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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 50 STAT. · June 15, 1937 · Public Law 153

Public Law 153.

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(/us/bill/75/pl/152)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, San Francisco Bay.Acquisition of site for establishing Coast Guard air station, west shore of, authorized. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to acquire in behalf of the United States, by donation a tract of land situated in the San Francisco Airport on the west shore of San Francisco Bay, twelve miles south of San Francisco, and sufficient for the construction thereon of a Coast Guard air station.
Sec. 2. Construction, etc,, of requisite facilities and accessories. The Secretary of the Treasury is further authorized to construct, install, purchase, and equip at said Coast Guard air station such buildings, hangars, ramps, piers, bulkheads, dredging, filling and grading, and such other facilities and accessories as, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, may be required for the construction, operation, maintenance, and repair of a Coast Guard air station. Approved, June 15, 1937.
Authorizing the selection of a site and the erection of a pedestal for the Albert Gallatin statue in Washington, District of Columbia. 1937-06-15 353 Chapter 50 Stat. 260 75 1 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-11-23 public [CHAPTER 353] JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the selection of a site and the erection of a pedestal for the Albert Gallatin statue in Washington, District of Columbia.
June 15, 1937[[S. J. Res. 56](/us/bill/75/sjres/56)][[Pub. Res., No. 43](/us/bill/75/pubres/43)] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Albert Gallatin statue, Washington, D. C.Selection of site and erection of pedestal for, authorized. That authority is hereby granted to any association organized within two years from date of the approval of this resolution for that purpose to erect a statue of Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury from May 14, 1801, to February 9, 1814, opposite the west entrance of the Treasury Building in the city of Washington within the grounds occupied by such building, or at such other place within such grounds as may be designated by the Fine Arts Commission, subject to the approval of the261 Joint Committee on the Library, the model of the statue so to beApproval required. erected and the pedestal thereof to be first approved by the said Commission and by the Joint Committee on the Library, the same to be presented by such association to the people of the United States.
Sec. 2. That for the preparation of the site and the erection of aAppropriation authorized. pedestal upon which to place the said statue, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, the sum of $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, June 15, 1937. Making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, and for other purposes. 1937-06-16 359 Chapter 50 Stat. 261 75 1 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2024-11-23 public [CHAPTER 359] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, and for other purposes. June 16, 1937[[H. R. 5779](/us/bill/75/hr/5779)][[Public, No. 153](/us/bill/75/pl/153)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the followingAppropriations for Departments of State and Justice, the Judiciary, and Departments of Commerce and Labor, fiscal year 1938. sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, namely:
TITLE I— DEPARTMENT OF STATEDepartment of State. office of the secretary of stateSecretary’s office. Salaries: For Secretary of State; Under Secretary of State,Secretary, Under Secretary, and office personnel.Temporary and piecework employees. $10,000; and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including temporary employees, and not to exceed $6,500 for employees engaged on piecework at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of State; $2,220,480, of which amount not to exceed $265,540 mayExpenditure without regard to civil-service and Classification Acts.[5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674](/us/usc/t5/s661–674).*Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act; exceptions. be expended by the Secretary of State without regard to civil-service laws and regulations or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended: *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 four Assistant Secretaries of State and the legal adviser of the Department of State, the Assistant to the Attorney General, the Assistant Solicitor General, and six Assistant Attorneys General, the Assistant Secretaries of Commerce, the Assistant Secretary and the Second Assistant Secretary of Labor, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated theIf only one position in grade. salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious casesAdvances in unusually meritorious cases. of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate: *Provided*, That this restriction shall not apply
(1)toRestriction not applicable to clerical mechanical service.No reduction in fixed salaries.[5 U. S. C. § 666](/us/usc/t5/s666). grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act, or
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any personTransfers without reduction. who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or262 Higher salary rates permitted.other appropriation unit, or
(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 If only one position in a grade.of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or
(5)to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated. contingent expenses, department of state Contingent and miscellaneous expenses.*Post*, p. 768. For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including stationery, furniture, fixtures; typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their exchange, not exceeding $7,500; Books, periodicals, etc.repairs and materials for repairs; purchase and exchange of books, maps, and periodicals, domestic and foreign, and when authorized by the Secretary of State for dues for library membership in societies or associations which issue publications to members only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers who are not members, not exceeding $8,000; newspapers not exceeding $1,500; not to exceed Vehicles.$1,000 for teletype rentals and tolls; maintenance, repair, and storage of motor-propelled vehicles, to be used only for official purposes (one for the Secretary of State and two for dispatching mail, and one motorcycle for the general use of the department); automobile mail wagons, including storage, repair, and exchange of same; Attendance at meetings, etc.streetcar fare not exceeding $100; traveling expenses, including not to exceed $2,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Department of State when authorized by the Refund of passport fees erroneously charged.Secretary of State; refund of fees erroneously charged and paid for the issue of passports to persons who are exempted from the payment of such fee by section 1 of the Act making appropriations for the [41 Stat. 750](/us/stat/41/750); [44 Stat. 887](/us/stat/44/887).[22 U. S. C. §§ 214, 214a](/us/usc/t22/s214/214a).Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, approved June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., title 22, secs. 214, 214a); the examination of estimates of appropriations in the field; and other miscellaneous items (not exceeding $50 for any one item) not included *Proviso*.Statement of expenditures in Budget.in the foregoing, $78,410: *Provided*, That a statement of expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. printing and binding Printing and binding. For all printing and binding in the Department of State, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $146,300. passport agencies Passport agencies. For salaries and expenses of maintenance, rent, cost of insurance covering shipments of money by messenger, registered mail, or otherwise, and traveling expenses not to exceed $500, for not to exceed five passport agencies, $59,480, of which $1,000 shall be available immediately. collecting and editing official papers of territories of the united statesOfficial papers of the Territories. Collecting, etc., for publication. For the expenses of collecting, editing, copying, and arranging for publication the official papers of the Territories of the United States, including personal services in the District of Columbia and Printing and binding.[5 U. S. C. §§ 168–168b](/us/usc/t5/s168–168b).*Proviso*.Limitation on number of copies to be printed; distribution.elsewhere, printing and binding, and contingent and traveling expenses, as provided by the Act approved February 28, 1929 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 168–168b), $24,800: *Provided*, That the total number of copies of any volume to be printed and bound for congressional allocation shall not exceed one thousand two hundred copies, which shall be263 distributed by the Superintendent of Documents under such rules and regulations as may be authorized and directed by the Joint Committee on Printing. promotion of foreign tradePromotion of foreign trade. For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of section 4Expenses, negotiating agreements.[48 Stat. 945](/us/stat/48/945).[19 U. S. C. § 1354](/us/usc/t19/s1354).Personal services.[5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674](/us/usc/t5/s661–674). of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Tariff Act of 1930”, approved June 12, 1934 (48 Stat. 945), as amended, including personal services without regard to civil-service laws and regulations or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; stenographic reporting services, by contract if deemed necessary, without regard to sectionContract services.[R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/3709).[41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); contingent expenses; printing and binding; traveling expenses; and such other expenses as the President may deem necessary, $20,000, together withBalance reappropriated. the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1937. foreign intercourseForeign intercourse. ambassadors and ministers Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Argentina,Salaries.Ambassadors.*Post*, p. 769. Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Spain, Turkey, and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, at $17,500 each; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Belgium and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Luxemburg, $17,500; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to theMinisters. Netherlands, $12,000; Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to Albania, Austria, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Dominion of Canada, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iran, Irish Free State, Liberia, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Portugal, Rumania, Salvador, Siam, Union of South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Yugoslavia, at $10,000 each; and to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, $10,000; In all, not to exceed $640,000: *Provided*, That no salary herein appropriated shall be paid to any*Proviso*.Salary restriction. official receiving any other salary from the United States Government. salaries of foreign service officersForeign Service officers. For salaries of Foreign Service officers as provided in the ActSalaries.[46 Stat. 1207](/us/stat/46/1207).[22 U. S. C. §§ 3, 3a](/us/usc/t22/s3/3a). approved February 23, 1931 (U. S. C., title 22, secs. 3, 3a); salaries of Ambassadors, Ministers, consuls, vice consuls, and other officers of the United States for the period actually and necessarily occupied in receiving instructions and in making transits to and from theirInstruction and transit pay. posts, and while awaiting recognition and authority to act in pursuance with the provisions of section 1740 of the Revised Statutes[R. S. § 1740](/us/rs/1740).[22 U. S. C. § 121](/us/usc/t22/s121).Chargés d’Affaires ad interim. (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 121); and salaries of Foreign Service officers or vice consuls while acting as Chargés d’Affaires ad interim or while in charge of a consulate general or consulate during the absence of the principal officer; $3,424,500. transportation of foreign service officers To pay the traveling expenses, including travel by airplane when Traveling expenses.specifically authorized by the Secretary of State, of Diplomatic,264 Consular, and Foreign Service officers, and other employees of the Foreign Service, including Foreign Service inspectors, and under such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, of their families and expenses of transportation of effects, in going to and Leaves of absence.Bringing home remains of officers, etc., dying abroad.returning from their posts, including not to exceed $110,000 for expenses incurred in connection with leaves of absence, and of the preparation and transportation of the remains of those officers and employees of the Foreign Service, who have died or may die abroad or in transit while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country or to a place not more distant for interment and for the ordinary expenses of such interment, and Allowances to widows, etc.[R. S. § 1749](/us/rs/1749).[22 U. S. C. § 130](/us/usc/t22/s130).also for payment under the provisions of section 1749 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 130) of allowances to the widows or heirs at law of Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Service officers of the United States dying in foreign countries in the discharge of their duties, $610,000, of which amount $53,300 shall be *Proviso*.Subsistence on temporary detail.immediately available: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available also for the authorized subsistence expenses of Consular and Foreign Service officers while on temporary detail under commission. allowances for rent, heat, fuel, and light, foreign serviceRent, heat, fuel, and light allowances. For offices and grounds.[46 Stat. 818](/us/stat/46/818).[5 U. S. C. § 118a](/us/usc/t5/s118a). For rent, heat, fuel, and light for the Foreign Service for offices and grounds, and, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 118a), for living quarters and not to exceed Living quarters.$1,140,000 for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, *Provisos*.Rent payment in advance.Leases.and light, $2,000,000: *Provided*, That payment for rent may be made in advance: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of State may enter into leases for such offices, grounds, and living quarters for Allowances for quarters limited.periods not exceeding ten years: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, in an amount exceeding $3,000 for an ambassador, minister, or chargé d’affaires, and not exceeding Custodial, etc., service; restriction.*Post*, pp. 265, 266.$1,700 for any other Foreign Service officer: *Provided further*, That under this appropriation and the appropriations herein for “Contingent expenses, Foreign Service”, and “Miscellaneous salaries and allowances, Foreign Service”, not more than $5,000 shall be expended for custodial service, heat, fuel, and light for each ambassador or minister occupying a Government-owned building for residence or residence and office purposes, and not more than $1,700 for such purposes in the case of any other Foreign Service officer, and during the incumbency of a chargé d’affaires the limitation on such expenditures shall be the same as for the occupancy by the principal officer. cost of living allowance, foreign service officers Cost of living allowance.[46 Stat. 1207, 1209](/us/stat/46/1207/1209).[22 U. S. C. §§ 12, 23c](/us/usc/t22/s12/23c). To carry out the provisions of the Act approved February 23, 1931 (U. S. C., title 22, secs. 12, 23c), relating to allowances and additional compensation to Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Service officers and clerics when such allowances and additional compensation are necessary to enable such officers and clerks to carry *Proviso*.Regulation of expenditure.on their work efficiently: *Provided*, That such allowances and additional compensation shall be granted only in the discretion of the President, and under such regulations as he may prescribe, $280,000. representation allowances Representation allowances.[46 Stat. 1209](/us/stat/46/1209).[22 U. S. C. § 12](/us/usc/t22/s12). For representation allowances as authorized by the Act approved February 23, 1931 (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 12), $125,000. 265 foreign service retirement and disability fund For financing the liability of the United States, created by theForeign Service retirement, etc., fund.Federal contribution.[46 Stat. 1211](/us/stat/46/1211).[22 U.S. C. § 21](/us/usc/t22/s21). Act approved February 23, 1931 (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 21), $188,000, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the “Foreign Service retirement and disability fund.” salaries of clerks in the foreign service Clerks in Foreign Service.Salaries.[46 Stat. 1207](/us/stat/46/1207).[22 U. S. C. § 23a](/us/usc/t22/s23a). For salaries of clerks in the Foreign Service, as provided in the Act approved February 23, 1931 (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 23a), including salaries during transit to and from homes in the United States upon the beginning and after termination of service $2,305,000. miscellaneous salaries and allowances, foreign service For salaries or compensation of kavasses, guards, dragomans,Miscellaneous salaries and allowances. porters, interpreters, prison keepers, translators, archive collators, Chinese writers, messengers, couriers, telephone operators, supervisors of construction, and custodial and operating force for maintenance and operation of Government-owned and leased diplomatic and consular properties in foreign countries; compensation ofDispatch agencies. agents and employees of dispatch agencies at London, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and New Orleans, including salaries duringSalaries during transit. transit to and from their homes in the United States upon the beginning and after termination of service in foreign countries; operationVehicles. of motor-propelled and other passenger- and non-passenger-carrying vehicles; for allowances to consular officers, who are paid in whole or in part by fees, for services necessarily rendered to AmericanServices to American seamen, etc.[23 Stat. 56](/us/stat/23/56).[22 U. S. C. § 89](/us/usc/t22/s89); [46 U. S. C. § 101](/us/usc/t46/s101). vessels and seamen, as provided in the Act of June 26, 1884 (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 89; title 46, sec. 101); and such other miscellaneous personal services as the President may deem necessary, $657,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for*Provisos*.Citizenship requirements. salaries or wages of persons not American citizens performing clerical services (except interpreters, translators, and messengers), whether officially designated as clerks or not, in any foreign mission: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized,Naval assignments as custodians. upon request by the Secretary of State, to assign enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps to serve as custodians, under the immediate supervision of the Secretary of State or the chief of mission, whichever the Secretary of State shall direct, at embassies, legations, or consulates of the United States located in foreign countries. contingent expenses, foreign service For stationery; blanks; record and other books; seals; presses;Contingent expenses, Foreign Service. flags; signs; repairs and any alterations; repairs, preservation, and maintenance of Government-owned diplomatic and consular properties in foreign countries, including water, materials, supplies, tools, seeds, plants, shrubs, and similar objects; newspapers (foreign and domestic); freight; postage; telegrams; advertising; ice and drinking water for office purposes; purchase (at not to exceed $750 forVehicles. any one automobile), maintenance, and hire of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and purchase, maintenance, and hire of other passenger-carrying vehicles; funds for establishment and maintenance of commissary service; uniforms; furniture,Government buildings abroad.[44 Stat. 403](/us/stat/44/403).[22 U. S. C. §§ 292–299](/us/usc/t22/s292–299). household furniture and furnishings, except as provided by the Act of May 7, 1926, as amended, for Government-owned or rented buildings, when, in the judgment of the Secretary of State, it would be in the public interest to do so, not to exceed $135,500; typewriters and266 exchange of same; maintenance and rental of launch for embassy in Turkey, not exceeding $3,500, including personnel for operation; Dispatch agencies.rent and other expenses for dispatch agencies at London, New York, Attendance at trade conferences, etc.San Francisco, Seattle, and New Orleans; traveling expenses, including attendance at trade and other conferences or congresses under [46 Stat. 1209](/us/stat/46/1209).