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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 49 STAT. · May 19, 1926 · Public Law 67

Public Law 67.

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(/us/pl/74/56).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands.Army, etc., details authorized to.Vol. 44, p. 565, amended. That the Act of May 19, 1926 (Public, Numbered 247), be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the word “and” preceding the words “Santo Domingo” and inserting after the words “Santo Domingo” the words “and the Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands.
” Approved, May 14, 1935. Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other purposes. 1935-05-14 110 Chapter 49 Stat. 218 74 1 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 110.] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other purposes.
May 14, 1935.[[H. R. 4442](/us/bill/74/hr/4442).][[Public, No. 67](/us/pl/74/67).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriation Act, 1936. TITLE I— Title I—Treasury Department. TREASURY DEPARTMENT Appropriation for fiscal year, 1936.That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, namely: office of the secretarySecretary’s office.
Secretary, Under Secretary, Assistants, and office personnel.Division of Research and Statistics included.Experts.*Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act; exceptions.Vol. 42, p. 1488; Vol. 46, p, 1003.[U. S. C., p. 85](/us/usc/p85).Salaries: Secretary of the Treasury, Under Secretary of the Treasury, three Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, and other personal services in the District of Columbia including the Division of Research and Statistics and the temporary employment of experts, $258,320: *Provided*, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations contained in this Act for the payment of 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 Treasury and the Assistant Postmasters General 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 Advances in meritorious cases.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 Not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.then only to the next higher rate: *Provided*, That this restriction shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical 219service, or
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whoseNo reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490; Vol. 46, p. 1005.Transfers to another position without reduction. 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 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 aHigher salary rates permitted. salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or
(5)to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in whichNo reduction if only one position in a grade. only one position is allocated. office of general counselGeneral Counsel’s office. Salaries: For the General Counsel, and other personal servicesGeneral Counsel, and office personnel.Vol. 48, p. 759. in the District of Columbia, $43,000. office of chief clerk and superintendentChief Clerk’s office. Salaries: For the chief clerk, and other personal services in theChief clerk, and office personnel.Operating force of designated buildings. District of Columbia, including the operating force of the Treasury, Liberty Loan, and Auditors’ Buildings and the Treasury Department Annex, Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place, and of other buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, $520,000. miscellaneous and contingent expenses, treasury department For miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the office of theDepartment contingent expenses. Secretary and the bureaus and offices of the Department, including operating expenses of the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Auditors’ andOperating expenses, Department buildings. Liberty Loan Buildings; newspaper clippings, financial journals, books of reference, law books, technical and scientific books, newspapersBooks, periodicals, etc. and periodicals, expenses incurred in completing imperfect series, library cards, supplies, and all other necessary expenses connected with the library; not exceeding $10,000 for traveling expenses,Traveling expenses. including the payment of actual transportation and subsistence expenses to any person whom the Secretary of the Treasury may from time to time invite to the city of Washington or elsewhere for conference and advisory purposes in furthering the work of the Department; freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service; purchaseFreight. and exchange of motor trucks and maintenance and repair of motor trucks and three passenger automobiles (one for the Secretary of the Treasury and two for general use of the Department), all to be used for official purposes only; file holders and cases; fuel, oils, grease,Fuel, lights, heat, etc. and heating supplies and equipment; gas and electricity for lighting, heating, and power purposes, including material, fixtures, and equipment therefor; purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriters and labor-saving machines and equipment and supplies for same; floor covering and repairs thereto; furniture and office equipment, includingFurniture, etc. supplies therefor and repairs thereto; awnings, window shades, and fixtures; cleaning supplies and equipment; drafting equipment; ammonia for ice plant; flags; hand trucks, ladders; miscellaneous hardware; street-car fares not exceeding $500; thermometers; lavatory equipment and supplies; tools and sharpening same; laundry service; laboratory supplies and equipment, removal of rubbish; postage; uniforms for Treasury guards not exceeding $1,200; custody, care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and otherSales of public property.[R. S., secs. 3749, 3750, p. 739](/us/rs/s3749/3750/p739).[U. S. C., p. 1790](/us/usc/p1790). property of the United States, acquired and held under sections 3749 and 3750 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 40, secs. 301, 302), the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers’ fees in connection therewith; and other absolutely necessary 220articles, supplies, and equipment not otherwise provided for; Proviso.Other funds available.$150,300: *Provided*, That the appropriations for the Public Debt Service, Internal Revenue Service, and Division of Disbursement for the fiscal year 1936 are hereby made available for the payment of Vol. 37, p. 414; [U. S. C., p. 1406](/us/usc/p1406).items otherwise properly chargeable to this appropriation, the provisions of section 6, Act of August 23, 1912 (U. S. C., title 31, sec. Minor purchases without advertising.[R. S., see. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/3709/p733); [U. S. C., p. 1303](/us/usc/p1303).669), to the contrary notwithstanding: *Provided further*, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for the Treasury Department when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $50. division of supplySupply Division. Chief and other personal services.Salaries: For the Chief, Division of Supply, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $171,000. Printing and binding.*Post*, p. 1630.Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, including materials for the use of the bookbinder located in the Work excluded.Vol. 40, p. 1270.[U. S. C., p. 1935](/us/usc/p1935).Treasury Department, but not including work done at the New York customhouse bindery authorized by the Joint Committee on Printing in accordance with the Act of March 1, 1919 (U. S. C., title 44, sec. Ill), $630,000. Stationery. *Post*, p. 1630.Stationery: For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices, and field services thereof, including tags, labels, and index cards, printed in the course of manufacturing, packing boxes and other materials necessary for shipping stationery supplies, and cost of transportation of stationery supplies purchased free on board point of shipment and of such supplies shipped from Washington to field offices, $375,000. office of commissioner of accounts and depositsAccounts and Deposits office. Commissioner, and office personnel.Salaries: For Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including the Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants, $285,920. Division of Disbursement, salaries and expenses.Division of Disbursement, salaries and expenses: For personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, stationery, travel, rental of equipment, and all other necessary miscellaneous and *Proviso*.Transfer of funds available for new activities.contingent expenses, $710,700: *Provided*, That with the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget there may be transferred to this appropriation from funds available for new activities or for the expansion of existing activities such sums as may be necessary to cover the additional expense incurred in performing the function of disbursement therefor. Contingent expenses, public moneys.[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/s3653/p719); [U. S. C., p. 1396](/us/usc/p1396).Contingent expenses, public moneys: For contingent expenses under the requirements of section 3653 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 545), for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, salaries of special Examination of depositories.agents, actual expenses of examiners detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several depositories, including national banks acting as depositories under the requirements of section[R. S., sec. 3649, p. 718](/us/rs/s3649/p718); [U. S. C., p. 1397](/us/usc/p1397). 3649 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 548), also including examinations of cash accounts at mints and cost of insurance on shipments of money by registered mail when necessary, $175,000. 221 Recoinage of minor coins; To enable the Secretary, of the TreasuryRecoinage of minor coins. to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent minor coins of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse the Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of such coins and the amount the same will produce in new coins, $45,000. Recoinage of silver coins: To enable the Secretary of the TreasuryRecoinage of silver coins. to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent subsidiary silver coins of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse the Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of such coins and the amount the same will produce in new coins, $700,000, Relief of the indigent, Alaska: For the payment to the UnitedRelief of the indigent, Alaska. States district judges in Alaska but not to exceed 10 per centum of the receipts from licenses collected outside of incorporated towns in Alaska, to the expended for the relief of persons in Alaska who are indigent, and incapacitated through nonage, old age, sickness or accident, $20,000. Refund of moneys erroneously received and covered: To enableRefunding moneys erroneously received and covered.Vol. 48, p. 1231.[U. S. C., p. 1413](/us/usc/p1413). the Secretary of the Treasury to’ meet any expenditures of the character formerly chargeable to the appropriation accounts abolished under section 18 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act of 1934, approved June 26, 1934, and any other collections erroneously received and covered which are not properly chargeable to any other appropriation, $76,850. public debt servicePublic Debt Service. Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses connected with theSalaries and expenses. administration of any public debt issues and United States paper currency issues with which the Secretary of the Treasury is charged, including the purchase of law books, directories, books of reference,Reference books, etc. pamphlets, periodicals, and newspapers, and the purchase, maintenance, operation, repair, and exchange of a motor-propelled busBus service for Destruction Committee. or station wagon, for use of the Destruction Committee, and including the Commissioner of the Public Debt and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $2,075,000: *Provided*, That the amount to be expended for personal servicesServices in the District.*Provisos*.Limitation. in the District of Columbia shall not exceed $2,050,000: *Provided further*, That the indefiniteRestriction on using indefinite appropriation.Vol. 40, p. 292; [U. S. C., p. 1422](/us/usc/p1422). appropriation “Expenses of loans, Act of September 24, 1917, as amended and extended” (U. S. C., title 31, secs. 760, 761), shall not be used during the fiscal year 1936 to supplement the appropriation herein made for the current work of the Public Debt Service. