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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 49 STAT. · June 9, 1916 · Public Law 761

Public Law 761.

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(/us/pl/74/760).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress assembled*, That the SecretaryClackamas County, Oreg.Conveyance of certain lauds to, for public-park purposes. of the Interior is authorized and directed to issue a patent to Clackamas County, Oregon, on behalf of the United States, for the southeast quarter southwest quarter, the northeast quarter southwest quarter, and the northwest quarter southeast quarter section 11, township 4 south, range 2 east, Willamette meridian, in the State of Oregon, containing one hundred and twenty acres, more or less, on condition that such county shall accept and use such lands solely for public-park purposes; but if such county shall at any time ceaseReversionary provision. to use such lands for public-park purposes, or shall permit the use of such lands for any other purpose, or shall alienate or attempt to alienate them, they shall revert to the United States: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Payment. before patent issues Clackamas County shall pay to the United States the appraised price for the timber on the said lands, the money so paid to be deposited in the Oregon and California, land-grant fund for distribution in the manner provided by section 10Vol. 39, p. 222. of the Act of June 9, 1916 (39 Stat. 218).
Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe all necessaryRegulations to be prescribed. regulations to carry into effect the foregoing provisions of this Act. Approved, June 22, 1936. To provide for the maintenance of public order and the protection of life and property in connection with the Presidential inaugural ceremonies in 1937. 1936-06-22 711 Chapter 49 Stat. 1824 74 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public 1824 [CHAPTER 711.] JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for the maintenance of public order and the protection of life and property in connection with the Presidential inaugural ceremonies in 1937. June 22, 1936.[[S. J. Res. 272](/us/bill/74/sjres/272).][[Pub. Res., No. 118](/us/bill/74/pubres/118).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Presidential inaugural ceremonies, 1937.Appropriation for maintenance of order, etc., during.
That $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, payable in like manner as other appropriations for the expenses of the District of Columbia, is hereby appropriated to enable the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to maintain public order and protect life and property in said District from January 15 to January 26, 1937, both inclusive, including the employment of personal services, payment of allowances, traveling expenses, hire of means of transportation, cost of removing and relocating street-car loading platforms, for the construction, rent, maintenance, and expenses incident to the operation of temporary public-comfort stations, first-aid stations, and information booths, during the period aforesaid, and other incidental expenses in Regulations.the discretion of the Commissioners.
Said Commissioners are hereby authorized and directed to make all reasonable regulations necessary to secure such preservation of public order and protection of life and property, and to make special regulations respecting the standing, movements, and operating of vehicles of whatever character or kind Licenses to peddlers, etc.during said period; and to grant, under such conditions as they may impose, special licenses to peddlers and vendors to sell goods, wares, and merchandise on the streets, avenues, and sidewalks in the District of Columbia, and to charge for such privilege such fees as they may deem proper.
Sec. 2. Period of enforcement of regulations, etc. Such regulations and licenses shall be in force one week prior to said inauguration, during said inauguration, and one week subsequent thereto, and shall be published in one or more of the daily newspapers published in the District of Columbia and in such other manner as the Commissioners may deem best to acquaint the public with the same; and no penalty prescribed for the violation of any of such regulations shall be enforced until five days after such publication.Penalties.
Any person violating any of such regulations shall be liable for each such offense to a fine of not to exceed $100 in the police court of said District, and in default of payment thereof to imprisonment in the workhouse of said District for not longer than sixty days. Approved, June 22, 1936. Authorizing the granting of permits to the Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies on the occasion of the inauguration of the President-elect in January 1937, and for other purposes. 1936-06-22 712 Chapter 49 Stat. 1824 74 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 712.] JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the granting of permits to the Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies on the occasion of the inauguration of the President-elect in January 1937, and for other purposes. June 22, 1936.[[S. J. Res. 273](/us/bill/74/sjres/273).][[Pub. Res., No. 119](/us/bill/74/pubres/119).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Presidential inaugural ceremonies, 1937.Use of reservations, etc., in the District of Columbia, authorized.
That the Secretary of the Interior, and such other officers of the District of Columbia and the United States as control any public lands in the District of Columbia, are hereby authorized to grant permits, under such restrictions as they may deem necessary, to the Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies to be appointed with the approval of the President-elect for the use of any reservations or other public spaces in the city of Washington under their control on the occasion of the inauguration of the President-elect*Provisos*.Condition. in January 1937: *Provided*, That in their opinion no serious or permanent, injuries will be thereby inflicted upon such reservations or public spaces or statuary thereon; and the Commis-1825sioners of the District of Columbia may designate for such and other purposes on the occasion aforesaid such streets, avenues, and sidewalks in said city of Washington under their control as they may deem proper and necessary: *Provided*, *however*, That all stands orSupervision of stands, etc. platforms that may be erected on the publis11So in original. space, as aforesaid, including such as may be erected in connection with the display of fire-works, shall be under the said supervision of the said inaugural committee, and no stand shall be built on the sidewalk, streets, parks, and public grounds of the District of Columbia, not including the area on the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue directly in front of the White House, except such as are approved by the inaugural committee and the building inspector of the District of Columbia, and no stands shall be built on the sidewalks or streets on the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue directly in front of the White House, except such as are approved by the inaugural committee, the building inspector of the District of Columbia, and the Secretary of the Interior: *And provided further*, That the reservations or public spacesPrompt removal of structures, etc. occupied by the stands or other structures shall after the inauguration be promptly restored to their condition before such occupation, and that the inaugural committee shall indemnify the appropriate agency of the Government for any damages of any kind whatsoever upon such reservations or spaces by reason of such use.
Sec. 2. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are herebyOverhead conductors for illuminations. authorized to permit the committee on illumination, of the inaugural committee for said inaugural ceremonies, to stretch suitable overhead conductors, with sufficient supports wherever necessary, for the purpose of connecting with the present supply of light for the purpose of effecting the said illumination: *Provided*, That, if it shall be*Provisos*.Supervision. necessary to erect wires for illuminating or other purposes over any park or reservation in the District of Columbia, the work of erection and removal of said wires shall be under the supervision of the official in charge of said park or reservation: *Provided further*, ThatTime limitation. the said conductors shall not be used for conveying electrical currents after January 24, 1937, and shall, with their supports, be fully and entirely removed from the streets and avenues of the said city of Washington on or before January 31, 1937: *Provided further*, ThatSafety precautions, etc. the stretching and removing of the said wires shall be under the supervision of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or such other officials as may have jurisdiction in the premises, who shall see that the provisions of this resolution are enforced, that all needful precautions are taken for the protection of the public, and that the pavement of any street, avenue, or alley disturbed is replaced in as good condition as before entering upon the work herein authorized: *And provided further*, That no expense or damage onNo Federal or local expense or damage. account of or due to the stretching, operation, or removal of the said temporary overhead conductors shall be incurred by the United States or the District of Columbia.
