Public Law 74–508

That the following

Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year, 1935.

sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, and for prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1935, and June 30, 1936, and for other purposes, namely:

TITLE I— GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS LEGISLATIVE

senate The unobligated balance of the appropriation for expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, contingent fund of the Senate, for the fiscal year 1935, is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1936. For the purchase of furniture, fiscal year 1936, $2,089.18. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fiscal year 1936, $50,000.

house of representatives For payment to the widow of Cap R. Carden, late a Representative from the State of Kentucky, $10,000, to be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House. Speaker’s office: Effective on the date of the enactment of this Act, the positions of clerk to Speaker at $2,400 and clerk to Speaker at $1,440 are abolished and in lieu thereof there are hereby established three clerical positions at $2,400 each per annum; and the appropriations for the fiscal year 1936 in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1936, for compensation of the positions hereby abolished are made available for compensation of the positions hereby created and in addition there is appropriated for the fiscal year 1936 the sum of $3,360. Parliamentary Precedents: For reimbursement to Clarence Cannon for expenses incurred by him in compiling, preparing, correcting, and revising Hinds’ Parliamentary Precedents of the House of Representatives up to and including the Seventy-third Congress, $20,000. Contingent expenses: For stenographic reports of hearings of committees other than special and select committees, for the following fiscal years: For 1934, $55.50; For 1935, $12,500. For telegraph and telephone service, exclusive of personal services, fiscal year 1935, $15,000.

office of architect of the capitol Air-conditioning, Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings: For providing and installing air-conditioning systems, Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, including all necessary structural alterations required for such installations, fiscal years 1936 and 1937, $2,550,000, to be expended by the Architect of the Capitol and to include expenditures for material, supplies, equipment, accessories, advertising, traveling expenses, and, without regard to section 35 of the Public Buildings Act, approved June 25, 1910, as amended, or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, the employment of necessary personnel (including professional, architectural, and engineering services). Senate Office Building; For letter-filing cabinets, $5,000; for fire-proofing attic and wire-mesh partitions, $5,040; and two cut-off partitions with fire doors, $1,500; for remodelling and painting rooms in the Senate Office Building, $45,500; in all, fiscal year 1936, $57,040. House Office Building: For an additional amount for maintenance, including the same objects specified under this head in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1935, $5,000. Capitol Buildings: For an additional amount for the Capitol Buildings for the fiscal year 1936, including the same objects specified under this head in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1936, $5,000. Capitol Power Plant: For an additional amount for lighting, heating, and power for the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1935, $56,100. The sum of $25,600 of the appropriation for the Capitol Power Plant, contained in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1935, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1936, and shall be available for the purchase and installation of a feed water deaerator heater, auxiliaries, and so forth, including housing and all expenses in connection therewith, together with an additional amount of $35,000, to remain available for the same purposes until June 30, 1936. The limitation of $1,750 placed on expenses for travel on official business under the Architect of the Capitol contained in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1935, is hereby increased to $2,500.

library of congress Books for adult blind: For an additional sum required to enable the Librarian of Congress to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide books for the adult blind”, approved March 3, 1931, as amended (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 2, sec, 135a), fiscal year 1936, $75,000.

government printing office For payment to Samuel Robinson, William Madden, Preston L. George, and William S. Houston, messengers on night duty during the first session of the Seventy-fourth Congress, $900 each; in all, $3,600, to be paid from the appropriation for printing and binding for Congress for the fiscal year 1935.

