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(/us/pl/76/6)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, amendment. [52 Stat. 203, 586](/us/stat/52/203/586). [7 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 1344 (h)](/us/usc/t7/s1344/h). Reapportionment of cotton acreage allotments; certain provisions to apply to any crop year. *Proviso*. Allotment of acreage in counties. That subsection

(h)of section 344 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended by striking out the words “for the crop year 1938”, and inserting in lieu thereof the words “for any crop year”; and by striking out the words “for 1938” where they appear in the first proviso of such subsection: *Provided*, That hereafter such allotment of acreage in counties shall be to such farms as the County Committee of such county may designate. In making such designation the County Committee shall consider only the character and adaptability of the soil and other physical facilities affecting the production of cotton and the need of operator for an additional allotment to meet the requirement of the families engaging in the production of cotton on the farm in such year. Approved, March 13, 1939. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, and for other purposes. 1939-03-15 10 Chapter 53 Stat. 512 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 76 1 public [CHAPTER 10] AN ACT Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, and for other purposes. March 15, 1939 [[H. R. 2868](/us/bill/76/hr/2868)] [[Public, No. 7](/us/pl/76/7)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1939. That the following year sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, and for other purposes, namely: TITLE I— GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS LEGISLATIVE senate Royal S. Copeland. Payment to widow. For payment to Frances S. Copeland, widow of Honorable Royal S. Copeland, late a Senator from the State of New York, $10,000. Miscellaneous items, fiscal year 1938. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fiscal year 1938, $15,000. Fiscal year 1939. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fiscal year 1939, $150,000. 53 Stat. 513 For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, Inquiries and investigations. including compensation to stenographers of committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding 25 cents per hundred words, fiscal year 1939, $100,000: *Provided,* That no part of this *Proviso*. Per diem and subsistence, limitation. [44 Stat. 688](/us/stat/44/688). [5 U.S.C. §§ 821–833](/us/usc/t5/s821–833). appropriation shall be expended for per diem and subsistence expenses except in accordance with the provisions of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, approved June 3, 1926, as amended. house of representatives For payment to the widow of Allard H. Gasque, late a Representative Allard H. Gasque. Payment to widow. from the State of South Carolina, $10,000. For payment to the widow of Robert L. Bacon, late a Representative Robert L. Bacon. Payment to widow. from the State of New York, $10,000. For payment to the widow of John J. Boylan, late a Representative John J. Boylan. Payment to widow. from the State of New York, $10,000. For payment to the widow of Stephen W. Gambrill, late a Representative from Stephen W. Gambrill. Payment to widow. the State of Maryland, $10,000. For payment to the widow of Ben Cravens, late a Representative Ben Cravens. Payment to widow. from the State of Arkansas, $10,000. The five foregoing sums to be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives. INDEPENDENT ESTABLISHMENTS mount rushmore national memorial commission Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission: For an additional Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission. [52 Stat. 694](/us/stat/52/694). *Proviso.* Restriction. amount for carrying into effect the provisions of the Mount Rushmore Memorial Act of 1938, fiscal year 1939, $75,000: *Provided, * That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for work on any figure, in addition to the four figures authorized by law, upon which work had not commenced as of June 22, 1936. social security board Grants to States for unemployment compensation administration, Grants to States for unemployment compensation administration. [49 Stat. 626](/us/stat/49/626). [42 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 501](/us/stat/t42/s501). Social Security Board: For an additional amount for grants to States for unemployment compensation administration as authorized in title III of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935, fiscal year 1939, $9,000,000. