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Volume 47 · 1603

Public Law 72–282

Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1933, and June 30, 1934, and for other purposes.

Approved March 4, 1933

Statutory text

AN ACT

Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1933, and June 30, 1934, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1933, and June 30, 1934, and for other purposes, namely:

TITLE I

LEGISLATIVE BRANCH senate For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fiscal year 1933, $40,000. 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 supervision of the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, fiscal year 1933, $13,000. 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 1933, $15,000: 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, as amended. house of representative To pay Elizabeth A. Butler, daughter of Robert R. Butler, late a Representative from the State of Oregon, $9,000, not to be available until June 30, 1933. To pay the widow of Godfrey G. Goodwin, late a Representative from the State of Minnesota, $9,000. To pay Grace K. Angus, daughter of Samuel A. Kendall, late a Representative from the State of Pennsylvania, $9,000. The three foregoing sums to be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House. Contested-election expenses: For payment of expenses incurred by Stanley H. Kunz, contestant in the contested-election case of Kunz against Granata, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered 3, $2,000. For payment to Hulda Maude Vestal, administratrix of Albert H. Vestal, contestee, discharging his obligation for expenses incurred in the contested-election case of Ball against Vestal, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered 1, $500. The two foregoing appropriations to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House. Committee on Invalid Pensions: To continue the employment of the temporary assistant clerk, fiscal year 1934, $2,150. Post office: For the employment of seven additional messengers for duty in the new House Office Building, at the rate of $1,740 each per annum, from March 1 to June 30, 1933, inclusive, $4,060. Contingent expenses: For expenses of special and select committees authorized by the House, fiscal year 1933, $20,000. For stationery allowance for Stanley H. Kunz, fiscal year 1932, $83.33. For expenses of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, under the terms of House Joint Resolution Numbered 572, Second Session, Seventy-second Congress, $35,000. joint committee on printing For expenses in compiling, preparing, and indexing the Congressional Directory for the first session of the Seventy-third Congress, $800, one-half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House. Sections 4 and 5 of the Public Resolution approved March 2, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. VI, title 1, sec. 54 (a) and (b)), are hereby amended to read as follows: “Sec. 4. The publications provided for in such Act of May 29, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. VI, title 1, Chap. 3), as amended by this resolution, and with such ancillaries, shall be printed and bound in such style, form, and manner as may be directed by the Joint Committee on Printing. “Sec. 5. In order to avoid waste in the appropriations for printing and binding for Congress, the Joint Committee on Printing is hereby empowered to authorize the printing of any bill or resolution, with index and ancillaries, before Congress in such style and form as the Joint Committee may deem to be most suitable in the interest of economy and efficiency and to so continue until final enactment thereof in both Houses of Congress; and such committee may also curtail the number of copies of such bills or resolutions to be printed in the various parliamentary stages in the Congress, including the slip form of each public act or public resolution.” government printing office For payment to Samuel Robinson, William Madden, Joseph De Fontes, and Preston L. George, messengers on night duty during the second session of the Seventy-second Congress, $900 each; in all, $3,600; to be paid from the appropriation for printing and binding for Congress for the fiscal year 1933. architect of the capitol Capitol Building: To enable the Architect of the Capitol to remove any of the statues from Statuary Hall and relocate same elsewhere in the Capitol in accordance with House Concurrent Resolution 47, including all personal services and other expenses in connection therewith, to be expended under the Architect of the Capitol, fiscal year 1933, to remain available during the fiscal year 1934, $2,500. Library buildings and grounds: To enable the Architect of the Capitol to provide for the care, maintenance, and repair of all buildings or other structures on the site acquired for additional buildings for the Library of Congress, including personal and other services and material necessary in connection therewith, $2,500, to continue available until June 30, 1934. Capitol Grounds: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $50,000 for the removal and demolition of structures in connection with the enlargement of the Capitol Grounds, contained in the First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1932, is hereby continued available for the same purposes during the fiscal year 1934. Senate Office Building: To enable the Architect of the Capitol to provide furnishings and equipment for the First Street wing, Senate Office Building, $75,000, fiscal year 1933, to remain available until June 30, 1934; 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 expended by the Architect of the Capitol under the direction of the Senate Office Building Commission and disbursed by the disbursing officer of the Interior Department. For necessary labor, material, and equipment in making structural changes in offices and committee rooms in the old portion of the Senate Office Building, including cutting of doorways, installing of lavatories, enlarging space facilities of committee rooms, and overhauling, repairing, and reconditioning the electrical circuits of the legislative buzzer and signal system, fiscal year 1933, to remain available during the fiscal year 1934, $13,500.

