Public Law 74–36

That the following

First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1935.

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, 1935, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, and for other purposes, namely:

TITLE I— GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS LEGISLATIVE

House of Representatives For payment to the widow of Anthony J. Griffin, late a Representative from the State of New York, $9,500. For payment to the widow of Henry T. Rainey, late a Representative from the State of Illinois, $9,500. For payment to the widow of Frederick Landis, late a Representative-elect from the State of Indiana, $9,500. The three foregoing appropriations to be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House. Committee on Revision of the Laws: For the employment of competent persons in continuing the work of coinpiling, codifying, and revising the laws and treaties of the United States, fiscal years 1935 and 1936, $3,000.

office of architect of the capitol Capitol Building: For the purchase and installation for the committee rooms of the Senate Committee on Appropriations of complete, improved ventilation, dehumidifying air-conditioning apparatus with automatically controlled ducts and water piping for the connection of the different units of such apparatus, and for all necessary structural alterations required for such installation, including personal services, advertising, traveling, and other necessary expenses incident thereto, $10,000, to be expended by the Architect of the Capitol without compliance with sections 3709 and 3744 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, to remain available until June 30, 1936. The unexpended balances on June 30, 1935, of the appropriation for the Senate Office Building and of the appropriation for the House Office Buildings, contained in the Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1934, for installation, repair, and reconditioning of elevators, and of the portion of the appropriation “Capitol Building and Repairs, 1935”, allocated for installation, repair, and reconditioning of elevators, shall continue available for the same purposes until June 30, 1936; and in addition there are appropriated, to be merged with, and to be available for the same purposes as, the appropriations hereinbefore extended for the Senate Office Building and the Capitol Building, the following respective sums: For the Senate Office Building, $5,500; and for the Capitol Building and Repairs, $4,500; in all, $10,000, to remain available until June 30,1936: Provided, That $6,000 of the unexpended balance of the foregoing appropriation for the House Office Buildings shall be transferred to and be available under the foregoing allocation for elevator work in the Capitol Building.

INDEPENDENT OFFICES california pacific international exposition For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the public resolution entitled “Joint resolution providing for the participation of the United States in the California Pacific International Exposition to be held at San Diego, California, in 1935 and 1936; authorizing an appropriation therefor; and for other purposes”, approved March 7, 1935, and for each and every object thereof, and within the limits of cost specified therein, $350,000, to remain available until June 30, 1936: Provided, That expenses for subsistence authorized by such Act shall be on a per diem allowance basis in lieu of actual expenses and shall not exceed $5 per day for any person. district of columbia-virginia boundary commission For the District of Columbia-Virginia Boundary Commission, including the same objects specified under this head in Public Resolution Numbered 3, approved February 13, 1935, $10,000, to continue available until December 2, 1935. farm credit administration Crop production loans: To enable the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration to carry into effect the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for loans to farmers for crop production and harvesting during the year 1935, and for other purposes”, approved February 20, 1935, including personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; paper, printing, and binding; supplies and services, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $50; and such other expenses as may be necessary; there is hereby reappropriated and made immediately available and to remain available until June 30, 1936, for the foregoing purposes, a total of $60,000,000 from unobligated balances (to be designated by the President.) under allocations from the appropriation of $525,000,000 for relief in stricken agricultural areas contained in the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935. federal power commission Printing and binding: For additional printing and binding, Federal Power Commission, to remain available until June 30, 1936, $25,000. federeal communications commission Not to exceed $1,200 of the appropriation for the Federal Communications Commission for the fiscal year 1935 shall lie available for the purchase of an additional tract of land containing approximately ten acres adjacent to that now owned by the United States at Grarnl Island, Nebraska, and for enclosing the same, for use in connection with the constant-frequency monitoring station located at said place, as authorized by the Act approved May 25, 1934 (48 Stat. 805). federal trade commission For an additional amount for the Federal Trade Commission, including the same objects specified under this caption in Title I, Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1935, $110,000, to remain available until June 30, 1936. national archives Salaries and expenses: For the Archivist and for all other authorized expenditures of the National Archives in performing the duties imposed by law, including personal services; supplies and equipment; purchase and exchange of books and maps; contract stenographic reporting services; purchase of newspapers, periodicals, and press clippings; travel expenses, including not to exceed $500 for the expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the National Archives; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and operation of motor vehicles, including not more than one passenger-carrying automobile for the official use of the National Archives; and all other necessary expenses, fiscal year 1936, $458,000, of which not to exceed $73,000 shall be immediately available: Provided, That subsistence expenses payable under this appropriation shall be on a per diem allowance basis in lieu of actual expenses and shall not exceed $5 per day for any person: Provided further, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for the National Archives when the aggregate cost involved does not exceed the sum of $50. Printing and binding: For all printing and binding for the National Archives, fiscal year 1936, $17.000, of which not to exceed $2,000 shall be immediately available. veterans’ administration Pensions: For an additional amount for the payment of pensions, gratuities, and allowances, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1935, $94,650,000.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA public schools For the purchase of additional equipment for teaching commercial classes in the junior and senior high schools, to continue available until June 30, 1936, $15,000. For the rehabilitation of the Adams Administration Building for use as an elementary-school building for instruction purposes, to continue available until June 30, 1936, $20,000.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE forest service Salaries and general expenses (fighting forest fires): For an additional amount for fighting and preventing forest fires, including the same objects specified under this head in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $2,348,000. bureau of biological survey Salaries and expenses (control of predatory animals and injurious rodents): For an additional amount for control of predatory animals and injurious rodents, including the same objects specified under this head in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $15,000.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE office of the attorney general Contingent expenses: For an additional amount for contingent expenses, Department of Justice, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1932, $1.70. Books: For an additional amount for books, Department of Justice, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1931, $5.02. For an additional amount for books, Department of Justice, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1935, $6,000. miscellaneous objects, department of justice Preparation of rules in actions at law: To enable the Attorney General to cooperate with the Supreme Court in the preparation of rules in actions at law, pursuant to the Act entitled “An Act to give the Supreme Court of the United States authority to make and publish rules in actions at law”, approved June 19, 1931 (48 Stat. 1064), including personal services at the seat of government or elsewhere, printing and binding, contingent expenses, and traveling expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $40,000, to remain available until June 30, 1936. division of investigation Salaries and expenses: The amount which may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia from the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, Division of Investigation, 1935”, is increased from $600,000 to $696,420.