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE forest service National forest protection and management: For an additional White Mountain National Forest, N. H. and Maine. [52 Stat. 726](/us/stat/52/726). amount for national forest protection and management, including the same purposes and objects specified under this head in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1939, $500,000, to remain available until June 30, 1940, and to be expended only for the protection and management of the White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire and Maine, including the salvaging of wind-damaged timber and restoration of experimental areas therein. New England hurricane damage: For rehabilitation and reestablishment New England hurricane damage. *Post*, p. 631. of forest protection improvements, reduction of forest-fire hazards, and prevention of forest fires on State, county, municipal, and private forest lands in the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, that were damaged by the hurricane of September 1938, including the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, 53 Stat. 514 Printing and binding. printing and binding, and the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of passenger-carrying vehicles, fiscal year 1939, to *Provisos*. Minor expenditures. [R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/3709). [41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). remain available until June 30, 1940, $5,000,000: *Provided,* That section 3709, Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5), shall not apply in the case of any expenditure hereunder where the aggregate amount involved does Expenditure not to exceed State contribution. not exceed $300: *Provided further*, That of the amount herein appropriated the Federal Government shall not expend in any State an amount in excess of the amount heretofore or hereafter made available by said State, or the political subdivisions thereof, for the purposes contained in this paragraph. bureau of entomology and plant quarantine Insect pests and plant diseases, control. *Post*, p. 962. Control of incipient and emergency outbreaks of insect pests and plant diseases: For carrying out the purposes and provisions of, and for expenditures authorized under, Public Resolution Numbered 91, Seventy-fifth Congress, entitled “Joint resolution to amend the joint resolution entitled ‘Joint resolution making funds available for the control of incipient or emergency outbreaks of insect pests or plant diseases, including grasshoppers, Mormon crickets, and chinch bugs’, [52 Stat. 344, 1126](/us/stat/52/344/1126). [7 U. S. C., Supp. IV, §§ 148–148e](/us/usc/t7/s148–148e). Availability. approved April 6, 1937”, approved May 9, 1938 (52 Stat. 344, 1126), fiscal year 1939, to remain available until December 31, 1939, $3,000,000. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE federal bureau of investigation Damage claims. Claims for damages: For the payment of claims for damages to any person or damages to or loss of privately owned property caused by employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, acting within the scope of their employment, considered, adjusted, and determined by the Attorney General, under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and settlement of certain claims arising out of the activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation”, [49 Stat. 1184](/us/stat/49/1184). [5 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 300b](/us/usc/t5/s300/b). approved March 20, 1936 (49 Stat. 1184), as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 16, Seventy-sixth Congress, $215.47. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR wage and hour division Administration of the Fair Labor Standards Act. [52 Stat. 1060](/us/stat/52/1060). [29 U. S. C., Supp. IV, ch. 8](/us/usc/t29/ch8). Administration of the Fair Labor Standards Act, Department of Labor—Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for all authorized and necessary expenses of the Wage and Hour Division to be expended under the direction of the Administrator in performing the duties imposed upon him by the Fair Labor Standards Act Personal services and rent. of 1938, including personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, contract stenographic reporting services, Attendance at meetings. travel expenses, including not to exceed $2,500 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Wage and Hour Division when incurred on the written authority of the Administrator, Vehicles. maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, printing and binding, law books, books of reference, periodicals, manuscripts and special reports, newspapers and press clippings, supplies, office equipment, advertising, postage, telephone and telegraph service, reimbursement to State, Federal, and local agencies and their employees for services rendered, fiscal year *Proviso*. Availability. 1939, $850,000: *Provided* That such additional sum shall also be available for administrative expenses of the Wage and Hour Division for the fiscal year 1939 heretofore incurred, otherwise properly chargeable thereto. 