INDEPENDENT ESTABLISHMENTS national advisory committee for aeronautics Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1929 and 1930: For an additional amount for a seaplane channel and equipment for the conduct of scientific research in aeronautics at the laboratories of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, including the same objects specified under this head in the Second Deficiency Act, approved March 4, 1929, $605.12. veterans’ administration National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, clothing: For an additional amount for clothing for all branches, including the same objects specified under this head in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1930, $1,190.83. Relief of Grover Cleveland Ballard: To reimburse Grover Cleveland Ballard, an ex-service man of the World War, for money expended for medical and surgical service in reamputating his leg, which was shot off below the knee during the World War, $246.75.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA contingent and miscellaneous expenses Postage: For an additional amount for postage for strictly official mail matter, including the purchase and rental of postage meter equipment, fiscal year 1933, $1,500. Judicial expenses: For an additional amount for judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, witness fees, and expert services in District cases before the Supreme Court of said District, fiscal year 1932, $1,234.99. General advertising: For an additional amount for general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, fiscal year 1932, $4,230.45. health department For additional amounts for isolating wards for minor contagious diseases at Garfield Memorial Hospital for the fiscal years that follow: For 1932, $304.10; For 1933, $2,000. courts and prisons Police court: For witness fees, fiscal year 1932, $243. Support of convicts: For an additional amount for support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1932, $18,089.59. Writs of lunacy: For an additional amount for expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to Saint Elizabeths Hospital by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, and expenses of commitments to the District Training School, including personal services, fiscal year 1932, $2,198.19. public welfare Workhouse and reformatory: For a new heating plant at the workhouse, including the erection of the necessary building therefor, $90,000, to continue available until June 30, 1934. National Training School for Boys: For an additional amount for care and maintenance of boys committed to the National Training School for Boys by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract made by the Board of Public Welfare with the authorities of said National Training School for Boys, fiscal year 1933, $18,500. Medical charities: For an additional amount for care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts made by the Board of Public Welfare with the following institutions for the following fiscal years and for not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Children’s Hospital, 1932, $1,802; 1933. $5,500. Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, 1932, $919.15; 1933, $6,000. Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, 1932, $1,667.70; 1933, $11,750. Hospital for the Insane: For an additional amount of support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, fiscal year 1932, $709.96. Nonresident 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, including persons held in the psychopathic ward of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital, fiscal year 1933, $4,250. Relief of the poor: For an additional amount for payment to beneficiaries named in section 3 of the 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, 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 1933, $5,825. Transportation of indigent persons: For an additional amount for transportation of indigent persons, including indigent veterans of the World War and their families, fiscal year 1933, $3,000. Emergency relief: For an additional amount for the purpose of affording relief to residents of the District of Columbia who are unemployed or otherwise in distress because of the existing emergency, to be expended by the Board of Public Welfare of the District of Columbia, by loan, employment, and/or direct relief, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Board of Commissioners, and without regard to the provisions of any other law, payable from the revenues of the District of Columbia, $175,000, fiscal year 1933, to remain available until June 30, 1934: Provided, That not to exceed 8 per centum of such amount shall be available for administrative expenses including necessary personal services. settlement of claims For the payment of claims approved by the commissioners under and in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to settle claims and suits against the District of Columbia,” approved February 11, 1929 (45 Stat. 1160), as amended by the Act approved June 5, 1930 (46 Stat. 500), and reported in Senate Document Numbered 197 and House Document Numbered 553, Seventy-second Congress, $113,555.15: Provided, That the name “Mrs. Ella M. Crawford”, where it occurs on pages 5 and 37 of such House document shall be read “Mrs. Ella M. CraWford.” refund of assessments For payment of refunds of assessments for paving streets, avenues, and roads, and laying curbs, as authorized by provisions of section 11 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for special assessments for the paving of roadways and the laying of curbs and