Public Law 74–405

That the following

Appropriations for Departments of State and Justice, the Judiciary, and Departments of Commerce and Labor, fiscal year, 1937.

sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, namely:

TITLE I— DEPARTMENT OF STATE

office of the secretary of state Salaries: For Secretary of State; Under Secretary of State, $10,000; and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including temporary employees, and not to exceed $6,500 for employees engaged on piece work at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of State; $1,954,240, of which amount not to exceed $159,000 may be expended by the Secretary of State without regard to civil-service laws and regulations or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended: Provided, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the four Assistant Secretaries of State and the legal adviser of the Department of State, the Assistant to the Attorney General, the Assistant Solicitor General, and six Assistant Attorneys General, the Assistant Secretaries of Commerce, the Assistant Secretary and the Second Assistant Secretary of Labor, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate: Provided, That this restriction shall not apply (1) to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or (2) to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act, or (3) to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, or (4) to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or (5) to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated.

contingent expenses, department of state For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including stationery, furniture, fixtures; typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their exchange, not exceeding $9,000; repairs and materials for repairs; purchase and exchange of books, maps, and periodicals, domestic and foreign, and when authorized by the Secretary of State for dues for library membership in societies or associations which issue publications to members only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers who are not members, not exceeding $8,000; newspapers not exceeding $1,500; not to exceed $1,000 for teletype rentals and tolls; not to exceed $450 (including the value of any vehicle exchanged therefor) for the purchase of a motorcycle; maintenance, repair, and storage of motor-propelled Vehicles, to be used only for official purposes (one for the Secretary of State and two for dispatching mail, and one motorcycle for the general use of the Department); automobile mail wagons, including storage, repair, and exchange of same; street-car fare not exceeding $100; traveling expenses; refund of fees erroneously charged and paid for the issue of passports to persons who are exempted from the payment of such fee by section 1 of the Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, approved June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., title 22, secs. 214, 214a); the examination of estimates of appropriations in the field; and other miscellaneous items not included in the foregoing; $77,300.

printing and binding For all printing and binding in the Department of State, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $150,000.

passport agencies For salaries and expenses of maintenance, rent, and traveling expenses not to exceed $500, for not to exceed five passport agencies, $54,470, of which $1,000 shall be available immediately.

collecting and editing official papers of territories of the united states For the expenses of collecting, editing, copying, and arranging for publication the official papers of the Territories of the United States, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, printing and binding, and contingent and traveling expenses, as provided by the Act approved February 28, 1929 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 168–169), $26,000: Provided, That the total number of copies of any volume to be printed and bound under this or any other appropriation for printing and binding of these papers shall not exceed one thousand two hundred and twenty-seven, which shall be distributed as provided in section 3 of such Act, except that each Senator shall receive not to exceed three copies and each Representative not to exceed one.

promotion of foreign trade For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of section 4 of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Tariff Act of 1930”, approved June 12, 1934 (48 Stat. 945), including personal services without regard to civil-service laws and regulations or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, stenographic reporting services, by contract if deemed necessary, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), contingent expenses, printing and binding, traveling expenses, and such other expenses as the President may deem necessary, $15,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1936.

foreign intercourse ambassadors and ministers Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Spain, Turkey, and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, at $17,500 each; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Belgium and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Luxemburg, $17,500; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Netherlands, $12,000; Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to Albania, Austria, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Dominion of Canada, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Irish Free State, Liberia, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Persia, Portugal, Rumania, Salvador, Siam, Union of South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Yugoslavia, at $10,000 each; and to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, $10,000; In all, not to exceed $642,500: Provided, That no salary herein appropriated shall be paid to any official receiving any other salary from the United States Government.

salaries of foreign service officers For salaries of Foreign Service officers as provided in the Act approved February 23, 1931 (U. S. C., title 22, secs. 3, 3a) ; salaries of Ambassadors, Ministers, consuls, vice consuls, and other officers of the United States for the period actually and necessarily occupied in receiving instructions and in making transits to and from their posts, and while awaiting recognition and authority to act in pursuance with the provisions of section 1740 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 121); and salaries of Foreign Service officers or vice consuls while acting as Charges d’Affaires ad interim or while in charge of a consulate general or consulate during the absence of the principal officer; $3,341,500.

transportation of foreign service officers To pay the traveling expenses, including travel by airplane when specifically authorized by the Secretary of State, of Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Service officers, and other employees of the Foreign Service, including Foreign Service inspectors and under such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, of their families and expenses of transportation of effects, in going to and returning from their posts, including not to exceed $100,000 for expenses incurred in connection with leaves of absence, and of the preparation and transportation of the remains of those officers and said employees of the Foreign Service, who have died or may die abroad or in transit while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country or to a place not more distant for interment and for the ordinary expenses of such interment, and also for payment under the provisions of section 1749 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 130) of allowances to the widows or heirs at law of Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Service officers of the United States dying in foreign countries in the discharge of their duties, $546,700: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available also for the authorized subsistence expenses of Consular and Foreign Service officers while on temporary detail under commission.

allowances for rent, heat, fuel, and light, foreign service For rent, heat, fuel, and light for the Foreign Service for offices and grounds, and, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 118a), for living quarters and not to exceed $1,140,000 for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, $2,016,000; Provided, That payment for rent may be made in advance: Provided further, That the Secretary of State may enter into leases for such offices, grounds, and living quarters for periods not exceeding ten years: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light in an amount exceeding $3,000 for an ambassador, minister, or chargé d’affaires, and not exceeding $1,700 for any other Foreign Service officer: Provided further, That under this appropriation and the appropriations herein for “Contingent expenses, Foreign Service”, and “Miscellaneous salaries and allowances, Foreign Service”, not more than $5,000 shall be expended for custodial service, heat, fuel, and light in any Government-owned building used for residence or residence and office purposes for an ambassador or minister, and not more than $1,700 for such purposes in the case of any other Foreign Service officer, and during the incumbency of a chargé d’affaires the limitation on such expenditures shall be the same as for the occupancy by the principal officer.

cost of living allowance, foreign service officers To carry out the provisions of the Act approved February 23, 1931 (U. S. C., title 22, secs. 12,23c), relating to allowances and additional compensation to diplomatic, consular, and Foreign Service officers and clerks when such allowances and additional compensation are necessary to enable such officers and clerks to carry on their work efficiently: Provided, That such allowances and additional compensation shall be granted only in the discretion of the President, and under such regulations as he may prescribe, $250,000.

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

foreign service retirement and disability fund For financing the liability of the United States, created by the Act approved February 23, 1931 (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 21), $185,300, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the “Foreign Service retirement and disability fund.”

salaries of clerks in the foreign service For salaries of clerks in the Foreign Service, as provided in the Act approved February 23, 1931 (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 23a), including salaries during transit to and from homes in the United States upon the beginning and after termination of service, $2,234,000.

miscellaneous salaries and allowances, foreign service For salaries or compensation of kavasses, guards, dragomans, porters, interpreters, prison keepers, translators, archive collators, Chinese writers, messengers, couriers, telephone operators, supervisors of construction, and custodial and operating force for maintenance and operation of Government-owned and leased diplomatic and consular properties in foreign countries; compensation of agents and employees of dispatch agencies at London, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and New Orleans, including salaries during transit to and from their homes in the United States upon the beginning and after termination of service in foreign countries; operation of motor-propelled and other passenger- and non-passenger-carrying vehicles; for allowances to consular officers, who are paid in whole or in part by fees, for services necessarily rendered to American vessels and seamen, as provided in the Act of June 26, 1884 (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 89; title 46, sec. 101); and such other miscellaneous personal services as the President may deem necessary, $616,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for salaries or wages of persons not American citizens performing clerical services, (except interpreters, translators, and messengers), whether officially designated as clerks or not, in any foreign mission: Provided further, the Secretary of the Navy is authorized upon request by the Secretary of State, to assign enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps to serve as custodians, under the immediate supervision of the Secretary of State or the chief of mission, whichever the Secretary of State shall direct, at embassies, legations, or consulates of the United States located in foreign countries.

contingent expenses, foreign service For stationery; blanks; record and other books; seals; presses; flags; signs; repairs, including minor alterations; repairs, preservation, and maintenance of Government-owned diplomatic and consular properties in foreign countries, including water, materials, supplies, seeds, plants, shrubs, and similar objects; newspapers (foreign and domestic); freight; postage; telegrams; advertising; ice and drinking water for office purposes; purchase (at not to exceed $750 for any one automobile), maintenance, and hire of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and purchase, maintenance, and hire of other passenger-carrying vehicles; funds for establishment and maintenance of commissary service; uniforms; furniture, household furniture and furnishings, except as provided by the Act of May 7, 1926, as amended, for Government-owned or rented buildings, when, in the judgment of the Secretary of State, it would be in the public interest to do so, not to exceed $135,500; typewriters and exchange of same; maintenance and rental of launch for embassy in Turkey, not exceeding $3,500, including personnel for operation; rent and other expenses for dispatch agencies at London, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and New Orleans; traveling expenses, including attendance at trade and other conferences or congresses under orders of the Secretary of State as authorized by the Act approved February 23, 1931 (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 16); loss by exchange; payment in advance for telephone and other similar services, expenses of vice consulates and consular agencies for any of the foregoing objects; allowances for special instruction, education, and individual training of Foreign Service officers at home and abroad, not to exceed $10,000; cost, not exceeding $500 per annum each, of the tuition of Foreign Service officers assigned for the study of the languages of Asia and eastern Europe; for relief, protection, and burial of American seamen in foreign countries, in the Panama Canal Zone, and in the Philippine Islands, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, in Puerto Rico, and in the Virgin Islands, and for expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of the services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from shipwreck or other catastrophe at sea; for expenses of maintaining in China, the former Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, and Muscat institutions for incarcerating American convicts and persons declared insane by any consular court, rent of quarters for prisons, ice and drinking water for prison purposes, and for the expenses of keeping, feeding, and transportation of prisoners and persons declared insane by any consular court in China, the former Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, and Muscat; for for every expenditure requisite for or incident to the bringing home from foreign countries of persons charged with crime as authorized by section 5275 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 18, sec. 659); and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may deem necessary; $1,067,400: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for reimbursement of appropriations for the Navy Department, in amounts determined by the Secretary of the Navy, for materials, supplies, equipment, and services furnished by the Navy Department, including pay, subsistence, allowances, and transportation of enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps who may be assigned by the Secretary of the Navy, upon request of the Secretary of State, to embassies, legations, or consular offices of the United States located in foreign countries.

emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States and to meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the Neutrality Act, to be expended pursuant to the requirement of section 291 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 107), $175,000. Not to exceed 10 per centum of any of the foregoing appropriations under the caption “Foreign intercourse” for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, may be transferred, with the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, to any other foregoing appropriation or appropriations under such caption for such fiscal year, but no appropriation shall be increased more than 10 per centum thereby: Provided, That all such transfers and contemplated transfers shall be set forth in the Budget for the fiscal year 1938.