Sec. 3. The Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy be,Loan of tents, flags, etc. and they are hereby, authorized to loan to the Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies such hospital tents, smaller tents, camp appliances, ensigns, flags, signal numbers, and so forth, belonging to the Government of the United States (except battle flags), that are not now in use and may be suitable and proper for decoration, and which may, in their judgment, be spared without detriment to the public service, such flags to be used in connection with said ceremonies by said committee under such regulations and restrictions as may be prescribed by the said Secretaries, or either of them, in decorating the fronts of public buildings and other places on the line of march 1826between the Capitol and the Executive Mansion, and the interior *Provisos*.Time limit of loan.of the reception hall: *Provided*, That the loan of the said hospital tents, smaller tents, camp appliances, ensigns, flags, signal numbers, and so forth, to said committee shall not take place prior to the 11th of January, and they shall be returned by the 25th day of January Indemnity for damage, etc.1937: *Provided further*, That the said committee shall indemnify the the11So in original. said departments, or either of them, for any loss or damage to Loan of hospital tents, supplies, etc.such flags not necessarily incident to such use.
That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to loan to the inaugural committee for the purpose of caring for the sick, injured, and infirm on the occasion of said inauguration such hospital tents and camp appliances, and other necessaries, hospital furniture, and utensils of all descriptions, ambulances, horses, drivers, stretchers, and Red Cross flags and poles belonging to the Government of the United States as in his judgment may be spared and are not in use by the Government at the Indemnity for damage, etc.time of the inauguration: *And provided further*, That the inaugural committee shall indemnify the War Department for any loss or damage to such hospital tents and appliances, as aforesaid, not necessarily incident to such use.
Sec. 4. Temporary extension of telegraph, telephone, etc., wires permitted. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia and the Secretary of the Interior be, and they are hereby, authorized to permit telegraph, telephone, and radio-broadcasting companies to extend overhead wires to such points along the line of parade as shall be deemed by the chief marshal convenient for use in connection with the parade and other inaugural purposes, the said wires to be taken down within ten days after the conclusion of the ceremonies.
Approved, June 22, 1936. Fixing the date of meeting of the Seventy-fifth Congress. 1936-06-22 713 Chapter 49 Stat. 1826 74 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 713.] JOINT RESOLUTION Fixing the date of meeting of the Seventy-fifth Congress. June 22, 1936.[[S. J. Res. 286](/us/bill/74/sjres/286).][[Pub.
Res., No. 120](/us/bill/74/pubres/120).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Seventy-fifth Congress.Date of meeting. That the Seventy-fifth Congress shall assemble at noon on Tuesday, the 5th day of January 1937. Approved, June 22, 1936. To carry out the intention of Congress with reference to the claims of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota against the United States. 1936-06-22 714 Chapter 49 Stat. 1826 74 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 714.] JOINT RESOLUTION To carry out the intention of Congress with reference to the claims of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota against the United States. June 22, 1936.[[H. J. Res. 415](/us/bill/74/hjres/415).][[Pub. Res., No. 121](/us/bill/74/pubres/121).] Chippewa Indians of Minnesota.Preamble.Vol. 44, p. 555.Whereas by the Special Jurisdictional Act approved May 14, 1926 (44 Stat. L. 555), the claims of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota against the United States were referred to the Court of Claims “with right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States by either party as in other cases”, it being the intention that both parties should have the right of appeal to the Supreme Court; and Whereas the Supreme Court has since decided that notwithstanding such a provision there is no right of appeal, in view of the Judicial Code, as amended, unless the Jurisdictional Act specifically provides that the Supreme Court shall review a case on appeal, any-thing in the Judicial Code to the contrary notwithstanding:
Now, therefore, be it 1827 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claims of theClaims of, to be reviewed by United States Supreme Court on appeal from Court of Claims. Chippewa Indians of Minnesota under the said Jurisdictional Act of May 14, 1926, shall be reviewed by the Supreme Court of the United States on appeal from the Court of Claims, anything in the Judicial Code, or amendments thereto, notwithstanding: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Time limitation.
That in any case heretofore decided by the Court of Claims said appeal shall be perfected by either party to the controversy within one year from the passage of this joint resolution, and an appeal shall be taken in all cases hereafter decided by the Court of Claims within three months from and after the date final judgment or decree is entered therein in the Court of Claims. Approved, June 22, 1936. Making appropriations for the payment of expenses incurred in an election contest for a seat in the House of Representatives from the Twentieth Congressional District of the State of New York. 1936-06-22 715 Chapter 49 Stat. 1827 74 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 715.] JOINT RESOLUTION Making appropriations for the payment of expenses incurred in an election contest for a seat in the House of Representatives from the Twentieth Congressional District of the State of New York. June 22, 1936.[[H. J. Res. 641](/us/bill/74/hjres/641).][[Pub. Res., No. 122](/us/bill//pubres/122).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the followingHouse of Representatives.Appropriation for payment of contested-election expenses. sums, respectively, are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for payment to the contestant and the contestee for expenses incurred in the contested-election case of Lanzetta against Marcantonio, Twentieth Congressional District of the State of New York, as audited and recommended by the Committee of Elections Numbered One of the House of Representatives, namely:
To James J. Lanzetta, contestant, $2,000.James J. Lanzetta. To Vito Marcantonio, contestée, $1,739.83.Vito Marcantonio. The foregoing sums to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. Approved, June 22, 1936. Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes. 1936-06-23 725 Chapter 49 Stat. 1827 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 2 public [CHAPTER 725.] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes. June 23, 1936.[[H. R. 10919](/us/bill/74/hr/10919).][[Public, No. 761](/us/pl/74/761).] *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, 1937. TITLE I— TREASURY DEPARTMENTTitle I—Treasury Department.