gutters,” approved February 20, 1931 (46 Stat. 1197), $217,399.70, to continue available until June 30, 1934. judgments For the payment of final judgments, including costs, rendered against the District of Columbia, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 204 and House Document Numbered 551, Seventy-second Congress, $80,915.73, together with the further sum to pay the inter est at not exceeding 4 per centum per annum on such judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment. audited claims For the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the accounting officers of the District of Columbia, under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874 (U. S. C., p. 1022, sec. 713), being for the service of the fiscal year 1930 and prior fiscal years: For coroner’s office, District of Columbia, maintenance, 1928, $32; For motor vehicles District of Columbia, maintenance and repair, 1928, $77.50; For gasoline tax, road and street improvement, 1929–30, $10; For collection and disposal of refuse, District of Columbia, 1927, $300; For electrical department, District of Columbia, lighting, 1930, $80; For public schools, District of Columbia, science laboratories, 1929. $73.85; For Metropolitan police, District of Columbia, 1928, motor vehicles, $26.31; For fire department, District of Columbia, 1928, repairs to apparatus, $5.80; For fire department, District of Columbia, 1929, repairs to apparatus, $2.56; For salaries of employees, courthouse, District of Columbia, 1922, $28; For miscellaneous expenses, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, 1929, $175; For Court of Appeals reports, District of Columbia, 1924, $71.50; In all, audited claims, $882.52. division of expenses The foregoing sums for the District of Columbia, unless otherwise therein specifically provided, shall be paid as follows: Such sums as relate to the fiscal year 1920 and prior fiscal years, 50 per centum out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and 50 per centum out of the Treasury of the United States; such sums as relate to the fiscal years 1921 to 1924, inclusive, 60 per centum out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and 40 per centum out of the Treasury of the United States; and such sums as relate to the fiscal years 1925 to 1934, inclusive, jointly or severally, 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 such respective fiscal years.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE contingent expenses Printing and binding, Patent Office: For an additional amount for printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, trade-marks, prints, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly and annual indices, fiscal year 1933, $200,000.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR bureau of indian affairs Purchase and transportation of Indian supplies: For an additional amount for expenses of purchase and for transportation of goods and supplies for the Indian Service, fiscal year 1932, $175,000. Probate attorneys, Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses of such attorneys and other employees as the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, deem necessary in probate matters affecting restricted allottees or their heirs in the Five Civilized Tribes, and in the several tribes of the Quapaw Agency, and for the costs and other necessary expenses incident to suits instituted or conducted by such attorneys, fiscal year 1930, $21.15. Suppressing contagious diseases among livestock of Indians: For reimbursing Hopi and Navajo Indians tor cattle that died, or were destroyed, in connection with dipping operations for the eradication of scabies, fiscal year 1926, $125. Irrigation systems, Flathead Reservation, Montana: For an additional amount for completion of lower Crow Reservoir, Flathead irrigation project, Montana, fiscal years 1933 and 1934, $25,000, reimbursable. Reclaiming lands, Lummi Reservation, Washington: For an additional amount for repairing flood damages, Lummi diking project, Washington, fiscal years 1933 and 1934, $17,600, reimbursable: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the benefit of any lands in private ownership until an appropriate repayment contract in form approved by the Secretary or the Interior shall have been properly executed by the landowners whose lands may be benefited thereby. Operation and maintenance, Wapato project, Washington: For operation and maintenance, including repairs, of the Wapato irrigation project, Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, fiscal year 1933, $30,000, reimbursable. Indian school buildings: For an additional amount for construction, lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of school buildings, including the purchase of necessary lands and the installation, repair, and improvement of heating, lighting, power, and sewerage and water systems in connection therewith, fiscal year 1929, $228.50. Sacaton, Arizona, Indian school building: For school building, including equipment, Sacaton, Arizona, fiscal years 1933 and 1934, $65,000. Chilocco, Oklahoma, Indian Boarding School Building: For remodeling and repairing girls’ dormitory damaged by fire at Chilocco, Oklahoma, including replacement of equipment, fiscal year 1933, to remain available during the fiscal year 1934, $40,000. Indian boarding schools, Truxton Canyon, Arizona: For replacement of power plant and equipment destroyed by fire, $32,000, to remain available until June 30, 1934. Education of natives in Alaska: For an additional amount for payment of obligations for freight, fiscal years 1931 and 