JUDICIAL marshals, district attorneys, clerks, and other expenses of united states courts Salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals: For additional amounts for salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, 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 1924, $230.53. For 1931, $372.07. Salaries and expenses of district attorneys: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses of district attorneys, 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 1933, $188.33. 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 appropriation for the Department of Justice for tile following fiscal years: For 1931, $471.60. For 1932, $15,395.89. For 1933, $28,582.02. Conciliation commissioners: For an additional amount for fees of conciliation commissioners, and per diem allowance and traveling expenses of supervising conciliation commissioners, as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States ’, approved July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto”, as amended, $135,000, to remain available until June 30, 1936. Supplies: For an additional amount for supplies for 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 1931, 68 cents. penal and correctional institutions United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, Buildings: For construction and repair of buildings, including the purchase and installation of machinery and equipment and all expenses incident thereto, to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to inmates of the institution, $65,410, to remain available until June 30, 1936: Provided, That the use of the annex by the Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice, is hereby continued until July 1, 1936. United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, maintenance: For an additional amount for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1935, $126,080. United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia, maintenance: For an additional amount for the United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1935, $83,180. United States penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington, maintenance: For an additional amount for the United States penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1935, $38,715. United States Northeastern Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, maintenance: For an additional amount, for the United States penitentiary in the northeast, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1935, $59,180. United States Industrial Reformatory, Chillicothe, Ohio, maintenance: For an additional amount for the United States Industrial Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1935, $21,705. United States Southwestern Reformatory, El Reno, Oklahoma, maintenance: For an additional amount for the United States Southwestern Reformatory, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1935, $130,500. Federal jails, maintenance: For an additional amount for Federal jails, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1935, $101,015. Prison camps, maintenance: For an additional amount for prison camps, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1935, $13,140. Federal Reformatory Camp, Petersburg, Virginia, maintenance: For an additional amount for the Federal Reformatory Camp at Petersburg, Virginia, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1935, $36,090. Not to exceed $11.000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation “Federal Reformatory Camp, Petersburg, Virginia, maintenance, 1934”, is made available for the payment of obligations which have been incurred for construction and repair of buildings, including the purchase and installation of machinery and equipment and all expenses incident thereto, at such camp. 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 1932, $35,403, to constitute settlement in full with Los Angeles County, California, for the fiscal year 1932, for the support of United States prisoners.

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 129, Seventy-fourth Congress, and including item numbered 6, page 4, in House Document Numbered 328, Seventy-third Congress, $3,824.66. Payment to Elizabeth Bolger: For payment to Elizabeth Bolger in full settlement of all claims against the Government on account of personal injuries sustained as the result of the carelessness of the driver of a Navy automobile on April 5, 1919, in Brooklyn, New York, as authorized in the Act approved June 8, 1934 (48 Stat., 1376), $700. bureau of navigation Naval Reserve: For an additional amount for expenses of organizing. administering, and recruiting the Naval Reserve and Naval Militia, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935. $175,000. bureau of supplies and accounts Pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy: The limitation on expenditures for “transportation of dependents of officers and enlisted men of the Navy” under the appropriation “Pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy”, for the fiscal year 1934, is hereby increased from $450,000 to $575,000. Payment to Sue Hall Erwin: For payment to Sue Hall Erwin of an amount equal to six months’ pay of her son, the late Marcus Erwin, Junior, ensign, United States Navy, as authorized in the Act approved June 14, 1934 (48 Stat., 1392), $750.

