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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 52 STAT. · Oct. 1, 1938 · Public Law 453

Public Law 453.

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(/us/pl/75/452)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, amendment.*Ante*, p. 47. That section 312 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 is hereby amended by adding the following new subsection: " “(f) Barley tobacco.Marketing quotas for marketing year beginning Oct. 1, 1938. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, the Secretary shall, within fifteen days after the enactment of this subsection (f), proclaim the amount of the total supply of burley tobacco for the marketing year therefor beginning October 1, 1937, and a national marketing quota shall be in effect for burley tobacco marketed during the marketing year for such tobacco beginning October 1, 1938.
The Secretary shall also determine and specify in such proclamation the amount of such national marketing quota in terms of the total quantity of such tobacco which may be marketed, which will make available during the marketing year beginning October 1, 1938, a Referendum.supply of such tobacco equal to the reserve supply level. The referendum with respect to such quota, pursuant to subsection
(c)of this section, shall be held and the results thereof proclaimed within forty-five days after the enactment of this subsection (f).” " Approved, March 26, 1938. Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, and for other purposes. 1938-03-28 55 Chapter United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-11-15 52 Stat. 120 75 3 public [CHAPTER 55] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, and for other purposes. March 28, 1938[[H. R. 8947](/us/bill/75/hr/8947)][[Public, No. 453](/us/pl/75/453)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Treasury and Post Office Departments, appropriations, fiscal year 1939.Title I—Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1939.TITLE I— TREASURY DEPARTMENT That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, namely: 52 Stat. 121 office of the secretaryOffice of the Secretary. Salaries: Secretary of the Treasury, Under Secretary of theSalaries. Treasury, three Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including the temporaryExperts. employment of experts, $230,000: *Provided*, That in expending*Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act; exceptions.[5 U. S. C. §§ 661–4174; Supp. III, 673, 673c](/us/usc/t5/s661/4174/673/673c). appropriations or portions of appropriations contained in this Act for the payment of personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury and the Assistant Postmasters General, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one positionAdvances in meritorious cases. in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade, but not more often than once in any fiscal year, and then only to the next higher rate: *Provided further*, That this restriction shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3,Not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.No reduction in fixed salaries.[5 U. S. C. § 666](/us/usc/t5/s666).Transfers without reduction. and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service,
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit,
(4)to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rateHigher salary rates permitted. higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or
(5)to reduce the compensationIf only one position in a grade. of any person in a grade in which only one, position is allocated. Old-age reserve account, Social Security Act: For an amount sufficientOld-age reserve account, Social Security Act[49 Stat. 622](/us/stat/49/622).[42 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 401](/us/usc/t42/s401).Unexpended balance available. as an annual premium for the payments required under title II of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935 (42 U. S. C. 401), and authorized to be appropriated to the old-age reserve account established under section 201
(a)of the Act, $360,000,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation available for this purpose for the fiscal year 1938: *Provided*, That such amount shall*Proviso*.Availability. be available until expended for making payments required under the Act, and the amounts not required for current payments shall beInvestment of amounts not required for current payments. invested from time to time in such amounts and in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem most expedient in accordance with the provisions of such Act. Payments to the Federal Farm. Mortgage Corporation on accountPayments to Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation on account of reductions in interest rate on mortgages. of reductions in interest rate on mortgages: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation such amount as the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration certifies to the Secretary of the Treasury is equal to the amount by which interest payments on mortgages held by such Corporation have been reduced during the fiscal year 1939, in accordance with the provisions of section 32 of the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933, approved May 12, 1933 (12 U. S. C. 1016), as amended,[48 Stat. 48](/us/stat/48); [49 Stat. 300](/us/stat/49/300).[12 U. S. C. § 1016; Supp. III, § 1016](/us/usc/t12/s1016). such payments to be made quarterly, beginning as soon as practicable after October 1, 1938, $8,200,000. Payments to Federal land banks on account of reductions in interestPayments to Federal land banks on account of reductions in interest rate on mortgages. rate on mortgages: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay each Federal land bank such amount as the Land Bank Commissioner certifies to the Secretary of the Treasury is equal to the52 Stat. 122 amount by which interest payments on mortgages held by such land bank have been reduced during the fiscal year 1939, and prior thereto, [49 Stat. 1912](/us/stat/49/1912); [50 Stat. 531](/us/stat/50/531).[12 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 771](/us/usc/t12/s771).in accordance with the provisions of paragraph “Twelfth” of section 12 of the Federal Farm Loan Act (12 U. S. C. 771), as amended, $20,500,000. Division of Research and Statistics.division of research and statistics Salaries.Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia, $170,000. Office of General Counsel.office of general counsel Salaries.Salaries: For the General Counsel and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $130,000. Office of Chief Clerk.office of chief clerk Salaries.Salaries: For the Chief Clerk and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $145,000. miscellaneous and contingent expenses, treasury department Department contingent expenses.Operating expenses, Department buildings.Books, periodicals, etc.For miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the bureaus and offices of the Department, including operating expenses of the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Auditors’, and Liberty Loan Buildings; newspaper clippings, financial journals, books of reference, law books, technical and scientific books, newspapers, and periodicals, expenses incurred in completing imperfect series, library cards, supplies, and all other necessary expenses connectedTraveling expenses. with the library; not exceeding $5,000 for traveling expenses, including the payment of actual transportation and subsistence expenses to any person whom the Secretary of the Treasury may from time to time invite to the city of Washington or elsewhere for conference and advisory purposes in furthering the work of the Department; freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service; Vehicles.purchase and exchange of motor trucks, and maintenance and repair of motor trucks and three passenger automobiles (one for the Secretary of the Treasury and two for general use of the Department), all to be used for official purposes only; file holders and cases; Fuel, light, power, etc.fuel, oils, grease, and heating supplies and equipment; gas and electricity for lighting, heating, and power purposes, including material, fixtures, and equipment therefor; purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriters and labor-saving machines and equipment and Furniture, etc.supplies for same; floor covering and repairs thereto; furniture and office equipment, including supplies therefor and repairs thereto; awnings, window shades, and fixtures; cleaning supplies and equipment; drafting equipment; flags; hand trucks, ladders; miscellaneousStreetcar fares. hardware; streetcar fares not exceeding $500; thermometers; lavatory equipment and supplies; tools and sharpening same; laundry service; laboratory supplies and equipment, removal of rubbish; Sales of lands and other property.postage; custody, care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, acquired and held under [R. S. §§ 3749, 3750](/us/rs/3749/3750).[40 U. S. C. §§ 301, 302](/us/usc/t40/s301/302).sections 3749 and 3750 of the Revised Statutes (40 U. S. C. 301, 302), the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers’ fees in connection therewith; and other absolutely necessary articles, supplies, and equipment not otherwise provided for; *Provisos*.Additional funds.*Post*, pp. 125, 126, 128, 123.$220,000: *Provided*, That the appropriations for the Public Debt Service, Internal Revenue Service, Federal Alcohol Administration, and Division of Disbursement for the fiscal year 1939 are hereby made available, for the payment of items otherwise properly chargeable to this appropriation, the provisions of section 6, Act of August52 Stat. 123 23, 1912 (31 U. S. C. 669), to the contrary notwithstanding:[31 U. S. C. 669](/us/usc/t31/s669).Minor purchases without advertising.[R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/3709).[41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). *Provided further*, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5) shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for the Treasury Department when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $50. custody of departmental buildingsCustody of Departmental buildings. Salaries of operating force: For the Superintendent of TreasurySalaries of operating force. Buildings and for other personal services in the District of Columbia, including the operating force of the Treasury Building, the Treasury Annex, the Liberty Loan Building, the Auditors’ Building, and of other buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, except the buildings of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $327,800. Salaries and expenses, guard force: For salaries and expenses ofSalaries and expenses, guard force. the guard force for Treasury Department buildings in the District of Columbia, including the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, including not to exceed $6,000 for purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms, and for the purchase of arms and ammunition and miscellaneous equipment, $306,840: *Provided*, That this appropriation may be reimbursed*Provisos*.Reimbursement for designated service. in an amount not exceeding $40,000, for service rendered in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in connection with the protection of currency, bonds, stamps, and other papers of value the cost of producing which is not covered and embraced in the direct appropriations for such Bureau: *Provided further*, That the Secretary ofSecret Service supervisor. the Treasury may detail an operative of the Secret Service to supervise such force. division of printingDivision of Printing. Salaries: For the Chief, Division of Printing, and other personalSalaries. services in the District of Columbia, $69,240. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the TreasuryPrinting and binding. Department, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, and including materials for the use of the bookbinder, located in the Treasury Department, but not including work done at the New YorkWork excluded. Customhouse bindery authorized by the Joint Committee on Printing in accordance with the Act of March 1, 1919 (44 U. S. C. 111), and[40 Stat. 1270](/us/stat/40/1270).[44 U. S. C. § 111](/us/usc/t44/s111). for the cost of transportation to held offices of printed and bound material, $850,000. Stationery: For stationery for the Treasury Department and itsStationery. several bureaus and offices, and field services thereof, including tags, labels, and index cards, printed in the course of manufacturing, packing boxes and other materials necessary for shipping stationery supplies, and cost of transportation of stationery supplies purchased free on board point of shipment and of such supplies shipped from Washington to field offices, $505,000. office of commissioner of accounts and depositsAccounts and Deposits office. Salaries: For Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits and otherSalaries. personal services in the District of Columbia, including the Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants, $350,000. Division of Disbursement, salaries and expenses: For personalDivision of Disbursement.Salaries and expenses. services in the District of Columbia and in the field, stationery, travel, rental of equipment, and all other necessary miscellaneous and contingent expenses, $1,400,000: *Provided*, That with the approval of*Proviso*.Transfer of funds from designated agencies for administrative expenses. the Director of the Bureau of the Budget there may be transferred to this appropriation from funds available for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (including transfers to the Bureau of52 Stat. 124 Internal Revenue for administrative expenses), Federal Housing Administration, United States Housing Authority, Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation, Federal Prison Industries, Railroad Retirement Board, Social Security Board, and the United States Maritime Commission, such sums as may be necessary to cover the expense incurred in performing the function of disbursement therefor. Contingent expenses, public moneys.[R. S. § 3653](/us/rs/3653).