Public Law 637.

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(/us/pl/74/636).] *Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Navy Department and naval service appropriations for fiscal year 1937. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, namely: Naval Establishment.NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT Secretary’s office.Office of the Secretary miscellaneous expenses Miscellaneous expenses.For traveling expenses of civilian employees, including not to exceed $2,500 for the expenses of attendance, at home and abroad, upon meetings of technical, professional, scientific, and other similar organizations when, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, such attendance would be of benefit in the conduct of the work of Experts.the Navy Department; not to exceed $2,000 for the part-time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia or elsewhere of such experts and at such rates of compensation as may be contracted for by and in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy;

Courts martial, etc.expenses of courts martial, purchase of law and reference books, expenses of prisoners and prisons, courts of inquiry, boards of investigation, examining boards, clerical assistance; witnesses’ fees and Accident prevention, shore establishments.traveling expenses; not to exceed $15,000 for promoting accident prevention and safety in shore establishments of the Navy, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy; newspapers and periodicals for the naval service; all advertising of the Navy Department and its bureaus (except advertising for recruits for the Bureau of Navigation); costs of suits; relief of vessels in distress; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; maintenance of attachés abroad, including office rental and pay of employees, and not to Living quarters, etc.exceed $8,000 in the aggregate or $900 for any one person for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized Vol. 46, p. 818.[U.

S. C., p. 45](/us/usc/p45).by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 118a); the collection and classification of information; not to exceed $185,000 for telephone, telegraph, and teletype rentals and tolls, telegrams, radiograms, and cablegrams; postage, foreign and domestic and post-office box rentals; necessary expenses for interned persons and prisoners of war under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department, including funeral expenses for such interned persons or prisoners of Damage claims.Vol. 41, p. 132.[U.

S. C., p. 1550](/us/usc/p1550).war as may die while under such jurisdiction; payment of claims for damages as provided in the Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year 1920, approved July 11, 1919 (U. S. C., 1399title 34, sec. 600); and other necessary and incidental expenses; in all, $1,147,500: *Provided*, That no part of any appropriation*Provisos*.Restriction on use in certain naval districts. contained in this Act shall be available for the expense of any naval district in which there may be an active navy yard, naval training station, or naval operating base, unless the commandant of the naval district shall be also the commandant of one of such establishments: *Provided further*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriationGroup IV

(b)employees. for employees assigned to group IV

(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $515,000. contingent, navy For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, exclusive ofContingent, Navy. personal services, m the Navy Department or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, and for examination of estimates for appropriations and of naval activities in the field for any branch of the naval service, $17,500, of which $2,500 shall be available immediately. care of lepers, and so forth, island of guamLepers, etc. Naval station, Island of Guam: For maintenance and care ofCare, etc., Guam and Culion, P. I. lepers, special patients, and for other purposes, including cost of transfer of lepers from Guam to the Island of Culion, in the Philippines, and their maintenance, $20,000; for educational purposes, $15,000; in all, $35,000. naval research laboratoryResearch Laboratory. For laboratory and research work and other necessary work ofWork of, for naval service. the Naval Research Laboratory for the benefit of the naval service, including operation and maintenance of a laboratory, additions to equipment, necessary properly to carry on work in hand, maintenance of buildings and grounds, temporary employment of such scientific and technical civilian assistants as may become necessary, and subscriptions to technical periodicals, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, $300,000: *Provided*, That*Provisos*.Temporary employment of scientists, etc. $50,000 of this appropriation shall be available for the temporary employment of civilian scientists and technicists required on special problems: *Provided further*, That the sum to be paid out of thisGroup IV

(b)employees. appropriation for employees assigned to group IV

(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $120,000, in addition to the amount authorized by the preceding proviso. operation and conservation of naval petroleum reservesNaval petroleum reserves. To enable the Secretary of the Navy to carry out the provisionsConservation and operation.Vol. 41, p. 813.[U. S. C., p. 1544](/us/usc/p1544). contained in the Act approved June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., title 34, sec. 524), requiring him to conserve, develop, use, and operate the naval petroleum reserves, $62,000, of which amount not to exceed $15,000 shall be available for employees assigned to group IV

(b)and thoseGroup IV

(b)employees. performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service 1400*Provisos*.Protecting work on Reserve No. 1.of the Navy Department: *Provided*, That out of any sums appropriated for naval purposes by this Act, any portion thereof, not to exceed $10,000,600, shall be available to enable the Secretary of the Navy to protect Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 1, established Vol. 36, p. 847.[U. S. C., p. 1832](/us/usc/p1832).by Executive order of September 2, 1912, pursuant to the Act of June 25, 1910 (U. S. C., title 43, secs. 141–143), by drilling Group IV

(b)employees.wells and performing any work incident thereto, of which amount not to exceed $100,000 shall be available for employees assigned to group IV

(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department: *Provided further*, Agreement with adjoining landowners not to drill offset wells.That no part of the sum made available for the protection of this property shall be expended if a satisfactory agreement can be made with adjoining landowners not to drill offset wells for the purpose of producing oil. Naval prison farms and prison personnel.naval prison farms and prison personnel Operation, etc.For the operation, maintenance, and improvement of naval prison farms and for the welfare, recreation, and education of prison personnel, to be expended under such regulations as the Secretary of *Proviso*.Limitation on expenditure.Vol. 48, p. 1227.the Navy may prescribe, $14,270: *Provided*, That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. Bureau of Navigation.BUREAU OF NAVIGATION Training, education, etc.training, education, and welfare, navy Naval War College, maintenance, etc.Naval War College: For maintenance and operation, including repairs, improvements, and care of grounds; services of a professor of international law, $2,000; services of lecturers, $2,000; and other civilian services; library expenses, including the purchase, binding, and repair of books and periodicals and subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals; and including contingencies of the president of the Naval War College to be expended in his discretion not exceeding $1,000; and for other necessary expenses, $120,000; Naval training stations, maintenance, etc.Naval training stations: For maintenance, operation, and other necessary expenses, including repairs, improvements, and care of grounds of the naval training stations which follow: San Diego, California, $160,000; Newport, Rhode Island, $130,000; Great Lakes, Illinois, $250,000; Norfolk, Virginia, $235,000, of which sum $10,000 shall be available immediately; Fleet training, gunnery, etc., prizes.Fleet training: For trophies and badges for excellence in gunnery, target practice, communication, engineering exercises and for economy in fuel consumption to be awarded under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may formulate; for the purpose of recording, classifying, compiling, and publishing the rules and results; for the establishment and maintenance of shooting galleries, target houses, targets, and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transporting equipment to and from ranges; entrance fees in matches for the rifle team, and special equipment therefor, $66,220; Instruction expenses.Retirement annuities.Instruction: For postgraduate instruction of officers in other than civil government and literature, including such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act approved January *Ante*, p. 1092.16, 1936 (Public Act Numbered 417, Seventy-fourth Congress), and for special instruction, education, and individual training of officers 1401and enlisted men at home and abroad, including maintenance of students abroad, except aviation training and submarine training otherwise appropriated for, $190,379: *Provided*, That no part*Proviso*.Restriction on special courses of instruction. of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for or on account of any expense incident to giving special educational courses or postgraduate instruction to officers with view to qualifying them or better qualifying them for the performance of duties required to be performed by or in pursuance of law by officers of the Supply Corps, Construction Corps, or Corps of Civil Engineers, except present students and except such officers who are Exception.commissioned in such corps or who have not been commissioned in the line of the Navy more than three years prior to the commencement of such educational courses or postgraduate instruction; Libraries: For libraries, professional books, textbooks, religiousLibraries. books, periodicals, and newspapers 11 So in original. subscriptions for ships and shore stations not otherwise appropriated for, $55,000; Welfare and recreation: For welfare and recreation of the Navy,Welfare and recreation. including periodicals and newspapers 11 So in original. subscriptions, and not exceeding $2,400 for care and operation of schools at naval stations at Guantanamo Bay and Tutuila, for the children of Naval and Marine Corps commissioned, enlisted, and civilian personnel, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, under such regulations as he may prescribe, $280,000; Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps: For all expenses incidentNaval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, operation, etc. to the conduct of the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps under such regulations as the President has prescribed or hereafter may prescribe under the provisions of section 22 of the Act approvedVol. 43, p. 1276.[U. S. C., p. 1564](/us/usc/p1564). March 4, 1925 (43 Stat., p. 1276; U. S. C., title 34, sec. 821), $84,400, of which $20,000 shall be available immediately: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Uniforms, equipment, etc. uniforms and other equipment or material issued to the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps in accordance with law may be furnished from surplus or reserve stocks of the Navy without payment under this appropriation, except for actual expenses incurred in the manufacture or issue; In all, training, education, and welfare, Navy, $1,570,999:Training, education, etc.*Proviso*.Group IV

(b)employees. *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for employees assigned to group IV

(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department, exclusive of temporary services, shall not exceed the followingLimitations. amounts, respectively: Naval War College, $77,000; Naval Training Station, San Diego, $7,500; Naval Training Station, Newport, $10,000; Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, $14,500; Naval Training Station, Norfolk, $5,500; Instruction, $26,000; Libraries, $24,000; Welfare and Recreation, $2,500. state marine schools, act of march 4, 1911State Marine Schools. To reimburse the State of California, $25,000; the State ofReimbursing California, Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania for expenses.Vol. 36, p. 1353.[U. S. C., p. 1578](/us/usc/p1578). Massachusetts, $25,000; the State of New York, $25,000; and the State of Pennsylvania, $25,000, for expenses incurred in the maintenance and support of marine schools in such States as provided in the Act authorizing the establishment of marine schools, and so forth, approved March 4, 1911 (U. S. C., title 34, sec. 1121), and for theMaintenance, etc., of vessels loaned. maintenance and repair of the particular vessels loaned by the United States to the said States on the date of the approval of this Act for use in connection with such State marine schools, $90,000, and no other vessels shall be furnished by or through the Navy Department; in all, $190,000. 1402 instruments and supplies, bureau of navigation Instruments and supplies.For supplies for seamen’s quarters; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipage at home and abroad ; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith and manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards ; all pilotage and towage of ships of war; canal tolls, wharfage, dock and port charges, and other necessary incidental expenses of a similar nature; hire of launches or other small boats in Asiatic waters; quarantine expenses; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship ; nautical and astronomical instruments and repairs to same; compasses; compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ship’s compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way and leads and other appliances for sounding; photographs, photographic instruments and materials, printing outfit and materials; music and musical instruments; commissions, warrants, diplomas, discharges, good-conduct badges, and medals for men and boys; transportation of effects of deceased officers, nurses, and enlisted men of the Navy, and of officers and men of the Naval Reserve who die while on duty; not to exceed $5,000 for contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen and impossible to classify; and for the necessary civilian electricians *Proviso*.Group IV

(b)employees.for gyrocompass testing and inspection, $630,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for employees assigned to group IV

(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $36,000. ocean and lake surveys, bureau of navigation Ocean and lake surveys.For hydrographic surveys, including the pay of the necessary hydrographic surveyors, cartographic draftsmen, and recorders, and for the purchase of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, *Proviso*.Group IV

(b)employees.$70,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for employees assigned to group IV

(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $27,400. Naval Reserve.naval reserve Organizing, recruiting, etc., of, and Militia.For expenses of organizing, administering, and recruiting the Naval Reserve and Naval Militia, including the designing, purchasing, and engraving of trophies; pay and allowances of officers and enlisted men of the Naval Reserve when employed on authorized training duty; mileage for officers while traveling under orders to and from training duty; transportation of enlisted men to and from training duty, and subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; subsistence of enlisted men during the actual period of Fleet Naval Reserve, subsistence, etc.training duty; subsistence of officers and enlisted men of the Fleet Naval Reserve while performing authorized training or other duty Pay, mileage, etc.without pay; pay, mileage, and allowances of officers of the Naval Reserve and pay, allowances, subsistence and transportation with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof of enlisted men of the Naval Reserve when ordered to active duty in connection with the instruction, training, and drilling of the Naval Reserve; Aviation cadets.pay and allowances, including travel and other allowances as authorized by law (excluding clothing and small-stores issues and uniform gratuities), of aviation cadets of the Naval Reserve when ordered 1403to active duty, including active duty undergoing training; pay ofDrills. officers and enlisted men of the Fleet Naval Reserve for the performance of not to exceed forty-eight drills per annum or other equivalent instruction or duty, or appropriate duties, and administrative duties, exclusive, however, of pay, allowances, or other expenses on accountFlight training. of members of any class of the Naval Reserve incident to their being given flight training unless, as a condition precedent, they shall have been found by such agency as the Secretary of the Navy may designate physically and psychologically qualified to serve as pilots of naval aircraft, $7,868,469, of which amount not more than $150,000Armories, wharfage, etc. shall be available for maintenance and rental of armories, including pay of necessary janitors, and for wharfage; not more than $81,000Group IV

(b)employees. shall be available for employees assigned to group IV

(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department; not less than $3,125,471 shall be available,Aviation material, hangars, etc. in addition to other appropriations, for aviation material, equipment, fuel, and rental of hangars, and not more than $397,914 shall be available, in addition to other appropriations, for fuel and the transportation thereof, and for all other expenses in connection with the maintenance, operation, repair, and upkeep of vessels assigned for training the Naval Reserve, and of such total sum $5,334,303 shall be available exclusively for and on account of Naval and Marine Corps Reserve aviation: *Provided*, That no appropriation contained*Provisos*.Reserve officers performing active duty, restriction. in this Act shall be available to pay more than nineteen officers of the Naval Reserve and one officer of the Marine Corps Reserve above the grade of lieutenant or captain, respectively, the pay and allowances of their grade for the performance of active duty other than the performance of drills or other equivalent instruction or duty, or appropriate duties and the performance of fifteen days’ activeLimitation. training duty, and other officers above such grades employed on such class of active duty (not to exceed four months in any calendar year) shall not be entitled to be paid a greater rate of nay and allowances than authorized by law for a lieutenant of the Navy or a captain of the Marine Corps entitled to not exceeding ten years’ longevity pay:Pay, allowances, etc., restrictions. *Provided further*, That no appropriation made in this Act shall be available for pay, allowances, or traveling or other expenses of any officer or enlisted man of the Naval or Marine Corps Reserve who may be drawing a pension, disability allowance, disability compensation, or retired pay from the Government of the United States; and “retired pay” as here used shall not include the pay of transferred members of such reserve forces. naval academyNaval Academy. Pay, Naval Academy: For pay of professors and instructors,Pay for professors, etc. including one professor as librarian, and such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act approved January 16,Annuities.*Ante*, p. 1092. 1936 (Public, Numbered 417, Seventy-fourth Congress), $281,193: *Provided*, That not more than $22,300 shall be paid for masters and *Proviso*.Swordsmanship, etc., instruction.Employees.*Proviso*.Group IV

(b)employees.instructors in swordsmanship and physical training. For pay of other employees, $585,623: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for employees assigned to group IV

(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules, in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department, shall not exceed $236,000. Current and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Academy: For textCurrent, etc., expenses. and reference books for use of instructors; stationery, blank books and forms, models, maps, newspapers, and periodicals; apparatus 1404and materials for instruction in physical training and athletics; expenses of lectures and entertainments, not exceeding $1,800, including pay Lectures, etc.and expenses of lecturer and visiting clergymen; chemicals, philosophical apparatus and instruments, stores, machinery, tools, fittings, apparatus, materials for instruction purposes, and purchase Library.of and engraving of trophies and badges, $60,800; for purchase, binding, and repair of books for the library (to be purchased in the open market on the written order of the superintendent), $5,000; Board of Visitors.for expenses of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy, $1,000; for contingencies for the superintendent of the academy, to be expended in his discretion not exceeding $4,000; for contingencies for the commandant of midshipmen, to be expended in his discretion, not exceeding $1,200; in all, $69,000, to be accounted for as one fund. Maintenance and repairs.Maintenance and repairs, Naval Academy: For necessary repairs of public buildings, wharves, and walls enclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, accident prevention, improvements, repairs, and fixtures; for books, periodicals, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants, machinery; Vehicles.purchase and maintenance of all horses and horse-drawn vehicles for use at the academy, including the maintenance, operation, and repair of three horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes; seeds and plants; tools and repairs of the same; stationery; furniture for Government buildings and offices at the academy, including furniture for midshipmen’s rooms; coal and other fuels; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up station and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, fire apparatus, and plants, and telephone, telegraph, and clock systems; incidental labor, advertising, water tax, postage, telephones, telegrams, tolls, and ferriage; flags and awnings; packing boxes; pay of inspectors and draftsmen; and music and astronomical instruments, $975,380: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Group IV