53 Stat. 515 children’s bureau Salaries and expenses, child-labor provisions, Fair Labor Standards Child-labor provisions, Fair Labor Standards Act. Act, Children’s Bureau: For an additional amount for all authorized and necessary expenses of the Children’s Bureau in performing the duties imposed upon it by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, [52 Stat. 1067](/us/stat/52/1067). [29 U. S. C. Supp. IV, § 212](/us/usc/t29/s212). Printing and binding. including personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses; printing and binding; supplies; equipment, newspapers, books of reference, periodicals, and press clip-pings; and reimbursement to State and local agencies and their employees for services rendered, as authorized by section 11 of said [52 Stat. 1066](/us/stat/52/1066). [29 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 21](/us/usc/t29/s21). *Proviso*. Attendance at conferences, etc. Act, fiscal year 1939, $79,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for expenses of attendance of cooperating officials and consultants at conferences concerned with the work of the Children’s Bureau under the Fair Labor Standards Act when called by the Children’s Bureau with the written approval of the Secretary of Labor, and shall be available also in an amount not to exceed $1,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Children’s Bureau under said Act when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor. NAVY DEPARTMENT office of the secretary Claims for damages by collision with naval vessels: To pay claims Collision damage claims. for damages adjusted and determined by the Secretary or the Navy under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to settle claims for damages to private property arising from collisions with naval vessels”, approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in Senate Document [42 Stat. 1066](/us/stat/42/1066). [34 U. S. C. § 599](/us/usc/t34/s599). Numbered 15, Seventy-sixth Congress, $9,474.92. bureau of yards and docks, public works Naval Proving Ground, Dahlgren, Virginia: Purchase of land, Naval Proving Ground, Dahlgren, Va. $100,000. TREASURY DEPARTMENT office of the secretary Claims for damages, operation of vessels, Coast Guard and Public Coast Guard and Public Health Service, damage claims. Health Service: To pay claims for damages adjusted and determined by the Secretary of the Treasury under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and settlement of certain claims for damages resulting from the operation of vessels of the Coast Guard and the Public Health Service, in sums not exceeding $3,000 in any one case”, approved June 15, 1936, as fully [49 Stat. 1514](/us/stat/49/1514). [14 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 71](/us/usc/t14/s71). set forth in Senate Document Numbered 19, Seventy-sixth Congress, $549.58. procurement division, public buildings branch General Federal Office Building, Washington, District of Columbia: General Federal Office Building, Washington, D. C., site and construction. For the acquisition of the necessary land and the construction of a building for additional office space in the District of Columbia under the provisions of the Public Buildings Act approved May 25, 1926 (44 Stat. 630), as amended, including the extension of steam and [44 Stat. 630](/us/stat/44/630). [40 U. S. C. ch. 6; Supp. IV, ch. 6](/us/usc/t40/ch6). water mains, removal or diversion of such sewers and utilities as may be necessary, and for administrative expenses in connection therewith, $3,500,000. 53 Stat. 516 WAR DEPARTMENT Civil Functions office of the secretary Private property damage claims. Claims for damages to and loss of private property: To pay claims for damages adjusted and determined by the Secretary of War under the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, [37 Stat. 586](/us/stat/37/586).[5 U. S. C. § 208](/us/usc/t5/s208).and for other purposes”, approved August 24, 1912, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 14, Seventy-sixth Congress, $785. corps of engineers River and harbor work, damage claims.Claims for damages, river and harbor work: To pay claims for damages under river and harbor work adjusted and determined by the War Department under the provision of section 9 of the River [41 Stat. 1015](/us/stat/41/1015).[33 U. S. C. § 564](/us/usc/t33/s564).and Harbor Act, approved June 5, 1920 (U. S. C., title 33, sec. 564), as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 18, Seventy-sixth Congress, $1,047.22. TITLE II— JUDGMENTS AND AUTHORIZED CLAIMS property damage claims Sec. 201. Payment. For the payment of claims for damages to or losses of privately owned property, adjusted and determined by the following respective departments and independent offices, under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in the sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case”, approved December [42 Stat. 1066](/us/stat/42/1066). [31 U. S. C. §§ 215–217](/us/usc/t31/s215–217). 28, 1922 (U. S. C., title 31, secs. 215–217), as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 9 of the Seventy-sixth Congress, as follows: Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, $265.91; Works Progress Administration, $11,058.33; Department of Agriculture, $6,002.39; Department of Commerce, $1,157.84; Department of the Interior, $3,043.02; Department of Labor, $22.11; Navy Department, $1,537.84; Treasury Department, $519.32; War Department, $8,269.38; Post Office Department (payable from postal revenues), $1,789.15; *Proviso*. Z. V. Thompson and Mrs. Elizabeth Dewenter, amounts allowed. In all, $33,665.29: *Provided,* That the amounts claimed and allowed, respectively, in item numbered 95, page 12 of such document, are hereby changed to $7, and that the amount allowed in item numbered 5, page 25 of such document, is hereby changed to $16.15. judgments, united states courts Sec. 202. Payment.