[31 U. S. C. § 545](/us/usc/t31/s545).Contingent expenses, public moneys: For contingent expenses under the requirements of section 3653 of the Revised Statutes (31 U. S. C. 545), for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, transportation or notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, transportation of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates transferred to Federal Reserve banks and branches, United States mints and assay offices, and the Treasury, Examination of depositories.after March 9, 1933, actual expenses of examiner’s detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several depositories, including national banks acting as depositories under the requirements[R. S. § 3649](/us/rs/3649).[31 U. S. C. § 548](/us/usc/t31/s548). of section 3649 of the Revised Statutes (31 U. S. C. 548), also including examinations of cash accounts at mints, $155,000. Recoinage of minor coins.Recoinage of minor coins: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent minor coins of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse the Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of such coins and the amount the same will produce in new coins, $25,000. Recoinage of silver coins.Recoinage of silver coins: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent subsidiary silver coins of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse the Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of such coins and the amount the same will produce in new coins, $475,000. Relief of the indigent, Alaska.Relief of the indigent, Alaska: For the payment to the United States district judges in Alaska but not to exceed 10 per centum of the receipts from licenses collected outside of incorporated towns in Alaska, to be expended for the relief of persons in Alaska who are indigent and incapacitated through nonage, old age, sickness, or accident, $20,000. Refund of moneys erroneously received and covered.Refund of moneys erroneously received and covered: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to meet any expenditures of the character formerly chargeable to the appropriation accounts abolished under section 18 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act of 1934, [48 Stat. 1231](/us/stat/48/1231).[31 U. S. C. § 725q](/us/usc/t31/s725q).approved June 26, 1934, and any other collections erroneously received and covered which are not properly chargeable to any other appropriation, $40,000. Government losses in shipment (Revolving Fund).Fund for Payment of Government Losses in Shipment (Revolving Fund): For an additional amount for the revolving fund for payment of Government losses in shipment, created in accordance with the provisions of section 2 of the Government Losses in Shipment[50 Stat. 479](/us/stat/50/479).[5 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 134](/us/usc/t5/s134). Act, approved July 8, 1937 (50 Stat. 479–484), including not to exceed $1,000 for expenses other than personal services, incurred in the defense, safeguard or recovery of valuables, or the value thereof, replacement of which shall have been made out of the fund, or for which a claim for replacement shall have been made, $100,000. Payment of unclaimed moneys.Payment of unclaimed moneys: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to meet any expenditures of the character formerly chargeable to the appropriation accounts abolished under section 17 of the [48 Stat. 1230](/us/stat/48/1230).[31 U. S. C. § 725p](/us/usc/t31/s725p).Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act of 1934, approved June 26, 1934, payable from the funds held by the United States in the trust fund receipt account “Unclaimed moneys of individuals whose whereabouts are unknown”, $12,000. 52 Stat. 125 public debt servicePublic Debt Service. Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses connected with theSalaries and expenses. administration of any public-debt issues and United States paper currency issues with which the Secretary of the Treasury is charged, including the purchase of law books, directories, books of reference,Reference books, etc. pamphlets, periodicals, and newspapers, and the maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-propelled bus or station wagon for use of the Destruction Committee, and including the Commissioner ofServices in the District. the Public Debt and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $2,300,000: *Provided*, That the amount to be expended for personal*Provisos*.Limitation. services in the District of Columbia shall not exceed $2,271,500: *Provided further*, That the indefinite appropriation “Expenses ofUse of indefinite appropriation restricted.[31 U. S. C. §§ 760, 761](/us/usc/t31/s760/761). loans, Act of September 24, 1917, as amended and extended” (31 U. S. C. 760, 761), shall not be used during the fiscal year 1939 to supplement the appropriation herein made for the current work of the Public Debt Service and the amount obligated under such indefinite appropriation during such fiscal year shall not exceed $3,500,000. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctiveDistinctive paper for U. S. securities. paper for United States currency and Federal Reserve bank currency, including transportation of paper, traveling, mill, and other necessaryExpenses. expenses, and salaries of employees and allowance, in lieu of expenses, of officer or officers detailed from the Treasury Department, not exceeding $50 per month each when actually on duty; in all, $1,050,000: *Provided*, That in order to foster competition in the manufacture*Proviso*.Division of award. of distinctive paper for United States securities, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized, in his discretion, to split the award for such paper for the fiscal year 1939 between the two bidders whose prices per pound are the lowest received after advertisement. division of appointmentsDivision of Appointments. Salaries: For the Chief of the Division, and other personal servicesSalaries. in the District of Columbia, $44,560. bureau of customsBureau of Customs. Salaries and expenses: For collecting the revenue from customs,Salaries and expenses. for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, and not to exceed $100,000 for the securing of evidence of violations of the customs laws; for expenses of transportation and transfer ofTransfer of receipts from points lacking Government depositories.Living quarters. customs receipts from points where there are no Government depositories; not to exceed $84,500 for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (31 U. S. C. 118a), but not to exceed $1,700 for any one[46 Stat. 818](/us/stat/46/818).[5 U. S. C. § 118a](/us/usc/t5/s118a).Quarters along borders. person; not to exceed $500 for subscriptions to newspapers; not to exceed $1,500 for improving, repairing, maintaining, or preserving buildings, inspection stations, office quarters, including living quarters for officers, sheds and sites along the Canadian and Mexican borders acquired under authority of the Act of June 26, 1930 (19[46 Stat. 817](/us/stat/46/817).[19 U. S. C. § 68](/us/usc/t19/s68).Vehicles. U. S. C. 68); and including the purchase (not to exceed $87,500), exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary for official use in field work; $20,850,000, of which such amount as may be necessary shall be availableOvertime services, at expense of parties in interest. for the payment of extra compensation earned by customs officers or employees for overtime services, at the expense of the parties in interest, in accordance with the provisions of section 5 of the Act approved February 13, 1911, as amended by the Act approved February[36 Stat. 901](/us/stat/36/901); [41 Stat. 402](/us/stat/41/402); [46 Stat. 715](/us/stat/46/715).[19 U. S. C. §§ 261, 267, 1451](/us/usc/t19/s261/267/1451). 7, 1920, and section 451 of the Tariff Act, 1930 (19 U. S. C. 261,52 Stat. 126 *Provisos*.Receipts deposited as refund to appropriation.267, and 1451): *Provided,* That the receipts from such parties in interest for such overtime services shall be deposited as a refund to the appropriation from which such overtime compensation is paid, [46 Stat. 741](/us/stat/46/741).[19 U. S. C. § 1524](/us/usc/t19/s1524).Cost of seizures, etc., under customs laws.in accordance with the provisions of section 524 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U. S. C. 1524); for the cost of seizure, storage, and disposition of any merchandise, vehicle and team, automobile, boat, air or water craft, or any other conveyance seized under the provisions of the customs laws, for the purchase of arms, ammunition, and accessories,Details to District from field force. and $485,000 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia exclusive of ten persons from the field force [46 Stat. 741](/us/stat/46/741).[19 U. S. C. § 1525](/us/usc/t19/s1525).Vehicle restriction.authorized to be detailed under section 525 of the Tariff Act of 1930: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for maintenance or repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for use in the District of Columbia except one for use in connection with the work of the customhouse in Georgetown: *Provided further*, Advance payments in foreign countries.[R. S. § 3048](/us/rs/3048).[31 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 520b](/us/usc/t31/s520b).Refunds and drawbacks.That hereafter section 3648 of the Revised Statutes (31 U. S. C. 529b) shall not apply to payments made for the Bureau of Customs in foreign countries. Refunds and drawbacks: For the refund or payment of customs collections or receipts, and for the payment of debentures or drawbacks, bounties, and allowances, as authorized by law, $15,750,000. Bureau of the Budget.bureau of the budget Salaries and expenses.*Post*, p. 1149.Salaries and expenses: Director, Assistant Director, and all other necessary expenses of the Bureau, including compensation of attorneys and other employees in the District of Columbia; contract stenographic reporting services, telegrams, telephone service, law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery, furniture, office equipment, other supplies, traveling expenses, streetcar fares, $187,000. Printing and binding.For printing and binding, $35,000. Office of Treasurer of the United States.office of the treasurer of the united states Salaries.Salaries: For Treasurer of the United States, Assistant Treasurer, and for other personal services in the District of Columbia, $1,150,000. Redeeming Federal Reserve and national currency.Salaries (reimbursable): For personal services in the District of Columbia, in redeeming Federal Reserve and national currency, $71,620, to be reimbursed by the Federal Reserve and national banks. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.office of the comptroller of the currency Salaries.Salaries: Comptroller of the Currency and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $250,000. Personal services. Federal Reserve and national currency.Salaries (national currency (reimbursable)): For personal services in the District of Columbia in connection with Federal Reserve and national currency, $9,240, to be reimbursed by the Federal Reserve and national banks. Bureau of Internal Revenue.bureau of internal revenue Salaries and expenses.Salaries and expenses: For salaries and expenses in connection with the assessment and collection of internal-revenue taxes and the administration of the internal-revenue laws, including the administration of such provisions of other laws as are authorized by or pursuant to law to be administered by or under the direction of the Commissioner, Assistant General Counsel, and other personal services.Commissioner of Internal Revenue; including the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Assistant General Counsel for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, an assistant to the, Commissioner, a special deputy commissioner, five deputy commissioners, one stamp agent (to be52 Stat. 127 reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers), and the necessary officers, collectors, deputy collectors, attorneys, experts, agents, accountants, inspectors, investigators, chemists, supervisors, storekeeper-gaugers, guards, clerics, janitors, and messengers in the District of Columbia, the several collection districts, the several divisions of internal-revenue agents and the several supervisory districts, to be appointed as provided by law; the securing of evidence of violations of theSecuring of evidence of law violations. Acts, the cost of chemical analyses made by others than employees of the United States and expenses incident to such chemists testifying when necessary; telegraph and telephone service, rent in theMiscellaneous expenses. District of Columbia and elsewhere, postage, freight, express, necessary expenses incurred in making investigations in connection with the enrollment or disbarment of practitioners before the Treasury Department in internal-revenue matters, expenses of seizure and sale, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses, including stenographic reporting services; for the acquisition of property under the provisionsAcquisition of property. of title III of the Liquor Law Repeal and Enforcement Act, approved August 27, 1935 (49 Stat, 872–881), and the operation,[49 Stat. 879](/us/stat/49/879).[40 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 304h](/us/usc/t40/s304h). maintenance, and repair of property acquired under such title III; for the exchange, hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of Vehicles.motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary, for official use of the Alcohol Tax Unit in field work; and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, furniture, mechanical devices,Supplies, furniture, etc. laboratory supplies, law books and books of reference, and such other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia, the several collection districts, the. several divisions of internal-revenue agents, and the several supervisory districts, $58,700,000, of which amount not to exceed $11,428,520 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That no*Proviso*.Expenses of officers attending trials, etc. part of this amount shall be used in defraying the expenses of any officer designated above, subpenaed by the United States court to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall*Post*, p, 268. be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of jurors and witnesses, United States courts”: *Provided further*, That not more thanDetection and prosecution of violations. $100,000 of the total amount appropriated herein may be expended by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for detecting and bringing to trial persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violation. For salaries and expenses in connection with carrying out theExpenses under Silver Purchase Act of 1934, etc.