Public Law 72–12

That the following

First Deficiency Act, fiscal year, 1932.

sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and for other purposes, namely:

TITLE I

LEGISLATIVE ESTABLISHMENT senate To pay to Elizabeth C. Morrow, widow of Honorable Dwight W. Morrow, late a Senator from the State of New Jersey, $10,000. To pay to Hattie W. Caraway, widow of Honorable Thaddeus H. Caraway, late a Senator from the State of Arkansas, $10,000. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fiscal year 1932, $75,000. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenographers of committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding 25 cents per hundred words, fiscal year 1932, $100,000: Provided, That except in the case of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation no part of this appropriation shall be expended for services, personal, professional, or otherwise, in excess of the rate of $3,600 per annum: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for per diem and subsistence expenses except in accordance with the provisions of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, approved June 3, 1926. For repairs, improvements, equipment, and supplies for Senate kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be expended from the contingent fund of the Senate under the supervision of the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, fiscal year 1932, $12,000. house of representatives To pay the widow of Ernest R. Ackerman, late a Representative from the State of New Jersey, $10,000. To pay the widow of James B. Aswell, late a Representative from the State of Louisiana, $10,000. To pay the widow of Charles G. Edwards, late a Representative from the State of Georgia, $10,000. To pay the widow of George S. Graham, late a Representative from the State of Pennsylvania, $10,000. To pay the widow of Fletcher Hale, late a Representative from the State of New Hampshire, $10,000. To pay the widow of Nicholas Longworth, late a Representative from the State of Ohio, $10,000. To pay the widow of Samuel C. Major, late a Representative from the State of Missouri, $10,000. To pay the widow of Charles A. Mooney, late a Representative from the State of Ohio, $10,000. To pay the mother of Matthew V. O’Malley, late a Representative from the State of New York, $10,000. To pay the widow of Bird J. Vincent, late a Representative from the State of Michigan, $10,000. To pay the widow of Harry M. Wurzbach, late a Representative from the State of Texas, $10,000. The eleven preceding appropriations shall be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives. Committee on Revision of the Laws: For preparation and editing of the laws as authorized by section 10 of the Act approved May 29, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 1, sec. 59), fiscal year 1932, $5,000; for the employment of competent persons to assist in continuing the work of compiling, codifying, and revising the laws and treaties of the United States, fiscal years 1932 and 1933, $3,000. Not to exceed $1,432.55 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $6,500, contained in the First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1929, for preparation and editing of the laws is continued available during the fiscal year 1932. For folding speeches and pamphlets at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, fiscal year 1932, $8,000. architect of the capitol House Office Building: For reconstruction and remodeling of the House Office Building, including all structural, mechanical alterations and other changes, with such modifications as the House Office Building Commission may direct, $60,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to remain available until June 30, 1933, and to be expended by the Architect of the Capitol under the supervision of the House Office Building Commission; and the Architect of the Capitol is hereby authorized to enter into contracts in the open market, to make expenditures for material, supplies, equipment, technical and reference books, and instruments, accessories, advertising, travel expenses and subsistence therefor, and, without regard to section 35 of the Public Buildings Act, approved June 25, 1910, as amended, or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, to employ all necessary personnel, including professional, architectural, and engineering, and other assistants. This appropriation shall be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the Interior Department. New House Office Building: To enable the Architect of the Capitol to provide furnishings and equipment for the New House Office Building within the authorized limit of cost for site and construction as provided in Act approved January 10, 1929 (45 Stat. 1071), $400,000 to remain available until June 30, 1933; and the Architect of the Capitol is hereby authorized to enter into contracts in the open market, to make expenditures for material, supplies, equipment, technical and reference books, and instruments, accessories, advertising, travel expenses and subsistence therefor, and, without regard to section 35 of the Public Buildings Act, approved June 25, 1910, as amended, or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, to employ all necessary personnel, including professional, architectural, and engineering, and other assistants. This appropriation shall be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the Interior Department. Enlarging the Capitol Grounds: To enable the Architect of the Capitol to provide for the demolition and removal of structures