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Joint Committee on the Library, the model of the statue so to beerected and the pedestal thereof to be first approved by the said Com-mission and by the Joint Committee on the Library, the same to bepresented by such association to the people of the United States.

SEC. 2. That for the preparation of the site and the erection of apedestal upon which to place the said statue, under the direction ofthe Secretary of the Treasury, the sum of $10,000, or so much thereofas may be necessary, is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out ofany money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, June 15, 1937.

[CHAPTER 359]AN ACT

Making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for theJudiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal yearending June 30, 1938, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repr'esentatsi'ves of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the followingsums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury nototherwise appropriated, for the Departments of State and Justiceand for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce andLabor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, namely:

TITLE I-DEPARTMENT OF STATE

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE

Salaries: For Secretary of State; Under Secretary of State,$10,000; and other personal services in the District of Columbia,including temporary employees, and not to exceed $6,500 for em-ployees engaged on piecework at rates to be fixed by the Secretaryof State; $2,220,480, of which amount not to exceed $265,540 maybe expended by the Secretary of State without regard to civil-service laws and regulations or the Classification Act of 1923, asamended: Provided, That in expending appropriations or portionsof appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment of personalservices in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classi-fication Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the fourAssistant Secretaries of State and the legal adviser of the Depart-ment of State, the Assistant to the Attorney General the AssistantSolicitor General, and six Assistant Attorneys General, the AssistantSecretaries of Commerce, the Assistant Secretary and the SecondAssistant Secretary of Labor, the average of the salaries of thetotal number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, orother appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the averageof the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, asamended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated thesalary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compen-sation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious casesof one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higherthan the average of the compensation rates of the grade but notmore often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the nexthigher rate: Provided, That this restriction shall not apply (1) togrades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or (2) torequire the reduction in salary of any person whose compensationwas fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section6 of such Act, or (3) to require the reduction in salary of any personwho is transferred from one position to another position in thesame or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or

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Approval reluired.

Appropriation au-thorized.

June 16, 1937[H. R. 5779]

[Public, No. 1.53]

Appropriations forDepartments of Stateand Justice, the Judi-eiary, and Depart-ments of Commerceand Labor, fiscal year1938.

Department ofState.

Secretary's office.

Secretary, UnderSecretary, and officepersonnel.

Temporary andpiecework employees.

Expenditure with-out regard to civil-service and Olassifl-cation Acts.

5 U. S. O. §§ 661-a74.Provisos.Salaries limited to

average rates ulker('lassification Act; ex-celtions.

If only one positionin grade.

Advances in un-usually meritoriouscases.

Restriction not ap-plicable to clerical-mechanical service.

No reduction infixed salaries.

5 T. S. C. § 666.

Transrs withoutreduction.

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Higher salary ratespermitted.

If only one positionin a grade.

Contingent and mis-eellaneous expenses.

Post, p. 768.

Books, periodicals,etc.

Vehides.

Attendance at meet-ings, etc.

Befund of passportfees erroneouslycharged.

41 Stat. 750 44 tat. tt.887.

22 U. s. C. fi 214,214a.

Provio.Statement o expen-

ditures in Budget.

Printing and bind-nlg.

P-port agees.

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other appropriation unit, or (4) to prevent the payment of a salaryunder any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of thegrade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Actof 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or(5) to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in whichonly one position is allocated.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES, DEPARTMENT OF STATE

For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including stationery,furniture, fixtures; typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their exchange, not exceeding $7,500;repairs and materials for repairs; purchase and exchange of books,maps, and periodicals, domestic and foreign, and when authorized bythe Secretary of State for dues for library membership in societiesor associations which issue publications to members only or at aprice to members lower than to subscribers who are not members, notexceeding $8,000; newspapers not exceeding $1,500; not to exceed$1,000 for teletype rentals and tolls; maintenance, repair, and stor-age of motor-propelled vehicles, to be used only for official purposes(one for the Secretary of State and two for dispatching mail, andone motorcycle for the general use of the department); automobilemail wagons, including storage, repair, and exchange of same; street-car fare not exceeding $100; traveling expenses, including not toexceed $2,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned withthe work of the Department of State when authorized by the Secre-tary of State; refund of fees erroneously charged and paid for theissue of passports to persons who are exempted from the paymentof such fee by section 1 of the Act making appropriations for theDiplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30,1921, approved June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., title 22, sees. 214, 214a); theexamination of estimates of appropriations in the field; and othermiscellaneous items (not exceeding $50 for any one item) not includedin the foregoing, $78,410: Provided, That a statement of expendituresfrom this appropriation shall be reported to Congress in the annualBudget.

PRINTING AND BINDING

For all printing and binding in the Department of State, includ-ing all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located inWashington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $146,300.

PASSPORT AGENCIES

For salaries and expenses of maintenance, rent, cost of insurancecovering shipments of money by messenger, registered mail, orotherwise, and traveling expenses not to exceed $500, for not toexceed five passport agencies, $59,480, of which $1,000 shall be avail-able immediately.

othffiial ape of COILECTING AND EDITING OFFICIAL PAPERS OF TERRITORIES OF THEthe Territories.

UNITED STATES

Collecting, etc., forpublication.

Printing and bind-nlug.6 U. . C. iC l68-

Is8b.PrAoo.Limitation on num-

ber of copies to beprinted; distribtion.

For the expenses of collecting, editing, copying, and arranging forpublication the official papers of the Territories of the United States,including personal services in the District of Columbia and else-where, printing and binding, and contingent and traveling expenses,as provided by the Act approved February 28, 1929 (U. S. C., title 5,sec. 168-168b), $24,800: Provided, That the total number of copiesof any volume to be printed and bound for congressional allocationshall not exceed one thousand two hundred copies, which shall be

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distributed by the Superintendent of Documents under such rulesand regulations as may be authorized and directed by the Joint Com-mittee on Printing.

PROMOTION OF FOREIGN TRADE

For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of section 4of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Tariff Act of 1930",approved June 12, 1934 (48 Stat. 945), as amended, including per-sonal services without regard to civil-service laws and regulations orthe Classification Act of 1923, as amended; stenographic reportingservices, by contract if deemed necessary, without regard to section3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); contingentexpenses; printing and binding; traveling expenses; and such otherexpenses as the President may deem necessary, $20,000, together withthe unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose forthe fiscal year 1937.

FOREIGN INTERCOURSE

AMBASSADORS AND MINISTERS

Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Argentina,Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy,Japan, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Spain, Turkey, and Union of SovietSocialist Republics, at $17,500 each;

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Belgium andEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Luxemburg,$17,500;

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to theNetherlands, $12,000;

Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to Albania,Austria, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Colombia, Costa Rica,Denmark, Dominican Republic, Dominion of Canada, Ecuador,Egypt, Finland, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary,Iran, Irish Free State, Liberia, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Para-guay, Portugal, Rumania, Salvador, Siam, Union of South Africa,Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Yugoslavia, at$10,000 each; and to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, $10,000;

In all, not to exceed $640,000:Provided, That no salary herein appropriated shall be paid to any

official receiving any other salary from the United States Govern-ment.

SALARIES OF FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS

For salaries of Foreign Service officers as provided in the Actapproved February 23, 1931 (U. S. C., title 22, sees. 3, 3a); salariesof Ambassadors, Ministers, consuls, vice consuls, and other officersof the United States for the period actually and necessarily occupiedin receiving instructions and in making transits to and from theirposts, and while awaiting recognition and authority to act in pur-suance with the provisions of section 1740 of the Revised Statutes(U. S. C., title 22, sec. 121); and salaries of Foreign Service officersor vice consuls while acting as Charges d'Affaires ad interim or whilein charge of a consulate general or consulate during the absence ofthe principal officer; $3,424,500.

TRANSPORTATION OF FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS

To pay the traveling expenses, including travel by airplane whenspecifically authorized by the Secretary of State, of Diplomatic,

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Promotion of for-eign trade.

Expenses, negotiat-ing agreements.

48 Stat. 945.19 U. . C. § 1354.Personal services.5 U. S. C. §§ 661-

674.

Contract services.R. S. § 3709.41 U. . C. § 5.

Balance reappro-priated.

Foreign intercourse

Salaries.Ambassadors.Post, p. 769.

Ministers.

Prorfto.Salary restriction.

Foreigeneirvire offi-cers.

Salaries.46 Stat. 1207.22 U. S. C. §§ 3, 3a.

Instruction andtransit pay.

R. S. 1 1740.22 U. S. C. 121.Charges d'Affaires

ad interim.

Traveling expenes.

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Leaves of absence.Bringing home re-

mains of offcers, etc.,dying abroad.

Allowances to wid-ows, etc.

R. S. § 1749.22 U.S. C. § 130.

Proviso.Subsistence on tem-

porary detail.

Rent, heat,fuel, andlight allowances.

For offices andgrounds.

46 Stat. 818.5 U. S. C. I 118a.

Living quarters.Provisos.Rent payment in

advance.Leases.

Allowances for quar-ters limited.

Custodial, etc., serv-ice; restriction.

Post, p1). 265, 2(6.

Cost of living allow-ance.

46 Stat. 1207, 1209.22U.S. C.§ §12 23c.

Proviso.Regulation of ex-

penditure.

Representation al-lowances.

46 Stat. 1209.22 U. S. C. 12.


Consular, and Foreign Service officers, and other employees of theForeign Service, including Foreign Service inspectors, and undersuch regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, of theirfamilies and expenses of transportation of effects, in going to andreturning from their posts, including not to exceed $110,000 forexpenses incurred in connection with leaves of absence, and of thepreparation and transportation of the remains of those officers andsaid employees of the Foreign Service, who have died or may dieabroad or in transit while in the discharge of their official duties,to their former homes in this country or to a place not more distantfor interment and for the ordinary expenses of such interment, andalso for payment under the provisions of section 1749 of theRevised Statutes (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 130) of allowances to thewidows or heirs at law of Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Serviceofficers of the United States dying in foreign countries in the dis-charge of their duties, $610,000, of which amount $53,300 shall beimmediately available: Provided, That this appropriation shall beavailable also for the authorized subsistence expenses of Consularand Foreign Service officers while on temporary detail undercommission.

ALLOWANCES FOR RENT, HEAT, FUEL, AND LIGHT, FOREIGN SERVICE

For rent, heat, fuel, and light for the Foreign Service for officesand grounds, and, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930(U. S. C., title 5, sec. 118a), for living quarters and not to exceed$1,140,000 for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel,and light, $2,000,000: Provided, That payment for rent may be madein advance: Provided further, That the Secretary of State mayenter into leases for such offices, grounds, and living quarters forperiods not exceeding ten years: Provided further, That no partof this appropriation shall be used for allowances for living quarters,including heat, fuel, and light, in an amount exceeding $3,000 foran ambassador, minister, or charge d'affaires, and not exceeding$1,700 for any other Foreign Service officer: Provided further, Thatunder this appropriation and the appropriations herein for "Con-tingent expenses, Foreign Service", and "Miscellaneous salaries andallowances2 Foreign Service" not more than $5,0(0 shall be expendedfor custodial service, heat, fuel, and light for each ambassador orminister occupying a Government-owned building for residence orresidence and office purposes, and not more than $1,700 for suchpurposes in the case of any other Foreign Service officer, and duringthe incumbency of a charge d'affaires the limitation on such expendi-tures shall be the same as for the occupancy by the principal officer.

COST OF LIVING ALLOWANCE, FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS

To carry out the provisions of the Act approved February 23,1931 (U. S. C., title 22, sees. 12, 23c), relating to allowances andadditional compensation to Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Serv-ice officers and clerks when such allowances and additional com-pensation are necessary to enable such officers and clerks to carryon their work efficiently: Provided, That such allowances and addi-tional compensation shall be granted only in the discretion of thePresident, and under such regulations as he may prescribe, $280,000.

REPRESENrATION ALLOWANCES

For representation allowances as authorized by the Act approvedFebruary 23, 1931 (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 12), $125,000.


FOREIGN SERVICE RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY FUND

For financing the liability of the United States, created by theAct approved February 23, 1931 (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 21), $188,000,which amount shall be placed to the credit of the "Foreign Serviceretirement and disability fund."

SALARIES OF CLERKS IN THE FOREIGN SERVICE

For salaries of clerks in the Foreign Service, as provided in theAct approved February 23, 1931 (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 23a), includ-ing salaries during transit to and from homes in the United Statesupon the beginning and after termination of service $2,305,000.

MISCELLANEOUS SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES, FOREIGN SERVICE

For salaries or compensation of kavasses, guards, dragomans,porters, interpreters, prison keepers, translators, archive collators,Chinese writers, messengers, couriers, telephone operators, super-visors of construction, and custodial and operating force for main-tenance and operation of Government-owned and leased diplomaticand consular properties in foreign countries; compensation ofagents and employees of dispatch agencies at London New York,San Francisco, Seattle, and New Orleans, including salaries duringtransit to and from their homes in the United States upon the begin-ning and after termination of service in foreign countries; operationof motor-propelled and other passenger- and non-passenger-carryingvehicles; for allowances to consular officers, who are paid in wholeor in part by fees, for services necessarily rendered to Americanvessels and seamen, as provided in the Act of June 26, 1884 (U. S. C.,title 22, sec. 89; title 46, sec. 101); and such other miscellaneouspersonal services as the President may deem necessary, $657,000:Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended forsalaries or wages of persons not American citizens performing cler-ical services (except interpreters, translators, and messengers),whether officially designated as clerks or not, in any foreign mission:Provided further, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized,upon request by the Secretary of State, to assign enlisted men of theNavy and Marine Corps to serve as custodians, under the immediatesupervision of the Secretary of State or the chief of mission, which-ever the Secretary of State shall direct, at embassies, legations, orconsulates of the United States located in foreign countries.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES, FOREIGN SERVICE

For stationery; blanks; record and other books; seals; presses;flags; signs; repairs and any alterations; repairs, preservation, andmaintenance of Government-owned diplomatic and consular prop-erties in foreign countries, including water, materials, supplies, tools,seeds, plants, shrubs, and similar objects; newspapers (foreign anddomestic); freight; postage; telegrams; advertising; ice and drink-ing water for office purposes; purchase (at not to exceed $750 forany one automobile), maintenance and hire of motor-propelled orhorse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and purchase, maintenance,and hire of other passenger-carrying vehicles; funds for establish-ment and maintenance of commissary service; uniforms; furniture,household furniture and furnishings, except as provided by the Actof May 7, 1926, as amended, for Government-owned or rented build-ings, when, in the judgment of the Secretary of State, it would be inthe public interest to do so, not to exceed $135,500; typewriters and

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Foreign Service re-tirement, etc., fund.

Federal contribu-tion.

46 Stat. 1211.22 U.S. C. § 21.

Clerks in ForeignService.

Salaries.46 Stat. 1207.22 U. S. C. 23a.

Miscellaneous sal-aries and allowances.

Dispatch agencies.

Salaries duringtransit.

Vehicles.

Services to Ameri-can seamen, etc.

23 Stat. 56.22 U. . C. 89; 46

U.S. C. . 101.

Protisos.Citizenship require-

ments.

Naval assignmentsas custodians.

Contingent ex-penses, Foreign Serv-ice.

Vehicles.

Government build-ings abroad.

44 Stat. 403.22 U. S. . § 292-

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exchange of same; maintenance and rental of launch for embassy inTurkey, not exceeding $3,500, including personnel for operation;

Dispatch agencies rent and other expenses for dispatch agencies at London, New York,Attendance at trade San Francisco, Seattle, and New Orleans; traveling expenses, includ-

conferences, etc.ing attendance at trade and other conferences or congresses under

46 Stat. 19. orders of the Secretary of State as authorized by the Act approved22 U. a c. § 16.Lossbyexchnge. February 23, 1931 (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 16); loss by exchange;

payment in advance for telephone and other similar services, expensesof vice consulates and consular agencies for any of the foregoingobjects; allowances for special instruction, education, and individualtraining of Foreign Service officers at home and abroad, not to

Languagestudy. exceed $10,000; cost, not exceeding $500 per annum each, of thetuition of Foreign Service officers assigned for the study of the

Reief, etc., ofAmer- languages of Asia and eastern Europe; for relief, protection, andan seaen, burial of American seamen in foreign countries, in the Panama Canal

Zone, and in the Philippine Islands, and shipwrecked American sea-men in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, in PuertoRico, and in the Virgin Islands, and for expenses which may beincurred in the acknowledgment of the services of masters and crewsof foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from ship-

consular prisons, wreck or other catastrophe at sea; for expenses of maintaining ine are of insane China, the former Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, and

Muscat institutions for incarcerating American convicts and personsdeclared insane by any consular court, rent of quarters for prisonsice and drinking water for prison purposes, and for the expenses ofkeeping, feeding, and transportation of prisoners and personsdeclared insane by any consular court in China, the former Otto-

Bringing hom per- man Empire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, and Muscat; for everys cared wh expenditure requisite for or incident to the bringing home from for-

R-. S. 65. eign countries of persons charged with crime as authorized by sectioni8 U.6. 5275 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 18, sec. 659); and such

other miscellaneous expenses as the President may deem necessary;$1,252,000, of which amount not to exceed $42,000 shall be availablefor remodeling and altering, including equipment, of the United

reiburs States Legation building in Prague, Czechoslovakia: Provided, Thatment. this appropriation shall be available for reimbursement of appro-

priations for the Navy Department, in an amount not to exceed$35,000, for materials, supplies, equipment, and services furnished bythe Navy Department, including pay, subsistence, allowances, andtransportation of enlisted men of the Navy and Marirle Corps whomay be assigned by the Secretary of the Navy, upon request of theSecretary of State, to embassies, legations, or consular offices of theUnited States located in foreign countries.