[48 Stat 1178](/us/stat/48/1178).[31 U. S. C. § 448](/us/usc/t31/s448). provisions of the Silver Purchase Act of 1934 and any Executive orders, proclamations, and regulations issued thereunder, including not to exceed $14,000 for personal services in the District, of Columbia, supplies and materials, traveling expenses, printing and binding, rents, equipment, and miscellaneous expenses, $40,000. Refunding internal-revenue collections: For refunding Refunding collections.internal-revenue collections, as provided by law, including the payment of claims for the fiscal year 1939 and prior years and accounts arising under “Allowance or draw-back (Internal Revenue)”, “Redemption of stamps (Internal Revenue)”, “Refunding legacy taxes, Act of March 30, 1928”, and “Repayment of taxes on distilled spirits45 Stat. 398. destroyed by casualty”, $35,000,000: *Provided* That a report shall be*Proviso*.Detailed report to Congress of refunds. made to Congress by internal-revenue districts and alphabetically arranged of all disbursements hereunder in excess of $500 as required by section 3 of the Act of May 29, 1928 (26 U. S. C. 1676), including[45 Stat. 996](/us/stat/996).[26 U. S. C. § 1676](/us/usc/t26/s1676). the names of all persons and corporations to whom such payments are made, together with the amount paid to each. 52 Stat. 128 Alaska railroads, additional income tax.Additional income tax on railroads in Alaska: For the payment to the Treasurer of Alaska of an amount equal to the tax of 1 per centum collected on the gross annual income of all railroad corporations doing business in Alaska, on business done in Alaska, which tax is in addition to the normal income tax collected from such corporations on net income, and the amount of such additional tax to be applicable to general Territorial purposes, $8,800. Federal Alcohol Administration.federal alcohol administration Salaries and expenses.Salaries and expenses: For the purpose of administering the provisions of the “Federal Alcohol Administration Act”, approved [49 Stat. 977](/us/stat/49/977).[27 U. S. C., Supp. III, 201–212](/us/usc/t27/s201/212).August 29, 1935 (49 Stat. 977), as amended, including personal and other services; supplies and materials; equipment; communication service; stationery; travel and subsistence expenses as authorized by law; maintenance, repair, and operation of automobiles; law books, books of reference, magazines, periodicals, and newspapers; contract Securing of evidence.stenographic reporting service; the securing of evidence of violations of the Act; and miscellaneous and contingent expenses, $450,000. Bureau of Narcotics.Bureau of Narcotics Salaries and expenses.[38 Stat. 785](/us/stat/38/785).[26 U. S. C. §§ 1383-1391, 1040–1064](/us/usc/t26/s1383/1391/1040/1064).[35 Stat. 614](/us/stat/35/614); [42 Stat. 596](/us/stat/42/596).[21 U. S. C. §§ 171–184](/us/usc/t21/s171/184).[50 Stat. 551](/us/stat/50/551).[26 U. S. C., Supp. III, §§ 1399–1399q](/us/usc/t26/s1399/1399q).[44 Stat. 1381](/us/stat/44/1381).[5 U. S. C. § 281c](/us/usc/t5/s281c).[46 Stat. 585](/us/stat/46/585).[5 U. S. C. §§ 282–282c](/us/usc/t5/s282/282c).Salaries and expenses: For expenses to enforce the Act of December 17, 1914 (26 U. S. C. 1383-1391), as amended by the Revenue Act of 1918 (26 U. S. C. 1040-1064), the Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act, as amended (21 U. S. C. 171–184), and the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 (50 Stat. 551–556); pursuant to the Act of March 3, 1927 (5 U. S. C. 281c), and the Act of June 14, 1930 (5 U. S. C. 282–282c), including the employment of executive officers, attorneys, agents, inspectors, chemists, supervisors, clerks, messengers, and other necessary employees in the field and in the Bureau of Narcotics in the District of Columbia, to be appointed as authorized by law; the securing of information and evidence of violations of the Acts; the costs of chemical analyses made by others than employees of the Transportation of personal effects.United States; the transportation of household and other personal effects incident to the change of headquarters of all employees engaged in field activities, not to exceed five thousand pounds in any one case, together with the necessary expenses incident to packing, crating, boxing, and draying same; the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, books, and such other expenditures as may be Seizures, etc.necessary in the several field offices; cost incurred by officers and employees of the Bureau of Narcotics in the seizure, storage, and disposition of property under the internal-revenue laws when the [R. S. § 3460](/us/rs/3460).[26 U. S. C. § 1624](/us/usc/t26/s1624).same is disposed of under section 3460, Revised Statutes (26 U. S. C. 1624); purchase (not to exceed $10,000), exchange, hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary for official use in field work; purchaseRent. of arms and ammunition, and for rental of necessary quarters Services in the District.in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; in all, $1,267,600, of which amount not to exceed $186,568 may be expended for personal services *Provisos*.Use of confiscated vehicles.[43 Stat. 1116](/us/stat/43/1116).[19 U. S. C. §§ 522–524](/us/usc/t19/s522/524).in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury may authorize the use by narcotic agents of motor vehicles confiscated under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1925 (27 U. S. C. 43), as amended, and to pay the cost of acquisition, maintenance,Law observance. repair, and operation thereof: *Provided further*, That not exceeding $10,000 may be expended for the collection and dissemination of information and appeal for law observance and law enforcement, including cost of printing, purchase of newspapers, and other necessary expenses in connection therewith and not exceeding $1,50052 Stat. 129 for attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Bureau of Narcotics: *Provided further*, That not exceeding $10,000 may beApprehension of fugitives from justice. expended for services or information looking toward the apprehension of narcotic law violators who are fugitives from justice:Credit for sums expended. *Provided further*, That moneys expended from this appropriation for the purchase of narcotics including marihuana, and subsequently recovered shall be reimbursed to the appropriation for enforcement of the Narcotic Acts current at the time of the deposit. coast guardCoast Guard. Office of the Commandant: For personal services in the DistrictOffice of the Commandant.*Proviso*.Details at headquarters restricted. of Columbia, $389.240: *Provided*, That no part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used to pay any enlisted man of the Coast Guard while detailed for duty at Coast Guard headquarters if such detail increases the total number of enlisted men detailed on such duty at any time above ten. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorizedService expenditures. work of the Coast Guard, including the expense of maintenance, repair, and operation of vessels forfeited to the United States and delivered to the Treasury Department under the terms of the Act approved March 3, 1925 (27 U. S. C. 41), maintenance, repair,[43 Stat. 1116](/us/stat/43/1116).[19 U. S. C. §§ 522–524](/us/usc/t19/s522/524). exchange, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes at headquarters and in the field, and the rental of quarters in the District of Columbia, as follows: Pay and allowances: For pay and allowances prescribed by lawPay and allowances. for commissioned officers, cadets, warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, active and retired, temporary cooks, surfmen, substitute surfmen, and three civilian instructors, retired pay for certainRetired members of former Life Saving Service.[46 Stat. 164](/us/stat/46/164).[14 U. S. C. § 178a](/us/usc/t14/s178a).Cash prizes. members of the former Life Saving Service authorized by the Act approved April 14, 1930 (14 U. S. C. 178a), and not exceeding $8,000 for cash prizes for men for excellence in boatmanship, gunnery, target practice, and engineering competitions; for carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 4, 1920 (34 U. S. C. 943); notDeath allowance.[41 Stat. 824](/us/stat/41/824).[34 U. S. C. § 943](/us/usc/t34/s943). to exceed $7,500 for cost of special instruction, including maintenance of students; rations or commutation thereof for cadets, petty officers, and other enlisted men, mileage and expenses allowed by law for officers; and traveling expenses for other persons traveling on dutyTraveling expenses. under orders from the Treasury Department, including transportation of cadets, enlisted men, and applicants for enlistment, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; expensesRecruiting. of recruiting for the Coast Guard, rent of rendezvous, and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen and applicants for appointment as cadets; transportation and packing allowances for baggage or household effects of commissioned officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men, $18,037,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be*Proviso*.Increased pay for aerial flights, limitations on amount. used for increased pay at a rate in excess of $1,440 per annum to any nonflying commissioned officer or commissioned officer observer for making aerial flights; which rate shall be the legal maximum rate of such increased pay as to any such officer; Fuel and water: For fuel, lubricating oil, kerosene, and water,Fuel and water. and for the furnishing of heat, light, and power (service) for vessels, stations, and houses of refuge, $1,500,000; Outfits: For outfits, including repairs to portable equipment atOutfits, stores, etc. shore units, ship chandlery, engineers’ stores, and draft animals and their maintenance, $1,575,000; 52 Stat. 130 Station improvements.Rebuilding and repairing stations: For rebuilding and repairing stations and houses of refuge, temporary leases, rent, and improvements of property for Coast Guard purposes, including use of additional land where necessary, $332,500; Communication lines.Communication lines: For coastal communication lines and facilities and their maintenance, and communication service, $201,400; Civilian field employees.Civilian employees: For compensation of civilian employees in the field, including clerks to district commanders and per diem labor, $205,200; Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For contingent expenses, including subsistence of shipwrecked and destitute persons succored by the Coast Guard and of prisoners while in the custody of the Coast Guard; for the recreation, amusement, comfort, contentment, and health of the enlisted men of the Coast Guard, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding $40,000; instruments and apparatus, supplies, technical books and periodicals, services necessary to the carrying on of scientific investigation, and not exceeding $4,000 for experimental and research work; care, transportation, and burial of deceased officers and enlisted men, including those who die in Government hospitals; apprehension of deserters; wharfage, towage, freight, storage, advertising, surveys, medals, newspapers, Rifle matches, entrance fees, etc.and periodicals for statistical purposes; entrance fees in matches for the rifle team, and special equipment therefor; and all other necessary expenses which are not included under any other heading; $113,000; Repairs to vessels.Repairs to vessels: For repairs to Coast Guard vessels and boats, exclusive of aircraft, including cost of salvage operations when incident to the repairs thereof, $1,600,000; Aircraft repairs.For repairs to Coast Guard aircraft, including cost of salvage operations when incident to the repairs thereof, $515,187; Aviation shore stations, etc., restrictions.No part of the appropriations contained in this Act under the Coast Guard, nor of any appropriation heretofore made, shall be used for the construction for the Coast Guard of any new permanent aviation shore station or for the permanent enlargement of the capacity of any existing aviation shore station, but this limitation shall not apply to expenditures for completion of construction for which funds were made available prior to February 5, 1936; No part of the appropriations contained in this Act under the Coast Guard, nor of any appropriation heretofore made, shall be used for the construction for the Coast Guard of any new permanent aviation shore station or for the permanent enlargement of the capacity of any existing aviation shore station, but this limitation shall not apply to expenditures for completion of construction for which funds were made available prior to February 5, 1936; Replacement airplanes.*Post*, p. 1151.Replacement airplanes: For replacement airplanes and their equipment, including radio equipment, spare parts, and accessories, $270,000; Additional vessels.Additional vessels: For additional harbor cutters and their equipment,*Proviso*.Amount for administrative expenses. $700,000, to be immediately available: *Provided,* That not to exceed 4 per centum of the amount appropriated for this purpose shall be available for administrative expenses in connection therewith. Total, Coast Guard, exclusive of Office of the Commandant, *Proviso*.Aviation expanses.*Ante*. p. 129,$25,049,287: *Provided* That not more than a total of $1,924,820 out of the appropriations contained in this Act under the caption “Coast Guard” except the appropriations “Salaries, Office of the Commandant” and “Replacement airplanes”, shall be expended for aviation. Interchange of appropriations.Interchange of appropriations: Such part of any appropriation for the Coast Guard, contained in this Act, except the appropriations “Pay and allowances”, “Civilian employees”, and “Salaries, Office of the Commandant”, as may be necessary for freight and express charges on materials, supplies, and equipment, may be transferred, with the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, to the appropriation for contingent expenses of the Coast Guard in order to make such payments. 52 Stat. 131 bureau of engraving and printingBureau of Engraving and Printing. For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work,Work authorized for fiscal year 1939. during the fiscal year 1939, United States currency and internal-revenue stamps, including opium orders and special-tax stamps required under the Act of December 17, 1914 (26 U. S. C., 1040, 1383), checks,[38 Stat. 786](/us/stat/38/786).