(b)employees.That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for employees assigned to group IV

(b)employees.For pay of employees, $90,120: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for employees assigned to group IV

(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $15,500; Maintenance.Maintenance: For water rent, heating, and lighting; cemetery, burial expenses, and headstones; general care and improvements of grounds, buildings, walls, and fences; repairs to power-plant equipment, implements, tools, and furniture, and purchase of the same; music in chapel and entertainment for beneficiaries; stationery, books, and periodicals; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, and of sick and insane beneficiaries, their attendants and necessary subsistence for both, to and from Employment of beneficiaries.other Government hospitals; employment of such beneficiaries in and about the Naval Home as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, on the recommendation of the governor; support of beneficiaries and all other contingent expenses, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of two motor-propelled vehicles, and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes, $99,880; In all, Naval Home, $190,000. 1405 BUREAU OF ENGINEERINGBureau of Engineering. engineering For repairs, preservation, and renewal of machinery, auxiliaryEngineering, repairs, machinery, etc.Equipment supplies, etc. machinery, and boilers of naval vessels, yard craft, and ships’ boats, distilling and refrigerating apparatus; repairs, preservation, and renewals of electric interior and exterior signal communications and all electrical appliances of whatsoever nature on board naval vessels, except range finders, battle order and range transmitters and indicators, and motors and their controlling apparatus used to operate machinery belonging to other bureaus ; searchlights and fire-control equipments for antiaircraft defense at shore stations; maintenance and operation of coast signal service ; equipage, supplies, and materials under the cognizance of the Bureau required for the maintenance and operation of naval vessels, yard craft, and ships’ boats ; purchase, installation, repair, and preservation of machinery, tools, and appliances in navy yards and stations, accident prevention, pay of classified field force under the Bureau; incidental expenses for naval vessels, navy yards, and stations, inspectors’ offices, the engineering experiment station, such as photographing, technical books and periodicals, stationery, and instruments; services, instruments, machines and auxiliaries, apparatus and supplies, and technical books and periodicals necessary to carry on experimental and research work ; maintenance and equipment of buildings and groundsAnnapolis, Md., engineering experiment station. at the engineering experiment station, Annapolis, Maryland; payment of part time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia or elsewhere of such scientists and technicists as may be contracted for by the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, at a rate of pay not exceeding $20 per diem for any persons so employed; in all, $20,500,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this*Proviso*.Group IV

(b)employees. appropriation for employees assigned to group IV

(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $1,724,000:Tests of Diesel-type engines for ship propulsion. *Provided further*, That not exceeding $600,000 of this appropriation shall be available for experiment, development, and test of Diesel-type engines for ship propulsion. BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIRBureau of Construction and Repair. For designing naval vessels, including services, instruments,Construction and repair of vessels. apparatus, and materials necessary for experimental and research work; payment of part time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, of such scientists and technicists as may be contracted for by the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, at a rate of pay not exceeding $20 per diem for any person so employed; maintenance, repairs, and alterations of vessels; care and preservation of vessels out of commission; docking of vessels; salvage and salvage services for naval floating property; construction and repair of district and yard craft; purchase and manufacture of equipage, appliances, supplies, and materials at home and abroad as required for the maintenance, repair, alteration, and operation of naval vessels and district and yard craft.; carrying on work of the experimental model basin and wind tunnel; tools and appliances for all purposes in navy yards and naval stations; labor in navy yards and naval stations and elsewhere at home and abroad; accident prevention; pay of classified field force, including employees in materialField force. inspection and superintending constructors’ offices; incidental expenses at navy yards and naval stations and in material inspection 1406and superintending constructors’ offices such as photographing, technical and professional books and magazines, plans, stationery, drafting *Proviso*.Group IV

(b)employees.instruments and other materials, $19,200,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for employees assigned to group IV

(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $1,875,000. Bureau of Ordnance.BUREAU OF ORDNANCE ordnance and ordnance stores, bureau of ordnance Procuring, etc., ordnance and ordnance stores.For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance material, for the armament of ships; for the purchase and manufacture of for pedoes and appliances; for the purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work under the cognizance of the Bureau of Ordnance; for furniture at naval ammunition depots, for pedo stations, naval ordnance plants, and proving grounds; for technical books; plant appliances as now defined by the “Navy Classification of Accounts”; for machinery and machine tools; for accident prevention; for experimental work in connection with the development of ordnance material for the Navy; for maintenance of proving grounds, powder factory, for pedo stations, gun factory, ammunition depots, and naval ordnance plants, and for target practice; not to exceed $15,000 for minor improvements to buildings, grounds, and appurtenances of a character which can be performed by regular station labor; for payment of part time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, of such scientists and technicists as may be contracted for by the Secretary of the Navy in his discretion at a rate of pay not exceeding $20 per diem for any person so employed; for the maintenance, repair, and operation of horse-drawn and motor-propelled freight and passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes at naval ammunition depots, naval proving grounds, naval ordnance plants, and naval for pedo stations; for the pay of chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, naval ordnance plants, and naval Schools at designated stations.ammunition depots, and for care and operation of schools at ordnance stations at Indianhead, Maryland; Dahlgren, Virginia; and *Proviso*.Group IV

(b)employees.South Charleston, West Virginia, $21,700,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for employees assigned to group IV

(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $1,300,000. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS pay, subsistence, and transportation of naval personnel Pay of naval personnel.Officers.Aerial flights, increased pay; restriction.Pay of naval personnel: For pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty and other duty, and officers on waiting orders, pay—$34,212,380, including not to exceed $1,698,034 for increased pay. for making aerial flights, no part of which shall be available for increased pay for making aerial flights by more than three officers above the rank of captain and below the rank of vice-admiral nor by nonflying officers or observers at a rate in excess of $1,440 per annum, which shall be the legal maximum rate as to 1407such nonflying officers or observers; rental allowance, $7,271,430;Rental and subsistence allowances.Retired officers.Hire of quarters. subsistence allowance, $4,285,103; in all, $45,768,913; officers on the retired list, $8,297,701; for hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them and hire of quarters for officers and enlisted menEnlisted men. on sea duty at such times as they may be deprived of their quarters on board ship due to repairs or other conditions which may render them uninhabitable, $3,000; pay of enlisted men on the retired list, $6,891,254; interest on deposits by men, $3,000; pay of petty officers (not to exceed an average of seven thousand seven hundred and twenty chief petty officers, of which number those with a permanent appointment as chief petty officer shall not exceed an average of six thousand seven hundred and forty-four), seamen, landsmen, and apprentice seamen, including men in the engineer’s force and men detailed for duty with the Bureau of Fisheries, enlisted men, men in trade schools, pay of enlisted men of the Hospital Corps, extra pay for men for diving, and cash prizesPrizes, etc. (not to exceed $100,000) for men for excellence in gunnery, target practice, communication, and engineering competitions, $82,293,763; outfits for all enlisted men and apprentice seamen of the Navy onOutfits, clothing, etc. first enlistment, civilian clothing not to exceed $15 per man to men given discharges for bad conduct or undesirability or inaptitude, reimbursement in kind of clothing to persons in the Navy for lossesReimbursement for certain losses. in cases of marine or aircraft disasters or in the operation of water or air-borne craft, and the authorized issue of clothing and equipment to the members of the Nurse Corps, $1,801,426; pay of enlisted men undergoing sentence of court martial, $64,400, and as many machinists as the President may from time to time deem necessary to appoint; pay and allowances of the Nurse Corps, includingNurse Corps. assistant superintendents, directors and assistant directors—pay, $550,120; rental allowance, $23,040; subsistence allowance, $21,900; pay retired list, $215,710; in all, $810,770; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps; pay and allowances of transferred and assigned menFleet Naval Reserve. of the Fleet Naval Reserve, $13,790,890; reimbursement for lossesProperty losses.Vol. 40, p. 389; Vol. 44, p. 1408.[U. S. C., p. 1572](/us/usc/p1572). of property as provided in the Act approved October 6, 1917 (U. S. C., title 34, secs. 981, 982), as amended by the Act of March 3, 1927 (U. S. C, title 34, sec. 983), $10,000; payment of six months’ death gratuity, $150,000; in all, $159,885,117; and no part of suchActive-duty pay, etc., to retired officers; restriction. sum shall be available to pay active-duty pay and allowances to officers in excess of nine on the retired list, except retired officers temporarily ordered to active duty as members of retiring and selection boards as authorized by law: *Provided*, That, except for*Proviso*.Enlisted men ashore as household servants. the public quarters occupied by the Chief of Office of Naval Operations, the Superintendent of the Naval Academy, and the Commandant of the Marine Corps and messes temporarily set up on shore for officers attached to seagoing vessels, to aviation units based on sea-going vessels including officers’ messes at the fleet air bases, and to landing forces and expeditions, and in addition not to exceed forty in number at such places as shall be designated by the Secretary of the Navy, no appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for the pay, allowances, or other expenses of any enlisted man or civil employee performing service in the residence or quarters of an officer or officers on shore as a cook, waiter, or other work of a character performed by a household servant, but nothing herein shall beVoluntary, etc., services. construed as preventing the voluntary employment in any such capacity of a retired enlisted man or a transferred member of the Fleet Naval Reserve without additional expense to the Government, 1408Sale of meals to officers on shore duty.nor the sale of meals to officers by general messes on shore as regulated by detailed instructions from the Navy Department; Subsistence.Subsistence of naval personnel: For provisions and commuted rations for enlisted men of the Navy, which commuted Provisions, commutation of rations, etc.rations may be paid to caterers of messes in case of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officers, at 50 cents per diem, and midshipmen at 75 cents per diem, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited at the rate of 70 cents per ration to Unavoidable absences.the naval hospital fund; subsistence of men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for Detached duty.commutation therefor to be given); quarters and subsistence of men Naval Reserve, etc.on detached duty; subsistence of members of the Naval Reserve during period of active service; subsistence in kind at hospitals and on board ship in lieu of subsistence allowance of female nurses and Navy and Marine Corps general courts-martial prisoners undergoing imprisonment with sentences of dishonorable discharge from the service at the expiration of such confinement; in all, $18,685,345; Transportation.Transportation and recruiting of naval personnel: For mileage and actual and necessary expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence as authorized by law to officers of the Navy while traveling under Attendance at meetings.orders, including not to exceed $2,000 for the expenses of attendance, at home and abroad, upon meetings of technical, professional, scientific, and other similar organizations, when, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, such attendance would be of benefit in Midshipmen, etc.the conduct of the work of the Navy Department; for mileage, at 5 cents per mile, to midshipmen entering the Naval Academy while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as midshipmen, and not more than $2,500 shall be available for transportation of midshipmen, including reimbursement of traveling expenses while traveling under orders after appointment as midshipmen; for actual traveling expenses of female Enlisted men.nurses; for travel allowance or for transportation and subsistence as authorized by law of enlisted men upon discharge; transportation of enlisted men and apprentice seamen and applicants for enlistment at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation to their home, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentice seamen discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of sick or insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen and insane supernumerary patients to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; Apprehending deserters, etc.Recruiting.apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation; expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen; actual and necessary expenses in lieu of mileage Transporting dependents.to officers on duty with traveling recruiting parties; transportation of dependents of officers and enlisted men, including travel had during the fiscal year 1937, but not in excess of from the last duty station Funeral escorts.to home, in connection with retirement, $1,235,711; expenses of funeral escorts of naval personnel; actual expenses of officers and midshipmen while on shore-patrol duty, including the hire of automobiles when necessary for the use of shore-patrol detachment: in all, $4,922,519; Aggregate; amount Immediately available.In all, for pay, subsistence, and transportation of naval personnel, $183.492,981, of which sum $1,000,060 shall be immediately available, and the money herein specifically appropriated for “Pay, subsistence, and transportation of naval personnel” shall be disbursed and 1409accounted for in accordance with existing law and shall constituteAccounting. one fund: *Provided*, That additional commissioned, warranted,*Provisos*.Additional medical detail, Veterans’ Administration patients in naval hospitals. appointed, enlisted, and civilian personnel of the Medical Department of the Navy, required for the care of patients of the United States Veterans’ Administration in naval hospitals, may be employed in addition to the numbers appropriated for in this Act:Restriction on admissions to Naval Academy after January 30, 1936. *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the pay of any midshipmen whose admission subsequent to January 30, 1936, would result in exceeding at any time an allowance of four midshipmen for each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in Congress; of one midshipman for Puerto Rico, a native of the island, appointed on nomination of the Governor, and of four midshipmen from Puerto Rico, appointed on nomination of the Resident Commissioner; and of four midshipmen from the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That nothing herein shall be construed to repealAppointments at large from enlisted men not affected. or modify in any way existing laws relative to the appointment of midshipmen at large, from the enlisted personnel of the naval service, from the Naval Reserve, from honor graduates of military schools or Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps: *Provided further*,Sea service requirements of appointees from enlisted men. That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the pay or any midshipman appointed from enlisted men of the Navy for admission to the Naval Academy in the class entering in the calendar year 1937 who has not served aboard a vessel of the Navy in full commission for at least nine months prior to such admission. maintenance, bureau of supplies and accounts For equipage, supplies, and services under the cognizance of theMaintenance. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, including stationery for commanding, executive, communication, and navigating officers of ships, boards and courts on ships, and chaplains; commissions, interest, and exchange; ferriage and bridge tolls; including street-car fares; rent of buildings and offices not in navy yards except for use of naval attachés and recruiting officers; accident prevention; services of civilian employees under the cognizance of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts; freight, express, and parcel-post charges, includingFreight, etc., charges. transportation of funds and cost of insurance on shipments of money when necessary; for transportation on Government-owned vessels, notwithstanding the provisions of other law, of privately owned automobiles of Regular Navy and Marine Corps personnel upon change of station, and ice for cooling drinking water on shore (except at naval hospitals and shops at industrial navy yards), pertaining to the Navy Department and Naval Establishment, $8,523,612: *Provided*, That no part of this or any other*Provisos*.Supply or replacement of kitchen, etc., ware for officers’ quarters ashore forbidden. appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for or on account of the supply or replacement of table linen, dishes, glassware, silver, and kitchen utensils for use in the residences or quarters of officers on shore: *Provided further*, That the sum to be paid out of thisGroup IV