EMERGENCIES ARISING IN TIE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR SERVICE

Emergencies, Dp To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arisinglomatic and Consularservice. in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, and to extend the com-peNuestty Act ex- mercial and other interests of the United States and to meet the" tf. 121

. necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the Neutrality31 Us. S. C. 107. Act, to be expended pursuant to the requirement of section 291 of

the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 107), $175,000.Interchangeatbity Not to exceed 10 per centum of any. of the foregoing appropria-

tions under the caption "Foreign intercourse" for the fiscal yearending June 30, 1938, may be transferred, with the approval ofthe Director of the Bureau of the Budget, to any other foregoingappropriation or appropriations under such caption for such fiscalyear, but no appropriation shall be increased more than 10 per

Prn Budget centum thereby: Provided, That all such transfers and contemplatedtransfers shall be set forth in the Budget for the fiscal year 1939.

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CONTRIBUTIONS, QUOTAS, AND SO FORTH

For payment of the annual contributions, quotas, and expenses,including loss by exchange in discharge of the obligations of theUnited States in connection with international commissions, con-gresses, bureaus, and other objects, in not to exceed the respectiveamounts, as follows: Cape Spartel and Tangier Light, Coast ofMorocco, $588; International Bureau of Weights and Measures,$4,342.50; International Bureau for Publication of Customs Tariffs,$1,318.77; Pan American Union, $192,942.80, including not to exceed$20,000 for printing and binding; International Bureau of Perma-nent Court of Arbitration, $1,722.57; Bureau of InterparliamentaryUnion for Promotion of International Arbitration, $20,000, includ-ing not to exceed $10,000 for the expenses of the American group ofthe Interparliamentary Union, including personal services in theDistrict of Columbia and elsewhere without regard to the Classifi-cation Act of 1923, as amended, stenographic reporting services bycontract if deemed necessary without regard to section 3709 of theRevised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), traveling expenses,purchase of necessary books, documents, newspapers, periodicals,maps, stationery, official cards, printing and binding, entertainment.and other necessary expenses, to be disbursed on vouchers approvedby the President and executive secretary of the American group;International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, Italy, $48,831, in-cluding not to exceed $11,775 for the salary of the American memberof the permanent committee (at not more than $7,500 per annum),compensation of subordinate employees without regard to theClassification Act of 1923, as amended, expenses for the maintenanceof the office at Rome, including purchase of necessary books, maps,documents, and newspapers and periodicals (foreign and domestic),printing and binding, allowances for living quarters, including heat,fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930(U. S. C., title 5, sec. 118a), for the use of the American member ofthe permanent committee, and traveling and other necessary expenses,to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State; PanAmerican Sanitary Bureau, $30,986.12; International Office of PublicHealth, $3,015.63; Bureau of International TelecommunicationUnion, Radio Section, $5.790; Government of Panama, $250,000;International Hydrographic Bureau, $4,632; Inter-American Trade-Mark Bureau, $14,330.20; International Bureau for Protection ofIndustrial Property, $1,471.63; Gorgas Memorial Laboratory,$50,000: Provided, That hereafter, notwithstanding the provisionsof section 3 of the Act of May 7, 1928 (45 Stat. 491), the reportof the operation and work of the laboratory, including the statementof the receipts and expenditures, shall be made to Congress duringthe first week of each regular session thereof, such report to cover afiscal-year period ending on June 30 of the calendar year immedi-ately preceding the convening of each such session; American Inter-national Institute for the Protection of Childhood, $2,000; Interna-tional Statistical Bureau at The Hague, $2,000; International Mapof the World on the Millionth Scale, $50; International TechnicalCommittee of Aerial Legal Experts, $6,696, including not to exceed$6,500 for the expenses of participation by the Government of theUnited States in the meetings of the International Technical Com-mittee of Aerial Legal Experts and of the commissions establishedby that committee, including traveling expenses, personal servicesin the District of Columbia and elsewhere without reference to theClassification Act of 1923, as amended, stenographic and other serv-ices by contract if deemed necessary without regard to the provisions

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Contributions,quotas, etc.

Services in the Dis-trict.

5 U. S.C. §§ 1-674.

R... . § 379.41 U. S.C. . 5.

International Insti-tute of Agriculture.

Allowances.46 Stat. 818.5 U. S. C. §118a.

(orgas MemorialLaboratory.

Proviso.Report to Congress.45 Btat. 491.

Internatonal Tech-nical Committee otAerial Legal Experts


R.8. i 370. of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5),

41 .. . . rent, purchase of necessary books and documents, printing and bind-

ing, official cards, entertainment, and such other expenses as may beauthorized by the Secretary of State; Convention Relating to LiquorTraffic in Africa, $55; International Penal and Penitentiary Com-mission, $4,328.75, including not to exceed $800 for the necessaryexpenses of the Commissioner to represent the United States on theCommission at its annual meetings, personal services without regardto the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, printing and binding,traveling expenses, and such other expenses as the Secretary of Statemay deem necessary; Permanent Association of International Road

InternationalLabor Congresses, $588; International Labor Organization, $173,939.74,rganation. including not to exceed $25,000 for the expenses of participation by

the United States in the meetings of the General Conference and ofthe Governing Body of the International Labor Office and in suchregional, industrial, or other special meetings as may be duly calledby such Governing Body, including personal services, without refer-ence to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, in the District ofColumbia and elsewhere, stenographic reporting and translatingservices by contract if deemed necessary without regard to section3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), rent, travel-ing expenses, purchase of books, documents, newspapers, periodicals,and charts, stationery, official cards, printing and binding, enter-tainment, hire, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelledpassenger-carrying vehicles, and such other expenses as may beauthorized by the Secretary of State; Implementing the Narcotics

international Coun- Convention of 1931, $9,109.18; International Council of ScientificandAssiociated Unions and Associated Unions, as follows: International Council ofUnions. Scientific Unions, $19.30; International Astronomical Union,

$617.60; International Union of Chemistry, $675; InternationalUnion of Geodesy and Geophysics, $2,316; International ScientificRadio Union, $154.40; International Union of Physics, $62.72; Inter-national Geographical Union, $125.44; and International Unionof Biological Sciences, $154.40; in all, $4,124.86; and Pan American

Total; additional Institute of Geography and History, $10,000; in all, $842,862.75ofhn se I te8 together with such additional sums, due to increase in rates of

exchange as the Secretary of State may determine and certify to theSecretary of the Treasury to be necessary to pay in foreign currenciesthe quotas and contributions required by the several treaties, con-ventions, or laws establishing the amount of the obligation.

InternationalBoundary Oommis-sion, United Statesand Mexico.

24 Stat. 1011; 26Stat. 1612; 84 Stat.2953; 49 Stat. 660, 1370

Rio Orande, recti-fled channel.

48 Stat. 1626.

Printing and bind-ing.

INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY COMMISSION, UNITED STATES AND MEXICO

Salaries and expenses: For expenses of meeting the obligationsof the United States under the treaties of 1884, 1889, 1905, and1906 between the United States and Mexico, and of compliance withthe Act approved August 19, 1935, as amended (49 Stat. 660, 1370)including maintenance and preservation of the rectified channel ofthe Rio Grande under the terms of article XI of the Conventionbetween the United States and Mexico, concluded February 1, 1933(48 Stat. 1621, 1626), operation of gaging stations where necessaryand their equipment; personal services and rent in the District ofColumbia and elsewhere; fees for professional services at rates andin amounts to be determined by the Secretary of State; travelexpenses, including transportation of effects; printing and binding;law books and books of reference; subscriptions to foreign anddomestic newspapers and periodicals; purchase exchange, mainte-nance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger- and

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freight-carrying vehicles; hire, with or without personal services,of work animals, and animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehiclesand equipment; purchase of rubber boots and waders for official useof employees; purchase of ice; drilling and testing of dam sites, bycontract if deemed necessary, without regard to section 3709 of theRevised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); equipment and such othermiscellaneous expenses as the Secretary of State may deem proper,$150,000: Provided, That hereafter employees paid from appropria-tions to the United States Section, International Boundary Commis-sion, and engaged principally upon project construction or operationand maintenance to such extent as the same may be determined bythe American Commission to be necessary, shall be excluded from thepurview of the Act of March 3, 1931 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 26-a).

For the construction (including operation and maintenance andprotection during construction) of the following projects under thesupervision of the International Boundary Commission, UnitedStates and Mexico, United States section, including salaries andwages of employees, laborers, and mechanics; fees for professionalservices at rates and in amounts to be determined by the Secretaryof State; travel expenses; rents; construction and operation of gag-ing stations; purchase (including exchange), maintenance, repair,and operation of motor-propelled passenger- and freight-carryingvehicles; drilling and testing of dam sites, by contract if deemednecessary, without regard to the provisions of section 3709 of theRevised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); hire, with or withoutpersonal services, of work animals and animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles and equipment; acquisition by donation, purchase,or condemnation, of real and personal property, including expensesof abstracts and certificates of title; transportation of things (includ-ing drayage, packing, and crating of personal effects of employeesupon change of station for permanent duty) not to exceed five thou-sand pounds in any one case; printing and binding; communicationservices; equipment, materials and supplies, including purchase ofice, rubber boots, and waders for official use of employees, and suchother miscellaneous expenses as the Secretary of State may deemnecessary.

Rio Grande rectification project: For the rectification of the RioGrande in the El Paso-Juarez Valley under the convention con-cluded February 1, 1933, between the United States and Mexico,$875,000.

Lower Rio Grande flood-control project: For construction, includ-ing surveys and other preliminary expenses, of the United Statesportion of the project for flood control on the Lower Rio Grande,as authorized by the Act approved August 19, 1935, as amended(49 Stat. 660, 1370), $1,250,000: Provided, That no part of thisappropriation for the Lower Rio Grande flood-control project shallbe expended for construction on any land, site, or easement untiltitle thereto has been conveyed to the United States by donationand the same has been approved by the Attorney General of theUnited States.

Rio Grande Canalization project: For beginning construction ofthe Rio Grande canalization project as authorized by the Actsapproved August 29, 1935 (49 Stat. 961) and June 4, 1936 (49 Stat.1463), $900,000, of which not to exceed $400,000 may be expendedfor completion of the construction of a diversion dam in the RioGrande wholly in the United States, with appurtenant connectionsto existing irrigation systems.

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Contracts withoutadvertising.

R. S. § 3709.41U. S. 0C. § 5.

Proriso.Restriction.

40 Stat. 1482.5 U.S.C. §2a.

Construction, underCommission supervi-sion.


R. S. § 3709.41 U. S.C. § 5.

Rio Orande recti-ficatlon project.

48 Stat. 1(;21.

Lower Rio (mrandeflood-control project.

49 Stat. 660,1370.

Proviso.Acquisition and ap-

proval of title.

Rio Grande canali-zation project.

49 Stat. 961,1463.

Diversion dam.

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InternationalBoundary Oommis-sion, United Statesand Canada andAlaska and Canada.

Expenses, undertreaty obligations.

44 Stat. 2102.

Boundary lines,United States andCanada and Alaskaand Canada.

International JointCommission UnitedStates and GreatBritain.

Salaries, expenses,etc.

36 Stat. 2448.Pro.sos.Salary restriction.

Traveling expenses.44 Stat. 688.5 U. S. . s821-833.

Special or technicalInvestigations.

Personal service.

INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY COMMISSION, UNITED STATES AND CANADA

AND ALASKA AND CANADA

To enable the President to perform the obligations of the UnitedStates under the treaty between the United States and Great Britainin respect of Canada, signed February 24, 1925; for salaries andexpenses, including the salary of the Commissioner and salaries ofthe necessary engineers, clerks, and other employees for duty at theseat of government and in the field; cost of office equipment andsupplies; necessary traveling expenses; commutation of subsistenceto employees while on field duty, not to exceed $4 per day each, butnot to exceed $1.75 per day each when a member of a field party andsubsisting in camp; for payment for timber necessarily cut in keep-ing the boundary line clear, not to exceed $500; and for all othernecessary and reasonable expenses incurred by the United States inmaintaining an effective demarcation of the international boundaryline between the United States and Canada and Alaska and Canadaunder the terms of the treaty aforesaid, including the completion ofsuch remaining work as may be required under the award of theAlaskan Boundary Tribunal and existing treaties between the UnitedStates and Great Britain, and including the hire of freight- andpassenger-carrying vehicles from temporary field employees, to bedisbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, $41,500.

WATERWAYS TREATY, UN1TED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN: INTERNA-TIONAL JOINT COMMISSION, UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN

For salaries and expenses, including salaries of commissioners andsalaries of clerks and other employees appointed by the commis-sioners on the part of the United States, with the approval solelyof the Secretary of State; for necessary traveling expenses, and forexpenses incident to holding hearings and conferences at such placesin Canada and the United States as shall be determined by the Com-mission or by the American commissioners to be necessary, includingtravel expense and compensation of necessary witnesses, makingnecessary transcript of testimony and proceedings; for cost of lawbooks, books of reference and periodicals, office equipment and sup-plies; and for one-half of all reasonable and necessary joint expensesof the International Joint Commission incurred under the terms ofthe treaty between the United States and Great Britain concerningthe use of boundary waters between the United States and Canada,and for other purposes, signed January 11, 1909- $37,100, to bedisbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State: ProvidedThat the salaries of the American Commissioners shall not exceed$7,500 each per annum: Provided further, That traveling expensesof the commissioners, secretary, and necessary employees shall beallowed in accordance with the provisions of the Subsistence ExpenseAct of 1926 as amended (U. S. C., title 5, secs. 821-833).

For an additional amount for necessary special or technical inves-tigations in connection with matters which fall within the scope ofthe jurisdiction of the International Joint Commission, includingpersonal services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, travelingexpenses, procurement of technical and scientific equipment, andthe purchase, exchange, hire, maintenance, repair, and operationof motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles$65,000, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary ofState, who is authorized to transfer to any department or independ-ent establishment of the Government, with the consent of the headthereof, any part of this amount for direct expenditure by suchdepartment or establishment for the purposes of this appropriation.


GENERAL CLAIMS CONVENTION, UNITED STATES AND MEXICO

For the expenses of settlement and adjustment of claims of thecitizens of each country against the other under a convention con-cluded September 8, 1923, as extended, and the protocol and conven-tion signed April 24, 1934, between the United States and Mexico,including the expenses which, under the terms of the above agree-ments, are chargeable in part to the United States, the expenses ofan agency of the United States to perform all necessary services inconnection with the preparation of American claims and the defenseof the United States in cases presented by Mexico, and of a generalclaims commissioner to act as a joint appraiser in appraising theclaims, including salaries of an agent and necessary counsel andother assistants and employees and rent in the District of Columbiaand elsewhere, law books and books of reference, printing and bind-ing, contingent expenses, contract stenographic reporting services,without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U.S. C., title41, sec. 5), the employment of special counsel, translators, and othertechnical experts, by contract, without regard to the provisions ofany statute relative to employment, traveling expenses, and suchother expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the Presidentmay deem proper, $48,500, to be available immediately: Provided,That the salary of the American commissioner of general claims shallnot exceed $10,000 per annum: Provided further, That from anysums received from the Mexican Government in settlement of a gen-eral claim of an American citizen against it, there shall be deductedand deposited in the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneousreceipts, 5 per centum thereof in reimbursement of the Governmentof the United States of expenses incurred by it in respect of suchclaim: Provided further, That this appropriation may be used toreimburse other appropriations under the Department of State fromwhich expenditures may have been made for any of the purposesherein defined prior to the effective date of this appropriation.

INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES COMMISSION

For the share of the United States of the expenses of the Inter-national Fisheries Commission, under the convention between theUnited States and Great Britain, concluded May 9, 1930, includingsalaries of two members and other employees of the Commission,traveling expenses, charter of vessels, purchase of books, periodicals,furniture, and scientific instruments, contingent expenses, rent in theDistrict of Columbia, and such other expenses in the United Statesand elsewhere as the Secretary of State may deem proper, to bedisbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, $25 000:Provided, That not to exceed $700 shall be expended by the Com-missioner and his staff in attending meetings of the Commission.

MISCELLANEOUS CONFERENCES, COMMISSIONS, AND SO FORTH

Eighth International Conference of American States, Lima, Peru:For the expenses of participation by the United States in the EighthInternational Conference of American States, to be held at Lima,Peru, including personal services in the District of Columbia orelsewhere, without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, asamended; stenographic reporting and other services, by contract ifdeemed necessary without regard to section 3709 of the RevisedStatutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); rent; traveling expenses (andby indirect routes and by airplane if specifically authorized by theSecretary of State); hire, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; equipment; purchase of neces-

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General claims con-vention, UnitedStates and Mexico.

43 Stat. 1722, 1730.48 Stat. 1844.Ante, p. 229.

Preparation ofclaims and defense


R. S. § 3709.41U.S. C. I5.

Provisos.Commissioner's sal-

ary.Deductions.

Reimbursement ofother appropriations.

International Fish-eries Commission.

Share ofexpenses.47 Stat. 1872.

Rent.

Proviso.Attendance at meet-

ings.

Miscellaneous con-ferences, etc.

Eighth Internation-al Conference of Amer-ican States, Lima,Peru.

R. S. § 3709.41 U.S.C. 5.

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TelecommunicationConference, C a i r o,Egypt.

Post, p. 770.


Aviation Confer-ence, Lima, Peru.

Balance continuedavailable.

49 Stat. 1632.

Delaware ValleyTercentenary Com-mission.

49 Stat. 1486.

Relief of designatedoficers, etc.

Gustava Hanna.

Willard L. Beaulae.


sary books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, and maps; station-ery; official cards; entertainment; printing and binding; and suchother expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State, includ-ing the reimbursement of other appropriations from which paymentsmay have been made for any of the purposes herein specified, to beexpended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $67,500, toremain available until June 30, 1939.

Telecommunication Conference, Cairo, Egypt: For the expensesof participation by the United States in the TelecommunicationConference to be held at Cairo, Egypt, including personal servicesin the District of Columbia or elsewhere without reference to theClassification Act of 1923, as amended; stenographic reporting andother services, by contract if deemed necessary without regard tosection 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); rent;traveling expenses (and by indirect routes if specifically authorizedby the Secretary of State); hire, maintenance, and operation ofmotor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; equipment; purchaseof necessary books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, and maps;stationery; official cards; entertainment; printing and binding; andsuch other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State,including the reimbursement of other appropriations from whichpayments may have been made for any of the purposes herein speci-fied, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State,$45,000, to be immediately available.

Aviation Conference, Lima, Peru: The unexpended balance of theappropriation "Aviation Conference Lima, Peru, 1936 and 1937",contained in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year1936, approved June 22, 1936, is continued available for the samepurposes until June 30, 1938.

United States Delaware Valley Tercentenary Commission: Forthe expenses of the United States Delaware Valley Tercentary 1 Com-mission, appointed to cooperate with representatives of the Statesof Delaware and Pennsylvania in the appropriate observance of thethree-hundredth anniversary of the first permanent settlement ofSwedish colonists in Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, asauthorized by Public Resolution Numbered 102, approved June 5,1936, including personal services in the District of Columbia andelsewhere, without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, asamended; stenographic reporting and other services, by contractif deemed necessary without regard to section 3709 of the RevisedStatutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); rent; actual and necessary travel-ing and subsistence expenses; hire, maintenance, and operation ofmotor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; equipment; purchaseof necessary books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, and maps;stationery; official cards; entertainment; printing and binding;badges; and other necessary expenses; to be expended by the Com-mission, $10,000.

For the relief of certain officers and employees of the ForeignService: For payment to Gustava Hanna, widow of Matthew E.Hanna, American Minister to Nicaragua, the sum of $19,745.33, ofwhich the sum of $19,592.25 represents the value of reasonable andnecessary personal property lost as a result of the earthquake atManagua, Nicaragua, March 31, 1931, and the sum of $153.08 repre-sents the amount of money and vouchers destroyed when the contentsof the safe in the legation were burned; to Willard L. Beaulac,secretary of the American Legation at Managua, Nicaragua, thesum of $821.92, such sum representing the value of reasonable andnecessary personal property lost as a result of the earthquake at

So in original.

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Managua, Nicaragua, March 31, 1931; and to Marion P. Hoover,clerk in the Legation at Managua, Nicaragua, the sum of $80, suchsum representing the value of reasonable and necessary personalproperty lost as a result of the earthquake at Managua, Nicaragua,March 31, 1931, as authorized by Private Law Numbered 589,approved June 3, 1936: in all, $20,647.25.

Section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5)shall not apply to any purchase by or service rendered for theDepartment of State when the aggregate amount involved does notexceed $100 or when the purchase or service relates to the packing ofpersonal and household effects of Diplomatic, Consular, and ForeignService officers and clerks for foreign shipment.

Unless expressly authorized, no portion of the sums appropriatedin title I of this Act shall be expended for rent or rental allowancesin the District of Columbia or elsewhere in the United States.

The President, in his discretion, may assign officers of the Armyor Navy or officers or employees of the Treasury Department forduty as inspectors of buildings owned or occupied by the UnitedStates in foreign countries, or as inspectors or supervisors of build-ings under construction or repair by or for the United States inforeign countries, under the jurisdiction of the Department of State,or for duty as couriers of the Department of State, and when soassigned they may receive the same traveling expenses as are author-ized for officers of the Foreign Service, payable from the applicableappropriations of the Department of State.

This title may be cited as the "Department of State AppropriationAct, 1938".

TITLE II-DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Marion P. Hoover.

40 Stat. 2308

Minor purcThas.s.R. S. § 3709.4I U.S. C. 5.

Rental restriction.

Assignments as in-spectors, etc., of build-ings abroad; travelingexpenses.

Short title.

Department of Jus-tice.

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia as offries.'.follows:

For the Office of the Attorney General, $52,380.For the Office of the Solicitor General, $54,740.For the Office of the Assistant Solicitor General, $43,300.For the Office of Assistant to the Attorney General, $43,100.For the Administrative Division, $541,670.For the Tax Division, $563,500.For the Criminal Division, $150,100.For the Claims Division, $191,340.For the Lands Division, $117,060.For the Office of Pardon Attorney, $22,470.For the Anti-Trust Division, $110,000.Total, Office of the Attorney General, $1,889,660: Provided, That PIterso.

10 per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available inter- of amounts.changeably for expenditures in the various offices and divisionsnamed, but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to theamount appropriated for any one of said offices or divisions and Report In

any interchange of appropriations hereunder shallbe reported toCongress in the annual Budget.

Contingent expenses: For stationery, furniture and repairs, floor Cotin"coverings not exceeding $1,000, file holders and cases; miscellaneousexpenditures, including telegraphing and telephones, and teletyperentals and tolls, postage, labor, typewriters and adding machinesand the exchange thereof and repairs thereto, streetcar fares notexceeding $300, newspapers not exceeding $350, press clippings, andother necessaries ordered by the Attorney General; official trans- vehicls.portation, including the repair, maintenance, and operation of six

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igeability

Budget.

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Preiss.Reimbursement for

car expenses.

United States Code,Annotated; pricelimitation.

Statement of expen-ditures in Budget.

Traveling expenses.

Items not included.


Federal Bureau ofInvestigation.

motor-driven passenger cars (one for the Attorney General, threefor general use of the Department, two for the Federal Bureau ofInvestigation for investigative work), delivery trucks, and motor-cycle, to be used only for official purposes; purchase of law books,books of reference, and periodicals, including the exchange thereof;and miscellaneous and emergency expenses authorized and approvedby the Attorney General, to be expended at his discretion, $143,300:Provided, That this appropriation may be reimbursed for expendi-tures in connection with cars herein authorized for the Bureau ofInvestigation from the appropriation for the expenses of saidBureau when approved in writing by the Attorney General: Pro-vided further, That not to exceed $2 per volume shall be paid forthe current and future volumes of the United States Code, Anno-tated: Provided further, That a statement of expenditures from thisappropriation shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget.

Traveling expenses: For all necessary traveling expenses underthe Department of Justice and the Judiciary, including travelingexpenses of probation officers and their clerks but not includingtraveling expenses otherwise payable under any appropriations for"United States Supreme Court", "United States Court of Customsand Patent Appeals", "United States Customs Court", "Court ofClaims", "United States Court for China", "Federal Bureau of In-vestigation", "Salaries and expenses of marshals", "Fees of jurorsand witnesses", and "Penal and correctional institutions (except asotherwise hereinbefore provided)", $800,000.

Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Depart-ment of Justice and the Courts of the United States, $275,000.

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

eDteion ocrd ims Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prose-Protection of the ecution of crimes against the United States; for the protection ofdentncation reo- the person of the President of the United States; the acquisition,

ords. collection, classification, and preservation of identification and otherrecords and their exchange with the duly authorized officials of the

Investigations. Federal Government, of States} cities, and other institutions; forMatters nder con- such other investigations regarding official matters under the controltrol of Departments iu

ofJustice and state. of the Department of Justice and the Department of State as mayVehcles. be directed by the Attorney General; purchase and exchange not to

exceed $50,000, and hire, maintenance, upkeep, and operation ofmotor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only onofficial business; purchase and exchange at not to exceed $7, 0 00each, and maintenance, upkeep, and operation, of not more than

Mellaneos four armored automobiles: firearms and ammunition; such station-ery, supplies, and equipment for use at the seat of government orelsewhere as the Attorney General may direct; not to exceed $10,000for taxicab hire to be used exclusively for the purposes set forthin this paragraph and to be expended under the direction of theAttorney General; traveling expenses, including expenses, in anamount not to exceed $4,500, of attendance at meetings concerned withthe work of such Bureau when authorized in writing by the Attorney

Rewards for eppre General; payment of rewards when specifically authorized by thebending fugitives.Attorney General for information leading to the apprehension of

Emergencies, fugitives from justice, including not to exceed $20,000 to meet unfore-seen emergencies of a confidential character, to be expended underthe direction of the Attorney General, who shall make a certificateof the amount of such expenditure as he may think it advisable notto specify, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient

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voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended; andincluding not to exceed $1,640,000 for personal services in the Districtof Columbia; $6,000,000: Provided, That section 3709 of the RevisedStatutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) shall not be construed to applyto any purchase or service rendered for the Federal Bureau of Inves-tigation in the field when the aggregate amount involved does notexceed the sum of $50.

MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Conduct of customs cases: Assistant Attorney General, specialattorneys and counselors at law in the conduct of customs cases, tobe employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General;necessary clerical assistance and other employees at the seat of gov-ernment and elsewhere, to be employed and their compensationfixed by the Attorney General, including experts at such rates ofcompensation as may be authorized or approved by the AttorneyGeneral; expenses of procuring evidence, supplies, Supreme CourtReports and Digests, and Federal Reporter and Digests, and othermiscellaneous and incidental expenses, to be expended under thedirection of the Attorney General; in all, $130,000.

Taxes and Penalties Division: For salaries and expenses in con-nection with the enforcement of liability for internal-revenue taxesand penalties involving violation of the National Prohibition Act,as amended and supplemented, the determination of the remissionor mitigation of forfeitures under the internal-revenue laws andof liability for internal-revenue taxes and penalties in connectionwith violations of the National Prohibition Act occurring prior tothe repeal of the eighteenth amendment, the institution of suits uponany cause of action under the National Prohibition Act or underthe internal-revenue laws involving a violation of the NationalProhibition Act arising prior to, and not affected by the repeal ofthe eighteenth amendment, and the compromise of any such causeof action before or after suit is brought, personal services in theDistrict of Columbia and elsewhere, and such other expenditures(not exceeding $50 for any one item) as may be necessary, $203,000.

Examination of judicial offices: For the investigation of the officialacts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks of theUnited States courts and Territorial courts, probation officers, andUnited States commissioners, for which purpose all the official papers,records, and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall beexamined by the agents of the Attorney General at any time; andalso, when requested by the presiding judge, the official acts, records,and accounts of referees and trustees of such courts; for copying, inthe District of Columbia or elsewhere, reports of examiners at foliorates; in all, $46,000, to be expended under the direction of theAttorney General.

BUREAU OF PRISONS

Salaries: For salaries in the District of Columbia and elsewherein connection with the supervision of the maintenance and care ofUnited States prisoners, $236,700.

The appropriation under title II for traveling expenses, shall beavailable in an amount not to exceed $3,500, for expenses of attend-ance at meetings concerned with the work of the Bureau of Prisonswhen incurred on the written authorization of the Attorney General.

VETERANS' INSURANCE LITIGATION

Salaries and expenses: For salaries and expenses incident to thedefense of suits against the United States under section 19, of the

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Services in the Dis-trict.

Proviso.Minor purchases.R. S. § 3709.41U. S.C. §5.

Miscellaneous.

Conduct of customscases.

Taxes and PenaltiesDivision.

Enforcing desig-nated Acts, etc.,under.

Examination of Ju-dicial offices.

Bureau of Prisons.

Salaries and ex-penses.

Attendance at meet-ings.

Ante, p. 274.

Veterans' insurancelitigation.


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43 Stat. 612, 1302;48 Stat. 302.

38 U. S. C. i 445.

Judicial.

United States Su-preme Court.

Salaries, Chief Jus-tice and AssociateJustices.

Reporter and otherofficers and employ-ees.

Pos, p. 766.


Miscellaneous ex-penses.

Care of building andgrounds.

48 Stat. 668.

R. S. 1§ 3709. 3744.41 U.S. C. 56, 16.

Judges.

Salaries.

Retired Judge.28 U. . C. C 376.46 Stat. 737.19 U. S. C. 1518.Proviso.Availability.

Court of Customsand Patent Appeals.

Salaries.

Contingent ex-pens.


Customs Court.

Salares.

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World War Veterans' Act, 1924, approved June 7, 1924, as amendedand supplemented, or the compromise of the same under the Inde-pendent Offices Appropriation Act, 1934, approved June 16, 1933,including office expenses, law books, supplies, equipment, stenographicreporting services by contract or otherwise, including notarial feesor like services and stenographic work in taking depositions at suchrates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by theAttorney General, printing and binding, the employment of expertsat such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved bythe Attorney General, and personal services in the District of Colum-bia and elsewhere, $530,000.

JUDICIAL

UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT

Salaries: For the Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices,Reporter of the Court, and all other officers and employees whosecompensation shall be fixed by the Court, except as otherwise pro-vided by law, and who may be employed and assigned by the ChiefJustice to any office or work of the Court, $422,700.

Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the SupremeCourt of the United States, $21,000, to be expended as required with-out allotment by quarters, and to be executed by such printer as theCourt may designate.

Miscellaneous expenses: For miscellaneous expenses of theSupreme Court of the United States, to be expended as the ChiefJustice may approve, $26,000.

Structural and mechanical care of the building and grounds: Forsuch expenditures as may be necessary to enable the Architect ofthe Capitol to carry out the duties imposed upon him by the Actapproved May 7, 1934 (48 Stat. 668), including improvements,maintenance, repairs, equipment, supplies, materials, and appurte-nances, and personal and other services, and for snow removal byhire of men and equipment or under contract without compliancewith sections 3709 and 3744 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title41, sees. 5 and 16), $60,000.

SALARIES OF JUDGES

Salaries of judges: For forty-three circuit judges; one hundredand sixty-three district judges (including two in the Territory ofHawaii, one in the Territory of Puerto Rico, four in the Territoryof Alaska, and one in the Virgin Islands); and judges retired undersection 260 of the Judicial Code, as amended, and section 518 ofthe Tariff Act of 1930; in all, $2,410,000: Provided, That this appro-priation shall be available for the salaries of all United StatesJustices and circuit and district judges lawfully entitled thereto,whether active or retired.

COURT OF CUSTOMS AND PATENT APPEALS

Salaries: Presiding judge and four associate judges and all otherofficers and employees of the court, $101,120.