(a)For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1887, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States”, [24 Stat. 505](/us/stat/24/505). [28 U. S. C. §§ 41, 258,761–765; Supp. IV, § 41](/us/usc/t28/s41/258/761–765). as amended by the Judicial Code, approved March 3, 1911 (28 U. S. C. 41, 258, 761–765), certified to the Seventy-sixth Congress in Senate Document Numbered 12, under the following departments and establishments, namely: Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, $3,700; War Department, $5,080; 53 Stat. 517In all, $8,780, together with such additional sum as may be necessary Interest and costs. to pay interest and costs as specified in such judgments or as provided by law.

(b)For the payment of judgments, including costs of suit, rendered Suits in admiralty. against the Government of the United States by a United States district court under the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act authorizing suits against the United States in admiralty for damages caused by and salvage services rendered to public vessels belonging to the United States, and for other purposes”, approved March 3, [43 Stat. 1112](/us/stat/43/1112).[46 U. S. C. §§ 781–790](/us/usc/t46/s781–790).1925 (46 U. S. C. 781–789), certified to the Seventy-sixth Congress in Senate Document Numbered 12, under the following Departments: Navy Department, $8,042.50; War Department, $897; In all, $8,939.50.

(c)For payment of judgments, including costs of suits, rendered Judgments in special cases.against the Government of the United States by United States district courts pursuant to authority contained in certain private Acts, or other special cases, and certified to the Seventy-sixth Congress in Senate Document Numbered 12, under the following Departments, namely: Treasury Department, $102.95; War Department, $10,096.17; In all, $10,199.12.

(d)None of the judgments contained under this caption shall be Time of payment.paid until the right of appeal shall have expired except such as have become final and conclusive against the United States by failure of the parties to appeal or otherwise.

(e)Payment of interest wherever provided for judgments contained Interest.in this Act shall not in any case continue for more than thirty days after the date of approval of the Act. judgments, court of claims Sec. 203.

(a)For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court Payment. of Claims and reported to the Seventy-sixth Congress in Senate Document Numbered 11, under the following Departments and establishments, namely: Interstate Commerce Commission, $92.15; Department of the Interior, $2,688.33; Department of Labor, $17,948.62; Navy Department, $1,570.67; Post Office Department, $36,661.27; War Department, $72,275.85; In all, $131,236.89, together with such additional sum as may be Interest. necessary to pay interest as and where specified in such judgments.