[22 U. S. C. § 16](/us/usc/t22/s16).Loss by exchange.orders of the Secretary of State as authorized by the Act approved February 23, 1931 (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 16); loss by exchange; payment in advance for telephone and other similar services, expenses of vice consulates and consular agencies for any of the foregoing objects; allowances for special instruction, education, and individual training of Foreign Service officers at home and abroad, not to Language study.exceed $10,000; cost, not exceeding $500 per annum each, of the tuition of Foreign Service officers assigned for the study of the Relief, etc., of American seamen.languages of Asia and eastern Europe; for relief, protection, and burial of American seamen in foreign countries, in the Panama Canal Zone, and in the Philippine Islands, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, in Puerto Rico, and in the Virgin Islands, and for expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of the services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from Consular prisons, etc.Care of insane.shipwreck or other catastrophe at sea; for expenses of maintaining in China, the former Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, and Muscat institutions for incarcerating American convicts and persons declared insane by any consular court, rent of quarters for prisons, ice and drinking water for prison purposes, and for the expenses of keeping, feeding, and transportation of prisoners and persons declared insane by any consular court in China, the former Bringing home persons charged with crime.[R. S. § 5275](/us/rs/5275).[18 U. S. C. § 659](/us/usc/t18/s659).Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, and Muscat; for every expenditure requisite for or incident to the bringing home from foreign countries of persons charged with crime as authorized by section 5275 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 18, sec. 659); and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may deem necessary; $1,252,000, of which amount not to exceed $42,000 shall be available for remodeling and altering, including equipment, of the United *Proviso*.Navy reimbursement.States Legation building in Prague, Czechoslovakia: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for reimbursement of appropriations for the Navy Department, in an amount not to exceed $35,000, for materials, supplies, equipment, and services furnished by the Navy Department, including pay, subsistence, allowances, and transportation of enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps who may be assigned by the Secretary of the Navy, upon request of the Secretary of State, to embassies, legations, or consular offices of the United States located in foreign countries. emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service Emergencies, Diplomatic and Consular Service.Neutrality Act expenses.*Ante*,p. 121.[R. S. § 291](/us/rs/291).[31 U. S. C. § 107](/us/usc/t31/s107). To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States and to meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the Neutrality Act, to be expended pursuant to the requirement of section 291 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 107), $175,000. Interchange ability provision; restriction. Not to exceed 10 per centum of any of the foregoing appropriations under the caption “Foreign intercourse” for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, may be transferred, with the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, to any other foregoing appropriation or appropriations under such caption for such fiscal year, but no appropriation shall be increased more than 10 per *Proviso*.Report in Budget.centum thereby: *Provided*, That all such transfers and contemplated transfers shall be set forth in the Budget for the fiscal year 1939. 267 contributions, quotas, and so forth For payment of the annual contributions, quotas, and expenses,Contributions, quotas, etc. including loss by exchange in discharge of the obligations of the United States in connection with international commissions, congresses, bureaus, and other objects, in not to exceed the respective amounts, as follows: Cape Spartel and Tangier Light, Coast of Morocco, $588; International Bureau of Weights and Measures, $4,342.50; International Bureau for Publication of Customs Tariffs, $1,318.77; Pan American Union, $192,942.80, including not to exceed $20,000 for printing and binding; International Bureau of Permanent Court of Arbitration, $1,722.57; Bureau of Interparliamentary Union for Promotion of International Arbitration, $20,000, including not to exceed $10,000 for the expenses of the American group of the Interparliamentary Union, including personal services in theServices in the District.[5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674](/us/usc/t5/s661–674). District of Columbia and elsewhere without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, stenographic reporting services by contract if deemed necessary without regard to section 3709 of the[R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/3709).[41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), traveling expenses, purchase of necessary books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, maps, stationery, official cards, printing and binding, entertainment, and other necessary expenses, to be disbursed on vouchers approved by the President and executive secretary of the American group; International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, Italy, $48,831, includingInternational institute of Agriculture. not to exceed $11,775 for the salary of the American member of the permanent committee (at not more than $7,500 per annum), compensation of subordinate employees without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, expenses for the maintenance of the office at Rome, including purchase of necessary books, maps, documents, and newspapers and periodicals (foreign and domestic), printing and binding, allowances for living quarters, including heat,Allowances.[46 Stat. 818](/us/stat/46/818).[5 U.S. C. § 118a](/us/usc/t5/s118a). fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 118a ), for the use of the American member of e permanent committee, and traveling and other necessary expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State; Pan American Sanitary Bureau, $30,986.12; International Office of Public Health, $3,015.63; Bureau of International Telecommunication Union, Radio Section, $5,790: Government of Panama, $250,000; International Hydrographic Bureau, $4,632; Inter-American Trade-Mark Bureau, $14,330.20; International Bureau for Protection of Industrial Property, $1,471.63; Gorgas Memorial Laboratory,Gorgas Memorial Laboratory.*Proviso*.Report to Congress.[45 Stat. 491](/us/stat/45/491). $50,000: *Provided*, That hereafter, notwithstanding the provisions of section 3 of the Act of May 7, 1928 ( 45 Stat. 491), the report of the operation and work of the laboratory, including the statement of the receipts and expenditures, shall be made to Congress during the first week of each regular session thereof, such report to cover a fiscal-year period ending on June 30 of the calendar year immediately preceding the convening of each such session; American International Institute for the Protection of Childhood, $2,000; International Statistical Bureau at The Hague, $2,000; International Map of the World on the Millionth Scale, $50; International TechnicalInternational Technical Committee of Aerial Legal Experts. Committee of Aerial Legal Experts, $6,696, including not to exceed $6,500 for the expenses of participation by the Government of the United States in the meetings of the International Technical Committee of Aerial Legal Experts and of the commissions established by that committee, including traveling expenses, personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, stenographic and other services by contract if deemed necessary without regard to the provisions268 [R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/3709).[41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5).of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), rent, purchase of necessary books and documents, printing and binding, official cards, entertainment, and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State; Convention Relating to Liquor Traffic in Africa, $55; International Penal and Penitentiary Commission, $4,328.75, including not to exceed $800 for the necessary expenses of the Commissioner to represent the United States on the Commission at its annual meetings, personal services without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, printing and binding, traveling expenses, and such other expenses as the Secretary of State may deem necessary; Permanent Association of International Road International Labor Organization.Congresses, $588; International Labor Organization, $173,939.74, including not to exceed $25,000 for the expenses of participation by the United States in the meetings of the General Conference and of the Governing Body of the International Labor Office and in such regional, industrial, or other special meetings as may be duly called by such Governing Body, including personal services, without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, stenographic reporting and translating services by contract if deemed necessary without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), rent, traveling expenses, purchase of books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, and charts, stationery, official cards, printing and binding, entertainment, hire, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State; Implementing the Narcotics International Council of Scientific Unions and Associated Unions.Convention of 1931, $9,109.18; International Council of Scientific Unions and Associated Unions, as follows: International Council of Scientific Unions, $19.30; International Astronomical Union, $617.60; International Union of Chemistry, $675; International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, $2,316; International Scientific Radio Union, $154.40; International Union of Physics, $62.72; International Geographical Union, $125.44; and International Union of Biological Sciences, $154.40; in all, $4,124.86; and Pan American Total; additional sums, increase in rates of exchange.Institute of Geography and History, $10,000; in all, $842,862.75, together with such additional sums, due to increase in rates of exchange as the Secretary of State may determine and certify to the Secretary of the Treasury to be necessary to pay in foreign currencies the quotas and contributions required by the several treaties, conventions, or laws establishing the amount of the obligation. international boundary commission, united states and mexico International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico.[24 Stat. 1011](/us/stat/24/1011); [26 Stat. 1512](/us/stat/26/1512); [34 Stat. 2953](/us/stat/34/2953); [49 Stat. 660, 1370](/us/stat/49/660/1370).Rio Grande, rectified channel.[48 Stat. 1626](/us/stat/48/1626). Salaries and expenses: For expenses of meeting the obligations of the United States under the treaties of 1884, 1889, 1905, and 1906 between the United States and Mexico, and of compliance with the Act approved August 19, 1935, as amended (49 Stat. 660, 1370), including maintenance and preservation of the rectified channel or the Rio Grande under the terms of article XI of the Convention between the United States and Mexico, concluded February 1, 1933 (48 Stat. 1621, 1626), operation of gaging stations where necessary and their equipment; personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; fees for professional services at rates and in amounts to be determined by the Secretary of State; travel Printing and binding.expenses, including transportation of effects; printing and binding; law books and books of reference; subscriptions to foreign and domestic newspapers and periodicals; purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger- and269 freight-carrying vehicles; hire, with or without personal services, of work animals, and animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles and equipment; purchase of rubber boots and waders for official use of employees; purchase of ice; drilling and testing of dam sites, byContracts without advertising.[R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/3709).[41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). contract if deemed necessary, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); equipment and such other miscellaneous expenses as the Secretary of State may deem proper, $150,000: *Provided*, That hereafter employees paid from appropriations*Proviso*.Restriction. to the United States Section, International Boundary Commission, and engaged principally upon project construction or operation and maintenance to such extent as the same may be determined by the American Commission to be necessary, shall be excluded from the [46 Stat. 1482](/us/stat/46/1482).[5 U. S. C. § 26a](/us/usc/t5/s26a).purview of the Act of March 3, 1931 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 26–a). For the construction (including operation and maintenance andConstruction, under Commission supervision. protection during construction) of the following projects under the supervision of the International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico, United States section, including salaries and wages of employees, laborers, and mechanics; fees for professional services at rates and in amounts to be determined by the Secretary of State; travel expenses; rents; construction and operation of gaging stations; purchase (including exchange), maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger- and freight-carrying vehicles; drilling and testing of dam sites, by contract if deemedContracts without advertising.[R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/3709).[41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). necessary, without regard to the provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); hire, with or without personal services, of work animals and animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles and equipment; acquisition by donation, purchase, or condemnation, of real and personal property, including expenses of abstracts and certificates of title; transportation of things (including drayage, packing, and crating of personal effects of employees upon change of station for permanent duty) not to exceed five thousand pounds in any one case; printing and binding; communication services; equipment, materials and supplies, including purchase of ice, rubber boots, and waders for official use of employees, and such other miscellaneous expenses as the Secretary of State may deem necessary. Rio Grande rectification project: For the rectification of the RioRio Grande rectification project.[48 Stat. 1621](/us/stat/48/1621). Grande in the El Paso-Juarez Valley under the convention concluded February 1, 1933, between the United States and Mexico, $875,000. Lower Rio Grande flood-control project: For construction, includingLower Rio Grande flood-control project. surveys and other preliminary expenses, of the United States portion of the project for flood control on the Lower Rio Grande, as authorized by the Act approved August 19, 1935, as amended[49 Stat. 660, 1370](/us/stat/49/660/1370). (49 Stat. 660, 1370), $1,250,000: *Provided*, That no part of this*Proviso*.Acquisition and approval of title. appropriation for the Lower Rio Grande flood-control project shall be expended for construction on any land, site, or easement until title thereto has been conveyed to the United States by donation and the same has been approved by the Attorney General of the United States. Rio Grande Canalization project: For beginning construction ofRio Grande canalization project.[49 Stat. 961, 1463](/us/stat/49/961/1463). the Rio Grande canalization project as authorized by the Acts approved August 29, 1935 (49 Stat. 961) and June 4, 1936 (49 Stat. 1463), $900,000, of which not to exceed $400,000 may be expendedDiversion dam. for completion of the construction of a diversion dam in the Rio Grande wholly in the United States, with appurtenant connections to existing irrigation systems. 270 international boundary commission, united states and canada and alaska and canadaInternational Boundary Commission, United States and Canada and Alaska and Canada.Expenses, under treaty obligations.[44 Stat. 2102](/us/stat/44/2102). To enable the President to perform the obligations of the United States under the treaty between the United States and Great Britain in respect of Canada, signed February 24, 1925; for salaries and expenses, including the salary of the Commissioner and salaries of the necessary engineers, clerks, and other employees for duty at the seat of government and in the field; cost of office equipment and supplies; necessary traveling expenses; commutation of subsistence to employees while on field duty, not to exceed $4 per day each, but not to exceed $1.75 per day each when a member of a field party and Boundary lines, United States and Canada and Alaska and Canada.subsisting in camp; for payment for timber necessarily cut in keeping the boundary line clear, not to exceed $500; and for all other necessary and reasonable expenses incurred by the United States in maintaining an effective demarcation of the international boundary line between the United States and Canada and Alaska and Canada under the terms of the treaty aforesaid, including the completion of such remaining work as may be required under the award of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal and existing treaties between the United States and Great Britain, and including the hire of freight- and passenger-carrying vehicles from temporary field employees, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, $41,500. waterways treaty, united states and great britain: international joint commission, united states and great britainInternational Joint Commission, United States and Great Britain.Salaries, expenses, etc. For salaries and expenses, including salaries of commissioners and salaries of clerks and other employees appointed by the commissioners on the part of the United States, with the approval solely of the Secretary of State; for necessary traveling expenses, and for expenses incident to holding hearings and conferences at such places in Canada and the United States as shall be determined by the Commission or by the American commissioners to be necessary, including travel expense and compensation of necessary witnesses, making necessary transcript of testimony and proceedings; for cost of law books, books of reference and periodicals, office equipment and supplies; and for one-half of all reasonable and necessary joint expenses of the International Joint Commission incurred under the terms of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain concerning the use of boundary waters between the United States and Canada, [36 Stat. 2448](/us/stat/36/2448).and for other purposes, signed January 11, 1909; $37,100, to be *Provisos*.Salary restriction.disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State: *Provided*, That the salaries of the American Commissioners shall not exceed Traveling expenses.[44 Stat. 688](/us/stat/44/688).[5 U. S. C. §§ 821–833](/us/usc/t5/s821–833).$7,500 each per annum: *Provided further*, That traveling expenses of the commissioners, secretary, and necessary employees shall be allowed in accordance with the provisions of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, as amended (U. S. C., title 5, secs. 821–833). Special or technical investigations.Personal services. For an additional amount for necessary special or technical investigations in connection with matters which fall within the scope of the jurisdiction of the International Joint Commission, including personal services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, traveling expenses, procurement of technical and scientific equipment, and the purchase, exchange, hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles. $65,000, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, who is authorized to transfer to any department or independent establishment of the Government, with the consent of the head thereof, any part of this amount for direct expenditure by such department or establishment for the purposes of this appropriation. 271 general claims convention, united states and mexico For the expenses of settlement and adjustment of claims of theGeneral claims convention, United States and Mexico.[43 Stat. 1722, 1730](/us/stat/43/1722/1730).[48 Stat. 1844](/us/stat/48/1844).