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in theAppropriation for fiscal year 1937. Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, namely: office of the secretarySecretary’s office. Salaries: Secretary of the Treasury,Secretary, Undersecretary, Assistants, and office personnel.*Ante*, p. 1635.Division of Research and Statistics.Experts.*Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.Vol. 42, p. 1488;
Vol. 46, p. 1003.[U. S. C., p. 85](/us/usc/p85).Exceptions. 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, $250,000: *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, 1828the 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 Advances in meritorious cases.average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade, but not more often than once in any fiscal year, and Not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.then only to the next higher rate: *Provided further*, That this restriction shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanicalNo reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490; Vol. 46, p. 1005.[U. S. C., p. 86](/us/usc/p86).Transfers without reduction. service,
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same Higher salary rates permitted.or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit,
(4)to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specificallyIf only one position in a grade. authorized by other law, or
(5)to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated. Emergency Banking. Gold Reserve, and Silver Purchase Acts, expenses.Vol. 48, pp. 1, 337, 1178.Expenses, Emergency Banking, Gold Reserve, and Silver Purchase Acts: For expenditure under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury for any purpose in connection with the carrying out of the provisions of the Emergency Banking Act, approved March 9, 1933 (48 Stat. 1), the Gold Reserve Act of 1934, approved January 30, 1934 (48 Stat. 337), the Silver Purchase Act of 1934, Executive orders, etc.approved June 19, 1934 (48 Stat. 1178), any Executive orders, proclamations, and regulations issued under the foregoing Acts, and [R. S., sec. 3553, p. 719](/us/rs/s3553/p719).[U. S. C., p. 1396](/us/usc/p1396).section 3653 of the Revised Statutes, including costs of transportation, insurance, and protection of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates transferred to Federal Reserve banks and branches, United States mints and assay offices, and the Treasury, after March 9, 1933, losses sustained by Federal Reserve banks due to abrasion of gold coin, and reimbursement to Federal Reserve banks and branches for expenses incurred by them in carrying out instructions issued by the Secretary of the Treasury after March 4, 1933, as follows: Offices designated.Office of Secretary of the Treasury, including not to exceed $48,960 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $77,960. Ôffice of General Counsel, $70,000. Office of Chief Clerk and Superintendent, including not to exceed $35,040 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $74,240. Division of Research and Statistics, including not to exceed $86,650 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $90,000. Division of Appointments, $1,440. Office of Treasurer of the United States, including not to exceed $5,220 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $60,220. Office of Comptroller of the Currency, $55,340. Bureau of Internal Revenue, including not to exceed $23,780 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $69,990. Bureau of the Mint and Mints and Assay Offices, including not to exceed $85,640 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $1,050,000. Federal land banks.Payments to, on account of reductions in interest rate on mortgages.*Ante*, p. 1635,Payments to Federal land banks on account of reductions in interest; rate on mortgages: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay each Federal land bank such amount as the Land Bank Commissioner certifies to the Secretary of the Treasury is equal to the amount by 1829which interest payments on mortgages held by such, bank have been reduced, in accordance with the provisions of section 24 of the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933, approved May 12. 1933 (48 Stat. 31), as amended by section 3 of the Vol. 48. p. 43.*Ante*, p. 314.Farm Credit Act of 1935, approved June 3, 1935 (Public, Numbered 87), $24,000,000: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of*Proviso*.Sum available.*Ante*, p. 592. $36,000,000 made in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1935, approved August 12, 1935 (49 Stat. 592), for the purposes of said section 24, shall be available for the purposes named herein until June 30, 1937. Subscriptions to paid-in surplus of Federal land banks: To enableSubscriptions to paid-in surplus. *Ante*, 1635. the Secretary of the Treasury to pay for subscriptions to the paid-in surplus of Federal land banks under section 23 of the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933, approved May 12, 1933 (48 Stat. 31),Vol. 48, p. 43. $24,000,000: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation*Proviso*.Amount available.*Ante*, p. 592. of $20,000,000 made in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, approved August 12, 1935 (49 Stat. 592), for the purpose of said section 23, shall remain available until June 30, 1937. office of general counselGeneral Counsel’s office. Salaries: For the General Counsel and other personal services inGeneral Counsel and office personnel. the District of Columbia, $107,000. 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.Operating expenses, Department buildings. Secretary and the bureaus and offices of the Department, including operating expenses of the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Auditors, and Liberty Loan Buildings; newspaper clippings, financial journals, books of reference, law books, technical and scientific books,Books, periodicals, ete. newspapers, and periodicals, expenses incurred in completing imperfect series, library cards, supplies, and all other necessary expenses connected with the library; not exceeding $10,000 forTraveling 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; purchase and exchange of one passenger automobile (at aVehicles. cost not exceeding $2,500) for the Secretary of the Treasury and 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, andFuel, light, power, etc. 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, 1830and 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; Public property, sales.postage; uniforms for Treasury guards not exceeding $1,200; custody, care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, acquired and held under sections [R. S., secs. 3740, 3750, p. 739](/us/rs/s3740/3750/p739).[U. S. C., p. 1790](/us/usc/p1790).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 articles, supplies, and equipment not otherwise provided for; *Provisos*.Additional funds.*Post*, pp. 1831, 1833, 1834.$155,000: *Provided*, That the appropriations for the Public Debt Service, Internal Revenue Service, Federal Alcohol Administration, and Division of Disbursement for the fiscal year 1937 are hereby made available for the payment of items otherwise properly chargeable Apportionment.Vol. 37, p. 414; [U. S. C., p. 1400](/us/usc/p1400).Minor purchases without advertising.[R. S., sec.3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[U. S. C., p. 1303](/us/usc/p1303).to this appropriation, the provisions of section 6, Act of August 23, 1912 (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 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 tire Treasury Department when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $50. division of printingPrinting Division. Chief, and other personal services.Salaries: For the Chief, Division of Printing, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $69,240. Printing and binding.Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washingon, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, including materials for the use of the bookbinder located in the Work excluded.Treasury Department, but not including work done at the New York Vol. 40, p. 1270.[U. S. C., p. 1935](/us/usc/p1935).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), $656,000. Stationery.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, $400,000. office of commissioner of accounts and depositsAccounts and Deposits office. Commissioner, and other personal services.Salaries: For Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including the Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants, $279,520. 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 contingent*Proviso*.Transfer of funds from designated agencies for disbursing expenses. expenses, $1,373,210: *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 the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (including transfers to the Bureau of Internal Revenue for administrative expenses), Federal Housing Administration, Federal Prison Industries, Railroad Retirement Board, Social Security Board, and the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, such sums as may be necessary to cover the expense incurred in performing the function of disbursement therefor. 1831 Contingent expenses, public moneys: For contingent expensesContingent expenses, public moneys.[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/s3653/p719).[U. S. C., p. 1396](/us/usc/p1396). 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 agents, actual expenses of examiners detailed to examine the books, accounts,Examination of depositories. and money on hand at the several depositories, including national banks acting as depositories under the requirements of section 3649[R. S., sec. 3649, p. 718](/us/rs/s3649/p718).[U. S. C., p. 1397](/us/usc/p1397). 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 or otherwise when necessary, $175,000. Recoinage of minor coins: To enable the Secretary of the TreasuryRecoinage of minor coins. to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent minor coms 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, $25,000. Recoinage of silver coins: To enable the Secretary of the TreasuryRecolnage 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, $500,000. 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 be 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 enableRefund of moneys erroneously received and covered. 