Contingent expenses: For books and periodicals, including theirexchange; stationery, supplies, traveling expenses; drugs, chemicals,cleansers, furniture; and for such other miscellaneous expenses asmay be approved by the presiding judge, $3,000.

Printing and binding: For printing and binding, $6,250.UNITED STATES CUSTOMS COURT

Salaries: Presiding judge and eight judges; and all other officersand employees of the court, $229,900.


Contingent expenses: For books and periodicals, including theirexchange; stationery, supplies, traveling expenses; and for suchother miscellaneous expenses as may be approved by the presidingjudge, $14,500.

Printing and binding: For printing and binding, $1,000.

COURT OF CLAIMS

Salaries: Chief justice and four judges; chief clerk at not exceed-ing $6,500; auditor at not exceeding $5,000; and all other officersand employees of the court, $122,160.

Printing and binding: For printing and binding, $25,500.Contingent expenses: For stationery, court library, repairs, fuel,

electric light, electric elevator, and other miscellaneous expenses,$6,500.

Salaries and expenses of commissioners: For salaries of fiveregular commissioners and one temporary commissioner at $7,500each, and for traveling expenses, compensation of stenographersauthorized by the court, and for stenographic and other fees andcharges necessary in the taking of testimony and in the performanceof the duties as authorized by the Act entitled "An Act amendingsection 2 and repealing section 3 of the Act approved February 24,1925 (U. S. C., title 28, sees. 269, 270), entitled 'An Act to authorizethe appointment of commissioners by the Court of Claims and toprescribe their powers and compensation', and for other purposes",approved June 23, 1930 (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 270), $65,500.

Repairs, furnishings, and so forth: For necessary repairs, furnish-ings, and improvements to the Court of Claims buildings, to beexpended under the supervision of the Architect of the Capitol,$6,000.

TERRITORIAL COURTS

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Contingent ex-penses.


Court of Claims.

Salaries.


Contingent ex-penses.

Commissioners, sal-aries and expenses.

46 Stat. 799.28 U. S. C. §§ 269,

270.

Repairs, etc., tobuildings.

Territorial Courts.

Hawaii: For salaries of the chief justice and two associate justices, Hawaii.

and for judges of the circuit courts, $88,500.

DISTRICT COURT, PANAMA CANAL ZONE

Salaries, District Court, Panama Canal Zone: For salaries of theofficials and employees of the District Court of the United States forthe Panama Canal Zone, $47,000.

UNITED STATES COURT FOR CHINA

United States Court for China: For salaries of the judge, districtattorney, and other officers and employees of the United States Courtfor China; allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, andlight, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C.,title 5, sec. 118a), not to exceed $1,700 for any one person; courtexpenses, including reference and law books, printing and binding,ice and drinking water for office purposes, traveling expenses ofofficers and employees of the court, and, under such regulations asthe Attorney General may prescribe, of their families and effects, ingoing to and returning from their posts; preparation and trans-portation of remains of officers and employees who may die abroador in transit while in the discharge of their official duties, to theirformer homes in the United States, or to a place not more distantfor interment and for the ordinary expenses of such interment; theexpense of maintaining in China American convicts and personsdeclared insane by the court, rent of quarters for prisoners, ice anddrinking water for prison purposes, including wages of prisonkeepers, and the expense of keeping, feeding, and transportingprisoners and persons declared insane by the court, $54,000.

District Court, Pan-ama Canal Zone.

United States Courtfor China.


46 Stat. 818.5 U. S. C. § 118a.

Bringing home re-mains of officers, etc..dying abroad.


United StatesCourts.

Marshals.Salaries and ex-

penses.Services in Alaska.

District attorneys.Salaries and ex-

penses.

Special attorneys,etc.

Salaries and ex-pense

Foreign counsel.

Proises.Compensation limi-

tation.

Reports to Con-gress.

Clerks of courts.Salaries and ex-

penses.

Commissioners,etc., fees.

R. S. 1014.18 UV.. C. . 5l1.

Conciliation com-missioners, fees, etc.

30 8tat. 544; 47 Stat.1467.

11 U. S.C. C. 21n-206.

Prio.Payment restric-

tion.

Jurors and wit-nesses.

Fees, nmleage, perdiems, etc.

R. 8. §850.28 U.:. S. . 604.

MARSHALS, AND OTHER EXPENSES OF UNITED STATES COURTS

Salaries and expenses of marshals, and so forth: For salaries, fees,and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, includingservices rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, serv-ices in Alaska in collecting evidence for the United States when sospecifically directed by the Attorney General, traveling expenses,purchase, when authorized by the Attorney General, of ten motor-propelled passenger-carrying vans at not to exceed $2,000 each, andmaintenance, alteration, repair, and operation of motor-propelledpassenger-carrying vehicles used in connection with the transactionof the official business of the United States marshals, $3,560,000.

Salaries and expenses of district attorneys, and so forth: Forsalaries and expenses of United States district attorneys and theirregular assistants, clerks, and other employees, including the officeexpenses of United States district attorneys in Alaska, and forsalaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States districtattorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the office of theUnited States district attorney, $2,918,500.

Salaries and expenses of special attorneys, and so forth: For com-pensation of special attorneys and assistants to the Attorney Generaland to United States -district attorneys employed by the AttorneyGeneral to aid in special cases, and for payment of foreign counselemployed by the Attorney General in special cases, $927,000, no partof which, except for payment of foreign counsel, shall be used to paythe compensation of any persons except attorneys duly licensed andauthorized to practice under the laws of any State, Territory, or theDistrict of Columbia: Provided, That the amount paid as compensa-tion out of the funds herein appropriated to any person employedhereunder shall not exceed the rate of $10,000 per annum: Providedfurther, That reports be submitted to the Congress on the 1st dayof July and January showing the names of the persons employedhereunder, the annual rate of compensation or amount of any feepaid to each together with a description of their duties.

Salaries and expenses, clerks of courts: For salaries of clerks ofUnited States circuit courts of appeals and United States districtcourts, their deputies, and other assistants, and expenses of conduct-ing their respective offices, $2,170,000.

Fees of commissioners: For fees of the United States commis-sioners and other committing magistrates acting under section 1014,Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 18, sec. 591), $320,000.

Conciliation commissioners, United States courts: For fees ofconciliation commissioners, as authorized by the Act entitled "AnAct to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to establish a uniform systemof bankruptcy throughout the United States', approved July 1, 1898and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto", approvedMarch 3, 1933, as amended, $105,000: Provided, That none of themoney appropriated herein shall be used to pay the statutory feeof any conciliation commissioner until the case for which the feeis provided shall have been finally disposed of, and not more thanone fee shall be paid in any one case.

Fees of jurors and witnesses: For mileage and per diems ofjurors; for mileage and per diems of witnesses and for per diemsin lieu of subsistence; and for payment of the expenses of witnesses,as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 28, sec.604), including the expenses, mileage, and per diems of witnesses onbehalf of the Government before the United States Customs Court,such payments to be made on the certification of the attorney for

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the United States and to be conclusive as provided by section 846,Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 577), $3,040,000: Provided,That not to exceed $10,000 of this amount shall be available for suchcompensation and expenses of witnesses or informants as may beauthorized or approved by the Attorney General, which approvalshall be conclusive: Provided further, That no part of the sumherein appropriated shall be used to pay any witness more thanone attendance fee for any one calendar day.

Salaries and expenses of bailiffs, and so forth: For bailiffs, notexceeding three bailiffs in each court, except in the southern districtof New York and the northern district of Illinois; meals and lodgingfor jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance uponthe same, when ordered by the court, and meals and lodging forjurors in Alaska, as provided by section 193, title II, of the Actof June 6, 1900 (U. S. C., title 28, secs. 9, 557-570, 595, 596), andcompensation for jury commissioners, $5 per day, not exceedingthree days for any one term of court, $262,000: Provided, That,excepting in the case of bailiffs in charge of juries over Sundays andholidays, no per diem shall be paid to any bailiff unless the court isactually in session and the judge present and presiding or presentin chambers: Provided further, That none of this appropriation shallbe used for the pay of bailiffs when deputy marshals or marshalsare available for the duties ordinarily executed by bailiffs, the factof unavailibility to be determined by the certificate of the marshal.

Miscellaneous expenses: For such miscellaneous expenses as maybe authorized or approved by the Attorney General, for the UnitedStates courts and their officers, including experts, and notarial feesor like services and stenographic work in taking depositions, at suchrates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by theAttorney General, so much as may be necessary in the discretion ofthe Attorney General for such expenses in the District of Alaska,the Court of Claims, and in courts other than Federal courts; patentapplications and contested proceedings involving inventions; rentof rooms for United States courts and judicial officers; supplies,including the exchange of typewriting and adding machines, forthe United States courts and judicial officers, including firearms andammunition therefor; purchase of law books, including the exchangethereof, for United States judges, district attorneys, and otherjudicial officers, including the libraries of the ten United Statescircuit courts of appeals, and the Federal Reporter and continuationsthereto as issued, $1,086,000: Provided, That such books shall in allcases be transmitted to their successors in office; all books purchasedhereunder to be marked plainly, "The Property of the UnitedStates": Provided further, That not to exceed $2 per volume shallbe paid for the current and future volumes of the United StatesCode, Annotated: Provided further, That the maximum salary paidto any stenographer or law clerk to any circuit or district judge shallnot exceed $2,500 per annum: Provided further, That this limitationshall not operate to reduce the compensation of any stenographernow employed nor shall the salary of any stenographer drawingmore than $2,500 per annum hereafter be increased.

No part of the funds appropriated by title II of this Act forsalaries of judges, the Attorney General, Assistant Attorneys Gen-eral, Solicitor General, district attorneys, marshals, and clerks ofcourt shall be used for any other purpose whatsoever, but such sal-aries shall be allotted out of appropriations herein made for suchsalaries and retained by the Department and paid to such officialsseverally, as and when such salaries fall due and without delay.

R. S. 846.28 U. . C. 577.Provisos.Authorization, etc.,

by Attorney General.

Attendance fee,limitation.

Bailiffs.Salaries and

penses.Jury expenses.

esx

Alaska.31 Stat. 362.28 U.S.. .§§9,557-

570, 595, 596.Jury commissioners.

Provisos.Per diems, limits.

tion on payment.

Use limited.


Alaska.

Rent, supplies, etc.

Law books for judi-cial officers.

Federal Reporter.

Provisa..Transmittal to suc-

cessors.

United States Code,Annotated, price limi-tation.

Stenographer or lawclerk, maximum sal-ary.

Present stenogra-phers not affected.

Restriction on useof designated funds.

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Penal and correc-tional institutions.

Services, supplies,etc.

Proiao.Prison commis-

saries.

Medical and hos-pital servic.

Car, maintenance,etc.

Leavenworth, Kam.

Atlanta, Go

PENAL AND CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS

For all services, including personal services compensated upon feebasis, supplies, materials, and equipment in connection with or inci-dent to the subsistence and care of inmates and maintenance andupkeep of Federal penal and correctional institutions, includingfarm and other operations not otherwise specifically provided for inthe discretion of the Attorney General; gratuities for inmates atrelease, provided such gratuities shall be furnished to inmatessentenced for terms of imprisonment of not less than six months,and transportation to the place of conviction or bona-fide residenceat the time of conviction or to such other place within the UnitedStates as may be authorized by the Attorney General; expenses ofinterment or transporting remains of deceased inmates to their homesin the United States; maintenance and repair of passenger-carryingvehicles; traveling expenses of institution officials and employeeswhen traveling on official duty, including expenses, in an amount notto exceed $750 for each institution of attendance at meetings con-cerned with the work of the several institutions when authorized inwriting by the Attorney General, and including expenses incurredin pursuing and identifying escaped inmates; traveling expenses ofmembers of advisory boards authorized by law incurred in the dis-charge of their official duties; packing, crating, drayage, and trans-portation of household effects, not exceeding in any one case fivethousand pounds, of employees when transferred from one officialstation to another for permanent duty and uniforms for the guardforce when specifically authorized by the Attorney General; rewardsfor the capture of escaped inmates; newspapers, books, and peri-odicals; firearms and ammunition; tobacco for inmates; and thepurchase and exchange of farm products and livestock, when author-ized by the Attorney General: Provided, That any part of theappropriations under this heading used for payment of salaries ofpersonnel employed in the operation of prison commissaries shallbe reimbursed from commissary earnings, and such reimbursementshall be in addition to the amounts appropriated herein.

MEDICAL AND HOSPITAL SERVICE

Medical and hospital service: For medical relief for, and incidentto the care and maintenance of, inmates of penal and correctionalinstitutions, including personal services in the District of Columbiaand elsewhere, medical, surgical, and hospital supplies, materials,equipment, and appliances, together with appliances necessary forpatients, $563,040, which amount, in the discretion of the AttorneyGeneral, may be transferred to the Public Health Service for directexpenditure under the laws, appropriations, and regulations govern-ing the Public Health Service.

United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: For the UnitedStates penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, including not to exceed$424,120 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees,$953,370.

United States penitentiary annex, Leavenworth, Kansas: For theUnited States penitentiary annex at Leavenworth, Kansas, includ-ing not to exceed $302,460 for salaries and wages of all officers andemployees, $601,540.

United States pententiary , Atlanta, Georgia: For the UnitedStates penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, including not to exceed$403,360 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $932,610.

1 So in original.

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United States penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington: For theUnited States penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington, includingnot to exceed $258,480 for salaries and wages of all officers andemployees, $513,980.

Construction and repair: For construction and repair of build-ings, including (1) extension of existing facilities, $27,000, and (2)development of island area, $110,000, including the purchase andinstallation of machinery and equipment and all expenses incidentthereto, $137,000, to be available immediately and to remain avail-able until expended and to be expended so as to give the maximumamount of employment to inmates of the institution: Provided, Thatthe ultimate cost of the project for development of the island areashall not exceed $800,000.

United States Northeastern Penitentiary: For the United Statespenitentiary in the Northeast, including not to exceed $391,510 forsalaries and wages of all officers and employees, and including thepurchase of one passenger-carrying automobile, $734,390.

United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California: For theUnited States Penitentiary at Alcatraz Island, California, includingnot to exceed $161,960 for salaries and wages, of all officers andemployees, $305,600.

Federal Industrial Institution for Women, Alderson, West Vir-ginia: For the Federal Industrial Institution for Women at Alder-son, West Virginia, including not to exceed $139,480 for salariesand wages of all officers and employees, $273,900.

United States Industrial Reformatory, Chillicothe, Ohio: Forthe United States Industrial Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio,including not to exceed $352,560 for salaries and wages of all officersand employees, $761,360.

United States Southwestern Reformatory: For the United StatesSouthwestern Reformatory, including not to exceed $284,090 for sal-aries and wages of all officers and employees, $514,040.

United States Hospital for Defective Delinquents: For the UnitedStates Hospital for Defective Delinquents, including not to exceed$153,920 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, andincluding the purchase of one passenger-carrying automobile,$341,000.

Federal jails: For maintenance and operation of Federal jails,including not to exceed $455,000 for salaries and wages of all officersand employees, $1,023,465.

Prison camps: For the construction and repair of buildings atprison camps, the purchase and installation of machinery and equip-ment, and all necessary expenses incident thereto, and for the mainte-nance of United States prisoners at prison camps, including the pur-chase of four passenger-carrying automobiles and the maintenance,alteration, repair, and operation of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying bus and four passenger-carrying automobiles, to be expendedso as to give the maximum amount of employment to prisoners,$376,440: Provided, That reimbursements from this appropriationmade to the War or other departments for supplies or subsistenceshall be at the net contract or invoice price notwithstanding theprovisions of any other Act.

Federal Reformatory Camp, Petersburg, Virginia: For the Fed-eral Reformatory Camp at Petersburg, Virginia, including not toexceed $133,640 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees,$274,000.

Not to exceed 10 per centum of any of the foregoing appropria-tions under the general heading "Penal and Correctional Institu-tions" (except those for "Medical and hospital services", "Buildings

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McNeil Island,Wash.

Construction, etc.

Proviso.Cost limitation.

Northeastern Peni.tentiary.

Alcatraz Island,Calif.

Federal IndustrialInstitution for Wom-en, Alderson, W. Va.

Industrial Reforma-tory, Chillicothe,Ohio.

Southwestern Re-formatory.

Hospital for Defec-tive Delinquents.

Federal Jails.

Prison camps, con-struction, etc.

Maintenance.

Proviso.Reimbursements.

Federal Reforma-tory Camp, Peters-burg, Va.