(b)employees. appropriation for employees assigned to group IV

(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $4,400,000: *Provided further*, That, without deposit to the credit of the Treasurer of theUse of certain receipts for current expenditures; accounting. United States and withdrawal on money requisitions, receipts of public moneys from sales or other sources by officers of the Navy and Marine Corps on disbursing duty and charged in their official accounts may be used by them as required for current expenditures, all necessary bookkeeping adjustments of appropriations, funds, and accounts to be made in the settlement of their disbursing accounts. 1410 clothing, naval reserve Clothing and small-stores fund.The clothing and small-stores fund shall be charged with the value of all issues of clothing and small stores made to aviation cadets and enlisted men of the Naval Reserve and the uniform gratuity paid to officers and aviation cadets of the Naval Reserve. fuel and transportation, bureau of supplies and accounts Fuel and transportation.For coal and other fuel for submarine bases and steamers’ and ships’ use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same and the removal of fuel refuse from ships; maintenance and general operation of machinery of naval fuel depots and fuel plants; water for all purposes on board naval vessels, and ice for the cooling of water, including the expense of transportation and *Provisos*.Issue to be charged to applicable appropriation.storage of both, $8,437,460: *Provided*, That fuel acquired other than by purchase shall not be issued without charging the applicable appropriation with the cost of such fuel at the rate current at the Prices for fuel on hand.time of issue for fuel purchased: *Provided further*, That the President may direct the use, wholly or in part, of fuel on hand, however acquired, to be charged at the last issue rate for fuel acquired by purchase, when, in his judgment, prices quoted for supplying fuel Restriction on use, etc., of foreign fuel oil.are excessive: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be available, any provision in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding, for the purchase of any kind of fuel oil of foreign production for issue, delivery, or sale to ships at points either in the United States or its possessions where oil of the production of the United States or its possessions may be procurable, notwithstanding that oil of the production of the United States or its possessions may cost more than oil of foreign production, if such excess of cost, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Navy, which shall be conclusive, be not unreasonable. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY medical department Surgeons’ necessaries.Civil establishment.For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission, navy yards, naval stations, and Marine Corps; and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy yards, naval medical supply depots, Naval Medical School and Dispensary, Washington, and Naval Academy; for tolls and ferriages; purchase of books and stationery; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary, hygienic, administrative, and special instruction, including the issuing of naval medical bulletins and supplements; purchase and repairs of non-passenger-carrying wagons, automobile ambulances, and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; maintenance, Vehicles, etc.repair, and operation of three passenger-carrying motor vehicles for Naval Dispensary, Washington, District of Columbia, and of one motor-propelled vehicle for official use only for the medical officer on out-patient medical service at the Naval Academy; trees, plants, care of grounds, garden tools, and seeds; incidental articles for the Naval Medical School and Naval Dispensary, Washington, naval medical supply depots, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks; washing for medical department at Naval Medical School and Navy 11 So in original. Dispensary, Washington, naval medical supply depots, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy yards and naval stations, and ships; and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Medical School 1411and naval medical supply depots; rent of rooms for Naval Dispensary, Washington, District of Columbia, not to exceed $1,200; for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the NavyCare, etc., of insane on Pacific coast. and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast, including supernumeraries held for transfer to Saint Elizabeths Hospital; for dental outfits and dental material; and all other necessary contingent expenses; in all, $2,220,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this*Proviso*.Group IV

(b)employees. appropriation for employees assigned to group IV

(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $200,000. care of the deadCare of the dead. For the care of the dead; for funeral expenses and interment orInterment or transportation expenses. transportation to their homes or to designated cemeteries of the remains of officers (including officers who die within the United States) and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps, of members of the Nurse Corps, reservists on active or training duty, and accepted applicants for enlistment, civilian employees of the NavyCivilian employees dying abroad. Department and Naval Establishment who die outside of the continental limits of the United States, and former enlisted men who are discharged while in naval hospitals and are inmates of said hospitals on the date of their death; for funeral expenses and interment of the remains of pensioners and destitute patients who die in naval hospitals; for purchase and care of cemetery lots; for care of graves outside of the continental limits of the United States, including those in sites not owned by the United States; for removal of remains from abandoned cemeteries to naval or national cemeteries, or to their homes, including remains interred in isolated graves at home and abroad, and remains temporarily interred, $70,000: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Retired officers, etc., on active duty included. the above provision shall apply in the case of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps on the retired list who die while on active duty. BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKSBureau of Yards and Docks. maintenance, bureau of yards and docks For the labor, materials, and supplies necessary, as determinedGeneral maintenance, etc. by the Secretary of the Navy, for the general maintenance of the activities and properties now or hereafter under the cognizance of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, including accident prevention; the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles for the Navy Department (not to exceed ten in number)Vehicles. and the Naval Establishment not otherwise provided for; not to exceed $1,600,000 for employees assigned to group IV

(b)andGroup IV

(b)employees. those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department, and part-time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, of such engineers and architects as may be contracted for by the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, at a rate of pay not exceeding $25 per diem for any person so employed, $7,450,000: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Limitation on vehicle purchases. That during the fiscal year 1937 the motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles to be purchased hereunder shall not exceed the following respective numbers and costs: Ten at $1,800 each, fifty-one at $550 each, and one motor bus at $3.950: *Provided further*, ThatMaintenance, operation, repair, etc. expenditures from appropriations contained in this Act for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, including the compensation of civilian chauffeurs and the 1412compensation of any greater number than ninety enlisted men detailed to such duty, shall not exceed in the aggregate $90,000, exclusive of such vehicles owned and operated by the Marine Corps in connection with expeditionary duty without the continental limits of the United States, motor busses, and motorcycles, and on any one vehicle, except busses and ambulances, shall not exceed for maintenance, upkeep, and repair, exclusive of garage rent, pay of operators, tires, fuel, and lubricants, one-third of the market price of a new vehicle of the same make or class, and in any case not more than $400. contingent, bureau of yards and docks Contingent.For contingent expenses and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, $140,000. public works, bureau of yards and docks Public works, etc.For public works and public utilities, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $3,395,300, which, together with the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made under this head, shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law and shall constitute *Provisos*.Personal services.one fund: *Provide*, That not to exceed 2% per centum of the aggregate amount available on July 1, 1936, shall be available for the employment of classified personal services in the Bureau of Yards and Docks and in the field service to be engaged upon such work Construction of authorized projects.and to be in addition to employees otherwise provided for: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to commence, continue, or complete the construction of, or make provision for, by contract or otherwise, projects heretofore authorized and appropriated for under this head, and, in addition, the following-named public works and public utilities projects at a limit of cost not to exceed the amount stated for each project enumerated, respectively: Mare Island, Calif.Navy Yard, Mare Island, California: For preparation of site, preliminary test pits, cofferdam, and other incidental preliminary work toward the construction of graving dock, services and auxiliary construction, $150,000; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.Navy Yard. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Improvement of channel and harbor, including plant, $1,500,000; mooring facilities and accessories, $225,000; purchase of land for range light, $100; Annapolis, Md.Naval Radio Station, Annapolis, Maryland: Extension of radio facilities, including buildings and accessories, $400,000; Norfolk, Va.Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Improvement of power plant, $300.000; extension of machine shop, $125,000; Naval Academy.Buildings and Grounds, Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland: Increased facilities for midshipmen, including building extensions and accessories, $410,000; improvement of interior illumination, $270,000; Key West, Fla.Naval Station, Key West. Florida: Improvement of water front, $286,000; San Diego, Calif.Naval Hospital, San Diego, California: Extension of main hospital building, $260,000, to be paid from Naval Hospital Fund; Radio receiving station.Washington, D. C.Naval Radio Receiving Station, vicinity of Washington, District of Columbia: Service lilies, improvement of grounds, and other facilites11 So in original., $125,000; Balboa, C. Z.Naval Radio Receiving Station, Balboa, Canal Zone: Service lines, improvement of grounds, and other facilities, $45,000; Summit, C. Z.Naval Radio Station, Summit, Canal Zone: Extension of radio facilities, including buildings and accessories, $175,000; 1413 Naval Radio Station, Lualualei, Hawaii: Extension of radioLualualei, Hawaii. facilities, including buildings and accessories, $225,000; Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, Virginia: Improvement of waterNorfolk, Va., operating base. front, $300,000; Navy Yards and Naval Stations: Toward improvement of electricNavy yards and stations; electric lines to water front. lines to water front, $800,000. BUREAU OF AERONAUTICSBureau of Aeronautics. aviation, navy For aviation, as follows: For navigational, photographic, Designated aviation expenses.aerological, radio, and miscellaneous equipment, including repairs thereto, for use with aircraft built or building on June 30, 1936, $700,000; for maintenance, repair, and operation of aircraft factory, air stations, fleet air bases, fleet and all other aviation activities, accident prevention, testing laboratories, for overhauling of planes, and for the purchase for aviation purposes only of special clothing, wearing apparel, and special equipment, $14,408,270, including $221,000 for the equipment of vessels with catapults and including not to exceed $50,000 for the procurement of helium, which sum of $50,000 shallHelium.*Post*, p. 1790. be transferred to and made available to the Bureau of Mines on July 1, 1936, in addition to which sum the Bureau of Mines may use for helium-plant operation in the fiscal year 1937 the unexpended balance of funds transferred to it for such operation in the fiscal year 1936, and the Bureau may lease, after competition, surplus metal cylinders acquired for use as helium containers; for continuingDeveloping aircraft types, etc. experiments and development work on all types of aircraft, including the payment of part time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia or elsewhere of such scientists and technicists as may be contracted for by the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, at a rate of pay not exceeding $20 per diem for any person so employed, $2,500,000; for new construction and procurement ofNew construction. aircraft and equipment, spare parts and accessories, $20,980,000, of which amount not to exceed $6,590,000 shall be available for theIncurred obligations. payment of obligations incurred under the contract authorization carried in the Navy Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1936; inAggregate; accounting. all, $38,588,270, and the money herein specifically appropriated for “Aviation” shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law and shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, That the sum*Provisos*.Group IV

(b)employees. to be paid out of this appropriation for employees assigned to group IV

(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $1,582,340: *Provided further*, That in addition to the amount hereinContracts for new airplanes, etc. appropriated, the Secretary of the Navy may, prior to July 1, 1937, enter into contracts for the production and purchase of new airplanes and their equipment, spare parts and accessories, to an amount not in excess of $13,000,000: *Provided further*, That the Secretary ofSum transferred for traveling expenses. the Treasury is authorized and directed, upon the request of the Secretary of the Navy, to transfer not to exceed in the aggregate $50,000 from this appropriation to the appropriations “Pay,*Ante*, p. 1406; *Post*, p. 1414. subsistence, and transportation, Navy” and “Pay, Marine Corps” to cover authorized traveling expenses of officers and enlisted men in connection with flying new airplanes from contractor’s works to assigned station or ship, including travel to contractor’s works and return of personnel to stations of duty, and the amount so transferred shall be in addition to any limitations contained in the appropriations “Pay, Subsistence, and Transportation, Navy” and “Pay, 1414Coast stations limited.Marine Corps”: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for maintenance of more than six heavier-than-air stations on the coast of the continental United States: *Provided further*, Airplane factory construction forbidden.That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the construction of a factory for the manufacture of airplanes: *Provided further*, Adjusting damage claims.That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to consider, ascertain, adjust, determine, and pay out of this appropriation the amounts due on claims for damages which have occurred or may occur to private property growing out of the operations of naval aircraft where such claim does not exceed the sum of $500. Marino Corps.MARINE CORPS pay, marine corps Pay, etc., officers on active list.Pay of officers, active list: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for all officers on the active list—pay and allowance, $4,233,706, including not to exceed $212,427 for increased pay for making aerial flights, none of which shall be available for increased pay for making aerial flights by nonflying officers at a rate in excess of $1,440 per annum, which shall be the legal maximum rate as to such nonflying officers; subsistence allowance, $573,123; rental allowance, $766,154; in all, $5,572,983; and no part of such sum shall be available to pay active-duty pay and allowances to officers on the retired list; Retired officers.For pay of officers prescribed by law on the retired list, $1,329,165; Enlisted men, active list.Pay of enlisted men, active list: For pay and allowances of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, as prescribed by law, and for the expenses of clerks of the United States Marine Corps traveling under orders, including not to exceed $250 for the expenses of attendance upon meetings of technical, professional, scientific, and other organizations, when, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, such attendance would be of benefit in the conduct of the work of the Marine Corps, and including additional compensation for enlisted men of the Marine Corps qualified as expert riflemen, sharpshooters, marksmen, or regularly detailed as gun captains, gun pointers, cooks, messmen, including interest on deposits by enlisted men, post-exchange debts of deserters, and of men discharged or sentenced to terms of imprisonment while in debt to the United States, under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, and the authorized travel allowance of discharged enlisted men, and for prizes for excellence in gunnery exercises and target practice, and for pay of enlisted men designated as Navy mail clerks and assistant Navy mail clerks both afloat and ashore, and for gratuities to Pay and allowances.enlisted men discharged not under honorable conditions—pay and allowances, $7,780,526; allowance for lodging and subsistence, $632,399; in all, $8,412,925; Retired enlisted men.For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on the retired list, $841,600; Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged enlisted men for clothing undrawn, $200,720; Undrawn clothing.Marine Corps Reserve.For pay and allowances of the Marine Corps Reserve

(a)excluding transferred and assigned men, $793,095;

(b)transferred men, $426,953; in all, $1,220,048; Mileage, etc.For mileage and actual and necessary expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence as authorized by law to officers traveling under orders without troops, $146,000; Accounting.In all, $17,723,471, and the money herein specifically appropriated for pay of the Marine Corps shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law and shall constitute one fund. 1415 pay of civil employees, marine corps Pay of civil force: For personal services in the District ofCivil force at headquarters. Columbia, as follows: Offices of the Major General Commandant and adjutant inspector, $108,380; Office of paymaster, $45,300; Office of the quartermaster, $118,510; in all, $272,220: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Number of unlisted men at headquarters.Vacancies to be filled by civilians. That the total number of enlisted men on duty at Marine Corps headquarters on May 7, 1930, shall not be increased, and in lieu of enlisted men whose services at such headquarters shall be terminated for any cause prior to July 1, 1937, their places may be filled byPay rates.Vol. 42, p. 1488; Vol. 45, p. 776; Vol. 46, p. 1003.[U. S. C., p. 85](/us/usc/p85). civilians, for the pay of whom, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, either or both the appropriations “Pay, Marine Corps” and “General expenses, Marine Corps” shall be available. general expenses, marine corpsGeneral expenses. For every expenditure requisite for, and incident to, the authorizedAuthorized work. work of the Marine Corps, other than as appropriated for under the headings of pay and salaries, as follows: For provisions, subsistence, board and lodging of enlisted men,Provisions, etc. recruits and recruiting parties, and applicants for enlistment, cash allowance for lodging and subsistence to enlisted men traveling on duty; ice, ice machines and their maintenance, $2,657,348; For clothing for enlisted men, $889,200;Clothing. For fuel, heat, light, and power, including sales to officers,Fuel, etc. $457,000; For military supplies and equipment, including their purchase,Military supplies, etc.Purchase, preservation, etc. repair, preservation, and handling; recreational, school, educational, library, musical, amusement, field sport and gymnasium supplies, equipment, services, and incidental expenses; purchase and markingPrizes, badges, etc. of prizes for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice, good-conduct badges, medals, and buttons awarded to officers and enlisted men by the Government for conspicuous, gallant, and special service; rental and maintenance of target ranges and entrance fees for competitions, $516,877. For transportation of troops and applicants for enlistment,Transportation, etc. including cash in lieu of ferriage and transfers en route; toilet kits for issue to recruits upon their first enlistment and other incidental expenses of the recruiting service; and for transportation forDependents. dependents of officers and enlisted men, including travel had during the fiscal years 1935 and 1936, but not in excess of from the last duty station to home, in connection with retirement, $300,000; For repairs and improvements to barracks, quarters, and otherRepairs, etc., to barracks, quarters, etc. public buildings at posts and stations; for the renting, leasing, and improvement of buildings in the District of Columbia, and at such other places as the public exigencies require, and the erection of temporary buildings upon the approval of the Secretary of the Navy at a total cost of not to exceed $10,000 during the year, $400,000; For forage and stabling of public animals and the authorizedForage, etc. number of officers’ horses, $25,000; For miscellaneous supplies, material, equipment, personal andContingent. other services, and for other incidental expenses for the Marine Corps not otherwise provided for; purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters and calculating machines; purchase and repair of furniture and fixtures; repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles;Vehicles, etc. and purchase, exchange, and repair of horse-drawn passenger-carrying and other vehicles, including parts; veterinary services and 1416Horses, etc.medicines for public animals and the authorized number of officers’ horses purchase of mounts and horse equipment for all officers below the grade of major required to be mounted; shoeing for public animals and the authorized number Funeral expenses.of officers’ horses; books, newspapers, and periodicals; printing and binding; packing and crating of officers’ allowance of baggage; funeral expenses of officers and enlisted men and accepted applicants for enlistment and retired officers on active duty, including the transportation of their bodies, arms, and wearing apparel from the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States; construction, operation, and maintenance of laundries; and for all emergencies and extraordinary *Proviso*.Purchase of vehicles.expenses, $2,180,842: *Provided*, That there may be expended out of this appropriation (including the exchange value of any vehicle that may be used as part payment) for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, the gross cost of any one vehicle not to be in excess of the respective amounts as follows: One at $1,800; two at $900 each; nine at $700 each; six station wagons at $700 each; and five motorcycles at $300 each. Marine Corps Reserve.Marine Corps Reserve: For clothing, including clothing for aviation cadets, subsistence, heat, light, transportation, and miscellaneous expenses, $219,308; Accounting.*Proviso*.Group IV