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 RepealVol. 48, p. 1231.[U. S. C., p. 1413](/us/usc/p1413). Act of 1934, approved June 26, 1934, and any other collections erroneously received and covered which are not properly chargeable to any other appropriation, $75,000. Payment of unclaimed moneys: To enable the Secretary of thePayment of unclaimed moneys. Treasury to meet any expenditures of the character formerly chargeable to the appropriation accounts abolished under section 17 of theVol. 43, p. 1230.[U. S. C., p. 1413](/us/usc/p1413). Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act of 1934, approved June 26, 1934, payable from the funds held by the United States in the trust fund receipt account “Unclaimed moneys of individuals whose whereabouts are unknown”. $20,000. 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 ofReference books, etc. reference, pamphlets, periodicals, and newspapers, and the maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-propelled bus or station wagon, for use or the Destruction Committee, and including the Commissioner of the Public Debt and other personal services inServices in the District.*Proviso*.Amount limited. the District of Columbia. $2,000,000: *Provided*, That the amount to be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia shall not exceed $1,975,000: *Provided further*, That the indefinite appropriationRestriction on using indefinite appropriation. “Expenses of loans, Act of September 24, 1917, as amended 1832Vol. 40, p. 292.[U.S. C., [a-z]. 1422](/us/usc/p1422).and extended” (U. S. C., title 31, secs. 760, 761), shall not be used during the fiscal year 1937 to supplement the appropriation herein made for the current work of the Public Debt Service. Distinctive paper for securities.Expenses.Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive paper for United States 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; *Proviso*.Division of award.in all, $600,000: *Provided*, That 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 1937 between the two bidders whose prices per pound are the lowest received after advertisement. division of appointmentsAppointments Division. Salaries.Salaries: For the chief of the division, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $44,480. bureau of customsCustoms Bureau. Salaries and expenses.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 along borders.Vol. 46, p. 817.[U. S. C., p. 799](/us/usc/p799).quarters, including heat, fuel, and lights, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 118a), but not to exceed $1,700 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, 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., title 19, sec. 68); and including the purchase (not to exceed $100,000), exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary for official use in field work; $20,400,000, of which such Seizures, etc., under customs laws.amount as may be necessary shall he 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. and accessories, and $449,980 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia exclusive of ten persons from Vol. 46, p. 741.the field force authorized to be detailed under section 525 of the *Provisos*.Motor vehicle restriction.Tariff 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 Advance payments in foreign countries. [R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).[U. S. C., p. 1395](/us/usc/p1395).in Georgetown: *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.Refunds and drawbacks: For the refund or payment of customs collections or receipts, and for the payment of debentures or drawbacks, bounties, and allowances, as authorized by law, $18,500,000. 1833 bureau of the budgetBureau of the Budget. Salaries and expenses: Director, Assistant Director, and all otherSalaries and expenses. 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; $187,000. For printing and binding, $32,000.Printing and binding. office of treasurer of the united statesTreasurer’s office. Salaries: For Treasurer of the United States, Assistant Treasurer,Treasurer, Assistant, and office personnel. and for other personal services in the District of Columbia, $1,155,000, For personal services in the District of Columbia, in redeemingRedeeming Federal Reserve and national currency. Federal Reserve and national currency, $107,460, to be reimbursed by the Federal Reserve and national banks. office of the comptroller of the currencyOffice of Comptroller of the Currency. Salaries: Comptroller of the Currency and other personal servicesComptroller, and office personnel. in the District of Columbia, $220,320. For personal services in the District of Columbia in connectionPersonal services; reimbursable. with Federal Reserve and national currency, $25,000, 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.*Ante*, p. 1S36.Vol. 41, p. 305; [U. S. C., p. 1217](/us/usc/p1217).*Ante*, p. 872.Vol. 48, pp. 313, 1020. 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 August 27, 1935 (49 Stat. 872–881), the Act of January 11, 1934 (48 Stat. 313), Public Resolutions Numbered 40 and 41, approved June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 1020–1021); and[U. S. C., pp. 1138, 1145, 1155](/us/usc/pp1138/1145/1155).Vol. 44, p. 1381; [U. S. C., p. 59](/us/usc/p59).Vol. 46, p. 427; [U. S. C., p. 1223](/us/usc/p1223). the internal-revenue laws pursuant to the Act of March 3, 1927 (U. S. C., title 5, sees. 281–281e), the Act of May 27, 1930 (U. S. C., title 27, secs. 103–108), and Executive Order Numbered 6639, dated March 10, 1934; including the Commissioner of Internal Revenue,Commissioner, Assistant General Counsel, and other personal services.Vol. 48, p. 1061. Assistant General Counsel for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, an assistant 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; for the acquisition of property under the provisions of Title IIIAcquisition of property.*Ante*, p, 879. of the Liquor Law Repeal and Enforcement Act, approved August 183427, 1935 (49 Stat. 872–881), and the operation maintenance, and Vehicles.repair of property acquired under such Title HI; for the purchase (not exceeding $50,000), exchange, hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary, for official use 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 divisionsServices in the District. of internal-revenue agents, and the several supervisory districts, $48,512,980, of which amount not to exceed $9,527,740 may be *Provisos*.Witness fees.expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That no part of this amount shall 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 jurors and witnesses, United States courts”: *Provided 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 Concentration of distilled spirits In bonded warehouses.laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violation: *Provided further*, That for the purpose of concentration, upon the initiation of 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. 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 1937 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.destroyed by casualty”, $6,000,000: *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 Vol. 45, p. 996.[U. S. C., p. 1202](/us/usc/p1202).by section 3 of the Act of May 29, 1928 (U. S. C., 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. Alaska railroads, additional Income tax.Additional income tax on railroads in Alaska: For the payment to 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, $3,100. federal alcohol administrationFederal Alcohol Administration. Salaries and expenses.*Ante*, p. 977.Salaries and expenses: For the purpose of administering the provisions of the “Federal Alcohol Administration Act”, approved August 29, 1935 (49 Stat. 977), including personal and other services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; supplies and materials; equipment; communication service; stationery; travel and subsistence expenses as authorized by law; maintenance, repair, and1835operation of automobiles; law books, books of reference, magazines, periodicals, and newspapers; contract stenographic reporting service; the securing of evidence of violations of the Act; and miscellaneousSecuring of evidence. and contingent expenses; $475,000. 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. 35, p. 614; Vol. 38, p. 275; Vol. 42, p. 596.[U. S. C., p. 932](/us/usc/p932).Vol, 44, p. 1381; Vol. 46, p. 585.[U. S. C., p. 59](/us/usc/p59).Executive officers, etc. 17, 1914 (U. S. C., title 26, sec, 211), as amended by the Revenue Act of 1918 (U. S. 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., title 5, secs. 281–281e), and the Act of June 14, 1930 (U. S. C., 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 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 NarcoticsSeizures, etc. in the seizure, storage, and 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. 119311 So in original.); purchase (not[R. S., sec. 3460, p. 685](/us/rs/s3460/p3460).[U. S. C., p. 1199](/us/usc/p1199). to exceed $10,000), 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, $1,275,000, of which amount not toServices in the District. exceed $187,664 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury may*Provisos*.Use of forfeited vehicles.Vol. 43, p. 1116.[U. S. C., p. 1218](/us/usc/p1218). 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 exceedingLaw observance Information. $10,000 may be expended for 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 therewith and not exceeding $1,500 for attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Bureau of Narcotics: *Provided further*, That moneys expended from thisCredit for sums expended. 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, $389,240: *Provided*, That no part of any appropriation*Proviso*.Details at headquarters restricted. contained in this Act shall be used to pay any enlisted man of the Coast Guard while detailed for duty at Coast Guard headquarters if such detail increases the total number of enlisted men detailed on such duty at any time above ten. 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 1836Vol. 43, p. 1116.[U. S. C., [a-z]. 