INDEPENDENT OFFICES executive Protection of interests of the United States in matters affecting oil lands in former naval reserves: For an additional amount for compensation and expenses of special counsel and for all other expense, including employment of experts and other assistants at such rates as may be authorized or approved by the President, in connection with carrying into effect the “Joint resolution directing the Secretary of the Interior to institute proceedings touching sections 16 and 36, township 30 south, range 23 east, Mount Diablo meridian”, approved February 21, 1924, $62,500, of which $36,000 shall be available for the fiscal year 1936 and no part of such sum of $36,000 shall be used to compensate any person at a rate in excess of $10,000 per annum, and $26,500, to be available for services rendered during the fiscal year 1934 and prior fiscal years, and to be expended by the President. civil service commission Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1936, $25,000. Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, fiscal years 1935 and 1936, $10,900. district of columbia alley dwelling authority Conversion of inhabited-alleys fund: The unexpended balance of the “Conversion of inhabited-alleys fund” of $500,000 established pursuant to the provisions of the District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Act, approved June 12, 1934, is hereby continued available for the purposes of said Act until June 30, 1936. employees’ compensation commission Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses for the United States Employees’ Compensation Commission, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1928, $1.25. federal trade commission Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for the Federal Trade Commission, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1936, including $4,000 for printing and binding, $200,000, to remain available until December 31, 1936. george rogers clark sesquicentennial commission For payment of the General Accounting Office settlement, dated April 16, 1935, in favor of D. Frank Culbertson, vice chairman of the Commission, for per diem in lieu of subsistence and for reimbursement of expenses incurred by him when on official business during the period from January 2, 1930, to October 26, 1934, both inclusive, $1,875.67, to be payable from the unexpended balances of the appropriations continued available to the Commission during the fiscal year 1935. george washington bicentennial commission For an additional amount for the George Washington Bicentennial Commission, to be available only for completing the printing and binding at the Government Printing Office of the remaining volumes of the definitive edition of the writings of George Washington as authorized by Public Resolution Numbered 6, Seventy-fourth Congress, approved March 4, 1935, $103,606, to remain available until December 31, 1936. national advisory committee for aeronautics For an additional amount for scientific research, technical investigations, and special reports in the field of aeronautics, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1936, fiscal year 1936, $338,050, of which sum not to exceed $20,000 may be used for personal services in the District of Columbia. national capital park and planning commission For the work of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission necessary toward carrying into effect the provisions of section 4 of the Act approved May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), providing for a comprehensive park, parkway, and playground system of the National Capital, and so forth; personal services in the District of Columbia, including real-estate and other technical services, at rates of pay to be fixed by the Commission not exceeding those usual for similar services and without reference to civil-service rules and the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; travel expenses; survey, searching of titles, and all other costs incident to the acquisition of land; reimbursements to be made as prescribed in such Act, as amended, fiscal year 1936, $800,000. national railroad adjustment board Not to exceed $25,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the National Railroad Adjustment Board for the fiscal year 1935, contained in Public Resolution Numbered 3, Seventy-fourth Congress, approved February 13, 1935, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1936, of which amount not to exceed $12,500 shall be available for the payment of salaries and expenses of referees of the National Railroad Adjustment Board, and not to exceed $12,500 shall be available for printing and binding. payment to officers and employees of the united states in foreign countries due to appreciation of foreign currencies For an additional amount for payment to officers and employees of the United States in foreign countries due to appreciation of foreign currencies, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1936, $1,478,652. petroleum administration For administering and enforcing the provisions of the Act approved February 22, 1935 (Public, Numbered 14, Seventy-fourth Congress), entitled “An Act to regulate interstate and foreign commerce in petroleum and its products by prohibiting the shipment in such commerce of petroleum and its products produced in violation of State law and for other purposes”, and to include necessary personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere without regard to the civil-service laws and regulations, traveling expenses, contract stenographic reporting services, rent, stationery and office supplies, not to exceed $10,000 for printing and binding, not to exceed $1,500 for books and periodicals, not to exceed $20,000 for the purchase, exchange, hire, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $20,000 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of boats, fiscal year 1936, $500,000. railroad retirement board Salaries and Expenses: For each and every expense necessary to liquidate the affairs of the former Railroad Retirement Board, as established in section 9 of the Railroad Retirement Act, approved June 27, 1934, which is hereby reestablished to effect such liquidation, including compensation of members of said Board