1932, $33,518.59. Medical relief in Alaska: For an additional amount to enable the Secretary of the Interior to provide for the medical and sanatorium relief of Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska, fiscal years 1931 and 1932, $481.73. Expenses of the Menominee advisory board and general council (tribal funds): For traveling and other expenses of the advisory board or general council of the Menominee Tribe, Wisconsin, or committees thereof, when engaged on business of the tribe, including visits to Washington, District of Columbia, when duly authorized or approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $6,000, to remain available until June 30, 1934, and to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Menominee Tribe. Claims of individual Sioux Indians: For payment to individual enrolled Indians or their heirs under the Pine Ridge, Standing Rock, Cheyenne River, and Rosebud Sioux Agencies in full settlement of their claims against the Government, as found due by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to the Act of May 3, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 484), and for payment of attorney fees in connection with the adjudication of such claims, as authorized by the Act of February 16, 1933 (Public, Numbered 359, Seventy-second Congress), fiscal years 1933 and 1934, $19,357. bureau of reclamation Minidoka project, Idaho: For refunds to subscribers of amounts contributed by them for construction of a storage plant for potatoes at Rupert, Idaho, such refunds being required under contracts between the United States and the subscribers, fiscal year 1933, $2,453.43, payable from the reclamation fund. Shoshone project, Wyoming: For emergency repairs, replacements, and betterments to power system, not to exceed $15,000 from power revenues, to remain available until June 30, 1934. Cooperative and general investigations: For an additional amount for cooperative and general investigations, $25,000, to be payable from the reclamation fund and to remain available until June 30, 1934. Reimbursement to reclamation fund: There is hereby transferred to the reclamation fund, from the unexpended balance of the appropriation, “Ammunition Storage Facilities, Navy, 1928–1932.” $513.33, for repayment of amount paid from that fund for salary of an employee of the Reclamation Service while engaged on work for the Navy Department in connection with the Cat Creek Naval Ammunition Depot, Hawthorne, Nevada. national park service Proposed Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including fire prevention, and including not exceeding $2,500 for the purchase (not to exceed $750 for any vehicle), maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work; construction of physical improvements, including the construction of buildings and the alteration and improvement of old buildings; in all, $80,000, to remain available until June 30, 1934: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for expenditure in advance of the acceptance on behalf of the United States of title to a minimum area of one hundred and sixty thousand acres of land within the proposed Shenandoah National Park, as prescribed in the Act approved February 4, 1932 (U. S. C., Supp. VI, title 16, secs. 403b, 403d; Act of February 4, 1932, 47 Stat. 37). Emergency reconstruction and fighting forest fires: For an additional amount for reconstruction, replacement, and repair of roads, trails, bridges, buildings, and other physical improvements and of equipment in national parks or national monuments that are damaged or destroyed by flood, fire, storm, or other unavoidable causes, and for fighting or emergency prevention of forest fires in national parks or other areas administered by the National Park Service, or fires that endanger such areas, $100,000, to remain available until June 30, 1934. government in the territories Insane of Alaska: For an additional amount for care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in Alaska, including the same objects specified under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: For 1932, $230; For 1933, $12,000. Temporary government for Virgin Islands: For necessary material and labor required in repairing damage to Federal and municipal property in the Virgin Islands caused by the hurricane of September 26, 1932, fiscal year 1933, $15,000.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE united states courts Fees of commissioners: For additional amounts for fees of commissioners, United States courts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Acts making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the following fiscal years: For 1930, $3.45; For 1931, $1,236.90; For 1932, $23,901.37. Miscellaneous expenses: For an additional amount for miscellaneous expenses, 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 1930, $1,823.49. Supplies: For additional amounts for supplies for United States courts, 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, $176.52; For 1932, $3.93. Support of prisoners: For additional amounts for support of United States prisoners, including the same objects specified under this head in the Acts making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the following fiscal years: For 1929, $51.03; For 1931, $49.80.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR bureau of immigration Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, Bureau of Immigration, Department of Labor, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Labor for the fiscal year 1933, $450,000, for use only for or in connection with the deportation of aliens.