(b)None of the judgments contained under this caption shall be Time of payment. paid until the right of appeal shall have expired, except such as have become final and conclusive against the United States by failure of the parties to appeal or otherwise. audited claims Sec. 204. For the payment of the following claims, certified to be Payment. due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874 (31 U. S. C. 713), [18 Stat. 110](/us/stat/18/110). [31 U. S. C. § 713](/us/usc/t31/s713). and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1936 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884 (5 U. S. C. 266), as fully set forth in [23 Stat. 254](/us/stat/23/254). [5 U. S. C. § 266](/us/usc/t31/s266). 53 Stat. 518 Senate Document Numbered 10, Seventy-sixth Congress, there is appropriated as follows: Legislative. **Legislative:** For public printing and binding, Government Printing Office, $158.40. Independent offices. **Independent offices:** For salaries and expenses, Board of Tax Appeals, $327.81. For Federal Civil Works Administration, $1,272.36. For National Industrial Recovery, Civil Works Administration, $115.40. For employees’ compensation fund, Civil Works, $1.67. For agricultural credits and rehabilitation, emergency relief, $281.14. For farmers’ crop production and harvesting loans, Farm Credit Administration, $652.50. For loans to farmers in drought- and storm-stricken areas, emergency relief, $221.46. For loans to farmers in storm- and flood-stricken areas, Southeastern States, $120.83. For loans and relief in stricken agricultural areas (transfer to Farm Credit Administration), $926.02. For salaries and expenses, Federal Communications Commission, $2.30. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $9,493.12. For National Industrial Recovery, National Recovery Administration, $5.75. [40 Stat. 1009](/us/stat/40/1009).For operations under Mineral Act of October 5, 1918, $128,117.51. For Public Works Administration, allotment to National Resources Board, $52.02. For Securities and Exchange Commission, $2. For salaries and expenses, Social Security Board, $66.97. For Army pensions, $80. For Army and Navy pensions, $160.56. For investigation of pension cases, Bureau of Pensions, $1. For military and naval compensation, Veterans’ Bureau, $60. For military and naval insurance, Veterans’ Bureau, $7.29. For medical and hospital services, Veterans’ Bureau, $62.23. For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Administration, $2,376.77. Department of Agriculture.**Department of Agriculture:** For salaries and expenses, Library, Department of Agriculture, $27.05. For salaries and expenses, Weather Bureau, $53.97. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $267.42. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $3.97. For salaries and expenses, Forest Service, $348.03. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, $30.13. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, $14.44. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, $31.02. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Entomology, $13.05. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, 52 cents. For salaries and expenses, Soil Conservation Service, $28,245.87. For elimination of diseased cattle, Department of Agriculture, $143. For grasshopper control, $36.80. For soil-erosion investigations. $5.75. For plant reserve stations, Soil Conservation Service, $27.97. For payment to officers and employees of the United States in foreign countries due to appreciation of foreign currencies (Agriculture), $192.70.53 Stat. 519 For general expenses, Agricultural Adjustment Administration, $519.95. For working fund, Agriculture, Animal Industry (Agricultural Adjustment Administration), $1,068.30. For working fund, Agriculture, Agricultural Adjustment Administration (Federal Emergency Relief, surplus relief, National Industrial Recovery), $1.35, For working fund, Agriculture, Biological Survey (Federal Emergency Relief, surplus relief, National Industrial Recovery), $2. For Emergency Relief and Public Works, Agriculture, wildlife refuges, $14,872.58. For Emergency Conservation Fund (transfer from War to Agriculture, [48 Stat. 22](/us/stat/52/809). Act March 31, 1933), $41.21. For Emergency Conservation Fund (transfer from War to Agriculture, [48 Stat. 1021](/us/stat/52/809). Act June 19, 1934), $147.11. For loans and relief in stricken agricultural areas (transfer to Agriculture), $6,175.58. For loans and relief in stricken agricultural areas (transfer to Agriculture, silviculture), $16.62. For National Industrial Recovery, Resettlement Administration, subsistence homesteads (transfer to Agriculture), $658.93. For exportation and domestic consumption of agricultural commodities, Department of Agriculture, $15,435.28. **Department of Commerce:** For air-navigation facilities, $891.97.Department of Commerce. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $2,149.34. For payment to officers and employees of the United States in foreign countries due to appreciation of foreign currencies (Commerce), $39.38. For salaries and expenses, Social Security Act, Bureau of the [49 Stat. 620](/us/stat/52/809). [42 U. S. C., Supp. IV, ch. 7](/us/usc/t42/ch7). Census, $500. For retired pay, Lighthouse Service, $364. For aircraft in Commerce, $15.90. For expenses of the Fourteenth Census, $114. For collecting statistics, Bureau of the Census. $5. For transportation of families and effects of officers and employees, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, $240. For contingent expenses. Steamboat Inspection Service, 95 cents. For export industries, Department of Commerce, $9.78. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, $11.66. **Department of the Interior:** For National Park Service, Department of the Interior.$1,560.37. For salaries and expenses, public buildings outside the District of Columbia, National Park Service, $110.31. For salaries and commissions of registers, $141.23. For salaries and expenses, Division of Grazing Control, Department of the Interior, $48.70. For mineral mining investigations, Bureau of Mines, $34.64. For operating rescue cars and stations and investigation of accidents, Bureau of Mines, $1.50. For National Industrial Recovery, Interior, oil regulations, $19.33. For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, $132.62. For general expenses, General Land Office, $35.25. For maintenance, irrigation systems, Flathead Reservation, Montana (receipt limitation), $253.69. For roads, Indian reservations, $21.59. For conservation of health among Indians, $1,332.58. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $2,129.68. 53 Stat. 520For suppressing liquor traffic among Indians, $4. For maintenance, San Carlos irrigation project, Gila River reservation, Arizona (receipt limitation), $95.10. For irrigation, Indian reservations (reimbursable), $106.20. For industry among Indians, $616.92. For Indian agency buildings, $268.61. For pay of Indian police, $69.97. For Indian school support, $1,169.23. For loans and relief in stricken agricultural areas (transfer from Agriculture to Interior, Indians), $1,008.19. For Indian service supply fund, $1,401.74. For education of natives of Alaska, $120.65. For medical relief of natives of Alaska, $25. For Emergency conservation fund (transfer from War to Interior, [48 Stat. 22](/us/stat/48/22). Indians, Act March 31, 1933), $512.16. For Emergency conservation fund (transfer from War to Interior, [48 Stat. 1021](/us/stat/48/1021). Indians, Act June 19, 1934), $3,330.04. For support of Indians and administration of Indian property, $138.93. For obtaining employment for Indians, $7.32. For expenses of organizing Indian corporations, $29.11. For general expenses, Indian service, $12.27. For fulfilling treaties with Northern Cheyenne and Arapahoes, Montana, $41.13. For Indian boarding schools, $334.52. For expenses, sale of timber (reimbursable), $275.37. For agriculture and stock raising among Indians, $9.85. For administration of Indian forests, $51.41. For fulfilling treaties with Sioux of different tribes, including Santee Sioux of Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, $224.33. Department of Justice.**Department of Justice:** For supplies for United States courts, $10. For contingent expenses, Department of Justice, $38.50. For detection and prosecution of crimes, $10.90. For printing and binding, Department of Justice and courts, $48.65. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $697. For fees of jurors and witnesses, United States courts, $79.35. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $2,147.20. For support of United States prisoners, $808.05. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $13.30. For pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, $35. For salaries and expenses of clerks, United States courts, $44.37. For United States Southwestern Reformatory, maintenance, $81.11. For United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, maintenance, $29.93. For United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California, maintenance, $457.54. For United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia, maintenance, $266.98. For salaries, district court, Panama Canal Zone, $834.62. For salaries and expenses, Division of Investigation, $10.01. For salaries and expenses, Division of Investigation, Department of Justice, $27.15. For United States Industrial Reformatory, Chillicothe, Ohio, maintenance, $87.81. For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, $2.50. 53 Stat. 521Department of Labor.**Department of Labor:** For salaries and expenses, Children’s Bureau, $15.64. For payment to officers and employees of the United States in foreign countries due to appreciation of foreign currencies (Labor), $9.89. For salaries and expenses, Immigration and Naturalization Service, $154. For Salaries and expenses, commissioners of conciliation, $8.18. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Labor Statistics, $1.75. For investigation of cost of living in the United States, $7. Navy Department.