*Ante*, p. 229. citizens of each country against the other under a convention concluded September 8, 1923, as extended, and the protocol and convention signed April 24, 1934, between the United States and Mexico, including the expenses which, under the terms of the above agreements, are chargeable in part to the United States, the expenses ofPreparation of claims and defense. an agency of the United States to perform all necessary services in connection with the preparation of American claims and the defense of the United States in cases presented by Mexico, and of a general claims commissioner to act as a joint appraiser in appraising the claims, including salaries of an agent and necessary counsel and other assistants and employees and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, law books and books of reference, printing and binding, contingent expenses, contract stenographic reporting services,Contracts without advertising.[R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/3709).[41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), the employment of special counsel, translators, and other technical experts, by contract, without regard to the provisions of any statute relative to employment, traveling expenses, and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the President may deem proper, $48,500, to be available immediately: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Commissioner’s salary.Deductions. That the salary of the American commissioner of general claims shall not exceed $10,000 per annum: *Provided further*, That from any sums received from the Mexican Government in settlement of a general claim of an American citizen against it, there shall be deducted and deposited in the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts, 5 per centum thereof in reimbursement of the Government of the United States of expenses incurred by it in respect of such claim: *Provided further*, That this appropriation may be used toReimbursement of other appropriations. reimburse other appropriations under the Department of State from which expenditures may have been made for any of the purposes herein defined prior to the effective date of this appropriation. international fisheries commissionInternational Fisheries Commission. For the share of the United States of the expenses of the InternationalShare of expenses.[47 Stat. 1872](/us/stat/47/1872). Fisheries Commission, under the convention between the United States and Great Britain, concluded May 9, 1930, including salaries of two members and other employees of the Commission, traveling expenses, charter of vessels, purchase of books, periodicals, furniture, and scientific instruments, contingent expenses, rent in theRent. District of Columbia, and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the Secretary of State may deem proper, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, $25,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $700 shall be expended by the Commissioner*Proviso*.Attendance at meetings. and his staff in attending meetings of the Commission. miscellaneous conferences, commissions, and so forthMiscellaneous conferences, etc. Eighth International Conference of American States, Lima, Peru:Eighth International Conference of American States, Lima, Peru. For the expenses of participation by the United States in the Eighth International Conference of American States, to be held at Lima, Peru, including personal services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; stenographic reporting and other services, by contract if deemed necessary without regard to section 3709 of the Revised[R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/3709).[41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); rent; traveling expenses (and by indirect routes and by airplane if specifically authorized by the Secretary of State); hire, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; equipment; purchase of necessary272 books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, and maps; stationery; official cards; entertainment; printing and binding; and such Reimbursement of other appropriations.other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State, including the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of the purposes herein specified, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $67,500, to remain available until June 30, 1939. Telecommunication Conference, Cairo, Egypt.*Post*, p. 770. Telecommunication Conference, Cairo, Egypt: For the expenses of participation by the United States in the Telecommunication Conference to be held at Cairo, Egypt, including personal services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; stenographic reporting and other services, by contract if deemed necessary without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); rent; traveling expenses (and by indirect routes if specifically authorized by the Secretary of State); hire, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; equipment; purchase of necessary books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, and maps; stationery; official cards; entertainment; printing and binding; and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State, Reimbursement of other appropriations.including the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of the purposes herein specified, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $45,000, to be immediately available. Aviation Conference, Lima, Peru.Balance continued available.[49 Stat. 1632](/us/stat/49/1632). Aviation Conference, Lima, Peru: The unexpended balance of the appropriation “Aviation Conference. Lima, Peru, 1936 and 1937”, contained in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936, approved June 22, 1936, is continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1938. Delaware Valley Tercentenary Commission. United States Delaware Valley Tercentenary Commission: For the expenses of the United States Delaware Valley Tercentary 11So in original. Commission, appointed to cooperate with representatives of the States of Delaware and Pennsylvania in the appropriate observance of the three-hundredth anniversary of the first permanent settlement of Swedish colonists in Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, as [49 Stat. 1486](/us/stat/49/1486).authorized by Public Resolution Numbered 102, approved June 5, 1936, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; stenographic reporting and other services, by contract if deemed necessary without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); rent; actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses; hire, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; equipment; purchase of necessary books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, and maps; stationery; official cards; entertainment; printing and binding; badges; and other necessary expenses; to be expended by the Commission, $10,000. Relief of designated officers, etc.Gustava Hanna. For the relief of certain officers and employees of the Foreign Service: For payment to Gustava Hanna, widow of Matthew E. Hanna, American Minister to Nicaragua, the sum of $19,745.33, of which the sum of $19,592.25 represents the value of reasonable and necessary personal property lost as a result of the earthquake at Managua, Nicaragua, March 31, 1931, and the sum of $153.08 represents the amount of money and vouchers destroyed when the contents Willard L. Beaulac.of the safe in the legation were burned; to Willard L. Beaulac, secretary of the American Legation at Managua, Nicaragua, the sum of $821.92, such sum representing the value of reasonable and necessary personal property lost as a result of the earthquake at273 Managua, Nicaragua, March 31, 1931; and to Marion P. Hoover,Marion P. Hoover. clerk in the Legation at Managua, Nicaragua, the sum of $80, such sum representing the value of reasonable and necessary personal property lost as a result of the earthquake at Managua, Nicaragua, March 31, 1931, as authorized by Private Law Numbered 589,[49 Stat. 2308](/us/stat/49/2308). approved June 3, 1936; in all, $20,647.25. Section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5)Minor purchases.[R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/3709).[41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). shall not apply to any purchase by or service rendered for the Department of State when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $100 or when the purchase or service relates to the packing of personal and household effects of Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Service officers and clerks for foreign shipment. Unless expressly authorized, no portion of the sums appropriatedRental restriction. in title I of this Act shall be expended for rent or rental allowances in the District of Columbia or elsewhere in the United States. The President, in his discretion, may assign officers of the ArmyAssignments as inspectors, etc., of buildings abroad; traveling expenses. or Navy or officers or employees of the Treasury Department for duty as inspectors of buildings owned or occupied by the United States in foreign countries, or as inspectors or supervisors of buildings under construction or repair by or for the United States in foreign countries, under the jurisdiction of the Department of State, or for duty as couriers of the Department of State, and when so assigned they may receive the same traveling expenses as are authorized for officers of the Foreign Service, payable from the applicable appropriations of the Department of State. This title may be cited as the “Department of State AppropriationShort title. Act, 1938”. TITLE II— DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICEDepartment of Justice. office of the attorney general Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia asSalaries, designated offices. follows: For the Office of the Attorney General, $52,380. For the Office of the Solicitor General, $54,740. For the Office of the Assistant Solicitor General, $43,300. For the Office of Assistant to the Attorney General, $43,100. For the Administrative Division, $541,670. For the Tax Division, $563,500. For the Criminal Division, $150,100. For the Claims Division, $191,340. For the Lands Division, $117,060. For the Office of Pardon Attorney, $22,470. For the Anti-Trust Division, $110,000. Total, Office of the Attorney General, $1,889,660: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Interchangeability of amounts. 10 per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditures in the various offices and divisions named, but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said offices or divisions and any interchange of appropriations hereunder shall be reported to Report in Budget.Congress in the annual Budget. Contingent expenses: For stationery, furniture and repairs, floorContingent expenses. coverings not exceeding $1,000, file holders and cases; miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing and telephones, and teletype rentals and tolls, postage, labor, typewriters and adding machines and the exchange thereof and repairs thereto, streetcar fares not exceeding $300, newspapers not exceeding $350, press clippings, and other necessaries ordered by the Attorney General; official transportation,Vehicles. including the repair, maintenance, and operation of six274 motor-driven passenger cars (one for the Attorney General, three for general use of the Department, two for the Federal Bureau of Investigation for investigative work), delivery trucks, and motorcycle, to be used only for official purposes; purchase of law books, books of reference, and periodicals, including the exchange thereof; and miscellaneous and emergency expenses authorized and approved by the Attorney General, to be expended at his discretion, $143,300: *Provisos*.Reimbursement for car expenses. *Provided*, That this appropriation may be reimbursed for expenditures in connection with cars herein authorized for the Bureau of Investigation from the appropriation for the expenses of said United States Code, Annotated; price limitation.Bureau when approved in writing by the Attorney General: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $2 per volume shall be paid for the current and future volumes of the United States Code, Statement of expenditures in Budget.Annotated: *Provided further*, That a statement of expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. Traveling expenses. Traveling expenses: For all necessary traveling expenses under the Department of Justice and the Judiciary, including traveling Items not included.expenses of probation officers and their clerks but not including traveling expenses otherwise payable under any appropriations for “United States Supreme Court”, “United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals”, “United States Customs Court”, “Court of Claims”, “United States Court for China”, “Federal Bureau of Investigation”, “Salaries and expenses of marshals”, “Fees of jurors and witnesses”, and “Penal and correctional institutions (except as otherwise hereinbefore provided)”, $800,000. Printing and binding. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Department of Justice and the Courts of the United States, $275,000. Federal Bureau of InvestigationFederal Bureau of Investigation. salaries and expenses Detection and prosecution of crimes.Protection of the President.Identification records. Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States; for the protection of the person of the President of the United States; the acquisition, collection, classification, and preservation of identification and other records and their exchange with the duly authorized officials of the Investigations.Federal Government, of States, cities, and other institutions; for Matters under control of Departments of Justice and State.Vehicles.such other investigations regarding official matters under the control of the Department of Justice and the Department of State as may be directed by the Attorney General; purchase and exchange not to exceed $50,000, and hire, maintenance, upkeep, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only on official business; purchase and exchange at not to exceed $7,000 each, and maintenance, upkeep, and operation, of not more than Miscellaneous.four armored automobiles: firearms and ammunition; such stationery, supplies, and equipment for use at the seat of government or elsewhere as the Attorney General may direct: not to exceed $10,000 for taxicab hire to be used exclusively for the purposes set forth in this paragraph and to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General; traveling expenses, including expenses, in an amount not to exceed $4,500, of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of such Bureau when authorized in writing by the Attorney Rewards tor apprehending fugitives.General; payment of rewards when specifically authorized by the Attorney General for information leading to the apprehension of Emergencies.fugitives from justice, including not to exceed $20,000 to meet unforeseen emergencies of a confidential character, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, who shall make a certificate of the amount of such expenditure as he may think it advisable not to specify, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient275 voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended; and including not to exceed $1,640,000 for personal services in the DistrictServices in the District.*Proviso*.Minor purchases.[R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/3709).[41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). of Columbia; $6,000,000: *Provided*, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the field when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $50. miscellaneous objects, department of justiceMiscellaneous. Conduct of customs cases: Assistant Attorney General, specialConduct of customs cases. attorneys and counselors at law in the conduct of customs cases, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General; necessary clerical assistance and other employees at the seat of government and elsewhere, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General, including experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General; expenses of procuring evidence, supplies, Supreme Court Reports and Digests, and Federal Reporter and Digests, and other miscellaneous and incidental expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General; in all, $130,000. Taxes and Penalties Division: For salaries and expenses in connectionTaxes and Penalties Division.Enforcing designated Acts, etc., under. with the enforcement of liability for internal-revenue taxes and penalties involving violation of the National Prohibition Act, as amended and supplemented, the determination of the remission or mitigation of forfeitures under the internal-revenue laws and of liability for internal-revenue taxes and penalties in connection with violations of the National Prohibition Act occurring prior to the repeal of the eighteenth amendment, the institution of suits upon any cause of action under the National Prohibition Act or under the internal-revenue laws involving a violation of the National Prohibition Act arising prior to, and not affected by the repeal of the eighteenth amendment, and the compromise of any such cause of action before or after suit is brought, personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and such other expenditures (not exceeding $50 for any one item) as may be necessary, $203,000. Examination of judicial offices: For the investigation of the officialExamination of judicial offices. acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks of the United States courts and Territorial courts, probation officers, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the official papers, records, and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney General at any time; and also, when requested by the presiding judge, the official acts, records, and accounts of referees and trustees of such courts; for copying, in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, reports of examiners at folio rates; in all, $46,000, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. bureau of prisonsBureau of Prisons. Salaries: For salaries in the District of Columbia and elsewhereSalaries and expenses. in connection with the supervision of the maintenance and care of United States prisoners, $236,700. The appropriation under title II for traveling expenses, shall beAttendance at meetings.*Ante*, p. 274. available in an amount not to exceed $3,500, for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Bureau of Prisons when incurred on the written authorization of the Attorney General. veterans’ insurance litigationVeterans’ insurance litigation. Salaries and expenses: For salaries and expenses incident to theSalaries and expenses. defense of suits against the United States under section 19, of the276 [43 Stat. 612, 1302](/us/stat/43/1302); [48 Stat. 302](/us/stat/48/302).[38 U. S. C. § 445](/us/usc/t38/s445).World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, approved June 7, 1924, as amended and supplemented, or the compromise of the same under the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1934, approved June 16, 1933, including office expenses, law books, supplies, equipment, stenographic reporting services by contract or otherwise, including notarial fees or like services and stenographic work in taking depositions at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, printing and binding, the employment of experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, and personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $530,000. JUDICIALJudicial. united states supreme courtUnited States Supreme Court.Salaries, Chief Justice and Associate Justices.Reporter and other officers and employees.*Post*, p. 766. Salaries: For the Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices, Reporter of the Court, and all other officers and employees whose compensation shall be fixed by the Court, except as otherwise provided by law, and who may be employed and assigned by the Chief Justice to any office or work of the Court, $422,700. Printing and binding. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Supreme Court of the United States, $21,000, to be expended as required without allotment by quarters, and to be executed by such printer as the Court may designate. Miscellaneous expenses. Miscellaneous expenses: For miscellaneous expenses of the Supreme Court of the United States, to be expended as the Chief Justice may approve, $26,000. Care of building and grounds. Structural and mechanical care of the building and grounds: For such expenditures as may be necessary to enable the Architect of [48 Stat. 668](/us/stat/48/668).the Capitol to carry out the duties imposed upon him by the Act approved May 7, 1934 (48 Stat. 668), including improvements, maintenance, repairs, equipment, supplies, materials, and appurtenances, and personal and other services, and for snow removal by hire of men and equipment or under contract without compliance [R. S. §§ 3709, 3744](/us/rs/3709/3744).