in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to pro-vide for the enlarging of the Capitol Grounds,” approved March 4, 1929 (45 Stat. 1694), as amended by Act approved March 4, 1931 (46 Stat. 1522), $50,000, to remain available until June 30, 1933. Library building and grounds: For an additional amount for the acquisition of a site for additional buildings for the Library of Congress, as authorized in the Act approved May 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 622), notwithstanding the limit of cost for site named in that Act, but in pursuance of condemnation awards, $321,201.94. To enable the Architect of the Capitol to provide for the removal of buildings and structures in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the acquisition of certain property in the District of Columbia for the Library of Congress, and for other purposes,” approved May 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 622), $20,000, to remain available until June 30, 1933.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE AND INDEPENDENT ESTABLISHMENTS executive office Protection of interests of the United States in matters affecting oil lands in former naval reserves: For an additional amount for compensation and expenses of special counsel and for all other expenses, including employment of experts and other assistants at such rates as may be authorized or approved by the President, in connection with carrying into effect the joint resolution directing the Secretary of the Interior to institute proceedings touching sections 16 and 36, township 30 south, range 23 east, Mount Diablo meridian, approved February 21, 1924 (43 Stat. 15), fiscal year 1932, $10,000, to be expended by the President. federal board for vocational education Cooperative vocational education in agriculture and home economics: For an additional amount for carrying out the provisions of section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the further development of vocational education in the several States and Territories,” approved February 5, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 20, secs. 15a, 15c), fiscal year 1932, $83,000. Vocational education in Porto Rico: For extending to Porto Rico the benefits of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational education; to provide for cooperation with the States in the promotion of such education in agriculture and the trades in industries; to provide for cooperation with the States in the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects; and to appropriate money and regulate its expenditure,” approved February 23, 1917 (U. S. C., title 20, secs. 11–18), in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to extend the provisions of certain laws relating to vocational education and civilian rehabilitation to Porto Rico,” approved March 3, 1931 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 20, sec. 30), fiscal year 1932, $45,000. federal trade commission For an additional amount for authorized expenditures of the Federal Trade Commission in performing the duties imposed by law. including the same objects specified under this head in the “Independent Offices Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1932,” $20,000. george washington bicentennial commission For an additional amount for the George Washington Bicentennial Commission for the fiscal years 1932 and 1933, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1932, $225,000. office of public buildings and public parks of the national capital Mount Vernon Memorial Highway: Not to exceed $4,000 of the appropriation “Salaries, maintenance, and care of buildings, 1932,” and $10,000 of the appropriation “General expenses, maintenance, and care of buildings, 1932,” contained in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1932, are hereby made available for the fiscal year 1932, for the maintenance of the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway and other Federal lands authorized by the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482). veterans ’ administration Military and naval compensation: For an additional amount for the payment of military and naval compensation accruing during the fiscal year 1932 or in prior fiscal years, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Veterans’ Administration for the fiscal year 1932, $46,872,975.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA municipal architect’s office Not to exceed $50,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for buildings and grounds, public schools, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1931, is hereby made available until June 30, 1932, for payment of personal services employed on construction work under the supervision of the Municipal Architect’s Office. street and road improvement and repair The item for the paving of Benning Road northeast, Fifteenth Street to culvert, $154,400, under the appropriation for Gasoline Tax Road and Street Fund, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1932, is hereby made available to include the construction of a pedestrian underpass at Twenty-fourth Street and Benning Road northeast. collection and disposal of refuse Not to exceed $260,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $550,000 provided for sites and construction, incinerators for refuse, contained in the First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1930, is hereby made available for the same purpose until June 30, 1933, and the commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for the construction and