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(/us/pl/76/65)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* TITLE I—TREASURY DEPARTMENT Treasury Department Appropriation Act 1940. 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, 1940, namely: OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Salaries. Salaries: Secretary of the Treasury, Under Secretary of the Treasury, three Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, and other personal Experts. *Provisos.* Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act; exceptions. [5 U. S. C. §§661–674](/us/usc/t5/s661/674); [Supp.
IV, §§ 673, 673c](/us/usc/t5/s673/673c).services in the District of Columbia, including the temporary employment of experts, $235,860: *Provided,* That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations contained in this Act for the payment of personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury and the Assistant Postmasters General, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, Advances in meritorious cases.except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the com-53 Stat. 655pensation 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, and 4 of Not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.No reduction in fixed salaries.[5 U. S. C. § 666](/us/usc/t5/s666).Transfers without reduction.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 Higher salary rates permitted.the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or
(5)to reduce the compensation of any person in If only one position in a grade.a grade in which only one position is allocated. Old-age reserve account, Social Security Act: For an amount sufficient Old-age reserve account, Social Security Act. [49 Stat. 622](/us/stat/49/622). [42 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 401](/us/usc/t42/s401).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, $580,000,000, of which $30,000,000 shall be available immediately: *Provided,* That such *Proviso.* Availability, etc.amount shall be available until expended for making payments required under the Act, and the amounts not required for current payments shall be invested in accordance with the provisions of such Act. Payments to Federal land banks on account of reductions in interest Payments 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 the amount by which interest payments on mortgages held by such land bank have been reduced during the fiscal year 1940, and prior thereto, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph “Twelfth” of section 12 of [48 Stat. 43](/us/stat/48/43).[12 U. S. C., § 771; Supp. IV, § 771](/us/usc/t12/s771).the Federal Farm Loan Act (12 U. S. C. 771), as amended, $29,700,000. Payments to the Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation on account Payments 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 1940, 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/48/48).[12 U. S. C. § 1016; Supp. IV, § 1016](/us/usc/t12/s1016).such payments to be made quarterly, beginning as soon as practicable after October 1, 1939, $7,425,000. Advances to Railroad Unemployment Insurance Account: To Railroad Unemployment Insurance Account, advances to.enable the Secretary of the Treasury to advance to the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Account, pursuant to Section 10
(d)of the Act of June 25, 1938 (52 Stat. 1104), such sums as the Railroad [52 Stat. 1104](/us/stat/52/1104).[45 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 360](/us/usc/t45/s360).Retirement Board shall request for the purpose of paying benefits, $23,750,000, to be immediately available. DIVISION OF RESEARCH AND STATISTICS Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia, Salaries.$170,000. OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL Salaries: For the General Counsel and other personal services in Salaries.the District of Columbia, $135,420. 53 Stat. 656 OFFICE OF CHIEF CLERK Salaries.Salaries: For the Chief Clerk and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $146,660. MISCELLANEOUS AND CONTINGENT EXPENSES, TREASURY DEPARTMENT Department contingent, etc., expenses.For miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the bureaus and offices of the Department, including Operating expenses, Department buildings.Books, periodicals, etc.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 connected Traveling 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 motortrucks and one passenger automobile (at a cost not exceeding $1,800) for the Secretary of the Treasury, and maintenance and repair of motortrucks 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 Fuel, light, power, etc.purposes only; file holders and cases; 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 supplies for same; floor covering Furniture, etc.and repairs thereto; furniture and office equipment, including supplies therefor and repairs thereto; awnings, window shades, and fixtures; cleaning supplies and equipment; drafting equipment; Streetcar fares.flags; hand trucks, ladders; miscellaneous hardware; streetcar fares not exceeding $750; thermometers; lavatory equipment and supplies; tools and sharpening same; laundry service; laboratory supplies and Sales of lands and other property.equipment, removal of rubbish; postage; custody, care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United [R. S. §§ 3749, 3750](/us/rs/s3749/3750).[40 U. S. C. §§ 301, 302](/us/usc/t40/s301/302).States, acquired and held under 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 *Provisos.*Additional funds.*Post,* pp. 658, 660, 662, 657.otherwise provided for; $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 1940 are hereby made available for the payment of items otherwise properly chargeable to this appropriation, the provisions of [37 Stat. 414](/us/stat/37/414).[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).section 6, Act of August 23, 1912 (31 U. S. C. 669), to the contrary notwithstanding: *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 TREASURY BUILDINGS Operating force, salaries. Salaries of operating force: For the Superintendent of Treasury 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 53 Stat. 657other buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, except the buildings of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $320,000. Salaries and expenses, guard force: For salaries and expenses of Guard force, salaries and expenses. the guard force for Treasury Department buildings in the District of Columbia, including the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, including not to exceed $4,000 for purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms, and for the purchase of arms and ammunition and miscellaneous equipment, $279,500: *Provided,* That this appropriation *Provisos.*Reimbursement for designated service.may be reimbursed 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 of the Treasury may detail an agent of Secret Service supervisor.the Secret Service to supervise such force. DIVISION OF PRINTING Salaries: For the Chief, Division of Printing, and other personal Salaries.services in the District of Columbia, $70,060. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Treasury Printing and binding.Department, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, except the Bureau of Internal Revenue, and including materials for the use of the bookbinder, located in the Treasury Department, but Work excluded.not including work done at the New York Customhouse bindery authorized by the Joint Committee on Printing in accordance with the Act of March 1, 1919 (44 U. S. C. 111), and for the cost of transportation [40 Stat. 1270](/us/stat/40/1270).[44 U. S. C. § 111](/us/usc/t44/s111).to field offices of printed and bound material, including cost of necessary packing boxes and packing materials, $473,000. Stationery: For stationery for the Treasury Department and its Stationery.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, $610,000. OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF ACCOUNTS AND DEPOSITS Salaries: For Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits and other Salaries.personal services in the District of Columbia, including the Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants, $356,180. Division of Disbursement, salaries and expenses: For personal Division 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.the Director of the Bureau of the Budget there may be transferred to this appropriation from funds available for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Federal Housing Administration, United States Housing Authority, Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation, Federal Prison Industries, Railroad Retirement Board, Social Security Board, United States Maritime Commission, and the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, such sums as may be necessary to cover the expense incurred in performing the function of disbursement therefor. Contingent expenses, public moneys: For contingent expenses Contingent expenses, public moneys.[R. S. § 3653](/us/rs/3653).[31 U. S. C. § 545](/us/usc/t31/s545).under the requirements of section 3653 of the Revised Statutes (31 U. S. C. 545), for the collection, safekeeping, transfer, and disburse-53 Stat. 658ment of the public money, transportation of 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 examiners 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/s3649).[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, $150,000. 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 [48 Stat. 1231](/us/stat/48/1231). [31 U. S. C. § 725q](/us/usc/t31/s725q).section 18 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act of 1934, approved June 26, 1934, and any other collections erroneously received covered which are not properly chargeable to any other appropriation, $35,000. 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. IV, § 134a](/us/usc/t5/s134a).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, $1,000. 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”, $15,000. PUBLIC DEBT SERVICE Salaries and expenses. Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses connected with the administration of any public-debt issues and United States paper-currency issues with which the Secretary of the Treasury is charged, Reference books, etc.including the purchase of law books, directories, books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, and newspapers, and the maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-propelled bus or station wagon for use 53 Stat. 659of the Destruction Committee, and including the Commissioner of Personal services.the Public Debt and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $2,348,000: *Provided,* That the amount to be expended for personal *Proviso.*Limitation.services in the District of Columbia shall not exceed $2,319,500. Expenses of loans: The indefinite appropriation “Expenses of Expenses of loans, restriction.[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 1940 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 $3,595,000. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive Distinctive paper for U. S. securities.paper for United States currency and Federal Reserve bank currency, including transportation of paper, traveling, mill, and other necessary expenses, and salaries of employees and allowance, in lieu of expenses, of officer or officers detailed from the Treasury Department, not exceeding $50 per month each when actually on duty; in all, $851,470: *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 1940 between the two bidders whose prices per pound are the lowest received after advertisement. DIVISION OF APPOINTMENTS Salaries: For the Chief of the Division, and other personal services Salaries.in the District of Columbia, $44,700. BUREAU 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 of Transfer of receipts from points lacking Government depositories.Living quarters.