[41 U. S. C. §§ 5, 16](/us/usc/t41/s5/16).with sections 3709 and 3744 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, secs. 5 and 16), $60,000. salaries of judgesJudges. Salaries. Salaries of judges: For forty-three circuit judges; one hundred and sixty-three district judges (including two in the Territory of Hawaii, one in the Territory of Puerto Rico, four in the Territory Retired judges.[28 U. S. C. § 375](/us/usc/t28/s375).[46 Stat. 737](/us/stat/46/737).[19 U. S. C. § 1518](/us/usc/t19/s1518).*Proviso*.Availability.of Alaska, and one in the Virgin Islands); and judges retired under section 260 of the Judicial Code, as amended, and section 518 of the Tariff Act of 1930; in all, $2,410,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for the salaries of all United States justices and circuit and district judges lawfully entitled thereto, whether active or retired. court of customs and patent appealsCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals. Salaries. Salaries: Presiding judge and four associate judges and all other officers and employees of the court, $101,120. Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses: For books and periodicals, including their exchange; stationery, supplies, traveling expenses; drugs, chemicals, cleansers, furniture; and for such other miscellaneous expenses as may be approved by the presiding judge, $3,000. Printing and binding. Printing and binding: For printing and binding, $6,250. united states customs courtCustoms Court. Salaries. Salaries: Presiding judge and eight judges; and all other officers and employees of the court, $229,900. 277 Contingent expenses: For books and periodicals, including theirContingent expenses. exchange; stationery, supplies, traveling expenses; and for such other miscellaneous expenses as may be approved by the presiding judge, $14,500. Printing and binding: For printing and binding, $1,000.Printing and binding. court of claimsCourt of Claims. Salaries: Chief justice and four judges; chief clerk at not exceedingSalaries. $6,500; auditor at not exceeding $5,000; and all other officers and employees of the court, $122,160. Printing and binding: For printing and binding, $25,500.Printing and binding.Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses: For stationery, court library, repairs, fuel, electric light, electric elevator, and other miscellaneous expenses, $6,500. Salaries and expenses of commissioners: For salaries of fiveCommissioners, salaries and expenses. regular commissioners and one temporary commissioner at $7,500 each, and for traveling expenses, compensation of stenographers authorized by the court, and for stenographic and other fees and charges necessary in the taking of testimony and in the performance of the duties as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act amending[46 Stat. 799](/us/stat/46/799).[28 U. S. C. §§ 269, 270](/us/usc/t28/s269/270). section 2 and repealing section 3 of the Act approved February 24, 1925 (U. S. C., title 28, secs. 269, 270), entitled ‘An Act to authorize the appointment of commissioners by the Court of Claims and to prescribe their powers and compensation’, and for other purposes”, approved June 23, 1930 (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 270), $65,500. Repairs, furnishings, and so forth: For necessary repairs, furnishings,Repairs, etc., to buildings. and improvements to the Court of Claims buildings, to be expended under the supervision of the Architect of the Capitol, $6,000. territorial courtsTerritorial Courts. Hawaii: For salaries of the chief justice and two associate justices,Hawaii. and for judges of the circuit courts, $88,500. district court, panama canal zone Salaries, District Court, Panama Canal Zone: For salaries of theDistrict Court, Panama Canal Zone. officials and employees of the District Court of the United States for the Panama Canal Zone, $47,000. united states court for chinaUnited States Court for China.Salaries and expenses. United States Court for China: For salaries of the judge, district attorney, and other officers and employees of the United States Court for China; allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C.,[46 Stat. 818](/us/stat/46/818).[5 U. S. C. § 118a](/us/usc/t5/s118a). title 5, sec. 118a), not to exceed $1,700 for any one person; court expenses, including reference and law books, printing and binding, ice and drinking water for office purposes, traveling expenses of officers and employees of the court, and, under such regulations as the Attorney General may prescribe, of their families and effects, in going to and returning from their posts; preparation and transportation of remains of officers and employees who may die abroadBringing home remains of officers, etc., dying abroad. or in transit while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in the United States, or to a place not more distant for interment and for the ordinary expenses of such interment; the expense of maintaining in China American convicts and persons declared insane by the court, rent of quarters for prisoners, ice and drinking water for prison purposes, including wages of prison keepers, and the expense of keeping, feeding, and transporting prisoners and persons declared insane by the court, $54,000. 278 marshals, and other expenses of united states courtsUnited States Courts. Marshals.Salaries and expenses.Services in Alaska. Salaries and expenses of marshals, and so forth: For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, including services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, services in Alaska in collecting evidence for the United States when so specifically directed by the Attorney General, traveling expenses, purchase, when authorized by the Attorney General, of ten motor-propelled passenger-carrying vans at not to exceed $2,000 each, and maintenance, alteration, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles used in connection with the transaction of the official business of the United States marshals, $3,560,000. District attorneys.Salaries and expenses. Salaries and expenses of district attorneys, and so forth: For salaries and expenses of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, clerks, and other employees, including the office expenses of United States district attorneys in Alaska, and for salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the office of the United States district attorney, $2,918,500. Special attorneys, etc.Salaries and expenses.Foreign counsel. Salaries and expenses of special attorneys, and so forth: For compensation of special attorneys and assistants to the Attorney General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, and for payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney General in special cases, $927,000, no part of which, except for payment of foreign counsel, shall be used to pay the compensation of any persons except attorneys duly licensed and authorized to practice under the laws of any State, Territory, or the *Provisos*.Compensation limitation.District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the amount paid as compensation out of the funds herein appropriated to any person employed hereunder shall not exceed the rate of $10,000 per annum: Reports to Congress. *Provided further*, That reports be submitted to the Congress on the 1st day of July and January showing the names of the persons employed hereunder, the annual rate of compensation or amount of any fee paid to each together with a description of their duties. Clerks of courts.Salaries and expenses. Salaries and expenses, clerks of courts: For salaries of clerks of United States circuit courts of appeals and United States district courts, their deputies, and other assistants, and expenses of conducting their respective offices, $2,170,000. Commissioners, etc., fees.[R. S. § 1014](/us/rs/1014).[18 U. S. C. § 591](/us/usc/t18/s591). Fees of commissioners: For fees of the United States commissioners and other committing magistrates acting under section 1014, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 18, sec. 591), $320,000. Conciliation commissioners, fees, etc.[30 Stat. 544](/us/stat/30/544); [47 Stat. 1467](/us/stat/47/1467).[11 U. S. C. §§ 201–205](/us/usc/t11/s201–205). Conciliation commissioners, United States courts: For fees of conciliation commissioners, as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States’, approved July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto”, approved *Proviso*.Payment restriction.March 3, 1933, as amended, $105,000: *Provided*, That none of the money appropriated herein shall be used to pay the statutory fee of any conciliation commissioner until the case for which the fee is provided shall have been finally disposed of, and not more than one fee shall be paid in any one case. Jurors and witnesses.Fees, mileage, per diems, etc.[R. S. § 850](/us/rs/850).[28 U. S. C. § 604](/us/usc/t28/s604). Fees of jurors and witnesses: For mileage and per diems of jurors; for mileage and per diems of witnesses and for per diems in lieu of subsistence; and for payment of the expenses of witnesses, as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 604), including the expenses, mileage, and per diems of witnesses on behalf of the Government before the United States Customs Court, such payments to be made on the certification of the attorney for279 the United States and to be conclusive as provided by section 846,[R. S. § 846](/us/rs/846).[28 U. S. C. § 577](/us/usc/t28/s577).*Provisos*.Authorization, etc., by Attorney General. Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 577), $3,040,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $10,000 of this amount shall be available for such compensation and expenses of witnesses or informants as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, which approval shall be conclusive: *Provided further*, That no part of the sumAttendance fee, limitation. herein appropriated shall be used to pay any witness more than one attendance fee for any one calendar day. Salaries and expenses of bailiffs, and so forth: For bailiffs, notBailiffs.Salaries and expenses.Jury expenses. exceeding three bailiffs in each court, except in the southern district of New York and the northern district of Illinois; meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when ordered by the court, and meals and lodging forAlaska.[31 Stat. 362](/us/stat/31/362).[28 U. S. C. §§ 9, 557–570, 595, 596](/us/usc/t28/s9/557–570/595/596).Jury commissioners. jurors in Alaska, as provided by section 193, title II, of the Act of June 6, 1900 (U. S. C., title 28, secs. 9, 557–570, 595, 596), and compensation for jury commissioners, $5 per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, $262,000: *Provided*, That,*Provisos*.Per diems, limitation on payment. excepting in the case of bailiffs in charge of juries over Sundays and holidays, no per diem shall be paid to any bailiff unless the court is actually in session and the judge present and presiding or present in chambers: *Provided further*, That none of this appropriation shallUse limited. be used for the pay of bailiffs when deputy marshals or marshals are available for the duties ordinarily executed by bailiffs, the fact of unavailibility to be determined by the certificate of the marshal. Miscellaneous expenses: For such miscellaneous expenses as mayMiscellaneous expenses. be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, for the United States courts and their officers, including experts, and notarial fees or like services and stenographic work in taking depositions, at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, so much as may be necessary in the discretion ofAlaska. the Attorney General for such expenses in the District of Alaska, the Court or Claims, and in courts other than Federal courts; patent applications and contested proceedings involving inventions; rentRent, supplies, etc. of rooms for United States courts and judicial officers; supplies, including the exchange of typewriting and adding machines, for the United States courts and judicial officers, including firearms and ammunition therefor; purchase of law books, including the exchangeLaw books for judicial officers. thereof, for United States judges, district attorneys, and other judicial officers, including the libraries of the ten United States circuit courts of appeals, and the Federal Reporter and continuationsFederal Reporter. thereto as issued, $1,086,000: *Provided*, That such books shall in all*Provisos*.Transmittal to successors. cases be transmitted to their successors in office; all books purchased hereunder to be marked plainly, “The Property of the United States”: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $2 per volume shallUnited States Code, Annotated, price limitation.Stenographer or law clerk, maximum salary.Present stenographers not affected. be paid for the current and future volumes of the United States Code, Annotated: *Provided further*, That the maximum salary paid to any stenographer or law clerk to any circuit or district judge shall not exceed $2,500 per annum: *Provided further*, That this limitation shall not operate to reduce the compensation of any stenographer now employed nor shall the salary of any stenographer drawing more than $2,500 per annum hereafter be increased. No part of the funds appropriated by title II of this Act forRestriction on use of designated funds. salaries of judges, the Attorney General, Assistant Attorneys General, Solicitor General, district attorneys, marshals, and clerks of court shall be used for any other purpose whatsoever, but such salaries shall be allotted out of appropriations herein made for such salaries and retained by the Department and paid to such officials severally, as and when such salaries fall due and without delay. 280 penal and correctional institutionsPenal and correctional institutions. Services, supplies, etc. For all services, including personal services compensated upon fee basis, supplies, materials, and equipment in connection with or incident to the subsistence and care of inmates and maintenance and upkeep of Federal penal and correctional institutions, including farm and other operations not otherwise specifically provided for in the discretion of the Attorney General; gratuities for inmates at release, provided such gratuities shall be furnished to inmates sentenced for terms of imprisonment of not less than six months, and transportation to the place of conviction or bona-fide residence at the time of conviction or to such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; expenses of interment or transporting remains of deceased inmates to their homes in the United States; maintenance and repair of passenger-carrying vehicles; traveling expenses of institution officials and employees when traveling on official duty, including expenses, in an amount not to exceed $750 for each institution of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the several institutions when authorized in writing by the Attorney General, and including expenses incurred in pursuing and identifying escaped inmates; traveling expenses of members of advisory boards authorized by law incurred in the discharge of their official duties; packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of household effects, not exceeding in any one case five thousand pounds, of employees when transferred from one official station to another for permanent duty and uniforms for the guard force, when specifically authorized by the Attorney General; rewards for the capture of escaped inmates; newspapers, books, and periodicals; firearms and ammunition; tobacco for inmates; and the purchase and exchange of farm products and livestock, when *Provisos*.Prison commissaries.authorized by the Attorney General: *Provided*, That any part of the appropriations under this heading used for payment of salaries of personnel employed in the operation of prison commissaries shall be reimbursed from commissary earnings, and such reimbursement shall be in addition to the amounts appropriated herein. medical and hospital serviceMedical and hospital service. Care, maintenance. etc. Medical and hospital service: For medical relief for, and incident to the care and maintenance of, inmates of penal and correctional institutions, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, medical, surgical, and hospital supplies, materials, equipment, and appliances, together with appliances necessary for patients, $563,040, which amount, in the discretion of the Attorney General, may be transferred to the Public Health Service for direct expenditure under the laws, appropriations, and regulations governing the Public Health Service. Leavenworth, Kans. United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: For the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, including not to exceed $424,120 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $953,370. United States penitentiary annex, Leavenworth, Kansas: For the United States penitentiary annex at Leavenworth, Kansas, including not to exceed $302,460 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $601,540. Atlanta, Ga. United States pententiary1 1 1So in original., Atlanta, Georgia: For the United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, including not to exceed $403,360 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $932,610. 281 United States penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington: For theMcNeil Island, Wash. United States penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington, including not to exceed $258,480 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $513,980. Construction and repair: For construction and repair of buildings,Construction, etc. including
(1)extension of existing facilities, $27,000, and