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 House Document Numbered 556, Seventy-second Congress, $637.99. bureau of navigation Transportation: For an additional amount for travel allowance, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, $50.41.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE Salaries: Foreign Service officers while receiving instructions and in transit: For an additional amount for salaries, Foreign Service officers while receiving instructions and in transit, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of State for the fiscal year 1931, $401.25. International Prison Commission: For an additional amount for the International Prison Commission, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of State for the fiscal year 1929, $70. International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, Italy: For the payment of the quota of the United States, including the Territory of Hawaii, and the dependencies of the Philippine Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, for the support of the International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year 1933, $5,400. Convention relating to liquor traffic in Africa: To meet the share of the United States in the expenses for the calendar year 1933 of the Central International Office, created under article 7 of the convention of September 10, 1919, relating to the liquor traffic in Africa (convention of September 10, 1919, 46 Stat., pt. 2, p. 2199; Act February 23, 1931, 46 Stat., p. 1320), $55. Payment to Government of Mexico: For payment to the Government of Mexico as authorized by Public Act Numbered 374, approved February 25, 1933, the sum of $15,000 for the account of the family of Emilio Cortez Rubio and the sum of $15,000 for the account of the family of Manuel Gomez, for the killing in or near Ardmore, Oklahoma, on June 7, 1931, of Emilio Cortez Rubio and Manuel Gomez by two deputy sheriffs of the State of Oklahoma; in all, $30,000. International monetary and economic conference: For the expenses of participation by the United States in an international monetary and economic conference to be held in London, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including traveling expenses; personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; stenographic and other services by contract if deemed necessary, without regard to the provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); rent; purchase of necessary books and documents; printing and binding; official cards; entertainment; hire, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary or State, fiscal year 1933, to remain available during the fiscal year 1934, $150,000.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT bureau of internal revenue Refunding taxes illegally or erroneously collected: For refunding taxes illegally or erroneously collected as provided by law, including the payment of claims for the fiscal year 1933 and prior years, $28,000,000: Provided, That a report shall be made to Congress by internal-revenue districts and alphabetically arranged of all disbursements hereunder in excess of $500 as required by section 3 of the Act of May 29, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 26, sec. 149), including the names of all persons and corporations to whom such payments are made, together with the amount paid to each. coast guard Coast Guard stations: For an additional amount for establishing and equipping new Coast Guard stations on the sea and lake coasts of the United States, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931, $201.19, to be available until expended. office of the supervising architect Rent of temporary quarters, public buildings: For an additional amount for rent of temporary quarters, public buildings, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1933, $165,000. Vaults and safes for public buildings: For an additional amount for vaults and safes for public buildings, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1933, $100,000. General Expenses, Public Buildings: The limitation of $4,500 on the amount that may be expended for the packing, draying, and transportation of household goods, incident to change of headquarters of field engineers and inspectors employed in connection with public building work, and the limitation of $52,000 on the amount that may be expended for the rental of additional quarters in the District of Columbia for the Office of the Supervising Architect, and incidental expenses in connection with the occupancy of such quarters, contained in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1933 are hereby increased to $9,000 and $64,000, respectively. miscellaneous public building projects Boston, Massachusetts, parcel-post building, and so forth: For acquisition of land belonging to the Boston Terminal Company, fronting on Dorchester Avenue, and construction of a building, and for raising the level of Dorchester Avenue to such extent as may be necessary to provide proper grade for loading platform facilities, and so forth, under an estimated total cost of $3,700,000, in lieu or $2,700,000 as provided by the Act of July 21, 1932 (47 Stat. 718), as modified by the Act approved June 30, 1932 (47 Stat. 412): Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury may accept title subject to reservations by the grantors for light and air and the right to use for railroad purposes the space below such plane or planes as may be agreed upon: Provided further, That the limit of cost herein fixed shall not be reduced by the operation of section 320 of the Legislative Appropriation Act, approved June 30, 1932 (47 Stat. 412). Calais, Maine, inspection station: The limit of cost fixed under the authority of the Act approved July 21, 1932 (47 Stat. 718), as modified by the operation of the Act approved June 30, 1932 (47 Stat. 412), is increased from $53,100 to $110,000, and this latter sum shall not be reduced by the operation of section 320 of the Legislative Appropriation Act, approved June 30, 1932 (47 Stat. 412). Fergus Falls, Minnesota, courthouse and post office: The limit of cost fixed in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1931, approved March 4, 1931 (46 Stat. 1592), for extension and remodeling of building, is hereby increased from $150,000 to $175,000: Provided, That the additional amount herein authorized shall not be reduced by the operation of section 320 of the Legislative Appropriation Act, approved June 30, 1932 (47 Stat. 412). Galveston, Texas, immigrant station: The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, in his discretion and at such time as he may determine, to transfer to the Department of Labor the immigrant station site and improvements thereon. Grand Rapids, Michigan, post office and courthouse: The authorization contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1931, approved March 4, 1931 (46 Stat. 1593), for extension and remodeling of building, under an estimated total cost of $300,000, is hereby repealed. New York, New York, post office, and so forth: The limit of cost fixed under the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1930, approved July 3, 1930 (46 Stat. 901), for the. acquisition by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, of the block bounded by Barclay, Vesey, and Church Streets and West Broadway, is hereby increased from $5,000,000 to $5,020,438: Provided, That any cost of said site in excess of $5,000,000 shall be charged against the $5,715,000 authorized under the Act approved July 21, 1932 (47 Stat. 718), as modified by the operation of the Legislative Appropriation Act, approved June 30, 1932 ( 47 Stat. 412), for the construction of a building on said site; and the title for this project is hereby changed to Federal Office Building (Vesey Street): Provided further, That the limit of cost herein fixed shall not be reduced by the operation of section 320 of the said Act, approved June 30, 1932 (47 Stat. 412). Saint Louis, Missouri, courthouse, customhouse, and so forth: The limit of cost fixed in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1928, approved May 29, 1928 (45 Stat. 918), for acquisition of site and construction of a building, is hereby increased from $3,825,000 to $4,900,000: Provided, That the increase of $1,075,000 shall be charged against the amounts authorized to be appropriated under section 5 of the Public Buildings Act, approved May 25, 1926, as amended: And provided further, That the limit of cost herein fixed shall not be reduced by the operation of section 320 of the Legislative Appropriation Act, approved June 30, 1932 (47 Stat. 412). Saint Paul, Minnesota, post office, customhouse, and so forth: The limit of cost fixed in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1929, approved March 4, 1929 (45 Stat. 1661), for acquisition of the commercial station, additional land and construction of a building, is hereby increased from $2,700.000 to $3,350,000, and the authorization in said Act is hereby amended so as to authorize the construction of a tunnel: Provided, That the limit of cost herein fixed shall not be reduced by the operation of section 320 of the Legislative Appropriation Act, approved June 30, 1932 (47 Stat. 412). Washington, District of Columbia, central heating plant: The authorization contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1931, approved March 4, 1931 (46 Stat, 1604), shall include amongthe buildings to be served, where an engineering survey shows that such service is justified, any Federal building now constructed or under construction or now authorized by law to be constructed. White River Junction, Vermont, post office, and so forth: The authorization for acquisition of site and construction of a building, contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1931, approved March 4, 1931 (46 Stat. 1604), is hereby amended so as to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury in his discretion to sell for an amount not less than that paid therefor the site purchased under the authority of said Act, and if such sale is made, to acquire another site, the limit of cost for the new site and building to remain as now authorized by law.