[46 Stat. 818](/us/stat/46/818).[5 U. S. C. § 118a](/us/usc/t5/s118a).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 (5 U. S. C. 118a), but not to exceed $1,700 for any one person; not to exceed $500 for subscriptions to newspapers; not to exceed $2,000 for improving, repairing, maintaining, or preserving buildings, inspection stations, office quarters, including living quarters for Quarters along borders.[46 Stat. 817](/us/stat/46/817).[19 U. S. C. §68](/us/usc/t19/s68).Vehicles.officers, sheds, and sites along the Canadian and Mexican borders acquired under authority of the Act of June 26, 1930 (19 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; $21,204,600, of Overtime service at expense of parties in interest.which such amount as may be necessary shall be available 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 7, [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); [Supp. IV, §1451](/us/usc/t19/s1451).*Provisos.*Deposit of receipts as refund to appropriation.[46 Stat. 741](/us/stat/46/741).[19 U. S. C. § 1524](/us/usc/t19/s1524); [Supp. IV, §1454](/us/usc/t42/s1454).Cost of seizure, etc., under customs laws.1920, and section 451 of the Tariff Act, 1930 (19 U. S. C. 261, 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, 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 accesso-53 Stat. 660Details to D. C. from field force.ries, and $493,360 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. §3648](/us/rs/s3648).[31 U. S. C. § 529](/us/usc/t31/s529); [Supp. IV, § 529b](/us/usc/t31/s529b).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. 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, $17,000,000. BUREAU OF THE BUDGET Salaries and expenses. Salaries and expenses: For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Bureau of the Budget, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, contract stenographic reporting services, traveling expenses, including expenses of attendance at meetings when necessary in furthering the work of Reference books. Automobiles.the Bureau of the Budget, streetcar fares, law books, books of reference, periodicals, office equipment and supplies, maintenance, repair and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles for official use, and Temporary employment.[R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/s3709).[41 U. S. C. §5](/us/usc/t41/s5).[5 U. S. C. §§661–674](/us/usc/t5/s661/674); [Supp. IV, §§ 673, 673c](/us/usc/t5/s673/673c).not to exceed $5,000 for temporary employment of persons or organizations by contract or otherwise without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, or the civil-service laws, or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, $479,280. Printing and binding. For printing and binding, $40,000; and not to exceed $4,000 of the appropriation for salaries and expenses, Bureau of the Budget, fiscal year 1939, may be transferred to the appropriation for printing and binding, Bureau of the Budget, fiscal year 1939. OFFICE OF 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, $1,209,000. Redeeming Federal Reserve and national currency. Salaries (Reimbursable): For personal services in the District of Columbia, in redeeming Federal Reserve and national currency, $69,000, to be reimbursed by the Federal Reserve and national banks. OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY Salaries.Salaries: Comptroller of the Currency and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $248,000. 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 Commissioner, Assistant General Counsel, and other personal services.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 be reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers), and the necessary officers, collectors, deputy collectors, attorneys, experts, agents, accountants, inspectors, investigators, chemists, supervisors, storekeeper-gaugers, guards, clerks, janitors, and messengers in the District of Columbia, the several col-53 Stat. 661lection districts, the several divisions of internal-revenue agents and the several supervisory districts, to be appointed as provided by law; the securing of evidence of violations of the Acts, the cost of chemical Securing of evidence of law violations.analyses made by others than employees of the United States and expenses incident to such chemists testifying when necessary; telegraph Miscellaneous expenses.and telephone service, rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, postage, freight, express, necessary expenses incurred in making investigations in connection with the enrollment or disbarment of practitioners before the Treasury Department in internal-revenue matters, expenses of seizure and sale, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses, including stenographic reporting services; for the acquisition of property under the provisions of title III of Acquisition of property.[49 Stat. 879](/us/stat/49/879).[40 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 304f](/us/usc/t40/s304f).the Liquor Law Repeal and Enforcement Act, approved August 27, 1935 (49 Stat. 872–881), and the operation, maintenance, and repair of property acquired under such title III; for the purchase (not to exceed $25,000), exchange, hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary, for official use of the Alcohol Tax Unit in field work; printing Printing and binding.Supplies, furniture, etc.and binding (not to exceed $525,000); and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, furniture, mechanical devices, laboratory supplies, law books and books of reference, and such other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia, the several collection districts, the several divisions of internal-revenue agents, and the several supervisory districts, $59,877,500, of which amount not to Personal services.exceed $10,812,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided,* That no part of this amount shall be *Provisos.* Expenses of officers attending trials, etc.used in defraying the expenses of any officer designated above, subpenaed by the United States court to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of jurors and witnesses, United States courts”: *Provided *Post,* p. 905. Detection and prosecution of violations.further,* That not more than $100,000 of the total amount appropriated herein may be expended by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for detecting and bringing to trial persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violation. Salaries and administrative expenses for refunding processing and related taxes and administering Title III, Revenue Act of 1936: Refund of processing, etc., taxes. [49 Stat. 1734](/us/stat/49/1734). [26 U. S. C., Supp. IV, §§ 345–345e](/us/usc/t26/s345/345e). *Post,* p. 1325.For salaries and expenses in connection with
(1)the assessment and collection of the tax on unjust enrichment imposed by Title LU, Revenue Act of 1936,
(2)the making of refunds and payments of processing and related taxes, as authorized by Titles IV and VII [49 Stat. 1739, 1747](/us/stat/49/1739/1747).[7 U. S. C., Supp. IV, §§ 641–643; §§ 644–659](/us/usc/t7/s641/643/644/659).Tax refunds under Cotton, Tobacco, and Potato Acts.[48 Stat. 598, 1275](/us/stat/48/598/1275); [49 Stat. 782](/us/stat/49/782).[52 Stat. 1150](/us/stat/52/1150).of the Revenue Act of 1936, and
(3)the refund of taxes collected under the Cotton Act of April 21, 1934, as amended (48 Stat. 598), the Tobacco Act of June 28, 1934, as amended (48 Stat. 1275), and the Potato Act of August 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 782), as authorized by the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1938, including personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, the hiring of experts, stationery and office supplies, equipment, furniture, mechanical devices, law books and books of reference, trade journals, stenographic reporting service, telegraph and telephone services, postage, freight, express, printing and binding, notarial fees, Printing and binding. Witness fees and mileage.travel expenses, fees of expert witnesses, and fees and mileage of witnesses, which shall be the same as are paid witnesses in the courts of the United States and may be paid in advance upon certification of such officer as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue or the Secretary of the Treasury may designate, $3,500,000, of which amount not to exceed $1,160,000 may be expended for personal services in the Personal services.District of Columbia. 53 Stat. 662 Refunding internal-revenue collections. Refunding internal-revenue collections: For refunding internal-revenue collections, as provided by law, including the payment of claims for the fiscal year 1940 and prior years and accounts arising under “Allowance or draw-back (Internal Revenue)”, “Redemption of stamps (Internal Revenue)”, “Refunding legacy taxes, Act of [45 Stat. 398](/us/stat/45/398). *Proviso.* Report to Congress.March 30, 1928”, and “Repayment of taxes on distilled spirits destroyed by casualty”, $38,000,000: *Provided,* That a report shall be made to Congress by internal-revenue districts and alphabetically arranged of all disbursements hereunder in excess of $500 as required [45 Stat. 996](/us/stat/45/996).[26 U. S. C. §1676](/us/usc/t26/s1676).by section 3 of the Act of May 29, 1928 (26 U. S. C. 1676), including the names of all persons and corporations to whom such payments are made, together with the amount paid to each. Refunds and payments of processing and related taxes.[49 Stat. 1739, 1747](/us/stat/49/1739/1747).[7 U. S. C., Supp. IV, §§ 641–643; §§ 644–659](/us/usc/t7/s641/643/644/643).[48 Stat. 598, 1275](/us/stat/48/598/1275); [49 Stat. 782](/us/stat/49/782). Refunds and payments of processing and related taxes: For refunds and payments of processing and related taxes as authorized by Titles IV and VII, Revenue Act of 1936; for refunds of taxes collected (including penalties and interest) under the Cotton Act of April 21, 1934, as amended (48 Stat., p. 598), the Tobacco Act of June 28, 1934, as amended (48 Stat., p. 1275), and the Potato Act of August 24, 1935 (49 Stat., p. 782), in accordance with the Second Deficiency [52 Stat. 1150](/us/stat/52/1150).Redemption of tax stamps.Unexpended balance continued available.Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1938 (52 Stat. 1150), and as otherwise authorized by law; and for redemption of tax stamps purchased under the aforesaid Tobacco and Potato Acts, there is hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1940 the unexpended balance of the funds made available to the Treasury Department for these purposes for the fiscal year 1939 by the Second Deficiency Appropriation [52 Stat. 1150](/us/stat/52/1150). Alaska railroads, additional income tax.Act, fiscal year 1938. 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, $19,200. UNITED STATES PROCESSING TAX BOARD OF REVIEW Salaries and expenses. [49 Stat. 1748](/us/stat/49/1748). [7 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 648](/us/usc/t7/s648). Salaries and expenses: For salaries and expenses of the Board of Review established by section 906 of the Revenue Act of 1936 for review of the disallowance by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue of claims for refund of processing taxes filed under title VII, Revenue [49 Stat. 1747](/us/stat/49/1747).[7 U. S. C., Supp. IV, §§ 644–659](/us/usc/t7/s644/659).Act of 1936, including personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, stationery and office supplies, equipment, furniture, mechanical devices, law books and books of reference, press releases, trade journals, periodicals and newspapers, contract reporting services, telegraph and telephone services, postage, freight, Printing and binding.express, printing and binding, notarial fees, travel expenses, and such other miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized or approved by the Secretary of the Treasury for the work of this Board, $162,500. FEDERAL ALCOHOL ADMINISTRATION Salaries and expenses.