Transfer of appro-priations authorized.


and equipment", and "Construction and repair, United States peni-tentiary, McNeil Island, Washington") may, be transferred, with theapproval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, to any appro-priation or appropriations from which transfers are authorized to

Restriction. be made by this paragraph, but no appropriation shall be increasedby more than 10 per centum thereby and no transfer shall be effectedfor the payment of personnel in any such institution.

Buildings andb Buildings and equipment, public works: For extensions to exist-wo ent' ing facilities and not to exceed $50,000 for construction of dwellingsdwPeri oicers' for prison officers at existing institutions, to be expended under the

direction of the Attorney General by contract or purchase of materialand hire of labor and services and utilization of labor of UnitedStates prisoners as the Attorney General may direct, $280,000.

construction, des. Buildings and equipment, public works: For completion of con-struction of the Federal jails at Los Angeles, California, Sandstone,Minnesota, and Tallahassee, Florida, $1,100,000 to be immediatelyavailable and to remain available until expended.

National Trning National Training School for Boys, Washington, District ofShoo orBoys,. Columbia: For the National Training School for Boys, Washington,

District of Columbia, including expenses of a suitable attendant toaccompany the remains of deceased inmates to their homes for burialand including not to exceed $114,000 for salaries and wages of allofficers and employees, $238,000.

Buildings and Buildings and equipment: For alterations of and repairs to build-ings, including the purchase and installation of machinery and equip-ment, and all expenses incident thereto, to be expended so as to givethe maximum amount of employment to inmates of the institution,$21,540.

Unrodation esytem Probation system, United States courts: For salaries and expenses46Stat. 5. of probation officers, as authorized by the Act entitled "An Act to18U.s.c.C72. amend the Act of March 4, 1925, chapter 521, and for other pur-

poses" approved June 6, 1930 (U. S. C, title 18, sec. 726), $584,500:a restricto Provided, That no part of the appropriation herein made shall be

used to pay any probation officer a salary in excess of $2,800 perCondltionslmposed. annum: Provided further, That no part of any appropriation in this

Act shall be used to defray the salary or expenses of any probationofficer who does not comply with the official orders, regulations, andprobation standards promulgated by the Attorney General.

8aupport of pron- Support of prisoners: For support of United States prisoners,in non-Federal institutions and in the Territory of Alaska, includingnecessary clothing and medical aid, discharge gratuities provided bylaw and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fideresidence in the United States, or such other place within the UnitedStates as may be authorized by the Attorney General; and includingrent, repair, alteration, and maintenance of buildings and the main-

8 Ut8. A 763a, tenance of prisoners therein, occupied under authority of sections 4I7d'. and 5 of the Act of May 14, 1930 (U. S. C., title 18, sec. 753c, 753d);

support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, and whocontinue insane after expiration of sentence, who have no relativesor friends to whom they can be sent; shipping remains of deceasedprisoners to their relatives or friends in the United States, and inter-ment of deceased prisoners whose remains are unclaimed; expensesincurred in identifying, pursuing, and returning escaped prisonersand for rewards for their recapture; and for repairs, betterments,and improvements of United States jails, including sidewalks;$2,000,000.

Juors and wit- Section 323 of part II of the Legislative Appropriation Act,47 tt. 41 approved June 30, 1932, except so much thereof as suspends theP p. 647. per diem for expenses of subsistence for witnesses, is hereby con-

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tinued in full force and effect during the fiscal year ending June 30,1938; and for the purpose of making such section applicable to suchfiscal year the figures "1933" shall be read as "1938."

None of the money appropriated by this title shall be used to pay ed.8yments restrict

any witness, juror, or bailiff more than one per diem for any oneday's service even though he serves in more than one of such threecapacities on the same day.

This title may be cited as the "Department of Justice Appropria- Short title.

tion Act, 1938."

TITLE III-DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

Salaries: Secretary of Commerce, two Assistant Secretaries, andother personal services in the District of Columbia, including theChief Clerk and Superintendent, who shall be chief executive officerof the Department and who may be designated by the Secretary ofCommerce to sign minor routine official papers and documents duringthe temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretariesof the Department, $352,000.

Contingent expenses: For contingent and miscellaneous expensesof the offices and bureaus of the Department, except the Patent Office,including those for which appropriations for contingent and mis-cellaneous expenses are specifically made, including professional andscientific books, lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals, blankbooks, pamphlets, maps, newspapers (not exceeding $1,500); pur-chase of atlases or maps; stationery; furniture and repairs to same;carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soapsponges; fuel, lighting, and heating; purchase and exchange ofmotortrucks and bicycles; purchase, including exchange, of twomotor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for the general use ofthe Department; maintenance, repair, and operation of three motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (one for the Secretary ofCommerce and two for the general use of the Department), andmotortrucks and bicycles, to be used only for official purposes; freightand express charges; postage to foreign countries; telegraph and

telephone service; typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-

saving devices, including their repair and exchange; first-aid outfitsfor use in the buildings occupied by employees of this Department;and all other necessary miscellaneous items (not exceeding $50 for

any one item) not included in the foregoing, $126,842, which sum

shall constitute the appropriation for contingent expenses of theDepartment, except the Patent Office, and shall also be available for

the purchase of necessary supplies and equipment for field servicesof bureaus and offices of the Department for which contingent andmiscellaneous appropriations are specifically made in order to facili-

tate the purchase through the central purchasing office (Division of

Purchases and Sales), as provided by law: Provided, That a state-

ment of expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported toCongress in the annual Budget.

Traveling expenses: For all necessary traveling expenses under

the Department of Commerce, including all bureaus and divisionsthereunder, and traveling expenses for the examinations authorized

by the Act entitled "An Act to provide for retirement for disabilityin the Lighthouse Service", approved March 4, 1925 (U. S. C., title

33, sec. 765), but not including travel properly chargeable to the

appropriation herein for "Transportation of families and effects ofofficers and employees and allowances for living quarters", Bureauof Foreign and Domestic Commerce, $959,000.

Department ofCommerce.

Secretary's office.

Salaries.

Contingent and mis-cellaneous expenses.

Vehicles, etc.

Proiso.Report to Congress

Traveling expenses.'Pot, p. 762

43 Stat. 1261.33 U. . C. . 765.


Printing and bind- Printing and binding: For all printing and binding for the

ing. Department of Commerce, including all of its bureaus, offices, insti-tutions, and services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere,except the Patent Office, $500,000, of which $10,000 shall be imme-

Proiom edi diately available: Provided, That an amount not to exceed $2,000 oftors. this appropriation may be expended for salaries of persons detailed

from the Government Printing Office for service as copy editors.

Bureau of Air Corn- BUREAU OF AIR COMMERCEmere.

Depatmental sala- Departmental salaries: For personal services in the District ofies. Columbia, $628,000, of which $5,000 shall be immediately available.Air-navigationfacl- Establishment of air-navigation facilities: For the establishment

Establishment of Of additional aids to air navigation, including the equipment ofaids, mal routes, etc. additional air-mail routes for day and night flying; the construction

of additional necessary lighting, radio, and other signaling and com-municating structures and apparatus; the alteration and moderni-zation of existing aids to air navigation; for personal services in thefield; purchase, including exchange, maintenance, repair, and oper-ation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and aircraftfor official use in field work; special clothing, wearing apparel, andsuitable equipment for aviation purposes; and for the acquisition ofthe necessary sites by lease or grant, $3,037,800, of which $7,500

Proiuos. shall be immediately available: Provided, That in addition to thentracts aut- amount herein appropriated, the Secretary of Commerce may, prior

to July 1, 1938, enter into contracts for the purchase, construction,and installation of additional air navigation aids not in excess of$2,000,000 and, prior to July 1, 1939, $2,000,000 additional maybe obligated under contracts for such purchase, construction andinstallation of additional air navigation aids: Provided further,

Certiflea. oneces That the Secretary of Commerce before entering into any suchy, contract shall personally certify that in his opinion it is necessary

Report to Congress. in the public interest: Provided further, That a full report of allsuch certifications and of all expenditures under this item shall bemade to Congress on or before July 1, 1938.

Maintenance and Maintenance of air-navigation facilities: For all necessary ex-operation. penses of operation, maintenance, and upkeep of existing aids to air

navigation, including purchase, exchange, maintenance operation,and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and air-craft; purchase of special clothing, wearing apparel, and suitableequipment for aviation purposes (including rubber boots, snowshoes,and skis); books of reference and periodicals; $5,698,700, of which$58,500 shall be immediately available.

Aircraft n com. Aircraft in commerce: To carry out the provisions of the ActmServices and ex- approved May 20, 1926, entitled "An Act to encourage and regulateP44 tat. 568. the use of aircraft in commerce, and for other purposes", as amended

49 v. s. i 171- by the Act approved February 28, 1929, and the Acts approvedJune 19 and 20, 1934 (U. S. C., title 49, sees. 171-184), includingpersonal services in the field; control of air traffic on civil airwaysat air terminals, including necessary equipment therefor; rent inthe District of Columbia and elsewhere; contract stenographic report-ing services; fees and mileage of witnesses; purchase of furntureand equipment; stationery and supplies, including medical supplies,typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories, andrepairs; purchase, including exchange (not to exceed $5,000), main-tenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying

Prehas, etc.. o vehicles for official use in field work; replacement, by purchase oret. exchange, of aircraft (not to exceed $200,000); purchase of aircraft

motors, aircraft and motor accessories, and spare parts; main-tenance, operation, and repair of aircraft and aircraft motors;

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purchase of special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equip-ment for aviation purposes; purchase of books of reference andperiodicals; newspapers, reports, documents, plans, specifications,maps, manuscripts, and other publications; and all other necessaryexpenses (not exceeding $50 for any one item) not included in theforegoing; in all, $1,582,000, of which $11,000 shall be immediatelyavailable: Provided, That a statement of expenditures from thisappropriation shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget.

Safety and planning: Further to carry out the provisions of theAct approved May 20, 1926, entitled "An Act to encourage andregulate the use of aircraft in commerce, and for other purposes",as amended by the Act approved February 28, 1929, and the Actsapproved June 19 and June 20, 1934, through safety research relativeto aviation equipment, personnel, and operation methods; includingnot to exceed $75,000 for personal services in the District of Columbiaand not to exceed $80,000 for personal services in the field; includingnot to exceed $1,000 for the purchase of books of reference andperiodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, and manu-scripts, $292,000.

The appropriation under title III herein for traveling expensesshall be available in an amount not to exceed $2,000 for expenses ofattendance at meetings concerned with the promotion of civil aero-nautics, and also expenses of illustrating the work of the Bureau ofAir Commerce by showing of maps, charts, and graphs at suchmeetings when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary ofCommerce and shall also be available for payments, at a rate ofnot to exceed 4 cents per mile, to maintenance and operating per-sonnel, Bureau of Air Commerce, as reimbursement to such personnelof the expenses of the necessary travel in their personally ownedautomobiles in connection with the maintenance and operation ofremotely controlled air-navigation facilities, all of which may beconsidered as being within the limits of the official post of duty ofsuch personnel. Appropriations herein made for maintenance ofair-navigation facilities and aircraft in commerce shall be availablein a total amount of not to exceed $15,000 for expenses of packing,crating, and transporting household effects of employees, in any onecase not to exceed six thousand pounds, when transferred from oneofficial station to another for permanent duty: Provided, That section3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (U. S. C., title41, sec. 5) shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or servicerendered for the Bureau of Air Commerce when the aggregateamount involved does not exceed $100: Provided further, That nopart of the appropriations made herein for the Bureau of AirCommerce shall be used for any purpose not authorized by the AirCommerce Act of 1926 as amended.

BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE

285

Proviso.Report to Congress.

Safety and plan-ning.

44 Stat. 568; 48 Stat.1113.

49 U. S. C. §§ 171-184.

Attendance atmeetings.

Transporting house.hold effects.

Prorisos.Minor purchasll s.it. S. § 370U.41 U. S. ('5.

Use rcstricteel.

Bureau of Foreignand Domestic Com-merce.

Salaries and expenses, Washington Commerce Service: For the pene Washingtonsalary of the Director and other personal services in the District of Commerce Serice.Columbia, including the functions set forth under the Bureau ofForeign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce, Appro-priation Act for 1937, approved May 15, 1936, and for every neces- 49 Stat. 1

sary expense connected with collecting and compiling lists of foreignbuyers and reports thereon; administration of the China Trade Act Ca iatrade Act.

in the District of Columbia; collecting and compiling informationregarding the restrictions and regulations of trade imposed byforeign countries; establishment, operation, and maintenance of


Promo.Report to Congress.

Domestic commerceand raw-materials in-vestigations.

District and cooper-ative office service.

ProoisoReport to Congress.

Customs statistics.Expenses of collect-

ing, etc.

42 Stat. 1109.15U.S.C. 194.

Proto.Report to Congress.Sum immediately

available.

Export industries.Investigations and

reports.

foreign trade zones in ports of entry of the United States, includ-ing contract stenographic reporting services and fees for mileage ofwitnesses; purchases for use in Washington or the field offices offurniture, equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, addingand computing, mimeographing, multigraphing, photostat, andother duplicating machines and devices, including their exchange andrepair, telegraph and telephone service, accessories and repairs, booksof reference, newspapers, periodicals, reports, documents, plans andspecifications, freight, express, and drayage, streetcar fares, $543,800:Provided, That a statement of expenditures from this appropriationshall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget.

Domestic commerce and raw-materials investigations: For personalservices of officers and employees to enable the Bureau of Foreignand Domestic Commerce to collect and compile information regard-ing the disposition and handling of raw materials and manufactureswithin the United States; and to investigate the conditions of pro-duction and marketing of foreign raw materials essential for Ameri-can industries, $330,000.

District and cooperative office service: For all expenses necessaryto operate and maintain district and cooperative offices, includingpersonal services, rent outside of the District of Columbia, purchaseof furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting,adding, and computing machines, accessories, and repairs purchaseof maps, books of reference, and periodicals, reports, documents,plans, specifications, manuscripts, newspapers, both foreign anddomestic (not exceeding $300), and all other publications necessaryfor the promotion of the commercial interests of the United States,and all other necessary incidental expenses (not exceeding $50 inany one case) not included in the foregoing, $323,000: Provided, Thata statement of expenditures from this appropriation shall be reportedto Congress in the annual Budget.

Customs statistics: For all expenses necessary for the operationof the section of customs statistics transferred to the Departmentof Commerce from the Treasury Department by the Act approvedJanuary 5, 1923 (U. S. C., title 15, sec. 194) and expenses connectedwith the monthly publication of statistics showing the UnitedStates exports and imports by customs districts and destinationsincluding personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed$120,000) and elsewhere; rent of or purchase of tabulating, punch-ing, sorting, and other mechanical labor-saving machinery or devices,including adding, typewriting, billing, computing, mimeographic,multigraphing, photostat, and other duplicating machines and devices,including their exchange and repair; telegraph and telephone serv-ice; freight, express, drayage; tabulating cards, stationery, andmiscellaneous office supplies; books of reference and periodicals;furniture and equipment; ice, water, heat, light, and power; street-car fare; and all other necessary incidental expenses (not exceeding$50 in any one case) not included in the foregoing; $403,000: Pro-vided, That a statement of expenditures from this appropriationshall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget, of which sumnot to exceed $20,000 shall be available immediately.

Export industries: To enable the Bureau of Foreign and DomesticCommerce to investigate and report on domestic as well as foreignproblems relating to the production, distribution, and marketing,insofar as they relate to the important export industries of the UnitedStates, including personal services, purchase of furniture and equip-ment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding and computingmachines, accessories and repairs, books of reference and periodicals,

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reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, and all otherpublications, rent outside of the District of Columbia, ice and drink-ing water for office purposes, and all other necessary incidentalexpenses (not exceeding $50 in any one case) connected therewith,$520,000: Provided, That a statement of expenditures from thisappropriation shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget.

Salaries and expenses, Foreign Commerce Service: For the promo-tion and development of the foreign commerce of the United Statesand for carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March 3,1927, as amended (U. S. C., title 15, secs. 197-197f, 198), to establishin the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department ofCommerce, a Foreign Commerce Service of the United States, includ-ing personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, thecompensation of a clerk or clerks for each commercial attache at arate not to exceed $3,000 per annum for each person so employed,and to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled "China TradeAct, 1922", including rent outside of the District of Columbia, thepurchase of necessary furniture and equipment, loss by exchange,stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, duplicating, and com-puting machines, accessories and repairs, law books, books of refer-ence, and periodicals, uniforms, maps, reports, documents, plans,specifications, manuscripts, newspapers (not exceeding $2,500), iceand drinking water for office purposes, and for every necessary inci-dental expense (not exceeding $50 in any one case) not included inthe above. The purchase of supplies and equipment or the procure-ment of services in foreign countries may be made in the open marketwithout compliance with section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of theUnited States (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) in the manner commonamong businessmen when the aggregate amount of the purchase orthe service does not exceed $100 in any instance; Foreign CommerceService officers are authorized to enter into leases for office quarters,payment in advance for rent, telephone, or other charges required bythe customs of the country is hereby authorized; and for all othernecessary expenses (not exceeding $50 in any one case) not includedin the foregoing, $778,000: Provided, That a statement of expendi-tures from this appropriation shall be reported to Congress in theannual Budget.