(2)development of island area, $110,000, including the purchase and installation of machinery and equipment and all expenses incident thereto, $137,000, to be available immediately and to remain available until expended and to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to inmates of the institution: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Cost limitation. the ultimate cost of the project for development of the island area shall not exceed $800,000. United States Northeastern Penitentiary: For the United StatesNortheastern Penitentiary. penitentiary in the Northeast, including not to exceed $391,510 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, and including the purchase of one passenger-carrying automobile, $734,390. United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California: For theAlcatraz Island, Calif. United States Penitentiary at Alcatraz Island, California, including not to exceed $161,960 for salaries and wages, of all officers and employees, $305,600. Federal Industrial Institution for Women, Alderson, West Virginia:Federal Industrial Institution for Women, Alderson, W. Va. For the Federal Industrial Institution for Women at Alderson, West Virginia, including not to exceed $139,480 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $273,900. United States Industrial Reformatory, Chillicothe, Ohio: ForIndustrial Reformatory, Chillicothe, Ohio. the United States Industrial Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio, including not to exceed $352,560 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $761,360. United States Southwestern Reformatory: For the United StatesSouthwestern Reformatory. Southwestern Reformatory, including not to exceed $284,090 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $514,040. United States Hospital for Defective Delinquents: For the UnitedHospital for Defective Delinquents. States Hospital for Defective Delinquents, including not to exceed $153,920 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, and including the purchase of one passenger-carrying automobile, $341,000. Federal jails: For maintenance and operation of Federal jails,Federal jails. including not to exceed $455,000 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $1,023,465. Prison camps: For the construction and repair of buildings atPrison camps, construction, etc. prison camps, the purchase and installation of machinery and equipment, and all necessary expenses incident thereto, and for the maintenanceMaintenance. of United States prisoners at prison camps, including the purchase of four passenger-carrying automobiles and the maintenance, alteration, repair, and operation of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying bus and four passenger-carrying automobiles, to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to prisoners, $376,440: *Provided*, That reimbursements from this appropriation*Proviso*.Reimbursements. made to the War or other departments for supplies or subsistence shall be at the net contract or invoice price notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act. Federal Reformatory Camp, Petersburg, Virginia: For the FederalFederal Reformatory Camp, Petersburg, Va. Reformatory Camp at Petersburg, Virginia, including not to exceed $133,640 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $274,000. Not to exceed 10 per centum of any of the foregoing appropriationsTransfer of appropriations authorized. under the general heading “Penal and Correctional Institutions” (except those for “Medical and hospital services”, “Buildings282 and equipment”, and “Construction and repair, United States penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington”) may, be transferred, with the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, to any appropriation or appropriations from which transfers are authorized to Restriction.be made by this paragraph, but no appropriation shall be increased by more than 10 per centum thereby and no transfer shall be effected for the payment of personnel in any such institution. Buildings and equipment, public works.Prison officers’ dwellings. Buildings and equipment, public works: For extensions to existing facilities and not to exceed $50,000 for construction of dwellings for prison officers at existing institutions, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General by contract or purchase of material and hire of labor and services and utilization of labor of United States prisoners as the Attorney General may direct, $280,000. Construction, designated jails. Buildings and equipment, public works: For completion of construction of the Federal jails at Los Angeles, California, Sandstone, Minnesota, and Tallahassee, Florida, $1,100,000 to be immediately available and to remain available until expended. National Training School for Boys, D. C. National Training School for Boys, Washington, District of Columbia: For the National Training School for Boys, Washington, District of Columbia, including expenses of a suitable attendant to accompany the remains of deceased inmates to their homes for burial and including not to exceed $114,000 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $238,000. Buildings and equipment. Buildings and equipment: For alterations of and repairs to buildings, including the purchase and installation of machinery and equipment, and all expenses incident thereto, to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to inmates of the institution, $21,540. Probation system, United States courts.[46 Stat. 503](/us/stat/46/503).[18 U. S. C. § 726](/us/usc/t18/s726). Probation system, United States courts: For salaries and expenses of probation officers, as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act of March 4, 1925, chapter 521, and for other purposes”, approved June 6, 1930 (U, S. C., title 18, sec. 726), $584,500: *Provisos*.Salary restriction. *Provided*, That no part of the appropriation herein made shall be used to pay any probation officer a salary in excess of $2,800 per Conditions imposed.annum: *Provided further*, That no part of any appropriation in this Act shall be used to defray the salary or expenses of any probation officer who does not comply with the official orders, regulations, and probation standards promulgated by the Attorney General. Support of prisoners. Support of prisoners: For support of United States prisoners, in non-Federal institutions and in the Territory of Alaska, including necessary clothing and medical aid, discharge gratuities provided by law and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, or such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; and including rent, repair, alteration, and maintenance of buildings and the [46 Stat. 326](/us/stat/46/326).[18 U. S. C. §§ 753c, 753d](/us/usc/t18/s753c/753d).maintenance of prisoners therein, occupied under authority of sections 4 and 5 of the Act of May 14, 1930 (U. S. C., title 18, sec. 753c, 753d); support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, and who continue insane after expiration of sentence, who have no relatives or friends to whom they can be sent; shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their relatives or friends in the United States, and interment of deceased prisoners whose remains are unclaimed; expenses incurred in identifying, pursuing, and returning escaped prisoners and for rewards for their recapture; and for repairs, betterments, and improvements of United States jails, including sidewalks; $2,000,000. Jurors and witnesses.[47 Stat. 413](/us/stat/47/413).*Post*, p. 647. Section 323 of part II of the Legislative Appropriation Act, approved June 30, 1932, except so much thereof as suspends the per diem for expenses of subsistence for witnesses, is hereby continued283 in full force and effect during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938; and for the purpose of making such section applicable to such fiscal year the figures “1933” shall be read as “1938.” None of the money appropriated by this title shall be used to payPayments restricted. any witness, juror, or bailiff more than one per diem for any one day’s service even though he serves in more than one of such three capacities on the same day. This title may be cited as the “Department of Justice AppropriationShort title. Act, 1938.” TITLE III— DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCEDepartment of Commerce. office of the secretarySecretary’s office. Salaries: Secretary of Commerce, two Assistant Secretaries, andSalaries. other personal services in the District of Columbia, including the Chief Clerk and Superintendent, who shall be chief executive officer of the Department and who may be designated by the Secretary of Commerce to sign minor routine official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries of the Department, $352,000. Contingent expenses: For contingent and miscellaneous expensesContingent and miscellaneous expenses. of the offices and bureaus of the Department, except the Patent Office, including those for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are specifically made, including professional and scientific books, lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals, blank books, pamphlets, maps, newspapers (not exceeding $1,500); purchase of atlases or maps; stationery; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges; fuel, lighting, and heating; purchase and exchange of motortrucks and bicycles; purchase, including exchange, of twoVehicles, etc. motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for the general use of the Department; maintenance, repair, and operation of three motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (one for the Secretary of Commerce and two for the general use of the Department), and motortrucks and bicycles, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; postage to foreign countries; telegraph and telephone service; typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange; first-aid outfits for use in the buildings occupied by employees of this Department; and all other necessary miscellaneous items (not exceeding $50 for any one item) not included in the foregoing, $126,842, which sum shall constitute the appropriation for contingent expenses of the Department, except the Patent Office, and shall also be available for the purchase of necessary supplies and equipment for field services of bureaus and offices of the Department for which contingent and miscellaneous appropriations are specifically made in order to facilitate the purchase through the central purchasing office (Division of Purchases and Sales), as provided by law: *Provided*, That a statement*Proviso*.Report to Congress. of expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. Traveling expenses: For all necessary traveling expenses underTraveling expenses.*Post*, p. 762. the Department of Commerce, including all bureaus and divisions thereunder, and traveling expenses for the examinations authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to provide for retirement for disability[43 Stat. 1261](/us/stat/43/1261).[33 U. S. C. § 765](/us/usc/t33/s765). in the Lighthouse Service”, approved March 4, 1925 (U. S. C., title 33, sec. 765), but not including travel properly chargeable to the appropriation herein for “Transportation of families and effects of officers and employees and allowances for living quarters”, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, $959,000. 284 Printing and binding. Printing and binding: For ail printing and binding for the Department of Commerce, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, except the Patent Office, $500,000, of which $10,000 shall be *Proviso*.Detail of copy editors.immediately available: *Provided*, That an amount not to exceed $2,000 of this appropriation may be expended for salaries of persons detailed from the Government Printing Office for service as copy editors. bureau of air commerceBureau of Air Commerce. Departmental salaries. Departmental salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia, $628,000, of which $5,000 shall be immediately available. Air-navigation facilities.Establishment of aids, mail routes, etc. Establishment of air-navigation facilities: For the establishment of additional aids to air navigation, including the equipment of additional air-mail routes for day and night flying; the construction of additional necessary lighting, radio, and other signaling and communicating structures and apparatus; the alteration and modernization of existing aids to air navigation; for personal services in the field; purchase, including exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and aircraft for official use in field work; special clothing, wearing apparel, and suitable equipment for aviation purposes; and for the acquisition of the necessary sites by lease or grant, $3,037,800, of which $7,500 *Provisos*.Contracts authorized.shall be immediately available: *Provided*, That in addition to the amount herein appropriated, the Secretary of Commerce may, prior to July 1, 1938, enter into contracts for the purchase, construction, and installation of additional air navigation aids not in excess or $2,000,000 and, prior to July 1, 1939, $2,000,000 additional may be obligated under contracts for such purchase, construction and installation of additional air navigation aids: *Provided further*, Certificate of necessity.That the Secretary of Commerce before entering into any such contract shall personally certify that in his opinion it is necessary Report to Congress.in the public interest: *Provided further*, That a full report of all such certifications and of all expenditures under this item shall be made to Congress on or before July 1, 1938. Maintenance and operation. Maintenance of air-navigation facilities: For all necessary expenses of operation, maintenance, and upkeep of existing aids to air navigation, including purchase, exchange, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and aircraft; purchase of special clothing, wearing apparel, and suitable equipment for aviation purposes (including rubber boots, snowshoes, and skis); books of reference and periodicals; $5,698,700, of which $58,500 shall be immediately available. Aircraft in commerce.Services and expenses.[44 Stat. 568](/us/stat/44/568).[49 U. S. C. §§ 171–184](/us/usc/t49/s171–184). Aircraft in commerce: To carry out the provisions of the Act approved May 20, 1926, entitled “An Act to encourage and regulate the use of aircraft in commerce, and for other purposes”, as amended by the Act approved February 28, 1929, and the Acts approved June 19 and 20, 1934 (U. S. C., title 49, secs. 171–184), including personal services in the field; control of air traffic on civil airways at air terminals, including necessary equipment therefor; rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; contract stenographic reporting services; fees and mileage of witnesses; purchase of furniture and equipment; stationery and supplies, including medical supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories, and repairs; purchase, including exchange (not to exceed $5,000), maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying Purchase, etc., of airplanes, accessories, etc.vehicles for official use in field work; replacement, by purchase or exchange, of aircraft (not to exceed $200,000); purchase of aircraft motors, aircraft and motor accessories, and spare parts; maintenance, operation, and repair of aircraft and aircraft motors;285 purchase of special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment for aviation purposes; purchase of books of reference and periodicals; newspapers, reports, documents, plans, specifications, maps, manuscripts, and other publications; and all other necessary expenses (not exceeding $50 for any one item) not included in the foregoing; in all, $1,582,000, of which $11,000 shall be immediately available: *Provided*, That a statement of expenditures from this*Proviso*.Report to Congress. appropriation shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. Safety and planning: Further to carry out the provisions of theSafety and planning.[44 Stat. 568](/us/stat/44/568); [48 Stat. 1113](/us/stat/48/1113).[49 U. S. C. §§ 171–184](/us/usc/t49/s171–184). Act approved May 20, 1926, entitled “An Act to encourage and regulate the use of aircraft in commerce, and for other purposes”, as amended by the Act approved February 28, 1929, and the Acts approved June 19 and June 20, 1934, through safety research relative to aviation equipment, personnel, and operation methods; including not to exceed $75,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia and not to exceed $80,000 for personal services in the field; including not to exceed $1,000 for the purchase of books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, and manuscripts, $292,000. The appropriation under title III herein for traveling expensesAttendance at meetings. shall be available in an amount not to exceed $2,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the promotion of civil aeronautics, and also expenses of illustrating the work of the Bureau of Air Commerce by showing of maps, charts, and graphs at such meetings when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce and shall also be available for payments, at a rate of not to exceed 4 cents per mile, to maintenance and operating personnel, Bureau of Air Commerce, as reimbursement to such personnel of the expenses of the necessary travel in their personally owned automobiles in connection with the maintenance and operation of remotely controlled air-navigation facilities, all of which may be considered as being within the limits of the official post of duty of such personnel. Appropriations herein made for maintenance ofTransporting household effects. air-navigation facilities and aircraft in commerce shall be available in a total amount of not to exceed $15,000 for expenses of packing, crating, and transporting household effects of employees, in any one case not to exceed six thousand pounds, when transferred from one official station to another for permanent duty: *Provided*, That section*Provisos*.Minor parchases.[R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/3709).[41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for the Bureau of Air Commerce when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $100: *Provided further*, That noUse restricted. part of the appropriations made herein for the Bureau of Air Commerce shall be used for any purpose not authorized by the Air Commerce Act of 1926 as amended. bureau of foreign and domestic commerceBureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.Salaries and expenses, Washington Commerce Service. Salaries and expenses, Washington Commerce Service: For the salary of the Director and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including the functions set forth under the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce, Appropriation Act for 1937, approved May 15, 1936, and for every necessary[49 Stat. 1333](/us/stat/49/1333). expense connected with collecting and compiling lists of foreign buyers and reports thereon; administration of the China Trade ActChina Trade Act, administration. in the District of Columbia; collecting and compiling information regarding the restrictions and regulations of trade imposed by foreign countries; establishment, operation, and maintenance of286 foreign trade zones in ports of entry of the United States, including contract stenographic reporting services and fees for mileage of witnesses; purchases for use in Washington or the field offices of furniture, equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding and computing, mimeographing, multigraphing, photostat, and other duplicating machines and devices, including their exchange and repair, telegraph and telephone service, accessories and repairs, books of reference, newspapers, periodicals, reports, documents, plans and specifications, freight, express, and drayage, streetcar fares, $543,800: *Proviso*.Report to Congress. *Provided*, That a statement of expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. Domestic commerce and raw-materials investigations. Domestic commerce and raw-materials investigations: For personal services of officers and employees to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to collect and compile information regarding the disposition and handling of raw materials and manufactures within the United States; and to investigate the conditions of production and marketing of foreign raw materials essential for American industries, $330,000. District and cooperative office service. District and cooperative office service: For all expenses necessary to operate and maintain district and cooperative offices, including personal services, rent outside of the District of Columbia, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories, and repairs, purchase of maps, books of reference, and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, newspapers, both foreign and domestic (not exceeding $300), and all other publications necessary for the promotion of the commercial interests of the United States, and all other necessary incidental expenses (not exceeding $50 in *Proviso*.Report to Congress.any one case) not included in the foregoing, $323,000: *Provided*, That a statement of expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. Customs statistics.Expenses of collecting, etc. Customs statistics: For all expenses necessary for the operation of the section of customs statistics transferred to the Department of Commerce from the Treasury Department by the Act approved [42 Stat. 1109](/us/stat/42/1109).[15 U. S. C. § 194](/us/usc/t15/s194).January 5, 1923 (U. S. C., title 15, sec. 194) and expenses connected with the monthly publication of statistics showing the United States exports and imports by customs districts and destinations, including personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $120,000) and elsewhere; rent of or purchase of tabulating, punching, sorting, and other mechanical labor-saving machinery or devices, including adding, typewriting, billing, computing, mimeographic, multigraphing, photostat, and other duplicating machines and devices, including their exchange and repair; telegraph and telephone service; freight, express, drayage; tabulating cards, stationery, and miscellaneous office supplies; books of reference and periodicals; furniture and equipment; ice, water, heat, light, and power; streetcar fare; and all other necessary incidental expenses (not exceeding $50 in any one case) not included in the foregoing; $403,000: *Proviso*.Report to Congress.Sum immediately available. *Provided*, That a statement of expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget, of which sum not to exceed $20,000 shall be available immediately. Export industries.Investigations and reports. Export industries: To enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to investigate and report on domestic as well as foreign problems relating to the production, distribution, and marketing, insofar as they relate to the important export industries of the United States, including personal services, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding and computing machines, accessories and repairs, books of reference and periodicals,287 reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, and all other publications, rent outside of the District of Columbia, ice and drinking water for office purposes, and all other necessary incidental expenses (not exceeding $50 in any one case) connected therewith, $520,000: *Provided*, That a statement of expenditures from this*Proviso*.Report to Congress. appropriation shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. Salaries and expenses, Foreign Commerce Service: For the promotionForeign Commerce Service. and development of the foreign commerce of the United States and for carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March 3,[44 Stat. 1394](/us/stat/44/1394).[15 U. S. C. §§ 197–197f, 198](/us/usc/t15/s197–197f/198). 