[49 Stat. 977](/us/stat/49/977).[27 U. S. C., Supp. IV, §§ 201–212](/us/usc/t27/s201/212).Salaries and expenses: For the purpose of administering the provisions of the “Federal Alcohol Administration Act”, approved August 29, 1935 (27 U. S. C. 201), 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 stenographic Securing of evidence of violations.reporting service; the securing of evidence of violations of the Act; and miscellaneous and contingent expenses, $425,000. 53 Stat. 663 Bureau of Narcotics Salaries and expenses: For expenses to enforce the Act of December Salaries and expenses. [38 Stat. 785](/us/stat/38/785). [26 U. S. C. §§ 1383–1391, 1040–1064; Supp. IV, §§ 1383, 1041](/us/usc/t26/s1383/1391/1040/1064/1041). [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. IV, §§ 1399–1399q](/us/usc/t26/s1399/1399q). [44 Stat. 1381](/us/stat/44/1381). [5 U. S. C. §§ 281–281e](/us/usc/t5/s281/281e). [46 Stat. 585](/us/stat/46/585). [5 U. S. C. §§ 282–282c](/us/usc/t5/s282/282c). Transportation of personal effects. 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 (26 U. S. C. 1399–1399q); 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 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 necessary in the several field offices; cost incurred by officers Seizures, etc.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/s3460).[26 U. S. C. § 1624](/us/usc/t26/s1624).Vehicles.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; purchase of arms and ammunition, and for rental of necessary quarters Rent.Personal services.in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; in all, $1,306,700 of which amount not to exceed $192,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided,* That the Secretary of the *Provisos.*Use of confiscated vehicles.[49 Stat. 874](/us/stat/49/874).[27 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 157](/us/usc/t27/s157).Law observance.Treasury may authorize the use by narcotic agents of motor vehicles confiscated under the provisions of the Act of August 27, 1935 (27 U. S. C. 157), and to pay the cost of acquisition, maintenance, 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 $1,500 for attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Bureau of Narcotics: *Provided further,* That not exceeding $10,000 may be expended for services or Apprehension of narcotic law violators.information looking toward the apprehension of narcotic law violators who are fugitives from justice: *Provided further,* That moneys Reimbursement for sums expended.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 GUARD Office of the Commandant: For personal services in the District of Office of the Commandant. *Post,* p. 1326. *Proviso.* Details at headquarters, restriction.Columbia, $400,000: *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 authorized Service 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 53 Stat. 664[43 Stat. 1116](/us/stat/43/1116).[19 U. S. C. §§ 522–524](/us/usc/t19/s522/524).approved March 3, 1925 (27 U. S. C. 41), maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be. used only for official purposes at headquarters and in the field, motion-picture equipment (not to exceed $30,000) and material for official purposes, and the rental of quarters in the District of Columbia, as follows: Pay and allowances. *Post,* p. 1325. Pay and allowances: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned officers, cadets, warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, active and retired, temporary cooks, surfmen, substitute Retired members of former Life Saving Service. [46 Stat. 164](/us/stat/46/164). [14 U. S. C. § 178a](/us/usc/t14/s178a). Cash prizes. Death allowances. [41 Stat. 824](/us/stat/41/824). [34 U. S. C. § 943](/us/usc/t34/s943).surfmen, and three civilian instructors, retired pay for certain 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); not 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; Traveling expenses.and traveling expenses of other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, including transportation of cadets, enlisted men, and applicants for enlistment, with subsistence Recruiting.and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; expenses of recruiting for the Coast Guard, rent of rendezvous, and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen and applicants for appointment as cadets ; transportation and packing allowances for baggage or household effects of commissioned officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men; and including not to exceed $23,000 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, $18,445,500: *Provided,* *Proviso.* Increased pay for aerial flights.That no part of this appropriation shall be used for increased pay at a rate in excess of $1,440 per annum to any nonflying commissioned officer or commissioned officer observer for making aerial flights; which rate shall be the legal maximum rate of such increased pay as to any such officer; Fuel and water. Fuel and water: For fuel, lubricating oil, kerosene, and water, and for the furnishing of heat, light, and power (service) for vessels, stations, and houses of refuge, $1,450,000 ; Outfits, stores, etc. Outfits: For outfits, including necessary supplies and equipment, medals, newspapers, and periodicals for statistical purposes, rental or mechanical accounting machinery, repairs to portable equipment at shore units, ship chandlery, engineers’ stores, and draft animals and their maintenance, $1,600.000; 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, $265,000; Communication lines. Communication lines: For coastal communication lines and facilities and their maintenance, and communication service, $136,000; Civilian field employees. Civilian employees: For compensation of civilian employees in the field, including clerks to district commanders and per diem labor, $206,750; Contingent expenses. *Post,* p. 1326. 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; instruments, apparatus, and 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 53 Stat. 665hospitals; apprehension of deserters; wharfage, towage, freight, storage, advertising, surveys, entrance fees in matches for the rifle Rifle matches, entrance fees.team, and special equipment therefor; and all other necessary expenses which are not included under any other heading, $85,300; Repairs to vessels: For repairs to Coast Guard vessels and boats, Repairs to vessels.exclusive of aircraft, including cost of salvage operations when incident to the repairs thereof, $1,600,000; For repairs to Coast Guard aircraft, including cost of salvage Aircraft repairs.operations when incident to the repairs thereof, $525,000; Additional airplanes: For additional airplanes and their equipment, Additional airplanes.including radio equipment, spare parts, and accessories, to be constructed or purchased in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, $477,000, to remain available until June 30, 1941; No part of the appropriations contained in this Act under the Aviation shore stations, etc., restrictions.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 Exceptions.shall not apply to expenditures for completion of construction for which funds were made available by the Second Deficiency Appropriation [52 Stat. 1151](/us/stat/52/1151).Act, fiscal year 1938; Interchange of appropriations. Interchange of appropriations: Such part of any appropriation Interchange of appropriations.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; Total, Coast Guard, exclusive of Office of the Commandant, $24,790,550: *Provided,* That not more than a total of $2,200,000 out *Proviso.* Aviation expenditure.of the appropriations contained in this Act under the caption “Coast Guard” except the appropriations “Salaries, Office of the Commandant” and “Additional airplanes” may be expended for aviation. BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work, Work authorized.during the fiscal year 1940, 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), [38 Stat. 786](/us/stat/38/786). 26 U. S. C. §§ 1040, 1383; Supp. IV, § 1383.checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work, as follows: Salaries and expenses: For the Director, two Assistant Directors, Salaries and expenses.and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including wages of rotary press plate printers at per diem rates and all other plate printers at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work; for Materials, 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.examples of engraving and printing, including foreign securities and stamps, and books of reference, not exceeding $500; traveling expenses not to exceed $2,000; miscellaneous expenses, including not to exceed $1,500 for articles approved by the Secretary of the Treasury as being necessary for the protection of the person of employees; for Scientific investigations.transfer to the Bureau of Standards for scientific investigations in connection with the work of the Bureau of Engraving and Print-53 Stat. 666Vehicles.ing, not to exceed $15,000; and for the maintenance and driving of two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; $8,450,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Credit of proceeds from work. During the fiscal year 1940 all proceeds derived from work performed 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 [24 Stat. 227](/us/stat/24/227). [31 U. S. C. §176](/us/usc/t31/s176).the Act of August 4, 1886 (31 U. S. C. 176), shall be credited when received to the appropriation for said Bureau for the fiscal year 1940. SECRET SERVICE DIVISION Salaries. Salaries: For the Chief of the Division and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $53,460. Suppressing counterfeiting, etc. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For salaries and 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 Other crimes.of foreign governments, and persons committing 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; Vehicles.purchase (not to exceed $15,000), exchange, hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; purchase of arms and ammunition; traveling expenses; and for no other purpose whatsoever, except in the performance of Protection of the President, etc.other duties specifically authorized by law, and in the protection of the person of the President and the members of his immediate family and of the person chosen to be President of the United States, *Provisos.* Witness fees.$817,500: *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 courts”: *Provided Securing information concerning violations, etc.further,* That of the amount, herein appropriated not to exceed $15,000 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 Salaries, Office of Surgeon General. Salaries, Office of Surgeon General: For personal services in the District of Columbia, $323,340. Commissioned officers, pay, etc. *Post,* p. 901. Commissioned officers, pay, and so forth: For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for not to exceed 445 regular active commissioned officers (including the Surgeon General and assistant sur-53 Stat. 667geons general) and for pay of regular commissioned officers on waiting orders, $1,959,800: *Provided,* That the above limitation on *Proviso.* Exceeding limitation on number; restriction.the number of regular active commissioned officers may be exceeded by the number (not in excess of twenty) of regular active commissioned officers assigned to Federal penal and correctional institutions. Acting assistant surgeons, pay: For pay of acting assistant surgeons Acting assistant surgeons, pay.