Transportation of families and effects of officers and employeesand allowances for living quarters: To pay the traveling expensesand expenses of transportation, under such regulations as the Secre-tary of Commerce may prescribe, of families and effects of officersand employees of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce ingoing and returning from their posts, or when traveling under theorder of the Secretary of Commerce, and also for defraying theexpenses of preparing and transporting the remains of officers andemployees of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce whomay die abroad or in transit, while in the discharge of their officialduties, to their former homes in this country, or to a place not moredistant, for interment, and for the ordinary expenses of such inter-ment; to enable the Secretary of Commerce, under such regulationsas he may prescribe, in accordance with the provisions of the Actentitled "An Act to amend the Act entitled 'An Act to establish inthe Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Departmentof Commerce, a Foreign Commerce Service of the United States, andfor other purposes', approved March 3, 1927", approved April 12,1930 (U. S ., title 15, sec. 197F), to furnish the officers in theForeign Commerce Service of the Bureau of Foreign and DomesticCommerce stationed in a foreign country, without cost to them and

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Foreign CommerceService.

44 Stat. 1394.15 U.S. C. §§ 197-

197f, 198.

Personal services.

China Trade Act,enforcement.

15 U. S. C. S§ 141-162.

Supplies, etc.

R. S. § 3709.41 U.S. C. § 5.


Transportation offamilies and effects ofolicers and employ-eea.

Bringing home re-mains of officers, etc.,dying abroad.

Allowances for liv-ing quarters.

44 Stat. 1395; 46Stat. 163.

15 U. S. C. § 197b(0.

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within the limits of this appropriation, allowances for living quar-ters, heat, and light, notwithstanding the provisions of section 1765of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 70), $143,800: Provided,That the maximum allowance to any officer shall not exceed $1,700.

The appropriation herein under title III for traveling expensesshall be available in an amount not to exceed $5,000 for expenses ofattendance at meetings concerned with the promotion of foreign anddomestic commerce, or either, and also expenses of illustrating thework of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce by showingof maps, charts, and graphs at such meetings, when incurred on thewritten authority of the Secretary of Commerce.

Census Bureau.

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services and ex- For expenses for securing information for and compiling the' census reports provided for by law, including personal services in

the District of Columbia and elsewhere; compensation and expensesof enumerators, special agents, supervisors, supervisor's clerks, andinterpreters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; the cost oftranscribing State, municipal, and other records; temporary rental

Monographs. of quarters outside the District of Columbia; not to exceed $2,500for the employment by contract of personal services for the prepara-

Tabulating ma- tion of monographs on census subjects; not to exceed $54,000 forervi in the Dis- constructing tabulating machines and repairs to such machinery and

rict. other mechanical appliances, including technical, mechanical, andother personal services in connection therewith m the District ofColumbia and elsewhere, and the purchase of necessary machineryand supplies, $1,990,000 of which amount not to exceed $1,530,000may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia,

Temporyemploy- including not to exceed $120,000 for temporary employees who mays'u. s.c. C.§ 61474. be appointed by the Director of the Census under civil-service rules,

at per-diem rates to be fixed by him without regard to the provi-sions of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, for the purposeof assisting in periodical inquiries.

Attendance at The appropriation under title III herein for traveling expensesgs shall be available for the Census Bureau, in an amount not to exceed

$500, for attendance at meetings concerned with the collection ofstatistics when incurred on the written authority of the Secretaryof Commerce.

Soscal ecurit Act, Salaries and expenses, Social Security Act: For salaries and neces-alaries and expenses.42 u. S. o., supp. sary expenses for searching census records and supplying information

I, ch.7. incident to carrying out the provisions of the Social Security Act,approved August 14, 1935 (U. S. C., Supp. I, title 42, ch. 7), includ-ing personal services in the District of Columbia; binding records-supplies; services; repair to, and replacement parts for, office andmechanical equipment for the reproduction of census records,

Furnis'ingevidence $25,000: Provided, That the procedure hereunder for the furnishingor establishing age, from census records of evidence for the establishment of age of indi-

viduals shall be pursuant to regulations approved jointly by theSecretary of Commerce and the Social Security Board.

Preparatory ex Expenses of the sixteenth census: For expenses prepara tory tos. the taking of the sixteenth decennial census, including temporary

employees who may be appointed by the Director of the Census underthe civil-service rules for any period not to exceed June 30, 1942, atper-diem rates to be fixed by the Director of the Census withoutregard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; materials,supplies, equipment, services, and tabulation cards; $50,000, of whichamount not to exceed $35,000 may be expended for personal servicesin the District of Columbia.

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BUREAU OF IMARINE INSPECTION AND NAVIGATION

Departmental salaries: For the Director and other personal servicesin the District of Columbia, $297,540.

Salaries and general expenses: For salaries of shipping commis-sioners, inspectors, and other personal services; to enable the Secre-tary of Commerce to provide and operate such motor boats andemploy such persons (including temporary employees) as may benecessary for the enforcement, under his direction, of laws relatingto navigation and inspection of vessels, boarding of vessels, countingof passengers on excursion boats to prevent overcrowding, and tosecure uniformity in the admeasurement of vessels; fees to witnesses;materials, supplies, equipment, and services, including rent and jani-tor service; purchase, exchange, and repair of instruments; plansand specifications; insignia, braid, and chin straps; coats, caps, andaprons for stewards' departments on vessels; and other incidentalexpenses of field offices, including contract stenographic reportingservices in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; $2,114,460, ofwhich not to exceed $50,000 may be used for the purchase by theBureau of the boat "Waleda II": Provided, That $90,000 of theamount herein appropriated shall be available only for the paymentof extra compensation for overtime services of local inspectors ofsteam vessels and their assistants, and United States shipping com-missioners and their deputies and assistants, for which the UnitedStates receives reimbursement in accordance with the provisions ofsection 6 of the Act of May 27, 1936 (49 Stat., p. 1380).

NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS

Salaries and expenses: For carrying out the provisions of the Actestablishing the National Bureau of Standards, approved March 3,1901 (U. S. C., title 5, secs. 591, 597; title 15, secs. 271-278), and ofActs supplementary thereto affecting the functions of the Bureau, andspecifically including the functions as set forth under the Bureau ofStandards in the "Department of Commerce Appropriation Act,1935", approved April 7, 1934, and for all necessary expenses, pur-chases, and personnel connected with administration and operation,testing, inspection and technical information service, research anddevelopment, and standards for commerce, including rental of labora-tories in the field, communication service, transportation service;street-car fares not exceeding $100, expenses of the visiting com-m ittee, attendance of American member at the meeting of the Inter-national Committee of Weights and Measures; compensation andexpenses of medical officers of the Public Health Service detailed tothe National Bureau of Standards for the purpose of maintaining afirst-aid station and making clinical observations; compiling anddisseminating scientific and technical data; demonstrating the resultsof the Bureau's work by exhibits or otherwise as may be deemed mosteffective; purchases of supplies, materials, stationery, electric power,fuel for heat, light, and power, and accessories of all kinds needed inthe work of the Bureau, including supplies for office, laboratory, shop,and plant, and cleaning and toilet supplies, gloves, goggles, rubberboots, and aprons; contingencies of all kinds; supplies for operation,maintenance, and repair of motortrucks and a passenger automobilefor official use, including their exchange; purchases of equipment ofall kinds, including its repair and exchange, including apparatus,machines, and tools, furniture, typewriters, adding machines, andother labor-saving devices, books, periodicals, and reference books,including their exchange when not needed for permanent use; trans-

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Departmental sal-aries.

Salaries and gen-eral expenses.

"Waleda II", bo t,purchase.

Proviso.Local inspectors,

overtime pay.

49 Stat. 1385.46 U. S. C., Supp.

II, § 382b.

Bureau of Stand-ards.


31 Stat. 1449.5U. S.C. §§591,597;

15 U. S. C. §§ 271-278.

48 Stat. 552.

Attendance atmeeting of nlternn-tional lCommnittee ofWeights and Meas-ures.

Detailed PublicHealth Service ofi-cers.

Supplies, etc.

Equipment.

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Salaries. lation of technical articles when required; salary of the director and

other personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field,in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended.

Operation, etc. Operation and administration: For the general operation andadministration of the Bureau; improvement and care of the grounds;plant equipment; necessary repairs and alterations to buildings;$;272,000.

Testing, inspection, Testing, inspection, and information service: For calibrating andand information serv- certifying measuring instruments, apparatus, and standards in terms

of the national standards; the preparation and distribution ofstandard materials; the broadcasting of radio signals of standardfrequency; the testing of equipment, materials, and supplies in con-nection with Government purchases; the improvement of methods oftesting; advisory services to governmental agencies on scientific andtechnical matters; and supplying available information to the public,upon request, in the field of physics, chemistry, and engineering,$837,000.

Researchanddeve- Research and development: For the maintenance and developmentnational standards of measurement; the opmentpment of improved

methods of measurement; the determination of physical constantsand the properties of materials; the investigation of mechanisms andstructures, including their economy, efficiency, and safety; the studyof fluid resistance and the flow of fluids and heat; the investigationof radiation, radioactive substances, and X-rays; the study of con-ditions affecting radio transmission; the development of methods ofchemical analysis and synthesis, and the investigation of the prop-erties of rare substances; investigations relating to the utilization ofmaterials, including lubricants and liquid fuels; the study of newprocesses and methods of fabrication; and the solutions of problemsarising in connection with standards, $701,000.

Standards for corn- Standards for commerce: For cooperation with Government pur-chasing agencies, industries, and national organizations in develop-ing specifications and facilitating their use; for encouraging'theapplication of the latest developments in the utilization and stand-ardization of building materials; for the development of engineeringand safety codes, simplified-practice recommendations, and com-mercial standards of quality and performance, $110,000.

investigation of Investigation of building materials: For personal services in the

budin materials. District of Columbia and elsewhere and all other necessary expenses

for the first year of a two-year study of the properties and suitabilityof building materials, with particular reference to their use in low-cost housing, including the construction of such experimental struc-tures as may be necessary for this purpose; and the publication and

Poroeo. dissemination of the results thereof, $198,000: Provided, That nowork restriction.

part of this sum shall be used to duplicate any work now being per-formed by the Forest Products Laboratory of the Department ofAgriculture.

ooperative work )uring the fiscal year 1938 the head of any department or inde-with departments,etc., on scientifc in- pendent establishment of the Government having funds available forvestigations. scientific investigations and requiring cooperative work by the

National Bureau of Standards on scientific investigations within thescope of the functions of that Bureau, and which the National Bureauof Standards is unable to perform within the limits of its appropria-

Transferoffunds. tions, may, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce, transferto the National Bureau of Standards such sums as may be necessaryto carry on such investigations. The Secretary of the Treasury shalltransfer on the books of the Treasury Department any sums whichmay be authorized hereunder, and such amounts shall be placed tothe credit of the National Bureau of Standards for performance of

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work for the department or establishment from which the transferis made, including, where necessary, compensation for personalservices in the District of Columbia and in the field.

The appropriation under title III herein for traveling expensesshall be available for the Bureau of Standards in an amount not toexceed $3,000 for attendance at meetings concerned with standardiza-tion and research or either, when incurred on the written authorityof the Secretary of Commerce.

Total, National Bureau of Standards, $2,118,000. of which amountnot to exceed $1,875,000 may be expended for personal services inthe District of Columbia.

BUREAU OF LIGHTHOUSES

Salaries: For the Commissioner and other personal services inthe District of Columbia, $125,000.

General expenses: For supplies, including replacement of andnecessary additions to existing equipment, repairs, maintenance, andincidental expenses of lighthouses and other lights, beacons, buoy-age, fog signals, lighting of rivers heretofore authorized to be lighted,light vessels, other aids to navigation, and lighthouse tenders, includ-ing the establishment, repair, and improvement of beacons and daymarks, and purchase of land for same; establishment of post lights,buoys, submarine signals, and fog signals; construction of necessaryoutbuildings, including oil houses at light stations, at a cost notexceeding $2,500 at any one light station in any fiscal year; improve-ment of grounds and buildings connected with light stations anddepots; restoring light stations and depots and buildings connectedtherewith: Provided, That such restoration shall be limited to theoriginal purpose of the structures; wages of persons attending postlights; temporary employees and field force while engaged on worksof general repair and maintenance, and laborers and mechanics atlighthouse depots; rations and provisions or commutation thereof forworking parties in the field, officers and crews of light vessels andtenders, and officials and other authorized persons of the LighthouseService on duty on board of such tenders or vessels, and money accru-ing from commutation for rations and provisions for the above-named persons on board of tenders and light vessels or in workingparties in the field may be paid on proper vouchers to the personhaving charge of the mess of such vessel or party; not exceeding$3,500 for packing, crating, and transporting personal householdeffects of employees, not to exceed six thousand pounds in any onecase, when transferred from one official station to another for per-manent duty; purchase of rubber boots, oilskins, rubber gloves.goggles, and coats, caps, and aprons for stewards' departments onvessels; reimbursement under rules prescribed by the Secretary ofCommerce of keepers of light stations and masters of light vesselsand of lighthouse tenders for rations and provisions and clothingfurnished shipwrecked persons who may be temporarily providedfor by them, not exceeding in all $1,000 in any fiscal year; fuel, light,and rent of quarters where necessary for keepers of lighthouses;purchase of land sites for fog signals; rent of necessary ground forall such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or to markchangeable channels and which in consequence cannot be made per-manent; rent of offices, depots, and wharves; mileage; library booksfor light stations and vessels, and technical books and periodicalsnot exceeding $750; traveling expenses of teachers while actuallyemployed by States or private persons to instruct the children ofkeepers of lighthouses; all other contingent expenses of districtoffices and depots, including the purchase of provisions for sale to

Attendanceat meet-ings.

Ante, p. 283.

Total; services inthe District.

Bureau of Light-houses.

Salaries.

General expenses.Aids to navigation.P)ost, p. 763.

Proviso.Restoration limited

to original purpose.Personal services.

T'lranilsprtl itn of

Rations, clothing,etc.


lighthouse keepers at isolated stations, and the appropriation reim-Vehicles. bursed; purchase (not to exceed $5,000), exchange, maintenance,

operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehiclesPaymentofrewards. for official use in field work; payment of rewards for the appre-

hension and conviction, or for information helpful to the apprehen-sion and conviction of persons found interfering with aids to navi-

33 L. S'.. 761. gation maintained by the Lighthouse Service, in violation of section6 of the Act of May 14, 1908 (U. S. C., title 33, sec. 761); $4,137,000.

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s nd aidstto Special projects, vessels, and aids to navigation: For constructing

navigation. or purchasing and equipping lighthouse tenders and light vessels

for the Lighthouse Service as may be specifically approved by theSecretary of Commerce, not to exceed $796,000; and for establishingand improving aids to navigation and other works as may be spe-cifically approved by the Secretary of Commerce, $500,000; in all,

Availability. $1,296,000, which sums shall be available for all expenditures, directlyrelating to the respective projects which are approved by the Secre-tary of Commerce.

Keepers of light- Keepers of lighthouses: For salaries of not exceeding one thousandhouses. four hundred lighthouse and fog-signal keepers and persons attend-

ing lights, exclusive of post lights, $1,853,000.Lighthouse vessels. Lighthouse vessels: For salaries and wages of officers and crews

of light vessels and lighthouse tenders, including temporary employ-ment when necessary, $2,226,000.

Superintendents, Superintendents, clerks, and so forth: For salaries of eighteenclerks, etc. superintendents of lighthouses, and of assistant superintendents,

clerks, draftsmen, and other authorized permanent employees in thedistrict offices and depots of the Lighthouse Service, exclusive of thoseregularly employed in the office of the Bureau of Lighthouses, Districtof Columbia, $729,900.

Retired pay. Retired pay: For retired pay of officers and employees engagedin the field service or on vessels of the Lighthouse Service, exceptpersons continuously employed in district oices and shops, $654,000.

Coast and GeodeticSurvey.

Expenses.