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT Out of the Postal Revenues office of first assistant postmaster general Clerks, first- and second-class post offices: For an additional amount for compensation of clerks and employees at first- and second-class post offices, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1935, $2,500,000. City delivery carriers: For an additional amount for pay of letter carriers, City Delivery Service, fiscal year 1935, $500,000. office of the fourth assistant postmaster general Stationery: For an additional amount for stationery for the Postal Service, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1935, $49,000.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE foreign intercourse Allowance to widows or heirs of Foreign Service officers who die abroad: For an additional amount for allowance to widows or heirs of Foreign Service officers who die abroad, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of State for the fiscal year 1933, $163,82. Bringing home criminals: For an additional amount for bringing home criminals, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of State for the fiscal year 1933, $25. Bringing home persons charged with crime: For an additional amount for bringing home persons charged with crime, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of State for the fiscal year 1934, $125. For an additional amount for bringing home persons charged with crime, including the same objects specified under this head in Department of State /Appropriation Act, 1935, $1,500. Payment to the Government of Canada on account of the sinking of the schooner I’m Alone: For payment to the Government of Canada, upon receipt by the Secretary of State of satisfactory releases from the respective claimants, in full settlement of all claims for damages resulting from the sinking of the schooner I’m Alone in the Gulf of Mexico by the United States Coast Guard on March 22, 1929, as recommended in the joint final report, dated January 5, 1935, of the Commissioners appointed by the United States and Canada pursuant to the provisions of the convention of January 23, 1924, between the United States and Great Britain, $50,666,50. Narcotics Limitation Convention: For payment of the share of the United States of the expenses for the calendar years 1933 and 1934 in connection with the Convention between the United States and other powers for Limiting the Manufacturing and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs, signed at Geneva, July 13, 1931, $12,086, together with such additional sum, due to increases in rates of exchange, as may be necessary to pay in foreign currency the proportionate share of the United States. International Monetary and Economic Conference, 1933–1935, and General Disarmament Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 1933–1935: The unexpended balances of the appropriations “International Monetary and Economic Conference, 1933–1935”, and “General Disarmament Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 1933–1935”, are hereby continued available until June 30, 1936, and are made available, in addition to the purposes for which they were appropriated, for the expenses of continued participation by the Government of the United States in the General Disarmament Conference and for participation in any naval conference which may be held under the provisions of the treaty between the United States, the British Empire, France, Italy, and Japan, agreeing to a limitation of naval armament, signed at Washington, February 6, 1922, and of the treaty between the United States of America and other powers for the limitation and reduction of naval armament, signed at London, April 22, 1930, and for any meetings or conversations in connection therewith; including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; stenographic reporting, translating, 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; traveling expenses; purchase of necessary books, documents, newspapers, and periodicals; stationery; official cards; printing and binding; entertainment; hire, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled, passenger-carrying vehicles; and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State, including the reimbursement of other appropriations from which expenditures may be made for any of the purposes herein specified. Widows of Foreign Service officers: For the payment of one year’s salary to the following widows of Foreign Service officers as authorized by law: Provided, That such portion of private Act Numbered 262, Seventy-third Congress (48 Stat., 1397), as is contained in the proviso thereof, shall apply with the same force and effect to each of these appropriations as it applies to the authorization for an appropriation in such private Act: To Jeannette S. Jewell (Act of June 16, 1934, 48 Stat., 1396), $7,000. To Alice M. A. Damm (Act of June 16, 1934, 48 Stat., 1397). $5,000. To Rosemund Pauline Lowry (Act of June 16, 1934, 48 Stat., 1397), $4,500. To Elizabeth Millicent Trammell (Act of June 26, 1934, 48 Stat., 1436), $3,000. To Marcella Leahv McNerney (Act of June 26, 1934, 48 Stat., 1439), $2,500. To Cornelia Claiborne (Act of June 26, 1934, 48 Stat., 1453), $7,000. To Mary Seeley Watson (Act of June 26, 1934, 48 Stat., 1455), $5,000.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT division of supply Printing and binding, Treasury Department: For an additional amount for printing and binding, Treasury Department, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1935. $17,500. Stationery: For an additional amount for stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices and field services thereof, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1935, $97,000. coast guard Pay and allowances: For an additional amount for pay and allowances, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1935, $371,663. Fuel and water: For an additional amount for fuel and water, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1935, $335,900. Outfits: For an additional amount for outfits, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1935, $99,943. Rebuilding and repairing stations, and so forth: For an additional amount for rebuilding and repairing stations, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1935, $12,970. Communication lines: For an additional amount for communication lines, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1935, $27,028. Contingent expenses: For an additional amount for contingent expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1935, $10,000. Repairs to Coast Guard vessels: For an additional amount for repairs to Coast Guard vessels, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1935, $475,000. procurement division, public works branch 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 approved March 15, 1934, making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1935, $168,317. Rent of temporary quarters, public buildings: For an additional amount for rent of temporary quarters, for the fiscal year 1935, including the same objects specified under this head in the Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1934, approved June 19, 1934, $15,470. Furniture and furnishings for United States courthouse, New York, New York: The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, out of the lump-sum appropriations available for sites and construction of Federal buildings under the Act of May 25, 1926, as amended, to expend not to exceed $443,772 to provide the necessary furniture and furnishings for the United States courthouse, New York, New York, authorized by the Act of March 4, 1931 (46 Stat., p. 1598), and the Director of Procurement, Treasury Department, is hereby authorized to make contracts after advertising and competitive bidding, for the purchase of said furniture and furnishings and to make expenditures for services, supplies, material, and equipment, including the reconditioning of old furniture, and necessary travel and subsistence in connection with the purchase and inspection of commodities to be contracted for or purchased, and, when deemed desirable or advantageous by him, the said Director of Procurement is authorized to employ by contract or otherwise, without regard to civil-service laws and regulations, such temporary outside professional or technical services as he may find necessary in furnishing those portions of the said building requiring special treatment, all within the total amount made available herein: Provided, That the cost of furniture and furnishings, except filing equipment in areas devoted exclusively to that purpose, shall be based upon the square-foot area of the rooms to be furnished, and shall not exceed the rates set forth herein, as follows: For District and Appellate court rooms, $1.75 per square foot; judges’ private and outer offices, United States commissioners’ court rooms, and the law library, $1.50 per square foot; for all other space, $1 per square foot.