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctiveDistinctive paper for securities.Expenses. paper for United States currency, national-bank currency, and Federal Reserve bank currency, including transportation of paper, traveling, mill, and other necessary expenses, and salaries of employees, and allowance, in lieu of expenses, of officer or officers detailed from the Treasury Department, not exceeding $50 per month each when actually on duty; in all, $531,990: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Award may be divided. in order to foster competition in the manufacture of distinctive paper for United States securities, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized, in his discretion, to split the award for such paper for the fiscal year 1936 between the two bidders whose prices per pound are the lowest received after advertisement. division of appointmentsAppointments Division. Salaries: For the chief of the division, and other personal servicesChief, and office personnel. in the District of Columbia, $43,880. 222 bureau of customsCustoms Bureau. Salaries and expenses. *Post*, p. 1636.Salaries and expenses: For collecting the revenue from customs, for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, and not to exceed $100,000 for the securing of evidence of violations Transfer of receipts from points lacking Government depositories.Living quarters.Vol. 46, p. 818; [U. S. C., p. 45](/us/usc/p45).of the customs laws; for expenses of transportation and transfer of customs receipts from points where there are no Government depositories; not to exceed $80,000 for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 5, sec. 118a), but not to exceed $1,700 Vehicles, etc.for any one person; not to exceed $5,000 for the hire of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; not to exceed $500 for subscriptions to newspapers; not to exceed $1,500 for improving, repairing, maintaining, or preserving buildings, inspection stations, office quarters,Quarters along borders.Vol. 46, p. 817; [U. S. C., p. 799](/us/usc/p799). including living quarters for officers, sheds, and sites along the Canadian and Mexican borders acquired under authority of the Act of June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 19, sec. 68); and including the purchase (not to exceed $150,000), exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles when Seizures under customs laws.necessary for official use in field work; $20,255,410, of w’hich such amount as may be necessary shall be available for the cost of seizure, storage, and disposition of any merchandise, vehicle and team, auto-mobile, boat, air or water craft, or any other conveyance seized under the provisions of the customs laws, for the purchase of arms, ammunition,Services in the District.Vol. 46, p. 741. and accessories, and $449.980 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia exclusive of ten persons from the field force authorized to be detailed under section 525 of the Tariff *Provisos*.Motor vehicle restriction.Act of 1930: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for maintenance or repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for use in the District of Columbia except one for use in connection with the work of the customhouse in Georgetown: Advance payment restriction waived.[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718); [U. S. C., p. 1395](/us/usc/p1395).*Provided further*, That section 3648 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 529) shall not apply to payments made for the Bureau of Customs in foreign countries. Refunds and drawbacks.*Post*. p. 1636.Refunds and drawbacks: For the refund or payment of customs collections or receipts, and for the payment of debentures or draw-backs, bounties, and allowances, as authorized by law, $14,000,000. bureau of the budgetBureau of the Budget. Director, Assistant, personnel, and other expenses.*Post*, p. 593.Salaries and expenses: Director, Assistant Director, and all other necessary expenses of the Bureau, including compensation of attorneys and other employees in the District of Columbia; contract stenographic reporting services, telegrams, telephone service, law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery, furniture, office equipment, other supplies, traveling expenses, street-car fares; $160,000. Printing and binding.*Post*, p. 1636.For printing and binding, $32,000. office of treasurer of the united statesTreasurer’s office. Treasurer, Assistant, and office personnel.Salaries: For Treasurer of the United States, Assistant Treasurer, and for other personal services in the District of Columbia, $1,160,000. Redeeming Federal Reserve and national currency.For personal services in the District of Columbia, in redeeming Federal Reserve and national currency, $309,700, to be reimbursed by the Federal Reserve and national banks. office of the comptroller of the currencyOffice of Comptroller of the Currency. Comptroller, and office personnel.Salaries: Comptroller of the Currency and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $232,520. 223 For personal services in the District of Columbia in connectionPersonal services, etc.; reimbursable. with Federal Reserve and national currency, $51,280, to be reimbursed by the Federal Reserve and national banks. bureau of internal revenueInternal Revenue Bureau. Salaries and expenses: For expenses of assessing and collectingSalaries and expenses.*Post*, p. 1636.Vol. 41, p. 305; Vol. 48, p. 16.[U. S. C., p. 1217](/us/usc/p1217). the internal-revenue taxes and to administer the applicable provisions of the Act of October 28, 1919, as amended and supplemented (U. S. C., title 27), the Act of March 22, 1933 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 27, secs. 64–a to 64–o), the Act of January 11, 1934 (48 Stat.Vol. 48, pp. 313, 1020. 313), Public Resolutions Numbered 40 and 41, approved June 18, 1934, (48 Stat. 1020–1021); and the internal-revenue laws pursuantVol. 44, p. 1381.[U. S. C., p. 59](/us/usc/p59).Vol. 46. p. 428; [U. S. C., p. 1222](/us/usc/p1222). to the Act of March 3, 1927 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 5, secs. 281–281–e), the Act of May 27, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 27, secs. 103–108), and Executive Order Numbered 6639, dated March 10, 1934; including the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Assistant General Counsel for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, an assistantCommissioner, Assistant General Counsel, and other persona] services.Vol. 48, p. 1061. to the Commissioner, a special deputy commissioner, four deputy commissioners, one stamp agent (to be reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers), and the necessary officers, collectors, deputy collectors, attorneys, experts, agents, accountants, inspectors, investigators, chemists, supervisors, storekeeper-gaugers, guards, clerks, janitors, and messengers in the District of Columbia, the several collection districts, the several divisions of internal-revenue agents and the several supervisory districts, to be appointed as provided by law; the securing of evidence of violations of the Acts, the cost ofSecuring of evidence. chemical analyses made by others than employees of the United States and expenses incident to such chemists testifying when necessary; telegraph and telephone service, rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, postage, freight, express, necessary expenses incurred in making investigations in connection with the enrollment or disbarment of practitioners before the Treasury Department in internal-revenue matters, expenses of seizure and sale, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses, including stenographic reporting services; cost of acquisition and maintenance of automobiles seizedVehicles. for violations of internal revenue laws delivered to the Secretary of the Treasury for use in administration of the law under his jurisdiction; for the purchase (not exceeding $150,000), exchange, hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary, for official usePurchase, for field agents. of the Alcohol Tax Unit in field work; and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, furniture, mechanical devices, laboratory supplies, law books and books of reference; and such other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia, the several collection districts, the several divisions of internal-revenue agents, and the several supervisory districts, $48,000,000, of which amount not to exceed $9.588,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That no part of this amount shall*Provisos*.Witness fees.*Ante*, p, 82. be used in defraying the expenses of any officer designated above, subpenaed by the United States court to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts”: *ProvidedDetection and prosecution of violations. further*, That not more than $100,000 of the total amount appropriated herein may be expended by the. Commissioner of Internal Revenue for detecting and bringing to trial persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violation: *Provided further*, Concentration of distilled spirits in bonded warehouses.That for the purpose of concentration, upon the initiation 224of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and under regulations prescribed by him, distilled spirits may be removed from any internal-revenue bonded warehouse to any other such warehouse, and may be bottled in bond in any such warehouse before or after payment of the tax, and the commissioner shall prescribe the form and penal sum of bond covering distilled spirits in internal-revenue bonded warehouses and in transit between such warehouses. That the proviso to the paragraph under the heading “ Bureau of Vol. 48, p. 1061.Internal Revenue ” contained in the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, approved June 19, 1934. be amended to read as follows:Restriction on salary payments. “*Provided*, That from and after May 15, 1935, no part of the appropriation made herein, or heretofore made, shall be used to pay the salaries of persons who were dropped from the service under the Executive Order Numbered 6166 of June 10, 1933, and reinstated, transferred, or promoted to positions in the Bureau of Industrial Alcohol, or in the Alcohol Tax Unit upon certificates issued by the Civil Service Commission between January 30, 1934, and May 10, Competitive appointments required.1934, unless such persons shall have passed an appropriate open competitive examination held by the Civil Service Commission after June 19, 1934, such persons being those who were separated from the service by Executive Order of June 10, 1933, and who, under the terms of such order, were ineligible for reappointment unless such reappointments were made before December 10, 1933: *Provided Sums made available for salaries.further*, That inasmuch as the Treasury Department under the advice of the Attorney General, has given the proviso referred to above a construction including other employees not intended by the Congress to be included in that proviso and advising the Treasury Department that it could retain such employees without pay, there are hereby made available for salaries from December 1, 1934, to May 15, 1935, both dates inclusive, from the unexpended balances under the following titled appropriations, the sums, respectively, enumerated after each: ‘Collecting the Revenue from Customs, 1935’, $2,357.14, ‘Collecting the Internal Revenue, 1935’, $1,367,006.91, ‘Salaries and Expenses, Bureau of Narcotics, 1935’, $8,642.85, and ‘Suppressing Counterfeiting and Other Crimes, 1935’, $7,857.14, in all, $1,385,864.04, to pay all of said employees up to and including May 15, Separation of employees failing to qualify.1935: *Provided further*, That the employees, other than those heretofore designated may be retained by the Treasury Department, but those designated in the first proviso hereof shall not be retained after May 15, 1935, by the Treasury Department unless they pass an appropriate noncompetitive examination to be held by the Civil Service Commission and, if retained without having passed such noncompetitive examination, shall not be paid out of this appropriation or any other appropriation made by this Act.” Refunding taxes.Vol. 45, p. 398.Refunding internal-revenue collections: For refunding internal-revenue collections, as provided by law, including the payment of claims for the fiscal year 1936 and prior years and accounts arising under “Allowance or drawback (Internal Revenue)”, “Redemption of stamps (Internal Revenue)”, “Refunding legacy taxes, Act of March 30, 1928”, and “Repayment of taxes on distilled spirits *Proviso*.Detailed report to Congress.Vol. 45, p. 996.