1927, as amended (U. S. C., title 15, secs. 197–197f, 198), to establish in the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce, a Foreign Commerce Service of the United States, includingPersonal services. personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, the compensation of a clerk or clerks for each commercial attaché at a rate not to exceed $3,000 per annum for each person so employed, and to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “China TradeChina Trade Act, enforcement.[15 U. S. C. §§ 141–162](/us/usc/t15/s141–162). Act, 1922”, including rent outside of the District of Columbia, the purchase of necessary furniture and equipment, loss by exchange, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, duplicating, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, law books, books of reference, and periodicals, uniforms, maps, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, newspapers (not exceeding $2,500), ice and drinking water for office purposes, and for every necessary incidental expense (not exceeding $50 in any one case) not included in the above. The purchase of supplies and equipment or the procurementSupplies, etc. of services in foreign countries may be made in the open market without compliance with section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the[R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/3709).[41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). United States (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) in the manner common among businessmen when the aggregate amount of the purchase or the service does not exceed $100 in any instance; Foreign Commerce Service officers are authorized to enter into leases for office quarters, payment in advance for rent, telephone, or other charges required by the customs of the country is hereby authorized; and for all other necessary expenses (not exceeding $50 in any one case) not included in the foregoing, $778,000: *Provided*, That a statement of expenditures*Proviso*.Report to Congress. from this appropriation shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. Transportation of families and effects of officers and employeesTransportation of families and effects of officers and employees. and allowances for living quarters: To pay the traveling expenses and expenses of transportation, under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce may prescribe, of families and effects of officers and employees of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce in going and returning from their posts, or when traveling under the order of the Secretary of Commerce, and also for defraying theBringing home remains of officers, etc., dying abroad. expenses of preparing and transporting the remains of officers and employees of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce who may die abroad or in transit, while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country, or to a place not more distant, for interment, and for the ordinary expenses of such interment; to enable the Secretary of Commerce, under such regulationsAllowances for living quarters.[44 Stat. 1395](/us/stat/44/1395); [46 Stat. 163](/us/stat/46/163).[15 U. S. C. § 197b(f)](/us/usc/t15/s197bf). as he may prescribe, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act to establish in the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Department of Commerce, a Foreign Commerce Service of the United States, and for other purposes’, approved March 3, 1927”, approved April 12, 1930 (U. S. C., title 15, sec. 197F), to furnish the officers in the Foreign Commerce Service of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce stationed in a foreign country, without cost to them and288 within the limits of this appropriation, allowances for living [R. S. § 1765](/us/rs/1765).[5 U. S. C. § 70](/us/usc/t5/s70).*Proviso*.Maximum allowance.Attendance at meetings, etc.quarters, heat, and light, notwithstanding the provisions of section 1765 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 70), $143,800: *Provided*, That the maximum allowance to any officer shall not exceed $1,700. The appropriation herein under title III for traveling expenses shall be available in an amount not to exceed $5,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the promotion of foreign and domestic commerce, or either, and also expenses of illustrating the work of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce by showing of maps, charts, and graphs at such meetings, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce. bureau of the censusCensus Bureau. Services and expenses. For expenses for securing information for and compiling the census reports provided for by law, including personal services in the District of Columbia and. elsewhere; compensation and expenses of enumerators, special agents, supervisors, supervisor’s clerks, and interpreters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; the cost of transcribing State, municipal, and other records; temporary rental Monographs.of quarters outside the District of Columbia; not to exceed $2,500 for the employment by contract of personal services for the Tabulating machines.Services in the District.preparation of monographs on census subjects; not to exceed $54,000 for constructing tabulating machines and repairs to such machinery and other mechanical appliances, including technical, mechanical, and other personal services in connection therewith in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and the purchase of necessary machinery and supplies, $1,990,000 of which amount not to exceed $1,530,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, Temporary employees.[5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674](/us/usc/t5/s661–674).including not to exceed $120,000 for temporary employees who may be appointed by the Director of the Census under civil-service rules, at per-diem rates to be fixed by him without regard to the provisions of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, for the purpose of assisting in periodical inquiries. Attendance at meetings, etc. The appropriation under title III herein for traveling expenses shall be available for the Census Bureau, in an amount not to exceed $500, for attendance at meetings concerned with the collection of statistics when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce. Social Security Act, salaries and expenses.[42 U. S. C., Supp. II, ch. 7](/us/usc/t42/s7). Salaries and expenses, Social Security Act: For salaries and necessary expenses for searching census records and supplying information incident to carrying out the provisions of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935 (U. S. C., Supp. I, title 42, ch. 7), including personal services in the District of Columbia; binding records; supplies; services; repair to, and replacement parts for, office and mechanical equipment for the reproduction of census records, *Proviso*.Furnishing evidence for establishing age, etc.$25,000: *Provided*, That the procedure hereunder for the furnishing from census records of evidence for the establishment of age of individuals shall be pursuant to regulations approved jointly by the Secretary of Commerce and the Social Security Board. Preparatory expenses, sixteenth census. Expenses of the sixteenth census: For expenses preparatory to the taking of the sixteenth decennial census, including temporary employees who may be appointed by the Director of the Census under the civil-service rules for any period not to exceed June 30, 1942, at per-diem rates to be fixed by the Director of the Census without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; materials, supplies, equipment, services, and tabulation carets; $50,000, of which amount not to exceed $35,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. 289 bureau of marine inspection and navigationBureau of Marie Inspection and Navigation.Departmental salaries. Departmental salaries: For the Director and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $297,540. Salaries and general expenses: For salaries of shipping commissioners,Salaries and general expenses. inspectors, and other personal services; to enable the Secretary of Commerce to provide and operate such motor boats and employ such persons (including temporary employees) as may be necessary for the enforcement, under his direction, of laws relating to navigation and inspection of vessels, boarding of vessels, counting of passengers on excursion boats to prevent overcrowding, and to secure uniformity in the admeasurement of vessels; fees to witnesses; materials, supplies, equipment, and services, including rent and janitor service; purchase, exchange, and repair of instruments; plans and specifications; insignia, braid, and chin straps; coats, caps, and aprons for stewards’ departments on vessels; and other incidental expenses of field offices, including contract stenographic reporting services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; $2,114,460, of“Waleda II”, boat, purchase. which not to exceed $50,000 may be used for the purchase by the Bureau of the boat “Waleda II”: *Provided*, That $90,000 of the*Proviso*.Local inspectors, overtime pay. amount herein appropriated shall be available only for the payment of extra compensation for overtime services of local inspectors of steam vessels and their assistants, and United States shipping commissioners and their deputies and assistants, for which the United[49 Stat. 1385](/us/stat/49/1385).[46 U. S. C., Supp. II, § 382b](/us/usc/t46/s382b). States receives reimbursement in accordance with the provisions of section 6 of the Act of May 27, 1936 (49 Stat., p. 1380). national bureau of standardsBureau of Standards.Salaries and expenses.[31 Stat. 1449](/us/stat/31/1449).[5 U. S. C. §§ 591, 597](/us/usc/t5/s591/597); [15 U. S. C. §§ 271–278](/us/usc/t15/s271–278). Salaries and expenses: For carrying out the provisions of the Act establishing the National Bureau of Standards, approved March 3, 1901 (U. S. C., title 5, secs. 591, 597; title 15, secs. 271–278), and of Acts supplementary thereto affecting the functions of the Bureau, and specifically including the functions as set forth under the Bureau of Standards in the “Department of Commerce Appropriation Act,[48 Stat. 552](/us/stat/48/552). 1935”, approved April 7, 1934, and for all necessary expenses, purchases, and personnel connected with administration and operation, testing, inspection and technical information service, research and development, and standards for commerce, including rental of laboratories in the field, communication service, transportation service; street-car fares not exceeding $100, expenses of the visiting committee,Attendance at meeting of International Committee of Weights and Measures.Detailed Public Health Service officers. attendance of American member at the meeting of the International Committee of Weights and Measures; compensation and expenses of medical officers of the Public Health Service detailed to the National Bureau of Standards for the purpose of maintaining a first-aid station and making clinical observations; compiling and disseminating scientific and technical data; demonstrating the results of the Bureau’s work by exhibits or otherwise as may be deemed most effective; purchases of supplies, materials, stationery, electric power,Supplies, etc. fuel for heat, light, and power, and accessories of all kinds needed in the work of the Bureau, including supplies for office, laboratory, shop, and plant, and cleaning and toilet supplies, gloves, goggles, rubber boots, and aprons; contingencies of all kinds; supplies for operation, maintenance, and repair of motortrucks and a passenger automobile for official use, including their exchange; purchases of equipment ofEquipment. all kinds, including its repair and exchange, including apparatus, machines, and tools, furniture, typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, books, periodicals, and reference books, including their exchange when not needed for permanent use; Salaries.translation290 of technical articles when required; salary of the director and other personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended. Operation, etc. Operation and administration: For the general operation and administration of the Bureau; improvement and care of the grounds; plant equipment; necessary repairs and alterations to buildings; $272,000. Testing, inspection, and information service. Testing, inspection, and information service: For calibrating and certifying measuring instruments, apparatus, and standards in terms of the national standards; the preparation and distribution of standard materials; the broadcasting of radio signals of standard frequency; the testing of equipment, materials, and supplies in connection with Government purchases; the improvement of methods of testing; advisory services to governmental agencies on scientific and technical matters; and supplying available information to the public, upon request, in the field of physics, chemistry, and engineering, $837,000. Research and development. Research and development: For the maintenance and development of national standards of measurement; the development of unproved methods of measurement; the determination of physical constants and the properties of materials; the investigation of mechanisms and structures, including their economy, efficiency, and safety; the study of fluid resistance and the flow of fluids and heat; the investigation of radiation, radioactive substances, and X-rays; the study of conditions affecting radio transmission; the development of methods of chemical analysis and synthesis, and the investigation of the properties of rare substances; investigations relating to the utilization of materials, including lubricants and liquid fuels; the study of new processes and methods of fabrication; and the solutions of problems arising in connection with standards, $701,000. Standards for commerce. Standards for commerce: For cooperation with Government purchasing agencies, industries, and national organizations in developing specifications and facilitating their use; for encouraging the application of the latest developments in the utilization and standardization of building materials; for the development of engineering and safety codes, simplified-practice recommendations, and commercial standards of quality and performance, $110,000. Investigation of building materials. Investigation of building materials: For personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere and all other necessary expenses for the first year of a two-year study of the properties and suitability of building materials, with particular reference to their use in low-cost housing, including the construction of such experimental structures as may be necessary for this purpose; and the publication and *Proviso*.Work restriction.dissemination of the results thereof, $198: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be used to duplicate any work now being performed by the Forest Products Laboratory of the Department of Agriculture. Cooperative work with departments, etc., on scientific investigations. During the fiscal year 1938 the head of any department or independent establishment of the Government having funds available for scientific investigations and requiring cooperative work by the National Bureau of Standards on scientific investigations within the scope of the functions of that Bureau, and which the National Bureau of Standards is unable to perform within the limits of its Transfer of funds.appropriations, may, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce, transfer to the National Bureau of Standards such sums as may be necessary to carry on such investigations. The Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer on the books of the Treasury Department any sums which may be authorized hereunder, and such amounts shall be placed to the credit of the National Bureau of Standards for performance of291 work for the department or establishment from which the transfer is made, including, where necessary, compensation for personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field. The appropriation under title III herein for traveling expensesAttendance at meetings.*Ante*, p. 283. shall be available for the Bureau of Standards in an amount not to exceed $3,000 for attendance at meetings concerned with standardization and research or either, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce. Total, National Bureau of Standards, $2,118,000, of which amountTotal; services in the District. not to exceed $1,875,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. bureau of lighthousesBureau of Lighthouses. Salaries: For the Commissioner and other personal services inSalaries. the District of Columbia, $125,000. General expenses: For supplies, including replacement of andGeneral expenses.Aids to navigation.*Post*, p. 763. necessary additions to existing equipment, repairs, maintenance, and incidental expenses of lighthouses and other lights, beacons, buoyage, fog signals, lighting of rivers heretofore authorized to be lighted, light vessels, other aids to navigation, and lighthouse tenders, including the establishment, repair, and improvement of beacons and day marks, and purchase of land for same; establishment of post lights, buoys, submarine signals, and fog signals; construction of necessary outbuildings, including oil houses at light stations, at a cost not exceeding $2,500 at any one light station in any fiscal year; improvement of grounds and buildings connected with light stations and depots; restoring light stations and depots and buildings connected therewith: *Provided*, That such restoration shall be limited to the*Proviso*.Restoration limited to original purpose.Personal services. original purpose of the structures; wages of persons attending post lights; temporary employees and field force while engaged on works of general repair and maintenance, and laborers and mechanics at lighthouse depots; rations and provisions or commutation thereof for working parties in the field, officers and crews of light vessels and tenders, and officials and other authorized persons of the Lighthouse Service on duty on board of such tenders or vessels, and money accruing from commutation for rations and provisions for the above-named persons on board of tenders and light vessels or in working parties in the field may be paid on proper vouchers to the person having charge of the mess of such vessel or party; not exceedingTransportation of effects. $3,500 for packing, crating, and transporting personal household effects of employees, not to exceed six thousand pounds in any one case, when transferred from one official station to another for permanent duty; purchase of rubber boots, oilskins, rubber gloves, goggles, and coats, caps, and aprons for stewards’ departments on vessels; reimbursement under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce of keepers of light stations and masters of light vessels and of lighthouse tenders for rations and provisions and clothingRations, clothing, etc. furnished shipwrecked persons who may be temporarily provided for by them, not exceeding in all $1,000 in any fiscal year; fuel, light, and rent or quarters where necessary for keepers of lighthouses; purchase of land sites for fog signals; rent of necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or to mark changeable channels and which in consequence cannot be made permanent; rent of offices, depots, and wharves; mileage; library books for light stations and vessels, and technical books and periodicals not exceeding $750; traveling expenses of teachers while actually employed by States or private persons to instruct the children of keepers of lighthouses; all other contingent expenses of district offices and depots, including the purchase of provisions for sale to292 lighthouse keepers at isolated stations, and the appropriation Vehicles.reimbursed; purchase (not to exceed $5,000), exchange, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles Payment of rewards.for official use in field work; payment of rewards for the apprehension and conviction, or for information helpful to the apprehension and conviction of persons found interfering with aids to [35 Stat. 162](/us/stat/35/162).[>33 U. S. C. § 761](/us/usc/t33/s761).navigation maintained by the Lighthouse Service, in violation of section 6 of the Act of May 14, 1908 (U. S. C., title 33, sec. 761); $4,137,000. Special projects, vessels, and aids to navigation. Special projects, vessels, and aids to navigation: For constructing or purchasing and equipping lighthouse tenders and light vessels for the Lighthouse Service as may be specifically approved by the Secretary of Commerce, not to exceed $796,000; and for establishing and improving aids to navigation and other works as may be specifically approved by the Secretary of Commerce, $500,000; in all, Availability.