[26 U. S. C. §§ 1040, 1383](/us/usc/t26/s1040/1383).Salaries and expenses.*Post*, p. 1152. drafts, and miscellaneous work, as follows: Salaries and expenses: For the Director, two Assistant Directors, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including wages of rotary press plate printers at per diem rates and all other plate printers at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work; forMaterials, etc. engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials, including distinctive and nondistinctive paper, except distinctive paper for United States currency and Federal Reserve bank currency; equipment of, repairs to, and maintenance of buildings and grounds and for minor alterations to buildings; directories, technical books and periodicals,Reference books, etc. and books of reference, not exceeding $300; traveling expenses not to exceed $2,000; miscellaneous expenses, including not to exceedMiscellaneous expenses. $1,500 for articles approved by the Secretary of the Treasury as being necessary for the protection of the person of employees; forScientific investigations. transfer to the Bureau of Standards for scientific investigations in connection with the work of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, not to exceed $15,000; and for the maintenance and driving of twoVehicles. motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; $9,200,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the. Treasury. During the fiscal year 1939 all proceeds derived from work performedCredit of proceeds from work. by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, not covered and embraced in the appropriation for such Bureau for such fiscal year, instead of being covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, as provided by the Act of August 4, 1886 (31 U. S. C. 176), shall be credited when[24 Stat. 227](/us/stat/24/227).[31 U. S. C. § 176](/us/usc/t31/s176). received to the appropriation for said Bureau for the fiscal year 1939. secret service divisionSecret Service Division. Salaries: For the Chief of the Division and other personal servicesSalaries. in the District of Columbia, $53,160. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For salaries andSuppressing counterfeiting, etc. other expenses under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal or other officer having jurisdiction, dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money, persons engaged in counterfeiting, forging, and altering United States notes, bonds, national-bank notes, Federal Reserve notes, Federal Reserve bank notes, and other obligations and securities of the United States and of foreign governments (including endorsements thereon and assignments thereof), as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and persons committingOther crimes. other crimes against the laws of the United States relating to the Treasury Department and the several branches of the public service under its control; purchase (not to exceed $15,000), exchange, hire,Vehicles. maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; purchase of arms and ammunition; traveling expenses: and for no other purpose whatsoever, except in the performance of other duties specifically authorized by law, andProtection of the President, etc. in the protection of the person of the President and the members of his immediate family and of the person chosen to be President52 Stat. 132 *Provisos*.Witness fees.of the United States, $810,000: *Provided*, That no part of the amount herein appropriated shall be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses and jurors, United States Securing information concerning violations, etc.courts”: *Provided further*, That of the amount herein appropriated, not to exceed $10,000 may be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the laws relating to the Treasury Department, and for services or information looking toward the apprehension of criminals. White House Police.White House Police: Captain, lieutenant, three sergeants, and for fifty-five privates, at rates of pay provided by law; in all, $146,900. Uniforms and equipment.For uniforming and equipping the White House Police, including the purchase, issue, and repair of revolvers, and the purchase and issue of ammunition and miscellaneous supplies, to be procured in such manner as the President in his discretion may determine, $3,750. Public Health Service.public health service Salaries, Office of Surgeon General.Salaries, Office of Surgeon General: For personal services in the District of Columbia, $316,000. Commissioned officers, pay, etc.*Post*, p. 262.Commissioned officers, pay, and so forth: For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for not to exceed 417 regular active commissioned officers (including the Surgeon General and assistant surgeons general) and for pay of regular commissioned officers on waiting orders, $1,928,000. Acting assistant surgeons, pay.Acting assistant surgeons, pay: For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medical officers), $325,000. Pay of other employees.Pay of other employees: For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth), $950,000. Freight, transportation, etc.Freight, transportation, and so forth: For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved [46 Stat. 818](/us/stat/46/818).[5 U. S. C. § 118a](/us/usc/t5/s118a).June 26, 1930 (5 U. S. C. 118a), not to exceed $5,000 but not to exceed $1,700 for any one person; the expenses, except membership fees, of officers when officially detailed to attend meetings for the promotion of public health; contract stenographic reporting services; not to exceed $450 for journals and scientific books, office of the Surgeon General; and the packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of the personal effects of commissioned officers, scientific personnel, administrative assistants, aides, dietitians, pharmacists, and nurses of the Public Health Service, upon permanent change of station, *Proviso*,Transporting remains of officers.$25,450: *Provided* That funds expendable for transportation and traveling expenses may also be used for preparation for shipment and transportation to their former homes of remains of officers who die in line of duty. National Institute of Health.National Institute of Health, maintenance: For maintaining the National Institute of Health, $64,000. Pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals.Medical examinations, etc.[39 Stat. 885](/us/stat/39/885).[8 U. S. C. § 152](/us/usc/t8/s152).Pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals: For medical examinations, including the amount necessary for the medical inspection of aliens, as required by section 16 of the Act. of February 5, 1917 (8 U. S. C. 152), medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies, including prosthetic and orthopedic supplies to be furnished under regulations approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, for beneficiaries (other than patients of the Veterans’ Administration) of the Public Health. Service and persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service under the immigration laws and regulations, including necessary personnel and reserve commissioned officers52 Stat. 133 of the Public Health Service, personal services in the District ofServices in the District, etc.General expenses.Columbia and elsewhere, including the furnishing and laundering of white duck coats, trousers, smocks, aprons, and caps to employees whose duties make necessary the wearing of same, maintenance, minor repairs, equipment, leases, fuel, lights, water, freight, transportation and travel, the maintenance, exchange, and operation ofVehicles. motor trucks and passenger motor vehicles for official use in field work (including not to exceed $3,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles) and one for use in connection with the administrative work of the Public Health Service in the District of Columbia, purchase of ambulances, transportation, care,Lepers, insane, etc. maintenance, and treatment of lepers, including transportation to their homes in the continental United States of recovered indigent leper patients, court costs and other expenses incident to proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken for commitment of mentally incompetent persons to hospitals for the care and treatment of the insane, and reasonable burial expenses (not exceeding $100 for any patient dying in hospital), $6,400,000: *Provided*, That the Immigration Service*Provisos*.Use of hospitals at Ellis Island Immigration Station. shall permit the Public Health Service to use the hospitals at Ellis Island Immigration Station for the care of Public Health Service patients free of expense for physical upkeep, but with a charge of actual cost of fuel, light, water, telephone, and similar supplies and services, to be covered into the proper Immigration Service appropriations; and money collected by the Immigration Service onDesignated receipts to be covered into Treasury. account of hospital expenses of persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service under the immigration laws and regulations shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall be used for the quarantineUses forbidden. service, the prevention of epidemics, or scientific work of the character provided for under the appropriations which follow. Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, exclusiveQuarantine service. of pay of officers and employees, of United States quarantine stations, including the exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work and not to exceed $9,500 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $281,250. Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case only ofPrevention of epidemics. threatened or actual epidemic of infectious or contagious disease, to aid State and local boards or otherwise in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, $280,000, including the purchase of newspapers and clippings from newspapers containing information relating to the prevalence of disease and the public health. Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State andInterstate quarantine service. municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, including the purchase and exchange, not to exceed $1,000, and maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles, $36,500. Biologic products: To regulate the propagation and sale of viruses,Biologic products.Regulating sate of viruses, etc. serums, toxins, and analogous products, including arsphenamine, and for the preparation of curative and diagnostic biologic products, including personal services of Reserve commissioned officers and other personnel, $55,000. Division of Venereal Diseases: For the maintenance and expensesDivision of Venereal Diseases, maintenance, etc.[40 Stat. 886](/us/stat/40/886).[42 U. S. C. §§ 24, 25](/us/usc/t42/s24/25). of the Division of Venereal Diseases, established by sections 3 and 4, chapter XV, of the Act approved July 9, 1918 (42 U. S. C. 24, 25), including personal and other services in the field and in the District of Columbia, $80,000, of which amount not to exceed $19,500 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. 52 Stat. 134 Division of Mental Hygiene.[46 Stat. 587](/us/stat/46/587).[21 U. S. C. §§ 100, 225](/us/usc/t21/s100/225).Lexington, Ky., and Fort Worth, Tex., hospitals.[45 Stat. 1085](/us/stat/45/1085).[21 U. S. C. §§ 221–237](/us/usc/t21/s221/237).Division of Mental Hygiene: For carrying out the provisions of section 4 of the Act of June 14, 1930 (21 U. S. C. 196, 225); for maintenance and operation of the United States Public Health Service Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky, and the United States Public Health Service Hospital of Fort Worth, Texas, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of January 19, 1929 (21 U. S. C. 221–237), including personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $32,000) and elsewhere; traveling expenses; firearms and ammunition; necessary supplies and equipment; reimbursement to the working capital fund for articles or services furnished by the industrial activities; subsistence and care of inmates; expenses incurred in pursuing and identifying escaped inmates, including rewards for their capture; expenses of interment or transporting remains of deceased inmates including the remains of persons voluntarily admitted; purchase and exchange of farm products and livestock; law books, books of reference, newspapers, and periodicals; furnishing and laundering of uniforms and other distinctive wearing apparel necessary for employees in the performance of their official duties; transportation when necessary, within continental United States and under regulations approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, of persons voluntarily admitted and discharged as cured; tobacco for inmates; Vehicles.purchase and exchange (not to exceed $10,700), and maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; Provisos.U. S. Narcotic Farm, Fort Worth, Tex., change of designation.$950,000: *Provided*, That on and after July 1, 1938, the United States Narcotic Farm, Fort Worth, Texas, shall be known as United States Public Health Service Hospital, of Fort Worth, Texas, but such change in designation shall not affect the status of any person in connection therewith or the status of such institution under any Transfer of sum for equipment, purchase of livestock, etc.Act applicable thereto: *Provided further*, That a sum not to exceed $170,000 is authorized to be transferred from the funds available to the Procurement Division, Public Works Branch, for the construction of the United States Narcotic Farm, Fort Worth, Texas, to this appropriation and is hereby made available immediately for expenditure by the Public Health Service for further furnishing and equipping such narcotic farm, including the purchase, of livestock. Educational exhibits.Educational exhibits: For the preparation of public-health exhibits designed to demonstrate the cause, prevalence, methods of spread, and measures for preventing diseases dangerous to the public health, including personal services and the cost of acquiring, transporting, and displaying exhibit material, $1,000. Grants to States for public-health work.Grants to States for public-health work: For the purpose of assisting States, counties, health districts, and other political subdivisions of the States in establishing and maintaining adequate public-health services, including the training of personnel for State and[49 Stat. 634](/us/stat/49/634).[42 U. S. C., Supp. III, §§ 801, 802](/us/usc/t42/s801/802). local health work, as authorized in sections 601 and 602, title VI, of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935 (49 Stat., 634), $8,000,000. Diseases and sanitation investigations.[49 Stat. 635](/us/stat/49/635).[42 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 803](/us/usc/t42/s803).[37 Stat. 309](/us/stat/37/309).[42 U. S. C. § 1](/us/usc/t42/s1).Diseases and sanitation investigations: For carrying out the provisions of section 603 of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935, and section 1 of the Act of August 14, 1912, including rent and personnel and other services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere and items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriations for printing and binding, stationery, and miscellaneous and contingent expenses for the Treasury Department, the provisions of [37 Stat. 414](/us/stat/37/414).[31 U. S. C. § 660](/us/usc/t31/s660).section 6, Act of August 23, 1912 (31 U. S. C. 669), to the contrary notwithstanding, the packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of the personal effects of commissioned officers, scientific personnel,52 Stat. 135 pharmacists, administrative assistants, aides, dietitians, and nurses of the Public Health Service upon permanent change of station, and including the purchase (not to exceed $2,500), exchange, maintenance,Automobiles. repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles for official use in field work, $1,600,000, of which not to exceed $50,000 shall be available for investigations to determine the possibly harmful effects on human beings of spray insecticides on fruits and vegetables. National Cancer Institute: For carrying into effect the provisionsNational Cancer Institute.[50 Stat. 562](/us/stat/50/562).[42 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 137f (b)](/us/usc/t42/s137f/b). of section 7