WAR DEPARTMENT—MILITARY ACTIVITIES claims of British nationals For the payment of the claims of British nationals in the following amounts awarded them by the Commission for Adjustment of British Claims in full satisfaction of all their claims for the use of their inventions by the United States under the arrangement or agreement entered into prior to November 12, 1918, and approved by the Secretary of War in accordance with the authority contained in section 3 of the Act approved March 2, 1919 (40 Stat. 1273): Thomas Graham and Sir E. H. Tennyson d’Eyncourt, $22,500; Commander A. L. Gwynne, $37,000; Gwynne and Taylor, $22,500; Colonel Henry Newton, $100,000; Robert A. Sturgeon, $17,500; Thornycroft and Company, $50,000; Rear Admiral Cecil V. Usborne, $6,000; in all, $255,500. quartermasters corps Barracks and quarters: For an additional amount for the construction of a sewage-disposal plant at Fort Slocum, New York, including septic tanks, collecting chambers, ejector pumps, and the installation of chlorating apparatus, together with such collecting mains and intercepting sewers as may be necessary, fiscal years 1933 and 1934, $25,000. Acquisition of land, Camp Bullis, Texas: For an additional amount for completing the acquisition of land at Camp Bullis, Texas, under condemnation proceedings as authorized by the Acts approved January 12, 1929 (45 Stat. 1073), and February 28, 1933 (H. R. 12769, Seventy-second Congress), fiscal year 1933, $6,400, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest at the rate stipulated and in accordance with the judgments rendered in condemnations to date of payment, to remain available until expended. united states military academy Pay: For an additional amount for pay of the United States Military Academy under the heading “Pay of cadets.” fiscal year 1933, $7,307. Public works: For an additional amount for payment of the claim of the Atlas Roofing Company for furnishing, delivering, and erecting the monitor and hip skylights and louver inlets on the main roof, and so forth, on the new cadet mess hall, cadet store, dormitories, and drawing academy, $2,134.