Field expenses.Atlantic and Gulf

coasts.

COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY

For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of theCoast and Geodetic Survey, including maintenance, repair, exchange,and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn vehicles for officialuse in field work, purchase of motorcycles with side cars, includingtheir exchange, not to exceed $500, surveying instruments, includingtheir exchange, rubber boots, canvas and rubber gloves, goggles, andcaps, coats, and aprons for stewards' departments on vessels, extracompensation at not to exceed $1 per day for each station to em-ployees of the Lighthouse Service and the Weather Bureau whileobserving tides or currents or tending seismographs, services of onetide observer in the District of Columbia at not to exceed $1 per day,and compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons em-ployed in the field work, for operation, maintenance and repair ofan airplane for photographic survey, and expenses incident to theexecution of field work upon approval by the head of the Bureau,to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to theCoast and Geodetic Survey subscribed by the Secretary of Commerce,and under the following heads:

Field expenses, Atlantic and Gulf coast: For surveys and neces-sary resurveys of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States,including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of theUnited Statest and including the employment in the field and officeof one physicist to develop survey methods based on transmissionof sound through sea water and one temporary engineer to develop

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instruments for aerial photographic surveying, $114,000: Provided,That not more than $35,000 of this amount shall be expended on thecoasts of said outlying islands and the Atlantic entrance to thePanama Canal;

Pacific coast: For surveys and necessary resurveys of coasts onthe Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of the United States, andincluding the employment in the field and office of one physicist todevelop survey methods based on transmission of sound through seawater, $163,000;

Tides, currents, and so forth: For continuing researches in physicalhydrography, relating to harbors and bars, and for tidal and currentobservations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts underthe jurisdiction of the United States, $12,700;

Coast Pilot: For compilation of the Coast Pilot, including theemployment of such pilots and nautical experts, and stenographichelp in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, $4,200;

Magnetic and seismological work: For continuing magnetic andseismological observations and to establish meridian lines in connec-tion therewith in all parts of the United States; making magneticand seismological observations in other regions under the jurisdictionof the United States; purchase of additional magnetic and seismologi-cal instruments; lease of sites where necessary and the erection oftemporary magnetic and seismological buildings; and including theemployment in the field and office of such magnetic and seismologicalobservers, and instrument makers and stenographic services as maybe necessary, $58,500;

Federal, boundary, and State surveys: For continuing lines ofexact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; deter-mining geographic positions by triangulation and traverse for thecontrol of Federal, State, boundary, county, city, and other surveysand engineering works in all parts of the United States; includingspecial geodetic surveys of first-order triangulation and leveling inregions subject to earthquakes, not exceeding $10,000; determiningfield astronomic positions and the variation of latitude, including themaintenance and operation of the latitude observatories at Ukiah,California, and Gaithersburg, Maryland, not exceeding $2,500 each;establishing lines of exact levels, determining geographic positions bytriangulation and traverse, and making astronomic observations inAlaska; and continuing gravity observations in the United Statesand for making such observations in regions under the jurisdictionof the United States and also on islands and coasts adjacent thereto,$93,000, of which amount not to exceed $35,440 may be expendedfor personal services in the District of Columbia;

Miscellaneous objects: For the preparation or purchase of plansand specifications of vessels and the employment of such hull drafts-men in the field and office as may be necessary for the same; thereimlbursement, under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce,of officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey for food, clothing, medi-cines. and other supplies furnished for the temporary relief of dis-tressed persons in remote localities and to shipwrecked persons tem-porarily provided for by them, not to exceed a total of $500; actualnecessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily orderedto the office in the District of Columbia for consultation with thedirector, and not exceeding $3,000 for special surveys that may berequired by the Bureau of Lighthouses or other proper authority,$3,600;

Vessels: For repair of vessels, exclusive of engineer's supplies andother ship chandlery, $68,300;

Proviso.Outlying islands;

Atlantic entrance toPanama Canol.

Pacific coast.

Physical hydrcg-r.aphy.

Coast Pilot.

Magnetic and seis-mological work.

Federal, boundary,and State surveys.

ikiah and Gaithers-burg observatories.

Alaska.

Miscellaneous ob-jects.

Relief of distressedpersons.

Vessels, repair, etc.

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Officers and men on Pay of officers and men on vessels: For all necessary employees tovaesls, pay. man and equip the vessels, including professional seamen serving as

mates on vessels of the Survey, to execute the work of the Surveyherein provided for and authorized by law, $580,000;

Commissioned offi. Pay, commissioned officers: For pay and allowances prescribedand aow- by law for commissioned officers on sea duty and other duty, holding

relative rank with officers of the Navy, including one director, sixhydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of captain,ten hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of com-mander seventeen hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relativerank of lieutenant commander, forty-seven hydrographic and geo-detic engineers with relative rank of lieutenant, sixty-one juniorhydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of lieutenant(junior grade), twenty-nine aides with relative rank of ensign, andincluding officers retired in accordance with existing law, $815,000:

ssistant director. Provided, That the Secretary of Commerce may designate one ofthe hydrographic and geodetic engineers to act as assistant director;

office force. Office force: For personal services, $572,000;Officeexpenses. Office expenses: For purchase of new instruments (except survey-

ing instruments), including their exchange, materials, equipment,replacement of one proving press, and supplies required in the instru-ment shop, carpenter shop, and chart division; books, scientific andtechnical books, journals, books of reference, maps, charts, and sub-scriptions; copper plates, chart paper, printer's ink, copper, zincand chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving,printing, photographing, rubber gloves, and electrotyping supplies;photolithographing and printing charts for immediate use; station-ery for office and field parties; transportation of instruments andsupplies when not charged to party expenses; telegrams; washing;office furniture, repairs; miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of allkinds, not exceeding $90 for street-car fares, $59,600;

Aeronauticalcharts. Aeronautical charts: For compilation and printing of aeronauticalcharts, including personal services in the District of Columbia (notto exceed $85,500), operation of an airplane for check flights, andaerial photographs, execution of ground surveys at air terminals,and the purchase of drafting, photographic, photolithographic, andprinting supplies and equipment, $105,500.

subsistence restrio Appropriations herein made for traveling expenses or for the Coast

and Geodetic Survey shall not be available for allowance to civilianor other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (exceptas hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered toWashington for short periods for consultation with the director),except as now provided by law.

Attendance atmeet- The appropriation under title III herein for traveling expenses

^Ant, p. 283. shall be available, in an amount not to exceed $150, for expenses ofattendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Coast andGeodetic Survey when incurred on the written authority of the Sec-retary of Commerce.

Bureau of Fisheries. BUREAU OF FISHERIES

Commissioner's Commissioner's office: For the Commissioner and other personalservices in the District of Columbia, $150,400.

fPropation ' f food Propagation of food fishes: For maintenance, repair, alteration,improvement, equipment, acquisition, and operation of fish-culturalstations, general propagation of food fishes and their distribution,including movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars and not toexceed $15,000 for purchase of trucks for fish distribution; mainte-nance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying

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vehicles for official use in the field; purchase of equipment (includingrubber boots and oilskins), and apparatus; contingent expenses; payof permanent employees not to exceed $387,030; temporary labor; notto exceed $10,000 for propagation and distribution of fresh-watermussels and the necessary expenses connected therewith, and not toexceed $10,000 for the purchase, collection, and transportation ofspecimens and other expenses incidental to the maintenance andoperation of aquarium, of which not to exceed $5,000 may be expendedfor personal services in the District of Columbia, $929,000, includingnot to exceed $260,000 to establish or commence the establishment ofthose stations authorized by the Act approved May 21, 1930 (46Stat. 371), for which the need is most urgent, and for the furtherdevelopment of stations heretofore established pursuant to the pro-visions of said Act, including the acquisition of necessary land, con-struction of buildings and ponds, water supply, improvements togrounds, purchase of equipment, and all other necessary expenses.

Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance and operation of vesselsand launches, including purchase and repair of boats, apparatus,machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hireof vessels, temporary employees, and all other necessary expenses inconnection therewith, including not to exceed $750 for the purchaseof plans and specifications for vessels or for contract personal serv-ices for the preparation thereof, and money accruing from commu-tation of rations and provisions on board vessels may be paid onproper vouchers to the persons having charge of the mess of suchvessels, $168,000, of which not to exceed $13,460 may be expendedfor pay of officers and employees of vessels of the Atlantic coast,and not to exceed $75,000 for pay of officers and crews of vessels forthe Alaska Fisheries Service.

Commutation of rations (not to exceed $1 per day) may be paidto officers and crews of vessels of the Bureau of Fisheries during thefiscal year 1938 under regulations prescribed by the Secretary ofCommerce.

Inquiry respecting food fishes: For inquiry into the cause of thedecrease of food fishes in the waters of the United States, and forinvestigation and experiments in respect to the aquatic animals,plants, and waters, and screening of irrigation ditches and fishways,in the interests of fish culture and the fishery industries, includingpay of permanent employees not to exceed $179,000; temporaryemployees, maintenance, repair, ilnprovement, equipment, and opera-tion of biological stations, preparation of reports, and not to exceed$500 for rent of suitable quarters in the District of Columbia forlaboratory and storage purposes, $262,000.

Fishery industries: For collection and compilation of statisticsof the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, and themethods of preservation and utilization of fishery products, and toenable the Secretary of Commerce to execute the functions imposedupon him by the Act entitled "An Act authorizing associations ofproducers of aquatic products", approved June 25, 1934 (48 Stat.,p. 1213), including pay of permanent employees not to exceed60,000 of which amount not exceeding $8,620 may be expended for

personal services in the District of Columbia, compensation of tem-porary employees, preparation of reports, contract stenographicreporting services, temporary employees in the District of Columbianot to exceed $2,600, and all other necessary expenses (not exceeding$50 in any one case) in connection therewith, including the purchase(not to exceed $1,100), exchange, maintenance, repair, and operationof motor-propelled, passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in the

Permanent employ-ees, pay; limitation.

Establishing sta-tions.

46 Stat. 371.

Maintenance of ves-sels.

Allotment for At-lantic coast andAlaska Fisheries Serv-ice.

Commutation ofrations.

Food fishes inquiry.

Fishery industries.Statisticalstudies.

Cooperative asso-ciations of producersof aquatic products.

48 Stat. 1213.15U.S.C.§521.

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Proviso. field work of the Bureau of Fisheries, $73,600: Provided, That aRepor to onressstatement of expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported

to Congress in the annual Budget.FiFishery market shery market news service: For collecting, publishing, and dis-

news service. tributing, by telegraph, mail, or otherwise, information on the fisheryindustry, information on market supply and demand, commercialmovement, location, disposition, and market prices of fishery prod-ucts, with or without cooperation with any department or agencyof the United States, or any State or Territory, or subdivisionthereof, compensation of temporary employees, purchase of equip-ment and supplies, travel and preparation of reports, printing andbinding, and all other necessary expenses (not exceeding $50 in anyone case) connected therewith, $75,000, including pay of permanentemployees, of which not to exceed $8,000 may be expended for per-

ertoCongr. sonal services in the District of Columbia: Provided, That a state-ment of expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported toCongress in the annual Budget.

AiakageneraiseTr- Alaska, general service: For protecting the seal fisheries of'gealfisheries. Alaska, including the furnishing of food, fuel, clothing, and other

necessities of life to the natives of the Pribilof Islands of Alaska;not exceeding $20,000 for construction, improvement, repair, andalteration of buildings and roads, transportation of supplies to andfrom the islands, subsistence of agents and other employees whileon said islands, hire and maintenance of vessels, purchase of seaotters, and for all expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of

36 stat. 326. the Act entitled "An Act to protect the seal fisheries of Alaska, and16U. S.C. if 631-

s6 . - for other purposes", approved April 21, 1910 (U. S. C., title 16, secs.631-658), and for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska, includingpay of permanent employees not to exceed $69,900, contract steno-graphic reporting service, hire of boats, employment of temporarylabor, and all other necessary expenses (not exceeding $50 in any onecase) connected therewith, $274,000, of which $100,000 shall be avail-

Provrso. able immediately: Provided, That a statement of expenditures fromReport toConress. this appropriation shall be reported to Congress in the annual

Budget.Black-bass law, en- Enforcement of black-bass law: To enable the Secretary of Com-

forcement.44 Stat.t 76; 46 Stat. merce to carry into effect the Act entitled "An Act to amend the

16 vs. c. I 865i- Act entitled 'An Act to regulate interstate transportation of blacks5. bass, and for other purposes', approved May 20, 1926" (U. S. C.,

title 16, secs. 851-856), approved July 2, 1930 (46 Stat., pp. 845-847), $13,500, of which not to exceed $7,400 may be expended forpersonal services in the District of Columbia.

LifeiandSii ild Mississippi Wild Life and Fish Refuge: For construction ofConstrction, in- buildings, boats, and ponds, for purchase of equipment, including

tenance, etc. boats, for maintenance, operation, repair, and improvements, includ-ing expenditures for personal services at the seat of government and

43 Stat 650. elsewhere as may be necessary, as authorized in the Act approved731. . June 7, 1924 (U. S. C., title 16, sees. 721-731), $17,900.

haling Treaty Whaling Treaty Act: To enable the Secretary of Commerce to49Star 1246. execute the functions imposed upon him by "The Whaling Treaty16 U.s. C., Supp.I. s90- 915 s upp. Act", approved May 1, 1936 (49 Stat. p. 1246), preparation of re-

ports, and all other necessary expenses, $3,600, of which not to exceed$3,200 may be expended for personal services in the District ofColumbia.

Attendanceameet- The appropriation herein under title III for traveling expensesshall be available, in an amount not to exceed $750, for expenses ofattendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Bureau ofFisheries when incurred on the written authority of\the Secretaryof Commerce.

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PATENT OFFICE

Salaries: For the Commissioner of Patents and other personalservices in the District of Columbia, $3,380,000: Provided, That ofthe amount herein appropriated not to exceed $25,000 may be usedfor special and temporary services of typists certified by the CivilService Commission, who may be employed in such numbers, at $4per diem, as may, in the judgment of the Commissioner of Patents,be necessary to keep current the work of furnishing manuscriptcopies of records.

Photolithographing: For producing copies of weekly issue ofdrawings of patents and designs; reproduction of copies of drawingsand specifications of exhausted patents, designs, trade marks, andother papers, such other papers when reproduced for sale to be soldat not less than cost plus 10 per centum; reproduction of foreignpatent drawings; photo prints of pending application drawings; andphotostat and photographic supplies and dry mounts, $190,000.

The headings of the drawings for patented cases may be multi-graphed in the Patent Office for the purpose of photolithography.

Miscellaneous expenses: For purchase and exchange of law, pro-fessional, and other reference books and publications and scientificbooks; expenses of transporting publications of patents issued by thePatent Office to foreign governments; directories, furniture andfiling cases; for investigating the question of public use or sale ofinventions for two years or more prior to filing applications forpatents, and such other questions arising in connection with applica-tions for patents and the prior art as may be deemed necessary bythe Commissioner of Patents; for expense attending defense of suitsinstituted against the Commissioner of Patents and for other con-tingent and miscellaneous expenses of the Patent Office, $47,000.

Printing and binding: For printing the weekly issue of patents,designs, trade marks, prints, and labels, exclusive of illustrations;and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the OfficialGazette, including weekly and annual indices, $890,000; for miscel-laneous printing and binding, $75,000; in all, $965,000.

The Appropriation under title III herein for traveling expensesshall be available, in an amount not to exceed $500, for expenses ofattendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Patent Officewhen incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Com-merce.

This title may be cited as the "Department of Commerce Appro-priation Act, 1938".

TITLE IV-DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

Salaries: Secretary of Labor, Assistant Secretary, Second Assist-ant Secretary, and other personal services in the District of Colum-bia, $323,500: Provided, That persons (not exceeding ten in num-ber) now employed in the determination of wages pursuant to theprovisions of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Act approvedMarch 3, 1931, relating to the rate of wages for laborers andmechanics employed by contractors and subcontractors on publicbuildings", approved August 30, 1935, may be continued in suchemployment and paid from the amount herein appropriated withoutregard to the provisions of the civil-service laws requiring competi-tive examinations.

Salaries and expenses, Division of Labor Standards: For salariesand expenses in connection with the promotion of health, safety,employment, stabilization, and amicable industrial relations for

Patent Oflice.

Salaries, Commis-sioner and office per-sonnel.

-Proviso.Temporary typists.

Photolithograph-inc.

Multigraphed head-ings.



Attendance at meet-Ings.

Short title.

Department ofLabor.

Office of the Sec.retary.