and its employees heretofore and hereafter employed for services rendered from May 1 to 6, 1935, inclusive, and subsequently thereto but not beyond September 30, 1935; to pay any expense heretofore incurred by the Board and not yet paid, for the preparation of a report upon its activities and experiences to the President for transmission to Congress as contemplated in section 2 (b) of the Railroad Retirement Act, and for arranging for turning over the records, papers, and property of the Board to such agency as the President shall designate, fiscal years 1935 and 1936, $35,000; and in addition thereto refundment is hereby authorized to past and present members and employees of the Board of all compensation earned by them but withheld as employees’ contribution to the Railroad Retirement Fund and deposited to the credit of said fund in the Treasury, and the amount necessary for this purpose is hereby appropriated from said fund: Provided, That no member of the Board or of its staff shall be personally liable for any action heretofore taken within the terms of the authority sought to be granted by the Railroad Retirement Act. tariff commission Salaries and expenses: The sum of $19,000 of the unobligated balance of the appropriation and other funds of $877,942 for salaries and expenses of the United States Tariff Commission, 1935, contained in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1935, and the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, is hereby continued available for the fiscal year 1936, and the limitation of $870,000 on the amount which may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, contained in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1936, under this head, is hereby increased to $908,000. Printing and binding: The sum of $1,000 of the unobligated balance of the appropriation and other funds of $15,775 for printing and binding for the Tariff Commission, 1935, contained in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1935, and the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, is hereby continued available for the fiscal year 1936. texas centennial exposition For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the public resolution entitled “Joint resolution providing for the participation of the United States in the Texas Centennial Exposition and celebrations to be held in the State of Texas during the years 1935 and 1936, and authorizing the President to invite foreign countries and nations to participate therein, and for other purposes”, approved June 28, 1935, and for each and every object thereof, and within the limits of the cost specified therein, $3,000,000, said sum to include $300,000 toward the Texas Memorial Museum to be granted to the board of directors of such museum for expenditures for such purpose, to remain available until expended. thomas jefferson memorial commission For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the performance of the duties of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission, created by Public Resolution Numbered 49, Seventy-third Congress, approved June 26, 1934 (48 Stat. 1244), including personal services without regard to the provisions of the civil-service laws and regulations, and the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, purchase or preparation of plans, designs, and estimates, printing and binding, office equipment and supplies, contract stenographic reporting service, books and periodicals, traveling expenses of members and employees of the Commission (including such expenses and allowances for members of the Commission when required to be in Washington, District of Columbia, in connection with the work of the Commission), and such other contingent and miscellaneous expenses as may be necessary, fiscal years 1935 and 1936, $15,000: 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 Commission.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA office of corporation counsel Salaries: For an additional amount for personal services, fiscal year 1934, $522.50. coroner’s office Maintenance: For additional amount for maintenance, Coroner’s Office, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for the following fiscal years: For 1934, $931.50; For 1935, $740. contingent and miscellaneous expenses Judicial expenses: For an additional amount for judicial expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for the following fiscal years: For 1934, $911.37; For 1935, $2,095.50. General advertising: For an additional amount for general advertising, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for the following fiscal years: For 1934, $2,515.74; For 1935, $1,494.31. employees’ compensation fund; district of columbia For an additional amount for carrying out the provisions of section 11 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, approved July 11, 1919, extending to the employees of the government of the District of Columbia the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes”, approved September 7, 1916, fiscal year 1935, $6,000. public schools Fuel, gas, and so forth: For an additional amount for fuel, gas, and electric light and power, for the following fiscal years: For 1934, $11,303.01; For 1935, $45,000. Furniture and equipment: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $150,000, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, for furniture and equipment, including pianos and window shades, for the Woodrow Wilson Senior High School, is continued available for the same purposes during the fiscal year 1936: Provided, That the total amount expended under this appropriation and the appropriation for the same purposes in the District of Columbia Appropriation. Act for the fiscal year 1936 shall not exceed $150,000. Education of deaf, dumb, and blind: For an additional amount for maintenance and instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section 4864 of the Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the Act approved March 1, 1901 (U. S. C., title 24, sec. 238), and under a contract entered into with the said institution by the Commissioners, fiscal year 1935, $500. fire department For an additional amount for fuel, fiscal year 1935, $4,000. health department Salaries: For an additional