1218](/us/usc/p1218).delivered to the Treasury Department under the terms of the Act approved March 3, 1925 (U. S. C., title 27, sec. 41), the purchase (not to exceed $1,500), maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes in the field, and the rental of quarters in the District of Columbia, as follows: Pay and allowances.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, surfmen, substitute surfmen, and two civilian instructors, including not to Retired members of Life Saving Service.Vol. 46, p. 164.[U. S. C., p. 506](/us/usc/p506).Cash prizes.exceed $94,000 for retired pay for certain members of the former Life Saving Service authorized by the Act approved April 14, 1930 (U. S. C., title 14, sec. 178 a), and not exceeding $6,000 for cash Death allowance.Vol. 41, p. 824.[U. S. C., p. 1570](/us/usc/p1570).prizes for men for excellence in gunnery, target practice, and engineering competitions, for carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., title 34, sec. 943), rations or commutation thereof for cadets, petty officers, and other enlisted men, mileage Traveling expenses.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 *Proviso*.Pay restriction.officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men, $17,566,458: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for increased pay at a rate in excess of $1,440 per annum to any nonflying commissioned officer or commissioned officer observer for making aerial flights; which rate shall be the legal maximum rate of such increased pay as to any such officer. Fuel and water.Fuel and water: For fuel, lubricating oil, kerosene, and water for vessels, stations, and houses of refuge, $1,414,450; Outfits, stores, etc.Outfits: For outfits, including repairs to portable equipment at shore units, ship chandlery, engineers’ stores, and draft animals and their maintenance, $1,400,000; Stations, houses of refuge, etc.Rebuilding and repairing stations: For 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; Limitation on new construction.No part of the appropriations contained in this Act under the Coast Guard, nor of any appropriation heretofore made, shall be used for the construction for the Coast Guard of any new permanent aviation shore station or for the permanent enlargement of the capacity of any existing aviation shore station, but this limitation shall not apply to expenditures for completion of construction for which funds were made available prior to February 5, 1936; Coastal communication lines.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, $201,760. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For contingent expenses, including subsistence of shipwrecked and destitute persons succorded 11 So in original. by the Coast Guard and of prisoners while in the custody of the Coast Guard; for the recreation, amusement, comfort, contentment, and health of 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, 1837services 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 heading; $180,000; Repairs to vessels: For repairs to Coast Guard vessels and boats,Vessel, etc., repairs. $1,800,000; Additional airplanes: For additional airplanes and their equipment,Additional airplanes. including radio equipment, spare parts, and accessories, to be constructed or purchased in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, $697,500, to be immediately available. Total, Coast Guard, exclusive of Commandant’s office, $23,690,788: *Provided*, That not more than a total of $1,550,000 out of the appropriations*Proviso*.Aviation expenses. contained in this Act under the caption “Coast Guard”, except the appropriations “Salaries, Commandant’s Office” and “Additional airplanes”, shall be expended for aviation. Section 18 of the Treasury-Post Office Appropriation Act, fiscalPayment of reenlistment allowances.Vol. 47, p. 1519. year 1934, is hereby continued in full force and effect during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937; and for the purpose of making such section applicable to such latter fiscal year, the figures “1934” shall be read as “1937”. bureau of engraving and printingEngraving and Printing Bureau. For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work,Work authorized for fiscal year 1937. during the fiscal year 1937 United States currency, internal-revenue stamps including opium orders and special-tax stamps required under the Act of December 17, 1914 (U. S. C., title 26, sec. 211),Vol. 38, p. 786.[U. S. C., p. 1062](/us/usc/p1062). checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work, as follows: Salaries and expenses: For the Director, two Assistant Directors,Salaries and expenses. 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; uniforms for guards not to exceed $2,000; miscellaneous expenses, including not to exceed $1,500Miscellaneous expenses. for articles approved by the Secretary of the Treasury as being necessary for the protection of the person of employees; for transferScientific investigations. to the Bureau of Standards for scientific investigations in connection with the work of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, not to exceed $15,000; and for the maintenance and driving of twoVehicles. motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; $6,328,430, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. During the fiscal year 1937 all proceeds derived from work performProceeds 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 1838Vol. 24, p. 227.[U. S. C., p. 1366](/us/usc/p1366).covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, as provided by the Act of August 4, 1886 (U. S. C., title 31. sec. 176), shall tie credited when received to the appropriation for said Bureau for the fiscal year 1937. secret service divisionSecret Service Division. Chief, and office personnel.Salaries: For the Chief of the Division and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $53,160. Suppressing counterfeiting, etc.Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses 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 the United States relating to the Treasury Department and the several branches of the public service under its control; purchase (not to exceed $25,000), 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.*Ante*, p. 1322.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, *Provisos*.Witness fees.$850,000: *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,*Ante*, p. 1327. which *Ante*, p. 1327.Detection and prosecution of violations.expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses and jurors, United States courts”: *Provided further*,Violation of laws relating to Treasury Department, etc. 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.White House police: Captain, lieutenant, three sergeants, and for fifty-five privates, at rates of pay provided by law; in all, $146,700. Uniforms and equipment.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, $3,750. public health servicePublicHealthService Office personnel.Salaries, office of Surgeon General: For personal services in the District of Columbia, $308,410. 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, $1,775,810. Acting assistant surgeons.Acting assistant surgeons, pay: For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medical officers), $340,200. 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, and so forth: For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved 1839June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 118a), not to exceed $5,000 butVol. 46, p. 818.[U. S. C., p. 45](/us/usc/p45). 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; contract stenographic reporting services; not to exceed $450 for journals and scientific books, office of the Surgeon General; 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, $25,450: *Provided*, That funds expendable for transportation and*Proviso*.Transporting, etc., remains of officers. 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: For maintaining theNational Institute of Health, maintenance. National Institute of Health, $64,000. 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). 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 servicesServices in the District.General expenses. in the District 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 repairs, 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, includingLepers, transportation, care, etc. transportation to their homes in the continental United States of recovered indigent leper patients, court costs and other expensesInsane, etc. incident to proceedings 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), $5,870,000: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Use of Ellis Island hospitals. That the Immigration 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 moneyReceipts to be covered into Treasury. collected by the Immigration Service on account of hospital expenses of persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service under the immigration laws and regulations shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided further*, That no partUses forbidden. of this sum shall be used for the quarantine service, the prevention of epidemics, or scientific work of the character provided for under the appropriations which follow. 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 1840operation 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, $361,450. Prevention of epidemics.Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case only of 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, $260,000, including the purchase of newspapers and clippings from newspapers containing information relating to the prevalence of disease and the public health. Interstate quarantine service.Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State and municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles, $36,535. 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. 886.[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 $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)Narcotic Farm, Lexington, Ky.Vol. 45, p. 1085.