Salaries.

Provso.Personnel determin-

ing wage rates re-tained.

49 Stat. 1011.40 U. S. C., Supp.

n, §§ 27a-276a-6.

Division of LaborStandards.

Post, p. 767.

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labor and industry, $135,400, of which amount not to exceed $90,000may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.

Attendance at con- The appropriation under title IV for traveling expenses shall beferences, etc. available for expenses of attendance of cooperating officials and con-

sultants at conferences concerned with the work of the Division ofLabor Standards when called by the Division of Labor Standardswith the written approval of the Secretary of Labor, and shall beavailable also in an amount not to exceed $2,000 for expenses ofattendance at meetings related to the work of the Division of LaborStandards when incurred on the written authority of the Secretaryof Labor.

contingent ex- Contingent expenses: For contingent and miscellaneous expensesof the ofices and bureaus of the Department, for which appropria-tions for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specificallymade, including the purchase of stationery, furniture, and repairsto the same, carpets, matting, oilcloths, file cases, towels, ice, brooms,soap, sponges, laundry, street-car fares not exceeding $400; pur-chase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motorcycles and motortrucks; purchase of a passenger-carrying automobile for the generaluse of the Department and maintenance, operation, and repair oftwo motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used onlyfor official purposes; freight and express charges; newspaper clip-pings not to exceed $1,200, postage to foreign countries, telegraphand telephone service, typewriters, adding machines, and otherlabor-saving devices; purchase and exchange of law books, books ofreference, newspapers and periodicals, and, when authorized by theSecretary of Labor, dues for library membership in societies orassociations which issue publications to members only or at a priceto members lower than to subscribers who are not members, notexceeding $4,500; contract stenographic services; all other necessarymiscellaneous expenses (not exceeding $50 in any one case) notincluded in the foregoing; and not to exceed $25,000 for purchase ofcertain supplies for the Immigration and Naturalization Service; in

rorisos. all, $115,100: Provided, That section 3709 of the Revised StatutesR. s.* 1379. (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) shall not be construed to apply to any pur-

4U. .C.5. chase or service rendered for the Department of Labor when theaggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $100: Pro-

Report to Congress. vided, That a statement of expenditures from this appropriation shallbe reported to Congress in the annual Budget.

Travelin expenses. Traveling expenses: For all traveling expenses, except travelPost, . 76. expenses incident to the deportation of aliens, under the Department

of Labor, including all bureaus and divisions thereunder, $666,900.Printing and bind- Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Depart-Pot, p. 767. ment of Labor, including all its bureaus, offices, institutions, and

services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere,$250,000.

Commissioners of Commissioners of conciliation: To enable the Secretary of Laboreo37 lStt' .n to exercise the authority vested in him by section 8 of the Act

5U s. S.C. C 9. creating the Department of Labor (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 611) and toappoint commissioners of conciliation, telegraph and telephone serv-ice, and not to exceed $80,000 for personal services in the District

Prontiunce of of Columbia, $273,000: Provided, That persons now employed inContinuance of em-

pioyment. such conciliation work pursuant to authority contained under thishead in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935,may be continued in such employment and paid from the amountherein appropriated.

Onternationer e Labo Liaison with the International Labor Organization, Geneva,Liaison with; ex- Switzerland, salaries and expenses: For a United States Labor Com-

Pe Sta. 1182. missioner and other personal services in Geneva, Switzerland; com-pensation of interpreters, translators, and porters; transportation of

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employees, their families, and effects, in going to and returning fromforeign posts; rent, heat, light, and fuel; hire, maintenance, andoperation of motor-propelled, passenger-carrying vehicles; purchaseand exchange of foreign and domestic books, periodicals, and news-papers; purchase of furniture, stationery, and supplies; printing andbinding; postage; telephone and other similar expenses, for whichpayment may be made in advance; necessary technical or specialinvestigations in connection with matters falling within the scope ofthe International Labor Organization; allowances for living quar-ters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approvedJune 26, 1930 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 118a), not to exceed $1,700 foranv person, and contingent and such other expenses in the UnitedStates and elsewhere as the Secretary of Labor may deem necessary,$21,000.

Division of Public Contracts, salaries and expenses: For personalservices in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, in performing theduties imposed by the "Act to provide conditions for the purchase ofsupplies and the making of contracts by the United States, and forother purposes", approved June 30, 1936 (49 Stat., p. 2036), includ-ing supplies, stationery, printing and binding, telephone service,telegrams, furniture, office equipment, contract stenographic report-ing services, and other necessary expenses, $315,000.

BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

Salaries and expenses: For personal services, including temporarystatistical clerks, stenographers, and typewriters in the District ofColumbia, and including also experts and temporary assistants forfield service outside of the District of Columbia; purchase of periodi-cals, documents, envelopes, price quotations, and reports and materialsfor reports and bulletins of said Bureau, $784,000, of which amountnot to exceed $658,000 may be expended for the salary of the Com-missioner and other personal services in the District of Columbia.

The appropriation for traveling expenses in title IV shall be avail-able, in an amount not to exceed $2,000, for expenses of attendance atmeetings concerned with the work of the Bureau of Labor Statisticswhen incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor.

IMMII ATI(ON .'N ND NATURALIZATION SERVICE

Salaries and expenses: For enforcement of the laws regulatingthe immigration to, the residence in, and the exclusion and deporta-tion from the United States of aliens and persons subject to theChinese exclusion laws; for enforcement of the laws authorizing auniform rule for the naturalization of aliens; salaries, and otherexpenses of officers, clerks, and other employees appointed to enforcesaid laws; care, detention, maintenance, transportation and travelingexpenses incident to the deportation and exclusion of aliens and per-sons subject to the Chinese exclusion laws, as authorized by law, inthe United States and to, through, or in foreign countries; purchaseof supplies and equipment, including alterations and repairs; pur-chase, exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-pro-pelled vehicles, including passenger-carrying vehicles for official usein field work; arms, ammunition and accessories; cost of reports ofdecisions of the Federal courts and digests thereof for official use;verifications of legal papers; refunding of head tax, maintenancebills, and immigration fines, upon presentation of evidence showingconclusively that collection and deposit was made through error;mileage and fees to witnesses subpenaed on behalf of the UnitedStates, and for all other expenses necessary to enforce said laws;$9,586,600, all to be expended under the direction of the Secretary


Living quarters.46 Stat. 818.5 . S. C. § 118a.

Division of PublicContracts.


49 Stat. 2036.41 U. S. C., Supp.

II, §§ 35-45.

Bureau of LaborStatistics.


A ttendance ait meet-

Immi gration andNaturalnizatlon Serv-ko.


Deportation, etc.,of aliens.

Vehicles.

Witness fees, etc.

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Commissioner, andother services in theDistrict.

Paroisos.Vehicles.

Privately-ownedhorses.

Allowance for livingquarters.

46 Stat. 818.5 U.S. C. § 118a.Overtime services of

lnspectors, etc.

46 Stat. 1467.8 U. S . §i lOa,

109b.Pay of assistants to

derks of courts for-bidden.

Payment of re-wards.

Contract laborers.

39 Stat. 893.8 U.S. C. § 109.

41 Stat. 68.18 U.S. C. 201.

Immigration sta-tbns.


Children's Bureau.


Investigations, etc.

of Labor, of which amount not to exceed $555,000 may be expendedfor the salary of the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturali-zation and other personal services in the District of Columbia, includ-ing services of persons authorized by law to be detailed there forduty: Provided, That not to exceed $45,000 of the sum herein appro-priated shall be available for the purchase, including exchange, ofmotor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles: Provide2 further, Thatthe Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, with theapproval of the Secretary of Labor, may contract with officers andemployees stationed outside of the District of Columbia, whosesalaries are payable from this appropriation, for the use, on officialbusiness outside of the District of Columbia, of privately ownedhorses, and the consideration agreed upon shall be payable from thefunds herein appropriated: Provided further, That not to exceed$36,000 of the total amount herein appropriated shall be available forallowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, asauthorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., title 5, sec.118a), not to exceed $1,700 for any person: Provided further, That$125,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be available onlyfor the payment of extra compensation for overtime services ofinspectors and employees of the Immigration and NaturalizationService for which the United States receives reimbursement inaccordance with the provisions of the Act of March 2, 1931 (U. S.C., title 8, sees. 109a and 109b): Provided further, That no part ofthis appropriation shall be available for the compensation of assist-ants to clerks of United States courts: Provided further, That not toexceed $10,000 of the sum herein appropriated may be expended forpayment of rewards, when specifically authorized by the Secretaryof Labor, for information leading to the detection, arrest, or convic-tion of persons violating the immigration or naturalization laws:Provided further, That notwithstanding the provisions of the Actof February 5, 1917 (U. S. C., title 8, sec. 109), authorizing theSecretary of Labor to draw annually from the appropriations forthe enforcement of the laws regulating the immigration of aliensinto the United States, $200,000 or so much thereof as may be neces-sary to enforce the law excluding contract laborers and induced andassisted immigrants, not to exceed $95,000 of the sum herein appro-priated may be expended for such purposes, and such expenditureshall be made in strict compliance with the provisions of the Act ofJuly 11, 1919 (U. S. C., title 18, sec. 201).

Immigration stations: For remodeling, repairing (including repairsto the ferryboat Ellis Island), renovating buildings, and purchase ofequipment, $100,000.

The appropriation under title IV for traveling expenses shall beavailable in an amount not to exceed $400 for expenses of attend-ance at meetings concerned with the work of the Bureau of Immigra-tion and Naturalization when incurred on the written authority ofthe Secretary of Labor.

CIIILDREN'S BUREAU

Salaries and expenses: For expenses of investigating and report-ing upon matters pertaining to the welfare of children and childlife, and especially to investigate the questions of infant mortality;personal services, including experts and temporary assistants; pur-chase of reports and material for the publications of the Children'sBureau and for reprints from State, city, and private publicationsfor distribution when said reprints can be procured more cheaplythan they can be printed by the Government, and other necessaryexpenses, $363,500, of which amount not to exceed $313,500 may beexpended for personal services in the District of Columbia.

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MATESNAL AND CHILD WELFARE

Salaries and expenses: For all authorized and necessary admin-istrative expenses of the Children's Bureau in performing the dutiesimposed upon it by title V of the Social Security Act, approvedAugust 14, 1935. including personal services, rentals, repairs, andalterations to buildings, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere;printing and binding; supplies; services; equipment; newspapers,books of reference, periodicals, and press clippings, $306,000.

In the administration of title V of the Social Security Act for thefiscal year 1938, payments to States for any quarter of the fiscal year1938 under parts 1 and 2 may be made with respect to any Stateplan approved under such respective parts by the Chief of the Chil-dren's Bureau prior to or during such quarter, but no such paymentshall be made with respect to any plan for any period prior to thequarter in which such plan was submitted to the Chief of the Chil-dren's Bureau for approval.

GRANTS TO STATES FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES

Grants to States for maternal and child health services, Children'sBureau: For grants to States for the purpose of enabling each Stateto extend and improve services for promoting the health of mothersand children, as authorized in title V, part 1, of the Social SecurityAct, approved August 14, 1935 (49 Stat. 629-631), $3,700,000, to beavailable immediately: Provided, That in carrying out such part 1,the allotments to States and expenditures thereunder for the fiscalyear 1938 are authorized to be made on the basis of a total of$3,800,000 for all States (as defined in such Act) : Provided further,That any allotment to a State pursuant to section 502 (b) shall notbe included in computing for the purposes of subsections (a) and(b) of section 504 an amount expended or estimated to be expendedby the State.

GRANTS TO STATES FOR SERVICES FOR CRIPPL.D CHILDREN

Grants to States for services for crippled children, Children'sBureau: For the purpose of enabling each State to extend andimnprove services for crippled children, as authorized in title V, part2. of the Social Security Act, aplproved August 14, 1935 (49 Stat.631-633), $2,800,000, to be available immlediately: Irovidcd, Thatin carrying out such part 2, the allotments to States (as defined insuch Act) and expenditures thereunder for the fiscal year 1938 areauthorized to be made on the basis of a total of $2,850,000 for allStates.

GRANTS TO STATES FOR CHILI)-WELFARE SERVICES

Grants to States for child-welfare services, Children's Bureau:For grants to States for the purpose of enabling the United States,through the Children's Bureau, to cooperate with State public-wel-fare agencies in establishing, extending, and strengthening public-welfare services for the care of homeless or neglected children, orchildren in danger of becoming delinquent, as authorized in title V,part 3, of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935 (49Stat. 633), $1,475,000, to be available immediately: Provided, Thatin carrying out such part 3, the allotments to States (as defined insuch Act) and expenditures thereunder for the fiscal year 1938 areauthorized to be made on the basis of a total of $1,500,000 for allStates.

The appropriation under title IV for traveling expenses shall beavailable for expenses of attendance of cooperating officials andconsultants at conferences concerned with the administration of title

301

Maternal and childwelfare.


49 Stat. 629.42 1. S. C., Sipp.

II, § 7CI.

Social Security Act.Payments under

State plans.

Grants to States formaternal and childhealth services.

49 Stat. i29.

Prorisos.Basis of allotments,

1938.

Supplemental aidnot included.

49 Stat. 630.

Serv i es for crippledchildren, grants toStl.tes.

49; St t. «63l.

I*rt' ic,l,has;isi of Ilil;.itnIilIs,

1I>:,.

Child welfare serr-ices, grants to States.

49 Stat. 633.

Proviso.Basis of ailotments,

1938.

Attendance at con-ferences.

49 Stat. 627.

30249 Stat. 629.

Women's Bureau.


41 Stat. 987.29U. S.C. S 11-16.


Employment Serv-ice.

Administrative ex-penses.

48 Stat. 113.29 U. S.C. i§ 49-491.

Payment to States.

Praiaoa.Basis of apportion-

ments, 1938.Accounting.

Use of unused baT-ances.

Attendance at meet.ings.

Short title.

Payment forbiddenpersons after nomina-tion rejected by Sen-ate.


V, parts 1, 2, and 3, of the Social Security Act when called by theChildren's Bureau with the written approval of the Secretary ofLabor, and shall be available also, in an amount not to exceed $5,000for expenses of attendance at meetings related to the work of theChildren's Bureau when incurred on the written authority of theSecretary of Labor.

WOMEN'S BUREAU

Salaries and expenses: For carrying out the provisions of the Actentitled "An Act to establish in the Department of Labor a bureauto be known as the Women's Bureau", approved June 5, 1920 (U. S.C., title 29, sees. 11-16), including personal services in the Districtof Columbia, not to exceed $134,500; purchase of material for reportsand educational exhibits, $136,500.

The appropriation under title IV for traveling expenses shall beavailable in an amount not to exceed $2,500 for expenses of attend-ance at meetings concerned with the work of the Women's Bureauwhen incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor.

UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT SERVICE

For all administrative expenses, including the Veterans' Place-ment Service, the Farm Placement Service, and the District ofColumbia Public Employment Center, in carrying out the pro-visions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the establishmentof a national employment system and for cooperation with the Statesin the promotion of such system, and for other purposes", approvedJune 6, 1933 (U. S. C., title 29, sees. 49-491); personal services andrent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; law books, books ofreference, newspapers and periodicals, printing and binding, sup-plies and equipment, telegraph and telephone service, and miscel-laneous expenses, $777,000, including not to exceed $210,000 forpersonal services in the Department in the District of Columbia.

For payment to the several States in accordance with the pro-visions of the said Act of June 6, 1933 (U. S. C., title 29, secs. 49-491),as amended, $1,500,000: Provided, That apportionments for the fiscalyear 1938 shall be on the basis of a total apportionment to all Statesof $3,000,000: Provided further, That amounts herein and hereafterappropriated, together with the unexpended balances of amountsheretofore appropriated, for payment to the several States in accord-ance with said Act of June 6, 1933, as amended, shall constitute onefund to remain available until expended, and the unused balancesof amounts apportioned to the several States for the fiscal year1936 for establishing and maintaining public employment officesshall be reapportioned among all the States, in accordance with saidAct of June 6, 1933, as amended, without regard to the sufficiencytherefor of said fund.

The appropriation under title IV for traveling expenses shall beavailable in an amount not to exceed $4,000 for expenses of attend-ance at meetings concerned with the work of the United StatesEmployment Service when incurred on the written authority of theSecretary of Labor.

This title may be cited as the "Department of Labor AppropriationAct, 1938".

SEC. 2. No part of the money appropriated under this Act shallbe paid to any person for the filling of any position for which heor she has been nominated after the Senate has voted not to approveof the nomination of said person.

Approved, June 16, 1937.