(b)employees.In all, $7,645,575, to be accounted for as one fund: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for employees assigned to group IV

(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $80,000. Replacement of vessels.REPLACEMENT OF NAVAL VESSELS Construction and machinery.Submarines, etc., heretofore authorized.Vol. 39, p. 616.Construction and machinery: On account of hulls and outfits of vessels and machinery of vessels, including the re-engining and completion of submarines 170 and 171 (39 Stat. 616), heretofore authorized and appropriated for in part under “Increase of the Navy, Construction and Machinery”, including

(1)the expenses in connection with continuing the construction of two aircraft carriers, one heavy cruiser, three light cruisers, twenty destroyers, four submarines, and two gunboats which were commenced in the fiscal Vol. 48, p. 201.Commencement of designated vessels.Vol. 48, p. 503.year 1934 under funds made available from the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, and

(2)for the commencement of the following vessels authorized by the Act approved March 27, 1934 (48 Stat. 503–505):

(a)Twelve destroyers and six submarines, Conditional capital-ship replacement.and

(b)not more than two capital ships, as replacements of over-age capital ships, to be undertaken only in the event that the President determines as a fact that capital-ship-replacement construction is commenced by any of the other signatory powers to the Vol. 46, p. 2858.Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armament signed Balances reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 417.at London, April 22, 1930, $115,300,000, and in addition the unexpended balances on June 30, 1936 of the appropriation “Increase of the Navy, Construction and Machinery” are hereby reappropriated and made available for the purposes of this paragraph, and the total sum herein made available shall remain available until expended: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Group IV

(b)employees.That the sum to be paid out of the amount available for expenditure under the head of “Construction and Machinery” for the fiscal year 1937 for employees in the field service assigned to group IV

(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed Technical services, etc.$3,870,000: *Provided further*, That, of the appropriations made available by this Act under the head of “Replacement of Naval 1417Vessels”, there shall be available such sums as the Secretary of the Navy may from time to time determine to be necessary for the engagement of technical services, and the employment of personnel in the Navy Department and in the field, the purchase of plans, drafting and other supplies, and the expenses of printing and travel, in addition to those otherwise provided for, owing to the construction of vessels which have been, or may hereafter be authorized. Armor, armament, and ammunition: Toward the armor,Armor, ammunition, etc., for vessels.Sums reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 417. armament, and ammunition for vessels hereinbefore described under the head of “Construction and machinery”, $53,200,000, and in addition the unexpended balances on June 30, 1936 of the appropriation “Increase of the Navy, Armor, Armament, and Ammunition” are hereby reappropriated and made available for the purposes of this paragraph and the total sum herein made available shall remain available until expended: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out*Proviso*.Group IV

(b)employees. of the amount available for expenditure under this head for the fiscal year 1937 for employees in the field service assigned to group IV

(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $1,250,000. The appropriations made in this Act for the purchase orPurchase of letters patent, etc. manufacture of equipment or material or of a particular class of equipment or material shall be available for the purchase of letters patent, applications for letters patent, licenses under letters patent, and applications for letters patent that pertain to such equipment or material for which the appropriations are made. No part of any appropriation made for the Navy shall beDepartment use limited. expended for any of the purposes herein provided for on account of the Navy Department in the District of Columbia, including personal services of civilians and of enlisted men of the Navy, except as herein expressly authorized: *Provided*, That there may be detailed*Provisos*.Details to Bureau of Navigation. to the Bureau of Navigation not to exceed at any one time seven enlisted men of the Navy: *Provided further*, That enlisted menDesignated services not regarded as details. detailed to the Naval Dispensary and the Radio Communication Service shall not be regarded as detailed to the Navy Department in the District of Columbia. No part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be availableNo pay to officer, etc., using time-measuring device on work of employee. for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person or persons having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch or other time-measuring device a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of theCash rewards prohibited. appropriations made in this Act be available to pay any premiums or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant; and no part of theRepairs, etc., other than at navy yards, etc., restricted. moneys herein appropriated for the Naval Establishment or herein made available therefor shall be used or expended under contracts hereafter made for the repair, purchase, or acquirement, by or from any private contractor, of any naval vessel, machinery, article or articles that at the time pf the proposed repair, purchase, or acquirement can be repaired, manufactured, or produced in each or any of the Government navy yards or arsenals of the United States, when time and facilities permit, and when, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, such repair, purchase, acquirement, or production 1418would not involve an appreciable increase in cost to the Government: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Construction, etc., first find alternate vessels at Government yards, factories, etc., required.That nothing herein shall be construed as altering or repealing the provisos contained in the Acts to authorize the construction of certain naval vessels, approved February 13, 1929, and March 27, 1934, which provide that the first and succeeding alternate Vol. 45, p. 1165; Vol. 48, p. 503.[U. S. C., p. 1541](/us/usc/p1541).vessels in each category, except the fifteen-thousand-ton aircraft carrier, upon which work is undertaken, together with the main engines, armor, and armament shall be constructed or manufactured in the Government navy yards, naval gun factories, naval ordnance plants, or arsenals of the United States, except such material or parts as are not customarily manufactured in such Government plants. Contractors to furnish estimates.No part of the funds herein appropriated shall be available to pay a contractor upon any contract for a naval vessel entered into under authority of this Act unless, at the time of filing his bid, he shall also file the estimates upon which such bid was based. Navy Department.NAVY DEPARTMENT Salaries.salaries For compensation for personal services in the District of Columbia, as follows: Secretary, Assistant, and civilian personnel in offices, etc., designated.Office of the Secretary of the Navy: Secretary of the Navy, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and other personal services, $173,330. General board, $12,560. Naval examining and retiring boards, $10,600. Compensation board, $6,840. Office of Naval Records and Library, $34,080. Office of Judge Advocate General, $117,720. Office of Chief of Naval Operations, $66,020. Board of Inspection and Survey, $19,840. Office of Director of Naval Communications, $130,000. Office of Naval Intelligence, $61,660. Bureau of Navigation, $473,320. Hydrographic Office, $400,000. American Ephemeris, etc.Naval Observatory, including $2,500 for pay of computers on piece-work in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and in improving the tables of the planets, moon, and stars, $171,140. Bureau of Engineering, $307,400. Bureau of Construction and Repair, $347,479. Bureau of Ordnance, $149,000. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $800,000. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $83,720. Bureau of Yards and Docks, $276,800. Bureau of Aeronautics, $344,000. 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).In all, salaries, Navy Department, $3,985,509. 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 Secretaries of the Navy, 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 the 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 1419fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service. this restriction shall not apply

(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or

(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed as of July 1, 1924, inNo redaction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490.Transfer to another position without reduction. 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 a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit,

(4)to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher thanPayment under higher rate permitted. the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or

(5)to reduce the compensation of anyIf only one position In a grade. person in a grade in which only one position is allocated. contingent expenses For professional and technical books and periodicals, law books,Department contingent expenses. and necessary reference books, including city directories, railway guides, freight, passenger, and express tariff books and photostating, for department library; for purchase of photographs, maps,Naval records of the World War. documents, and pictorial records of the Navy, photostating and other necessary incidental expenses in connection with the preparation for publication of the naval records of the war with the Central Powers of Europe; for stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, and drawing materials; purchase and exchange of motor trucks or motor-delivery wagons, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor trucks or motor-delivery wagons; garage rent; street-car fares not exceeding $500; freight, expressage, postage, typewriters, and computing machines, and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, $95,000; itNaval service appropriations not to be used for department expenses. shall not be lawful to expend, unless otherwise specifically provided herein, for any of the offices or bureaus of the Navy Department in the District of Columbia, any sum out of appropriations made for the naval service for any of the purposes mentioned or authorized in this paragraph. printing and binding For printing and binding for the Navy Department and the NavalPrinting and binding. Establishment executed at the Government Printing Office, $415,000, including not exceeding $95,000 for the Hydrographic Office and $2,800 for the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. printing historical and naval documents For continuing the printing of historical and naval documents,Historical and naval documents. including composition, clerical copying in the Navy Department, and other preparatory work, in accordance with the provisions of the appropriation made for the commencement of this work asVol. 48, p. 414.Balance reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 420. contained in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $25,000, together with the unexpended balance for this purpose for the fiscal year 1936: *Provided*, That nothing in such Act shall *Proviso*.Copies to Library of Congress.preclude the Public Printer from furnishing one hundred and fifty copies of each volume published to the Library of Congress. contingent and miscellaneous expenses, hydrographic officeHydrographic Office. For purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailingContingent and miscellaneous expenses. directions, copper plates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart portfolios, electrotyping copper plates, cleaning copper plates; tools, instruments, power, and material for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; reduction of chartsCharts, etc. by photography; photolithographing charts for immediate use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; purchase 1420of equipment for the storage of plates used in making charts and for the storage of Hydrographic Office charts and publications; purchase of one new offset press; modernization, care, and repair to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools; extra drawing and engraving; translating from foreign languages; telegrams on public business; preparation of pilot charts and their supplements, and printing and mailing same; purchase of data for charts and Books, etc.sailing directions and other nautical publications; books of reference and works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, and to other professional and technical subjects connected with the work of the Hydrographic Office, $78,000. Branches.For contingent expenses of branch hydrographic offices at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo, Duluth, Sault Sainte Marie, Seattle, Panama, San Juan (Puerto Rico) , Los Angeles, Honolulu, and Galveston, including furniture, fuel, lights, works, and periodicals, relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography and terrestrial magnetism, stationery, miscellaneous articles, rent and care of offices, care of time balls, carfare and ferriage in visiting merchant vessels, freight and express charges, telegrams, and other necessary expenses incurred in collecting the latest information for pilot charts, and for other purposes for which the offices were established, $11,380. For services of necessary employees at branch offices, $47,220. Naval Observatory.contingent and miscellaneous expenses, naval observatory Library.Apparatus, etc.For professional and scientific books, books of reference, periodicals, engravings, photographs, and fixtures for the library; for apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same; for repairs to buildings (including quarters), fixtures, and fences; for cleaning, repair, and upkeep of grounds and roads; furniture and furnishings for offices and quarters, gas, chemicals, paints, and stationery, including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, foreign postage; plants, seeds, and fertilizers; for fuel, oil, grease, pipe, wire, and other materials needed for the maintenance and repair of boilers, engines, heating apparatus, electric lighting and power, and water supply; purchase and maintenance of teams; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor trucks and passenger automobiles, and of horse-drawn vehicles; telegraph and telephone service; and other absolutely necessary expenses, $23,600. Sec. 2. Government-owned automobiles.Use restricted to official business. No part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be used for maintaining, driving, or operating any Government-owned motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle not used exclusively for Transportation between domicile and place of employment.official purposes; and “official purposes” shall not include the transportation of officers and employees between their domiciles and places of employment except in cases of medical officers on out-patient medical service and except in cases of officers and employees engaged in field work the character of whose duties makes such transportation necessary and then only as to such latter cases when Exceptions.the same is approved by the head of the Department. This section shall not apply to any motor vehicle for official use of the Secretary of the Navy, and no other persons connected with the Navy Department or the naval service, except the commander in chief of the United States Asiatic Fleet, Marine Corps officers serving with expeditionary forces in foreign countries, and medical officers on out-patient medical service, shall have a Government-owned motor vehicle assigned for their exclusive use. Approved, June 3, 1936. Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture and for the Farm Credit Administration for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes. 1936-06-04 49 Stat. 1421 489 Chapter 74 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public 1421 [CHAPTER 489.] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture and for the Farm Credit Administration for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes. June 4, 1936.[[H. R. 11418](/us/bill/74/hr/11418).][[Public, No. 637](/us/pl/74/637).] *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, 1937. 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, 1937, namely: TITLE I— DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURETitle I—Department of Agriculture. Office of the SecretarySecretary’s office. salaries For the Secretary of Agriculture,Secretary, Under Secretary, Assistant, and other personal services.*Provisos*.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, $432,271: *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 allocatedWhere only one position in grade. the 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:Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.No reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490; [U. S. C., p. 86](/us/usc/p86). *Provided further*, That this restriction shall not apply

(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or

(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,

(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who isTransfer to another position without reduction. transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade, in the same or different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit,

(4)to prevent the payment of a salary under any gradeHigher rates permitted. at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or