contributions, quotas, and so forth For payment of the annual contributions, quotas, and expenses, including loss by exchange in discharge of the obligations of the United States in connection with international commissions, congresses, bureaus, and other objects, in not to exceed the respective amounts, as follows: Cape Spartel and Tangier Light, Coast of Morocco, $588; International Bureau of Weights and Measures, $4,342.50; International Bureau for Publication of Customs Tariffs, $1,318.77; Pan American Union, $191,032.37, including not to exceed $20,000 for printing and binding; International Bureau of Permanent Court of Arbitration, $1,722.57; Bureau of Interparliamentary Union for Promotion of International Arbitration, $20,000, including not to exceed $10,000 for the expenses of the American group of the Interparliamentary Union, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, stenographic reporting services by contract if deemed necessary without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), traveling expenses, purchase of necessary books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, maps, stationery, official cards, printing and binding, entertainment, and other necessary expenses, to be disbursed on vouchers approved by the President and executive secretary of the American group; International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, Italy, $49,911, including not to exceed $12,855 for the salary of the American member of the permanent committee (at not more than $7,500 per annum), compensation of subordinate employees without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, expenses for the maintenance of the office at Rome, including purchase of necessary books, maps, documents, and newspapers and periodicals (foreign and domestic), printing and binding, allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 118a), for the use of the American member of the permanent committee, and traveling and other necessary expenses to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State; Pan American Sanitary Bureau, $30,643.30; International Office of Public Health, $3,015.62; Bureau of International Telecommunication Union, Radio Section, $5,790; Government of Panama, $250,000; International Hydrographic Bureau, $4,632; Inter-American Trade-Mark Bureau, $14,330.20; International Bureau for Protection of Industrial Property, $1,472; Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, $50,000; American International Institute for the Protection of Childhood, $2,000; International Statistical Bureau at The Hague, $2,000; International Map of the World on the Millionth Scale, $50; International Technical Committee of Aerial Legal Experts, $6,696, including not to exceed $6,500 for the expenses of participation by the Government of the United States in the meetings of the International Technical Committee of Aerial Legal Experts and of the commissions established by that committee, 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, and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State; Convention Relating to Liquor Traffic in Africa, $55; International Penal and Penitentiary Commission, $4,282, including not to exceed $750 for the necessary expenses of the commissioner to represent the United States on the commission at its annual meetings, personal services without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, traveling expenses, and such other expenses as the Secretary of State may deem necessary: Permanent Association of International Road Congresses, $588; International Labor Organization, $212,951.59, including not to exceed $27,300 for the expenses of participation by the United States in the meetings of the General Conference and of the Governing Body of the International Labor Office and in such regional, industrial, or other special meetings as may be duly called by such Governing Body, including personal services, without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, stenographic reporting and translating services by contract if deemed necessary without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), rent, traveling expenses, purchase of books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, and charts, 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; Implementing the Narcotics Convention of 1931, $9,005; International Council of Scientific Unions and Associated Unions, as follows: International Council of Scientific Unions, $19.30; International Astronomical Union, $617.60; International Union of Chemistry, $675; International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, $2,316; International Scientific Radio Union, $154.40; International Union of Physics, $62.72; International Geographical Union, $194.66; and International Union of Biological Sciences, $154.40; in all, $4,194.08; and Pan American Institute of Geography and History, $10,000; in all, $880,620, together with such additional sums, due to increase in rates of exchange as the Secretary of State may determine and certify to the Secretary of the Treasury to be necessary to pay in foreign currencies the quotas and contributions required by the several treaties, conventions, or laws establishing the amount of the obligation.

international radio consulting committee, rumania For the expenses of participation by the United States in the meeting of the International Radio Consulting Committee, to be held in Rumania in 1937, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; stenographic reporting and translating services, by contract if deemed necessary, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); rent; traveling expenses; purchase of books, documents, newspapers, periodicals and maps; stationery; official cards; printing and binding; entertainment; and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State, including the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of the purposes herein specified, $18,500.

international boundart commission, united states and mexico Salaries and expenses: For expenses of meeting the obligations of the United States under the treaties of 1884, 1889, 1905, and 1906 between the United States and Mexico, and of compliance with the Act approved August 19, 1935 (49 Stat. 660) including maintenance and preservation of the rectified channel of the Rio Grande under the terms of Article XI of the Convention between the United States and Mexico, concluded February 1, 1933 (48 Stat. 1621, 1626), operation of gaging stations where necessary and their equipment; personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; fees for professional services at rates and in amounts to be determined by the Secretary of State; travel expenses, including transportation of effects; printing and binding; law books and books of reference; subscriptions to foreign and domestic newspapers and periodicals; purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger- and freight-carrying vehicles; purchase of rubber boots and waders for official use of employees; purchase of ice; drilling and testing of dam sites, by contract if deemed necessary, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); equipment and such other miscellaneous expenses as the Secretary of State may deem proper, $140,000. For the construction (including operation and maintenance and protection during construction) of the following projects under the supervision of the International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico, United States section, including salaries and wages of employees, laborers, and mechanics; fees for professional services at rates and in amounts to be determined by the Secretary of State; travel expenses; rents; construction and operation of gaging stations; purchase (including exchange), maintenance, repairs, and operation of motor-propelled passenger- and freight-carrying vehicles; drilling and testing of dam sites, by contract if deemed necessary, without regard to the provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); hire, with or without personal services, of work animals, and animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles and equipment; acquisition by donation, purchase, or condemnation, of real and personal property, including expenses of abstracts and certificates of title; transportation of things (including drayage of personal effects of employees upon change of station); printing and binding; communication services; equipment, materials and supplies, including purchase of ice, rubber boots, and waders for official use of employees, and such other miscellaneous expenses as the Secretary of State may deem necessary: Rio Grande rectification project: For the rectification of the Rio Grande in the El Paso-Juarez Valley under the convention concluded February 1, 1933, between the United States and Mexico, $1,200,000, to be available immediately. Lower Rio Grande flood-control project: For construction, including surveys and other preliminary expenses, of the United States portion of the project for flood control on the Lower Rio Grande, as authorized by the Act approved August 19, 1935 (49 Stat. 660), $1,600,000, to be available immediately: Provided, That no part of this appropriation for the Lower Rio Grande flood-control project shall be expended for construction on any land, site, or easement until title thereto has been conveyed to the United States by donation and the same has been approved by the Attorney General of the United States. For investigations relating to the establishment of a Federal zone along the international boundary, United States and Mexico, as authorized by Public Law Numbered 286, approved August 19, 1935 (49 Stat., 660), including salaries and wages; fees for professional services; supplies and materials; communication service; travel expenses; transportation of things; hire, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger- and freight-carrying vehicles; hire with or without personal services of work animals and animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles and equipment; and such other expenses as the Secretary of State may deem necessary, $4,650, to be immediately available.

international boundary commission, united states and canada and alaska and canada To enable the President to perform the obligations of the United States under the treaty between the United States and Great Britain in respect of Canada, signed February 24, 1925; for salaries and expenses, including the salary of the commissioner and salaries of the necessary engineers, clerks, and other employees for duty at the seat of government and in the field; cost of office equipment and supplies; necessary traveling expenses; commutation of subsistence to employees while on field duty, not to exceed $4 per day each, but not to exceed $1.75 per day each when a member of a field party and subsisting in camp; for payment for timber necessarily cut in keeping the boundary line clear, not to exceed $500; and for all other necessary and reasonable expenses incurred by the United States in maintaining an effective demarcation of the international boundary line between the United States and Canada and Alaska and Canada under the terms of the treaty aforesaid, including the completion of such remaining work as may be required under the award of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal and existing treaties between the United States and Great Britain, and including the hire of freight- and passenger-carrying vehicles from temporary field employees, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, $43,000.

waterways treaty, united states and great britain: international joint commission, united states and great britain For salaries and expenses, including salaries of commissioners and salaries of clerks and other employees appointed by the commissioners on the part of the United States, with the approval solely of the Secretary of State; for necessary traveling expenses, and for expenses incident to holding hearings and conferences at such places in Canada and the United States as shall be determined by the Commission or by the American commissioners to be necessary, including travel expense and compensation of necessary witnesses, mailing necessary transcript of testimony and proceedings; for cost of law books, books of reference and periodicals, office equipment and supplies; and for one half of all reasonable and necessary joint expenses of the International Joint Commission incurred under the terms of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain concerning the use of boundary waters between the United States and Canada, and for other purposes, signed January 11, 1909; $37,100, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State: Provided, That the salaries of the American Commissioners shall not exceed $7,500 each per annum: Provided further, That traveling expenses of the commissioners, secretary, and necessary employees shall be allowed in accordance with the provisions of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, as amended (U. S. C., title 5, secs. 821–833). For an additional amount for necessary special or technical investigations in connection with matters which fall within the scope of the jurisdiction of the International Joint Commission, including personal services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, traveling expenses, procurement of technical and scientific equipment, and the purchase, exchange, hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, $65,000, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, who is authorized to transfer to any department or independent establishment of the Government, with the consent of the head thereof, any part of this amount for direct expenditure by such department or establishment for the purposes of this appropriation.

arbitration of smelter-fumes controversy Arbitration of smelter-fumes controversy: For the expense of the arbitration under the convention between the United States and Canada, signed April 15, 1935, of the questions set forth in article III of that convention for determining damages caused in the State of Washington from fumes discharged from the smelter of the Canadian Mining and Smelting Company at Trail, British Columbia, including the share of the United States of the honorarium of the neutral arbitrator and of other joint expenses of the two Governments; honorarium of the United States arbitrator; compensation of an agent; compensation of employees in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, without regard to the civil-service laws and regulations or to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; stenographic reporting and translating services, by contract if deemed necessary without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses and per diem (notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act); cost of necessary books and documents; stationery; official cards; printing and binding; and such other expenditures as may be authorized by the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of State is authorized to transfer to any department or independent establishment of the Government with the consent of the head thereof, any part of this amount for direct expenditure by such department or establishment for the purposes of this appropriation, $50,000, to be available immediately: Provided, That no salary or honorarium shall be paid from this appropriation at an annual rate in excess of $10,000: Provided, That the ultimate decisions under this arbitration shall be consummated within two years from the date of the passage of this Act.

inter-american conference For the expenses of participation by the United States in an Inter-American Conference to be held at Buenos Aires, Argentina, or at the capital of another American republic, in 1936, including personal services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; stenographic reporting and other services by contract if deemed necessary without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); rent; traveling expenses (and by indirect routes and by airplane if specifically authorized by the Secretary of State); hire, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; equipment, purchase of necessary books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, and maps; stationery; official cards; entertainment; printing and binding; and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State, including the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of the purposes herein specified, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $75,000, to be immediately available.

general and special claims conventions, united states and mexico For the expenses of settlement and adjustment of claims of the citizens of each country against the other under a convention concluded September 8, 1923, as extended, and of citizens of the United States against Mexico under a convention concluded September 10, 1923, as extended, and the protocol and convention signed April 24, 1934, between the United States and Mexico, including the expenses which, under the terms of the above agreements, are chargeable in part to the United States, the expenses of an agency of the United States to perform, all necessary services in connection with the preparation of American claims and the defense of the United States in cases presented by Mexico, and of a general claims commissioner to act as a joint appraiser in appraising the claims, and for the expenses of the joint committee in determining the proper classification of claims which have heretofore been filed as both general and special claims, as provided by the agreements of April 24, 1934, including salaries of an agent and necessary counsel and other assistants and employees and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, law books and books of reference, printing and binding, contingent expenses, contract stenographic reporting services, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), the employment of special counsel, translators, and other technical experts, by contract, without regard to the provisions of any statute relative to employment, traveling expenses, the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of the purposes herein specified, and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the President may deem proper, $124,270: Provided, That the salary of the American commissioners of general and special claims shall not exceed $10,000 per annum each: Provided further, That from any sums received from the Mexican Government in settlement of a general claim of an American citizen against it, there shall be deducted and deposited in the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts, 5 per centum thereof in reimbursement of the Government of the United States of expenses incurred by it in respect of such claim.

special mexican claims commission Special Mexican Claims Commission: For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a commission for the settlement of the special claims comprehended within the terms of the convention between the United States of America and the United Mexican States concluded April 24, 1934”, approved April 10, 1935, including personal services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, without regard to the provisions of any statute relating to employment; rent in the District of Columbia or elsewhere; furniture; office supplies, and equipment, including law books and books of reference; stenographic reporting and translating services by contract if deemed necessary, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); traveling expenses; transportation of things; printing and binding; and such other necessary expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State, $90,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation made available for this purpose in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936,¹So in original. which unexpended balance is continued available until August 31, 1937.