[U. S. C., p. 1202](/us/usc/p1202).destroyed by casualty”, $35,000,000: *Provided*, That a report shall be made to Congress by internal-revenue districts and alphabetically arranged of all disbursements hereunder in excess of $500 as required by section 3 of the Act of May 29, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 26, sec. 1676), including the names of all persons and corporations to whom such payments are made, together with the amount paid to each. 225 Additional income tax on railroads in Alaska: For the payment toAlaska railroads, additional tax. the Treasurer of Alaska of an amount equal to the tax of 1 per centum collected on the gross annual income of all railroad corporations doing business in Alaska, on business done in Alaska, which tax is in addition to the normal income tax collected from such corporations on net income, and the amount of such additional tax to be applicable to general Territorial purposes, $4,700. bureau of narcoticsNarcotics Bureau. Salaries and expenses: For expenses to enforce the Act of DecemberSalaries and expenses.Vol. 38, p. 785; Vol. 40, p. 1130; Vol. 36, p. 614; Vol. 42, p. 596.[U. S. C., pp. 932, 1124](/us/usc/pp932/1124). 17, 1914 (U. S. C., title 26, sec. 211), as amended by the Revenue Act of 1918 (U. 8. C., title 26, secs. 691–708), the Act approved February 9, 1909, as amended by the Act of May 26, 1922 (U. S. C., title 21, secs. 171–184), known as the Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act, pursuant to the Act of March 3, 1927 (U. S. C., Supp. Vol. 44, p. 1381; Vol. 46, p. 585.[U. S. C., p. 59](/us/usc/p59).Executive officers, etc.VII, title 5, secs. 281–281e) and the Act of June 14, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 5, secs. 282–282c), including the employment of executive officers, attorneys, agents, inspectors, chemists, supervisors, clerks, messengers, and other necessary employees in the field and in the Bureau of Narcotics in the District of Columbia, to be appointed as authorized by law; the securing of evidence of violationsSecuring evidence of law violations. of the Acts; the costs of chemical analyses made by others than employees of the United States; the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, books, and such other expenditures as may be necessary in the several field offices; cost incurred by officers and employees of the Bureau of Narcotics in the seizure, storage, andSeizures, etc.[R. S., sec. 3460, p. 685](/us/rs/s3460/p685).[U. S. C., p. 1199](/us/usc/p1199). disposition of property under the internal revenue laws when the same is disposed of under section 3460, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 26, sec. 1193); purchase (not to exceed $7,500), exchange, hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary for official use in field work; purchase of arms and ammunition, and for rental of necessary quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; in all, $1,249,470, of which amount not to exceed $187,080 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That*Provisos*.Use of forfeited vehicles.Vol. 43, p. 1116.[U. S. C., p. 823](/us/usc/p823). the Secretary of the Treasury may authorize the use by narcotic agents of motor vehicles confiscated under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1925 (U. S. C., title 27, sec. 43), as amended, and to pay the cost of acquisition, maintenance, repair, and operation thereof: *Provided further*, That not exceeding $10,000 may be expended forLaw observance information. the collection and dissemination of information and appeal for law observance and law enforcement, including cost of printing, purchase of newspapers, and other necessary expenses in connection therewithAttendance at meetings. and not exceeding $1,500 for attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Bureau of Narcotics: *Provided further*, That moneysCredits for sums expended. expended from this appropriation for the purchase of narcotics and subsequently recovered shall be reimbursed to the appropriation for enforcement of the narcotic Acts current at the time of the deposit. coast guardCoast Guard. Office of the Commandant: For personal services in the DistrictOffice personnel. of Columbia, $359,620. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorizedService expenditures. work of the Coast Guard, including the expense of maintenance, repair, and operation of vessels forfeited to the United States and 226Vol. 43, p. 1116.[U. S. C., p. 823](/us/usc/p823).delivered to the Treasury Department under the terms of the Act approved March 3, 1925 (U. S. C., title 27, sec. 41), and the maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes in the field, as follows: Pay, etc., officers and enlisted men.*Post*, p. 1637.Pay and allowances: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned officers, cadets, warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, active and retired, temporary cooks, surf men, Retired members, Life Saving Service.Vol. 46, p. 164; [U. S. C., p. 506](/us/usc/p506).Cash prizes.substitute surfmen, and two civilian instructors, including not to exceed $96,575 for retired pay for certain members of the former Life Saving Service authorized by the Act approved April 14, 1934 (U. S. C., title 14, sec. 178 a), and not exceeding $6,000 for cash prizes for men for excellence in gunnery, target practice, and engineering competitions, for carrying out the provisions of the Act of Death allowance.June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., title 34, sec. 943), rations or commutation Vol. 41, p. 824; [U. S. C., p. 1570](/us/usc/p1570).Traveling expenses.thereof for cadets, petty officers, and other enlisted men, mileage and expenses allowed by law for officers; and traveling expenses for other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, including transportation of enlisted men and applicants for enlistment, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof, expenses of recruiting for the Coast Guard, rent of rendezvous, and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen; transportation and packing allowances for baggage or household effects of commissioned officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men, $17,000,000; Fuel and water.*Post*, p. 1637.Fuel and Water: For fuel, lubricating oil, kerosene, and water for vessels, stations, and houses of refuge, $1,532,650; Outfits, stores, etc. Port, p. 1637.*Post*, p. 1637.Outfits: For outfits, including repairs to portable equipment at shore units, ship chandlery, engineers’ stores, and draft animals and their maintenance, $1,304,455; Stations, houses of refuge, etc.*Post*, p. 1637.Rebuilding and Repairing Stations: F or rebuilding and repairing stations and houses of refuge, temporary leases, rent, and improvements of property for Coast Guard purposes, including use of additional land where necessary, $292,500; Coastal communication lines.*Post*, p. 1637.Communication Lines: For coastal communication lines and facilities and their maintenance, and communication service, $138,120; Civilian field employees.Civilian Employees: For compensation of civilian employees in the field, including clerks to district commanders, $245,080; Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For contingent expenses, including subsistence of shipwrecked and destitute persons succored by the Coast Guard and of prisoners while in the custody of the Coast Guard: for the recreation, amusement, comfort, contentment, and health or the enlisted men of the Coast Guard, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding $40,000; instruments and apparatus, supplies, technical books and periodicals, services necessary to the carrying on of scientific investigation, and not exceeding $4,000 for experimental and research work; care, transportation, and burial of deceased officers and enlisted men, including those who die in Government hospitals; wharfage, towage, freight, storage, advertising, surveys, medals, labor, newspapers, and periodicals for statistical purposes; not to exceed $5,000 for cost of special instruction including maintenance of students; and all other necessary expenses which are not included under any other headings; $175,000; Vessel, etc., repairs.*Post*, p. 1637.Repairs to vessels: For repairs to Coast Guard vessels and boats, $1713,890: Total, Coast Guard, exclusive of commandant’s office, $22,401,695. Payment of reenlistment allowances.Vol. 47, p. 1519.Section 18 of the Treasury-Post Office Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1934, is hereby continued in full force and effect during the 227fiscal year ending June 30, 1936; and for the purpose of making such section applicable to such latter fiscal year, the figures “1934” shall be read as “1936”, bureau of engraving and printingEngraving and Printing Bureau. For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work,Work authorized for fiscal year 1936. during the fiscal year 1936 United States currency and national-bank currency, internal-revenue stamps including opium orders and special-tax stamps required under the Act of December 17, 1914Vol. 38, p. 786.[U. S. C., p. 1125](/us/usc/p1125). (U. S. C., title 26, sec. 211), checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work, as follows: Salaries and expenses: For the director, two assistant directors,Salaries and expenses.*Post*, p. 593. and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including wages of rotary press plate printers at per diem rates and all other plate printers at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work; forMaterials, etc. engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials, including distinctive and nondistinctive paper, except distinctive paper for United States currency, national-bank currency and Federal Reserve bank currency; equipment of, repairs to, and maintenance of buildings and grounds and for minor alterations to buildings; directories, technical books and periodicals, and books of reference,Reference books, etc. not exceeding $300; rent, of warehouse in the District of Columbia; traveling expenses not to exceed $2,000; equipment, maintenance, and supplies for the emergency room for the use of all employees in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing who may be taken suddenly ill or receive injury while on duty; miscellaneous expenses,Miscellaneous expenses. including not to exceed $1,500 for articles approved by the Secretary of the Treasury as being necessary for the protection of the person of employees; for transfer to the Bureau of Standards forScientific investigations. scientific investigations in connection with the work of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, not to exceed $15,000; and for theVehicles. maintenance and driving of two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; $5,988,247, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. During the fiscal year 1936 all proceeds derived from work performedProceeds of work to be credited to Bureau. by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, not covered and embraced in the appropriation for such Bureau for such fiscal year, instead of being covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, as provided by the Act of August 4, 1886 (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 176), shall beVol. 24. p. 227.[U. S. C., p. 1366](/us/usc/p1366). credited when received to the appropriation for said Bureau for the fiscal year 1936. secret service divisionSecret Service Division. Salaries: For the chief of the division and other personal servicesChief, and office personnel.*Post*, p. 594. in the District of Columbia, $37,940. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expensesSuppressing counterfeiting, etc. incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money and persons engaged in counterfeiting, forging, and altering United States notes, bonds, national-bank notes, Federal Reserve notes, Federal Reserve bank notes, and other obligations and securities of the United States and of foreign governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and other crimes against the laws of 228the United States relating to the Treasury Department and the several branches of the public service under its control; purchase (not to exceed $57,000), exchange, hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; purchase of arms and ammunition; traveling expenses; and for no other purpose whatsoever, except in the performance of other Protecting the President, etc.duties specifically authorized by law, and in the protection of the person of the President and the members of his immediate family and of the person chosen to be President of the United States, $675,000, of which sum $57,000 shall be immediately available: *Provisos*.Witness foes.*Provided*, That no part of the amount herein appropriated shall be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of Violation of laws relating to Treasury Department, etc.witnesses, United States courts”: *Provided further*, That of the amount herein appropriated, not to exceed $10,000 may be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the laws relating to the Treasury Department, and for services or information looking toward the apprehension of criminals. White House police.Salaries.*Post*, p. 594.White House police: Captain, lieutenant, three sergeants, and for forty-three privates, at rates of pay provided by law; in all, $117,700. Uniforms and equipment.