**Navy Department:** For payment to officers and employees of the United States in foreign countries due to appreciation of foreign currencies (Navy), $1,891.11. For Miscellaneous expenses, Navy, $315.17. For pay, miscellaneous, $1.15. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $118.57. For organizing the Naval Reserve, $370.41. For engineering, Bureau of Engineering, $6,456. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $231,955.25. For pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy, $35,041.97. For pay of the Navy, $659.06. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $1,585.85. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $1,776.43. For general expenses, Marine Corps, $577.76. For pay, Marine Corps, $3,197.19. For judgments, bounty for destruction of enemy’s vessels, $17.77. For aviation, Navy, $63,579.91. For increase of the Navy, emergency construction, $256,965.47. **Post Office Department:** For operating supplies for public buildings, Post Office Department. general fund, $5.98. For transportation of equipment and supplies, general fund, $266.75. **Department of State:** For salaries, Foreign Service officers, Department of State. $1,011.31. For office and living quarters. Foreign Service, $22.92. For rescue, relief, and protection of American seamen, $50.33. For salaries, Foreign Service clerks, $315.37. For contingent expenses, Foreign Service, $82.59. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $28.79. For transportation of Foreign Service officers, $118.07. For payment to officers and employees of the United States in foreign countries due to appreciation of foreign currencies (State), $238.83. For International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico, 95 cents. **Treasury Department:** For expenses, Emergency Banking, Gold Treasury Department. [48 Stat. 1, 337, 1178](/us/stat/48/1/337/1178). Reserve and Silver Purchase Acts, 63 cents. For payment to officers and employees of the United States in foreign countries due to appreciation of foreign currencies (Treasury), $37.47. For contingent expenses, Treasury Department, $6.18. For stationery, Treasury Department, $5.86. For collecting the revenue from customs, $427.26. For refunds and drawbacks, customs, $47.48. For collecting the internal revenue, $1,110.85. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $457.99. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Narcotics, $3.60. 53 Stat. 522For Coast Guard, $78.40. For contingent expenses, Coast Guard, $374.92. For fuel and water, Coast Guard, $258.95. For outfits, Coast Guard, $45.54. For pay and allowances, Coast Guard, $270.46. For rebuilding and repairing stations, and so forth, Coast Guard, $1.69. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $2.31. For suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, $57.42. For educational exhibits, Public Health Service? 46 cents. For expenses, Division of Mental Hygiene, Public Health Service, $17.25. For interstate quarantine service, $13.40. For pay. and so forth, commissioned officers, Public Health Service, $332.53. For quarantine service, $792,94. For salaries and expenses, mints and assay offices, $10.73. For contingent expenses, national currency (reimbursable), $5.29. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $22.60. For general expenses, Procurement Division, $12.49. For general administrative expenses, Public Works Branch, Procurement Division, $27.23. For operating expenses, Treasury buildings, Procurement Division, $8.29. For operating force for public buildings, 66 cents. For operating force for public buildings, Procurement Division, $8.60. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, Procurement Division, $175.50. For salaries and expenses, Branch of Supply Procurement Division, $3.94. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, Procurement Division, $14.18. For repairs, preservation, and equipment, public buildings, Procurement Division, $51.74. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, Procurement Division, $29.25. For salaries and expenses, Division of Disbursement, $3.69. War Department.**War Department:** For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $11,054.12. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $8,923.92. For pay of the Army, $5,447.87. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $1,300.07. For Army transportation, $1,201.14. For subsistence of the Army, $994.32. For travel, military and civil personnel, War Department, $108.94. For citizens’ military training camps, $113.95. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, War with Spain, $102.52. For incidental expenses of the Army, $15.75. For National Guard, $1,284.12. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $1,380.34. [44 Stat. 1054](/us/stat/44/809).For pay, and so forth, of the Army (Longevity, Act January 29, 1927), $1,205.25. For mileage of the Army, $104.32. For barracks and quarters, $1,125.84. For arms, uniforms, equipment, and so forth, for field service, National Guard, $33.79. For extra pay to Regular Army, War with Spain, $21.60. 