(b)of the National Cancer Institute Act, approved August 5, 1937, $400,000. Bureau of the MintBureau of the Mint. office of director of the mint Salaries: For the Director of the Mint and other personal servicesSalaries. in the District of Columbia, $38,520. Transportation of bullion and coin: For transportation of bullionTransportation of bullion and coin. and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints, assay offices, and bullion depositories, $30,000. Contingent expenses and examination of mints: For assay laboratoryContingent expenses, etc. chemicals, fuel, materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, and for examination of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purpose of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations and for the collection of statistics relative to the annual production and consumption of the precious metals in the United States, $6,000. Salaries and expenses, mints and assay offices: For compensationMints and assay offices.Salaries and expenses. of officers and employees of the mints at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, San Francisco, California, Denver, Colorado, and New Orleans, Louisiana, the assay offices at New York, New York, and Seattle, Washington, and the bullion depositories at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and West Point, New York, and for incidental and contingent expenses, including traveling expenses, new machinery, and repairs, arms and ammunition, uniforms and accessories for guards, protectiveProtective devices. devices and their maintenance, training of employees in use of firearms and protective devices, maintenance, repair, and operation of a motor bus for use at the Fort Knox Bullion Depository, cases and enameling for medals manufactured, net wastage in melting and refining and in coining departments, loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coins, not to exceed $500 for the expenses of the annual assay commission, not exceeding $1,000, for the acquisition, at the dollar face amount or otherwise of specimen and rare coins, including United States and foreign gold coins and pieces of gold used as, or in lieu of, money, and ores, for addition to the Government’s collection of such coins, pieces and ores, and including not to exceed $213,000 for cost ofTransfer of bullion to West Point Depository. transferring bullion to the West Point Depository, $1,487,400. Expenses, Silver Purchase and Gold Reserve Acts: For salariesExpenses, Silver Purchase and Gold Reserve Acts. and expenses in the Bureau of the Mint and the mints and assay offices in connection with carrying out the provisions of the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 and the Silver Purchase Act of 1934, and any[48 Stat. 337, 1178](/us/stat/48/337/1178). Executive order’s, proclamations, and regulations issued thereunder, including not to exceed $67,500 for personal services in the District of Columbia, supplies and materials, travel, printing, rent, equipment, and miscellaneous expenses, $750,000. 52 Stat. 136 Procurement Division, Public Buildings Branch.Maintenance.[35 Stat. 537](/us/stat/35/537).[31 U. S. C. § 683](/us/usc/t31/s683).procurement division—public buildings branch For carrying into effect the provisions of the Public Buildings Acts, as provided in section 6 of the Act of May 30, 1908 (31 U. S. C. 683), and for the repair, preservation, and upkeep of all completed public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department (other than life saving stations of the United States Coast Guard), the mechanical equipment and the grounds thereof, and sites acquired for buildings, and for the operation of certain completed and occupied Treasury buildings, including furniture and repairs thereof, but exclusive, with respect to operation, of buildings of the United States Coast Guard, of hospitals, quarantine stations, and other Public Health Service buildings, mints, bullion depositories, and assay offices, the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Liberty Loan, and Auditors’ Buildings: General administrative expenses.*Post*, p. 1153.General administrative expenses: For architectural, engineering, mechanical, administrative, clerical, and other personal services, traveling expenses, including expenses of employees directed by the Secretary of the Treasury to attend meetings of technical and professional societies and educational exhibits in connection with subjects related to the work of the Division of Procurement, Public Buildings Branch, and transportation of household goods, incident to change of headquarters of all employees engaged in field activities, not to exceed five thousand pounds at any one time, together with the necessary expenses incident to packing and draying same; advertising, not exceeding $1,000 for expenses of educational exhibits, specifically approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, testing instruments, law books, books of reference, technical periodicals and journals, drafting materials, especially prepared paper, typewriting machines, adding machines, and other mechanical labor-saving devices, and exchange of same, carpets, electric-light fixtures, furniture, equipment, and repairs thereto, telegraph and telephone service, freight, expressage, and postage incident to the transportation of drawings to and from the office and such other contingencies, articles, services, or supplies as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order or approve in connection with any of the work of the Procurement Division, Public Buildings Branch; Salamanca, N. Y., ground rent.rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including ground rent of the Federal building at Salamanca, New York, for which payment may be made in advance, and including such expenses necessary to wind up the affairs of the United States Housing CorporationServices in the District. and effect its dissolution; $914,220, of which amount not to exceed $502,360 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia and not to exceed $275,860 for personal services in the *Provisos*.Cost of surveys, models, etc.field: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriations shall not be available for the cost of surveys, plaster models, progress photographs, test pits and borings, or mill and shop inspections, but the cost thereof shall be construed to be chargeable against the construction appropriations of the respective projects to which they relate: *Provided further*,Transporting operating supplies. That no expenditures shall be made hereunder for transportation of operating supplies for public buildings: *And provided further*,Pay rates, mechanical labor force. That in no case shall the rates of compensation for the mechanical labor force in the field under this appropriation be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services are employed. Repair, preservation. and equipment, public buildings.Repair, preservation, and equipment, public buildings: For repairs, alterations, improvement, and preservation of completed Federal buildings (including Marcus Hook), the grounds and approaches52 Stat. 137 thereof, wharves, and piers, together with the necessary dredging adjacent thereto, and care and safeguarding, not otherwise provided for, of sites acquired for Federal buildings, including tools and materials for the use of the custodial and mechanical force, wire partitions and insect screens, installation and repair of mechanical equipment, gas, and electric-light fixtures, conduits, wiring, platform scales, and tower clocks; vaults and lockbox equipment in all buildings under construction or completed, and for necessary safe equipments in buildings under the administration of the Treasury Department, including repairs thereto, and changes in, maintenance of, and repairsPneumatic tube system, New York City. to the pneumatic-tube system in New York City installed under franchise of the city of New York, approved June 29, 1909, and June 11, 1928, and the payment of any obligations arising thereunder in accordance with the provisions of the Acts approved August 5, 1909 (36 Stat. 120), and May 15, 1928 (45 Stat. 533), $2,750,000:[36 Stat. 120](/us/stat/36/120); [45 Stat. 533](/us/stat/45/533).*Provisos*.Personal services, restriction. *Provided*, That the appropriation herein made shall not be available for the payment of personal services, except for work done under contract, or for temporary job labor under exigency in an amount not to exceed $100 at one time at any one building: *Provided further*, ThatLimitation on repair, etc. the total expenditures for the fiscal year for the repair and preservation of buildings not reserved by the vendors on sites acquired for buildings or the enlargement of buildings and the installation and repair of the mechanical equipment thereof shall not exceed 20 per centum of the annual rental of such buildings. Operating force for public buildings: For personal services,Operating force for public buildings. including also telephone operators for the operation of telephone switchboards or equivalent telephone switching equipment jointly serving in each case two or more governmental activities, $1,585,900: *Provided*, That in no case shall the rates of compensation for the*Proviso*,Wage rates. mechanical labor force under this appropriation be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services are employed. Furniture and repairs of furniture, public buildings: For furniture,Furniture, etc. carpets, and repairs of same, for certain completed and occupied Treasury buildings, and for public buildings in course of construction which are to be operated by the Public Buildings Branch, $50,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriation shall not be*Provisos*.Personal services, restriction. used for personal services except for work done under contract or for temporary job labor under exigency and not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building: *Provided further*, That allUse of present furniture. furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings or in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not. Operating supplies, public buildings: For fuel, steam, gas forOperating supplies.Fuel, light, power, etc. lighting and heating purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for lighting, heating, and power purposes, telephone service for custodial forces; removal of ashes and rubbish, snow, and ice; cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, and miscellaneous items for use of the custodial forces in the care and maintenance of such public buildings, the grounds thereof, and the equipment and furnishings therein; temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building; miscellaneous supplies,Miscellaneous. tools, and appliances required in the operation (not embracing repairs) of the mechanical equipment, including heating, plumbing, hoisting, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum-cleaning, air-conditioning and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit52 Stat. 138 wiring, call bell and signal systems in such buildings, and for the transportation of articles or supplies, authorized herein: $466,350: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Contracts for telephone switchboards, etc. That this appropriation shall be available for contracts for telephone switchboards or equivalent telephone-switching equipment jointly serving in each case two or more governmental activities in buddings under the Treasury Department where it is found that joint service is economical and in the interest of the Government, and this appropriation shall be reimbursed for the cost of such joint, service from available appropriations of the offices receiving the service. Construction outside the District.Construction of public buildings outside of the District of Columbia: For continuation of construction of, and acquisition of sites for, public buildings outside of the District of Columbia, including the purposes and objects, and subject to the limitations, specified under [50 Stat. 773](/us/stat/50/773).this head in the Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, $11,000,000. Government Printing Office, annex buildings.Limit of cost increased.Government Printing Office, annex buildings, Washington, District of Columbia: For continuation of construction of annex buildings for the Government Printing Office, $2,500,000; and the limit of cost for this project is hereby increased from $5,885,000, as authorized in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, [40 Stat. 600](/us/stat/40/600).approved August 12, 1935, to $7,700,000, which sum shall include the completion of annex building numbered three, the remodeling, rewiring, and installation of new elevators in buildings numbered one and two, and all furniture and the cost of moving machinery in connection*Proviso*.Reversionary provision. with the entire project: *Provided*, That any unexpended balances of appropriations for such project unobligated on the date of completion thereof shall revert to the Treasury. Relief of Government contractors.Losses due to compliance with codes.Payment of claims for relief of contractors. Act of June 16, 1934: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to make payment of claims settled and certified by the Comptroller’General of the United States under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide relief to Government contractors whose costs of performance were increased [48 Stat. 974](/us/stat/48/974).