$1,296,000, which sums shall be available for all expenditures, directly relating to the respective projects which are approved by the Secretary of Commerce. Keepers of lighthouses. Keepers of lighthouses: For salaries of not exceeding one thousand four hundred lighthouse and fog-signal keepers and persons attending lights, exclusive of post lights, $1,853,000. Light house vessels. Lighthouse vessels: For salaries and wages of officers and crews of light vessels and lighthouse tenders, including temporary employment when necessary, $2,226,000. Superintendents, clerks, etc. Superintendents, clerks, and so forth: For salaries of eighteen superintendents of lighthouses, and of assistant superintendents, clerks, draftsmen, and other authorized permanent employees in the district offices and depots of the Lighthouse Service, exclusive of those regularly employed in the office of the Bureau of Lighthouses, District of Columbia, $729,900. Retired pay. Retired pay: For retired pay of officers and employees engaged in the field service or on vessels of the Lighthouse Service, except persons continuously employed in district offices and shops, $654,000. coast and geodetic surveyCoast and Geodetic Survey. Expenses. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn vehicles for official use in field work, purchase of motorcycles with side cars, including their exchange, not to exceed $500, surveying instruments, including their exchange, rubber boots, canvas and rubber gloves, goggles, and caps, coats, and aprons for stewards’ departments on vessels, extra compensation at not to exceed $1 per day for each station to employees of the Lighthouse Service and the Weather Bureau while observing tides or currents or tending seismographs, services of one tide observer in the District of Columbia at not to exceed $1 per day, and compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, for operation, maintenance and repair of an airplane for photographic survey, and expenses incident to the execution of field work upon approval by the head of the Bureau, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey subscribed by the Secretary of Commerce, and under the following heads: Field expenses.Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Field expenses, Atlantic and Gulf coast: For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States, and including the employment in the field and office of one physicist to develop survey methods based on transmission of sound through sea water and one temporary engineer to develop293 instruments for aerial photographic surveying, $114,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Outlying islands; Atlantic entrance to Panama Canal. That not more than $35,000 of this amount shall be expended on the coasts of said outlying islands and the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal; Pacific coast: For surveys and necessary resurveys of coasts onPacific coast. the Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of the United States, and including the employment in the field and office of one physicist to develop survey methods based on transmission of sound through sea water, $163,000; Tides, currents, and so forth: For continuing researches in physicalPhysical hydrography. hydrography, relating to harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, $12,700; Coast Pilot: For compilation of the Coast Pilot, including theCoast Pilot. employment of such pilots and nautical experts, and stenographic help in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, $4,200; Magnetic and seismological work: For continuing magnetic andMagnetic and seismological work. seismological observations and to establish meridian lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States; making magnetic and seismological observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States; purchase of additional magnetic and seismological instruments; lease of sites where necessary and the erection of temporary magnetic and seismological buildings; and including the employment in the field and office of such magnetic and seismological observers, and instrument makers and stenographic services as may be necessary, $58,500; Federal, boundary, and State surveys: For continuing lines ofFederal, boundary, and State surveys. exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; determining geographic positions by triangulation and traverse for the control of Federal, State, boundary, county, city, and other surveys and engineering works in all parts of the United States; including special geodetic surveys of first-order triangulation and leveling in regions subject to earthquakes, not exceeding $10,000; determining field astronomic positions and the variation of latitude, including the maintenance and operation of the latitude observatories at Ukiah,Ukiah and Gaithersburg observatories. California, and Gaithersburg, Maryland, not exceeding $2,500 each; establishing lines of exact levels, determining geographic positions byAlaska. triangulation and traverse, and making astronomic observations in Alaska; and continuing gravity observations in the United States and for making such observations in regions under the jurisdiction of the United States and also on islands and coasts adjacent thereto, $93,000, of which amount not to exceed $35,440 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Miscellaneous objects: For the preparation or purchase of plansMiscellaneous objects. and specifications of vessels and the employment of such hull draftsmen in the field and office as may be necessary for the same; the reimbursement, under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce,Relief of distressed persons. of officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey for food, clothing, medicines, and other supplies furnished for the temporary relief of distressed persons in remote localities and to shipwrecked persons temporarily provided for by them, not to exceed a total of $500; actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office in the District of Columbia for consultation with the director, and not exceeding $3.000 for special surveys that may be required by the Bureau of Lighthouses or other proper authority, $3,600; Vessels: For repair of vessels, exclusive of engineer’s supplies andVessels, repair, etc. other ship chandlery, $68,300; 294 Officers and men on vessels, pay. Pay of officers and men on vessels: For all necessary employees to man and equip the vessels, including professional seamen serving as mates on vessels of the Survey, to execute the work of the Survey herein provided for and authorized by law, $580,000; Commissioned officers, pay and allowances. Pay, commissioned officers: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned officers on sea duty and other duty, holding relative rank with officers of the Navy, including one director, six hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of captain, ten hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of commander, seventeen hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of lieutenant commander, forty-seven hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of lieutenant, sixty-one junior hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of lieutenant (junior grade), twenty-nine aides with relative rank of ensign, and including officers retired in accordance with existing law, $815,000: *Proviso*.Assistant director. *Provided*, That the Secretary of Commerce may designate one of the hydrographic and geodetic engineers to act as assistant director; Office force. Office force: For personal services, $572,000; Office expenses. Office expenses: For purchase of new instruments (except surveying instruments), including their exchange, materials, equipment, replacement of one proving press, and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and chart division; books, scientific and technical books, journals, books of reference, maps, charts, and subscriptions; copper plates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, rubber gloves, and electrotyping supplies; photolithographing and printing charts for immediate use; stationery for office and field parties; transportation of instruments and supplies when not charged to party expenses; telegrams; washing; office furniture, repairs; miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, not exceeding $90 for street-car fares, $59.600; Aeronautical charts. Aeronautical charts: For compilation and printing of aeronautical charts, including personal services in the District or Columbia (not to exceed $85,500), operation of an airplane for check flights, and aerial photographs, execution of ground surveys at air terminals, and the purchase of drafting, photographic, photolithographic, and printing supplies and equipment, $105,500. Subsistence restrictions. Appropriations herein made for traveling expenses or for the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall not be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the director), except as now provided by law. Attendance at meetings.*Ante*, p. 283. The appropriation under title III herein for traveling expenses shall be available, in an amount not to exceed $150, for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce. bureau of fisheriesBureau of Fisheries. Commissioner’s office. Commissioner’s office: For the Commissioner and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $150,400. Propagation of food fishes. Propagation of food fishes: For maintenance, repair, alteration, improvement, equipment, acquisition, and operation of fish-cultural stations, general propagation of food fishes and their distribution, including movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars and not to exceed $15,000 for purchase of trucks for fish distribution; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying295 vehicles for official use in the field; purchase of equipment (including rubber boots and oilskins), and apparatus; contingent expenses; payPermanent employees, pay; limitation. of permanent employees not to exceed $387,030; temporary labor; not to exceed $10,000 for propagation and distribution of fresh-water mussels and the necessary expenses connected therewith, and not to exceed $10,000 for the purchase, collection, and transportation of specimens and other expenses incidental to the maintenance and operation of aquarium, of which not to exceed $5,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, $929,000, includingEstablishing stations. not to exceed $260,000 to establish or commence the establishment of those stations authorized by the Act approved May 21, 1930 (46[46 Stat. 371](/us/stat/46/371). Stat. 371), for which the need is most urgent, and for the further development of stations heretofore established pursuant to the provisions of said Act, including the acquisition of necessary land, construction of buildings and ponds, water supply, improvements to grounds, purchase of equipment, and all other necessary expenses. Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance and operation of vesselsMaintenance of vessels. and launches, including purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hire of vessels, temporary employees, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, including not to exceed $750 for the purchase of plans and specifications for vessels or for contract personal services for the preparation thereof, and money accruing from commutation of rations and provisions on board vessels may be paid on proper vouchers to the persons having charge of the mess of such vessels, $168,000, of which not to exceed $13,460 may be expendedAllotment for Atlantic coast and Alaska Fisheries Service. for pay of officers and employees of vessels of the Atlantic coast, and not to exceed $75,000 for pay of officers and crews of vessels for the Alaska Fisheries Service. Commutation of rations (not to exceed $1 per day) may be paid Commutation of rations.to officers and crews of vessels of the Bureau of Fisheries during the fiscal year 1938 under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce. Inquiry respecting food fishes: For inquiry into the cause of theFood fishes inquiry. decrease of food fishes in the waters of the United States, and for investigation and experiments in respect to the aquatic animals, plants, and waters, and screening of irrigation ditches and fishways, in the interests of fish culture and the fishery industries, including pay of permanent employees not to exceed $179,000; temporary employees, maintenance, repair, improvement, equipment, and operation of biological stations, preparation of reports, and not to exceed $500 for rent of suitable quarters in the District of Columbia for laboratory and storage purposes, $262,000. Fishery industries: For collection and compilation of statisticsFishery industries.Statistical studies. of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, and the methods of preservation and utilization of fishery products, and toCooperative associations of producers of aquatic products. enable the Secretary of Commerce to execute the functions imposed upon him by the Act entitled “An Act authorizing associations of[48 Stat. 1213](/us/stat/48/1213).[15 U. S. C. § 521](/us/usc/t15/s521). producers of aquatic products”, approved June 25, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 1213), including pay of permanent employees not to exceed $60,000 of which amount not exceeding $8,620 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, compensation of temporary employees, preparation of reports, contract stenographic reporting services, temporary employees in the District of Columbia not to exceed $2,600, and all other necessary expenses (not exceeding $50 in any one case) in connection therewith, including the purchase (not to exceed $1,100), exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled, passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in the296 *Proviso*.Report to Congress.field work of the Bureau of Fisheries, $73,600: *Provided*, That a statement of expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. Fishery market news service. Fishery market news service: For collecting, publishing, and distributing, by telegraph, mail, or otherwise, information on the fishery industry, information on market supply and demand, commercial movement, location, disposition, and market prices of fishery products, with or without cooperation with any department or agency of the United States, or any State or Territory, or subdivision thereof, compensation of temporary employees, purchase of equipment and supplies, travel and preparation of reports, printing and binding, and all other necessary expenses (not exceeding $50 in any one case) connected therewith, $75,000, including pay of permanent employees, of which not to exceed $8,000 may be expended for *Proviso*.Report to Congress.personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That a statement of expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. Alaska, general service.Seal fisheries. Alaska, general service: For protecting the seal fisheries of Alaska, including the furnishing of food, fuel, clothing, and other necessities of life to the natives of the Pribil of Islands of Alaska; not exceeding $20,000 for construction, improvement, repair, and alteration of buildings and roads, transportation of supplies to and from the islands, subsistence of agents and other employees while on said islands, hire and maintenance of vessels, purchase of sea otters, and for all expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of [36 Stat. 326](/us/stat/36/326).[16 U. S. C. §§ 631–658](/us/usc/t16/s631–658).the Act entitled “An Act to protect the seal fisheries of Alaska, and for other purposes”, approved April 21, 1910 (U. S. C., title 16, secs. 631–658), and for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska, including pay of permanent employees not to exceed $69,900, contract stenographic reporting service, hire of boats, employment of temporary labor, and all other necessary expenses (not exceeding $50 in any one case) connected therewith, $274,000, of which $100,000 shall be *Proviso*.Report to Congress.available immediately: *Provided*, That a statement of expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. Black-bass law, enforcement.[44 Stat. 576](/us/stat/44/5776); [46 Stat. 845](/us/stat/46/845).[16 U. S. C. §§ 851–856](/us/usc/t16/s851–856). Enforcement of black-bass law: To enable the Secretary of Commerce to carry into effect the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate interstate transportation of black bass, and for other purposes’, approved May 20, 1926” (U. S. C., title 16, secs. 851–856), approved July 2, 1930 (46 Stat., pp. 845–847), $13,500, of which not to exceed $7,400 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Mississippi Wild Life and Fish Refuge.Construction, maintenance, etc. Mississippi Wild Life and Fish Refuge: For construction of buildings, boats, and ponds, for purchase of equipment, including boats, for maintenance, operation, repair, and improvements, including expenditures for personal services at the seat of government and [43 Stat. 650](/us/stat/43/650).[16 U. S. C. §§ 721–731](/us/usc/t16/s721–731).Whaling Treaty Act, expenses under.[49 Stat. 1246](/us/stat/49/1246).[16 U. S. C., Supp. II. §§ 901–915](/us/usc/t16/s901–915).elsewhere as may be necessary, as authorized in the Act approved June 7, 1924 (U. S. C., title 16, secs. 721–731), $17,900. Whaling Treaty Act: To enable the Secretary of Commerce to execute the functions imposed upon him by “The Whaling Treaty Act”, approved May 1, 1936 (49 Stat. p. 1246), preparation of reports, and all other necessary expenses, $3,600, of which not to exceed $3,200 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Attendance at meetings. The appropriation herein under title III for traveling expenses shall be available, in an amount not to exceed $750, for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Bureau of Fisheries when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce. 297 patent officePatent Office. Salaries: For the Commissioner of Patents and other personalSalaries, Commissioner and office personnel.*Proviso*.Temporary typists. services in the District of Columbia, $3,380,000: *Provided*, That of the amount herein appropriated not to exceed $25,000 may be used for special and temporary services of typists certified by the Civil Service Commission, who may be employed in such numbers, at $4 per diem, as may, in the judgment of the Commissioner of Patents, be necessary to keep current the work of furnishing manuscript copies of records. Photolithographing: For producing copies of weekly issue ofPhotolithographing. drawings of patents and designs; reproduction of copies of drawings and specifications of exhausted patents, designs, trade marks, and other papers, such other papers when reproduced for sale to be sold at not less than cost plus 10 per centum; reproduction of foreign patent drawings; photo prints of pending application drawings; and photostat and photographic supplies and dry mounts, $190,000. The headings of the drawings for patented cases may be multigraphedMultigraphed headings. in the Patent Office for the purpose of photolithography. Miscellaneous expenses: For purchase and exchange of law, professional,Miscellaneous expenses. and other reference books and publications and scientific books; expenses of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments; directories, furniture and filing cases; for investigating the question of public use or sale of inventions for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents, and such other questions arising in connection with applications for patents and the prior art as may be deemed necessary by the Commissioner of Patents; for expense attending defense of suits instituted against the Commissioner of Patents and for other contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the Patent Office, $47,000. Printing and binding: For printing the weekly issue of patents,Printing and binding. designs, trade marks, prints, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly and annual indices, $890,000; for miscellaneous printing and binding, $75,000; in all, $965,000. The Appropriation under title III herein for traveling expensesAttendance at meetings. shall be available, in an amount not to exceed $500, for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Patent Office when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce. This title may be cited as the “Department of Commerce AppropriationShort title. Act, 1938”. TITLE IV— DEPARTMENT OF LABORDepartment of Labor.Office of the Secretary.Salaries. office of the secretary Salaries: Secretary of Labor, Assistant Secretary, Second Assistant Secretary, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $323,500: *Provided*, That persons (not exceeding ten in number)*Proviso*.Personnel determining wage rates retained.[49 Stat. 1011](/us/stat/49/1011).