(noncommissioned medical officers), $320,000. Pay of other employees: For pay of all other employees (attendants, Pay of other employees.and so forth), $1,000,000. Freight, transportation, and so forth: For freight, transportation, Freight, transportation, etc. Living quarters.and traveling expenses, including allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (5 U. S. C. 118a), not to exceed $5,000 but not to [46 Stat. 818](/us/stat/46/818). [5 U. S. C. § 118a](/us/usc/t5/s118a).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; not to exceed $1,000 for the preparation of public-health Public-health exhibits.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; and the packing, crating, Transportation of personal effects.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, $25,000: *Provided,* That funds expendable *Proviso.* Transportation of remains of officers.for transportation and traveling expenses may also be used for preparation for shipment and transportation to their former homes of remains of officers who die in line of duty. National Institute of Health, maintenance: For maintaining the National Institute of Health. *Post,* p. 1304. 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).National Institute of Health, $125,000. 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 quarantine or immigration laws and regulations, including necessary personnel and reserve commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, personal services in the Personal services. General expenses.District of Columbia and elsewhere, including the furnishing and laundering of white duck coats, trousers, smocks, aprons, and caps to employees whose duties make necessary the wearing of same, maintenance, minor repairs, equipment, leases, fuel, lights, water, freight, transportation and travel, the maintenance, exchange, and operation Vehicles.of motortrucks 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 53 Stat. 668*Provisos.* Use of hospitals at Ellis Island Immigration Station.dying in hospital), $6,719,000: *Provided,* That the Immigration Service shall permit the Public Health Service to use the hospitals at Ellis Island Immigration Station for the care of Public Health Service patients free of expense for physical upkeep, but with a charge of actual cost of fuel, light, water, telephone, and similar supplies and services, to be covered into the proper Immigration Designated receipts to be covered into the Treasury.Service appropriations; and money collected by the Immigration Service on account of hospital expenses of persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service under the immigration laws and regulations shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous Uses forbidden.receipts: *Provided further,* That no part of this sum shall be used for the quarantine service (except for persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service at points where no quarantine hospital facilities are available), the prevention of epidemics, or scientific work of the character provided for under the appropriations which follow. Quarantine service. Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, exclusive of pay of officers and employees of United States quarantine stations, including the exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work and not to exceed $9,500 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $287,980. Prevention of epidemics. Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case only of threatened or actual epidemic of infectious or contagious disease, to aid State and local boards or otherwise in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, $305,000, including the purchase of newspapers and clippings from newspapers containing information relating to the prevalence of disease and the public health. Interstate quarantine service. Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State and municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, including the purchase and exchange, not to exceed $1,000, and maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles, $36,500. Biologic products. Regulation of sale of viruses, etc. Biologic products: To regulate the propagation and sale of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products, including arsphenamine, for the preparation of curative and diagnostic biologic products, including personal services of Reserve commissioned officers and other personnel, $53,000. Division of Venereal Diseases, maintenance. [40 Stat. 886](/us/stat/40/886). [42 U. S. C. §§24, 25](/us/usc/t42/s24/25). [52 Stat. 439](/us/stat/52/439). [42 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 25a](/us/usc/t42/s25a). General expenses. Division of Venereal Diseases: For the maintenance and expenses of the Division of Venereal Diseases, established by sections 3 and 4, chapter XV, of the Act approved July 9, 1918 (42 U. S. C. 24, 25), and for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Act of May 24, 1938 (52 Stat. 439–440), including rent and personnel and other services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriations for printing and binding, stationery, and miscellaneous and contingent expenses for the Treasury Department; purchase of reports, documents, and other material for publication and of reprints from State, city, and private Vehicles.publications; purchase (not to exceed $1,500), maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles for official use in Attendance at meetings.field work; transportation; traveling expenses, including attendance at public meetings when directed by the Surgeon General; and the packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of personal effects of commissioned officers, scientific personnel, pharmacists, administrative assistants, aides, dietitians, and nurses of the Public Health Service upon permanent change of station, $5,000,000. 53 Stat. 669 Division of Mental Hygiene: For carrying out the provisions of Division of Mental Hygiene. [46 Stat. 586](/us/stat/46/586). [21 U. S. C. §§ 196, 225](/us/usc/t21/s196/225). 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).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 $39,180) 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; purchase Vehicles.and exchange (not to exceed $1,250), and maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $1,217,700. Grants to States for public-health work: For the purpose of assisting Grants to States for public-health work. *Post,* p. 1303.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 local health work, as authorized in sections 601 and 602, title VI, of the Social [49 Stat. 634](/us/stat/49/634).[42 U. S. C., Supp. IV, §§801, 802](/us/usc/t42/s801/802).Disease and sanitation investigations.[49 Stat. 635](/us/stat/49/635).[42 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 803](/us/usc/t42/s803).[37 Stat. 309](/us/stat/37/309).[42 U. S. C. § 1](/us/usc/t42/s1).*Post,* p. 1304.Security Act, approved August 14, 1935 (49 Stat. 634), $8,000,000. Disease 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 section 6, Act of August 23, 1912 (31 U. S. C. 669), to the contrary [37 Stat. 414](/us/stat/37/414). [31 U. S. C. § 669](/us/usc/t31/s669).notwithstanding, the packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of the personal effects of commissioned officers, scientific personnel, 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, Automobiles.maintenance, 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 provisions National Cancer Institute.[50 Stat. 562](/us/stat/50/562).[42 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 137f (b)](/us/usc/t42/s137f/b).of section 7
(b)of the National Cancer Institute Act, approved August 5, 1937, $570,000. Bureau of the Mint OFFICE OF DIRECTOR OF THE MINT Salaries: For the Director of the Mint and other personal services Salaries.in the District of Columbia, $106,500. Transportation of bullion and coin: For transportation of bullion Transportation of bullion and coin.and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints, assay 53 Stat. 670offices, and bullion depositories, $215,000, including compensation of temporary employees and other necessary expenses incident thereto. Contingent expenses, etc. Contingent expenses and examination of mints: For assay laboratory chemicals, fuel, materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, for rent in the District of Columbia, 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, $12,000. Mints and assay offices.Salaries and expenses. Salaries and expenses, mints and assay offices: For compensation 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, Expenses, Gold Reserve and Silver Purchase Acts. [48 Stat. 337, 1178](/us/stat/48/337/1178). [31 U. S. C. §§ 440–446; 448–448e](/us/usc/t31/s440/446/448/448e).and West Point, New York, including necessary personal services for carrying out the provisions of the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 and the Silver Purchase Act of 1934, and any Executive orders, proclamations and regulations issued thereunder, and for incidental and contingent expenses, including traveling expenses, new machinery, and repairs, arms, and ammunition, uniforms and accessories for Protective devices. Motor busses.guards, protective devices and their maintenance, training of employees in use of firearms and protective devices, purchase (not exceeding $1,500) of a motor bus, maintenance, repair, and operation of two motor busses 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 Annual assay commission. Acquisition of specimen and rare coins.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, $2,016,000. Medals to Mrs. Richard Aldrich and posthumously to Anna Bouligny. Medals to Mrs. Richard Aldrich and posthumously to Anna Bouligny: For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the President to present gold medals to Mrs. Richard Aldrich and posthumously to Anna Bouligny”, approved June 20, [52 Stat. 1365](/us/stat/52/1365).1938 (Private, Numbered 644, Seventy-fifth Congress, third session), $1,200. PROCUREMENT DIVISIONPUBLIC BUILDINGS BRANCH Maintenance. [35 Stat. 537](/us/stat/35/537). [31 U. S. C. § 683](/us/usc/t31/s683). 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. 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 pro-53 Stat. 671fessional 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; rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including ground rent of Salamanca, N. Y., and Columbus, Miss., ground rent.U. S. Housing Corporation, dissolution.the Federal buildings at Salamanca, New York, and Columbus, Mississippi, for which payment may be made in advance, and including such expenses necessary to wind up the affairs of the United Stated Housing Corporation and effect its dissolution; $930,000, of which Personal services.amount not to exceed $509,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia and not to exceed $286,000 for personal services in the field: *Provided,* That the foregoing appropriations *Provisos.*Cost of surveys, models, etc.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,* That no expenditures shall be made hereunder Transportation of operating supplies.for transportation of operating supplies for public buildings: *And provided further,* That in no case shall the rates of compensation Pay rates, mechanical labor force.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: For repairs, Repair, preservation, and equipment, public buildings.alterations, improvement, and preservation of completed Federal buildings, buildings (including Marcus Hook), the grounds and approaches thereof, wharves, and piers, together with the necessary dredging adjacent thereto, and care and safeguarding, not otherwise provided for, of sites acquired for Federal buildings, including tools and materials for the use of the custodial and mechanical force, wire partitions and insect screens, installation and repair of mechanical equipment, gas, and electric-light fixtures, conduits, wiring, platform scales, and tower clocks; vaults and lockbox equipment in all buildings completed and occupied, and for necessary safe equipments in buildings under the administration of the Treasury Department, including repairs thereto, and changes in, maintenance of, and repairs to the Pneumatic-tube system, New York City.