[41 U. S. C. § 28](/us/usc/t41/s28).Unexpended balance continued available.[50 Stat. 153](/us/stat/50/153).as a result of compliance with the Act approved June 16, 1933, and for other purposes”, approved June 16, 1934 (41 U. S. C. 28), the unexpended balance of the appropriation available for this purpose for the fiscal year 1938 is continued available until June 30, 1939. Procurement Division, Branch of Supply.Salaries and expenses.procurement division—branch of supply Salaries and expenses: For the Director of Procurement and other personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field service, and for miscellaneous expenses, including office supplies and materials, purchase and exchange of motor trucks and maintenance thereof, telegrams, telephone service, traveling expenses, office equipment, fuel, Tight, electric current, and other expenses for carrying into effect regulations governing the procurement, warehousing, and distribution by the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department of property, equipment, stores, and supplies in the District Damage claims.of Columbia and in the field (including not to exceed $500 to settle claims for damages caused to private property by motor vehicles *Provisos*.Transfer of funds to Branch of Supply.used by the Procurement Division), $480,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed during the fiscal year 1939 to transfer to this appropriation from any appropriations or funds available to the several departments and establishments of the Government such amounts as may be approved by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, not to exceed the amount of the annual compensation of employees heretofore or hereafter transferred or detailed to the Procurement Division, Branch of Supply,52 Stat. 139 respectively, from any such department or establishment, where the transfer or detail of such employees was or will be incident to a transfer of a function or functions to that Division: *Provided further*, That payments during the fiscal year 1939 to the general supply fund Payments for materials, etc,, issued.for materials, supplies (including fuel), and services, and overhead expenses, for all issues shall be made on the books of the Treasury Department by transfer and counter-warrants prepared by the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department and countersigned by the Comptroller General, such warrants to be based solely on itemized invoices prepared by the Procurement Division at issue prices to be fixed by the Director of Procurement: *Provided further*, That advances received pursuant to law (31 U. S. C. 686) fromAdvances credited to general supply fund.[47 Stat. 417](/us/stat/47/417).[31 U.S. C. §686](/us/usc/t31/s686). departments and establishments of the United States Government and the government of the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1939 shall be credited to the general supply fund: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $700,000 shall be available from thePersonal services. general supply fund during the fiscal year 1939 for personal services: *Provided further*, That the term “fuel” shall be held to include “fuel“Fuel” construed. oil”: *Provided further*, That the requirements of sections 3711 andSeparate certlfieate waived.[R. S. §§ 3711, 3713](/us/rs/3711/3713).[40 U. S. C. § 109](/us/usc/t40/s109). 3713 of the Revised Statutes (40 U. S. C. 109) relative to the weighing of coal and wood and the separate certificate as to the weight, measurement, or quantity of coal and wood purchased shall not apply to purchases by the Procurement Division at free-on-board destination outside of the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, ThatCost of reconditioning equipment. the reconditioning and repair of surplus property and equipment, for disposition or reissue to Government service, may be made at cost by the Procurement Division, payment therefor to be effected by charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation “Salaries and expenses. Branch of Supply, Procurement Division”. Repairs to typewriting machines (except bookkeeping and billingTypewriter repairs, etc. machines) in the Government service in the District of Columbia may be made at cost by the Procurement Division, payment therefor to be effected by charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, Procurement Division, Branch of Supply”. No part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act shallPrices of standard typewriting machines; exceptions. be used during the fiscal year 1939 for the purchase of any standard typewriting machines, except bookkeeping and billing machines, at a price in excess of the following for models with carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches (correspondence models), $70; twelve inches, $75; fourteen inches, $77.50; sixteen inches, $82.50; eighteen inches, $87.50; twenty inches, $94; twenty-two inches, $95; twenty-four inches, $97.50; twenty-six inches, $103.50: twenty-eight inches, $104; thirty inches, $105; thirty-two inches, $107.50; or, for standard typewriting machines distinctively quiet in operation, the maximum prices shall be as follows for models with carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches, $80; twelve inches, $85; fourteen inches, $90; eighteen inches, $95. With the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget,Check clearance, etc,, expenses. there may be transferred sums (not exceeding a total of $400,000) to the appropriations, “Salaries, Office of Treasurer of United States, 1939”, “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department, 1939”, “Printing and binding, Treasury Department, 1939”, and “Stationery, Treasury Department, 1939”, from funds available for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, Farm Credit Administration, Tennessee Valley Authority, Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation, Reconstruction Finance Corporation,52 Stat. 140 Federal land banks and other banks and corporations under the supervision of the Farm Credit Administration, Bailroad Retirement Board, Soil Conservation Service, including Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment, Social Security Board, Federal Housing Administration, United States Housing Authority, Civilian Conservation Corps, and corporations and banks under the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to cover the expenses incurred on account of such respective activities in clearing of checks, servicing of bonds, handling of collections, and rendering of accounts therefor. Miscellaneous items, Treasury Department.Miscellaneous Items, Treasury Department american printing house for the blind American Printing House for the Blind, expenses.To enable the American Printing House for the Blind more adequately to provide books and apparatus for the education of the blind in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved February[44 Stat. 1060](/us/stat/44/1060).[20 U. S. C. § 101](/us/usc/t20/s101).Short title. 8,1927 (20 U. S. C. 101), $115,000. This title may be cited as the “Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1939”. Title II—Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1939.TITLE II— POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT The following sums are appropriated in conformity with the Act [5 Stat. 80](/us/stat/5/80).[5 U. S. C. § 380](/us/usc/t5/s380); [39 U. S. C. § 786](/us/usc/t39/s786).of July 2, 1836 (5 U. S. C. 380, 39 U. S. C. 786), for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, namely: Post Office Department. Washington, D. C.Office of Postmaster General.post office department, washington, district of columbia office of the postmaster general Salaries.Salaries: For the Postmaster General and other personal services in the office of the Postmaster General in the District of Columbia, $228,344. Salaries in bureaus and offices.salaries in bureaus and offices Amounts.For personal services in the District of Columbia in bureaus and offices of the Post Office Department in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, $387,000. Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, $580,520. Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, $788,000. Office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $470.000. Office of the Solicitor for the Post Office Department, $81,280. Office of the chief inspector, $230,000. Office of the purchasing agent, $47,240. Bureau of Accounts, $104,930. Department contingent expenses.Contingent Expenses, Post Office Department Stationery, etc.For contingent and miscellaneous expenses; stationery and blank books, index and guide cards, folders and binding devices, including purchase of free penalty envelopes; telegraph and telephone service, furniture and filing cabinets and repairs thereto; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of tools, electrical supplies, typewriters, Vehicles.adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; maintenance of motor trucks and of two motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes (one for the Postmaster General and one for the general use of the Department); street-car fares;52 Stat. 141 floor coverings; postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad,Correspondence addressed abroad.[49 Stat. 2768](/us/stat/49/2768). which is not exempt under article 49 of the London convention of the Universal Postal Union; purchase and exchange of law books, books of reference, railway guides, city directories, and books necessary to conduct the business of the Department; newspapers, not exceeding $200; expenses, except membership fees, of attendance atAttendance at meetings. meetings or conventions concerned with postal affairs, when incurred on the written authority of the Postmaster General, not exceeding $2,000; expenses of the purchasing agent and of the Solicitor and attorneys connected with his office while traveling on business of the Department, not exceeding $800; and other expenses not otherwise provided for; $84,500. For printing and binding for the Post Office Department, includingPrinting and binding. all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $1,150,000. Appropriations hereinafter made for the field service of the PostField service appropriations not to be used for Department. Office Department, except as otherwise provided, shall not be expended for any of the purposes hereinbefore provided for on account of the Post Office Department in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the actual and necessary expenses of officials and*Provisos*.Travel expanses. employees of the Post Office Department and Postal Service, when traveling on official business, may continue to be paid from the appropriations for the service in connection, with which the travel is performed, and appropriations for the fiscal year 1939 of the character heretofore used for such purposes shall be available therefor: *Provided further*, That appropriations hereinafter made, except such asUse in examining field estimates. are exclusively for payment of compensation, shall be immediately available for expenses in connection with the examination of estimates for appropriations in the field including per-diem allowances in lieu of actual expenses of subsistence. Field Service, Post Office DepartmentField Service. office of the postmaster generalPostmaster General. Travel expenses, Postmaster General and Assistant PostmastersTravel, etc., expenses. General: For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, offices of the Postmaster General and Assistant Postmasters General, $3,000. Personal or property damage claims: To enable the PostmasterDamage claims. General to pay claims for damages, occurring during the fiscal year 1939, or in prior fiscal years, to persons or property in accordance with the provisions of the Deficiency Appropriation Act, approved June 16, 1921 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 392), as amended by the Act[42 Stat. 63](/us/stat/42/63); [48 Stat. 1207](/us/stat/48/1207).[5 U. S. C. §392](/us/usc/t5/s392).Adjusted losses and contingencies. approved June 22, 1934 (48 Stat. 1207), $35,000. Adjusted losses and contingencies, postal funds: To enable the Postmaster General to pay to postmasters, Navy mail clerks, and assistant Navy mail clerks or credit them with the amount ascertained to have been lost or destroyed during the fiscal year 1939, or prior fiscal years, through burglary, fire, or other unavoidable casualty resulting from no fault or negligence on their part, as authorized by the Act approved March 17, 1882, as amended, $225,000.[22 Stat. 29](/us/stat/22/29).[39 U. S. C. § 49](/us/usc/t39/s49). office of chief inspectorOffice of Chief Inspector. Salaries of inspectors: For salaries of fifteen inspectors in chargeInspectors, salaries. of divisions and five hundred and ninety-five inspectors, $2,284,00. Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling expenses ofTraveling and miscellaneous expenses. inspectors, inspectors in charge, the chief post-office inspector, and52 Stat. 142 the assistant chief post-office inspector, and for the traveling expenses of four clerks performing stenographic and clerical assistance to post-office inspectors in the investigation of important fraud cases; Investigations, etc.for tests, exhibits, documents, photographs, office and other necessary expenses incurred by post-office inspectors in connection with their official investigations, including necessary miscellaneous expenses of division headquarters, and not to exceed $500 for technical and scientific books and other books of reference needed in the operation of *Proviso*.Chemical, etc., investigations.the Post Office Inspection Service, $625,000: *Provided*, That not exceeding $22,400 of this sum shall be available for transfer by the Postmaster General to other departments and independent establishments for chemical and other investigations. Clerks, division headquarters.Clerks, division headquarters: For compensation of one hundred and ninety-four clerks at division headquarters of post-office inspectors, $475,850. Payment of rewards.Payment of rewards: For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction of post-office burglars, robbers, highway mail robbers, and persons mailing or causing to be mailed any bomb, infernal machine, or mechanical, chemical, or other device or composition*Provisos*.Death of offender. which may ignite or explode, $55,000: *Provided*, That rewards may be paid in the discretion of the Postmaster General, when an offender of the classes mentioned was killed in the act of committing the crime or in resisting lawful arrest: *Provided further*, Rate limitation.That no part of this sum shall be used to pay any rewards at rates in excess of those specified in Post Office Department Order 9273, Securing information.dated July 25, 1936: *Provided further*, That of the amount herein appropriated not to exceed $20,000 may be expended, in the discretion of the Postmaster General, for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the postal laws and for services and information looking toward the apprehension of criminals. First Assistant Postmaster General.office of the first assistant postmater general Compensation to postmasters.Compensation to postmasters: For compensation to postmasters, including compensation as postmaster to persons who, pending the designation of an acting postmaster, assume and properly perform the duties of postmaster in the event of a vacancy in the office of postmaster of the third or fourth class, and for allowances for rent, light, fuel, and equipment to postmasters of the fourth class, $49,550,000. Assistant postmasters.Compensation to assistant postmasters: For compensation to assistant postmasters at first- and second-class post offices, $6,950,000. Clerks, etc., first- and second-class offices.Clerks, first- and second-class post offices: For compensation to clerks and employees at first- and second-class post offices, including auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter post offices, printers, mechanics, skilled laborers, watchmen, messengers, laborers, and substitutes, $199,000,000. Clerks, contract stations.Clerks, contract stations: For compensation to clerks in charge of contract stations, $1,542,500. Separating mails.Separating mails: For separating mails at third- and fourth-class post offices, $410,000. Unusual conditions.Unusual conditions: For unusual conditions at post offices, $75,000. Clerks, third-class offices.Clerks, third-class post offices: For allowances to third-class post offices to cover the cost of clerical services, $7,450,000. Miscellaneous, first- and second-class offices.Miscellaneous items, first- and second-class post offices: For miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to the operation and protection of post offices of the first- and second classes, and the business conducted in connection therewith, not provided for in other appropriations, $2,000,000. 52 Stat. 143 Village delivery service: For village delivery service in towns andVillage delivery service. villages having post offices of the. second or third class, and in communities adjacent to cities having city delivery, $1,675,000. Detroit River service: For Detroit River postal service, $11,460.Detroit River service.Carfare and bicycle allowance. Carfare and bicycle allowance: For carfare and bicycle allowance, including special-delivery carfare, $1,325,000. City delivery carriers: For pay of letter carriers, City DeliveryCity delivery carriers. Service, $138,750,000. Special-delivery fees: For fees to special-delivery messengers,Special-delivery fees. $8,200,000. office of the seecond assistant postmaster generalSecond Assistant Postmaster General. Star-route service: For inland transportation by star routesStar routes, except in Alaska.*Post*, p. 1144. (excepting service in Alaska), including temporary service to newly established offices, and not to exceed $50,000 for Government-operated star-route service, $10,900,000. Star-route service, Alaska: For inland transportation by starAlaska. routes in Alaska, $206,000. Power-boat service: For inland transportation by steamboat orPower-boat service. other power-boat routes, including ship, steamboat, and way letters, $1,200,000. Railroad transportation and mail messenger service: For inlandRailroad transportation and mail messenger service.*Provisos*.Separate accounting, messenger service.Services in the District. transportation by railroad routes and for mail messenger service, $107,900.000: *Provided*, That separate accounts be kept of the amount expended for mail messenger service: *Provided further*, That there may be expended from this appropriation for clerical and other assistance in the District of Columbia not exceeding the sum of $45,000 to carry out the provisions of section 5 of the Act of July 28, 1916 (39 U. S. C. 562) (the space basis Act), and not exceeding the[39 Stat. 429](/us/stat/39/429); [43 Stat. 1069](/us/stat/43/1069).[39 U. S. C. §§ 562, 826](/us/usc/t39/s562/826). sum of $33,050 to carry out the provisions of section 214 of the Act of February 28, 1925 (39 U. S. C. 826) (cost ascertainment). Railway Mail Service: For fifteen division superintendents, fifteenRailway Mail Service.Division superintendents, etc. assistant division superintendents, two assistant, superintendents at large, one hundred and twenty-one chief clerks, one hundred and twenty-one assistant chief clerks, clerks in charge of sections in the offices of division superintendents, railway postal clerks, substitute railway postal clerks, joint employees, and laborers in the Railway Mail Service, $57,500,000. Railway postal clerks, travel allowance: For travel allowance toRailway postal clerks, travel allowance. railway postal clerks and substitute railway postal clerks, $3,150,000. Railway Mail Service, traveling expenses: For actual and necessaryRailway Mail Service, traveling expenses. expenses, general superintendent and assistant general superintendent, division superintendents, assistant division superintendents, assistant superintendents, chief clerks, and assistant chief clerks, Railway Mail Service, and railway postal clerks, while actually traveling on business of the Post Office Department and away from their several designated headquarters, $60,000. Railway Mail Service, miscellaneous expenses: For rant, light,Miscellaneous expenses. heat, fuel, telegraph, miscellaneous and office expenses, telephone service, badges for railway postal clerks, purchase, rental, repair, andArms, etc., for mail protection. exchange of arms and miscellaneous items necessary for the protection of the mails, rental of space for terminal railway post offices forTerminal offices, rent. the distribution of mails when the furnishing of space for such distribution cannot, under the Postal Laws and Regulations, properly be required of railroad companies without additional compensation, and for equipment and miscellaneous items necessary to terminal railway post offices, $460,000. Electric- and cable-car service: For electric- and cable-car service,Electric- and cable-car service. $335,000. 52 Stat. 144 Foreign mail transportation.*Post*, p. 1144.*Provisos*.Aircraft allowance; restriction.Foreign mail transportation: For transportation of foreign mails by steamship, aircraft, or otherwise, $14,787,275: *Provided*, That not to exceed $10,842,275 of this sum may be expended for carrying foreign mail by aircraft under contracts which will not create obligations for the fiscal year 1940 in excess of such amount: *Provided further*,Sea post service. That the Postmaster General is authorized to expend such sums as may be necessary, not to exceed $170,000, to cover the cost to the United States for maintaining sea post service on ocean steamshipsAssistant Director, Division of International Postal Service. conveying the mails to and from the United States, including the salary of the Assistant Director, Division of International Postal Service, with headquarters at New York City: *Provided further*, Expenses, delegates to Congress of the Universal Postal Union.That not to exceed $12,000 of this appropriation shall be available for expenses of delegates designated from the Post Office Department by the Postmaster General to the Congress of the Universal Postal Union to be held during the fiscal year 1039, to be expended in the discretion of the Postmaster General and accounted for on his certificate notwithstanding the provisions of any other law. Balances due foreign countries.Balances due foreign countries: For balances due foreign countries, fiscal year 1939 and prior years, $1,000,000. Contract Air Mail Service.*Post*, pp. 988,1144.Contract Air Mail Service: For the inland transportation of mail by aircraft and for personal services for examining and auditing the books, records, and accounts of air mail contractors, as authorized by law, and for the incidental expenses thereof, including not to exceed $31,200 for supervisory officials and clerks at air-mail transfer points, and not to exceed $53,700 for personal services in the District of Columbia and incidental and travel expenses, $16,650,000. Indemnities, international mail.Indemnities, international mail: For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of international mail in accordance with convention, treaty, or agreement stipulations, fiscal year 1939 and prior years, $15,000. Rural Delivery Service.Rural Delivery Service: For pay of rural carriers, auxiliary carriers, substitutes for rural carriers on annual and sick leave, clerks in charge of rural stations, and tolls and ferriage, Rural Delivery Service, and for the incidental expenses thereof, $91,960,000, of which not less than $250,000 shall be available for extensions and new service. Third Assistant Postmaster General.office of the third assistant postmaster general Stamps, stamped paper, postal cards, etc.Manufacture and distribution of stamps and stamped paper: For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-delivery stamps, books of stamps, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, postal cards, and for coiling of stamps, and including not to exceed $22,500 for pay of agent and assistants to examine and distribute stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, and for expenses of agency, $4,500,000. Indemnities, domestic mail.Indemnities, domestic mail: For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of pieces of domestic registered matter, insured and collect-on-delivery mail, and for failure to remit collect-on-delivery charges, $575,000. Unpaid money orders more than one year old.Unpaid money orders more than one year old: For payment of domestic money orders after one year from the last day of the month of issue of such orders, $150,000. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General.office of the fourth assistant postmaster general Stationery, etc.Post office stationery, equipment, and supplies: For stationery for the Postal Service, including the money-order and registry system; Postal Savings System, supplies.and also for the purchase of supplies for the Postal Savings System, including rubber stamps, canceling devices, certificates, envelopes,52 Stat. 145 and stamps for use in evidencing deposits, and free penalty envelopes; and for the reimbursement of the Secretary of the Treasury forBond expenses. expenses incident, to the preparation, issue, and registration of the bonds authorized by the Act of June 25, 1910 (39 U. S. C. 760);[36 Stat. 817](/us/stat/36/817).[39 U. S. C. § 760](/us/usc/t39/s/60).Miscellaneous equipment, etc. for miscellaneous equipment and supplies, including the purchase and repair of furniture, package boxes, posts, trucks, baskets, satchels, straps, letter-box paint, baling machines, perforating machines, duplicating machines, printing presses, directories, cleaning supplies, anti the manufacture, repair, and exchange of equipment, the erection and painting of letter-box equipment, and for the purchaseLetter boxes. and repair of presses and dies for use in the manufacture of letter boxes; for postmarking, rating, money-order stamps, andPostmarking, etc., stamps. electrotype plates and repairs to same; metal, rubber, and combination type, dates and figures, type holders, ink pads for canceling and stamping purposes, and for the purchase, exchange, and repairPurchase, etc., of typewriting machines. of typewriting machines, envelope-opening machines, and computing machines, numbering machines, time recorders, letter balances, scales (exclusive of dormant or built-in platform scales in Federal buildings), test weights, and miscellaneous articles purchased and furnished directly to the Postal Service, including complete equipmentFurniture, etc., rented quarters. and furniture for post offices in leased and rented quarters; for the purchase, repair, and replacement of arms and miscellaneous items necessary for the protection of the mails; for miscellaneous expensesPost-route maps, etc. in the preparation and publication of post-route maps and rural delivery maps or blueprints, including tracing for photolithographic reproduction; for other expenditures necessary and incidental to post offices of the first, second, and third classes, and offices of the fourth class having or to have rural delivery service, and for letter boxes; for the purchase of atlases and geographical and technical works not to exceed $1,500; for wrapping twine and tying devices; for expensesTwine and tying devices. incident to the shipment of supplies, including hardware, boxing, packing, and not exceeding $57,500 for the pay of employees inServices in the District. connection therewith in the District of Columbia; for rental, purchase, exchange, and repair of canceling machines and motors, mechanical mail-handling apparatus, accident prevention, and other labor-saving devices, including cost of power in rented buildings and miscellaneous expenses of installation and operation of same, including not to exceed $35,000 for salaries of thirteenTraveling mechanicians.