(5)to reduce theIf only one position in a grade. compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of Agriculture isContracts for stenographic reporting. authorized to contract for stenographic reporting services, and the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for such purposes: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of Agriculture isPurchase of options on lands. authorized to expend from appropriations available for the purchase of lands not to exceed $1 for each option to purchase any particular tract or tracts of land: *Provided further*, That not to exceedAllowances for living quarters abroad. $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 for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., title 5, sec.Vol. 46, p. 818; [U. S. C., p. 45](/us/usc/p45). 118a), but the amount so used for any one person shall not exceed the amount permitted by law to be so used, during the same fiscal 1422year, for any one person in the foreign service of the Department of Use of field work appropriations extended.Commerce: *Provided further*, Purchase of arms and ammunition.That hereafter funds available for field work in the Department of Agriculture shall be available for employment by contract or otherwise of men with equipment, boats, work animals, animal-drawn, and motor-propelled vehicles: *Provided further*, That hereafter funds available for field work in the Department of Agriculture may be used for the purchase of arms and ammunition whenever the individual purchase does not exceed $50, and for individual purchases exceeding $50, when such arms and Vol. 20, p. 412.[U. S. C., p. 2202](/us/usc/p2202).ammunition cannot advantageously be supplied by the Secretary of War pursuant to the Act of March 3, 1879 (20 Stat. 412): *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 employer or on behalf of the Department or any division, commission or bureau thereof, 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, telegrapliing, telephoning, postage, Vehices.washing towels; for the maintenance, repair, and operation of one 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 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, $120,748: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Maintenance, etc., of vehicles; transfer of funds authorized.That this appropriation shall be available for the payment of salaries of employees engaged in the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor transport vehicles, and that this appropriation shall be reimbursed from the appropriation made for any bureau or office for which such service is performed, in accordance with tho Vol. 42, p. 508.provisions of the Act of May 11, 1922 (42 Stat., p. 508): *Provided further*, Maintenance of stationery, etc., stocks.That the Secretary of Agriculture, during the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made, may maintain stocks of stationery, supplies, equipment, and miscellaneous materials sufficient to meet, [a-z]n whole or in part, requirements of the bureaus and offices Maximum amount.of the Department in the city of Washington and elsewhere, but not to exceed in the aggregate $200,000 in value at the close of the Reimbursement from other appropriations.fiscal year, and the appropriations of such bureaus, offices, and agencies available for the purchase of stationery, supplies, equipment, and miscellaneous materials shall be available to reimburse the appropriation for miscellaneous expenses current at the time supplies are allotted, assigned, or issued, or when payment is received; for Vol. 47, p. 417; [U. S. C., p. 1407](/us/usc/1407).transfer for the purchase of inventory; and for transfer pursuant to the provisions of section 601 of the Act approved June 30, 1932 (47 Employees handling, etc., supplies.Stat., pp. 417, 418): *Provided further*, That the appropriations made hereunder shall be available for the payment of salaries and expenses for purchasing, storing, handling, packing, or shipping supplies and blank forms, and there shall be charged proportionately as a part of 1423the cost of supplies issued an amount to cover such salaries and expenses, and in the case of blank forms and supplies not purchased from this appropriation an amount to cover such salaries and expenses shall be charged proportionately to the proper appropriation: *Provided further*, That the facilities of the central storehouseUse of central storehouse. of the 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 separateSegregation of transactions. schedule of 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 of Columbia. Columbia, for use of the various bureaus, divisions, and offices of the Department of Agriculture, $63,000. Total, Office of the Secretary, $616,019. office of the solicitorSolicitor’s office. For the employment of personal services in the District ofPersonal services and other expenses. Columbia and elsewhere, and for other necessary expenses, $188,801, of which not to exceed $159,001 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. OFFICE OF INFORMATIONOffice of Information. 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 provided for, $363,282, of which not to exceed $344,260 may be usedServices in the District. 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, $854250, including the purchase of reprints of scientific and technical articles published in periodicals and journals; the Annual Report of theAnnual Report of the Secretary.Vol. 28, p. 612; Vol. 34, p. 825.[U. S. C., pp. 1935, 1944, 1945, 1940, 1947](/us/usc/1935/1944/1945/1940/1947). Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January 12, 1895 (U. S. C., title 44, secs. 111 212–220, 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 includingFarmers’ bulletins. not to exceed $250,000 for farmers’ bulletins, which shall be adapted to the 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, but not including work done at the field printing plants of theException.Vol. 40, p. 1270.[U. S. C., pp. 1935, 1945](/us/usc/1935/1945). 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, $1,217,532. 1424 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 $1,200 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 Services in the District.necessary expenses, $103,800, 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/139).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 College-aid land grants.Vol. 12, p. 503.[U. S. C., p. 135](/us/usc/135).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. 03.[U. S. C., p. 139](/us/usc/139).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/139).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. Hawaii. Vol. 45, p. 571.[U. S. C., p. 142](/us/usc/142).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., title 7, secs. 386–386b), $50,000. Alaska. Vol. 45, p. 1256.[U. S. C., p. 141](/us/usc/141).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., title 7, sec. 386c), $15,000. Puerto Rico.Vol. 46, p. 1520.[U. S. C., p. 141](/us/usc/141).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., title 7, secs. 386d–386f), $35,000. Research into basic agricultural laws and principles.For payments to States, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico, pursuant to authorizations contained in title 1 of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for research into basic laws and principles relating to agriculture and to provide for the further development of cooperative agricultural extension work and the more complete endowment and *Ante*, p. 436.support of land-grant colleges”, approved June 29, 1935 (49 Stat., pp. 436–439), $1,200,000. Total.In all, payments to States, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico for agricultural experiment stations, $5,620,000. 1425 salaries and expensesSalaries and expenses. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to enforce the provisionsAdministration of stations, etc.Vol. 24, p. 440; Vol. 34, p. 03; Vol. 43, p. 970; Vol. 45, pp. 571, 1256; Vol. 46, p. 1520.[U. S. C., pp. 138-141](/us/usc/138/141). 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., title 7, secs. 386–386b), February 23, 1929 (U. S. C., title 7, sec. 386c), and March 4, 1931 (U. S. C., 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,Hawaii and Puerto Rico. including the employment of 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, gas, electric current, and rent outside theRent. District of Columbia, $161,735; and the Secretary of AgricultureAnnual financial statements, forms. shall prescribe the form of the annual financial statement required under the above Acts, ascertain whether the expenditures are in accordance with their provisions, coordinate the research work of the Department of Agriculture and coordinate the research work of the Department 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, and all other necessary expenses, $69,311, as follows: $12,066 for Hawaii, and $57,245 for Puerto Rico: *Provided*, That the Secretary*Proviso*.Transfer of equipment authorized. 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., title 7,Vol. 45, p. 571.[U. S. C., p. 141](/us/usc/141).Sale of products; use of receipts. secs. 386–386b); and the Secretary of Agriculture is 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, $231,046. Total, Office of Experiment Stations, $5,851,046, of which amountServices in the District. not to exceed $150,105 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $2,250 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. special research fund, department of agriculture For enabling the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect theSpecial research fund; administrative expenses. provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for research into basic laws and principles relating to agriculture and to provide for the further development of cooperative agricultural extension work and the more complete endowment and support of land-grant colleges”, approved June 29, 1935 (49 Stat., pp. 436–439); for*Ante*, p. 436.Administration of stations. administration of the provisions of section 5 of the said Act, and for special research work, including the planning, programming, and coordination of such research, to be conducted by such agencies of1426the Department of Agriculture as the Secretary of Agriculture may designate or establish, and to which he may make allotments from this fund, including the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of field work outside the District of Columbia, $800,000. Extension Service.EXTENSION SERVICE payments to states, hawaii, and alaska Cooperative extension work, allotments.For cooperative agricultural extension work, to be allotted, paid, and expended in the same manner, upon the same terms and conditions, and under the same supervision as the additional appropriations Vol. 38. p. 372; Vol. 45, pp. 571, 711.[U. S. C., p. 137](/us/usc/137).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 Agricultural colleges.Vol. 12, p. 503.[U. S. C., p. 135](/us/usc/135).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 Use of funds.States Department of Agriculture”, $1,185,000; and all sums appropriated by this Act for use for demonstration or extension work 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 *Proviso*.County agents, salaries.benefits of said Act of May 8, 1914: *Provided*, That of the above appropriation not more than $300,000 shall be expended for purposes other than salaries of county agents. Further cooperation with State colleges.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 Vol. 12, p. 603; Vol. 38, p. 372; Vol. 45, p. 711; Vol. 46, p. 83.[U. S. C., pp. 135, 138](/us/usc/135/138).‘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., title 7, secs. 343a, 343b), $1,480,000. Cooperative State agricultural extension work.*Ante*, p. 433.To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of section 21, title II, of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for research into basic laws and principles relating to agriculture and to provide for the further development of cooperative agricultural extension work and the more complete endowment and support of land-grant colleges”, approved June 29, 1935 (49 Stat., pp. 436–439), $9,000,000. Extension work in Alaska.Vol. 45, p. 1256.[U. S. C., p. 141](/us/usc/141).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., title 7, sec. 386c), $13,918. 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 *Proviso*.Allotments for 1937.accomplish such purposes, $750,000: *Provided*, That for the fiscal year 1937 the Secretary is authorized and directed to so allot this appropriation to the several States that, taken into consideration 1427with the allotments of other Federal funds appropriated for payments to States for cooperative extension work, the total allotment to each State from all funds so appropriated shall not be less than for the fiscal year 1936. In all, payments to States, Hawaii, and Alaska for agriculturalTotal. extension work, $12,428,918. salaries and expenses General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses for Administrative expenses.general administrative purposes, including personal services in the District of Columbia? $126,246. Farmers’ cooperative demonstration work: For farmers’Farmers’ cooperative demonstration work. 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’Farmers’ institutes, etc. 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 expenses, $554,670: *Provided*, That the expense of such service shall*Proviso*.Voluntary contributions within State accepted. 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 businessmen, business organizations, and individuals within the State. Motion pictures: For the preparation and distribution of motionMotion and sound pictures.Preparation and distribution. and sound pictures, and sound recordings, as a means of disseminating information to farmers and others on the results of scientific research of the Department, and of teaching improved methods and practices in agriculture, home economics, and other subjects related to the work of the Department of Agriculture; including the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $79,000. Agriculture exhibits fairs: To enable the Secretary ofAgricultural exhibits at fairs. Agriculture to make suitable agricultural exhibits at State, in state 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: For cooperation with appropriateCooperative farm forestry. 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, and in growing and renewing useful timber crops under the provisionsTimber growth. of section 5 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the protectionVol. 43, p. 654.[U. S. C., p. 669](/us/usc/669). 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, secs. 564–570), including personal services in the District of Columbia, $56,838. In all, salaries and expenses, $901,754, of which amount not toServices in the District. exceed $582,896 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Total, Extension Service, $13,330,672. Grand total, office of the Secretary of Agriculture, $22,107,870. 1428 Weather Bureau.WEATHER BUREAU salaries and expenses Salaries and expenses.*Post*, p. 1617.For carrying into effect in the District of Columbia and elsewhere in the United States, in the West Indies, in the Panama Canal, the Caribbean Sea, and on adjacent coasts, in the Hawaiian Islands, in Bermuda, and in Alaska the provisions of an Act approved October Vol. 26, p. 653.[U. S. C., p. 562](/us/usc/p562).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 Air navigation reports.Vol. 44, p. 671.[U. S. C.. p. 663](/us/usc/p663).Personal services.Agriculture, and the amendment thereof contained in section 5

(e)of the Air Commerce Act of 1926 (U. S. C., title 15, sec. 313), for the employment of professors of meteorology, district forecasters, local forecasters, meteorologists, section directors, observers, apprentices, operatom, 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 Contingent expenses.necessary employees; for fuel, gas, electricity, freight 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 Telegraphing, etc.expenses; for telephone rentals, and for telegraphing, 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, Issuing forecasts and warnings.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 weather 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: 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, $138,280. General weather service and research.General weather service and research: For necessary expenses incident to collecting and disseminating meteorological, climatological, and marine information, and for investigations in meteorology, climatology, seismology, evaporation, and aerology in the District Weather 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., title 16, sec. 581e), $2,228,655, International Meteorological Committee; contribution.of which not to exceed $800 may be expended for the contribution of the United States to the cost of the office of the secretariat of the International Meteorological Committee, and not to exceed Printing office.$10,000 may be expended for the maintenance of a printing office in the city of Washington for the printing of weather maps, bulle-1429tins, circulars, forms, and other publications: *Provided*, That no*Proviso*.Printing restrictions. printing shall be done by the Weather Bureau that can be done at the Government Printing Office without impairing the service of said Bureau. Aerology: For the maintenance of stations for observing, Aerological stations.measuring, and investigating atmospheric phenomena, including salaries and other expenses, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $1,494,089. Total, Weather Bureau, $3,861,024, of which amount not to exceedServices in the District. $518,359 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRYAnimal Industry Bureau. salaries and expenses For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved May 29,General expenses.Vol. 23, p. 31.[U. S. C., pp. 142, 927, 930](/us/usc/142/927/930).Vol. 26, p. 833.[U. S. C., p. 1960](/us/usc/1960).Vol. 26, p. 414,[U. S. C., p. 926](/us/usc/926). 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 (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 approvedContagions diseases, etc.Vol. 32, p. 792.[U. S. C., p. 927](/us/usc/927). 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 approvedCattle quarantine.Vol. 33, p. 1264.[U. S. C., p. 929](/us/usc/929). March 3, 1905 (U S. C., title 21, secs. 123-128), to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain quarantine districts, to permit and regulate the movement of cattle and other livestock therefrom, and for other purposes; and for carrying out theTwenty-eight hour law.Vol. 34, p. 607.[U. S. C., p. 1960](/us/usc/1960). 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 outAnimal viruses, etc.Vol. 37, p. 832.[U. S. C., p. 931](/us/usc/931). 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 virus, serum, toxin, or analogous products manufactured in the United States and the importation of such products intended for use in the treatment of domestic animals; andPackers and Stockyards Act.Vol. 42, p. 159.[U. S. C., p. 125](/us/usc/125).Inspections other than at headquarters. for carrying out the provisions of the Packers and Stockyards Act, approved August 15, 1921 (U. S. C., title 7, secs. 181–229); and the Secretary of Agriculture, upon application of any exporter, importer, packer, owner, agent of, or dealer in livestock, hides, skins, meat, or other animal products, may, in his discretion, make inspections and examinations at places other than the headquarters of inspectors for the convenience of said applicants and charge the applicants for the expenses of travel and subsistence incurred for such inspections and examinations, the funds derived from such charges to beFees credited to appropriate fund. deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the appropriation from which the expenses are paid; and to enable theCollecting and disseminating information. Secretary of Agriculture to collect and disseminate information concerning livestock and animal products; to prepare and disseminate reports on animal industry; to employ and pay from thePay of employees. appropriation herein made as many persons in the city of Washington or elsewhere as he may deem necessary; to purchase in the openTuberculin, scrums, etc. market samples of all tuberculin, serums, antitoxins, or analogous1430products, 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 Purchase and destruction of diseased, etc., animals.the results of said tests in such manner as he may deem best; to purchase and destroy diseased or exposed 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.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, $178,220. Animal husbandry.Feeding, breeding, etc., experiments.Animal husbandry: For all necessary expenses for investigations and experiments in animal husbandly; for experiments in animal 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, Big Springs, Tex., cooperative demonstrations, etc.and all other necessary expenses, $769,503, including $12,500 for livestock experiments and demonstrations at Big Springs or elsewhere Condition.in Texas, to be available only when the State of Texas, or other 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 *Proviso*.Poultry feeding and breeding.purpose during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936: *Provided*, That of the sum thus appropriated $240,180 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.Beltsville, Md., station.Bethesda, Md., station.Diseases of animals: For all necessary expenses for scientific investigations of diseases of animals, including the construction of necessary buildings at Beltsville, Maryland, the maintenance of the bureau experiment station at Bethesda, Maryland, and the necessary expenses for investigations of tuberculm, serums, antitoxins, and *Proviso*.Contagious abortion of animals.analogous products, $437,775: *Provided*, That of said sum $78,182 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. Eradicating tuberculosis, etc.Eradicating tuberculosis: For the control and eradication of the diseases of tuberculosis and paratuberculosis of animals, and avian tuberculosis, for the tuberculin testing of animals, 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, $1,500,000, of which $1,103,116 shall be set aside for administrative and operating expenses and $396,884 for the payment of indemnities: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Indemnities for animals destroyed.That in carrying out the purpose of this 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, Cooperation with States, etc.for the reimbursement of owners of such animals, in cooperation with such States, Territories, counties, or municipalities, as1431shall 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 it has been sold, shipped, or delivered for the purpose of being slaughtered: *Provided further*, That out of the money hereby appropriated noCompensation limited. 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: For all necessary expenses for theEradicating southern cattle ticks.*Proviso*.Purchase of animals, etc., limited. eradication of southern cattle ticks, $513,940: *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 demonstrations; nor shall any part of this appropriation be used in theMixtures for dipping vats. 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. Eradicating dourine: For all necessary expenses for the Eradicating dourine.investigation, treatment, and eradication of dourine, $8,613. Hog cholera control: For the control and eradication of hogHog cholera control. cholera and related swine diseases, 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 county authorities, $127, 192. 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 toMallein testing of animals. the existence of contagious diseases, and the mallein testing of animals, $669,935. Meat inspection: For expenses in carrying out the provisions ofMeat inspection.Vol. 34, pp. 679, 1260.[U. S. C., pp. 920, 923](/us/usc/920/923). 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. 71–94), as extended to equine meat by the Act of July 24, 1919Equine meat.Vol. 41, p. 241.[U. S. C., p. 926](/us/usc/926).Vol. 48, p. 1225.[U. S. C., p. 1411](/us/usc/1411). (U. S. C., title 21, sec. 96), and as authorized by section 2

