevard at Federal expense, and if authorized the Federal funds for the construction of the said highway or boulevard will be the allocations that may accrue Payment from certain State, etc., allocated funds.to the said States and the District of Columbia in future appropriations of Federal-aid highway and grant funds. Any appropriations under the authority of this Act shall be deducted from the next regular apportionment or allocation of Federal-aid highway funds or Federal-grant highway funds, under existing or future authorizations as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture to Pennsylvania, Maryland and the District of Columbia. Sec. 7. Duration of Commission. That the term of Commission hereby created shall expire within one year after the completion of the proposed boulevard or highway. Sec. 8. Effective date. This joint resolution shall take effect immediately. Approved, May 20, 1935. Granting a leave of absence to settlers of homestead lands during the year 1935. 1935-05-22 135 Chapter 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 49 Stat. 286 74 1 public [CHAPTER 135.] AN ACT Granting a leave of absence to settlers of homestead lands during the year 1935. May 22, 1935.[[S. 1776](/us/bill/74/s/1776).][
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