[U. S. C., p. 937](/us/usc/p937).Division of Mental Hygiene: F or carrying out the provisions of section 4 of the Act of June 14, 1930 (U. S. C., title 21, secs. 196 and 225); for maintenance and operation of the Narcotic Farm, Lexington, Kentucky, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of January 19, 1929 (U. S. C., title 21, secs. 221–237), including personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $27,740) 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; transportation when necessary, within continental United States and under regulations approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, of persons voluntarily admitted and discharged as cured; tobacco for inmates; purchase and exchange, not to exceed $800, and maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying*Proviso*.Narcotic Farm hereafter known as U. S. Public Health Service Hospital. vehicles; $663,220: *Provided*, That on and after July 1, 1936, the Narcotic Farm at Lexington, Kentucky, shall be known as United States Public Health Service Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky, Status.but such change in designation shall not affect the status of any person in connection therewith or the status of such institution under any Act applicable thereto. Educational exhibits.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. Grants to States for public-health work.Grants to States for public-health work: For the purpose of assisting States, counties, health districts, and other political subdivisions of the States in establishing and maintaining adequate public-health 1841services, including the training of personnel for State and local*Ante*, p. 634. health work, as authorized in sections 601 and 602, Title VI, of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935 (49 Stat., 634), $8,000,000. Diseases and sanitation investigations: For carrying out the provisionsDiseases and sanitation investigations.*Ante*, p. 635. of section 603 of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935, and section 1 of the Act of August 14, 1912, including rent and personnel and other services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere and items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriationsContingent expenses. for printing and binding, stationery, and miscellaneous and contingent expenses for the Treasury Department, the provisionsVol. 37, p. 414.[U. S. C., p. 1406](/us/usc/p1406). of section 6, Act of August 23, 1912 (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 669), to the contrary notwithstanding, 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, and including the purchaseVehicles. (not to exceed $5,000), exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles for official use in field work, $1,320,000. Bureau of the MintBureau of the Mint. office of director of the mint Salaries: For the Director of the Mint and other personal servicesDirector and office personnel. in the District of Columbia, $38,360. Transportation of bullion and coin: For transportation of bullionTransporting bullion and coin. and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints and assay offices, $50,000. Contingent expenses: For assay-laboratory chemicals, fuel,Contingent expenses. materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, and for examination of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purpose 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, $5,300. Salaries and expenses, mints and assay offices: For compensationMints and assay offices.Salaries and expenses. 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, $1,202,000. procurement division buildings branchProcurement Division; Public Buildings Branch.Repair, preservation, and upkeep of completed buildings, etc.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: 1842 General administrative expenses.General administrative expenses: For architectural, engineering, 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 and educational exhibits in connection with subjects related to the work of the Division of Procurement, Public Buildings 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, not exceeding $1,000 for expenses of educational exhibits, specifically approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, 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 Buildings Branch; Salamanca, N. Y., ground rent.rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including ground rent of the Federal building at Salamanca, New York, for which payment may be made in advance; $920,000, of which amount not to exceed $494,940 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia and not to exceed $289,060 for personal services *Provisos*.Cost of surveys, models, etc.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 respective projects to which they Not available for transporting supplies.relate: *Provided further*, That no expenditures shall be made hereunder for transportation of operating supplies for public buildings: Pay rates.*And 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. Repairs, preservation, and equipment, public 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, maintenance Pneumatic-tube system, 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 obligations arising Vol. 36, p. 120; Vol. 45, p. 533.thereunder in accordance with the provisions of the Acts approved August 5, 1909 (36 Stat., 120), and May 15, 1928 (45 Stat., 533), *Provisos*.Personal services, restriction.$1,625,000: *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 1843an amount not to exceed $100 at one time at any one building: *Provided further*, That the total expenditures for the fiscal year forLimitation on repairs, etc. 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. Operating force for public buildings: For personal services, includingOperating force.Personal services. also telephone operators for the operation of telephone switchboards or equivalent telephone switching equipment jointly serving in each case two or more governmental activities, $1,410,000: *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 Buildings 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 for lightingOperating supplies.Fuel, light, power, etc. 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 supplies, 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*Proviso*.Contracts for joint telephone switchboards. this appropriation shall be available for contracts 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. Payment of claims for relief of contractors, Act of June 16, 1934:Relief of Government contractors. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to make payment of claims settled and certified by the Comptroller General of the United States under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide reliefVol. 48, p. 974. to Government contractors whose costs of performance were increased as a result of compliance with the Act approved June 16, 1933, and for other purposes”, approved June 16, 1934 (48 Stat. 974), the unexpended*Ante*, p. 594 balance of the appropriation available foi’ this purpose for the fiscal year 1936 is continued available until June 30, 1937. 1844 procurement division—branch of supply Salaries and expenses: For the Director of Procurement and 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 supplies and materials, maintenance of motor trucks, telegrams, telephone service, traveling expenses, office equipment, 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 Division), $580,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed during the fiscal year 1937 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 of a function or functions to that Division: *Provided further*, That payments during the fiscal year 1937 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 Procurement: *Provided further*, That advances received pursuant to law (U. S. C., 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 1937 shall be credited to the general supply fund: *Provided further*, That the term “fuel” shall be held to include “fuel oil”: *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 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, Branch of Supply, Procurement Division.” General supply fund: To increase the general supply fund established by the Act approved February 27, 1929 (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 7c) ? as amended, $250,000. 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 to be effected by charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, Procurement Division, Branch of Supply.” 1845 No part of any money appropriated by this or any other ActPrices of standard machines established. shall be used during the fiscal year 1937 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: four-teen 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*Proviso*.Quiet machines. standard 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. With the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget,Check clearance, etc., expenses. there may be transferred sums (not exceeding a total of $450,000) to the appropriations, “Salaries, Office of Treasurer of United States, 1937”, “Contingent Expenses, Treasury Department, 1937”, “Printing and Binding, Treasury Department, 1937”, and “Stationery, Treasury Department, 1937”, from funds available for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, Farm Credit Administration, Tennessee Valley Authority, Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Federal Emergency Relief Administration, Farmers’ Crop Production and Harvesting Loans, Federal Land Banks, and other banks and corporations under the supervision of the Farm Credit Administration, Railroad Retirement Board, Soil Conservation Service, including Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment, Social Security Board, Federal Housing Administration, and Emergency Conservation Work, to cover the expenses incurred on account of such respective activities in clearing of checks, servicing of bonds, handling of collections, and rendering of accounts therefor: *Provided*, That funds transferred hereunder from the appropriation for Emergency Conservation Work shall remain*Provisos*.Emergency Conservation Work funds transferred available until June 30, 1937.*Ante*, p. 1601. available until June 30, 1937, any provision in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936, to the contrary notwithstanding: *Provided further*, That a statement of any transfers of appropriationsStatement In the Budget. made hereunder shall be included in the annual Budget. Miscellaneous Items, Treasury DepartmentMiscellaneous Items. american printing house for the blind To enable the American Printing House for the Blind more adequatelyAmerican Printing House for the Blind, expenses.Vol. 44, p. 1060; [U. S. C., p. 913](/us/usc/p913). 