WAR DEPARTMENT—NONMILITARY ACTIVITIES quartermaster corps Cemeterial expenses: For an additional amount for the development of areas D and E to provide for extension of the National Cemetery, San Francisco, California, $30,000, to remain available until June 30, 1934.

TITLE II— JUDGMENTS AND AUTHORIZED CLAIMS

Section 1. damage claims

For the payment of claims for damages to or losses of

Settlement of, not in excess of $1,000.

privately owned property adjusted and determined by the following respective departments and independent establishments under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case,”

Vol. 42, p. 1066.

U. S. C., p. 989.

approved December 28, 1922 (U. S. C., title 31, secs. 215–217), as fully set forth in Senate Documents Numbered 168, 199, and 205 and House Documents Numbered 502, 547, and 554, Seventy-second Congress, as follows:

Department of Agriculture, $1,590.03; Department of Commerce, $283.90; Department of the Interior, $87.85; Department of Justice, $1,449.31; Department of Labor, $208.17; Navy Department, $996.26; Post Office Department (out of the postal revenues), $5,196.31; Treasury Department, $1,061.66; War Department, $204.65;

In all, $11,078.14.

Sec. 2. judgments, united states courts

For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including

Payment of.

costs of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1887, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” as amended

Vol. 24, p. 505; Vol. 36, p. 1093.

U. S. C., pp. 867, 897, 898, 938.

by the Judicial Code, approved March 3, 1911 (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 41, par. 20; sec. 258; secs. 761–765), certified to the Seventy-second Congress in Senate Document Numbered 200 and House Document Numbered 544, under the following departments, namely:

Department of Commerce, $60,738;

War Department, $10,383.16; in all, $71,121.16, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective

Interest.

judgments at the rate of 4 per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made.

For the payment of judgments, including costs of suits, rendered

Payment of, suits in admiralty.

against the Government of the United States by United States district courts under the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act

Vol. 43, p. 1112.

U. S. C., p. 1529.

authorizing suits against the United States in admiralty for damages caused by and salvage services rendered to public vessels belonging to the United States, and for other purposes”, approved March 3, 1925 (U. S. C., title 46, secs. 781–789), certified to the Seventy-second Congress in Senate Document Numbered 200, under the following departments, namely:

Navy Department, $1,918.06;

War Department, $52,107.97; in all, $54,026.03, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on any such judgment where specified therein and at the rate provided by law.

Judgments, special cases.

For the payment of a judgment rendered against the Government by the United States District Court, Middle District of Alabama, Northern Division, under the. provisions of the Act of Congress,

Vol. 46, p. 1421.

approved February 26, 1931 (46 Stat. 1421), and certified to the Seventy-second Congress in Senate Document Numbered 202, under the War Department, $4,000, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest in accordance with the terms of said judgment.

Time of payments.

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

Interest.

Payment of interest wherever provided for judgments contained in this Act shall not in any case continue for more than thirty days after the date of approval of the Act.

Sec. 3. judgements, court of claims

For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims and reported to the Seventy-second Congress, in Senate Document Numbered 201 and House Document Numbered 546, under the following departments, namely:

Department of Agriculture, $26,171.25;

Navy Department, $27,420.79;

Treasury Department, $2,306.90;

Interest.

War Department, $260,514.03; in all, $316,412.97, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on certain of the judgments as and where specified in such judgments.

Time of payments.

None of the judgments contained under this caption which have not been affirmed by the Supreme Court or otherwise become final and conclusive against the United States shall be paid until the

Vol. 43. p. 939.

U. S. C., p. 900.

expiration of the time within which application may be made for a writ of certiorari under subdivision (b), section 3, of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Judicial Code, and to further define the jurisdiction of the circuit courts of appeals and of the Supreme Court, and for other purposes,” approved February 13, 1925 (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 288).

Pocono Pines Assembly Hotels Company.

Payment of judgment to.

Vol. 46, p. 1622.

For payment of the judgment of the Court of Claims, numbered J–543 in favor of the Pocono Pines Assembly Hotels Company, as certified to the Congress in the report embodied in Senate Document Numbered 244, Seventy-first Congress, third session, and Senate Document Numbered 213, Seventy-second Congress, second session, $227,239.53.

Sec. 4. audited claims

For the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the

Vol. 18, p. 110.

U. S. C., p. 1022.

balances of which have been carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874 (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 713), and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1930 and prior years,

Vol. 23, p. 254.

U. S. C., p. 43.

unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 266), as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 543, Seventy-second Congress, there is appropriated as follows:

independent offices For medical and hospital services, Veterans’ Bureau, $16,079.59. For military and naval compensation, Veterans’ Administration, $85.25. For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Bureau, $70. For vocational rehabilitation, Veterans’ Bureau, $59.66. For Army pensions, $15.56.

department of agriculture For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $10.08. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $23.20.

department of commerce For photolithographing, Patent Office, $500.

department of the interior For contingent expenses of land offices, $32.07. For Geological Survey, $6.15. For National Park Service, $8.50. For medical relief in Alaska, $28.47. For Indian schools, support, $37.49.

department of justice For detection and prosecution of crimes, $24.85. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $39.52. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $317. For books for judicial officers, $1,056.55. For support of United States prisoners, $1,052.61,

navy department For pay, miscellaneous, 72 cents. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $4.01. For pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy, $693.80. For pay of the Navy, $442.73. For pay, Marine Corps, $677.60. For general expenses, Marine Corps, $43.64.