[40 U. S. C., Supp. II, §§ 276a–276a–6](/us/usc/t40/s276a–276a–6). now employed in the determination of wages pursuant to the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act approved March 3, 1931, relating to the rate of wages for laborers and mechanics employed by contractors and subcontractors on public buildings”, approved August 30, 1935, may be continued in such employment and paid from the amount herein appropriated without regard to the provisions of the civil-service laws requiring competitive examinations. Salaries and expenses, Division of Labor Standards: For salariesDivision of Labor Standards.*Post*, p. 767. and expenses in connection with the promotion of health, safety, employment, stabilization, and amicable industrial relations for298 labor and industry, $135,400, of which amount not to exceed $90,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Attendance at conferences, etc. The appropriation under title IV for traveling expenses shall be available for expenses of attendance of cooperating officials and consultants at conferences concerned with the work of the Division of Labor Standards when called by the Division of Labor Standards with the written approval of the Secretary of Labor, and shall be available also in an amount not to exceed $2,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings related to the work of the Division of Labor Standards when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor. Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses: For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureaus of the Department, for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specifically made, including the purchase of stationery, furniture, and repairs to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloths, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, laundry, street-car fares not exceeding $400; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motorcycles and motor trucks; purchase of a passenger-carrying automobile for the general use of the Department and maintenance, operation, and repair of two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; newspaper clippings not to exceed $1,200, postage to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; purchase and exchange of law books, books of reference, newspapers and periodicals, and when authorized by the Secretary of Labor, dues for library membership in societies or associations which issue publications to members only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers who are not members, not exceeding $4,500; contract stenographic services; all other necessary miscellaneous expenses (not exceeding $50 in any one case) not included in the foregoing; and not to exceed $25,000 for purchase of certain supplies for the Immigration and Naturalization Service; in *Provisos*.Minor purchases.[R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/3709).[41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5).all, $115,100: *Provided*, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for the Department of Labor when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $100: Report to Congress. *Provided*, That a statement of expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. Traveling expenses.*Post*, p. 767. Traveling expenses: For all traveling expenses, except travel expenses incident to the deportation of aliens, under the Department of Labor, including all bureaus and divisions thereunder, $666,900. Printing and binding.*Post*, p. 767. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Department of Labor, including all its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $250,000. Commissioners of conciliation.[37 Stat. 738](/us/stat/37/738).[5 U. S. C. § 619](/us/usc/t5/s619). Commissioners of conciliation: To enable the Secretary of Labor to exercise the authority vested in him by section 8 of the Act creating the Department of Labor (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 611) and to appoint commissioners of conciliation, telegraph and telephone service, and not to exceed $80,000 for personal services in the District *Proviso*.Continuance of employment.of Columbia, $273,000: *Provided*, That persons now employed in such conciliation work pursuant to authority contained under this head in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, may be continued in such employment and paid from the amount herein appropriated. International Labor Organization. Geneva.Liaison with; expenses.[48 Stat. 1182](/us/stat/48/1182). Liaison with the International Labor Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, salaries and expenses: For a United States Labor Commissioner and other personal services in Geneva, Switzerland; compensation of interpreters, translators, and porters; transportation of299 employees, their families, and effects, in going to and returning from foreign posts; rent, heat, light, and fuel; hire, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled, passenger-carrying vehicles; purchase and exchange of foreign and domestic books, periodicals, and newspapers; purchase of furniture, stationery, and supplies; printing andPrinting and binding. binding; postage; telephone and other similar expenses, for which payment may be made in advance; necessary technical or special investigations in connection with matters falling within the scope of the International Labor Organization; allowances for living quarters,Living quarters.[46 Stat. 818](/us/stat/46/818).[5 U. S. C. § 118a](/us/usc/t5/s118a). including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 118a), not to exceed $1,700 for any person, and contingent and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the Secretary of Labor may deem necessary, $21,000. Division of Public Contracts, salaries and expenses: For personalDivision of Public Contracts.Salaries and expenses.[49 Stat. 2036](/us/stat/49/2036).[41 U. S. C., Supp. II, §§ 35–45](/us/usc/t41/s35–45). services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, in performing the duties imposed by the “Act to provide conditions for the purchase of supplies and the making of contracts by the United States, and for other purposes”, approved June 30, 1936 (49 Stat., p. 2036), including supplies, stationery, printing and binding, telephone service, telegrams, furniture, office equipment, contract stenographic reporting services, and other necessary expenses, $315,000. bureau of labor statisticsBureau of Labor Statistics. Salaries and expenses: For personal services, including temporarySalaries and expenses. statistical clerks, stenographers, and typewriters in the District of Columbia, and including also experts and temporary assistants for field service outside of the District of Columbia; purchase of periodicals, documents, envelopes, price quotations, and reports and materials for reports and bulletins of said Bureau, $784,000, of which amount not to exceed $658.000 may be expended for the salary of the Commissioner and other personal services in the District of Columbia. The appropriation for traveling expenses in title IV shall he available,Attendance at meetings. in an amount not to exceed $2,000, for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Bureau of Labor Statistics when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor. immigration and naturalization serviceImmigration and Naturalization Service.Salaries and expenses. Salaries and expenses: For enforcement of the laws regulating the immigration to, the residence in, and the exclusion and deportation from the United States of aliens and persons subject to the Chinese exclusion laws; for enforcement of the laws authorizing a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens; salaries, and other expenses of officers, clerks, and other employees appointed to enforce said laws; care, detention, maintenance, transportation and travelingDeportation, etc., of aliens. expenses incident to the deportation and exclusion of aliens and persons subject to the Chinese exclusion laws, as authorized by law, in the United States and to, through, or in foreign countries; purchase of supplies and equipment, including alterations and repairs; purchase,Vehicles. exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled vehicles, including passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work; arms, ammunition and accessories; cost of reports of decisions of the Federal courts and digests thereof for official use; verifications of legal papers; refunding of head tax, maintenance bills, and immigration fines, upon presentation of evidence showing conclusively that collection and deposit was made through error: mileage and fees to witnesses subpenaed on behalf of the UnitedWitness fees, etc. States, and for all other expenses necessary to enforce said laws; $9,586,600, all to be expended under the direction of the Secretary300 Commissioner, and other services in the District.of Labor, of which amount not to exceed $555,000 may be expended for the salary of the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including services of persons authorized by law to be detailed there for *Provisos*.Vehicles.duty: *Provided*, That not to exceed $45,000 of the sum herein appropriated shall be available for the purchase, including exchange, of Privately-owned horses.motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles: *Provided further*, That the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, with the approval of the Secretary of Labor, may contract with officers and employees stationed outside of the District of Columbia, whose salaries are payable from this appropriation, for the use, on official business outside of the District of Columbia, of privately owned horses, and the consideration agreed upon shall be payable from the Allowance for living quarters.funds herein appropriated: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $36,000 of the total amount herein appropriated shall be available for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as [46 Stat. 818](/us/stat/46/818).[5 U. S. C. § 118a](/us/usc/t5/s118a).Overtime services of inspectors, etc.authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 118a), not to exceed $1,700 for any person: *Provided further*, That $125,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be available only for the payment of extra compensation for overtime services of inspectors and employees of the Immigration and Naturalization [46 Stat. 1467](/us/stat/46/1467).[8 U. S. C. §§ 109a, 109b](/us/usc/t8/s109a/109b).Pay of assistants to clerks of courts forbidden.Service for which the United States receives reimbursement in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March 2, 1931 (U. S. C., title 8, secs. 109a and 109b): *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the compensation of Payment of rewards.assistants to clerks of United States courts: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $10,000 of the sum herein appropriated may be expended for payment of rewards, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of Labor, for information leading to the detection, arrest, or conviction of persons violating the immigration or naturalization laws: Contract laborers. *Provided further*, That notwithstanding the provisions of the Act [39 Stat. 893](/us/stat/39/893).[8 U. S. C. § 109](/us/usc/t18/s109).of February 5, 1917 (U. S. C., title 8, sec. 109), authorizing the Secretary of Labor to draw annually from the appropriations for the enforcement of the laws regulating the immigration of aliens into the United States, $200,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary to enforce the law excluding contract laborers and induced and assisted immigrants, not to exceed $95,000 of the sum herein appropriated may be expended for such purposes, and such expenditure [41 Stat. 68](/us/stat/41/68).[18 U. S. C. § 201](/us/usc/t18/s201).shall be made in strict compliance with the provisions of the Act of July 11, 1919 (U. S. C., title 18, sec. 201). Immigration stations. Immigration stations: For remodeling, repairing (including repairs to the ferryboat Ellis Island), renovating buildings, and purchase of equipment, $100,000. Attendance at meetings. The appropriation under title IV for traveling expenses shall be available in an amount not to exceed $400 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor. children’s bureauChildren’s Bureau. Salaries and expenses.Investigations, etc. Salaries and expenses: For expenses of investigating and reporting upon matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life, and especially to investigate the questions of infant mortality; personal services, including experts and temporary assistants; purchase of reports and material for the publications of the Children’s Bureau and for reprints from State, city, and private publications for distribution when said reprints can be procured more cheaply than they can be printed by the Government, and other necessary expenses, $363,500, of which amount not to exceed $313,500 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. 301 maternal and child welfareMaternal and child welfare. Salaries and expenses: For all authorized and necessary administrativeSalaries and expenses. expenses of the Children’s Bureau in performing the duties imposed upon it by title V of the Social Security Act, approved[49 Stat. 629](/us/stat/49/629).[42 U. S. C., Supp. II, § 701](/us/usc/t42/s701). August 14, 1935, including personal services, rentals, repairs, and alterations to buildings, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; printing and binding; supplies; services; equipment; newspapers, books of reference, periodicals, and press clippings, $306,000. In the administration of title V of the Social Security Act for theSocial Security Act.Payments under State plans. fiscal year 1938, payments to States for any quarter of the fiscal year 1938 under parts 1 and 2 may be made with respect to any State plan approved under such respective parts by the Chief of the Children’s Bureau prior to or during such quarter, but no such payment shall be made with respect to any plan for any period prior to the quarter in which such plan was submitted to the Chief of the Children’s Bureau for approval. grants to states for maternal and child health services Grants to States for maternal and child health services, Children’sGrants to States for maternal and child health services.[49 Stat. 629](/us/stat/49/629). Bureau: For grants to States for the purpose of enabling each State to extend and improve services for promoting the health of mothers and children, as authorized in title V, part 1, of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935 (49 Stat. 629–631), $3,700,000, to be available immediately: *Provided*, That in carrying out such part 1,*Provisos*.Basis of allotments, 1938. the allotments to States and expenditures thereunder for the fiscal year 1938 are authorized to be made on the basis of a total of $3,800,000 for all States (as defined in such Act): *Provided further*,Supplemental aid not included.[49 Stat. 630](/us/stat/49/630). That any allotment to a State pursuant to section 502
(b)shall not be included in computing for the purposes of subsections
(a)and
(b)of section 504 an amount expended or estimated to be expended by the State. grants to states for services for crippled children Grants to States for services for crippled children, Children’sServices for crippled children, grants to States. Bureau: For the purpose of enabling each State to extend and improve services for crippled children, as authorized in title V, part 2, of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935 (49 Stat. [49 Stat. 631](/us/stat/49/631).631–633), $2,800,000, to be available immediately: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Basis of allotments, 1938. in carrying out such part 2, the allotments to States (as defined in such Act) and expenditures thereunder for the fiscal year 1938 are authorized to be made on the basis of a total of $2,850,000 for all States. grants to states for child-welfare services Grants to States for child-welfare services, Children’s Bureau:Child welfare services, grants to States.[49 Stat. 633](/us/stat/49/633). For grants to States for the purpose of enabling the United States, through the Children’s Bureau, to cooperate with State public-welfare agencies in establishing, extending, and strengthening public-welfare services for the care of homeless or neglected children, or children in danger of becoming delinquent, as authorized in title V, part 3, of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935 (49 Stat. 633), $1,475,000, to be available immediately: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Basis of allotments, 1938. in carrying out such part 3, the allotments to States (as defined in such Act) and expenditures thereunder for the fiscal year 1938 are authorized to be made on the basis of a total of $1,500,000 for all States. The appropriation under title IV for traveling expenses shall beAttendance at conferences.[49 Stat. 627](/us/stat/49/627). available for expenses of attendance of cooperating officials and consultants at conferences concerned with the administration of title302 [49 Stat. 629](/us/stat/49/629).V, parts 1, 2, and 3, of the Social Security Act when called by the Children’s Bureau with the written approval of the Secretary of Labor, and shall be available also, in an amount not to exceed $5,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings related to the work of the Children’s Bureau when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor. women’s bureauWomen’s Bureau. Salaries and expenses.[41 Stat. 987](/us/stat/41/987).[29 U. S. C. §§ 11–16](/us/usc/t29/s11–16). Salaries and expenses: For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to establish in the Department of Labor a bureau to be known as the Women’s Bureau”, approved June 5, 1920 (U. S. C., title 29, secs. 11–16), including personal services in the District of Columbia, not to exceed $134,500; purchase of material for reports and educational exhibits, $136,500. Attendance at meetings. The appropriation under title IV for traveling expenses shall be available in an amount not to exceed $2,500 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Women’s Bureau when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor. united states employment serviceEmployment Service.Administrative expenses. For all administrative expenses, including the Veterans’ Placement Service, the Farm Placement Service, and the District of Columbia Public Employment Center, in carrying out the [48 Stat. 113](/us/stat/48/113).[29 U. S. C. §§ 49–49l](/us/usc/t29/s49–49l).provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the establishment of a national employment system and for cooperation with the States in the promotion of such system, and for other purposes”, approved June 6, 1933 (U. S. C., title 29, secs. 49–491); personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; law books, books of reference, newspapers and periodicals, printing and binding, supplies and equipment, telegraph and telephone service, and miscellaneous expenses, $777,000, including not to exceed $210,000 for personal services in the Department in the District of Columbia. Payment to States. For payment to the several States in accordance with the provisions of the said Act of June 6, 1933 (U. S. C., title 29, secs. 49–491), *Provisos*.Basis of apportionments, 1938.Accounting.as amended, $1,500,000: *Provided*, That apportionments for the fiscal year 1938 shall be on the basis of a total apportionment to all States of $3,000,000: *Provided further*, That amounts herein and hereafter appropriated, together with the unexpended balances of amounts heretofore appropriated, for payment to the several States in accordance with said Act of June 6, 1933, as amended, shall constitute one Use of unused balances.fund to remain available until expended, and the unused balances of amounts apportioned to the several States for the fiscal year 1936 for establishing and maintaining public employment offices shall be reapportioned among all the States, in accordance with said Act of June 6, 1933, as amended, without regard to the sufficiency therefor of said fund. Attendance at meetings. The appropriation under title IV for traveling expenses shall be available in an amount not to exceed $4,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the United States Employment Service when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor. Short title. This title may be cited as the “Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1938”. Sec. 2. Payment forbidden persons after nomination rejected by Senate. 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 has voted not to approve of the nomination of said person. Approved, June 16, 1937. To further extend the period of time during which final proof may be offered by homestead and desert-land entrymen. 1937-06-16 50 Stat. 303 361 Chapter 75 1 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-11-23 public 303 [CHAPTER 361] AN ACT To further extend the period of time during which final proof may be offered by homestead and desert-land entrymen. June 16, 1937[[S. 329](/us/bill/75/s/329)][
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