*Post*, p. 594.For uniforming and equipping the White House police, including the purchase, issue, and repair of revolvers and the purchase and issue of ammunition and miscellaneous supplies, to be procured in such manner as the President in his discretion may determine, $3,000. public health servicePublic Health Service. Office personnel.Salaries, office of Surgeon General: For personal services in the District of Columbia, $304,570. Pay, allowance, etc.. Surgeon General, officers, etc.Commissioned officers, pay, and so forth: For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for regular commissioned medical officers, including the Surgeon General and assistant surgeons general and for other regular commissioned officers, $1,728,734. Acting assistant surgeons.Acting assistant surgeons, pay: For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medical officers), $335,000. Other employees.Pay of other employees: For pay of all other employees (attend-ants, and so forth), $1,000,000. Freight, transportation, etc.Freight, transportation, etc.: For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including allowances for living quarters, including Vol. 48, p. 818.[U. S. C., p. 45](/us/usc/p45).heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 5, sec. 118a), not to exceed $5,000 but not to exceed $1,700 for any one person; the expenses, except membership fees, of officers when officially detailed to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of public health, and the packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of the personal effects of commissioned officers, scientific personnel, pharmacists, and nurses of the Public Health Service, upon permanent change of station, *Proviso*.Transporting remains of officers.$25,000: *Provided*, That funds expendable for transportation and traveling expenses may also be used for preparation for shipment and transportation to their former homes of remains of officers who die in line of duty. National Institute of Health, maintenance.National Institute of Health, maintenance: For maintaining the National Institute of Health, $64,000. Books.Books: For journals and scientific books, office of Surgeon General, $450. 229 Pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals: For medicalHospital maintenance, medical examinations, etc.Vol. 39. p. 885; [U. S. C., p. 191](/us/usc/p191).*Post*, p. 1637. examinations, including the amount necessary for the medical inspection of aliens, as required by section 16 of the Act of February 5, 1917 (U. S. C., title 8, sec. 152), medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies, including prosthetic and orthopedic supplies to be furnished under regulations approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, for beneficiaries (other than patients of the Veterans’ Administration) of the Public Health Service and persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service under the immigration laws and regulations, including necessary personnel and reserve commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, personal services in the DistrictServices In the District.General expenses. of Columbia and elsewhere, including the furnishing and laundering of white duck coats, trousers, smocks, aprons, and caps to employees whose duties make necessary the wearing of same, maintenance, minor repair's, equipment, leases, fuel, lights, water, freight, transportation and travel, the maintenance, exchange, and operation of motor trucks and passenger motor vehicles for official use in field work (including not to exceed $3,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles) and one for use in connection with the administrative work of the Public Health Service in the District of Columbia, purchase of ambulances, transportation? care, maintenance, and treatment of lepers, including transportation toLepers, care, transportation, etc. their homes in the continental United States of recovered indigent leper patients, court costs, and other expenses incident to proceedingsInsane, etc. heretofore or hereafter taken for commitment of mentally incompetent persons to hospitals for the care and treatment of the insane, and reasonable burial expenses (not exceeding $100 for any patient dying in hospital), $5,658,460: *Provided*, That the Immigration*Provisos.*Use of Ellis Island hospitals. Service shall permit the Public Health Service to use the hospitals at Ellis Island Immigration Station for the care of Public Health Service patients free of expense for physical upkeep, but with a charge of actual cost of fuel, light, water, telephone, and similar supplies and services, to be covered into the proper Immigration Service appropriations; and money collected by the Immigration Service on account of hospital expenses of persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service under the immigration laws andReceipts covered into Treasury. regulations shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall be used forUses forbidden. the quarantine service, the prevention of epidemics, or scientific work of the character provided for under the appropriations which follow. Hereafter all collections of the Public Health Service for theCollections for treatment of pay patients covered into Treasury. care and treatment of foreign seamen or other private pay patients shall be covered in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses,Quarantine service. exclusive of pay of officers and employees, of United States quarantine stations, including the exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work and not to exceed $3,500 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $322,150. Prevention of epidemics: To enable the. President, in case only ofPrevention of epidemics. threatened or actual epidemic of infectious or contagious disease, to aid State and local boards or otherwise in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, $261,668, of which $8,000 shall be immediately available for the suppression of an epidemic of typhus fever, including the purchase of newspapers and clippings from newspapers containing information relating to the prevalence of disease and the public health. 230 Field investigations.Field investigations: For investigations of diseases of man and conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof, including sanitation and sewage, and the pollution of navigable streams and lakes of the United States, including personal service, and including the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work, and not to exceed $2,250 for the purchase and exchange of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $240,000. Interstate quarantine service.Interstate quarantine service: F or cooperation with State and municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, $36,535. Rural sanitation.Rural sanitation: For special studies of, and demonstration work in, rural sanitation, including personal services, and including the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying*Proviso*.Local contribution required. vehicles for official use in field work, $25,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for demonstration work in rural sanitation in any community unless the State, county, or municipality in which the community is located agrees to pay one-half of the expenses of such demonstration work. Biologic products.Regulating sale of viruses, etc.Biologic products: To regulate the propagation and sale of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products, including arsphenamine, and for the preparation of curative and diagnostic biologic products, including personal services of reserve commissioned officers and other personnel, $45,000. Venereal Diseases Division.Maintenance, etc.Vol. 40, p. 880; [U. S. C., p. 1812](/us/usc/p1812).Division of Venereal Diseases: For the maintenance and expenses of the Division of Venereal Diseases, established by sections 3 and 4, chapter XV, of the Act approved July 9, 1918 (U. S. C., title 42, secs. 24, 25), including personal and other services in the field and in the District of Columbia, $80,000, of which amount not to exceed Services in the District.$19,420 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Mental Hygiene Division.Vol. 46, pp. 587, 819.[U. S. C., pp. 934, 937](/us/usc/pp934/937).Division of Mental Hygiene: For carrying out the provisions of section 4 of the Act of June 14, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 21, secs. 196 and 225); for maintenance and operation of the Narcotic Narcotic Farm, Lexington, Ky.Vol. 45, p. 1085; [U. S. C., p. 937](/us/usc/p937).Farm, Lexington, Kentucky, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of January 19, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 21, secs. 221–237), including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses; necessary supplies and equipment; subsistence and care of inmates; expenses incurred in pursuing and identifying escaped inmates and of interment or transporting remains of deceased inmates; purchase and exchange of farm products and livestock; law books, books of reference, newspapers and periodicals; furnishing and laundering of uniforms and other distinctive wearing apparel necessary for employees in the performance of their official duties; tobacco for inmates; purchase and exchange, not to exceed $800, and maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; $650,000. Educational exhibits; preventing spread of diseases.Educational exhibits: For the preparation of public-health exhibits designed to demonstrate the cause, prevalence, methods of spread, and measures for preventing diseases dangerous to the public health, including personal services and the cost of acquiring, transporting, and displaying exhibit material, $1,000. Bureau of the MintBureau of the Mint. office of director of the mint Director, and office personnel.Salaries: For the Director of the Mint and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $37,200. 231 Transportation of bullionTransporting bullion and coin. and coin: For transportation of bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints and assay offices, $10,000. Contingent expenses: For assay laboratory chemicals, fuel, materials,Contingent expenses. balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, $700. For examination of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purposeMint examinations. of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations and for the collection of statistics relative to the annual production and consumption of the precious metals in the United States, $4,700. Salaries and expenses, mints and assay offices: For compensationMints and assay offices.Salaries and expenses.*Post*, pp. 594,1637. of officers and employees of the mints at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, San Francisco, California, Denver, Colorado, and New Orleans, Louisiana, and assay offices at New York, New York, and Seattle, Washington, and for incidental and contingent expenses, including traveling expenses, new machinery, and repairs, cases and enameling for medals manufactured, net wastage in melting and refining and in coining departments, loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coins, not to exceed $500 for the expenses of the annual assay commission, and not exceeding $1,000 in value of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint at Philadelphia, $1,204,000. procurement division public works branchProcurement Division; Public Works Branch.Repairs, preservation, etc., of completed buildings.Vol. 35, p. 537; Vol. 42, p. 21.