international fisheries commission For the share of the United States of the expenses of the International Fisheries Commission, under the convention between the United States and Great Britain, concluded May 9, 1930, including salaries of two members and other employees of the Commission, traveling expenses, charter of vessels, purchase of books, periodicals, furniture, and scientific instruments, contingent expenses, rent in the District of Columbia, and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the Secretary of State may deem proper, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, $25,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1936: Provided, That not to exceed $700 shall be expended by the Commissioner and his staff in attending meetings of the Commission. Section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) shall not apply to any purchase by or service rendered for the Department of State when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $100 or when the purchase or service relates to the packing of personal and household effects of Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Service officers and clerks for foreign shipment. Unless expressly authorized, no portion of the sums appropriated in title I of this Act shall be expended for rent or rental allowances in the District of Columbia or elsewhere in the United States. Hereafter, whenever the Secretary of State, in his discretion, procures information on behalf of corporations, firms, and individuals, the expense of cablegrams and telephone service involved may be charged against the respective appropriations for the service utilized; and reimbursement therefor shall be required from those for whom the information was procured and, when made, be credited to the appropriation under which the expenditure was charged. The President, in his discretion, may assign officers of the Army or Navy or officers or employees of the Treasury Department for duty as inspectors of buildings owned or occupied by the United States in foreign countries, or as inspectors or supervisors of buildings under construction or repair by or for the United States in foreign countries, under the jurisdiction of the Department of State, or for duty as couriers of the Department of State, and when so assigned they may receive the same traveling expenses as are authorized for officers of the Foreign Service, payable from the applicable appropriations of the Department of State. This title may be cited as the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1937.

TITLE II— DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

office of the attorney general Salaries: For the Attorney General, Solicitor General, Assistant to the Attorney General, and other personal services in the District of Columbia; $1,675,000. Contingent expenses: For stationery, furniture and repairs, floor coverings not exceeding $1,000, file holders and cases; miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing and telephones, postage, labor, typewriters and adding machines and the exchange thereof and repairs thereto, street-car fares not exceeding $300, newspapers, press clippings, and other necessaries ordered by the Attorney General; official transportation, including the repair, maintenance, and operation of six motor-driven passenger cars (one for the Attorney General, three for general use of the Department, two for the Federal Bureau of Investigation for investigative work), delivery truck, and motorcycle, to be used only for official purposes; purchase, at not to exceed $750 each, including exchange, of three passenger- carrying automobiles; purchase or law books, books of reference, and periodicals, including the exchange thereof; traveling and other miscellaneous and emergency expenses, authorized and approved by the Attorney General, to be expended at his discretion, $185,000: Provided, That this appropriation may be reimbursed for expenditures in connection with cars herein authorized for the Bureau of Investigation from the appropriation for the expenses of said Bureau when approved in writing by the Attorney General: Provided further, That not to exceed $2 per volume shall be paid for the current and future volumes of the United States Code, Annotated. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Department of Justice and the courts of the United States, $298,000.

Federal Bureau of Investigation salaries and expenses Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States; for the protection of the person of the President of the United States; the acquisition, collection, classification, and preservation of identification and other records and their exchange with the duly authorized officials of the Federal Government, of States, cities, and other institutions; for such other investigations regarding official matters under the control of the Department of Justice and the Department of State as may be directed by the Attorney General, purchase and exchange not to exceed $50,000, and hire, maintenance, upkeep, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only on official business; purchase and exchange at not to exceed $7,000 each, and maintenance, upkeep, and operation, of not more than four armored automobiles; firearms and ammunition; such stationery, supplies, and equipment for use at the seat of government or elsewhere as the Attorney General may direct; not to exceed $10,000 for taxicab hire to be used exclusively for the purposes set forth in this paragraph and to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General; traveling expenses, including expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of such Bureau when authorized by the Attorney General; payment of rewards when specifically authorized by the Attorney General for information leading to the apprehension of fugitives from justice, including not to exceed $20,000 to meet unforeseen emergencies of a confidential character, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, who shall make a certificate of the amount of such expenditure as he may think it advisable not to specify, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended; and including not to exceed $1,181,500 for personal services in the District of Columbia; $6,025,000, of which amount $100,000 shall be immediately available: Provided, 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 Federal Bureau of Investigation in the field when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $50. miscellaneous objects, department of justice Conduct of customs cases: Assistant Attorney General, special attorneys and counselors at law in the conduct of customs cases, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General; necessary clerical assistance and other employees at the seat of government and elsewhere, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General, including experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General; expenses of procuring evidence, supplies, Supreme Court Reports and Digests, and Federal Reporter and Digests, traveling, and other miscellaneous and incidental expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General; in all, $140,000. Defending suits in claims against the United States: For necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses, procuring evidence, employment of experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, and such other expenses as may be necessary in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including Indian depredation claims, and contested proceedings involving inventions, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $45,000. Taxes and Penalties Unit: For salaries and expenses in connection with the enforcement of liability for internal-revenue taxes and penalties involving violation of the National Prohibition Act, as amended and supplemented, the determination of the remission or mitigation of forfeitures under the internal-revenue laws and of liability for internal-revenue taxes and penalties in connection with violations of the National Prohibition Act occurring prior to the repeal of the eighteenth amendment, the institution of suits upon any cause of action under the National Prohibition Act or under the internal-revenue laws involving a violation of the National Prohibition Act arising prior to, and not affected by the repeal of the eighteenth amendment, and the compromise of any such cause of action before or after suit is brought, personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, travel expenses, and such other expenditures as may be necessary, $220,000. Enforcement of antitrust and kindred laws: For the enforcement of antitrust and kindred laws, including experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, including not to exceed $100,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $435,000. Examination of judicial offices: For the investigation of the official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks of the United States courts and Territorial courts, probation officers, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the official papers, records, and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney General at any time; and also, when requested by the presiding judge, the official acts, records, and accounts of referees and trustees of such courts; for copying, in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, reports of examiners at folio rates; traveling expenses; in all, $75,000; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. bureau of prisons Salaries and expenses: For salaries and expenses in connection with the supervision of the maintenance and care of United States prisoners, including not to exceed $229,820 for personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling expenses and expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of such bureau when authorized by the Attorney General; $267,900. veterans’ insurance litigation Salaries and expenses: For salaries and expenses incident to the defense of suits against the United States under section 19 of the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, approved June 7, 1924, as amended, or the compromise of the same under the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1934, approved June 16, 1933, including traveling and office expenses, law books, supplies, equipment, stenographic reporting services by contract or otherwise, including notarial fees or like services and stenographic work in taking depositions at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, printing and binding, the employment of experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, and personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $700,000.