(a)of the Act or June 26, 1934 (48 Stat. 1224), including the purchase of tags, labels, stamps, and certificates printed in course of manufacture, $5,258, 194. 1432 Virus-Serum-Toxin Act.Vol. 37, p. 832,[U. S. C., p. 931](/us/usc/931).Virus-Serum-Toxin Act: For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March 4, 1913 (U. S. C., title 21, secs. 151–158), regulating the preparations, sale, barter, exchange, or shipment of any virus, 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, $218,712. Packers and Stockyards Act.Vol. 42, p. 159; [U. S. C., p. 125](/us/usc/125).*Ante*, p. 648.*Proviso*.Bonds from agencies and dealers.Packers and Stockyards Act: For necessary expenses in carrying out the provisions of the Packers and Stockyards Act, approved August 15, 1921 (U. S. C., title 7, secs. 181–229), as amended by the Act of August 14, 1935 (49 Stat., pp. 648, 649), $381,879: *Provided*, That the Secretary of Agriculture may require reasonable bonds from every market agency and dealer, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe to secure the performance of their Suspension for violation.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 a 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 Fee for Inspecting brands.competent jurisdiction: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of Agriculture 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*, Not imposed unless requested.That such fee shall not be imposed except upon written request 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. Contagious diseases of animals.eradication of foot-and-mouth and other contagious diseases of animals Emergency eradication, foot-and-mouth, etc., diseases.In case of an emergency arising out of the existence of foot-and-mouth 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 Use of unexpended balances.the country, he may expend in the city of Washington or elsewhere, any unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for this Payment for destroyed animals.purpose in the arrest and eradication of any such disease, including the payment of claims growing out of past and future purchases and 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 *Provisos*.Appraisement based on meat, etc., value.has complied with all lawful quarantine regulations: *Provided*, That the payment for animals hereafter purchased may be made on Limitation.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 for any animals shall not exceed one-half of any such Eradicating European fowl pest, etc.Vol. 43, p. 682.appraisements: *Provided further*, 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 1937 to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to control and eradicate the European fowl pest and similar diseases in poultry. 1433 Total, Bureau of Animal Industry, $10,063,963, of which amountTotal. not to exceed $797,129 may be expended for departmental personalServices in the District.Vehicles. services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $54,300 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. BUREAU OF DAIRY INDUSTRYDairy Industry Bureau. salaries and expenses For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved May 29, 1924Salaries and expenses.Vol. 43, p. 243.[U. S. C., p. 142](/us/usc/142). (U. S. C., title 7, secs. 401–404), establishing a Bureau of Dairying, for salaries in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and for all other necessary expenses, as follows: General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses forAdministrative expenses. general administrative purposes, including the salary of the chief of bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $67,995. Dairy investigations: For conducting investigations, experiments,Investigations, demonstrations, etc. and demonstrations in dairy industry, cooperative investigations of 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, $629,099. Total, Bureau of Dairy Industry, $697,094, of which amount notServices in the District. to exceed $313,020 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $5,400 shall be available for theVehicles. purchase of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of field work outside the District of Columbia. BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRYPlant Industry Bureau. salaries and expensesSalaries and expenses. For all necessary expenses in the investigation of fruits, fruit trees,Investigating fruits, plants, products, etc. 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 buildings: *Provided*, That the cost of any building erected shall not*Proviso*.Cost limit for buildings.Field, etc., expenses. 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; andInvestigators, agents, etc. 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: General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses for Administrative expenses.general administrative purposes, including the salary of chief of bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $189,242. Arlington Farm: For continuing the necessary improvements toArlington. Va., experimental farm, etc. establish and maintain a general experiment farm and agricultural station on the Arlington estate, in the State of Virginia, m accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress approved AprilVol. 31, p. 135. 18, 1900 (31 Stat., pp. 135,136), $49,414: *Provided*, That the*Proviso*.Cost limitation not applicable. limitations in this Act as to the cost of farm buildings shall not apply to this paragraph. 1434 Wild plants and grazing lands.Botany: For investigation, improvement, and utilization of wild plants and grazing lands, and for determining the distribution of Eradicating noxious weeds.weeds and means of their control, $76,635, of which $40,000 shall be expended for scientific investigation concerning control and eradication of white top, bind weed, and other noxious weeds. Cereal crops and diseases, investigations, etc.Cereal crops and diseases: For the investigation and improvement of cereals, including corn, and methods of cereal production and for Flax, broomcorn, etc.the study and control of cereal diseases, and for the investigation of the cultivation and breeding of flax for seed purposes, including a study of flax diseases, and for the investigation and improvement of broomcorn and methods of broomcorn production, $520,721. Cotton, etc., production and diseases.Cotton and other fiber crops and diseases: For investigation of the production of cotton and other fiber crops, including the improvement by cultural methods, breeding, and selection, fiber yield Sea Island cotton, etc.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, etc., plants.Drug and related plants: For the investigation, testing, and improvement of plants yielding drugs, spices, poisons, oils, and related products and byproducts, $47,139. Dry-land, etc., agriculture.Dry-land agriculture: For the investigation and improvement of methods of crop production under subhumid, semi arid, or dry-land *Proviso*.New field stations forbidden.conditions, $215,578: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the establishment of any new field station. Experimental greenhouses.Experimental greenhouse maintenance: For maintenance and operation of experimental greenhouses and adjacent experimental grounds and plots, $78,632. Forage crops and diseases.Forage crops and diseases: For the purchase, propagation, testing, 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, $300, 193. Forest pathology.Forest pathology: For the investigation of diseases of forest and 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 of discovering new methods of control and applying methods of eradication or control already discovered, and including $127,357 for investigations of diseases of forest trees and forest products, Vol. 45, p. 701.[U. S. C., p. 672](/us/usc/p672).under section 3 of the Act approved May 22, 1928 (U. S. C., title 16, sec. 581b), $252,092. Fruit and vegetable crops and diseases, investigations, etc.Fruit and vegetable crops and diseases: For investigation and 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, $1,140,454, of which $3,600 shall be immediately available. Genetics and biophysics.Genetics and biophysics: For biophysical investigations in connection with the various lines of work herein authorized, $31,675. Mycology and disease survey.Mycology and disease survey: For mycological collections and the maintenance of a plant-disease survey, $45,818. National Arboretum.Vol. 44, p. 1422.[U. S. C., p. 914](/us/usc/914).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., title 20, secs. 191–194), including the erection of buildings, salaries in the city of Washington and elsewhere, traveling expenses1435of employees and advisory council, and other necessary expenses, $34,307, of which such amounts as may be necessary may be expendedLandscape architects. 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: For crop technological investigations, including theNematology. study of plant-infesting nematodes, $43,961. Plant exploration and introduction: For investigations in seed andPlant exploration end introduction. 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: For plant-nutrition investigations, $16,024.Plant nutrition investigations.Rubber, etc., plants. Rubber and other tropical plants: For investigation of crops, from tropical legions, 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: For studying and testing commercial seeds,Seed investigations.Testing commercial seeds and grasses. 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 outPreventing admission, etc.Vol. 37, p. 506; Vol. 44, p. 325.[U. S. C., p. 117](/us/usc/117). the 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 adultered11 So in original. grain and seeds unfit for seeding purposes”, as amended by the Act approved April 26, 1926 (U. S. C., title 7, secs. Ill, 115, 116), $67,293: *Provided*, That not to exceed $250 of this amount may*Proviso*.International Seed Testing Congress. 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: For soil investigations into causes ofSoil-fertility investigations. 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: For investigations of theSoil microbiology investigations. microorganisms of the soil and their activities, including the testing of 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 or the tests may be published, together with the names of 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. with western irrigation agriculture, the utilization of lands reclaimed1436Utilization of reclaimed lands.under the Reclamation Act, and other areas in the arid and semiarid regions, $122,527. Services in the District.Total, Bureau of Plant Industry, $4,551,206, of which amount not to exceed $1,539,353 may be expended for departmental personal Vehicles.services in the District of Columbia and not to exceed $18,825 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 Service.FOREST SERVICE Salaries and expenses.salaries and expenses Experiments, etc.To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to experiment and to make and continue investigations and report on forestry, national forests, Restricted in United States.forest fires, and lumbering, but no part of this appropriation shall 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; *Provisos*.Cost of buildings.to erect necessary buildings: *Provided*, That the cost of any 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 look-out house may be erected, shall not exceed $5,000, with the exception that any building erected, purchased, or acquired, the cost of which was $5,000 or more, may be improved out of the appropriations made under this Act for the Forest Service by an amount not to exceed two per centum of the cost of such building Protection, etc., of national forests.as certified by the Secretary of Agriculture; to pay all expenses necessary to protect, administer, and improve 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 Care of fish and game.property; to ascertain the natural conditions upon and utilize the national forests, to transport and 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 Supplies, etc.experiments and investigations made by the Forest Service; to purchase necessary supplies, 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 Warehouse maintenance.hazardous work under the Forest Service: *Provided further*, That the appropriations for the work of the Forest Service shall be available for meeting the expenses of warehouse maintenance and the procurement, care, and handling of 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 materials1437are 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 and fiscal officers while performing Forest Service work; and for rent outside theOutside rent. District of Columbia, as follows: General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses forAdministrative, etc., expenses.Chief Forester; National Forest Reservation Commission, etc.Vol. 36, p. 962.[U. S. C., p. 665](/us/usc/p665). general administrative purposes, including the salary of the Chief Forester, 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, and for other personal services in the District of Columbia, $565,232. National Forest Administration: For the administration, National Forest Administration.protection, and development of the national forests, including the compensation and traveling expenses of field personnel; the purchase of materials, supplies, and equipment; the establishment and maintenanceNurseries. 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 orAerial fire control. 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*, That where, in the opinion of the*Proviso*.Direct purchases. 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 semiarid portions 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 incidentLands opened to entry, etc. 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 under the Act of June 11, 1906 (U. S. C.,Vol. 34, p. 233; Vol. 37, pp. 287, 842; Vol. 43. p. 1144.[U. S. C., pp. 664, 665](/us/usc/p664/p665). 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, protection, and general administration of the national forests and lands under contract for purchase orPurchase or acquisition.Vol. 36, p. 963; Vol. 43. p. 655.[U. S. C., pp. 657, 663, 666, 609](/us/usc/p657/p663/p666/p609). 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). In national forest region 1, Montana, Washington, Idaho, andAllotments. South Dakota, $1,803,445: *Provided*, That the Secretary of*Proviso*.Care of graves of fire fighters. 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; In national forest region 2, Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Nebraska, $950,984; In national forest region 3, Arizona and New Mexico, $964,487; In national forest region 4, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, and Colorado, $1,180,069; 1438 In national forest region 5, California and Nevada $1,663,590; In national forest region 6, Washington, Oregon, and California, $1,665,988; In national forest region 7, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, New Hampshire, Maine, Kentucky, and Vermont, $559,307; In national forest region 8, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas, $1,019,304; In national forest region 9, Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin, $897,817; In national forest region 10, Alaska, $110,959; Aggregate.In all, for the use, maintenance, improvement, protection, and *Provisos*.Interchangenble funds for fire protection.general administration of the national forests, $10,815,950: *Provided*, That the foregoing amounts appropriated for such purposes shall be available intemiangeably in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture for the necessary expenditures for fire protection and Limitation.other unforeseen exigencies: *Provided further*, That the amounts so interchanged shall not exceed in the aggregate 10 per centum of all the amounts so appropriated. Water rights investigations, etc.Water rights: For the investigation and establishment of water rights, including the purchase thereof or of lands or interests in lands or rights-of-way for use and protection of water rights necessary or beneficial in connection with the administration and public use of the national forests, $10,000. Fighting forest fires.Fighting forest fires: For fighting and preventing forest fires on or threatening the national forests and for the establishment and maintenance of a patrol to prevent trespass and to guard against Revested Oregon California lands, etc.Vol. 39, p. 218.and check fires upon the lands revested in the United States by the 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 or Appeals of the Ninth Circuit, $100,000, which amount shall be immediately available. Forest research.Vol. 45, p. 699.[U. S. C., p. 672](/us/usc/p672).Forest research: For forest research in accordance with the provisions of sections 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 economies, and related subjects”, approved May 22, 1928 (U. S. C., title 16, secs. 581, 581a, 581f-581i), as follows: Forest management.Vol. 45, p. 701.Forest management: Fire, silvicultural, and other forest investigations and experiments under section 2, at forest experiment stations or elsewhere, $620,994. Range investigations.Vol. 45, p. 701.Range investigations: Investigations and experiments to develop improved methods of management of forest and other ranges under section 7, at forest or range experiment stations or elsewhere, $181,935. Forest products experiments, etc.Vol. 45, p. 701.Forest products: Experiments, investigations, and tests of forest products under section 8, at the Forest Products Laboratory, or elsewhere, $608,361. Forest survey.Vol. 45, p. 702.Forest survey: A comprehensive forest survey under section 9, $200,000. Forest economics.Vol. 45, p. 702.Forest economics: Investigations in forest economics under section 10, $91,295. Forest influences.Forest influences: For investigations at forest experiment stations and elsewhere for determining the possibility of increasing the1439absorption of rainfall by the soil, and for devising means to be employed in the preservation of soil, the prevention or control of Preventing erosion, etc. destructive erosion, and the conservation of rainfall on forest or range lands, $269,152: *Provided*, That $170,000 of this appropriation*Proviso*.Liquidation of shelter belt project, plains region. shall be available only for maintenance in nurseries of existing stocks and for the free distribution thereof to farmers, in liquidation of the so-called shelter belt project of trees or shrubs in the plains region undertaken heretofore pursuant to appropriations made for emergency purposes. In all, salaries and expenses, $13,462,919; and in addition theretoAggregate; additional from cooperative forest fund contributions.Vol. 43, p. 1132; [U. S. C., p. 670](/us/usc/p670).Vol. 38, p. 430; Vol. 45, p. 993; [U. S. C., p. 663](/us/usc/p663). there are hereby appropriated all moneys received as contributions toward cooperative work under the provisions of section 1 of the 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., title 16, sec. 498): *Provided*, That not to exceed $795,729 may be expended for*Provisos*.Services in the District.International Union of Forest Research Stations, contribution. departmental personal services in the District of 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 cooperationForest-fire prevention, etc. For cooperation with the various States or other appropriateCooperation with States, etc. agencies in forest-fire prevention and suppression and the protection of timbered and cut-over lands in accordance with the provisions of sections 1, 2, and 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide forVol. 43, p. 653.[U. S. C., p. 669](/us/usc/p669). 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), as amended, including also the study of the effect of taxTax laws and timber insurance investigation. laws and the investigation of timber insurance as provided in section 3 of said Act, $1,655,007, of which $62,020 shall be available forServices in the District.Supplies and equipment. departmental personal services in the District of Columbia and not to exceed $2,500 for the purchase of supplies and equipment required for the purposes of said Act in the District of Columbia. cooperative distribution of forest planting stockForest planting stock. For cooperation with the various States in the procurement,Cooperation with States, etc., in reforestation. 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 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,Vol. 43. p. 654.[U. S. C., p. 669](/us/usc/p669).Services in the District. sec. 567), and Acts supplementary thereto, $70,579, of which amount not to exceed $2,740 may be expended for departmental personal services in the District of Columbia. acquisition of lands For the acquisition of forest lands under the provisions ofAdditional forest lands; acquisition, under Conservation Act.Vol. 36, p. 961.[U. S. C., p. 663](/us/usc/p663).*Proviso*.Services in the District. the Act approved March 1, 1911 (36 Stat., p. 961), as amended (U. S. C., title 16, secs. 500, 513, 515, 516, 517, 518, 519, 521, 552, 563), $2,500,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $50,000 of the sum appropriated in this paragraph may be expended for departmental personal services in the District of Columbia. 1440 Uinta and Wasatch National Forests, Utah.Facilitating control of soil erosion.For the acquisition of land in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to facilitate the control of soil erosion and/or flood damage originating upon lands within the exterior boundaries of the Uinta and Wasatch National Forests, Utah”, *Ante*, p. 866.approved August 26, 1935 (49 Stat., p. 866), not to exceed $50,000 from the entire receipts from the sale of natural resources or occupancy of public land within said national forests for that part of the fiscal year 1936 subsequent to August 31, 1935. Vehicles, field work.Total, Forest Service, $17,738,505, of which amount not to exceed $50,000 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, 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/972).November 9, 1921 (U. S. C., title 23, secs. 21, 23), not to exceed $15,068 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for use by the Forest Service in the construction and maintenance of national forest roads. Chemistry and Soils Bureau.BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY AND SOILS General expenses.salaries and expenses Investigations, demonstrations, etc.For all necessary expenses connected with the investigations, 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, associations, Personal services.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.