[U. S. C., p. 1407](/us/usc/p1407). For carrying into effect the provisions of the Public Building Acts, as provided in section 6 of the Act of May 30, 1908 (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 683), and for the repair, preservation, and upkeep of all completed public buildings, the mechanical equipment and the grounds thereof, and sites acquired for buildings, maintained by the Treasury Department, and for the operation of certain completed and occupied Treasury buildings, including furniture and repairs thereof, but exclusive, with respect to operation, of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, narcotic farms, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Liberty Loan, and Auditors’ buildings: General administrative expenses: For architectural, engineering,General administrative expenses. mechanical, administrative, clerical, and other personal services, traveling expenses, including expenses of employees directed by the Secretary of the Treasury to attend meetings of technical and professional societies in connection with subjects related to the work of the Division of Procurement, Public Works Branch, and transportation of household goods, incident to change of headquarters of all employees engaged in field activities, not to exceed five thousand pounds at any one time, together with the necessary expenses incident to packing and draying same; advertising, testing instruments, law books, books of reference, technical periodicals and journals, drafting materials, especially prepared paper, typewriting machines, adding machines and other mechanical labor-saving devices, and exchange of same, carpets, electric-light fixtures, furniture, equipment, and repairs thereto, telegraph and telephone service, freight, expressage, and postage incident to the transportation of drawings to and from the office and such other contingencies, articles, services, or supplies as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order or approve in connection with any of the work of the Procurement Division, Public Works Branch; rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including ground rent of the Federal buildingSalamanca, N. Y., ground rent. at Salamanca, New York, for which payment may be made in 232advance; $920,000, of which amount not *Provisos*.Cost of surveys, models, etc.to exceed $494,940 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia and not to exceed $289,060 for personal services in the field: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriations shall not be available for the cost of surveys, plaster models, progress photographs, test pits and borings, or mill and shop inspections, but the cost thereof shall be construed to be chargeable against the construction appropriations of the Not available for transporting supplies.respective projects to which they relate: *Provided further*, That no expenditures shall be made hereunder for transportation of operating Pay rates.supplies for public buildings: *Provided further*, That in no case shall the rates of compensation for the mechanical labor force in the field under this appropriation be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services are employed. Repair, preservation, etc., completed buildings.Repair, preservation, and equipment, public buildings: For repairs, alterations, improvement, and preservation of completed Federal buildings (including Marcus Hook), the grounds and approaches thereof, wharves and piers, together with the necessary dredging adjacent thereto, and care and safeguarding, not otherwise provided for, of sites acquired for Federal buildings, including tools and materials for the use of the custodial and mechanical force, wire partitions and insect screens, installation and repair of mechanical equipment, gas and electric-light fixtures, conduits, wiring, platform scales, and tower clocks; vaults and lock-box equipment in all buildings under construction or completed, and for necessary safe equipments in buildings under the administration of the Treasury Department, including repairs thereto, and changes in, maintenancePneumatic tube, New York City. of, and repairs to the pneumatic-tube system in New York City installed under franchise of the city of New York, approved June 29, 1909, and June 11, 1928, and the payment of any obligationsVol. 86, p. 120; Vol. 45, p. 533. arising thereunder in accordance with the provisions of the Acts approved August 5, 1909 (36 Stat., p. 120), and May 15, 1928 *Provisos*.Personal service restriction.(45 Stat., p. 533), $1,586,700: *Provided*, That the appropriation herein made shall not be available for the payment of personal services, except for work done under contract, or for temporary job labor under exigency in an amount not to exceed $100 at one time Limitation on repairs, etc.at any one building: *Provided further*, That the total expenditures for the fiscal year for the repair and preservation of buildings not reserved by the vendors on sites acquired for buildings or the enlargement of buildings and the installation and repair of the mechanical equipment thereof shall not exceed 20 per centum of the annual rental of such buildings. Construction of public buildings.Construction of Public Buildings: For commencement, continuation, or completion of construction in connection with any or all projects authorized under the provisions of sections 3 and 5 of theVol. 44, p. 632; Vol. 45, p. 137; Vol. 46, p. 1164; [U. S. C., pp. 1792–1796](/us/usc/pp1792/1796). Public Buildings Act, approved May 25, 1926 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 40, secs. 343, 345), and the Acts amendatory thereof approved February 24, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 40, sec. 345), and March 31, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 40, secs. 341–349), within the respective limits of cost fixed for such projects, $2,000,000: *Provisos*.Coast Guard, etc., buddings discontinued.Vol. 46, p. 1605.*Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for work on the building for the Coast Guard or some other Government activity (Apex Building), authorized by the Act of March 4, 1931 (46 Stat., p. 1605): *Provided further*, That the Government property Bremerton, Wash., Navy Yard Hotel site transferred to Treasury.Vol. 48, p. 1062.*Post*, p. 1639.located on the south side of Fourth Street opposite the terminus of Park Avenue in the city of Bremerton, Washington, known as the “Navy Yard Hotel site”, is hereby transferred to the Treasury Department for use as a site for the post-office building authorized under the provisions of the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935. 233 Outside professional services, public buildings: To enable theOutside professional services.Vol. 44, p. 631; Vol. 46, p. 137.[U. S. C., p. 1794](/us/usc/p1794). Secretary of the Treasury to obtain outside professional and technical services, as provided by the Public Buildings Act approved May 25, 1926 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 40, sec. 342), and by the Act approved March 31, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 137), and to pay reasonable compensation for such services, and to employ appraisers, when necessary, by contract or otherwise, $100,000, to remain available until expended. Operating force for public buildings: For personal services,Operating force.Personal services. including also telephone operators for the operation of telephone switchboards or equivalent telephone switching equipment jointly serving in each case two or more governmental activities, $1,300,000: *Provided*, That in no case shall the rates of compensation for the*Proviso*.Pay rates. mechanical labor force under this appropriation be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services are employed. Furniture and repairs of furniture, public buildings: For furniture,Furniture, etc. carpets, and repairs of same, for certain completed and occupied Treasury buildings, and for public buildings in course of construction which are to be operated by the Public Works branch, $45,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriation shall not be*Provisos*.Personal services, restriction. used for personal services except for work done under contract or for temporary job labor under exigency and not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building: *Provided further*, ThatUse of present furniture. all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings or in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not. Operating supplies, public buildings: For fuel, steam, gas forOperating supplies.Fuel, light, power, etc. lighting and heating purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for lighting, heating, and power purposes, telephone service for custodial forces; removal of ashes and rubbish, snow, and ice; cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, and miscellaneous items for use of the custodial forces in the care and maintenance of such public buildings, the grounds thereof, and the equipment and furnishings therein; temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building; miscellaneous sup-plies., tools, and appliances required in the operation (not embracing repairs) of the mechanical equipment, including heating, plumbing, hoisting, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum-cleaning, air-conditioning and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit wiring, call bell and signal systems in such buildings, and for the transportation of articles or supplies, authorized herein; $425,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for contracts*Proviso*.Contracts for joint telephone switch-boards. for telephone switchboards or equivalent telephone-switching equipment jointly serving in each case two or more governmental activities in buildings under the Treasury Department where it is found that joint service is economical and in the interest of the Government, and this appropriation shall be reimbursed for the cost of such joint service from available appropriations of the offices receiving the service. procurement division supply branchSupply Branch. Salaries and expenses: For the Director of Procurement andDirector, office and field personnel. other personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field service, and for miscellaneous expenses, including two three-and-one-half-ton and two one-and-one-half-ton motor trucks, office sup234plies and materials, maintenance of motor trucks, telegrams, telephone service, traveling expenses, office equipment, inspection, fuel, light, electric current, and other expenses for carrying into effect regulations governing the procurement, warehousing, and distribution by the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department of property, equipment, stores, and supplies in the District of Columbia (including not to exceed $500 to settle claims for damages caused to private property by motor vehicles used by the Procurement*Provisos.*Transfer of available funds to Branch of Supply. Division), $460,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed during the fiscal year 1936 to transfer to this appropriation from any appropriations or funds available to the several departments and establishments of the Government such amounts as may be approved by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, not to exceed the amount of the annual compensation of employees heretofore or hereafter transferred or detailed to the Procurement Division, Branch of Supply, respectively, from any such department or establishment, where the transfer or detail of such employees was or will be incident to a transfer Functions transferred to.Vol. 45, p. 1342.[U. S. C., p. 1804](/us/usc/p1804).of a function or functions to that Division: *Provided further*, That during the fiscal year 1936 and thereafter the general supply fund established by the Act approved February 27, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 41, sec. 7c) and increased by the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1936, shall be charged with expenditures for the purchase and transportation of fuel, storing and handling of fuel, maintenance and operation of yards and equipment, including two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for inspectors, purchase of equipment, rentals, and all other expenses requisite for and incident to the operation of the Government fuel yards, including personal services in the District of Columbia, and for the payment of outstanding obligations for such purposes previously incurred: Payments for materials, etc., issued.*Provided further*, That payments during the fiscal year 1936 to the general supply fund for materials, supplies (including fuel), and services, and overhead expenses, for all issues shall be made on the books of the Treasury Department by transfer and counter-warrants prepared by the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department and countersigned by the Comptroller General, such warrants to be based solely on itemized invoices prepared by the Procurement Division at issue prices to be fixed by the Director of Advances credited to fund.Vol. 47, p. 417.[U. S. C., p. 1407](/us/usc/p1407).Procurement: *Provided further*, That advances received pursuant to law (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 31, sec. 686) from departments and establishments of the United States Government and the Government of the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1936 shall “Fuel” construed.be credited to the general supply fund: *Provided further*, That the Inspection certificate, waived.[R. S., secs. 3711, 3713, pp. 733, 734](/us/rs/s3711/3713/pp733/734).