WAR DEPARTMENT military activities Travel, military and civil personnel: For an additional amount for “Travel, military and civil personnel, War Department”, including the same objects specified under this head in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $500,000. Pay, and so forth, of the Army: The limitation on the amount available for aviation increase of pay to commissioned and warrant officers of the Army, as contained in the War Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, approved April 26, 1934, is hereby increased by $150,000. Subsistence of the Army: For an additional amount for “Subsistence of the Army”, including the same objects specified under this head in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $3,465,000. Regular supplies of the Army: For an additional amount for “Regular supplies of the Army”, including the same objects specified under this head in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $1,551,000. Army transportation: For an additional amount for “Army transportation”, including the same objects specified under this head in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $877,124. Acquisition of land, Fort Kamehameha, Hawaii: For acquisition of land in the vicinity of Fort Kamehameha Reservation, Territory of Hawaii, under condemnation proceedings as authorized by the Act approved May 26, 1928 (45 Stat., 750), fiscal year 1935, $1,091,238.62, 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 payments. Ordnance Department: For payment of General Accounting Office Settlement Numbered 0301919 dated May 1, 1933, Claim Numbered 027495, in favor of the, Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company, as follows: “Manufacture of Arms, 1926 and 1927”, $1,420.59; “Manufacture of Arms. 1928 and 1929”, $903.40; “Replacing Ordnance and Ordnance Stores, 1928 and 1929”, $4,758.55; in all, $7,082.54. National Guard: For an additional amount for “Arming, equipping, and training the National Guard”, for the procurement of forage, bedding, and so forth, for animals used by the National Guard, $125,000. United States High Commissioner to the Philippine Islands: For the establishment and maintenance of the office of the United States High Commissioner to the Philippine Islands as authorized by subsection 4 of section 7 of the Act approved March 24, 1934 (48 Stat. 456), including salaries and wages; rental, furnishings, equipment, maintenance, renovation, and repair of office quarters and living quarters for the High Commissioner; supplies and equipment; purchase and exchange of law books and books of reference, periodicals, and newspapers; traveling expenses, including for persons appointed hereunder within the United States and their families, actual expenses of travel and transportation of household effects from their homes in the United States to the Philippine Islands, utilizing Government vessels whenever practicable; purchase, operation, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles, including not to exceed $4,500 for the purchase of three passenger-carrying automobiles, and all other necessary expenses, fiscal year 1936, $165,000, to be immediately available; of which amount not exceeding $10,000 shall be available for expenditure in the discretion of the High Commissioner for maintenance of his household and such other purposes as he may deem proper: Provided, That the salary of the legal adviser and the financial expert who may be appointed hereunder shall not. exceed the annual rate of $12,000 and $10,000 each, respectively: Provided further, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 45, see. 5), shall not apply to any purchase or service rendered under this appropriation when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $100.

TITLE II— JUDGMENTS AND AUTHORIZED CLAIMS