53 Stat. 523For payment to officers and employees of the United States in foreign countries due to appreciation of foreign currencies (War), $155.73. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $500.28. For signal service of the Army, $7,164.80. For replacing ordnance and ordnance stores, $46.55. For extra pay to volunteers, War with Spain, $216.40. For pay, and so forth, of the Army (estates of deceased soldiers, [R. S. § 4818](/us/rs/4818). [24 U. S. C. § 44](/us/stat/t24/s44). section 4818, Revised Statutes), $1,141. For horses, draft and pack animals, $14.16. For Medical and Hospital Department, Army, $47. For claims of officers and men of the Army for destruction of [23 Stat. 350](/us/stat/23/350). private property (Act March 3, 1885), $206.72. For replacing medical supplies, $117.74. For Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, $136.18. For Air Corps, Army, $406.39. For Organized Reserves, $166.96. For ordnance service and supplies, Army, $6,571.13. For fortifications in insular possessions, $16. For Air Service, Army, $58.33. For travel of the Army, $22.77. For construction and repair of hospitals, Army, $580. For contingent expenses, War Department, $1.22. For clothing and equipage, $65.58. For seacoast defenses, $3.77. For replacing clothing and equipage, $7. For cemeterial expenses, War Department, $9.61. For Emergency Conservation Fund (transfer to War, Act March [48 Stat. 22](/us/stat/48/22). 31, 1933), $4,495.66. For Emergency Conservation Fund (transfer to War, Act June [48 Stat. 1021](/us/stat/48/1021). 19, 1934), $23,566.39. For loans and relief in stricken agricultural areas (transfer from Emergency Conservation Work to War, Act June 19, 1934), $273.51. For Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi, $1.56. For Stones River National Military Park, Tennessee, $1.01. **District of Columbia:** For miscellaneous expenses, Supreme District of Columbia. Court, District of Columbia, $260. **Post Office Department, Postal Service (out of the postal revenues):** Post Office Department. For city delivery carriers, $514.49. For clerks, first- and second-class post offices, $146.58. For compensation to postmasters, $94.80. For electric- and cable-car service, $960.72. For foreign mail transportation, $121.06. For freight, express, or motor transportation of equipment, and so forth, $436.23. For furniture, carpets, and safes for public buildings, $128.48. For furniture, carpets, and safes for public buildings, Post Office Department, $330.35. For indemnities, domestic mail, $310.90. For miscellaneous items, first- and second-class post offices, $2.17. For operating force for public buildings, Post Office Department, $5. For operating supplies for public buildings, $46.81. For operating supplies for public buildings, Post Office Department, $173.61. For post office equipment and supplies, $4. For railroad transportation and mail messenger service, $182,155.17. For Railway Mail Service, miscellaneous expenses, $14.78. 53 Stat. 524For rent, light, and fuel, $2,569.65. For Rural Delivery Service, $118.69. For separating mails, $34.20. For Star Route Service, 71 cents. For transportation of equipment and supplies, $1,268.25. For vehicle service, $1,989.65. Total; additional sum, increases in rates of exchange.Total, audited claims, section 204, $1,122,354.01, together with such additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency as specified in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office. Sec. 205.Judgments against collectors of customs. Judgments against collectors of customs: For the payment of claims allowed by the General Accounting Office covering judgments rendered by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against a collector of customs, where certificates of probable cause have been issued as provided for under [R. S. § 989](/us/rs/989). [28 U. 8. C. § 842](/us/stat/t28/s842). section 989, Revised Statutes (28 U. S. C. 842), and certified to the Seventy-sixth Congress in Senate Document Numbered 13, under the Department of Labor, $7,467.45. Sec. 206.Interest withheld from claimants. Interest withheld from claimants: For payment of interest on amounts withheld from claimants by the Comptroller [18 Stat. 481](/us/stat/18/481); [47 Stat. 1516](/us/stat/47/1516). [31 U. S. C. § 227](/us/stat/t31/s227). General of the United States, Act of March 3, 1875, as amended by section 13 of the Act of March 3, 1933 (31 U. S. C. 227), as allowed by the General Accounting Office, and certified to the Seventy-sixth (Congress in Senate Document Numbered 17, under the Treasury Department, $1,327.44. Sec. 207.Short title. This Act may be cited as the “First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1939”. Approved, March 15, 1939. Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes. 1939-03-16 11 Chapter 53 Stat. 524 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 76 1 public [CHAPTER 11] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes. March 16, 1939[[H. 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