JUDICIAL united states supreme court Salaries: For the Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices; Reporter of the Court; and all other officers and employees, whose compensation shall be fixed by the Court, except as otherwise provided by law, and who may be employed and assigned by the Chief Justice to any office or work of the Court, $416,000. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Supreme Court of the United States, $21,000, to be expended as required without allotment by quarters, and to be executed by such printer as the court may designate. Miscellaneous expenses: For miscellaneous expenses of the Supreme Court of the United States, to be expended as the Chief Justice may direct, $29,000. Structural and mechanical care of the building and grounds: For such expenditures as may be necessary to enable the Architect of the Capitol to carry out the duties imposed upon him by the Act approved May 7, 1934 (48 Stat. 668), including improvements, maintenance, repairs, equipment, supplies, materials, and appurtenances, and personal and other services, and for snow removal by hire of men and equipment or under contract without compliance with sections 3709 and 3744 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, secs. 5 and 16), $55,000. salaries of judges Salaries of judges: For forty-two circuit judges; one hundred and fifty-seven district judges (including two in the Territory of Hawaii, one in the Territory of Puerto Rico, four in the Territory of Alaska, and one in the Virgin Islands); and judges retired under section 260 of the Judicial Code, as amended, and section 518 of the Tariff Act of 1930, $2,295,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the salaries of all United States justices and circuit and district judges lawfully entitled thereto, whether active or retired. expenses of judges Expenses of judges: For expenses of circuit and district judges of the United States and the judges of the district courts of the United States in Alaska, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii, as provided by law, $85,000. court of customs and patent appeals Salaries: Presiding judge and four associate judges and all other officers and employees of the court, $101,120. Contingent expenses: For books and periodicals, including their exchange; stationery, supplies, traveling expenses; rugs, chemicals, cleansers, furniture; and for such other miscellaneous expenses as may be approved by the presiding judge, $3,000. Printing and binding: For printing and binding, $6,000. united states customs court Salaries: Presiding judge and eight judges; and all other officers and employees of the court, $228,280. Contingent expenses: For books and periodicals, including their exchange; stationery, supplies, traveling expenses; and for such other miscellaneous expenses as may be approved by the presiding judge, $15,000. Printing and binding: For printing and binding, $1,000. court of claims Salaries: Chief justice and four judges; chief clerk at not exceeding $6,500; auditor at not exceeding $5,000; and all other officers and employees of the court, $122,160. Printing and binding: For printing and binding, $25,500. Contingent expenses: For stationery, court library, repairs, fuel, electric light, electric elevator, and other miscellaneous expenses, $6,500. Salaries and expenses of commissioners: For salaries of five regular commissioners and one temporary commissioner at $7,500 each, and for traveling expenses, compensation of stenographers authorized by the court, and for stenographic and other fees and charges necessary in the taking of testimony and in the performance of the duties as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act amending section 2 and repealing section 3 of the Act approved February 24, 1925 (U. S. C., title 28, secs. 269, 270), entitled An Act to authorize the appointment of commissioners by the Court of Claims and to prescribe their powers and compensation’, and for other purposes”, approved June 23, 1930 (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 270), $63,840. Repairs, furnishings, and so forth: For necessary repairs, furnishings, and improvements to the Court of Claims buildings, to be expended under the supervision of the Architect of the Capitol, $16,000. territorial courts Hawaii: For salaries of the chief justice and two associate justices, and for judges of the circuit courts, $88,500. district court, panama canal zone Salaries, District Court, Panama Canal Zone: For salaries of the officials and employees of the District Court of the United States for the Panama Canal Zone, $45,785. united states court for china United States Court for China: For salaries of the judge, district attorney, and other officers and employees of the United States Court for China; allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 118a), not to exceed $1,700 for any one person; court expenses, including reference and law books, printing and binding, ice and drinking water for office purposes, traveling expenses of officers and employees of the court, and under such regulations as the Attorney General may prescribe of their families and effects, in going to and returning from their posts; preparation and transportation of remains of officers and employees who may die abroad or in transit while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in the United States, or to a place not more distant for interment and for the ordinary expenses of such interment; the expense of maintaining in China American convicts and persons declared insane by the court, rent of quarters for prisoners, ice and drinking water for prison purposes, including wages or prison keepers, and the expense of keeping, feeding, and transporting prisoners and persons declared insane by the court, $49,375. marshals, and other expenses of united states courts Salaries and expenses of marshals, and so forth: For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, including services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, services in Alaska in collecting evidence for the United States when so specifically directed by the Attorney General, traveling expenses, purchase, when authorized by the Attorney General, of ten motor-propelled passenger-carrying vans at not to exceed $2,000 each, and maintenance, alteration, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles used in connection with the transaction of the official business of the United States marshals, $3,300,000. Salaries and expenses of district attorneys, and so forth: For salaries, traveling, and other expenses of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, clerks, and other employees, including the office expenses of United States district attorneys in Alaska, and for salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the office of the United States district attorney, $3,083,510. Salaries and expenses Salaries and expenses of special attorneys, and so forth: For compensation and traveling expenses of special attorneys and assistants to the Attorney General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, and for payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney General in special cases, $600,000, no part of which, except for payment of foreign counsel, shall be used to pay the compensation of any persons except attorneys duly licensed and authorized to practice under the laws of any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia: Provided, That the amount paid as compensation out of the funds herein appropriated to any person employed hereunder shall not exceed the rate of $10,000 per annum: Provided further, That reports be submitted to the Congress on the 1st day of July and January showing the names of the persons employed hereunder, the annual rate of compensation or amount of any fee paid to each together with a description of their duties. Salaries and expenses, clerks of courts: For salaries of clerks of United States circuit courts of appeals and United States district courts, their deputies, and other assistants, traveling expenses pursuant to the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, as amended (U. S. C., title 5, secs. 821–833), and other expenses of conducting their respective offices, $2,125,000. Fees of commissioners: For fees of the United States commissioners and other committing magistrates acting under section 1014, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 18, sec. 591), $350,000. Conciliation commissioners, United States courts: 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”, approved March 3, 1933, as amended, $200,000: Provided, That none of the money appropriated herein shall be used to pay the statutory fee of any conciliation commissioner until the case for which the fee is provided shall have been finally disposed of, and not more than one fee shall be paid in any one case. Fees of jurors and witnesses: For mileage and per diems of jurors; for mileage and per diems of witnesses and for per diems in lieu of subsistence; and for payment of the expenses of witnesses, as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 604), including the expenses, mileage, and per diems of witnesses on behalf of the Government before the United States Customs Court, such payments to be made on the certification of the attorney for the United States and to be conclusive as provided by section 846, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 577), $3,000,000: Provided, That not to exceed $10,000 of this amount shall be available for such compensation and expenses of witnesses or informants as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, which approval shall be conclusive: Provided further, That no part of the sum herein appropriated shall be used to pay any witness more than one attendance fee for any one calendar day. Salaries and expenses of bailiffs, and so forth: For bailiffs, not exceeding three bailiffs in each court, except in the southern district of New York and the northern district of Illinois; meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when ordered by the court, and meals and lodging for jurors in Alaska, as provided by section 193, title II, of the Act of June 6, 1900 (U. S. C., title 28, secs. 9, 557–570, 595, 596), and compensation for jury commissioners, $5 per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, $247,000: Provided, That, excepting in the case of bailiffs in charge of juries over Sundays and holidays, no per diem shall be paid to any bailiff unless the court is actually in session and the judge present and presiding or present in chambers: Provided further, That none of this appropriation shall be used for the pay of bailiffs when deputy marshals or marshals are available for the duties ordinarily executed by bailiffs, the fact of unavailability to be determined by the certificate of the marshal. Miscellaneous expenses: For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, for the United States courts and their officers, including experts, and notarial fees or like services and stenographic work in taking depositions, at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, so much as may be necessary in the discretion of the Attorney General for such expenses in the District of Alaska and in courts other than Federal courts, and traveling expenses pursuant to the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, as amended (U. S. C., title 5, ch. 16); rent of rooms for United States courts and judicial officers; supplies, including the exchange of typewriting and adding machines, for the United States courts and judicial officers, including firearms and ammunition therefor; purchase of law books, including the exchange thereof, for United States judges, district attorneys, and other judicial officers, including the libraries of the ten United States circuit courts of appeals, and the Federal Reporter and continuations thereto as issued, $1,040,000: Provided, That such books shall in all cases be transmitted to their successor’s in office; all books purchased hereunder to be marked plainly, “The Property of the United States”: Provided further, That not to exceed $2 per volume shall be paid for the current and future volumes of the United States Code, Annotated: Provided further, That the maximum salary paid to any stenographer or law clerk to any circuit or district judge shall not exceed $2,500 per annum: Provided further, That this limitation shall not operate to reduce the compensation of any stenographer now employed nor shall the salary of any stenographer drawing more than $2,500 per annum hereafter be increased. No part of the funds appropriated by title II of this Act for salaries of judges, the Attorney General, Assistant Attorneys-General, Solicitor General, district attorneys, marshals, and clerics of court shall be used for any other purpose whatsoever, but such salaries shall be allotted out of appropriations herein made for such salaries and retained by the Department and paid to such officials severally, as and when such salaries fall due and without delay. penal and correctional institutions For all services, including personal services compensated upon fee basis, supplies, materials, and equipment in connection with or incident to the subsistence and care of inmates and maintenance and upkeep of Federal penal and correctional institutions, including farm and other operations not otherwise specifically provided for in the discretion of the Attorney General; gratuities for inmates at release, provided such gratuities shall be furnished to inmates sentenced for terms of imprisonment of not less than six months, and transportation to the place of conviction or bona-fide residence at the time of conviction or to such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; expenses of interment or transporting remains of deceased inmates to their homes in the United States; maintenance and repair of passenger-carrying vehicles; traveling expenses of institution officials and employees when traveling on official duty, including expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the several institutions when authorized by the Attorney General, and including expenses incurred in pursuing and identifying escaped inmates; traveling expenses of members of advisory boards authorized by law incurred in the discharge of their official duties; packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of household effects, not exceeding in any one case, five thousand pounds, of employees when transferred from one official station to another for permanent duty and uniforms for the guard force, when specifically authorized by the Attorney General; rewards for the capture of escaped inmates; newspapers, books, and periodicals; firearms and ammunition; tobacco for inmates; and the purchase and exchange of farm products and livestock, when authorized by the Attorney General: Provided, That any part of the appropriations under this heading used for payment of salaries of personnel employed in the operation of prison commissaries shall be reimbursed from commissary earnings, and such reimbursement shall be in addition to the amounts appropriated herein. Medical and hospital service: For medical relief for, and incident to the care and maintenance of, inmates of penal and correctional institutions, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, medical, surgical, and hospital supplies, materials, equipment, and appliances, together with appliances necessary for patients, $500,000, which amount, in the discretion of the Attorney General, may be transferred to the Public Health Service for direct expenditure under the laws, appropriations, and regulations governing the Public Health Service: Provided, That of this appropriation not to exceed $144,665 may be expended for the hospital for defective delinquents. Buildings and equipment: For the acquisition of sites, construction, remodeling, and equipping necessary buildings, purchase and installation of machinery and equipment and all necessary expenses incident thereto, for establishment of three new Federal jails (not to exceed $1,700,000) and altering and adapting other Government property for prison purposes, as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to reorganize the administration of Federal prisons; to authorize the Attorney General to contract for the care of United States prisoners; to establish Federal jails, and for other purposes”, approved May 14, 1930; extensions to existing facilities and not to exceed $300,000 for construction of dwellings for prison officers at existing institutions, as authorized by the several enabling Acts authorizing the construction of the respective institutions, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General by contract or purchase of material and hire of labor and services and utilization of labor of United States prisoners as the Attorney General may direct, $2,550,000, to be immediately available and remain available until expended. United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: For the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, including not to exceed $672,700 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, and including not to exceed $750 for the purchase of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $1,566,530. United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: For the United States Penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, including not to exceed $381,140 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, and including not to exceed $750 for the purchase of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $894,140. United States Penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington: For the United States Penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington, including not to exceed $246,880 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, and including not to exceed $750 for the purchase of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $504,180. Construction and repair: For construction and repair of buildings including (1) extension of existing facilities, $132,600, and (2) development of island area, $167,400, including the purchase and installation of machinery and equipment and all expenses incident thereto, $300,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended and to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to inmates of the institution: Provided, That the ultimate cost of the project for development of the island area shall not exceed $800,000. United States Northeastern Penitentiary: For the United States penitentiary in the Northeast, including not to exceed $370,810 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $686,350. United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California: For the United States Penitentiary at Alcatraz Island, California, including not to exceed $158,240 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $300,000. Federal Industrial Institution for Women, Alderson, West Virginia: For the Federal Industrial Institution for Women at Alderson, West Virginia, including not to exceed $136,000 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $272,175. United States Industrial Reformatory, Chillicothe, Ohio: For the United States Industrial Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio, including not to exceed $321,760 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees and including not to exceed $750 for the purchase of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $718,460. United States Southwestern Reformatory: For the United States Southwestern Reformatory, including not to exceed $248,430 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, and including not to exceed $750 for the purchase of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $486,830. United States Hospital for Defective Delinquents: For the United States Hospital for Defective Delinquents, including not to exceed $150,560 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $358,010. Federal jails: For maintenance and operation of Federal jails, including not to exceed $349,450 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees and including not to exceed $750 each for the purchase of two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $715,000. Prison camps: For the construction and repair of buildings at prison camps, the purchase and installation of machinery and equipment, and all necessary expenses incident thereto, and for the maintenance of United States prisoners at prison camps, including the maintenance, alteration, repair, and operation of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying bus, to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to prisoners, $364,950: Provided, That reimbursements from this appropriation made to the War or other departments for supplies or subsistence shall be at the net contract or invoice price notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act. Federal Reformatory Camp, Petersburg, Virginia: For the Federal Reformatory Camp at Petersburg, Virginia, including not to exceed $128,540 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, and including not to exceed $750 for the purchase of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $270,290. Not to exceed 10 per centum of any of the foregoing appropriations under the general heading “Penal and Correctional Institutions” (except those for “Medical and hospital services”, “Buildings and equipment”, and “Construction and repair, United States penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington”) may be transferred, with the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, to any appropriation or appropriations from which transfers are authorized to be made by this paragraph, but no appropriation shall be increased by more than 10 per centum thereby and no transfer shall be effected for the payment of personnel in any such institution. National Training School for Boys, Washington, District of Columbia: For the National Training School for Boys, Washington, District of Columbia, including not to exceed $750 for the purchase of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, and expenses of a suitable attendant to accompany the remains of deceased inmates to their homes for burial; and including not to exceed $111,000 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $225,000. Probation system, United States courts: For salaries and expenses of probation officers, as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act of March 4, 1925, chapter 521, and for other purposes”, approved June 6, 1930 (U. S. C., title 18, sec. 726), $727,540: Provided, That not to exceed $145,000 of this appropriation may be expended for traveling expenses: Provided further, That no part of the appropriation herein made shall be used to pay any probation officer a salary in excess of $2,800 per annum: Provided further, That no part of any appropriation in this Act shall be used to defray the salary or expenses of any probation officer who does not comply with the official orders, regulations, and probation standards promulgated by the Attorney General. Support of prisoners: For support of United States prisoners, in non-Federal institutions and in the Territory of Alaska, including necessary clothing and medical aid, discharge gratuities provided by law and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, or such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; and including rent, repair, alteration, and maintenance of buildings and the maintenance of prisoners therein, occupied under authority of sections 4 and 5 of the Act of May 14, 1930 (U. S. C., title 18, secs. 753c, 753d); support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, and who continue insane after expiration of sentence, who have no relatives or friends to whom they can be sent; shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their relatives or friends in the United States, and interment of deceased prisoners whose remains are unclaimed; expenses incurred in identifying, pursuing, and returning escaped prisoners and for rewards for their recapture; and for repairs, betterments, and improvements of United States jails, including sidewalks, $2,100,000. Section 323 of part II of the Legislative Appropriation Act, approved June 30, 1932, except so much thereof as suspends the per diem for expenses of subsistence for witnesses, is hereby continued in full force and effect during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937; and for the purpose of making such section applicable to such fiscal year the figures “1933” shall be read as “1937”. None of the money appropriated by this title shall be used to pay any witness, juror, or bailiff more than one per diem for any one day’s service even though he serves in more than one of such three capacities on the same day. This title may be cited as the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1937.