amount for personal services, fiscal year 1936, $45,000. Prevention of contagious diseases: For an additional amount for prevention of contagious diseases, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $4,000. Maintenance of motor vehicles: For an additional amount for maintenance and operation of motor ambulances and motor vehicles, fiscal year 1935, $300. Garfield Hospital isolating ward: For additional amounts for isolating wards for minor contagious diseases at Garfield Memorial Hospital, maintenance, for the following fiscal years: For 1935, $18,000; For 1936, $3,000. courts and prisons Juvenile court: For an additional amount for witness fees and compensation of jurors, fiscal year 1935, $700. Support of convicts: For an additional amount for support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from District of Columbia, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1934, $55,456.64. Writs of lunacy: For an additional amount for expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to Saint Elizabeths Hospital by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, and expenses of commitments to the District Training School, including personal services, fiscal year 1934, $1,372,16. public welfare Board of Public Welfare: For purchase and exchange of one motor ambulance and equipment, fiscal year 1936, $1,500. Division of Child Welfare: For an additional amount for board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said Board by the courts of the District, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $10,000. Jail: For an additional amount for maintenance and support of prisoners of the District of Columbia at the jail, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $13,000. Workhouse and reformatory: For an additional amount for maintenance, care, and support of inmates, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $75,000. National Training School for Boys, contract: For an additional amount for care and maintenance of boys committed to the National Training School for Boys by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract made by the Board of Public Welfare with the authorities of such school for the following fiscal years: For 1934, $12,590.19; For 1935, $60,000. National Training School for Girls: For an additional amount for maintenance, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1934, $122.67. Medical charities: For an additional amount for care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts made by the Board of Public Welfare with the following institutions and for not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Children’s Hospital: Fiscal year 1934, $8,948; fiscal year 1935, $45,000; in all, $53,948. Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, fiscal year 1935, $20,000. Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital: Fiscal year 1934, $3,425.10; fiscal year 1935, $20,000; in all, $23,425.10. Tuberculosis Hospital: For an additional amount for provisions, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for the following fiscal years: For 1934, $233.20; For 1935, $15,000. Children’s Tuberculosis Sanatorium: For an additional amount for provisions, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $6,000. Gallinger Municipal Hospital: For an additional amount for maintenance of the hospital, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $10,000. Industrial Home School for Colored Children: For an additional amount for maintenance, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the following fiscal years: For 1934, $210.53; For 1935, $4,000. Industrial Home School: For an additional amount for maintenance, including care of horses, purchase and care of wagon and harness, maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle, fiscal year 1935, $2,000. Home for Aged and Infirm: For an additional amount for provisions, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the following fiscal years: For 1934, $593.02; For 1935, $10,500. Saint Elizabeths Hospital: For an additional amount for support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, fiscal year 1935, $29,000. Relief of the poor: For an additional amount for relief of the poor, including medical and surgical supplies, artificial limbs, and for pay of physicians to the poor, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Welfare, fiscal year 1935, $2,000. water service Washington Aqueduct: For replacing the pumping equipment and appurtenant features of the pumping station of the McMillan Filter Plant and for each and every purpose connected therewith, fiscal year 1936, $150,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the Water Department of the District of Columbia. settlement of claims For the payment of claims approved by the Commissioners under and in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to settle claims and suits against the District of Columbia”, approved February 11, 1929 (45 Stat., 1160), as amended by the Act approved June 5, 1930 (46 Stat., 500), and reported in Senate Document Numbered 78 and House Document Numbered 177, Seventy-fourth Congress, $11,522.30. refund of assessments For payment of refunds of assessments for paving streets, avenues, and roads, and laying curbs, as authorized by the provisions of section 11 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for special assessments for the paving of roadways and the laying of curbs and gutters”, approved February 20, 1931, $2,033.87. For payment of refunds of assessments for sewer and water mains in the subdivision of Barry Farm, pursuant to the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $18,121.98. judgments For the payment of final judgments, including costs, rendered against the District of Columbia, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 77 and House Document Numbered 188, Seventy-fourth Congress, $12,749.93, together with the further sum to pay the interest at not exceeding 4 per centum per annum on such judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment. workmen’s compensation act Relief of Lyman C. Drake: For payment to Lyman C. Drake, under the provisions of the Act of June 19, 1935, on account of an award made by the United States Employees’ Compensation Commission