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, $90,241. Agricultural chemical investigations.Vol, 12, p. 387. [U. S. C., p. 74](/us/usc/p74).Agricultural chemical investigations: For conducting the 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; Biological, etc., investigations.for the biological, chemical, physical, microscopical, and technological investigation of foods, feeds, drugs, plant and animal products, and substances used in the manufacture thereof; for investigations of the physiological effects and for the pharmacological testing Methods of sugar manufacture, etc.of such products and of insecticides; for the investigation and development of methods for the manufacture of sugars, sugar sirups and starches and the utilization of new agricultural materials for such purposes; for the technological investigation of the utilization of fruits and vegetables and for frozen pack investigations; for the investigation of chemicals for the control of noxious weeds and plants; and to cooperate with associations and scientific societies in the development of methods of analysis, $360,260. Farm products and byproducts.Industrial utilization of, by chemical, etc., methods.Industrial utilization of farm products and byproducts: For the investigation, development, experimental demonstration and application of methods for the industrial utilization of agricultural products, waste, and byproducts, and products made therefrom, except as otherwise provided for in this Act, by the application of chemical, physical, and technological methods, including the changes produced1441by microorganisms such as yeasts, bacteria, molds, and fungi; the utilization for color, medicinal, and technical purposes of substances grown or produced in the United States, $171,243. Agricultural fires and explosive dusts: For the investigation,Agricultural fires and dust explosions. development, experimental demonstration, and application of methods for the prevention and control of dust explosions and fires during the harvesting, handling, milling, processing, fumigating, and storing of agricultural products, and for other dust explosions and resulting fires not otherwise provided for, including fires in grain mills and elevators, cotton gins, cotton-oil mills, and other structures; the heating, charring, and ignition of agricultural products; fires on farms and in rural communities and other explosions and fires in connection with farm and agricultural operations, $48,403. Naval-stores investigations: For the investigation of naval storesNaval-stores Investigations, etc. (turpentine and rosin) and their components; the investigation and experimental demonstration of improved equipment, methods, or processes of preparing naval stores; the weighing, storing, handling, transportation, and utilization of naval stores; and for theTurpentine and rosin, statistics. assembling and compilation of data on production, distribution, and consumption of turpentine and rosin, pursuant to the Act of August 15,*Ante*, p. 653. 1935 (49 Stat., A 653), $79,241. Soil survey: For the investigation of soils and their origin, forSoil survey. 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, $301,208. Soil chemical and physical investigations: For chemical, physical,Soil types, etc., chemical and physical Investigations. 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, $78,081. Fertilizer investigations: For investigations within the UnitedFertilizer Investigations. States of fertilizers, fertilizer ingredients, including phosphoric acid and potash, and other soil amendments and their suitability for agricultural use, $269,595. Total, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, $1,398,272, of which amountServices in the District. not to exceed $1,106,747 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $2,420 shall be availableVehicles. for the purchase of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of field work outside the District of Columbia. BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINEEntomology and Plant Quarantine Bureau. salaries and expensesSalaries and expenses. For necessary expenses connected with investigations, Investigations, etc., of Insects.experiments, and demonstrations for the promotion of economic entomology, for investigating and 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 thePlant Quarantine Act, enforcement.Vol. 37, p. 315.[U. S. C., p. 122](/us/usc/122). 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 of1442Columbia and elsewhere, rent, construction, or repair of necessary *Proviso*.Cost of buildings.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 he *Proviso*.No indemnity for destroyed trees, etc.may deem necessary to accomplish such purposes, $13,485: *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. Phony-peach eradication.Phony-peach eradication: For determining and applying such 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: *Provided*, *Proviso*.No indemnity for destroyed trees.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. Forest insects.Preventing infestation, etc.Vol. 45, p.701.[U. S. C., p. 672](/us/usc/p672).Forest insects: For insects affecting forests and forest products, under section 4 of the Act approved May 22, 1928 (U. S. C., 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, $173,625, of which $400 shall be immediately available. Gypsy and brown-tail moth control.Gypsy and brown-tail moth control: For the control and prevention of spread of the gypsy and brown-tail moths, $400,000. Blister rust control.Blister rust control: For applying such methods of eradication, 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,1443$250,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be*Proviso*.No indemnity for destroyed trees, etc. used to pay 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, etc. 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 crop and garden insects. ornamental, and garden plants, including tobacco, sugar beets, and greenhouse and bulbous crops, $366,418. Cereal and forage insects: For insects affecting cereal and forageCereal and forage insects. crops, including sugarcane and rice, and including research on the European corn borer, $372,229, including not exceeding $15,000 forMormon cricket. investigation of the means of control of the Mormon cricket. European corn borer control: For the control and prevention ofEuropean corn borer control. 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 com borer, $32,939. Barberry eradication: For the eradication, of the common barberryBarberry eradication. 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, $200,000: *Provided*, That $30,000 of this amount shall be available*Provisos*.State, etc., contributions. 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 of such purposes: *Provided further*, That no partNo indemnity for property destroyed. of the money herein appropriated shall be used to pay the cost or value of property injured or destroyed. Cotton insects: For insects affecting cotton, $147,244.Cotton insects. Pink bollworm control: For the control and prevention of spreadPink bollworm control. of the pink bollworm, including the establishment of such cotton-free areas as may be necessary to stamp out any infestation, andCooperation with Mexico. for necessary surveys and control operations in Mexico in cooperation with the Mexican Government or local Mexican authorities, $276,839. Thurberia weevil control: For the control and prevention ofThurberia weevil control. spread of the Thurberia weevil, $2,808. Bee culture: For bee culture and apiary management, $75,500.Bee culture. Insects affecting man and animals: For insects affecting man,Insects affecting man and animals. household possessions, and animals, $150,148. Insect pest survey and identification: For the identification andIdentification and classification of insects. 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 theDissemination of information. collection and dissemination of information to Federal, State, and other agencies concerned with insect pest control, $134,798. Control investigations: For developing equipment or apparatus toControl investigations. 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: For the investigation andInsecticide and fungicide investigations. development of methods of manufacturing insecticides and fungicides, and for investigating chemical problems relating to the composition, action, and application of insecticides and fungicides, $148,984. 1444 Transit inspection.Vol. 37, p. 315; Vol. 44, p. 250; Vol. 45, p. 468[U. S. C., pp. 123, 124](/us/usc/123/124).Transit inspection: For the inspection in transit or otherwise of articles quarantined under the Act of August 20, 1912 (U. S. C., 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.Mexican cotton, etc.Foreign plant quarantines: For enforcement of foreign plant quarantines, at the port of entry and port of export, and to preventthe movement of cotton and cottonseed from Mexico into the United Sates, 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 domestic 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 *Proviso*.Receipts covered in.necessary to accomplish this object, $31,862: *Provided*, That moneys received on account of such inspection and certification shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Screw-worm control.Screw-worm control: For the determination and application of such methods of control 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, $460,000, to be immediately *Proviso*.Responsibility in handling, etc., livestock.Local cooperation.available: *Provided*, 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 the 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 No payment for property destroyed, etc.provision for cooperation satisfactory to him: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay the cost or value of animals, farm crops, or other property injured or destroyed. Total, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, $5,317,675, Services in the District.Vehicles.of which amount not to exceed $804,321 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $40,805 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. 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, and1445all 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: 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, $95,000. Food habits of birds and animals: For investigating the foodFood habits of birds and animals. 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. Production of fur-bearing animals: For investigations,Fur-bearing animals.Investigating production, etc. 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, including not to exceedPurchase of station at Saratoga Springs, N.Y. $21,500 for the purchase of the Fur-Animal Experiment Station at Saratoga Springs, New York, and the erection of necessary buildings and other structures thereon, $77,612. Biological investigations: For biological investigations, includingBiological investigations. 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 wildVol. 45, p. 701.[U. S. C., p. 672](/us/usc/p672). animal life to forests, under section 5 of the Act approved May 22, 1928 (U. S. C., title 16, sec, 581d), and for investigations, experiments, and demonstrations in the establishment, improvement, andReindeer, muskoxen, and mountain sheep in Alaska. increase of the reindeer industry and of musk oxen and mountain sheep in Alaska, including the erection of necessary buildings, and other structures, $138,149. Control of predatory animals and injurious rodents: For Control of predatory, etc., animals.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. Protection of migratory birds: For all necessary expenses forMigratory bird protection.Vol. 40, p. 755; [U. S. C., p. 686](/us/usc/p686).Vol. 39, p. 1702. 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 the United States and Canada (39 Stat. pt. 2, p. 1702), and forCooperation with local authorities. cooperation with local authorities in the protection of migratory birds, and for necessary investigations connected therewith, $300,000: *Provided*, That of this sum not more than $29,000 may be used for*Proviso*.Traffic in injurious, etc., birds. Vol. 35, p. 1137; *Ante*, p. 380.[U. S. C., p. 753](/us/usc/p753). 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”, as amended by title II of the Act approved June 15, 1935 (49 Stat., pp. 380–381), and for the enforcement of section 1 of theCarrying illegally killed game.Vol. 31, p. 187. [U. S. C., p. 686](/us/usc/p686). Act approved May 25, 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), $130,798. 1446 Mammal and bird reservations.Maintenance of mammal and bird reservations: For the maintenance of the Montana National Bison Range, the upper Mississippi River Wildlife Refuge, the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge.Wichita National Forest and Game Preserve, to constitute and be designated and administered as the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, 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 Taking eggs on bird breeding grounds.Vol. 35, p. 1104; Vol. 43, p. 98.[U. S. C., p. 731](/us/usc/p731).for the economical 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, sec. 145), entitled “An Act to codify, Unlawful acts; law enforcement.Vol. 45. p. 1224; [U. S. C., p. 688](/us/usc/p688).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 18, 1929 (U. S. C., title 16, sec. 715i), $335,772: *Provided*, Proviso.Game for preserves.Long-horned cattle on Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge.That $2,500 may be used for the purchase, capture, and transportation of game for national reservations, and $1,000 may be used for the maintenance of the herd of longhorned cattle on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. Upper Mississippi River refuge.Acquisition of areas for.Upper Mississippi River refuge: For the acquisition of areas of land or land and water pursuant to the Act entitled “An Act to establish the Upper Mississippi River Wildlife and Fish Refuge”, Vol, 43, p. 650.[U. S. C., p. 690](/us/usc/p690).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, $18,500, 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. Migratory bird conservation refuges.Vol. 39, p. 1702.Migratory bird conservation refuges: For carrying into effect the 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 in 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 Vol. 45, p. 1222.[U. S. C., p. 687](/us/usc/p687).February 18, 1929 (U. S. C., title 16, secs. 715–715r), $79,753, authorized by section 12 of the Act, which sum is a part of the remaining $650,146 of the $1,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933. Migratory bird conservation fund.Vol. 48, p. 451. [U. S. C., p. 689](/us/usc/p689).Migratory bird conservation fund: For carrying into effect the provisions of section 4 of the Act entitled “An Act to supplement and support the Migratory Bird Conservation Act by providing funds for the acquisition of areas for use as migratory-bird sanctuaries, refuges, and breeding grounds, for developing and administering such areas, for the protection of certain migratory birds, for the enforcement of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and regulations thereunder, and for other purposes”, approved March 16, 1934 (48 *Ante*, p. 378.Stat., p. 451 ), as amended by an Act entitled “An Act to amend the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act of March 16, 1934, and certain other Acts relating to game and other wildlife, administered by the Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes”, approved June Receipts from stamp sales.15, 1935 (49 Stat, pp. 378-384), an amount equal to the sum received during the fiscal year 1937 from the proceeds from the sale of stamps, Balance available.to be warranted monthly; and in addition thereto an amount equal to the unobligated balance on June 30, 1936, of the total of the proceeds received from the sale of stamps prior to July 1, 1936:1447*Provided*, That the sum of $125,000 shall be advanced from the*Proviso*.Advance; repayment. general fund of the Treasury on the first day of the fiscal year to the foregoing appropriation, to be returned to the surplus fund of the Treasury when the first $125,000 of revenue from the sale of stamps has been received and warranted for the fiscal year 1937. Total, Bureau of Biological Survey, $1,961,224, of which amountTotal. not to exceed $530,620 may be expended for personal services in theServices in the District.Purchase of vehicles for field work. District of Columbia, and not to exceed $53,785 shall be available for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of field work outside the District of Columbia: *Provided* , [a-z]hat the appropriation of $6,000,000 contained*Proviso*.Fund available for vehicles.*Ante*, p. 384. in title VII of the Act of June 15, 1935 (49 Stat., p. 384), shall be available for the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $4,200 thereof may be expended for the purchase of such vehicles, which said sum shall be immediately available for such purpose. BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADSPublic Roads Bureau. For necessary expenses of the Bureau of Public Roads, includingSalaries and expenses. 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 street and highway traffic control; investigations and experimentsRoad making experiments, etc.*Post*, p. 1892. 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 of same; and for preparing, publishing, and distributing bulletins and reports; to be paid from any moneys available from the Vol. 30. p. 355; Vol. 42, p. 212.[U. S. C., p. 969](/us/usc/969).administrative funds provided under the Act of July 11, 1916 (39 Stat., pp. 355–359), as amended, or as otherwise provided. federal-aid highway systemFederal Aid high-ways. For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act toCooperating with States in constructing rural post roads.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/969). provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes”, approved July 11, 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, $60,000,000, to be immediately available and to remain available untilAmount immediately available. expended, which sum is part of the sum of $125,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1936, by section 4 of the ActVol. 48, p. 994. approved June 18, 1934 (48 Stat., 994): *Provided*, That none of the*Proviso*.Convict labor. 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 parole or probation: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $45,000Vehicles. of the funds provided for carrying out the provisions of the FederalVol 42, p. 217.[U. S. C., p. 972](/us/usc/972). Highway Act of November 9, 1921 (U. S. C., title 23, secs. 21 and 23),1448shall 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 in the Depreciation on engineering, etc., equipment.District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That, during the fiscal year 1937, whenever performing authorized engineering or other services in connection with the survey, construction, and maintenance, 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*, Warehouse maintenance, etc.That during the fiscal year 1937 the appropriations for the work of the Bureau of Public Roads shall be available for meeting the expenses of warehouse maintenance and the procurement, care, and handling of supplies, materials, and equipment stored therein for distribution to projects under the supervision of the Bureau of Public Roads, and for sale and distribution to other Reimbursing cost of material, etc.Government activities, the cost of such supplies and materials or the value of such equipment (including the cost of transportation and handling), to be reimbursed to appropriations current at the time additional supplies, materials, or equipment are procured, from the appropriation chargeable with the cost or value of such supplies, Laboratory constmotion.Vol. 42, p. 212; [U. S. C., p. 969](/us/usc/969).Vol. 46, p. 805; *Ante*, p. 273.materials, or equipment: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $500,000 from the 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 authorizations contained in the Agricultural Appropriation Acts approved May 27, 1930, and May 17, 1935, shall be available for the construction of a laboratory, on a site already acquired, for permanent quarters for the testing and research work of the Bureau of Public Roads. Road construction through public lands, Federal reservations, etc.Time extended.The authorization of $2,500,000 for the survey, construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of main roads through unappropriated or unreserved public lands, nontaxable Indian lands, or other Federal reservations other than the forest reservations, under the Vol. 46, p. 805; Vol. 48, p. 994.provisions of the Act of June 24, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 805), provided for by section 6 of the Highway Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 994), for the fiscal year 1937, is hereby canceled for said fiscal year and. made applicable to the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938. Agricultural Engineering Bureau.BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING Salaries and expenses.salaries and expenses 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, $37,600. Agricultural engineering.Agricultural engineering: For investigations, experiments, and demonstrations involving the application of engineering principles to agriculture, independently or m 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 affecting 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; for1449preparing 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 of farm land to the use of modem farm machinery; forCotton ginning investigations.Vol. 40, p. 248.[U. S. C., p. 144](/us/usc/144). investigations of cotton ginning under the Act approved April 19, 1930 (U. S. C., 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, $400,669. Total, Bureau of Agricultural Engineering, $438,269, of whichTotal. Services in the District. amount not to exceed $160,220 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $3,000 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 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICSAgricultural Economics Bureau. salaries and expensesGeneral expenses. For salaries and the employment of labor in the city ofSalaries, supplies, etc. 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: 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, $236,306. Farm management and practice: To investigate and encourage theFarm management and practice. adoption of improved methods of farm management and farm practice, and for ascertaining the cost of production of the principal staple agricultural products, $356,580. Marketing and distributing farm products: For acquiring andMarketing and distributing farm products. 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, includingPromoting uniform standards. the 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 itsCotton and byproducts research. byproducts and their present and potential uses, including new and additional commercial and scientific uses for cotton and its byproducts, and including investigations of cotton ginning under the Act approved April 19, 1930 (U. S. C., title 7, sees. 424, 425), andVol. 