equipment of such incinerators at a cost which, together with other expenditures authorized by the Act approved March 4, 1929 (45 Stat. 1549), including a resident engineer at not to exceed the rate of $3,800 per annum, shall not exceed $760,000: Provided, That the limitation of $25,000, contained in the First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1930, for the employment by contract or otherwise of such expert and other personal services as may be required for the preparation of plans for the construction of said incinerators is hereby increased to $35,000, to enable the commissioners to pay for services not exceeding $10,000 in addition to the amount of $25,000 for such services as set forth in the existing contract of June 13, 1930. public schools Instruction of the Deaf: For an additional amount for maintenance and instruction of colored deaf-mutes of teachable age belonging to the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, fiscal year 1932, $250: Provided, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. Furniture: For furnishing and equipping buildings and additions to buildings and stadiums, as follows: Dunbar High School stadium, $1,800; Western High School stadium, $2,900; Key School, $4,000; Stoddert School, $8,000; Hearst School, $8,000; Janney School, $5,000; Orr School, $4,000; Hine Junior High School, $9,000; Macfarland Junior High School, $22,000; Paul Junior High School, $10,000; Randall Junior High School, $6,300; in all, fiscal years 1932 and 1933, $81,000. metropolitan police House of Detention: For alterations and improvements to number 2 police precinct station house to fit it for use as a house of detention, including the expense of removing and relocating cell blocks and other equipment and the cost of additional equipment; and for necessary changes in number 3 police precinct station house to make it available for use as a police inspection district headquarters, such work to be performed by day labor or otherwise, in the discretion of the commissioners, fiscal year 1932, $12,000. courts Printing and Binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding for the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, except records and briefs in cases in which the United States is a party, fiscal year 1932, $1,500. public welfare Gallinger Municipal Hospital: Not exceeding $7,680 of the appropriation of $10,000 contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1932 for the isolating ward for minor contagious diseases at Providence Hospital is hereby authorized to be transferred to and made a part of the appropriation for personal services, Gallinger Municipal Hospital, fiscal year 1932. Hospital for the Insane: For an additional amount for deportation of nonresident insane persons, in accordance with the Act of Congress “to change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes,” approved January 31, 1899 (D. C. Code, title 16, sec. 17), including persons held in the psychopathic ward of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital, fiscal year 1932, $3,000. Relief of the poor: For an additional amount for payment to beneficiaries named in section 3 of an Act entitled “An Act making it a misdemeanor in the District of Columbia to abandon or willfully neglect to provide for the support and maintenance by any person of his wife or his or her minor children in destitute or necessitous circumstances,” approved March 23, 1906 (D. C. Code, title 6, secs. 270–273), to be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia on itemized vouchers duly audited and approved by the auditor of said District, fiscal year 1932, $2,500. water service Not exceeding a further sum of $1,000 of the appropriation for maintenance of the Water Department distribution system for the fiscal year 1932 is hereby made available for the purchase of laborsaving devices for the use of the water registrar’s office. Not to exceed $12,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $92,000 contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931, for the purchase and installation of one twenty-million gallon pump at the Bryant Street pumping station, including economizer and generator, is hereby made available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1932. division of expenses The foregoing appropriations for the District of Columbia shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the Treasury of the United States in the manner prescribed by the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for the respective fiscal years for which such appropriations are made.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE forest service Salaries and expenses (fighting and preventing forest fires): For an additional amount for fighting and preventing forest fires, fiscal year 1932, including the same objects specified under this head in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1932, $4,260,000. bureau of public roads Federal-aid highway system: For an additional amount for carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes,” approved July 11, 1916 (39 Stat. 355–359), and all Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, including the same objects specified under this head in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1932, including not to exceed $142,434 for departmental personal services in the District of Columbia, $50,000,000, to remain available until expended, being a part of the sum of $125,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, by paragraph 1 of the Act approved April 4, 1930 (46 Stat. 141).