[U. S. C., p. 1776](/us/usc/p1776).term “fuel” shall be held to include “fuel oil ’: *And provided further*, That the requirements of sections 3711 and 3713 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 40, sec. 109) relative to the weighing of coal and wood and the separate certificate as to the weight, measurement, or quantity of coal and wood purchased shall not apply to purchases by the Procurement Division at free-on-board Cost of reconditioning equipment, etc.destination outside of the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That the reconditioning and repair of surplus property and equipment, for disposition or reissue to government service may be, made at cost by the Procurement Division, payment therefor to be effected by charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, Supply Branch, Procurement Division.” Typewriter repairs.Repairs to typewriting machines (except bookkeeping and billing machines) in the Government service in the District of Columbia may be made at cost by the Procurement Division, payment therefor 235to be effected by charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, Procurement Division, Supply Branch.” No part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act shallPrices of standard machines established. be used during the fiscal year 1936 for the purchase of any standard typewriting machines, except bookkeeping and billing machines, at a price in excess of the following for models with carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches (correspondence models), $70; twelve inches, $75; fourteen inches, $77.50; sixteen inches, $82.50; eighteen inches, $87.50; twenty inches, $94; twenty-two inches, $95; twenty-four inches, $97.50; twenty-six inches, $103.50; twenty-eight inches, $104; thirty inches, $105; thirty-two inches, $107.50; or, for standard typewriting machines distinctively quiet in operation, the maximum prices shall be as follows for models with carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches, $80; twelve inches, $85; fourteen inches, $90; eighteen inches, $95: *Provided*, That standard*Proviso*.Quiet machines. typewriting machines distinctively quiet in operation purchased during such fiscal year by any such department, establishment, or municipal government shall only be purchased on the written order of the head thereof. miscellaneous items, treasury departmentMiscellaneous Items. american printing house for the blind To enable the American Printing House for the Blind moreAmerican Printing House for the Blind, expenses.Vol. 44, p. 1066; [U. S. C., p. 913](/us/usc/p913). adequately to provide books and apparatus for the education of the blind in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved February 8, 1927 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 20, sec. 101), $65,000. This title may be cited as the “Treasury Department AppropriationShort title. Act, 1936.” TITLE II— Title II—Post Office Department. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT The following sums are appropriated in conformity with the ActAppropriations for fiscal year 1936.Vol. 5, p. 80.U. S. C., pp. 66, 1763. of July 2, 1836 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 380, title 39, sec. 786), for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, namely: post office department, washington, district of columbiaDepartment expenses. office of the postmaster generalPostmaster General’s office. Salaries: For the Postmaster General and other personal services inPostmaster General, and office personnel. the office of the Postmaster General in the District of Columbia, $228,344. salaries in bureaus and officesSalaries; bureaus and offices. For personal services in the District of Columbia in bureaus andAmounts. offices of the Post Office Department in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, $348,990. Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, $566,040. Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, $765,000. Office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $441,000. Office of the Solicitor for the Post Office Department, $81,280. Office of the chief inspector, $192,000. Office of the purchasing agent, $39,260. Bureau of Accounts, $94,000. 236 contingent expenses, post office department Department contingent expenses.*Post*, p. 1629.For contingent and miscellaneous expenses; stationery and blank books, index and guide cards, folders and binding devices, including purchase of free penalty envelops; telegraph and telephone service, furniture and filing cabinets and repairs thereto; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of tools, electrical supplies, typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; maintenance of motor Vehicles, etc.trucks and of two motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes (one for the Postmaster General and one for the general use of the Department); street-car fares; floor coverings;Correspondence addressed abroad.Vol. 44, pp. 2243, 2245. postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad, which is not exempt under article 47 of the London Convention of the Universal Postal Union; purchase and exchange of law books, books of reference, railway guides, city directories, and books necessary to conduct the business of the Department; newspapers, not exceeding $200; Attendance at meetings.expenses, except membership fees, of attendance at meetings or conventions concerned with postal affairs, when incurred on the written authority of the Postmaster General, not exceeding $2,000; expenses of the purchasing agent and of the Solicitor and attorneys connected with his office while traveling on business of the Department, not exceeding $800; and other expenses not otherwise provided for; $75,750. Printing and binding.*Post*, p. 1629.For printing and binding for the Post Office Department, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $875,000. Field service appropriations not to be used for department.Appropriations hereinafter made for the field service of the Post Office Department, except as otherwise provided, shall not be expended for any of the purposes hereinbefore provided for on account of the Post Office Department in the District of Columbia: *Provisos*.Travel expenses, payable from service appropriations.*Provided*, That the actual and necessary expenses of officials and employees of the Post Office Department and Postal Service, when traveling on official business, may continue to be paid from the appropriations for the service in connection with which the travel is performed, and appropriations for the fiscal year 1936 of the character heretofore used for such purposes shall be available therefor:Use in examining field estimates. *Provided further*, That appropriations hereinafter made, except such as are exclusively for payment of compensation, shall be immediately available for expenses in connection with the examination of estimates for appropriations in the field including per diem allowances in lieu of actual expenses of subsistence. Field Service, Post Office DepartmentField Service. office of the postmaster generalPostmaster General. Rewards to employees for inventions improving the service.Rewards to postal employees for inventions: The Postmaster General is hereby authorized to pay a cash reward for any invention, suggestion, or series of suggestions for an improvement or economy in device, design, or process applicable to the Postal Service submitted by one or more employees of the Post Office Department or the Postal Service which shall be adopted for use and will clearly effect a material economy or increase efficiency, and for that purpose the *Provisos*.Additional to regular pay.sum of $500 is hereby appropriated; *Provided*, That the sums so paid to employees in accordance with this Act shall be in addition to their Agreement for Government use required.usual compensation: *Provided further*, That no employee shall be paid a reward under this appropriation until he has properly executed an agreement to the effect that the use by the United States of the invention, suggestion, or series of suggestions made by him shall not form the basis of a further claim of any nature upon the United States by him, his heirs, or assigns. 237 Travel expenses, Postmaster General and Assistant PostmastersTravel, etc. General: For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, offices of the Postmaster General and Assistant Postmasters General, $5,000. Personal or property damage claims: To enable the PostmasterDamage claims. General to pay claims for damages, occurring during the fiscal year 1936, or in prior fiscal years, to persons or property in accordance with the provisions of the Deficiency Appropriation Act approved June 16, 1921 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 392), as amended by the Vol. 42, p. 63; Vol. 45, p. 1207.[U. S. C., p. 67](/us/usc/p67).Act approved June 22, 1934 (48 Stat. 1207), $65,000. Adjusted losses and contingencies, postal funds: To enable theAdjusted losses and contingencies. Postmaster General to pay to postmasters, Navy mail clerks, and assistant Navy mail clerks or credit them with the amount ascertained to have been lost or destroyed during the fiscal year 1936, or prior fiscal years, through burglary, fire, or other unavoidable casualty resulting from no fault or negligence on their part, as authorized by the Act approved March 17, 1882, as amended, $50,000. office of chief inspectorChief Inspector’s office. Salaries of Inspectors: For salaries of fifteen inspectors in chargeInspectors. of divisions and five hundred and forty inspectors, $2,112,000. Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling expenses ofTraveling expenses, investigations, etc. inspectors, inspectors in charge, the chief post-office inspector, and the assistant chief post-office inspector, and for the traveling expenses of four clerks performing stenographic and clerical assistance to post-office inspectors in the investigation of important fraud cases, and for tests, exhibits, documents, photographs, office and other necessary expenses incurred by post-office inspectors in connection with their official investigations, including necessary miscellaneous expenses of division headquarters, $535,000: *Provided*, That not*Proviso*.Allotment for chemical, etc., investigations. exceeding $18,000 of this sum shall be available for transfer by the Postmaster General to other departments and independent establishments for chemical and other investigations. Clerks, division headquarters: For compensation of one hundredClerks at division headquarters. and fifty-nine clerks at division headquarters, $390,000. Payment of rewards: For payment of rewards for the detection,Rewards for detecting law violations. arrest, and conviction of post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers, $55,000: *Provided*, That rewards may be paid in the*Provisos.*Death of offender. discretion of the Postmaster General, when an offender of the class mentioned was killed in the act of committing the crime or in resisting lawful arrest: *Provided further*, That no part of this sumRates. shall be used to pay any rewards at rates in excess of those specified in Post Office Department Order 9955, dated February 28, 1930: *Provided further*, That of the amount herein appropriated not toSecuring in formation. exceed $20,000 may be expended, in the discretion of the Postmaster General, for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the postal laws and for services and information looking toward the apprehension of criminals. office of the first assistant postmaster generalFirst Assistant Post-master General. Compensation to postmasters: For compensation to postmasters,Compensation of postmasters.*Post*, p. 1630. including compensation as postmaster to persons who, pending the designation of an acting postmaster, assume and properly perform the duties of postmaster in the event of a vacancy in the office of postmaster of the third or fourth class, and for allowances for rent, light, fuel, and equipment to postmasters of the fourth class, $44,500,000. Compensation to assistant postmasters: For compensation toAssistant postmasters. assistant postmasters at first-and second-class post offices, $6,590,000. 238 Clerks and other employees, first-and second-class offices.Clerks, first-and second-class post offices: For compensation to clerks and employees at first-and second-class post offices, including auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter post offices, printers, mechanics, skilled laborers, watchmen, messengers, laborers, and substitutes, $163,000,000. Contract station clerks.Clerks, contract stations: For compensation to clerks in charge of contract stations, $1,450,000. Separating malls.Separating mails: For separating mails at third-and fourth-class post offices, $480,000. Unusual conditions.Unusual conditions: For unusual conditions at post offices, $75,000. Clerks, third-class offices.Clerks, third-class post offices: For allowances to third-class post offices to cover the cost of clerical services, $7,500,000. Miscellaneous, first-and second-class offices.Miscellaneous items, first-and second-class post offices: For miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to the operation and protection of post offices of the first and second classes, and the business conducted in connection therewith, not provided for in other appropriations, $1,990,000. Village delivery.Village delivery service: For village delivery service in towns and villages having post offices of the second or third class, and in communities adjacent to cities having city delivery, $1,595,000. Detroit River service.Detroit River service: For Detroit River postal service, $15,995. Car fare and bicycle allowance.Car fare and bicycle allowance: For ear fare and bicycle allowance, including special-delivery car fare, $1,200,000. City delivery, carriers.City Delivery carriers: For pay of letter carriers, City Delivery Service, $117,750,000. Special delivery.