TITLE III.— DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

office of the secretary Salaries: Secretary of Commerce, two Assistant Secretaries, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including the Chief Clerk and Superintendent, who shall be chief executive officer of the Department and who may be designated by the Secretary of Commerce to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries of the Department, $352,000. Contingent expenses: For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureaus of the Department, except the Patent Office, including those for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are specifically made, including professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, blank books, pamphlets, maps, newspapers (not exceeding $1,500); purchase of atlases or maps; stationery; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, fuel, lighting, and heating; purchase and exchange of carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges; fuel, lighting, and heating; purchase and exchange of motor trucks and bicycles; maintenance, repair, and operation of three motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (one for the Secretary of Commerce and two for the general use of the Department), and motor trucks and bicycles, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; postage to foreign countries; telegraph and telephone service; typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange; first-aid outfits for use in the buildings occupied by employees of this Department; street-car fares, not exceeding $500; and au other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $129,500, which sum shall constitute the appropriation for contingent expenses of the Department, except the Patent Office, and shall also be available for the purchase of necessary supplies and equipment for field services of bureaus and offices of the Department for which contingent and miscellaneous appropriations are specifically made in order to facilitate the purchase through the central purchasing office (Division of Purchases and Sales), as provided by law. Printing and binding: For all printing and binding for the Department of Commerce, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, except the Patent Office, $450,000: Provided, That an amount not to exceed $2,000 of this appropriation may be expended for salaries of persons detailed from the Government Printing Office for service as copy editors. Not to exceed $10,000 of the appropriations for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, for the purchase of equipment or supplies shall be available for the purchase of letters patent, applications for letters patent, and licenses under letters patent that pertain to equipment, supplies, or business which the said Department of Commerce is authorized to purchase, use, or transact when the Secretary of Commerce shall personally certify that such purchase is necessary in the public interest.

bureau of air commerce Departmental salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia, $390,000. Establishment of air-navigation facilities: For the establishment of aids to air navigation, including the equipment of additional air-mail routes for day and night flying; the construction of necessary lighting, radio, and other signaling and communicating structures and apparatus; not to exceed $50,000 for investigation, research, and experimentation to develop and improve aids to air navigation; aircraft, aircraft power plants, and accessories; for personal services in the field; purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work, including their exchange; special clothing, wearing apparel, and suitable equipment for aviation purposes; and for the acquisition of the necessary sites by lease or grant, $882,920, of which not to exceed $150,000 shall be available immediately: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for any purpose not authorized by the Air Commerce Act of 1926, as amended. Maintenance of air-navigation facilities: For repairs, alterations, and all expenses of maintenance and operation of air-navigation facilities, motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work, and airplanes (including accessories and spare parts), including personal services in the field, $4,764,080. Aircraft in commerce: To carry out the provisions of the Act approved May 20, 1926, entitled “An Act to encourage and regulate the use of aircraft in commerce, and for other purposes”, as amended by the Act approved February 28, 1929, and the Acts approved June 19 and 20, 1934 (U. S. C., title 49, secs. 171–184), including personal services in the field; rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses; contract stenographic reporting services; fees and mileage of witnesses; purchase of furniture and equipment; stationery and supplies, including medical supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories, and repairs; replacement, including exchange (not to exceed $2,000), maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work; replacement, including exchange, of airplanes (not to exceed $16,500); purchase of airplane motors, airplane and motor accessories, and spare parts; maintenance, operation, and repair of airplanes and airplane motors; purchase of special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment for aviation purposes; purchase of books of reference and periodicals; newspapers, reports, documents, plans, specifications, maps, manuscripts, and all other publications; and all other necessary expenses not included in the foregoing; in all, $733,000. of which not to exceed $175,000 shall be available immediately. Appropriations herein made for aircraft in commerce shall be available in an amount not to exceed $2,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the promotion of civil aeronautics, and also expenses of illustrating the work of the Bureau of Air Commerce by showing of maps, charts, and graphs at such meetings, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce.

bureau of foreign and domestic commerce Salaries: For the director and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $328,800. For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March 3, 1927 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 15, secs. 197–197f, 198), to establish in the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Department of Commerce a Foreign Commerce Service of the United States, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, the compensation of a clerk or clerks for each commercial attaché at the rate of not to exceed $3,000 per annum for each person so employed, rent outside the District of Columbia, telephone service, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, duplicating, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, law books, books of reference and periodicals, uniforms, maps, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, newspapers (foreign and domestic, not exceeding $2,000), and all other publications, traveling expenses of officers and employees, ice and drinking water for office purposes, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, and under the following heads: Promoting commerce in Europe and other areas: Investigations in Europe and other areas for the promotion and development of the foreign commerce of the United States, $410,000; Promoting commerce in Latin America: Investigations in Latin America for the promotion and development of the foreign commerce of the United States, $192,400; Promoting commerce in the Far East: Investigations in the Far East for the promotion and development of the foreign commerce of the United States, $123,000; Promoting commerce in Africa: Investigations in Africa for the promotion and development of the foreign commerce of the United States, $33,700; District and cooperative office service: For all expenses necessary to operate and maintain district and cooperative offices, including personal services, rent outside of the District of Columbia, traveling expenses of officers and employees, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, purchase of maps, books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, not exceeding $300 for newspapers, both foreign and domestic, and all other publications necessary for the promotion of the commercial interests of the United States, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, $329,000; Enforcement of China Trade Act: To carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “China Trade Act, 1922” (U. S. C., title 15, secs. 141–162), including personal services, traveling expenses of officers and employees, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, maps, manuscripts, and all other publications, rent outside the District of Columbia, ice and drinking water for office purposes; and all necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $9,000, of which amount not to exceed $3,200 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided, That payment in advance for telephone and other similar services under this appropriation is hereby authorized; Export industries: To enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to investigate and report on domestic as well as foreign problems relating to the production, distribution, and marketing, insofar as they relate to the important export industries of the United States, including personal services, traveling expenses of officers and employees, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, and all other publications, rent outside of the District of Columbia, ice and drinking water for office purposes, and all other incidental expenses connected therewith, $527,000, of which amount not to exceed $520,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Domestic commerce and raw materials investigations: For personal services and traveling expenses of officers and employees, to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to collect and compile information regarding the disposition and handling of raw materials and manufactures within the United States; and to investigate the conditions of production and marketing of foreign raw materials essential for American industries, $224,800, of which amount not to exceed $218,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Customs statistics: For all expenses necessary for the operation of the section of customs statistics transferred to the Department of Commerce from the Treasury Department by the Act approved January 5, 1923 (U. S. C., title 15, sec. 194), including personal services; rent of or purchase of tabulating, punching, sorting, and other mechanical labor-saving machinery or devices, including adding, typewriting, billing, computing, mimeographing, multigraphing, photostat, and other duplicating machines and devices, including their exchange and repair; telegraph and telephone service; traveling expenses of officers and employees while traveling on official business; freight, express, drayage; tabulating cards, stationery, and miscellaneous office supplies; books of reference and periodicals; furniture and equipment; ice, water, heat, light, and power; street-car fare; and all other necessary and incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, $330,000, of which amount not to exceed $77,230 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Lists of foreign buyers: For all necessary expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, lists of foreign buyers, books of reference, periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, rent outside of the District of Columbia, traveling expenses of officers and employees, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to collect and compile lists of foreign buyers, $47,900: Provided, That the Secretary or Commerce may make such charges as he deems reasonable for lists of foreign buyers, special statistical services, special commodity news bulletins, and World Trade Directory Reports, and the amounts collected therefrom shall be deposited in the Treasury as “Miscellaneous receipts”; Investigation of foreign trade restrictions: For all necessary expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, and all other publications, rent outside of the District of Columbia, traveling expenses of officers and employees, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to collect and compile information regarding the restrictions and regulations of trade imposed by foreign countries, $96,200; Transportation of families and effects of officers and employees: To pay the traveling expenses and expenses of transportation, under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce may prescribe, of families and effects of officers and employees of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce in going to and returning from their posts, or when traveling under the order of the Secretary of Commerce, and also for defraying the expenses of preparing and transporting the remains of officers and employees of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce who may die abroad or in transit, while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country, or to a place not more distant, for interment, and for the ordinary expenses of such interment, $38,600; Allowances for living quarters: To enable the Secretary of Commerce, under such regulations as he may prescribe, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act to establish in the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Department of Commerce, a Foreign Commerce Service of the United States, and for other purposes’, approved March 3, 1927”, approved April 12, 1930 (U. S. C., title 15, sec. 197f), to furnish the officers in the Foreign Commerce Service of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce stationed in a foreign country, without cost to them and within the limits of this appropriation, allowances for living quarters, heat and light, notwithstanding the provisions of section 1765 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 70), $107,000: Provided, That the maximum allowance to any officer shall not exceed $1,700; Operation, and so forth, of foreign-trade zones: To enable the Secretary of Commerce to comply with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the establishment, operation, and maintenance of foreign-trade zones in ports of entry of the United States, to expedite and encourage foreign commerce, and for other purposes”, approved June 18, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 998), including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling expenses, contract stenographic reporting services, supplies and equipment, books of reference and periodicals, newspapers and other publications, fees and mileage of witnesses, and all other necessary expenses, $30,000. Appropriations herein made for the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce shall be available in an amount not to exceed $2,500 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the promotion of foreign and domestic commerce, or either, and also expenses of illustrating the work of the Bureau by showing of maps, charts, and graphs at such meetings, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce. The purchase of supplies and equipment or the procurement of services for the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, in foreign countries, may be made in open market without compliance with section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), in the manner common among business men, when the aggregate amount of the purchase or the service does not exceed $100 in any instance.

bureau of the census For expenses for securing information for and compiling the census reports provided for by law, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; compensation and expenses of enumerators, special agents, supervisors, supervisor’s clerks, and interpreters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses; the cost of transcribing State, municipal, and other records; temporary rental of quarters outside the District of Columbia; not to exceed $2,500 for the employment by contract of personal services for the preparation of monographs on census subjects; not to exceed $54,000 for constructing tabulating machines and repairs to such machinery and other mechanical appliances, including technical, mechanical, and other personal services in connection therewith in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and the purchase of necessary machinery and supplies; and not to exceed $1,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the collection of statistics when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce; $1,900,500, of which amount not to exceed $1,450,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, including not to exceed $51,000 for temporary employees who may be appointed by the Director of the Census under civil-service rules, at per-diem rates to be fixed by him without regard to the provisions of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, for the purpose of assisting in periodical inquiries, and not to exceed $35,000, to be immediately available, shall be expended for printing accumulated census data. Census of Agriculture: For an additional amount for salaries and necessary expenses of the Census Bureau for compiling and publishing the Census of Agriculture of the United States for 1935, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1936, $200,000, to be available immediately, and to remain available until December 31, 1936.

bureau of navigation and steamboat inspection Departmental salaries: For the director and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $179,000. Salaries and general expenses: For salaries of shipping commissioners, steamboat inspectors, and other personal services; to enable the Secretary of Commerce to provide and operate such motor boats and employ such persons (including temporary employees) as may be necessary for the enforcement, under his direction, of laws relating to navigation and inspection of vessels, boarding of vessels, counting of passengers on excursion boats to prevent overcrowding, and to secure uniformity in the admeasurement of vessels; fees to witnesses; traveling expenses of the personnel of the bureau and field offices; materials, supplies, equipment, and services, including rent and janitor service; purchase, exchange, and repair of instruments; plans and specifications; insignia, braid, and chin straps; coats, caps, and aprons for stewards’ departments on vessels; and other incidental expenses of field offices, including contract stenographic reporting services, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; $1,748,500.