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., title 20, sec. 101), $65,000. short title This title may be cited as the Treasury Department AppropriationCitation of title. Act, 1937. 1846 TITLE II— POST OFFICE DEPARTMENTTitle II—Post Office Appropriation for fiscal year 1937.Vol. 5, p. 80.[U. S. C., pp. 60, 1763](/us/usc/pp60/1763).The following sums are appropriated in conformity with the Act 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, 1937, namely: post office department, washington, district of columbia office of the postmaster generalDepartment expenses.Postmaster General’s Office. Postmaster General, and office personnel.Salaries: For the Postmaster General and other personal services in the office of the Postmaster General in the District of Columbia, $228,344. salaries in bureaus ano officesSalaries, bureaus and offices. Amounts.For personal services in the District of Columbia in bureaus and offices of the Post Office Department in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, $366,135. Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, $569,810. Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, $769,150. Office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $447,500. Office of the Solicitor for the Post Office Department. $81,280. Office of the chief inspector, $206,240. Office of the purchasing agent, $42,000. Bureau of Accounts, $104,930. Contingent Expenses, Post Office DepartmentDepartment contingent expenses. Stationery, etc.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 Vehicles.motor 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; Correspondence addressed abroad.Vol. 44, pp. 2243, 2245.floor coverings; 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 Attendance at meetings.exceeding $200; 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; $81,000. Printing and binding.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, $1,100,000. 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 1847appropriations for the service in connection with which the travel is performed, and appropriations for the fiscal year 1937 of the character heretofore used for such purposes shall be available therefor: *Provided further*, That appropriations hereinafter made, Use in examining field estimates.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 postal employees for inventions: The Postmaster GeneralRewards to employees for inventions improving the service. 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 sum of $200 is hereby appropriated: *Provided*, That the sums*Provisos*.Additional to regular pay.Agreement for Government use required. so paid to employees in accordance with this Act shall be in addition to their 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. 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 1937, or in prior fiscal years, to persons or property in accordance with the provisions of the Deficiency Appropriation Act approvedVol. 42, p. 63; Vol. 48, p. 1207.[U. S. C., p. 67](/us/usc/p67). June 16, 1921 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 392), as amended by the Act approved June 22, 1934 (48 Stat., 1207), $30,000. Adjusted losses and contingencies, postal funds: To enable the PostmasterAdjusted losses and contingencies. 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 1937, 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, $60,000. office of chief inspectorChief Inspector’s Office. Salaries of inspectors: For salaries of fifteen inspectors in chargeInspectors. of divisions and five hundred and seventy-five inspectors, $2,219,500. 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; 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, and not to exceed $500 for technical and scientific books and other books of reference needed in 1848*Proviso*.Allotment for chemical, etc., investigations.the operation of the Post Office Inspection Service, $586,500: *Provided*, That not 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.Clerks, division headquarters: For compensation of one hundred and ninety-four clerks at division headquarters, $465,000. Rewards for detecting law violations.Payment of rewards: For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction of post-office burglars, robbers, and highway *Provisos*.Death of offender.mail robbers, $55,000: *Provided*, That rewards may be paid in the discretion of the Postmaster General, when an offender of the class mentioned was killed in the act of committing the crime or in resistingRates. lawful arrest: *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall be used to pay any rewards at rates in excess of those specified in Post Office Department Order 9955, dated February 28, 1930: *ProvidedSecuring information. further.* That of the amount herein appropriated not to 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 Postmaster General. Compensation to postmasters.Compensation to postmasters: For compensation to postmasters, 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, $48,000,000. Assistant postmasters.Compensation to assistant postmasters: For compensation to assist-ant postmasters at first- and second-class post offices, $6,775,000. Clerks, etc., 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, $186,900,000. Contract station clerks.Clerks, contract stations: For compensation to clerks in charge of contract stations, $1,500,000. Separating mails.Separating mails: For separating mails at third- and fourth-class post offices, $450,000. 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, $7,000,000. Miscellaneous, first- and second-class officesMiscellaneous 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, $2,075,000. 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, $1,725,000. Detroit River service.Detroit River service: For Detroit River postal service, $15.995. Car fare and bicycle allowance.Car fare and bicycle allowance: For car fare and bicycle allowance, including special-delivery car fare, $1,250,000. City delivery carriers.City delivery earners: For pay of letter carriers, City Delivery Service, $134,900,000. Special-delivery fees.Special-delivery fees: For fees to special-delivery messengers, $7,125,000. 1849 office of the second assistant postmaster generalSecond Assistant Postmaster Geneneral. Star-route service: For inland transportation by star routesStar routes, except Alaska. (excepting service in Alaska), including temporary service to newly established offices, and not to exceed $100,000 for Government-operated star-route service, $10,800,000. Star-route service, Alaska: For inland transportation by starAlaska. routes in Alaska, $207,245. Power-boat service: For inland transportation by steamboat orPower-boat service. other power-boat routes, including ship, steamboat and way letters, $1,270,000. Railroad transportation and mail messenger service: For inlandRailroad transportation, and mail messenger service. transportation by railroad routes and for mail messenger service, $102,000,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $1,500,000 of this appropriation*Provisos*.Freight train conveyance. may be expended for pay of freight and incidental charges for the transportation of mails conveyed under special arrangement in freight trains or otherwise: *Provided further*, That separateSeparate accounting, messenger service. accounts be kept of the amount expended for mail messenger service:Services in the District.Vol. 39, p. 429; Vol. 43, p. 1069.[U. S. C., pp. 1749, 1766](/us/usc/pp1749/1766). *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 section 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 $33,050 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: For fifteen division superintendents, fifteenRailway Mail Service.Division superintendents, etc.*Ante*, p. 1374. 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 offices of division superintendents, railway postal clerks, substitute railway postal clerks, joint employees, and laborers in the Railway Mail Service, $57,000,000. Railway postal clerks, travel allowance: For travel allowance toRailway postal clerks, travel allowance. railway postal clerks and substitute railway postal clerks, $3,525,000. Railway Mail Service, traveling expenses: For actual and necessaryRailway Mail Service, traveling expenses.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. heat, fuel, telegraph, miscellaneous and office expenses, telephone service, badges for railway postal clerks, for the purchase or rentalArms, etc., for mail protection. of arms and miscellaneous items necessary for the protection of the mails, and rental of space for terminal railway post offices for theTerminal offices, rent. 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, $540,000. Electric- and cable-car service: For electric- and cable-car service,Electric- and cable-car service. $375,000. Foreign mail transportation: For transportation of foreign mailsForeign mails.Vol. 41, p. 988; Vol. 45, p. 689.[U. S. C., p. 2068](/us/usc/p2068). by steamship, aircraft, or otherwise (exclusive of mail carried under contracts awarded under the provisions of the Merchant Marine Act of 1928), $9,717,500: *Provided*, That not to exceed $8,230,000*Provisos*.Aircraft allowance, restriction. of this sum may be expended for carrying foreign mail by aircraft 1850under contracts which will not create obligations for the fiscal year Sea-post service.1938 in excess of $8,230,000: *Provided further*, That the Postmaster General is authorized to expend such sums as may be necessary, not to exceed $165,000, to cover the cost to the United States for maintaining sea-post service on ocean steamships conveying the mails to Assistant Director, International Postal Service.Delegates to Postal Union Congress.and from the United States including the salary of the Assistant 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 1937, to be expended in the discretion of the Postmaster General and accounted for on his certificate notwithstanding the provisions of any other law. Payments under Merchant Marine Act contracts.Payments under Merchant Marine Act contracts: For payments under contracts entered into by the Postmaster General prior to Vol. 45, p. 689.