40, p. 248.[U. S. C., p. 144](/us/usc/144). 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 the marketing, handling, utilization, grading, transportation, and distributing of farm and food products, and for investigation of the economic costs of retail marketing of1450*Proviso*.Forms of wool and mohair grades to be sold.meat and meat products, $756,154: *Provided*, That practical forms of the grades recommended 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.Collecting, etc., data.Crop and livestock estimates: For collecting, compiling, 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, grades, and value of livestock and livestock products on farms, in cooperation with the Extension Service and other Federal, *Proviso*.Restriction, on expenditure.State, and local agencies, $686,289: *Provided*, That 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. Securing information as to foreign competition and demand.Vol. 46, p. 497.[U. S. C., p. 153](/us/usc/153).Foreign competition and demand: To enable the Secretary of 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 Dissemination to American producers, etc.June 5, 1930 (U. S. C., title 7, secs. 541–545), and for collecting and disseminating to American producers, 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.Market inspection of farm products: For enabling the Secretary 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 businessmen 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 Certifying condition of shipment.more jurisdictions, to investigate and certify to shippers and other 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 there-from, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, including payment of such fees as will be reasonable and as nearly as may be *Proviso*.Certificates as evidence.to cover the cost for the service rendered: *Provided*, That certificates issued by 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, $378,533. Tobacco Inspection Act.*Ante*, p. 731.Tobacco Inspection Act: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to establish and promote the use of standards of classification for tobacco, to provide and maintain an official tobacco inspection service, and for other purposes”, approved August 23, 1935 (49 Stat., pp. 731–735), $250,000. 1451 Market news service: For collecting, publishing, and distributing,Market news service.Collecting, publishing, etc., 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, cottonseed, 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, $1,062,057. Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act: To enable the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.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 andVol. 46, p. 531.[U. S. C., p. 148](/us/usc/148). foreign commerce” (U. S. C., title 7, secs. 499a–499r), $137,666. Standard Container, Hamper, and Produce Agency Acts: To Standard Container, Hamper, and Produce Agency Acts.Vol. 39, p. 673; Vol. 45, p. 685; Vol. 48, p.[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., title 15, secs. 257-257i), 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.,Vol. 44. p. 1355.[U. S. C., p. 147](/us/usc/147). title 7, secs. 491–497), 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. Tobacco stocks and standards: To enable the Secretary ofTobacco stocks and standards, statistics. Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the collection and publication of statistics of tobaccoVol. 45, p. 1079; Vol 47, p. 662.[U. S. C., p. 152](/us/usc/152). by the Department of Agriculture”, approved January 14, 1929 (U. S. C., title 7, secs. 501–508), including the employment of persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $17,187. Cotton grade and staple statistics: To enable the Secretary ofCotton statistics. Agriculture to carry into effect the Act entitled “An Act authorizingVol. 44, p. 1372.[U. S. C., p. 146](/us/usc/146). the Secretary of Agriculture to collect and publish statistics of the grade and staple length of cotton”, approved March 3, 1927 (U. S. C., title 7, secs. 471–476), $224,517. United States Cotton Futures and United States Cotton Cotton Futures Act.Vol. 39, p. 476; Vol. 40, p. 1351.[U. S. C., p. 1130](/us/usc/1130).Standards Acts: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the United States Cotton Futures Act, as amended March 4, 1919 (U. S. C., title 26, secs. 1090–1106), and toCotton Standards Act.Vol. 42, p. 1517. [U. S. C., p. 112](/us/usc/112). 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 executing the provisions of these Acts, including such means as mayEffectuating agreements as to standards, etc., in foreign countries. 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 arbitration1452or settlement of disputes with respect thereto, and for the preparation, distribution, inspection, and protection of the practical forms or copies thereof under such agreements. $487,111. Grain Standards Act, enforcement.Vol. 39, p. 482.[U. S. C., p. 114](/us/usc/114).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, $723,941. Warehouse Act, administration.Vol. 39, p. 486.[U. S. C., p. 131](/us/usc/131).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, $321,665. In all, salaries and expenses, $5,966,244. Wool marketing studies.wool marketing studies Appropriation of certain funds.Not to exceed $26,652 of the funds collected from persons, firms, or 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 1937 for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions Establishing wool standards.Vol. 45, p. 593.[U. S. C., p. 143](/us/usc/143).of the Act 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., title 7, secs. 415b–415d), including personal services and other necessary expenses in the District of Columbia and elsewhere. Services In the District.Total, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, $5,992,896, of which amount not to exceed $2,182,160 may be expended for personal services Vehicles.in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $30,300 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. Homo Economics Bureau.BUREAU OF HOME ECONOMICS Salaries and expenses.salaries and expenses 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, $31,735. Homeeconomics investigations.Home-economics investigations: For conducting, either 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, $187,350. Services in tho District.Total, Bureau of Home Economics, $219,085, of which amount not to exceed $204,620 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Grain Futures Act.ENFORCEMENT OF THE GRAIN FUTURES ACT Enforcement expenses.Vol. 42, p. 998.[U. S. C., p. 109](/us/usc/109).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 $50,740 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. 1453 FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATIONFood and Drug Administration. salaries and expensesSalaries and expenses For all necessary expenses, for chemical apparatus, chemicals, andItems specified. 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 results of such investigations; and for rent outside the District ofOutside rent. Columbia for carrying out the investigations and work herein authorized, as follows: General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses forGeneral administrative expenses. general administrative purposes, including the salary of chief of administration and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $100,802. Enforcement of the Food and Drugs Act: For enabling the Food and Drugs Act, enforcement.Vol. 34, p. 768.[U. S. C., p. 917.](/us/usc/917)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”, as amended; to cooperate with associations and scientificRevision of Pharmacopoeia, etc. societies in the revision of the United States pharmacopoeia and development of methods of analysis, and for investigating theForeign tests of American food products. character of the 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, $1,600,000: *Provided*, That not more than $4,280 shall be used for*Proviso*.Travel restriction. travel outside the United States. Enforcement of the Tea Importation Act: For enabling the Tea Importation Act, enforcement.Vol. 29, p. 604; Vol. 41, p. 712.[U. S. C., p. 921](/us/usc/921).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: For enabling the Secretary of Agriculture toNaval Stores Act.Vol. 42, p. 1435.[U. S. C., p. 116](/us/usc/116). carry into effect the provisions of the Naval Stores Act of March 3, 1923 (U. S. C., title 7, secs. 91–99), $34,700. Enforcement of the Insecticide Act: For enabling the SecretaryInsecticide Act, enforcement.Vol. 36, p. 331.[U. S. C., p. 118](/us/usc/118). 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. Enforcement of the Milk Importation Act: For enabling theMilk Importation Act, enforcement.Vol. 44, p. 1101.[U. S. C., p. 930](/us/usc/930). Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of an Act approved February 15, 1927 (U. S. C., 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 the Caustic 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., title 15, secs. 401–411 entitled1454“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. Filled Milk Act, enforcement.Vol. 42, p. 1486; Ante, p. 885.[U. S. C., p. 922](/us/usc/922).Enforcement of the Filled Milk Act: For enabling the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to prohibit the shipment of filled milk in interstate or foreign commerce”, approved March 4, 1923 (U. S. C., title 21, secs. 61–63), as amended by the Act of August 27, 1935 ( 49 Stat., p. 885), $10,000. Sea-Food Inspectors Act, enforcement.Enforcement of the Sea-Food Inspectors Act: For personal services of sea-food inspectors designated to examine and inspect sea food and the production, packing, and labeling thereof upon the application of any packer of any sea food for shipment or sale within the jurisdiction of the Federal Food and Drugs Act, in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to amend section 10A of the Federal Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906, as amended”, approved August 27, 1935 (49 Stat., p. 871), $40,000. *Ante*, p. 871.Total, Food and Drug Administration, $2,077,758, of which amount not to exceed $601,512 may be expended for personal services Services in the District.in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $20,000 shall be available for the purchase of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of field work outside the Vehicles.District of Columbia. Soil Conservation Service.SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE General expenses.salaries and expenses Salaries and expenses.*Ante*, p. 163.Salaries and expenses, Soil Conservation Service: To carry out the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the protection of land resources against soil erosion and for other purposes”, approved April 27, 1935 (49 Stat., pp. 163–164), which provides for a national program of erosion control and soil and moisture conservation to be carried out directly and in cooperation with other Printing and binding, etc.agencies; including printing and binding, purchase of books and periodicals, rent in the District of Columbia, furnishing of subsistence to employees, training of employees, and the purchase and *Provisos*.Cost of buildings.erection of permanent buildings: *Provided*, That the cost of any building purchased, erected, or as improved, exclusive of the cost of constructing a water supply or sanitary system and connecting the same with any such building, shall not exceed $2,500 except where buildings are acquired in conjunction with land being purchased for other purposes and except for thirty-four buildings to Warehouse maintenance, etc.be constructed at a cost not to exceed $15,000 per building: *Provided further*, That during the fiscal year 1937 the appropriations for the work of the Soil Conservation Service shall be available for meeting the expenses of warehouse maintenance and the procurement, care, and handling of supplies, materials, and equipment stored therein for distribution to projects under the supervision of the Soil Conservation Service and for sale and distribution to other Government activities, the cost of such supplies and materials or the value of such equipment (including the cost of transportation and handling), to be reimbursed to appropriations current at the time additional supplies, materials, or equipment are procured from the appropriations chargeable with the cost or value of such supplies, materials, or equipment; as follows: General administrative expenses.General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes including the salary of the chief of the Soil Conservation Service and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $475,000. 1455 Soil and moisture conservation and land-use investigations: ForSoil and moisture conservation and land use investigations. research and investigations into the character, cause, extent, history, and effects of erosion and soil and moisture depletion and methods for soil and moisture conservation, including construction, operation, and maintenance of experimental watersheds, stations, laboratories, plots, and installations, and other necessary expenses, $1,540,780. Soil and moisture conservation operations, demonstrations, andOperations, demonstrations, and information. information: For carrying out preventive measures to conserve soil and moisture; including such special measures as may be necessary to prevent floods and the siltation of reservoirs, the establishment and operation of erosion nurseries, the making of conservation plans and surveys, the dissemination of information, and other necessary expenses, $22,853,485. Total, Soil Conservation Service, $24,869,265, of which notServices in the District. to exceed $1,608.640 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $62,500 shall be availableVehicles. for the purchase of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of field work outside the District of Columbia. INTERCHANGE OF APPROPRIATIONS Not to exceed 10 per centum of the foregoing amounts for theInterchange of appropriations. 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 of 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*Proviso*.Statement to be Included in Budget. transfers of appropriations made hereunder shall be included in the annual Budget. MISCELLANEOUSMiscellaneous. work for other departmentsWork for other Departments. During the fiscal year 1937 the head of any department orTransfer 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. passenger-carrying vehiclesPassenger vehicles. Within the limitations specified under the several headings thePurchase of, 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 of Columbia: *Provided*, That such vehicles shall be used*Proviso*.Use restricted to official service. 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 District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That the limitationInterchangeable funds. 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 service may require: *Provided further*, That appropriationsAvailable for maintenance, etc. contained in this Act shall be available for the maintenance, operation,1456and 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*, Agricultural Adjustment Administration.Maintenance, etc., of automobile.That the funds available to the Agricultural Adjustment Administration may be used during the fiscal year for which appropriations are herein made for the maintenance, repair, and operation of one passenger-carrying vehicle for official purposes in the District of Columbia. Beltsville Research Center.beltsiville 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, equipment 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 *Proviso*.Purchase of automobile.expenses of the Center not covered by this appropriation: *Provided*, That not to exceed $600 may be expended from this appropriation for the purchase of one passenger-carrying automobile for official purposes. International production control committees.Expenses.international, production control committees During the fiscal year 1937 the Secretary of Agriculture may expend not to exceed $10,000 from the funds available to the Agricultural Adjustment Administration for the share of the United International Wheat Advisory Committee.States as a member of the International Wheat Advisory Committee or like events or bodies concerned with the reduction of agricultural surpluses or other objectives of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, together with traveling and all other necessary expenses relating thereto. Diseased cattle, elimination of.elimination of diseased cattle, department of agriculture Expenses.*Ante*, p. 775.Amount reappropriated.Vol. 48, p. 805.For carrying into effect the provisions of section 37 of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act and for other purposes”, approved August 24, 1935 (49 Stat., pp. 750–793), $21,364,000 of the unobligated balance of the funds appropriated by Public Resolution Numbered 27, Seventy-third Congress, and reappropriated by said section 37 of the Act approved August 24, 1935, together with any unobligated balance of the appropriation made for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1936 by said section 37, which balances are hereby continued available for obligation during the fiscal year 1937, for the elimination of diseased dairy and beef cattle, including cattle suffering from tuberculosis or Bang’s Payments to owners.disease, for payments to owners with respect thereto, and for other purposes, as authorized by said section 37, including the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, Printing and binding.printing and binding, the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of field work outside the District of Columbia, and other necessary expenses. 1457 forest roads and trailsFederal 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/973). Highway Act approved November 9, 1921 (U. S. C., title 23, sec. 23), including not to exceed $95,240 for departmental personal services in the District of Columbia, $8,000,000, which sum is composed of $3,500,000, the balance of the amount authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1936, by the Act approved June 18, 1934, andVol. 48, p. 993. $4,500,000, part of the sum of $10,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1937 by the Act approved June 18, 1934: *Provided*, That the Secretary of Agriculture shall, upon the approval*Provisos*.Prorating of sum. 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, 1937, by the Act approved June 18, 1934: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of Agriculture shall incur Contracts authorized.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 account of any StateExpenditure restriction. or Territory shall at no time exceed its authorized apportionment: *Provided further*, That this appropriation shall be available for theAvailability of appropriation. 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 year ending June 30, 1937,Forest highways in Alaska. the expenditures on forest highways in Alaska from the amount herein appropriated shall not exceed $250,000. This title may be cited as the Department of AgricultureShort title. Appropriation Act, 1937. TITLE II— FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATIONTitle II—Farm Credit Administration. salaries and expensesSalaries and expenses. For salaries and expenses of the Farm Credit Administration inTravel expenses. the District of Columbia and the field; traveling expenses of officers and employees including not to exceed $5,000 for travel incurred under proper authority attending meetings or conventions of members of organizations at which matters of importance to the work of the Farm Credit Administration are to be discussed or transacted; printing and binding contingent and miscellaneous expenses,Printing and binding. 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 publications 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 regard to the provisions of any other Act; procurement of supplies and[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733); [U. S. C., p. 1803](/us/usc/1803). services without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $50; purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation ofVehicles. motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motor trucks including the purchase and exchange of one passenger-carrying automobile at a net cost of not to exceed $1,500, to be used only for official purposes; typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange; garage rental in the1458Transportation and subsistence.District of Columbia and elsewhere; 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 of the Farm Credit Administration; Special services.employment of persons, firms, and others for the performance of special services, including legal services, and other miscellaneous Collection of loans under designated Acts.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), February 23, 1934 (Public, No. 97, 73d Cong.), March 10, 1934 (Puolic Resolution No. 16, 73d Cong.), June 19, 1934 (Public, No. 412, 73d Cong.), February 20, 1935 (Public, No. 11, 74th Cong.), March 21, 1935 Examinations, etc.(Public, No. 21, 74th Cong.); examination of corporations, banks, associations, credit unions, and institutions operated, supervised, or *Provisos*.Assessment for expenses.regulated by the Farm 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 funds.That there shall be transferred and added to this appropriation the sum of $400,000 from the funds made available under section 5 of the Emergency Crop Loan Act of February 23, Vol. 48, p. 355.1934 (48 Stat., p. 354), the sum of $1,100,000 from the funds made available under the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, Vol. 48, pp. 1021, 1056.approved June 19, 1934 (48 Stat., pp. 1021, 1056), and the sum of $1,450,000 from the funds made available under section 5

(a)of the *Ante*, pp. 29, 49.Emergency Crop Loan Act of February 20, 1935 (Public, Numbered 11, Seventy-fourth Congress; Public, Numbered 21, Seventy-fourth Congress). Citation of title.This title may be cited as the Farm Credit Administration Appropriation Act, 1937. Approved, June 4, 1936. To amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to arrange with States or Territories for the education, medical attention, relief of distress, and social welfare of Indians, and for other purposes.” 1936-06-04 49 Stat. 1458 490 Chapter 74 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 490.] AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to arrange with States or Territories for the education, medical attention, relief of distress, and social welfare of Indians, and for other purposes.” June 4, 1936.[[S. 3452](/us/bill/74/s/3452).][

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