national bureau of standards Salaries and expenses: For carrying out the provisions of the Act establishing the National Bureau of Standards, approved March 3, 1901 (U. S. C., title 5, secs. 591, 597; title 15, secs. 271–278), and of Acts supplementary thereto affecting the functions of the Bureau, and specifically including the functions as set forth under the Bureau of Standards in the “Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1935”, approved April 7, 1934, and for all necessary expenses, purchases, and personnel connected with administration and operation, testing, inspection and technical information service, research and development, and standards for commerce, including rental of laboratories in the field, communication service, transportation service; travel, street-car fares not exceeding $100, expenses of the visiting committee, attendance of American member at the meeting of the International Committee of Weights and Measures, attendance at meetings concerned with standardization and research, or either, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce, not to exceed $4,500; compensation and expenses of medical officers of the Public Health Service detailed to the National Bureau of Standards for the purpose of maintaining a first-aid station and making clinical observations; compiling and disseminating scientific and technical data; demonstrating the results of the Bureau’s work by exhibits or otherwise as may be deemed most effective; purchases of supplies, materials, stationery, electric power, fuel for heat, light, and power, and accessories of all kinds needed in the work of the Bureau, including supplies for office, laboratory, shop, and plant, and cleaning and toilet supplies, gloves, goggles, rubber boots, and aprons; contingencies of all kinds; supplies for operation, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks and a passenger automobile for official use, including their exchange; purchases of equipment of all kinds, including its repair and exchange, including apparatus, machines, and tools, furniture, typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, books, periodicals, and reference books, including their exchange when not needed for permanent use; translation of technical articles when required; salary of the director and other personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended. Operation and administration: For the general operation and administration of the Bureau; improvement and care of the grounds; plant equipment; necessary repairs and alterations to buildings, $273,000. Testing, inspection, and information service: For calibrating and certifying measuring instruments, apparatus, and standards in terms of the national standards; the preparation and distribution of standard materials; the broadcasting of radio signals of standard frequency; the testing of equipment, materials, and supplies in connection with Government purchases; the improvement of methods of testing; advisory services to governmental agencies on scientific and technical matters; and supplying available information to the public, upon request, in the field of physics, chemistry, and engineering, $800,000. Research and development: For the maintenance and development of national standards of measurement; the development of improved methods of measurement; the determination or physical constants and the properties of materials; the investigation of mechanisms and structures, including their economy, efficiency, and safety; the study of fluid resistance and the flow of fluids and heat; the investigation of radiation, radioactive substances, and X-rays; the study of conditions affecting radio transmission; the development of methods of chemical analysis and synthesis, and the investigation of the properties of rare substances; investigations relating to the utilization of materials, including lubricants and liquid fuels; the study of new processes and methods of fabrication; and the solutions of problems arising in connection with standards, $671,500. Standards for commerce: For cooperation with Government purchasing agencies, industries, and national organizations in developing specifications and facilitating their use; for encouraging the application of the latest developments in the utilization and standardization of building materials; for the development of engineering and safety codes, simplified-practice recommendations, and commercial standards of quality and performance, $110,000. During the fiscal year 1937 the head of any department or independent establishment of the Government having funds available for scientific investigations and requiring cooperative work by the National Bureau of Standards on scientific investigations within the scope of the functions of that Bureau, and which the National Bureau of Standards is unable to perform within the limits of its appropriations, may, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce, transfer to the National Bureau of Standards such sums as may be necessary to carry on such investigations. The Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer on the books of the Treasury Department any sums which may be authorized hereunder, and such amounts shall be placed to the credit of the National Bureau of Standards for performance of work for the department or establishment from which the transfer is made, including, where necessary, compensation for personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field. Total, National Bureau of Standards, $1,854,500, of which amount not to exceed $1,630,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.

bureau of lighthouses Salaries: For the Commissioner and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $125,600. General expenses: For supplies, including replacement of and necessary additions to existing equipment, repairs, maintenance, and incidental expenses of lighthouses and other lights, beacons, buoyage, fog signals, lighting of rivers heretofore authorized to be lighted, light vessels, other aids to navigation, and lighthouse tenders, including the establishment, repair, and improvement of beacons and day marks, and purchase of land for same; establishment of post lights, buoys, submarine signals, and fog signals; not to exceed $10,000 for the purchase and placement of buoys to mark submarine obstructions off the mouth of the Cape Fear River; establishment of oil or carbide houses, not to exceed $10,000: Provided, That any oil or carbide house erected hereunder shall not exceed $1,000 in cost; construction of necessary outbuildings at a cost not exceeding $1,000 at anyone light station in any fiscal year; improvement of grounds and buildings connected with light stations and depots; restoring light stations and depots and buildings connected therewith: Provided further, That such restoration shall be limited to the original purpose of the structures; wages of persons attending post lights; temporary employees and field force while engaged on works of general repair and maintenance, and laborers and mechanics at lighthouse depots; rations and provisions or commutation thereof for working parties in the field, officers and crews of light vessels and tenders, and officials and other authorized persons of the Lighthouse Service on duty on board of such tenders or vessels, and money accruing from commutation for rations and provisions for the above-named persons on board of tenders and light vessels or in working parties in the field may be paid on proper vouchers to the person having charge of the mess of such vessel or party; not exceeding $2,500 for packing, crating, and transporting personal household effects of employees when transferred from one official station to another for permanent duty; purchase of rubber boots, oilskins, rubber gloves, goggles, and coats, caps, and aprons for stewards’ departments on vessels; reimbursement under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce of keepers of light stations and masters of light vessels and of lighthouse tenders for rations and provisions and clothing furnished shipwrecked persons who may be temporarily provided for by them, not exceeding in all $2,000 in any fiscal year; fuel, light, and rent of quarters where necessary for keepers of lighthouses; purchase of land sites for fog signals: rent of necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or to mark changeable channels and which in consequence cannot be made permanent; rent of offices, depots, and wharves; traveling expenses, including travel for the examinations authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to provide for retirement for disability in the Lighthouse Service”, approved March 4, 1925 (U. S. C., title 33, sec. 765); mileage; library books for light stations and vessels, and technical books and periodicals not exceeding $500; traveling expenses of teachers while actually employed by States or private persons to instruct the children of keepers of lighthouses; all other contingent expenses of district offices and depots, including the purchase of provisions for sale to lighthouse keepers at isolated stations, and the appropriation reimbursed; purchase (not to exceed $3,600), exchange, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work; payment of rewards for the apprehension and conviction, or for information helpful to the apprehension and conviction of persons found interfering with aids to navigation maintained by the Lighthouse Service, in violation of section 6 of the Act of May 14, 1908 (U. S. C., title 33, sec. 761); $4,424,000, of which $390,000 shall be immediately available for repairs, and so forth, due to storm and ice damage. Keepers of lighthouses: For salaries of not exceeding one thousand four hundred lighthouse and fog-signal keepers and persons attending lights, exclusive of post lights, $1,846,000. Lighthouse vessels: For salaries and wages of officers and crews of light vessels and lighthouse tenders, including temporary employment when necessary, $2,150,000. Superintendents, clerks, and so forth: For salaries of eighteen superintendents of lighthouses, and of assistant superintendents, clerks, draftsmen, and other authorized permanent employees in the district offices and depots of the Lighthouse Service, exclusive of those regularly employed in the office of the Bureau of Lighthouses, District of Columbia, $700,000. Retired pay: For retired pay of officers and employees engaged in the field service or on vessels of the Lighthouse Service, except persons continuously employed in district offices and shops, $620,000.

coast and geodetic survey For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn vehicles for official use in field work, purchase of motorcycles with side cars, including their exchange, not to exceed $500, surveying instruments, including their exchange, rubber boots, canvas and rubber gloves, goggles, and caps, coats, and aprons for stewards’ departments on vessels, extra compensation at not to exceed $1 per day for each station to employees of the Lighthouse Service and the Weather Bureau while observing tides or currents, services of one tide observer in the District of Columbia at not to exceed $1 per day, and compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, for travel and other expenses incident to the execution of field work upon approval by the head of the Bureau, and for expenses in an amount not to exceed $150 of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey subscribed by the Secretary of Commerce, and under the following heads: Field expenses, Atlantic and Gulf coast: For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States, and including the employment in the field and office of one physicist to develop survey methods based on transmission of sound through sea water, $119,000: Provided, That not more than $35,000 of this amount shall be expended on the coasts of said outlying islands and the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal; Pacific coast: For surveys and necessary resurveys of coasts on the Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of the United States, and including the employment in the field and office of one physicist to develop survey methods based on transmission of sound through sea water, $158,000; Tides, currents, and so forth: For continuing researches in physical hydrography, relating to harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, $13,500; Coast Pilot: For compilation of the Coast Pilot, including the employment of such pilots and nautical experts, and stenographic help in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, $5,200; Magnetic and seismological work: For continuing magnetic and seismological observations and to establish meridian lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States; making magnetic and seismological observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States; purchase of additional magnetic and seismological instruments; lease of sites where necessary and the erection of temporary magnetic and seismological buildings; and including the employment in the field and office of such magnetic and seismological observers and stenographic services as may be necessary, $60,000; Federal, boundary, and State surveys: For continuing lines of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; determining geographic positions by triangulation and traverse for the control of Federal, State, boundary, county, city, and other surveys and engineering works in all parts of the United States; including special geodetic surveys of first-order triangulation and leveling in regions subject to earthquakes, not exceeding $10,000; determining field astronomic positions and the variation of latitude, including the maintenance and operation of the latitude observatories at Ukiah, California, and Gaithersburg, Maryland, not exceeding $2,500 each; establishing lines of exact levels, determining geographic positions by triangulation and traverse, and making astronomic observations in Alaska; and continuing gravity observations in the United States and for making such observations in regions under the jurisdiction of the United States and also on islands and coasts adjacent thereto, $90,000, of which amount not to exceed $31,300, may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Miscellaneous objects: For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, including the preparation or purchase of plans and specifications of vessels and the employment of such hull draftsmen in the field and office as may be necessary for the same; the reimbursement, under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce, of officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey for food, clothing, medicines, and other supplies furnished for the temporary relief of distressed persons in remote localities and to shipwrecked persons temporarily provided for by them, not to exceed a total of $500; actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office in the District of Columbia for consultation with the director, and not exceeding $1,500 for the expenses of the attendance of representatives of the Coast and Geodetic Survey who may be designated as delegates from the United States at the meetings of the international Hydrographic Bureau and the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, and not exceeding $3,000 for special surveys that may be required by the Bureau of Lighthouses or other proper authority, $5,600; Repair of vessels: For repair of vessels, including traveling expenses of persons inspecting the repairs, and exclusive of engineer’s supplies and other ship chandlery, $70,000; Pay of officers and men on vessels: For all necessary employees to man and equip the vessels, including professional seamen serving as mates on vessels of the Survey, to execute the work of the Survey herein provided for and authorized by law $547,000; Pay, commissioned officers: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned officers on sea duty and other duty, holding relative rank with officers of the Navy, including one director with relative rank of captain, six hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of captain, ten hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of commander, seventeen hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of lieutenant commander, forty-seven hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of lieutenant, sixty-one junior hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of lieutenant (junior grade), twenty-nine aides with relative rank of ensign, and including officers retired in accordance with existing law, $802,000: Provided, That the Secretary of Commerce may designate one of the hydrographic and geodetic engineers to act as assistant director; Office force: For personal services, $575,000; Office expenses: For purchase of new instruments (except surveying instruments), including their exchange, materials, equipment, and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and chart division; books, scientific and technical books, journals, books of reference, maps, charts, and subscriptions; copper plates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electro-typing and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, rubber gloves, and electrotyping supplies; photolithographing and printing charts for immediate use; stationery for office and field parties; transportation of instruments and supplies when not charged to party expenses; telegrams; washing; office furniture, repairs; traveling expenses of officers and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office; miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, not exceeding $90 for street-car fares, $60,000. Appropriations herein made for the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall not be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the director), except as now provided by law. Appropriations herein made for the field expenses of the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall be available for expenditures in the application of the airplane to the field work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and not to exceed a total of $10,000 of said appropriations shall be available for the purchase or construction of cameras and other photographic apparatus, for equipment, except airplanes, and for employment of personnel in the field and office in connection with such work.