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. [36 Stat. 120](/us/stat/36/120); [45 Stat. 533](/us/stat/45/533).*Provisos.*Personal services, restriction.120), and May 15, 1928 (45 Stat. 533), $2,750,000: *Provided,* That the appropriation herein made shall not be available for the payment of personal services, except for work done under contract, or for temporary job labor under exigency in an amount not to exceed $100 at one time at any one building: *Provided further,* That the total expenditures Limitation on amounts for repair, etc.for the fiscal year for the repair and preservation of buildings 53 Stat. 672not 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 or such buildings. Operating force for public buildings. Operating force for public buildings: For personal services, including also telephone operators for the operation of telephone switchboards or equivalent telephone switching equipment jointly serving in each case two or more governmental activities, $1,650,000: *Provided,* *Proviso.*Wage rates.That in no case shall the rates of compensation for the 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, etc. Furniture and repairs of furniture, public buildings: For furniture, 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, *Provisos.*Personal services, restriction.$60,000: *Provided,* That 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 Use of present furniture.sum of $100 at any one building: *Provided further*, That all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings or in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not. Operating supplies. Fuel, light, power, etc. Operating supplies, public buildings: For fuel, steam, gas for lighting and heating purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for lighting, heating, and power purposes, telephone service for Miscellaneous.custodial forces; removal of ashes and rubbish, snow, and ice; cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, and miscellaneous items for use of the custodial forces in the care and maintenance of such public buildings, the grounds thereof, and the equipment and furnishings therein; temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building; miscellaneous supplies, tools, and appliances required in the operation (not embracing repairs) of the mechanical equipment, including heating, plumbing, hoisting, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum-cleaning, air-conditioning and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit wiring, call bell and signal systems in such buildings, and for the transportation of *Proviso.*Contracts for telephone switchboards, etc.articles or supplies, authorized herein, $510,000: *Provided,* 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 buildings under the Treasury Department where it is found that joint service is economical Payment for service.and in the interest of the Government, and any Government activity receiving such service shall pay promptly by check upon the written request of the Director of Procurement, either in advance or after the service has been furnished, for deposit to the credit of this appropriation, all or part of the estimated or actual cost thereof, as the case may be, and proper adjustments upon the basis of the actual cost shall be made for service paid for in advance. Construction outside D. C.*Post,* p. 1305. 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 this head in the Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal 50 Stat. 773.year 1937, and also including those increases in the limits of cost of certain authorized projects, twenty-five in number, as specified in House Document Numbered 177, Seventy-sixth Congress, $30,000,000: 53 Stat. 673*Provided,* That the provisions of section 322 of the Act of June 30, *Proviso.*Rental of temporary quarters.[47 Stat. 412](/us/stat/47/412).[40 U. S. C. § 40a](/us/usc/t40/s40a).1932 (47 Stat. 412), shall not apply with respect to the rental of temporary quarters for housing Federal activities during the replacement or remodeling of buildings authorized under this or previous Acts. Social Security Board and Railroad Retirement Board Buildings: Social Security Board and Railroad Retirement Board Buildings, site and construction.For continuation of the acquisition of the necessary land and the construction of buildings for the Social Security Board and the Railroad Retirement Board, $8,000,000. War Department Building: For continuation of the acquisition War Department Building, site and construction.of land as a site for buildings for the War Department, and for continuation of the construction of the first building unit, $5,000,000. Government Printing Office, annex buildings, Washington, District Government Printing Office, completion of annex buildings.of Columbia: For completion of construction of annex buildings for the Government Printing Office, $2,800,000. Payment of claims for relief of contractors, Act of June 16, 1934: Relief of Government contractors.Losses due to compliance with codes.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 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), not to [48 Stat. 974](/us/stat/48/974).[41 U. S. C. §28](/us/usc/t41/s28).Unexpended balance, amount continued available.exceed $300,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation available for this purpose for the fiscal year 1939 is continued available until June 30, 1940. PROCUREMENT DIVISION—BRANCH OF SUPPLY Salaries and expenses: For the Director of Procurement and other Salaries and expenses.*Post,* p. 1326.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 motortrucks and maintenance thereof, telegrams, telephone service, traveling expenses, office equipment, fuel, light, electric current, and other expenses for carrying into effect regulations governing the procurement, warehousing, and distribution by the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department of property, equipment, stores, and supplies in the District of Columbia and in the field (including not to exceed $500 to settle claims for Damage claims.damages caused to private property by motor vehicles used by the Procurement Division), $460,000: *Provided,* That the Secretary of *Provisos.* Transfer of funds for compensation of detailed employees.the Treasury is authorized and directed during the fiscal year 1940 to transfer to this appropriation from any appropriations or funds available to the several departments and establishments of the Government such amounts as may be approved by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, not to exceed the amount of the annual compensation of employees heretofore or hereafter transferred or detailed to the Procurement Division, Branch of Supply, respectively, from any such department or establishment, where the transfer or detail of such employees was or will be incident to a transfer of a function or functions to that Division: *Provided further,* That payments during Payments for materials, etc.the fiscal year 1940 to the general supply fund for materials, supplies (including fuel), and services, and overhead expenses, for all issues shall be made on the books of the Treasury Department by transfer and counter-warrants prepared by the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department and countersigned by the Comptroller General, such warrants to be based solely on itemized invoices prepared by the Procurement Division at issue prices to be fixed by 53 Stat. 674Credit of advances to general supply fund.[47 Stat. 417](/us/stat/47/417).[31 U. S. C. § 686](/us/usc/t31/s686).the Director of Procurement: *Provided further,* That advances received pursuant to law (31 U. S. C. 686) from departments and establishments of the United States Government and the government of the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1940 shall be Personal services.credited to the general supply fund: *Provided further,* That not to exceed $700,000 shall be available from the general supply fund during the “Fuel” construed.fiscal year 1940 for personal services: *Provided further,* That the term “fuel” shall be held to include “fuel oil”: *Provided further,* Separate certificate waived.[R. S. §§3711, 3713](/us/rs/s3711/3713).[40 U. S. C. § 109](/us/usc/t40/s109).That the requirements of sections 3711 and 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 Cost of reconditioning equipment.of Columbia: *Provided further,* That the reconditioning and repair of surplus property and equipment, for disposition or reissue to Government service, may be made at cost by the Procurement Division, payment therefor to be effected by charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, Branch of Supply, Procurement Division”. Repairs to typewriting machines. Repairs to typewriting machines (except bookkeeping and billing machines) in the Government service in the District of Columbia may be made at cost by the Procurement Division, payment therefor to be effected by charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, Procurement Division, Branch of Supply”. Prices of standard typewriting machines; exceptions. No part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used during the fiscal year 1940 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. Check clearance, etc., expenses. With the approval or the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, there may be transferred sums (not exceeding a total of $475,000) to the appropriations, “Salaries, Office of Treasurer of the United States, 1940”, “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department, 1940”, “Printing and binding, Treasury Department, 1940”, and “Stationery, Treasury Department, 1940”, from funds available for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, Farm Credit Administration, Tennessee Valley Authority, Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Federal land Danks and other banks and corporations under the supervision of the Farm Credit Administration, Railroad Retirement Board, Soil Conservation Service, including Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment, Social Security Board, Federal Housing Administration, United States Housing Authority, Civilian Conservation Corps. Public Works Administration, Commodity Credit Corporation, Rural Electrification Administration, 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. 53 Stat. 675 Miscellaneous Items, Treasury Department AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND To enable the American Printing House for the Blind more American Printing House for the Blind, expenses.[44 Stat. 1060](/us/stat/44/1060).[20 U. S. C. § 101; Supp. IV, § 101](/us/usc/t20/s101).Short title.adequately to provide books find apparatus for the education of the blind in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved February 8, 1927 (20 U. S. C. 101), $115,000. This title may be cited as the “Treasury Department Appropriation Act 1940”. TITLE II—POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT The following sums are appropriated in conformity with the Act Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1940.[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, 1940, namely: POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL Salaries: For the Postmaster General and other personal services Salaries.in the office of the Postmaster General in the District of Columbia, $228,344. SALARIES IN BUREAUS AND OFFICES For personal services in the District of Columbia in bureaus and Salaries in bureaus and offices.offices of the Post Office Department in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, $388,500. Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, $579,260. Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, $798,560. Office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $474,240. Office of the Solicitor for the Post Office Department, $92,500. Office of the chief inspector, $237,000. Office of the purchasing agent, $47,240. Bureau of Accounts, $108,000. Contingent Expenses, Post Office Department For contingent and miscellaneous expenses; stationery and blank Department contingent expenses.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, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; purchase (including Vehicles.exchange) of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle at not to exceed $1,800, and for 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); streetcar fares; floor coverings; postage Correspondence addressed abroad.stamps for correspondence addressed abroad, 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, [49 Stat. 2768](/us/stat/49/2768).railway guides, city directories, and books necessary to conduct the business of the Department; newspapers, not exceeding $200; expenses, except membership fees, of attendance at meetings or conventions Attendance at meetings.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; $86,500. 53 Stat. 676 Printing and binding. For printing and binding for the Post Office Department, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $905,000. Field service appropriations, restriction on use for Department. Appropriations hereinafter made for the field service of the Post Office Department, except as otherwise provided, shall not be expended for any of the purposes hereinbefore provided for on account of the *Provisos.*Travel expenses.Post Office Department in the District of Columbia: *Provided,* That the actual and necessary expenses of officials and employees of the Post Office Department and Postal Service, when traveling on official business, may continue to be paid from the appropriations for the service in connection with which the travel is performed, and appropriations for the fiscal year 1940 of the character heretofore used for Examination of estimates for appropriations in the field.such purposes shall be available therefor: *Provided further,* That appropriations hereinafter made, except such as are exclusively for payment of compensation, shall be immediately available for expenses in connection with the examination of estimates for appropriations in the field including per diem allowances in lieu of actual expenses of subsistence. Field Service, Post Office Department OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL Travel, etc., expenses. Travel expenses, Postmaster General and Assistant Postmasters General: For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, offices of the Postmaster General and Assistant Postmasters General, $3.000. Damage claims. Personal or property damage claims: To enable the Postmaster General to pay claims for damages, occurring during the fiscal year 1940, or in prior fiscal years, to persons or property in accordance with the provisions of the Deficiency Appropriation Act, approved [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.June 16, 1921 (5 U. S. C. 392), as amended by the Act approved June 22, 1934 (48 Stat. 1207), $45,000. Adjusted losses and contingencies. Adjusted losses and contingencies: 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 1940, 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 [22 Stat. 29](/us/stat/22/29).[39 U. S. C. § 49](/us/usc/t39/s49).17, 1882, as amended, $220,000. OFFICE OF CHIEF INSPECTOR Inspectors, salaries. Salaries of inspectors: For salaries of fifteen inspectors in charge of divisions and six hundred inspectors, $2,336,000. Traveling and miscellaneous expenses. Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling expenses of inspectors, inspectors in charge, the chief post-office inspector, and the assistant chief post-office inspector, and for the traveling expenses of four clerks performing stenographic and clerical assistance to post-office inspectors in the investigation of important fraud cases; for tests, exhibits, documents, photographs, office and other necessary expenses incurred by post-office Investigations, etc.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 *Proviso.*Chemical, etc., investigations.of the Post Office Inspection Service, $630,000: *Provided,* That not exceeding $28,000 of this sum shall be available for transfer by the Postmaster General to other departments and independent establishments for chemical and other investigations. 53 Stat. 677 Clerks, division headquarters: For compensation of one hundred Clerks, division headquarters.and ninety-four clerks at division headquarters of post-office inspectors, $480,000. Payment of rewards: For payment of rewards for the detection, Payment of rewards.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 which may ignite or explode, $55,000: *Provided,* That *Provisos.*Death of offender.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*, That no part of this sum shall be used to pay any rewards at rates Rate limitation.in excess of those specified in Post Office Department Order 9273, dated July 25, 1936: *Provided further,* That of the amount herein Securing information.appropriated not to exceed $20,000 may be expended, in the discretion of the Postmaster General, for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the postal laws and for services and information looking toward the apprehension of criminals. OFFICE OF THE FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Compensation to postmasters: For compensation to postmasters, 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, $49,650,000. Compensation to assistant postmasters: For compensation to Assistant postmasters.assistant postmasters at first- and second-class post offices, $6,975,000. Clerks, first- and second-class post offices: For compensation to Clerks, first- and second-class post offices.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, $200,000,000. Clerks, contract stations: For compensation to clerks in charge of Clerks, contract stations.contract stations, $1,550,000. Separating mails: For separating mails at third- and fourth-class Separating mails.post offices, $410,000. Unusual conditions: For unusual conditions at post offices, $80,000. Unusual conditions. Clerks, third-class post offices: For allowances to third-class post Clerks, third-class post offices.offices to cover the cost of clerical services, $7,725,000. Miscellaneous items, first- and second-class post offices: For miscellaneous Miscellaneous, first- and second-class post offices.items necessary and incidental to the operation and protection of post offices of the first and second classes, and the business conducted in connection therewith, not provided for in other appropriations, $1,900,000. Village delivery service: For village delivery service in towns and Village 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 Fiver service: For Detroit River postal service, $11,460. Detroit River service. Carfare and bicycle allowance: For carfare and bicycle allowance, including special-delivery carfare, $1,350,000. Carfare and bicycle allowance. City delivery carriers: For pay of letter carriers, City Delivery City delivery carriers.Service, $139,250,000. Special-delivery fees: For fees to special-delivery messengers, Special-delivery fees.$8,300,000. Domestic Air Mail Service: For the inland transportation of mail Domestic Air Mail Service.*Post,* p. 1323.by aircraft, as authorized by law, and for the incidental expenses 53 Stat. 678thereof, including not to exceed $39,000 for supervisory officials and clerks at air-mail transfer points, travel expenses, and not to exceed $53,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $17,930,000. Foreign air mail transportation.*Post,* p. 1323. Foreign air mail transportation: For transportation of foreign mails by aircraft, as authorized by law, $10,200,000. OFFICE OF THE SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Star Route Service. Star Route Service: For inland transportation by star routes (excepting service in Alaska), including temporary service to newly established offices, $11,500,000. Alaska. Star Route Service, Alaska: For inland transportation by star routes in Alaska, $140,000. Powerboat service. Powerboat service: For inland transportation by steamboat or other powerboat routes, including ship, steamboat, and way letters, $1,225,000. Railroad transportation and mail messenger service.*Provisos.*Messenger service accounting.Personal services, limitation. Railroad transportation and mail messenger service: For inland transportation by railroad routes and for mail messenger service, $101,990,000: *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 personal services in the District of Columbia not exceeding the sum of $23,000 to carry [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).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 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. Division superintendents, etc. Railway Mail Service: For fifteen division superintendents, fifteen assistant division superintendents, one assistant superintendent at large, one hundred and nineteen chief clerks, one hundred and nineteen 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, $56,000,000. Railway postal clerks, travel allowance. Railway postal clerks, travel allowance: For travel allowance to railway postal clerks and substitute railway postal clerks, $3,150,000. Railway Mail Service, traveling expenses. Railway Mail Service, traveling expenses: For actual and necessary expenses, general superintendent and assistant general superintendent, division superintendents, assistant division superintendents, assistant superintendents, chief clerks, and assistant chief clerks, Railway Mail Service, and railway postal clerks, while actually traveling on business of the Post Office Department and away from their several designated headquarters, $65,000. Miscellaneous expenses.Terminal offices, rent. Railway Mail Service miscellaneous expenses: For rent, light, heat, fuel, telegraph, miscellaneous and office expenses, telephone service, badges for railway postal clerks, rental of space for terminal railway post offices for the distribution of mails when the furnishing of space for such distribution cannot, under the Postal Laws and Regulations, properly be required of railroad companies without additional compensation, and for equipment and miscellaneous items necessary to terminal railway post offices, $455,000. Electric- and cable-car service. Electric- and cable-car service: For electric- and cable-car service, $290,000. Foreign mail transportation; exception.*Proviso.*Sea post service. Foreign mail transportation: For transportation of foreign mails, except by aircraft, $3,250,000: *Provided,* 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 steamships conveying the mails to and from Assistant Director, Division of International Postal Service.the United States, including the salary of the Assistant Director, Division of International Postal Service, with headquarters at New York City. 53 Stat. 679 Balances due foreign countries: For balances due foreign countries, Balances due foreign countries.fiscal year 1940 and prior years, $1,250,000. Indemnities, international mail: For payment of limited indemnity Indemnities, international mail.for the injury or loss of international mail in accordance with convention, treaty, or agreement stipulations, fiscal year 1940 and prior years, $11,000. Rural Delivery Service: For pay of rural carriers, auxiliary carriers, Rural Delivery Service.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, $91,600,000, of which not less than $200,000 shall be available for extensions and new service. OFFICE OF THE THIRD ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Manufacture and distribution of stamps and stamped paper: For Stamps, stamped paper, postal cards, etc.