*Proviso*.Sale of maps, etc. traveling mechanicians, and for traveling expenses, $2,700,000; *Provided*, That the Postmaster General may authorize the sale to the public of post-route maps and rural delivery maps or blueprints at the cost of printing and 10 per centum thereof added. Equipment shops, Washington, District of Columbia: For the purchase,Equipment shops, material, etc. manufacture, and repair of mail bags and other mail containers and attachments, mail locks, keys, chains, tools, machinery, and material necessary for same, and for incidental expenses pertaining thereto; material, machinery, and tools necessary for the manufacture and repair of such other equipment for the Postal Service as may be deemed expedient; accident prevention; for the expenses of maintenance and repair of the mail bag equipment shops building and equipment, including fuel, light, power, and miscellaneous supplies and services; for compensation to labor employed in the equipment shops and in the operation, care, maintenance, and protection of the equipment shops building, $1,600,000, of which notServices in the District. to exceed $635,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That out of this appropriation the*Proviso*.Distinctive equipments for executive departments, Alaska, etc. Postmaster General is authorized to use as much of the sum, not exceeding $15,000, as may be deemed necessary for the purchase of material and the manufacture in the equipment shops of such small52 Stat. 146 quantities of distinctive equipments as may be required by other executive departments; and for service in Alaska, Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, or other island possessions. Rent, light, fuel, and water.Rent, light, fuel, and water: For rent, light, fuel, and water, for first-, second-, and third-class post offices, and the cost of advertising for lease proposals for such offices, $11,250,000. Pneumatic-tube service.Pneumatic-tube service: For the rental of not exceeding two miles of pneumatic tubes, not including labor and power in operating the same, for the transmission of mail in the city of Boston, Massachusetts,*Proviso*.Provisions applicable.[32 Stat. 114](/us/stat/32/114); [35 Stat. 412](/us/stat/35/412).[39 U. S. C. § 423](/us/usc/t39/s423). $24,000: *Provided*, That the provisions not inconsistent herewith of the Acts of April 21, 1002 (39 U. S. C., 423), and May 27, 1908 (39 U. S. C., 423), relating to the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similar devices shall be applicable hereto. Vehicle service.Vehicle service: For vehicle service; the hire of vehicles; the rental of garage facilities; the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor vehicles; accident prevention; the hire of supervisors, clerical assistance, mechanics, drivers, garage men, and such other employees as may be necessary in providing vehicles and vehicle service for use in the collection, transportation, delivery, and supervision*Provisos*.Housing of Government-owned vehicles. of the mail, $15,300,000: *Provided*, That the Postmaster General may, in his disbursement of this appropriation, apply a part thereof to the leasing of quarters for the housing of Government-owned motor vehicles at a reasonable annual rental for a term not Tractors and trailer trucks.exceeding ten years: *Provided further*, That the Postmaster General, during the fiscal year 1939, may purchase and maintain from the appropriation “Vehicle service” such tractors and trailer trucks as may be required in the operation of the vehicle service: *Provided further*, Maintenance, etc., of vehicles, restriction on use of funds.That no part of this appropriation shall be. expended for maintenance or repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for use in connection with the administrative work of the Post Office Department in the District of Columbia. Transportation of equipment and supplies.Transportation of equipment and supplies: For the transportation and delivery of equipment, materials, and supplies for the Post Office Department and Postal Service by freight, express, or motor transportation, and other incidental expenses, $330,000. Public buildings.public buildings, maintenance and operation Operating force.Operating force: For personal services in connection with the operation of public buildings, including the Washington Post Office and the Customhouse Building in the District of Columbia, operated by the Post Office Department, together with the grounds thereof and the equipment and furnishings therein, including telephone operators for the operation of telephone switchhoards or equivalent telephone switchboard equipment in such buildings jointly sewing in each case two or more governmental activities, $19,650,000, of which sum not less than $187,737 shall be available for adjustment of the compensation of employees on an annual salary basis who have completed one year of satisfactory service prior to July 1, 1938, and who *Proviso*.Pay rates.have not, before such date, received an advance in pay: *Provided*, That in no case shall the rates of compensation for the mechanical labor force be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services are employed. Operating supplies.Operating supplies,, public buildings: For fuel, steam, gas, and electric current for lighting, heating, and power purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, removal of ashes and rubbish, snow and ice, cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, telephone service for custodial forces, and for miscellaneous services and supplies, accident52 Stat. 147 prevention, tools and appliances, for the operation of completed and occupied public buildings and grounds, including mechanical and electrical equipment, but not the repair thereof, operated by the Post Office Department, including the Washington Post Office and the Customhouse Building in the District of Columbia, and for the transportation of articles and supplies authorized herein, $5,150,000: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Personal services, restriction.That the foregoing appropriation shall not be available for personal services except for work done by contract, or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building: *Provided further*, That the Postmaster GeneralContracts for telephone service. is authorized to contract for telephone service in public buildings under his administration by means of telephone switchboards or equivalent telephone-switching equipment jointly serving in each case two or more governmental activities, where he determines that joint service is economical and in the interest of the Government, and to secure reimbursement for the cost of such joint service from available appropriations for telephone expenses of the bureaus and offices receiving the same. Furniture, carpets, and safes, public buildings: For the procurement,Furniture, equipment, etc. including transportation, of furniture, carpets, safes, safe and vault protective devices, and repairs of same, for use in public buildings which are now, or may hereafter be, operated by the Post Office Department, $625,000: *Provided*, That, excepting expenditures for*Provisos*.Personal services, restriction. labor for or incidental to the moving of equipment from or into public buildings, the foregoing appropriation shall not be used for personal services except for work done under contract or for temporary job labor under exigency and not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at. any one building: *Provided further*, That all furnitureUse of present furniture. now owned by the United States in other public buildings or in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan of furniture or not. Scientific investigations: In the disbursement of appropriationsScientific investigations.Transfer of funds to Bureau of Standards. contained in this title for the field service of the Post Office Department the Postmaster General may transfer to the Bureau of Standards not to exceed $20,000 for scientific investigations in connection with the purchase of materials, equipment, and supplies necessary in the maintenance and operation of the Postal Service. Deficiency in postal revenues: If the revenues of the Post OfficeDeficiency in postal revenues. Department shall be insufficient to meet the appropriations made under title II of this Act, a sum equal to such deficiency in the revenues of such Department is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply such deficiency in the revenues of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, and the sum needed may be advanced to the Post Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster General. This title may be cited as the “Post Office Department AppropriationShort title. Act, 1939”. Sec. 2. Appropriations for the fiscal year 1939 available forExecutive departments, etc.Travel expenses on change of official station. expenses of travel of civilian officers and employees of the executive departments and establishments shall be available also for expenses of travel performed by them on transfer from one official station to another when authorized by the head of the department or establishment concerned in the order directing such transfer: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Transfer for convenience of officer, etc. such expenses shall not be allowed for any transfer effected for the convenience of any officer or employee. 52 Stat. 148 Sec. 3. Restrictions on expenditures. No appropriation available for the executive departments and independent establishments of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, whether contained in this Act or any other Act, shall be expended—
(a)Cost, limitation on automobiles. To purchase any motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle (exclusive of busses, ambulances, and station wagons), at a cost, completely equipped for operation, and including the value of any vehicle exchanged, in excess of $750, unless otherwise specifically provided for in the appropriation.
(b)Maintenance, etc., automobiles not used for official purposes.“Official purposes” construed. For the maintenance, operation, and repair of any Government-owned motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle not used exclusively for official purposes; and “official purposes” shall not include the transportation of officers and employees between their domiciles and places of employment, except in cases of medical officers on out-patient medical services and except in cases of officers and employees engaged in field work the character of whose duties makes such transportation necessary and then only as to such latter cases when the same is approved by the head of the department or establishmentExceptions. concerned. The limitations of this subsection
(b)shall not apply to any motor vehicles for official use of the President, or of the heads of the executive departments.
(c)Maintenance, upkeep, etc., limitation. For the maintenance, upkeep, and repair (exclusive of garage rent, pay of operators, tires, fuel, and lubricants) on any one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, except busses and ambulances, in excess of one-third of the market price of a new vehicle of the same make and class and in no case in excess of $400. Sec. 4. Payments to persons after nomination rejected by Senate, prohibited. No part of the money appropriated under this Act shall be paid to any person for the filling of any position for which he or she has been nominated after the Senate upon vote has failed to confirm the nomination of such person. Sec. 5. Citizenship, etc., provisions.*Post*, p. 1163. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act or authorized hereby to be expended shall be used to pay the compensation of any officer or employee of the Government of the United States, or of any agency the majority of the stock of which is owned by the Government of the United States, whose post of duty is in continental United States unless such officer or employee is a citizen of the United States or a person in the service of the United States on the date of the approval of this Act who being eligible for citizenship has filed a declaration of intention to become a citizen or who *Proviso*.Exceptions.owes allegiance to the United States: *Provided*, That this section shall not apply to enlisted men of the United States Coast Guard who are on active duty in that service on the effective date of this Act, until the expiration of the period required for such enlisted men to complete their naturalization, nor shall it apply to personnel of the Coast Guard on the retired list, and enlisted men on active duty with over twelve years’ honorable service who are ineligible for United States citizenship. Approved, March 28, 1938. To dedicate the month of April in each year to a voluntary national program for the control of cancer. 1938-03-28 56 Chapter United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-11-15 52 Stat. 148 75 3 public [CHAPTER 56] JOINT RESOLUTION To dedicate the month of April in each year to a voluntary national program for the control of cancer. March 28, 1938[[H. J. Res 468](/us/bill/75/hjres/468)][[Pub. Res., No. 82](/us/bill/75/pubres/82)] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Cancer Control Month.April of each year to be proclaimed as.*Post*, p. 1538. That the President of the United States is hereby authorized and requested to issue annually a proclamation setting apart the month of April of each year as Cancer Control Month and to invite annually the Governors of the52 Stat. 149 several States and Territories and possessions of the United States to issue proclamations for like purposes. It is requested that such proclamations invite the medical profession, the press, and all agencies and individuals interested in a national program for the control of the disease of cancer by education and other cooperative means to unite during the month in a public dedication to such a program and in a concerted effort to impress upon the people of the Nation the necessity of such a program. Approved, March 28, 1938. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to eliminate the requirements of cultivation in connection with certain homestead entries”, approved August 19, 1935. 1938-03-31 57 Chapter United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-11-15 52 Stat. 149 75 3 public [CHAPTER 57] AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act to eliminate the requirements of cultivation in connection with certain homestead entries”, approved August 19, 1935. March 31, 1938[[S. 1759](/us/bill/75/s/1759)][
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