bureau of fisheries Commissioner’s office: For the Commissioner and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $156,420. Propagation of food fishes: For maintenance, repair, alteration, improvement, equipment, and operation of fish-cultural stations, general propagation of food fishes and their distribution, including movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment (including rubber boots and oilskins) and apparatus, contingent expenses, pay of permanent employees not to exceed $387,030, temporary labor, and not to exceed $10,000 for propagation and distribution of fresh-water mussels and the necessary expenses connected therewith, and not to exceed $10,000 for the purchase, collection, and transportation of specimens and other expenses incidental to the maintenance and operation of aquarium, of which not to exceed $5,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, $667,000. Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance and operation of vessels and launches, including purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hire of vessels, temporary employees, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, including not to exceed $750 for the purchase of plans and specifications for vessels or for contract personal services for the preparation thereof, and money accruing from commutation of rations and provisions on board vessels may be paid on proper vouchers to the persons having charge of the mess of such vessels, $160,000, of which not to exceed $13,460 may be expended for pay of officers and employees of vessels of the Atlantic coast, and not to exceed $75,000 for pay of officers and crews of vessels for the Alaska Fisheries Service. Commutation of rations (not to exceed $1 per day) may be paid to officers and crews of vessels of the Bureau of Fisheries during the fiscal year 1937 under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce. Inquiry respecting food fishes: For inquiry into the cause of the decrease of food fishes in the waters of the United States, and for investigation and experiments in respect to the aquatic animals, plants, and waters, and screening of irrigation ditches in fishways, in the interests of fish culture and the fishery industries, including pay of permanent employees not to exceed $133,200, temporary employees, maintenance, repair, improvement, equipment, and operation of biological stations, expenses of travel and preparation of reports, $172,000. Fishery industries: For collection and compilation of statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, and the methods of preservation and utilization of fishery products, including pay of permanent employees not to exceed $36,200, compensation of temporary employees, travel and preparation of reports, including temporary employees in the District of Columbia not to exceed $1,800, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, including the purchase (not to exceed $500), exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles fox official use in the field work of the Bureau of Fisheries, $62,000, of which $2,000 shall be immediately available for the construction of a fishery byproducts laboratory at Seattle, Washington, including the acquisition of a site. Alaska, general service: For protecting the seal fisheries of Alaska, including the furnishing of food, fuel, clothing, and other necessities of life to the natives of the Pribilof Islands of Alaska; not exceeding $20,000 for construction, improvement, repair, and alteration of buildings and roads, transportation of supplies to and from the islands, expenses of travel of agents and other employees and subsistence while on said islands, hire and maintenance of vessels, purchase of sea otters, and for all expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to protect the seal fisheries of Alaska, and for other purposes”, approved April 21, 1910 (U. S. C., title 16, secs. 631–658), and for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska, including pay of permanent employees not to exceed $69,900, contract stenographic reporting service, travel of employees while on duty in Alaska, hire of boats, employment of temporary labor, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $278,000, of which $100,000 shall be available immediately. Enforcement of black bass law: To enable the Secretary of Commerce to carry into effect the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate interstate transportation of black bass, and for other purposes’, approved May 20, 1926” (U. S. C., title 16, sec. 851–856), approved July 2, 1930 (46 Stat. 845–847), $15,000, of which not to exceed $1,800 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Mississippi Wild Life and Fish Refuge: For construction of buildings, boats, and ponds, for purchase of equipment, including boats, for maintenance, operation, repair, and improvements, including expenditures for personal services at the seat of government and elsewhere as may be necessary, as authorized in the Act approved June 7, 1924 (U. S. C., title 16, secs. 721–731), $18,000. Fisheries Cooperative Marketing Act: To enable the Secretary of Commerce to execute the functions imposed upon him by the Act entitled “An Act authorizing associations of producers of aquatic products”, approved June 25, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 1213), including traveling expenses and contract stenographic reporting services, $12,500, of which not to exceed $9,500 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Shellfish investigation: To provide for the investigation, control, and eradication of marine organisms injurious to shellfish in the Atlantic and Gulf States, including purchase of equipment and supplies, including boats and floating equipment and the maintenance and operation thereof; hire and charter of vessels and boats; pay of officers and crews and other personal services, including temporary employees (not exceeding $4,000 in the District of Columbia) as may be necessary; printing and binding; and all other necessary expenses connected therewith; $25,000. Not to exceed $750 of the appropriations herein made for the Bureau of Fisheries shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of said Bureau when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce, and not to exceed $500 shall be available for the rental of suitable quarters in the District of Columbia for laboratory and storage purposes.

patent office Salaries: For the Commissioner of Patents and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $3,400,000: Provided, That of the amount herein appropriated not to exceed $25,000 may be used for special and temporary services of typists certified by the Civil Service Commission, who may be employed in such numbers, at $4 per diem, as may, in the judgment of the Commissioner of Patents, be necessary to keep current the work of furnishing manuscript copies of records. Photolithographing: For producing copies of weekly issue of drawings of patents and designs; reproduction of copies of drawings and specifications of exhausted patents, designs, trade marks, and other papers, such other papers when reproduced for sale to be sold at not less than cost plus 10 per centum; reproduction of foreign patent drawings; photo prints of pending application drawings; and photostat and photographic supplies and dry mounts, $200,000. The headings of the drawings for patented cases may be multigraphed in the Patent Office for the purpose of photolithography. Miscellaneous expenses: For purchase and exchange of law, professional, and other reference books and publications and scientific books; expenses of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments; directories, furniture and filing cases; for investigating the question of public use or sale of inventions for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents, and such other questions arising in connection with applications for patents and the prior art as may be deemed necessary by the Commissioner of Patents; for expense attending defense of suits instituted against the Commissioner of Patents; for expenses (in an amount not to exceed $500) of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Patent Office when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce, and for other contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the Patent Office, $45,000. Printing and binding: For printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, trade marks, prints, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly and annual indices, $958,700; for miscellaneous printing and binding, $56,300; in all, $1,015,000.

united states shipping board bureau Salaries and expenses: To carry out the provisions of the Shipping Act, 1916, as amended, the Merchant Marine Acts of 1920 and 1928, as amended, the Intercoastal Shipping Act, 1933 (U. S. C., title 46, secs. 741–790, 801–848, 861–889, 891–891x, 911–984); and Executive Order Numbered 6166 (June 10, 1933), including the compensation of attorneys, officers, naval architects, special experts, examiners, and clerks, one technical expert in connection with construction loan fund, and other employees in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and for other expenses of the Bureau, including the rental of quarters outside the District, of Columbia, traveling expenses of employees of the Bureau, while upon official business away from their designated posts of duty, including not to exceed $300 for attendance at meetings or conventions of members of any society or association, the purpose of which is of interest to the development and maintenance of an American merchant marine, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce, and for the employment by contract of expert stenographic reporters for its official reporting worn, $249,000, of which amount not to exceed $243,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay any salary at a rate in excess of $8,000 per annum except that this limitation shall not apply to the salary of the Director of the Bureau: Provided further, That the annual estimates of the Shipping Board Bureau for the fiscal year 1938 shall be accompanied by a statement showing the number and compensation of employees of the Fleet Corporation assigned to that Bureau: Provided further, That employees of the Merchant Fleet Corporation assigned to and serving with the Shipping Board Bureau whose compensation is within the range of salary prescribed for the appropriate grade to which the position has been allocated under the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, shall not be subject to reduction in salary by reason of their transfer during the fiscal year 1937 to the pay roll of the Bureau. Shipping fund: For expenses of the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, for administrative purposes, including the salaries of employees (not to exceed $158,000) of the Fleet Corporation assigned to the Shipping Board Bureau, miscellaneous adjustments, losses due to the maintenance and operation of ships, including operation through an agreement to pay a lump-sum compensation, for the repair of ships, for the purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor vehicles for official purposes only; for the payment of premiums for liability, fire, theft, property damage, and collision insurance and for other forms of insurance, including schedule and fidelity bonds, commonly carried by commercial corporations engaged in the same or a similar business, and for carrying out the provisions of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, and amendments thereto, (a) the amount of operating funds on hand July 1, 1936; (b) all amounts received during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, other than the proceeds of sales of ships and surplus property; (c) so much of the total proceeds of sales of ships and surplus property received during the fiscal year 1937 as is necessary to meet (1) the expenses of liquidation? including the salaries of personnel engaged thereon and the cost incident to the delivery of vessels to purchasers not to exceed $450,000, (2) the cost of maintaining the laid-up fleet not to exceed $525,000, and (3) not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be available upon the written approval of the Secretary of Commerce for use for reconditioning and operating ships for carrying coal, cotton, grain, lumber, and other basic commodities to foreign ports; and (d) so much of the total proceeds of sales of ships and surplus property received during the fiscal year 1937 as is necessary for the protection of the interests of the United States in any vessel or property on which the United States holds a mortgage: Provided, That no part of these sums, (a), (b), (c), and (d) shall be used for the payment of claims arising out of the construction and requisitioning of vessels. That portion of the special claims appropriation contained in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923 committed prior to July 1, 1923, and remaining unexpended on June 30, 1936, shall continue available until June 30, 1937, for the same purposes and under the same conditions. To enable the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation to operate ships or lines of ships which have been or may be taken back from purchasers by reason of competition or other methods employed by foreign ship-owners or operators, there is hereby reappropriated the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $10,000,000 made for similar purposes in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1927: Provided, That no expenditure shall be made for the purposes of this paragraph from this sum without the prior approval of the President of the United States. No part of the sums appropriated in this Act shall be used to pay the compensation of any attorney, regular or special, for the United States Shipping Board Bureau or the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation unless the contract of employment has been approved by the Attorney General of the United States. No part of the funds, of the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation shall be available to pay any salary at a rate in excess of $8,000 per annum. No part of the funds of the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation shall be available for the rent of buildings in the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1937 if suitable space is provided for said corporation by the Office of National Parks, Buildings, and Reservations of the Department of the Interior. No part of the funds of the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation shall be available during the fiscal year 1937 for the purchase of any kind of fuel oil of foreign production for issue, delivery, or sale to ships at points either in the United States or its possessions, where oil of the production of the United States or its possessions is available, if the cost of such oil compared with foreign-oil costs be not unreasonable. Of the sums herein made available under the United States Shipping Board Bureau, not to exceed an aggregate of $150,000 shall be expended for compensation of regular attorneys employed on a yearly salary basis, including their clerical and legal assistants. This title may be cited as the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1937.