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, $4,599,000: *Provided,* That not to exceed $2,000 of this appropriation *Proviso.*British Philatelic Congress, expenses of delegates and display.may be available for expenses, including the cost of preparing an appropriate display frame of United States postage stamps for exhibition purposes, of delegates designated from the Post Office Department by the Postmaster General to attend the British Philatelic Congress to be held in London, England, during the fiscal year 1940. Indemnities, domestic mail: For payment of limited indemnity for Indemnities, domestic mail.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, $550,000. Unpaid money orders more than one year old: For payment of Unpaid money orders more than one year old.domestic money orders after one year from the last day of the month of issue of such orders, $200,000. OFFICE OF THE FOURTH ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Post office stationery, equipment, and supplies: For stationery for Stationery, etc.the Postal Service, including the money-order and registry system; and also for the purchase of supplies for the Postal Savings System, Postal Savings System, supplies.including rubber stamps, canceling devices, certificates, envelopes, and stamps for use in evidencing deposits, and free penalty envelopes; and for the reimbursement of the Secretary of the Treasury for Bond 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); for [36 Stat. 817](/us/stat/36/817). [39 U. S. C. § 760](/us/usc/t39/s760).Miscellaneous equipment, etc.miscellaneous equipment and supplies, including the purchase and repair of furniture, package boxes, posts, trucks, baskets, satchels, straps, letter-box paint, baling machines, perforating machines, duplicating machines, printing presses, directories, cleaning supplies, and the manufacture, repair, and exchange of equipment, the erection Letter boxes.and painting of letter-box equipment, and for the purchase and repair of presses and dies for use in the manufacture of letter boxes; for postmarking, rating, money-order stamps, and electrotype plates and repairs to same; metal, rubber, and combination type, dates and figures, type holders, ink pads for canceling and stamping purposes, and for the purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriting machines, Purchase, etc., of 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 53 Stat. 680Furniture, etc., rented quarters.Postal Service, including complete equipment 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 Post-route maps, etc.of the mails; for miscellaneous expenses in the preparation and publication of post-route maps and rural delivery maps or blueprints, including tracing for photolithographic reproduction; for other expenditures necessary and incidental to post offices of the first, second, and third classes, and offices of the fourth class having or to have rural delivery service, and for letter boxes; for the purchase of atlases and geographical and technical works not to exceed $1,500; Twine and tying devices.for wrapping twine and tying devices; (not more than three-fourths of the funds herein appropriated for the purchase of twine shall be expended in the purchase of twine manufactured from materials or commodities produced outside the United States) for expenses incident to the shipment of supplies, including hardware, boxing, Personal services.packing, and not exceeding $62,300 for the pay of employees in connection therewith in the District of Columbia; for rental, purchase, exchange, and repair of canceling machines and motors, mechanical mail-handling apparatus, accident prevention, and other labor-saving devices, including cost of power in rented buildings and miscellaneous Traveling mechanicians.expenses of installation and operation of same, including not to exceed $35,000 for salaries of thirteen traveling mechanicians, and *Proviso.*Sale of maps, etc.for traveling expenses, $3,000,000: *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, material, etc. Equipment shops, Washington, District of Columbia: For the purchase, manufacture, and repair of mail bags and other mail containers and attachments, mail locks, keys, chains, tools, machinery, and material necessary for same, and for incidental expenses pertaining thereto; material, machinery, and tools necessary for the manufacture and repair of such other equipment for the Postal Service as may be deemed expedient; 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; maintenance of grounds; for compensation to labor employed in the equipment shops and in the operation, care, maintenance, and protection of the equipment shops building, Personal services.grounds, and equipment, $1,200,000, of which not to exceed $635,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Proviso.*Distinctive equipments, manufacture.*Provided,* That out of this appropriation the Postmaster General is authorized to use as much of the sum, not exceeding $15,000, as may be deemed necessary for the purchase of material and the manufacture in the equipment shops of such small quantities of distinctive equipments as may be required by other executive departments; and for service in Alaska. Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, or other island possessions. Rent, light, 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, $10,450,000. Pneumatic-tube service, New York City. Pneumatic-tube service, New York City: For rental of not exceeding twenty-eight miles of pneumatic tubes, hire of labor, communication service, electric power, and other expenses for transmission of mail in the city of New York including the Borough of Brooklyn, *Provisos.*Relocation expenses, etc. $550,000: *Provided,* That not to exceed $7,300 of this sum shall be available toward the cost of the relocation of the pneumatic-tube line and machinery incidental to removal of the post-office station 53 Stat. 681from Varick Street to Canal Street: *Provided further,* That the provisions Provisions inapplicable.[32 Stat. 114](/us/stat/32/114); [35 Stat. 412](/us/stat/35/412); [42 Stat. 661](/us/stat/42/661).[39 U. S. C. § 423](/us/usc/t39/s423).of the Acts of April 21, 1902, May 27, 1908, and June 19, 1922 (39 U. S. C. 423), relating to contracts for the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similar devices shall not be applicable hereto. Pneumatic-tube service, Boston: For the rental of not exceeding Pneumatic-tube service, Boston.two miles of pneumatic tubes, not including labor and power in operating the same, for the transmission of mail in the city of Boston, *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).Massachusetts, $24,000: *Provided,* That the provisions not inconsistent herewith of the Acts of April 21, 1902 (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: For vehicle service; the hire of vehicles; the rental Vehicle service.*Post,* p. 987.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 of the mail, $15,500,000: *Provided,* That the Postmaster General may, in his disbursement *Provisos.*Housing of Government-owned vehicles.of this appropriation, apply a part thereof to the leasing of quarters for the housing of Government-owned motor vehicles at a reasonable annual rental for a term not exceeding ten years: *Provided further,* That the Postmaster General, during the fiscal year Tractors and trailer trucks.1940 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,* That no part of Maintenance, etc., of vehicles; restriction on use of funds.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: For the transportation Transportation of equipment and supplies.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, $350,000. PUBLIC BUILDINGS, MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION Operating force: For personal services in connection with the operation Operating force.of public buildings, including the Washington Post Office and the Customhouse Building in the District of Columbia, operated by the Post Office Department, together with the grounds thereof and the equipment and furnishings therein, including telephone operators for the operation of telephone switchboards or equivalent telephone switchboard equipment in such buildings jointly serving in each case two or more governmental activities, $22,742,640: *Provided,* That in *Proviso.* Pay rates.no case shall the rates of compensation for the mechanical labor force be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services are employed. Operating supplies, public buildings: For fuel, steam, gas, and Operating supplies.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, accident prevention, vacuum cleaners, tools and appliances and repairs thereto, 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 Wash-53 Stat. 682ington Post Office and the Customhouse Building in the District of Columbia, and for the transportation of articles and supplies authorized *Provisos.* Personal services, restriction.herein, $5,500,000: *Provided,* 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 Contracts for telephone service.one time the sum of $100 at any one building: *Provided further,* That the Postmaster General is authorized to contract for telephone service in public buildings under his administration by means of telephone switchboards or equivalent telephone switching equipment jointly serving in each case two or more governmental activities, where he determines that joint service is economical and in the interest of the Government, and to secure reimbursement for the cost of such joint service from available appropriations for telephone expenses of the bureaus and offices receiving the same. Furniture, etc. Furniture, carpets, and safes, public buildings: For the procurement, 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 *Provisos.* Personal services, restriction.Department, $675,000: *Provided,* That, excepting expenditures for labor for or incidental to the moving of equipment from or into public buildings, the foregoing appropriation shall not be used for personal services except for work done under contract or for temporary job labor under exigency and not exceeding at one time the sum Use of present furniture.of $100 at any one building: *Provided further,* That all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings or in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan of furniture or not. Scientific investigations. Transfer of funds to Bureau of Standards. Scientific investigations: In the disbursement of appropriations 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. Deficiency in postal revenues: If the revenues of the Post Office 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, 1940, and the sum needed may be advanced to the Post Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster General. Short title. This title may be cited as the “Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1940”. Sec. 2. Travel expenses on change of station.Appropriations for the fiscal year 1940 available for expenses of travel of civilian officers and employees of the executive departments and establishments shall be available also for expenses of travel performed by them on transfer from one official station to another when authorized by the head of the department or establishment *Proviso.* Restriction. concerned in the order directing such transfer: *Provided,* That such expenses shall not be allowed for any transfer effected for the convenience of any officer or employee. Sec. 3. Restrictions on expenditures.No appropriation available for the executive departments and independent establishments of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, 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, com-53 Stat. 683pletely equipped for operation, and including the value of any vehicle exchanged, in excess of $750, unless otherwise specifically provided for in the appropriation.