post office department—postal service (Out of the postal revenues) For clerks, first and second class post offices, $27.53. For indemnities, domestic mail, $163.16. For indemnities, international mail, $27.78. For miscellaneous items, first and second class post offices, $4. For railroad transportation and mail-messenger service, $4.17. For rent, light, and fuel, $304.50.

department of state For salaries, Foreign Service officers, $16.59,

treasury department For Coast Guard, $233.03. For pay and allowances, Coast Guard, $7.46. For enforcement of narcotic and national prohibition acts, internal revenue, $866.29. For collecting the internal revenue, $240.17. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $18.

war department For pay of the Army, 27 cents. For apprehension of deserters, and so forth, $5.98. For Army transportation, $13.46. For replacing ordnance and ordnance stores, $5,200. Total, audited claims, section 4, $28,441.44, together with such additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency as specified in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office.

AUDITED CLAIMS Sec. 5. For the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874 (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 713), and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1930 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 266), as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 203, Seventy-second Congress, there is appropriated as follows:

legislative establishment For public printing and binding, Government Printing Office, $10.12.

independent offices For salaries and expenses, Federal Board for Vocational Education, 50 cents. For medical and hospital services, Veterans’ Bureau, $17,226.40. For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Bureau, $25.96. For Army pensions, $120.71.

district of columbia For general expenses, public parks, District of Columbia, $460.25.

department of agriculture For salaries and expenses, Weather Bureau, $101.64. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $34.33. For general expenses, Forest Service, $15.70. For salaries and expenses, Forest Service, $12.57.

depart of commerce For export industries, Department of Commerce, $7.20.

department of the interior For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $1,079.43. For conservation of health among Indians, $919.57.

department of justice For books for judicial officers, $436.95. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $959.39. For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, $1.25. For salaries and expenses of clerks, United States courts, 65 cents. For fees of jurors and witnesses. United States courts, $36.70. For support of United States prisoners, $5.50.

department of labor For salaries and expenses, commissioners of conciliation, $2.

navy department For pay, miscellaneous, $90.95. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $57.75. For organizing the Naval Reserve, $7.76. For engineering, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $9.44. For pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy, $705.13. For pay of the Navy, $2,052.77. For aviation, Navy, $5,000. For pay, Marine Corps, $206.25.

post office department—postal service (Out of the postal revenues) For balances due foreign countries, $905.20. For indemnities, domestic mail, $2. For rent, light, and fuel, $2,070.84. For separating mails, $72.

department of state For allowance for clerks at consulates, $86.58.

treasury department For increase of compensation, Treasury Department, $10. For enforcement of Narcotic and National Prohibition Acts, internal revenue, $100.98. For collecting the internal revenue, $23.45. For Coast Guard, $534.42. For contingent expenses, Coast Guard, 72 cents. For pay and allowances, Coast Guard, $5.52. For operating force for public buildings, $42. For marine hospital, Carville, Louisiana, $193.84.

war department For organized Reserves, $34.99. For Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, $100.80. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $1,323.69. For pay and traveling and general expenses of the Army, $10.48. For pay, and so forth of the Army, $23,239.80. For pay of the Army, $6,826.44. For Army transportation, $596.92. For clothing and equipage, $62.77. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, war with Spain, $11.68. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $1,588.42. For subsistence of the Army, $30. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $4,429.79. For armament of fortifications, $15,252.23. For replacing ordnance and ordnance stores, $74.56. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $1,547.59. For pay of National Guard for armory drills, $48.43. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $10. For monument, Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, $1,500. Total, audited claims, section 5, $90,323.01, together with such additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency as specified in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office.

Sec. 6.

For payment of interest on amounts withheld from claimants by the Comptroller General of the United States, Act of March 3, 1875, as allowed by the General Accounting Office, and certified to the Seventy-second Congress, second session, in Senate Document Numbered 198, under the Treasury Department, $28,943.61 and under the War Department $736.21, together with such additional amount as may be necessary to pay interest on one of the claims set forth in that document.

Judgments against collectors of customs.

R. S., sec. 989, p. 185.

U. S. C., p. 943.

Payment of judgments against collectors of customs: For the payment of a claim allowed by the General Accounting Office covering a judgment rendered by a United States district court against a collector of customs, where certificate of probable cause has been issued as provided for under section 989, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 842), and certified to the Seventy-second Congress, second session, in Senate Document Numbered 198, under the Department of Labor, $978.50.

Total, audited claims, section 6, $30,658.32.

SHORT TITLE

Title of Act.

This Act may be cited as the “Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1933.”

Approved, March 4, 1933.

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