TITLE IV— DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

office of the secretary Salaries: Secretary of Labor, Assistant Secretary, Second Assistant Secretary, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $330,000: Provided, That persons (not exceeding ten in number) now employed in the determination of wages pursuant to the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act approved March 3, 1931, relating to the rate of wages for laborers and mechanics employed by contractors and subcontractors on public buildings”, approved August 30, 1935, may be continued in such employment and paid from the amount herein appropriated without regard to the provisions of the civil-service laws requiring competitive examinations: Provided further, That said personnel (except attorneys and referees) shall be required to take nonassembled examinations. Promotion of health, safety, employment, and so forth: For salaries and expenses in connection with the promotion of health, safety, employment stabilization, and amicable industrial relations for labor and industry, $140,000, of which amount not to exceed $83,580 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Contingent expenses: For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureaus of the Department, for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specifically made, including the purchase of stationery, furniture, and repairs to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloths, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, laundry, street-car fares not exceeding $400; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motorcycles and motor trucks; maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; newspaper clippings not to exceed $1,200, postage to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; purchase of law books, books of reference, newspapers and periodicals, not exceeding $4,500; contract stenographic services; all other necessary miscellaneous items and expenses not included in the foregoing; and not to exceed $25,000 for purchase of certain supplies for the Immigration and Naturalization Service; in all, $112,500: Provided, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for the Department of Labor when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $100. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Department of Labor, including all its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $250,000. Commissioners of conciliation: To enable the Secretary of Labor to exercise the authority vested in him by section 8 of the Act creating the Department of Labor (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 611¹So in original.) and toappoint commissioners of conciliation, traveling expenses, telegraph and telephone service, and not to exceed $80,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $408,000. Liaison with the International Labor Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, salaries and expenses: For a United States Labor Commissioner and other personal services in Geneva, Switzerland; compensation of interpreters, translators, and porters; traveling expenses of employees, including transportation of employees, their families, and effects, in going to and returning from foreign posts; rent, heat, light, and fuel; hire, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; purchase and exchange of foreign and domestic books, periodicals, and newspapers; purchase of furniture, stationery, and supplies; printing and binding; postage; telephone and other similar expenses, for which payment may be made in advance; necessary technical or special investigations in connection with matters falling within the scope of the International Labor Organization; allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 118a), not to exceed $1,700 for any person, and contingent and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the Secretary of Labor may deem necessary, fiscal year 1937, $28,000.

bureau of labor statistics Salaries and expenses: For personal services, including temporary statistical clerks, stenographers, and typewriters in the District of Columbia, and including also experts and temporary assistants for field service outside of the District of Columbia; traveling expenses, including expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Bureau of Labor Statistics when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor: purchase of periodicals, documents, envelopes, price quotations, and reports and materials for reports and bulletins of said Bureau, $850,000, of which amount not to exceed $628,500 may be expended for the salary of the Commissioner and other personal services in the District of Columbia.

immigration and naturalization service Salaries and expenses: For enforcement of the laws regulating the immigration to, the residence in, and the exclusion and deportation from the United States of aliens and persons subject to the Chinese exclusion laws; for enforcement of the laws authorizing a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens; salaries, transportation, traveling, and other expenses of officers, clerks, and other employees appointed to enforce said laws; care, detention, maintenance, transportation, and traveling expenses incident to the deportation and exclusion of aliens and persons subject to the Chinese exclusion laws, as authorized by law, in the United States and to, through, or in foreign countries; purchase of supplies and equipment, including alterations and repairs; purchase, exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled vehicles, including passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work; arms, ammunition and accessories; cost of reports of decisions of the Federal courts and digests thereof for official use; verifications of legal papers; refunding of head tax, maintenance bills, and immigration fines, upon presentation of evidence showing conclusively that collection and deposit was made through error; mileage and fees to witnesses subpenaed on behalf of the United States, and for all other expenses necessary to enforce said laws; $9,740,000, all to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Labor, of which amount not to exceed $545,000 may be expended for the salary of the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including services of persons authorized by law to be detailed there for duty: Provided, That not to exceed $45,000 of the sum herein appropriated shall be available for the purchase, including exchange, of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles: Provided further, That the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, with the approval of the Secretary of Labor, may contract with officers and employees stationed outside of the District of Columbia, whose salaries are payable from this appropriation, for the use, on official business outside of the District of Columbia, of privately owned horses, and the consideration agreed upon shall be payable from the funds herein appropriated: Provided further, That not to exceed $36,000 of the total amount herein appropriated shall be available for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 118a), not to exceed $1,700 for any person: Provided further, That $100,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be available only for the payment of extra compensation for overtime services of inspectors and employees of the Immigration and Naturalization Service for which the United States receives reimbursement in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March 2, 1931 (U. S. C., title 8, secs. 109a and 109b): Provided further, That not to exceed $400 of the sum herein appropriated may be expended for attendance at meetings concerned with the naturalization of aliens when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the compensation of assistants to clerks of United States courts: And provided further, That not to exceed $10,000 of the sum herein appropriated may be expended for payment of rewards, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of Labor, for information leading to the detection, arrest, or conviction of persons violating the immigration or naturalization laws. Immigration stations: For remodeling, repairing (including repairs to the ferryboat, Ellis Island), renovating buildings, and purchase of equipment, $110,000.

children’s bureau Salaries and expenses: For expenses of investigating and reporting upon matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life, and especially to investigate the questions of infant mortality; personal services, including experts and temporary assistants; traveling expenses, including not to exceed $3,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings for the promotion of child welfare when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor; purchase of reports and material for the publications of the Children’s Bureau and for reprints from State, city, and private publications for distribution when said reprints can be procured more cheaply than they can be printed by the Government, and other necessary expenses, $400,000, of which amount not to exceed $313,500 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.

maternal and child welfare Salaries and expenses: For all authorized and necessary administrative expenses of the Children’s Bureau in performing the duties imposed upon it by title V of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935, including personal services, rentals, repairs, and alterations to buildings, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; printing and binding; supplies; services; equipment; newspapers, books of reference, periodicals, and press clippings; travel expenses, including expenses of attendance at meetings and attendance of cooperating officials and consultants at conferences when called by the Children’s Bureau with the approval of the Secretary of Labor, $299,000. In the administration of title V of the Social Security Act for the fiscal year 1937, payments to States for any quarter of the fiscal year 1937 under parts 1 and 2 may be made with respect to any State plan approved under such respective parts by the Chief of the Children’s Bureau prior to or during such quarter, but no such payment shall be made with respect to any plan for any period prior to the quarter in which such plan was submitted to the Chief of the Children’s Bureau for approval.

grants to states for maternal and child-health services Grants to States for maternal and child-health services, Children’s Bureau: For grants to States for the purpose of enabling each State to extend and improve services for promoting the health of mothers and children, as authorized in title V, part 1, of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935 (49 Stat. 629–631), $2,820,000: Provided, That in carrying out such part 1, the allotments to States and expenditures thereunder for the fiscal year 1937 are authorized to be made on the basis of a total of $3,800,000 for all States (as defined in such Act): Provided further, That any allotment to a State pursuant to section 502 (b) shall not be included in computing for the purposes of subsections (a) and (b) of section 504 an amount expended or estimated to be expended by the State.

grants to states for services for crippled children Grants to States for services for crippled children, Children’s Bureau: For the purpose of enabling each State to extend and improve services for crippled children, as authorized in title V, part 2, of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935 (49 Stat., 631–633), $2,150,000: Provided, That in carrying out such part 2, the allotments to States (as defined in such Act) and expenditures thereunder for the fiscal year 1937 are authorized to be made on the basis of a total of $2,850,000 for all States.

grants to states for child-welfare services Grants to States for child-welfare services, Children’s Bureau: For grants to States for the purpose of enabling the United States, through the Children’s Bureau, to cooperate with State public-welfare agencies in establishing, extending, and strengthening public-welfare services for the care of homeless or neglected children, or children in danger of becoming delinquent, as authorized in title V, part 3, of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935 (49 Stat. 633), $1,200,000: Provided, That in carrying out such part 3, the allotments to States (as defined in such Act) and expenditures thereunder for the fiscal year 1937 are authorized to be made on the basis of a total of $1,500,000 for all States.

women’s bureau Salaries and expenses: For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to establish in the Department of Labor a bureau to be known as the Women’s Bureau”, approved June 5, 1920 (U. S. C., title 29, secs 11–16), including personal services in the District of Columbia, not to exceed $134,500; purchase of material for reports and educational exhibits, and traveling expenses, $153,200, of which sum not to exceed $3,000 shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of said bureau when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor.

united states employment service For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the establishment of a national employment system and for cooperation with the States in the promotion of such system, and for other purposes”, approved June 6, 1933; personal services and rent in the District or Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses, including expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the United States Employment Service when specifically authorized by the Secretary of Labor; law books, books of reference, newspapers and periodicals, printing and binding, supplies and equipment, telegraph and telephone service, and miscellaneous expenses, $2,785,000, of which amount not to exceed $885,000 shall be available for the Veterans’ Placement Service, the Farm Placement Service, District of Columbia Public Employment Center, and all other purposes, including not to exceed $197,500 for personal services in the Department in the District of Columbia, and the remainder shall be available for payment to the several States in accordance with the provisions of the said Act of June 6, 1933, as amended: Provided, That apportionments for the fiscal year 1937 shall be on the basis of a total apportionment to all States of $3,000,000, and in order to supply the Government’s apportionments to States under such Act during the fiscal years 1936 and 1937, which are not capable of being supplied under the foregoing appropriation, there is hereby appropriated so much as may be necessary to supply such apportionments, but not more than $1,675,000.

united states housing corporation Salaries and expenses: For officers, clerks, and other employees, and for contingent and miscellaneous expenses, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including blank books, maps, stationery, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, freight and express charges, communication service, travel expense, printing and binding not to exceed $100, and all other miscellaneous items and expenses not included in the foregoing and necessary to collect and account for the receipts from the sale of properties and the receipts from the operation of unsold properties of the United States Housing Corporation, the Bureau of Industrial Housing and Transportation, property commandeered by the United States through the Secretary of Labor, and to collect the amounts advanced to transportation facilities and others; for payment of special assessments and other utility, municipal, State, and county charges or assessments unpaid by purchasers, and which have been assessed against property in which the United States Housing Corporation has an interest, and to defray expenses incident to foreclosing mortgages, conducting sales under deeds of trust, or reacquiring title or possession of real property under default proceeding, including attorney fees, witness fees, court costs, charges, and other miscellaneous expenses; for the maintenance and repair of houses, buildings, and improvements which are unsold; in all, $9,000: Provided, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $4,000 per annum, and only one person may be employed at that rate: Provided further, That no part of the appropriations heretofore made and available for expenditure by the United States Housing Corporation shall be expended for the purposes for which appropriations are made herein.

bituminous coal labor board Salaries and expenses: For three Board members and other personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and for all other necessary expenditures of the Bituminous Coal Labor Board in performing the duties imposed upon said Board by the Bituminous Coal Conservation Act of 1935, including supplies, stationery, telephone service, telegrams, furniture, office equipment, travel expenses, and contract stenographic reporting services, $79,300. Printing and binding, Bituminous Coal Labor Board: For all printing and binding for the Bituminous Coal Labor Board, $2,500. This title may be cited as the Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1937.

Sec. 2.

No part of the money appropriated under this Act shall be paid to any person for the filling of any position for which he or she has been nominated after the Senate has voted not to approve of the nomination of said person.

Sec. 3.

That in passing upon applications made for compensation under the provisions of the item for “Payment to cotton ginners” contained in Title I of the Supplemental Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936 (Public Law Numbered 440, Seventy-fourth Congress), and upon payments pursuant to such applications, the Secretary of Agriculture and the Comptroller General of the United States are authorized and directed, in the interest of saving as much administrative expense as possible and in order to avoid delay in passing

Cotton Control Act, administrative expenses.

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upon such applications, to assume that the additional expenses incurred in connection with the administration of the Act of April 21, 1934 (49¹So in original. Stat., 598–607), equaled 25 cents per bale, counting round bales as half bales, during the period June 1, 1935, to February

Proviso.

Time limitation.

10, 1936, inclusive: Provided, That no payment shall be made on any application for such compensation unless the application is filed prior to September 1, 1936.

Sec. 4.

Great Lakes Exposition: For the expenses of the participation of the Government of the United States in the Great Lakes Exposition as provided for by Senate Joint Resolution Numbered 233, including the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of the purposes therein specified, to be immediately available, $275,000.