(b)For the maintenance, operation, and repair of any Government-owned Maintenance, etc., of automobiles not for official purposes. “Official purposes” construed. 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 establishment concerned. The limitations of this subsection
(b)shall not Exceptions.apply to any motor vehicles for official use of the President, or of the heads of the executive departments.
(c)For the maintenance, upkeep, and repair (exclusive of garage Maintenance, up-keep, etc., limitation.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. No part of the money appropriated under this Act shall be Restriction on payments to nominees after Senate rejection. 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. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act or Citizenship, etc., provisions.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 owes allegiance to the United States: *Provided,* That this section *Proviso.* Exceptions. 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. Sec. 6. On and after July 1, 1939, no executive department or independent Restriction on transmission of unsolicited official mail matter free of postage. *Post,* p. 989. establishment of the Government shall transmit, through the mail, free of postage, any book, report, periodical, bulletin, pamphlet, list, or other article or document (except official letter correspondence, mail concerning the sale of Government securities, and all forms and blanks necessary in the administration of such departments and establishments), unless a request therefor has been previously received by such department or independent establishment or such transmission is required by law. For each quarter, beginning with the quarter Quarterly statements as to weight by classes. commencing July 1, 1939, the head of each independent establishment and executive department (other than the Post Office Department) shall submit to the Postmaster General, within thirty days after the close of the quarter, a statement of the weight of the mail matter by classes of mail that the independent establishment or department has transmitted free of postage during such quarter, and he shall also Certification of compliance.certify to the Postmaster General at the end of each such quarter that nothing was transmitted through the mail free of postage by the independent establishment or department in violation of the pro-53 Stat. 684*Provisos.* Lists of agricultural bulletins, etc., excepted. visions of this section: *Provided,* That nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit the mailing free of postage of lists of agricultural bulletins or of lists of public documents which are offered for sale by Transmission of books, etc., to educational institutions or public libraries.the Superintendent of Documents: *Provided further,* That this prohibition shall not apply to the transmission of such books, reports, periodicals, bulletins, pamphlets, lists, articles, or documents to educational institutions or public libraries. Approved, May 6, 1939. To amend section 90 of the Judicial Code, as amended, with respect to the terms of the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. 1939-05-08 116 Chapter 53 Stat. 684 76 1 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-11-24 public [CHAPTER 116] AN ACT To amend section 90 of the Judicial Code, as amended, with respect to the terms of the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. May 8, 1939[[S. 70](/us/bill/76/s/70)][[Public, No. 66](/us/pl/76/66)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That section 90 of Judicial Code, amendment. [49 Stat. 1362](/us/stat/49/1362). [28 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 170](/us/usc/t28/s170). Mississippi judicial districts. the Judicial Code, as amended (U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 28, sec. 170), is amended to read as follows: "“Sec. 90. The State of Mississippi is divided into two judicial districts to be known as the northern and southern districts of Northern district. Eastern division. Mississippi. The northern district shall include the territory embraced on the 1st day of December 1923 in the counties of Alcorn, Attala, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Itawamba, Lee, Lowndes, Monroe, Oktibbeha, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tishomingo, and Winston, which Western division.shall constitute the eastern division of said district; also the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties of Benton, Calhoun, Carroll, De Soto, Grenada, Lafayette, Marshall, Montgomery, Panola, Tate, Tippah, Union, Webster, and Yalabusha, Delta division.which shall constitute the western division of said district; also the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties of Bolivar, Coahoma, Leflore, Quitman, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, and Tunica, which shall constitute the Delta division of said district. Terms of court. Eastern division. The terms of the district court for the eastern division shall be held at Aberdeen on the first Mondays in April and October; for the Western division. Delta division. Southern district. Jackson division. western division, at Oxford on the first Mondays in June and December; and for the Delta division, at Clarksdale on the first Mondays in May and November. The southern district shall include the territory embraced on the 1st day of December 1923 in the counties of Amite, Copiah, Franklin, Hinds, Holmes, Leake, Lincoln, Madison, Pike, Rankin, Simpson, Smith, Scott, Wilkinson, Western division.and Yazoo, which shall constitute the Jackson division; also the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties of Adams, Claiborne, Humphreys, Issaquena, Jefferson, Sharkey, Warren, and Washington, which shall constitute the western division; Eastern division.also the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties of Clarke, Jasper, Kemper, Lauderdale, Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee, Southern division.and Wayne, which shall constitute the eastern division; also the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties of George, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, and Stone, which Hattiesburg division.shall constitute the southern division of said district; also the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties of Covington, Forrest, Greene, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Lamar, Lawrence, Marion, Perry, and Walthall, which shall constitute the Hattiesburg Terms of court. Jackson division. division. Terms of the district court for the Jackson division shall be held at Jackson on the first Mondays in May and November; for Western division. Eastern division. Southern division. the western division, at Vicksburg on the third Mondays in May and November; for the eastern division, at Meridian on the third Mondays in March and September; for the southern division, at Biloxi on the third Monday in February and the first Monday in 53 Stat. 685June; and for the Hattiesburg division at Hattiesburg on the second Hattiesburg division. Clerks and marshals. Mondays in April and October. The clerk of the court for each district shall maintain an office in charge of himself or a deputy at each place in his district at which court is now required to be held, at which he shall not himself reside, which shall be kept open at all times for the transaction of the business of the court. The marshal for each of said districts shall maintain an office in charge of himself or a deputy at each place of holding court in his district.”" Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1939.Effective date. Approved, May 8, 1939. Making inapplicable certain reversionary provisions in the Act of March 4, 1923 (42 Stat. 1450), and a certain deed executed by the Secretary of War, in the matter of a lease to be entered into by the United States for the use of a part of the former Fort Armistead Military Reservation for air-navigation purposes. 1939-05-08 117 Chapter 53 Stat. 685 76 1 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-11-24 public [CHAPTER 117] AN ACT Making inapplicable certain reversionary provisions in the Act of March 4, 1923 (42 Stat. 1450), and a certain deed executed by the Secretary of War, in the matter of a lease to be entered into by the United States for the use of a part of the former Fort Armistead Military Reservation for air-navigation purposes. May 8, 1939[[S. 2044](/us/bill/76/s/2044)][
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