*Post*, p. 1630.Special-delivery fees: For fees to special-delivery messengers, $6,250,000. office of the second assistant postmaster general.Second Assistant Postmaster General. Star routes, except Alaska.Star-route service: For inland transportation by star routes (excepting service in Alaska), including temporary service to newly established offices, and not to exceed $100,000 for Government-operated star-route service $11,500,000. Alaska.Star-route service, Alaska: For inland transportation by star routes in Alaska, $190,000. Power-boat service.Power-boat service: F or inland transportation by steamboat or other power-boat routes, including ship, steamboat, and way letters, $1,220,000. Railroad routes and messenger service.*Post*, p. 1630.Railroad transportation and mail messenger service: For inland transportation by railroad routes and for mail messenger service, *Provisos*.Freight-train conveyance.$100,000,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $1,500,000 of this appropriation may be expended for pay of freight and incidental charges for the transportation of mails conveyed under special arrangement Separate accounting, messenger service.in freight trains or otherwise: *Provided further*, That separate accounts be kept of the amount expended for mail messenger service:Services in the District. *Provided further*, That there may be expended from this appropriation for clerical and other assistance in the District of Columbia not exceeding the sum of $60,922 to carry out the provisions of sectionVol. 39, p. 429; Vol. 43, n. 1069.[U. S. C., pp. 1749, 1766](/us/usc/pp1749/1766). 5 of the Act of July 28, 1916 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 562) (the space basis Act), and not exceeding the sum of $31,550 to carry out the provisions of section 214 of the Act of February 28, 1925 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 826) (cost ascertainment). Railway Mail Service.*Post*, p. 1630.Division superintendents.Railway Mail Service, salaries: For fifteen division superintendents, fifteen assistant division superintendents, two assistant superintendents at large, one assistant superintendent in charge of car construction, one hundred and twenty-one chief clerks, one hundred and twenty-one assistant chief clerks, clerks in charge of sections in the 239 offices of division superintendents, railway postal clerks, substitute railway postal clerks, joint employees, and laborers in the Railway Mail Service, $52,500,000. Railway postal clerks, travel allowance: For travel allowance toTravel allowance to railway clerks. railway postal clerks and substitute railway postal clerks, $3,250,000. Railway Mail Service, traveling expenses: For actual and necessary expenses, general superintendent and assistant general superintendent, division superintendents, assistant division superintendents, assistant superintendents, chief clerks, and assistant chief clerks, Railway Mail Service, and railway postal clerks, while actually traveling on business of the Post Office Department and away from their several designated headquarters, $60,000. Railway Mail Service, miscellaneous expenses: For rent, light,Miscellaneous. beat, fuel, telegraph, miscellaneous and office expenses, telephone service, badges for railway postal clerks, for the purchase or rental of arms and miscellaneous items necessary for the protection of theArms for mall protection.Terminal offices, rent. mails, and rental of space for terminal railway post offices for the distribution of mails when the furnishing of space for such distribution cannot, under the Postal Laws and Regulations, properly be required of railroad companies without additional compensation, and for equipment and miscellaneous items necessary to terminal railway post offices, $575,000. Electric and cable car service: For electric and cable car service,Electric and cable car service. $360,000. Foreign mail transportation: For transportation of foreign mailsForeign mails.Vol. 41, p. 998; Vol. 45, p. 689.[U. S. C., p. 2067](/us/usc/p2067). by steamship, aircraft, or otherwise (exclusive of mail carried under contracts awarded under the provisions of the Merchant Marine Act of 1928), $8,575,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $7,000,000 of*Provisos.*Aircraft allowance; restriction. this sum may be expended for carrying foreign mail by aircraft under contracts which will not create obligations for the fiscal year 1937 in excess of $7,000,000: *Provided further*, That the PostmasterSea post service. General is authorized to expend such sums as may be necessary, not to exceed $175,000, to cover the cost to the United States for maintaining sea post service on ocean steamships conveying the mails to and from the United States including the salary of the AssistantAssistant Director, International Postal Service.Delegates to Postal Union. Director, Division of International Postal Service, with headquarters at New York City: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $7,500 of this sum may be available for expenses of delegates designated from the Post Office Department by the Postmaster General to the Congress of the Postal Union of the Americas and Spain to be held during the fiscal year 1936, to be expended in the discretion of the Postmaster General and accounted for on his certificate notwithstanding the provisions of any other law. Foreign Mail Service, Merchant Marine Act: For transportationForeign Mail Service, Merchant Marine Act.Vol. 41, p. 988; Vol. 45, p. 689.[U. S. C., p. 2062](/us/usc/p2062). of foreign mails under contracts authorized by the Merchant Marine Act of 1928 (U. S. C., title 46, secs. 861–889; Supp. VII, title 46, secs. 886–891x), including the cost of advertising in connection with the award of contracts authorized by said Act, $28,850,000: *Provided*,*Proviso.*Payment to Seatrain Company forbidden. That no part of the money herein appropriated shall be paid on contract numbered 56 to the Seatrain Company. Balances due foreign countries: For balances due foreign countries,Balances due foreign countries. fiscal year 1936 and prior years, $1,000,000. Contract Air Mail Service: For the inland transportation of mailAircraft contract, inland service.*Post*, p. 1630. by aircraft, as authorized by law, and for the incidental expenses thereof, including not to exceed $19,100 for supervisory officials and clerks at air-mail transfer points, and not to exceed $39,965 for personal services in the District of Columbia and incidental and travel expenses, $10,700,000. 240 Indemnities, international mail.Indemnities, international mail: For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of international mail in accordance with convention, treaty, or agreement stipulations, $15,000. Rural Delivery Service.Rural Delivery Service: For pay of rural carriers, auxiliary carriers, substitutes for rural carriers on annual and sick leave, clerks in charge of rural stations, and tolls and ferriage, Rural Delivery Service, and for the incidental expenses thereof, $94,300,000. office of the third assistant postmaster generalThird Assistant Postmaster General. Stamps, stamped envelops, postal cards.Manufacture and distribution of stamps and stamped paper: For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-delivery stamps, books of stamps, stamped envelops, newspaper wrappers, postal cards, and for coiling of stamps, and including not to exceed $22,100 for pay of agent and assistants to examine and distribute stamped envelops and newspaper wrappers, and for expenses of agency, $4,207,150. Indemnities, lost domestic mail.Indemnities, domestic mail: For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of pieces of domestic registered matter, insured and collect-on-delivery mail, and for failure to remit collect-on-delivery charges, $625,000. Unpaid money orders, more than one year old.Unpaid money orders more than one year old: For payment of domestic money orders after one year from the last day of the month of issue of such orders, $250,000. office of the fourth assistant postmaster generalFourth Assistant Postmaster General. Stationery, etc.Post office stationery, equipment, and supplies: For stationery for Postal Savings System, supplies.the Postal Service, including the money-order and registry system; and also for the purchase of supplies for the Postal Savings System, including rubber stamps, canceling devices, certificates, envelops, and stamps for use in evidencing deposits, and free penalty envelops; and for the reimbursement of the Secretary of the Treasury for Bond expenses.Vol. 36, p. 817.[U. S. C., p. 1761](/us/usc/p1761).expenses incident to the preparation, issue, and registration of the bonds authorized by the Act of June 25, 1910 (U. S. C., title 39, Miscellaneous equipment and supplies.sec. 760); for miscellaneous equipment and supplies, including the purchase and repair of furniture, package boxes, posts, trucks, baskets, satchels, straps, letter-box paint, baling machines, perforating machines, duplicating machines, printing presses, directories, cleaning supplies, and the manufacture, repair, and exchange of equipment,Letter boxes. the erection and painting of letter-box equipment, and for the purchase and repair of presses and dies for use in the manufacture of letter boxes; not to exceed $10,000 for the salvage, repair, assembly, and installation in units of lock boxes obtained from public buildings demolished or no longer used for post offices and for the purchase and installation of new lock boxes to complete and supplement such units, to be furnished to post offices of the second and third classes; Postmarking, etc., stamps.for postmarking, rating, money-order stamps, and electrotype plates and repairs to same; metal, rubber, and combination type, dates and figures, type holders, ink pads for canceling and stamping purposes, and for the purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriting machines, envelop-opening machines, and computing machines, copying presses, numbering machines, time recorders, letter balances, scales (exclusive of dormant or built-in platform scales in Federal buildings), test weights, and miscellaneous articles purchased and furnished directly to the Postal Service, including complete equipment and furniture for post offices in leased and rented quarters; for miscellaneous Post route maps.expenses in the preparation and publication of post-route maps and rural delivery maps or blueprints, including tracing for photolithographic reproduction; for other expenditures necessary and inci241dental to post offices of the first, second, and third classes, and offices of the fourth class having or to have rural delivery service, and for letter boxes; for the purchase of atlases and geographical and technical works not to exceed $1,500; for wrapping twine and tyingTwine, etc. devices; for expenses incident to the shipment of supplies, including hardware, boxing, packing, and not exceeding $44,500 for the pay of employees in connection therewith in the District of Columbia; for rental, purchase, exchange, and repair of canceling machines and motors, mechanical mail-handling apparatus, and other labor-saving devices, including cost of power in rented buildings and miscellaneous expenses of installation and operation of same, including not to exceed $28,000 for salaries of ten traveling mechanicians, and for traveling expenses, $2,260,000: *Provided*, That the Postmaster General*Provisos*.Sale of maps, etc. may authorize the sale to the public of post-route maps and rural delivery maps or blueprints at the cost of printing and 10 per centum thereof added: *Provided further*, That no part of thisFurniture, etc., third-class offices. appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of furniture and complete equipment for third-class post offices except lock boxes, as herein provided and miscellaneous equipment of the general character furnished such offices during the fiscal year 1931. Equipment Shops, Washington, District of Columbia: For theEquipment shops, materials, etc. purchase, manufacture, and repair of mail bags and other mail containers and attachments, mail locks, keys, chains, tools, machinery, and material necessary for same, and for incidental expenses pertaining thereto; material, machinery, and tools necessary for the manufacture and repair of such other equipment for the Postal Service as may be deemed expedient; for the expenses of maintenance and repair of the mail bag equipment shops building and equipment, including fuel, light, power, and miscellaneous supplies and services; for compensation to labor employed in the equipment shops and in the operation, care, maintenance, and protection of the equipment shops building, $850,000, of which not to exceed $539,000 may beServices in the District.