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE office of the secretary Salaries: For an additional amount for salaries, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1932, $70,280, and, in addition thereto, not to exceed $29,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $120,000 under this head, contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1931, is hereby continued available for the fiscal year 1932. contingent expenses For an additional amount for contingent expenses, Department of Commerce, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1932, $27,720, and in addition thereto, not to exceed $17,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $60,725 under this head, contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1931, is hereby continued available for the fiscal year 1932. For an additional amount for printing and binding, including the same, objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1932, $6,000. bureau of lighthouses Damage claims: To pay the claim adjusted and determined by the Department of Commerce under the provisions of section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 1910 (U. S. C., title 33, sec. 721), on account of damages occasioned to private property by collision with a vessel of the Lighthouse Service and for which damage such vessel was responsible, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 177, Seventy-second Congress, $65.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR office of the secretary The amount authorized to be deducted from appropriations for the fiscal year 1932 for the Indian Service and placed to the credit of the appropriation for contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, for the purchase of stationery supplies, is hereby increased from $50,000 to $55,000. bureau of indian affairs Enrollment, Indians of California: For an additional amount for carrying out. the provisions of section 7 of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the attorney general of the State of California to bring suit in the Court of Claims on behalf of Indians in California,” approved May 18, 1928 (45 Stat. 602), as amended by the Act of April 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 259), fiscal years 1932 and 1933, $7,550. Suppressing forest fires on Indian reservations: For an additional amount for the suppression or emergency prevention of forest fires on or threatening Indian reservations, fiscal year 1932, $50,000, together with $25,000 from funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes of Indians interested. Irrigation, Indian reservations (reimbursable): For an additional amount for the construction, repair, and maintenance of irrigation systems, and for purchase or rental of irrigation tools and appliances, water rights, ditches, and lands necessary for irrigation purposes for Indian reservations as follows: Goshute, Utah, fiscal year 1932, $400, reimbursable as provided in the Act of August 1, 1914 (U. S. C., title 25, sec. 385). Irrigation, Colorado River Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable): For an additional amount for improvement, operation, and maintenance of the pumping plants and irrigation system on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona, as provided in the Act of April 4, 1910 (36 Stat., 273), fiscal year 1932, $7,500, reimbursable as provided in the aforesaid Act. Ganado irrigation project, Navajo Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable): For an additional amount for improvement, operation, and maintenance of the Ganado irrigation project, Arizona, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, fiscal year 1932, $25,000. Irrigation system, Uintah Reservation, Utah (tribal funds): For an additional amount for continuing operation and maintenance and betterment of the irrigation system to irrigate allotted lands of the Uncompahgre, Uintah, and White River Utes in Utah, authorized under the Act of June 21, 1906 (34 Stat., 375), fiscal year 1932, $20,000, to be paid from tribal funds held by the United States in trust for said Indians, said sum to be reimbursed to the tribal fund by the individuals benefited under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. Indian schools, support: For an additional amount for payment of tuition of Indian children enrolled in public schools, fiscal year 1931, $7,300. Support of Indians and administration of Indian property: For an additional amount for general support of Indians and administration of Indian property, including pay of employees, fiscal year 1932, $275,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the employment of Indian labor on any necessary project or activity. geological survey The amount authorized to be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1932 from the appropriation for continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska is hereby increased from $33,000 to $48,000. national park service Mesa Verde National Park: For an additional amount for the completion of a deep water well, fiscal years 1932 and 1933, $22,000. Emergency reconstruction and fighting fires: For an additional amount for emergency reconstruction and fighting forest fires in national parks, fiscal year 1932, $55,000: Provided, That these funds shall be available for reimbursement of park appropriations for the amounts transferred therefrom under the authority contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1932. howard university The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $200,000 for Howard University, emergency construction, contained in the First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1931, shall be available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1932.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE contingent expenses For an additional amount for printing and binding for the Department of Justice and the courts of the United States, fiscal year 1932, $60,000. Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: The Secretary of the Treasury, upon request of the Attorney General, is authorized to transfer to the appropriation “Traveling and Miscellaneous Expenses, Department of Justice, fiscal year 1932,” not exceeding $12,000 from any other appropriation for the fiscal year 1932 under the control of the Department of Justice. miscellaneous objects, department of justice The amount which may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia from the appropriation “Detection and prosecution of crimes, 1932,” is hereby increased from $414,246 to $496,315, of which $20,430 shall be available for temporary services only. marshals, district attorneys, clerks, and other expenses of united states courts Salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals: For an additional amount for salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals and their deputies, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1931, $27,000. Fees of commissioners: For an additional amount for fees of United States commissioners and other committing magistrates acting under section 1014, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 18, sec. 591), fiscal year 1930, $5,195.35. Fees of jurors and witnesses: For an additional amount for fees of jurors and witnesses, United States courts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1932, $150,000. Pay of bailiffs, and so forth: For additional amounts for bailiffs and criers, including the same objects specified under this head in the Acts making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the following fiscal years: For 1931, $14,000; For 1932, $30,000. Miscellaneous expenses: For an additional amount for such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General for the United States courts and their officers, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1930, $4,834.81: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation “Miscellaneous expenses, United States courts,” for the fiscal year 1931 is hereby made available for the payment of $7,503.79 to Charles Warren, special master in the case of United States against The State of Utah, as the amount due from the United States for compensation and expenses of said special master, under the order of the Supreme Court of the United States, dated May 18, 1931, and the Comptroller General is authorized and directed to allow credit for payments heretofore made from the appropriations for “Miscellaneous expenses, United States courts,” for the fiscal years 1930 and 1931 made in connection with said case of the United States against The State of Utah if otherwise correct. Support of United States prisoners: For an additional amount for support of United States prisoners, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1929, $16,826.05.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR bureau of immigration Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, Bureau of Immigration, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Labor for the fiscal year 1932, $475,000: Provided, That the limitation contained in the 1932 appropriation Act under this head that “$2,368,800 shall be available only for coast and land border patrol,” is hereby removed: Provided further, That the limitation contained in the 1932 appropriation Act under this head that “not to exceed $165,000 of the sum herein appropriated shall be available for the purchase, exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor vehicles,” shall not be construed as embracing the cost of motor fuels, lubricants, and garage rentals.

NAVY DEPARTMENT secretary’s office Claims for damages by collision with naval vessels: To pay claims for damages adjusted and determined by the Secretary of the Navy under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to settle claims for damages to private property arising from collisions with naval vessels,” approved December 28, 1922 (U. S. C., title 34, sec. 599), as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 41, Seventy-second Congress, $5,988.75.

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT Out of the Postal Revenues office of the chief inspector Payment of rewards: For an additional amount for payment of rewards, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year 1931, $39,500. office of the first assistant postmaster general Village delivery service: For an additional amount for village delivery service, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year 1932, $100,000. office of the second assistant postmaster general Railway Mail Service, salaries: For an additional amount for salaries, Railway Mail Service, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year 1932, $1,500,000.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE Salaries, chargés d’affaires ad interim: For an additional amount for salaries of Foreign Service officers or vice consuls while acting as chargé d’affaires ad interim or while in charge of a consulate general or consulate during the absence of the principal officer, fiscal year 1930, $1,203.68. Fourth World’s Poultry Congress: So much of the unexpended balance of the appropriation “Fourth World’s Poultry Congress, 1930–1931 ” as may be necessary is hereby made available for the payment of expenses incident to travel by steamer, rail, and motor on the official postcongress tours in connection with this Congress. Bringing home criminals: For an additional amount for actual expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, fiscal year 1930, $385.88. Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany: For an additional amount for expenses of determining the amounts of claims against Germany by the Mixed Claims Commission established under the agreement concluded between the United States and Germany on August 10, 1922, and subsequent agreement between those Governments, for the determination of the amount to be paid by Germany in satisfaction of the financial obligations of Germany under the treaty concluded between the Governments of the United States and Germany on August 25, 1921, including the expenses which under the terms of such agreement of August 10, 1922, are chargeable in part to the United States, and the preparation of a final report by the American commissioner and the orderly arrangement for preservation and disposition of the records of the commission; and the expenses of an agency of the United States to perform all necessary services in connection with the preparation of claims and the presentation thereof before said mixed commission, and the preparation of a final report of the agent and the orderly arrangement for preservation of the records of the agency and the. disposition of property jointly owned by the two Governments, including salaries of an agent and necessary counsel and other assistants and employees, rent in the District of Columbia, employment of special counsel, translators, and other technical experts, by contract, without regard to the provisions of any statute relative to. employment, and for contract stenographic reporting services without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), law books and books of reference, printing and binding, contingent expenses, traveling expenses and subsistence or per diem in lieu of subsistence (notwithstanding the provisions of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926 or regulations prescribed pursuant thereto), and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the President may deem proper, fiscal years 1932 and 1933, $65,500. General and Special Claims Commissions, United States and Mexico: That not to exceed $50,000 of the appropriation of $367,000 for the General and Special Claims Commissions, United States and Mexico, contained in the State Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1932, shall be available for such expenses, in addition to those now enumerated in the appropriation, as in the discretion of the Secretary of State may be necessary in closing up the affairs of the agency of the United States, including expenses incurred on and after October 15, 1931.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT office of treasurer of the united states Salaries: For an additional amount for salaries, Office of the Treasurer of the United States, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1932, $20,000. office of the supervising architect Fort Worth, Texas, Narcotic Farm: For acquisition of site under the authority of the Act entitled “An Act to establish two United States narcotic farms for the confinement and treatment of persons addicted, to the use of habit-forming narcotic drugs who have been convicted of offenses against the United States, and for other purposes,” approved January 19, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. V, secs. 222, 223), $164,780, to remain available until June 30, 1933. Sites and construction, public buildings, Act of May 25, 1926, as amended: For an additional amount for public buildings, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1932, $16,800,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation for the construction of public buildings shall be used for remodeling and reconstructing the Department of State Building under the authorization therefor contained in the Act approved July 3, 1930 (46 Stat. 907): Provided further, That no part of this or any other appropriation shall be used for or in connection with the demolition of the District of Columbia Municipal Building at Fourteenth and E Streets northwest, the Post Office Department building at Twelfth and D Streets northwest, or the building, 1300 E Street northwest (formerly the Southern Railway Building). Rent of temporary quarters: For an additional amount for rent of temporary quarters, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1932, $825,000. Outside professional services: For an additional amount for outside professional services, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1932, $300,000, to remain available until expended. General expenses of public buildings: For an additional amount for general expenses of public buildings, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1932, $81,000, and the limitation on the amount that may be expended for personal services contained in said Act is hereby increased from $1,727,900 to $1,808,900. Operating force for public buildings: For an additional amount for operating force for public buildings, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1932, $200,000. Furniture and repairs of same for public buildings: For an additional amount for furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1932, $250,000. Treasury Building, Washington, District of Columbia, construction of vault: The appropriation of $1,250,000 contained in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1932, for the construction of a two-story vault in the north court of the Treasury Building, including all necessary mechanical and vault equipment for same, and incidental changes to the building in connection therewith, is hereby amended so as to include the remodeling and rearrangement of existing vaults in said building under the control of the Treasurer of the United States, and installation of new lift.

WAR DEPARTMENT Military Activities finance department Pay, and so forth, of the Army: The sum of $660,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for “Pay, and so forth, of the Army, 1930,” contained in the War Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1930, approved February 28, 1929, is hereby made available for expenditure for “Pay, and so forth, of the Army, 1931,” including the same objects specified under that head in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931. quartermaster corps Acquisition of land at Kelly Field, Texas: For the acquisition of land at Kelly Field, Texas, under condemnation proceedings as authorized by the Act approved June 28, 1930 (46 Stat. 832), fiscal year 1932, $135,152.32, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest at the rate stipulated and in accordance with the judgments rendered in condemnation to date of payment. militia bureau Arming, equipping, and training the National Guard: For an additional amount for pay of National Guard (armory drills) for the fiscal year 1931, $250,000.

TITLE II. JUDGMENTS AND AUTHORIZED CLAIMS