[U. S. C., p. 2068](/us/usc/p2068).March 4, 1933, or any modification thereof, under the provisions of the Merchant Marine Act of 1928 (U. S. C., title 46, secs. 891–891x), $26,500,000, of which $4,500,000 is an estimated amount representing the equivalent poundage-rate cost of transportation of the mail carried on vessels under such contracts and $22,000,000 is an estimated amount representing additional assistance toward the development*Proviso*.Payments to Seatrain Company, forbidden. of the American merchant marine: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be paid on contract numbered 56 to the Seatrain Company. Balances due foreign countries.Balances due foreign countries: For balances due foreign countries, fiscal year 1937 and prior years, $1,000,000. Contract Air Mail Service.Contract Air Mail Service: For the inland transportation of mail by aircraft, as authorized by law, and for the incidental expenses thereof, including not to exceed $22,200 for supervisory officials and clerks at air-mail transfer points, and not to exceed $46,460 for personal services in the District of Columbia and incidental and travel expenses, $12,000,000. 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, $93,200,000. office of the third assistant postmaster generalThird Assistant Postmaster General. Stamps, stamped envelopes, postal cards, etc.Manufacture and distribution of stamps and stamped paper: For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-delivery stamps, books of stamps, stamped envelopes, 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 envelopes and newspaper wrappers, and for expenses of agency, $4,000,000. Indemnities, lost, etc., 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, $265,000. 1851 office of the fourth assistant postmaster generalFourth Assistant Postmaster General. Post office stationery, equipment, and supplies: For stationery forStationery, etc. the Postal Service, including the money-order and registry system; and also for the purchase of supplies for the Postal Savings System,Postal Savings System, supplies. including rubber stamps, canceling devices, certificates, envelopes, and stamps for use in evidencing deposits, and free penalty envelopes; and for the reimbursement of the Secretary of the Treasury for expenses incident to the preparation, issue, and registration ofBond expenses.Vol. 36, p. 817.[U. S. C., p. 1761](/us/usc/p1761). the bonds authorized by the Act of June 25, 1910 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 760); for miscellaneous equipment and supplies, including the purchase and repair of furniture, package boxes, posts, trucks,Miscellaneous equipment and supplies. 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, the erection and painting of letter-box equipment, andLetter boxes. for the purchase and repair of presses and dies for use in the manufacture of letter boxes; for postmarking, rating, money-order stamps,Postmarking, etc., 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, envelope-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 expenses in the preparation and publicationPost-route maps, etc. of post-route maps and rural delivery maps or blueprints, including tracing for photolithographic reproduction; for other expenditures necessary and incidental 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:Twine and tying devices. for wrapping twine and tying devices; for expenses incident to thé shipment of supplies, including hardware, boxing, packing, and not exceeding $55,000 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 $35,000 for salariesTraveling mechanicians. of thirteen traveling mechanicians, and for traveling expenses, $2,345,000: *Provided*, That the Postmaster General may authorize*Provisos*.Sale of maps, etc. 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 this appropriation shall beFurniture, etc., third-class offices. expended for the purchase of furniture and complete equipment for third-class post offices except 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 mid 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 1852and services; for compensation to labor employed in the equipment shops and in the operation, care, maintenance, and protection of the Services in the District.equipment shops building, $1,025,000, of which not to exceed $539,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Proviso*.Distinctive equipment for departments, Alaska, and island possessions.*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.Rent, light, and fuel: For rent, light, fuel, and water, for first-, second-, and third-class post offices, and the cost of advertising for lease proposals for such offices, $12,875,000. Pneumatic-tube service, New York, etc.Pneumatic-tube service: For the transmission of mail by pneumatic 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. Boston, Mass.For the rental of not exceeding two miles of pneumatic tubes, not including labor and power in operating the same, for the transmission*Proviso*.Provisions applicable.Vol. 32, p. 114; Vol. 35, p. 412.[U. S. C., p. 1737](/us/usc/p1737). of mail in the city of Boston? Massachusetts, $24,000: *Provided*, 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.Vehicle service: For vehicle service; the hire of vehicles; the rental of garage facilities; the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor vehicles; the hire of supervisors, clerical assistance, mechanics, drivers, garage men, and such other employees as may be necessary in providing vehicles and vehicle service for usa in the collection, transportation, delivery, and supervision of the *Provisos*.Rentals.mail, $14,984,000: *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 Tractors and trailer trucks.years: *Provided further*, That the Postmaster General, during the fiscal year 1937, may purchase and maintain from the appropriation “Vehicle service” such tractors and trailer trucks as may be required Motor vehicle restriction.in the operation of the 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, maintenance and operationPublic buildings. Operating force.Operating force: 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 switchboards or equivalent 1853telephone switchboard equipment in such buildings jointly serving in each case two or more governmental activities, $14,900,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Pay rates, etc. 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, public buildings: For fuel, steam, gas, andOperating supplies. electric current for lighting, heating, and power purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, removal of ashes and rubbish, snow and ice, cutting Sass and weeds, washing towels, telephone service for custodial rces, 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 of articles and supplies authorized herein, $4,675,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing*Provisos*.Personal services, restriction. appropriation shall not be available for personal services except for work done by contract, or for temporary job 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 contractContracts for telephone service. 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, carpets, and safes, public buildings: For the procurement,Furniture and equipment. including transportation, of furniture, carpets, safes, safe and vault protective devices, and repairs of same, for use in public buildings which are now, or may hereafter be, operated by the Post Office Department, $625,000: *Provided*, That, excepting expenditures*Provisos*.Personal services, restriction. for labor for or incidental to the moving of equipment from or into public buildings, the foregoing appropriation shall not be 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 of furniture or not. Scientific investigations: In the disbursement of appropriationsScientific investigations.Transfer of sums to Bureau of Standards. 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: It the revenues of the Post OfficeDeficiency in postal revenues. 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, 1937, and the sum needed may be advanced to the Post Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster General. 1854 short title Short title.This title may be cited as the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1937. Sec. 2. Executive departments, etc.Appropriations for travel, etc., fiscal year 1937. Appropriations for the fiscal year 1937 available for 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*Proviso*.Transfers for convenience of officers. concerned in the order directing such transfer: *Provided*, That such expenses shall not be allowed for any transfer effected for the convenience of any officer or employee. Sec. 3. Restrictions on expenditures. No appropriation available for the executive departments and independent establishments of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, whether contained in this Act or any other Act, shall be expended—
(a)Cost limitation of automobiles. To purchase any motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle (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)Maintenance, automobiles not used for official purposes.“Official purposes” construed. For the maintenance, operation, and repair of any Government-owned motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle not used exclusively for official purposes; and “official purposes” shall not include the transportation of officers and employees between their domiciles and places of employment, except in cases of medical officers on out-patient medical services and except in cases of officers and employees engaged in field work the character of whose duties maires such transportation necessary and then only as to such latter cases when the same is approved by the head of the department or Limitations not applicable.establishment concerned. The limitations of this subsection
(b)shall not apply to any motor vehicles for official use of the President, or of the heads of the executive departments.
(c)Cost of maintenance; 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, m 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 rejection, 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. Approved, June 23, 1936. Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes. 1936-06-23 726 Chapter 49 Stat. 1854 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 2 public [CHAPTER 726.] AN ACT Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes. June 23, 1936.[[H. R. 11581](/us/bill/74/hr/11581).][
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