*Proviso*.Distinctive equipment for departments, Alaska, and island possessions. expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That out of this appropriation the Postmaster General is authorized to use as much of the sum, not exceeding $15,000, as may be deemed necessary for the purchase of material and the manufacture in the equipment shops of such small quantities of distinctive equipments as may be required by other executive departments; and for service in Alaska, Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, or other island possessions. Rent, light, and fuel: For rent, light, fuel, and water, for first,Rent, light, etc., first-, second-, and third-class offices. second, and third class post offices, and the cost of advertising for lease proposals for such offices, $14,150,000. Pneumatic tube service: For the transmission of mail by pneumaticPneumatic tube service. tubes or other similar devices in the city of New York, including the Borough of Brooklyn of the city of New York, at an annual rate not in excess of $19,500 per mile of double line of tubes, including power, labor, and all other operating expenses, $558,260. For the rental of not exceeding two miles of pneumatic tubes, not including labor and power in operating the same, for the transmission of mail in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, $24,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Provisions applicable.Vol. 32, p. 114; Vol 35, p. 412.[U. S. C., p. 1737](/us/usc/p1737). That the provisions not inconsistent herewith of the Acts of April 21, 1902 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 423), and May 27, 1908 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 423), relating to the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similar devices shall be applicable hereto. Vehicle service: For vehicle service; the hire of vehicles; theVehicle service.*Post*, p. 1630. rental of garage facilities; the purchase, exchange, and maintenance of motor vehicles; the hire of supervisors, clerical assistance, 242mechanics, drivers, garage men, and such other employees as may be necessary in providing vehicles and vehicle service for use in the collection, transportation, and delivery of the mail, $14,200,000: *Provisos*.Rentals.*Provided*, That the Postmaster General may, in his disbursement of this appropriation, apply a part thereof to the leasing of quarters for the housing of Government-owned motor vehicles at a reasonable annual rental for a term not exceeding ten years: *Provided further*, Tractors and trader trucks.That the Postmaster General, during the fiscal year 1936, may purchase and maintain from the appropriation “Vehicle service” such tractors and trailer trucks as may be required in the operation of the Motor vehicle restriction.vehicle service: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for maintenance or repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for use in connection with the administrative work of the Post Office Department in the District of Columbia. Transportation of equipment and supplies.Transportation of equipment and supplies: For the transportation and delivery of equipment, materials, and supplies for the Post Office Department and Postal Service by freight, express, or motor transportation, and other incidental expenses, $265,000. Public buildings.Operating force.Operating force, public buildings: For personal services in connection with the operation of public buildings, including the Washington Post Office and the Customhouse Building in the District of Columbia, operated by the Post Office Department, together with the grounds thereof and the equipment and furnishings therein, including telephone operators for the operation of telephone switch-boards or equivalent telephone switchboard equipment in such buildings jointly serving in each case two or more governmental *Proviso*.Pay rates, etc.activities, $12,825,000: *Provided*, That in no case shall the rates of compensation for the mechanical labor force be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services are employed. Operating supplies.Operating supplies, public buildings: For fuel, steam, gas, and electric current for lighting, heating, and power purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, removal of ashes and rubbish, snow and ice, cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, telephone service for custodial forces, and for miscellaneous services and supplies, tools and appliances, for the operation of completed and occupied public buildings and grounds, including mechanical and electrical equipment, but not the repair thereof, operated by the Post Office Department, including the Washington Post Office and the Customhouse Building in the District of Columbia, and for the transportation *Provisos*.Personal services restriction.of articles and supplies authorized herein, $4,650,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriation shall not be available for personal services except for work done by contract, or for temporary job Contracts for telephone service.labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building: *Provided further*, That the Postmaster General is authorized to contract for telephone service in public buildings under his administration by means of telephone switchboards or equivalent telephone-switching equipment jointly serving in each case two or more governmental activities, where he determines that joint service is economical and in the interest of the Government, and to secure reimbursement for the cost of such joint service from available appropriations for telephone expenses of the Bureaus and offices receiving the same. Furniture and equipment.Furniture, carpets, and safes, public buildings: For the procurement, including transportation, of furniture, carpets, safes, and repairs of same, for use in public buildings which are now, or may hereafter be, operated by the Post Office Department, $575,000: 243*Provided*, That the foregoing appropriation shall not be used for*Provisos*.Personal services restriction. personal services except for work done under contract or for temporary job labor under exigency and not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building: *Provided further*, That all furnitureUse of present furniture, etc. now owned by the United States in other public buildings or in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan of furniture or not. Scientific investigations: In the disbursement of appropriationsScientific investigations.Sums transferred to Standards Bureau. contained in this title for the field service of the Post Office Department the Postmaster General may transfer to the Bureau of Standards not to exceed $20,000 for scientific investigations in connection with the purchase of materials, equipment, and supplies necessary in the maintenance and operation of the Postal Service. Deficiency in postal revenues: If the revenues of the Post OfficeSums from Treasury for field service to supply deficiencies. Department shall be insufficient to meet the appropriations made under title II of this Act, a sum equal to such deficiency in the revenues of such Department is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply such deficiency in the revenues of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and the sum needed may be advanced to the Post Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster General. Sec. 2. Appropriations for the fiscal year 1936 available forAppropriations for travel, etc., fiscal year 1936. expenses of travel of civilian officers and employees of the executive departments and establishments shall be available also for expenses of travel performed by them on transfer from one official station to another when authorized by the head of the department or establishment concerned in the order directing such transfer or on reappointment heretofore or during the remainder of the fiscal year 1935 and during the fiscal year 1936 at another official station under the provisions of section 19 of Executive Order Numbered 6166 of June 10, 1933, and for the expenses incurred in packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of household effects and other property, not exceeding in any one case five thousand pounds, of employees so reappointed: *Provided*, That such expenses shall not be allowed*Proviso*.Transfers for convenience of officers. for any transfer effected for the convenience of any officer or employee. Sec. 3. No appropriation available for the executive departmentsRestrictions on expenditures by executive departments, etc. and independent establishments of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, whether contained in this Act or any other Act, shall be expended—
(a)To purchase any motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicleCost limitation of automobiles. (exclusive of busses, ambulances, and station wagons), at a cost, completely equipped for operation, and including the value of any vehicle exchanged, in excess of $750, unless otherwise specifically provided for in the appropriation.
(b)For the maintenance, operation, and repair of any Government-ownedMaintenance, automobiles not used for official purposes.“Official purposes”, construed. motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle not used exclusively for official purposes; and “official purposes” shall not include the transportation11 So in original. of officers and employees between their domiciles and places of employment, except in cases of medical officers on out-patient medical services 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 the same is approved by the head of the department or establishment concerned. The limitations of this subsection
(b)shallLimitations not applicable. not apply to any motor vehicles for official use of the President, or of the heads of the executive departments. 244
(c)Maintenance cost limit. For the maintenance, upkeep, and repair (exclusive of garage rent, pay of operators, tires, fuel, and lubricants) on any one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, except busses and ambulances, in excess of one-third of the market price of a new vehicle of the same make and class and in no case in excess of $400. Sec. 4. Appointments after Senate rejections, etc. No part of the money appropriated under this Act shall be paid to any person for the filling of any position for which he or she has been nominated after the Senate upon vote has failed to confirm the nomination of such person. Sec. 5. Citation of title. This title may be cited as the “Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1936.” Approved, May 14, 1935. Establishing a commission for the participation of the United States in the observance of the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Colony of Connecticut, authorizing an appropriation to be utilized in connection with such observance, and for other purposes. 1935-05-14 111 Chapter 49 Stat. 244 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 74 1 public [CHAPTER 111.] JOINT RESOLUTION Establishing a commission for the participation of the United States in the observance of the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Colony of Connecticut, authorizing an appropriation to be utilized in connection with such observance, and for other purposes. May 14, 1935.[[S.J. Res. 94](/us/bill/74/sjres/94).][[Pub. Res., No. 18](/us/pl/74/18).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Connecticut.Commission to participate in observance of founding colony. That there is hereby established a commission to be known as the “United States Connecticut Tercentenary Commission” (hereinafter referred to as the “Commission”) and to be composed of sixteen commissioners, Composition.as follows: Five persons to be appointed by the President of the United States, five Senators by the President of the Senate, and six Members of the House of Representatives by the Speaker of the No compensation.House of Representatives. The Commission shall serve without compensation and shall select a chairman from among their number. Sec. 2. Appropriation authorized. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $10,000, to be expended by the Commission for actual and necessary traveling expenses and subsistence, while discharging its official duties outside the District of Columbia. Approved, May 14, 1935. Extending the time for repayment of the revolving fund for the benefit of the Crow Indians. 1935-05-15 112 Chapter 49 Stat. 244 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 74 1 public [CHAPTER 112.] AN ACT Extending the time for repayment of the revolving fund for the benefit of the Crow Indians. May 15, 1935.[[S. 2145](/us/bill/74/s/2145).][
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