on September 6, 1934, under the District of Columbia Workmen’s Compensation Act, case numbered 4927-91, for personal injuries sustained by the said Lyman C. Drake on April 6, 1933, while in the employ of the District of Columbia Committee on Employment, $1,316.40: Provided, That payment to and the receipt by the claimant of the sum herein appropriated shall be in full settlement of any and all claims arising out of said personal injuries. audited claims For the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the accounting officers of the District of Columbia, under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874 (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 713, p. 1022), being for the service of the fiscal year 1932 and prior fiscal years: For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, District of Columbia, 1932, general advertising, $105.60; For playgrounds, District of Columbia, 1932, general maintenance, $63.52; For public schools, District of Columbia, 1931–1932, fuel, gas, and electricity, $5.53; For buildings and grounds, public schools, District of Columbia, 1931–1932, 8-room addition to Janney School, $84.20; For policemen and firemen’s relief fund, District of Columbia, 1932, $10; For police court, District of Columbia, 1932, witness fees, $1.50; For writs of lunacy, District of Columbia, 1932, expenses, $450; For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, District of Columbia, 1931, general advertising, $22.26; For public schools, District of Columbia, 1929–1931, furniture and equipment, E. A. Paul Junior High, $8.75; For public schools, District of Columbia, 1929–1931, furniture and equipment, 24-room building, Nineteenth and Columbia Road NW., $20; For teachers retirement appropriated fund, District of Columbia, 1931, $31.93; For health department, District of Columbia, 1931, dispensaries, $5.88; For child welfare and hygiene service, District of Columbia, 1931, $4.49; For miscellaneous expenses, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, 1931, $130; For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, District of Columbia, 1930, contingent expenses, $3; For Gallinger Municipal Hospital, District of Columbia, 1930, maintenance, $17.25; For miscellaneous expenses, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, 1930, $20; For playgrounds, District of Columbia, 1929, general maintenance, $270; For fees of witnesses, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, 1928, $6; For Court of Appeals report, District of Columbia, 1924, $71.50; In all, audited claims, $1,331.41. division of expenses The foregoing sums for the District of Columbia, unless otherwise therein specifically provided, shall be paid as follows: Such sums as relate to the fiscal years 1921 to 1924, inclusive, 60 per centum out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and 40 per centum out of the Treasury of the United States; and such sums as relate to the fiscal years 1925 to 1936, inclusive, jointly or severally, shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the Treasury of the United States in the manner prescribed by the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for such respective fiscal years.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE bureau of entomology and plant quarantine Grasshopper survey: To provide for a cooperative grasshopper survey, the sum of $25,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for “Grasshopper Control, Bureau of Entomology”, provided in the Agricultural Department Appropriation Act of 1935, is continued available during the fiscal year 1936 and added to the amount appropriated for “Cereal and Forage Insects” under Salaries and Expenses, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, included in the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1936. West Indian fruit fly and black fly: For determining and applying such methods of eradication and control of the West Indian fruit fly and black fly as in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture may be necessary to eradicate these pests from the State of Florida, fiscal year 1936, $36,000: Provided, That no expenditures shall be made for these purposes until there has been provided by the State of Florida funds and means which in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture are fully adequate to effectively cooperate in the accomplishment of these purposes: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay the cost or value of trees or other property destroyed. bureau of biological survey Maintenance of mammal and bird reservations: For an additional amount for maintenance of mammal and bird reservations, including the same objects specified under this heading in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1936, $25,000. bureau of agricultural economics Enforcement of United States Cotton Futures and United States Cotton Standards Act: For an additional amount to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the provisions of the United States Cotton Futures Act, as amended March 4, 1919 (U. S. C., title 26, secs. 731–752), and the United States Cotton Standards Act, approved March 4, 1923 (U. S. C., title 7, secs. 51–65), including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1936, $10,000. miscellaneous To carry into effect the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for research into basic laws and principles relating to agriculture and to provide for the further development of cooperative agricultural extension work and the more complete endowment and support of land-grant colleges”, approved June 29, 1935, as follows: For special research work by the Department of Agriculture, including the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and for payment to the several States, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico for research work, pursuant to the authorization contained in title I of said Act, $1,000,000; and for payments to the States and the Territory of Hawaii for cooperative agricultural extension work, pursuant to the authorizations contained in section 21 of title II of said Act, $8,000,000; in all, fiscal year 1936, $9,000,000: Provided, That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to ascertain and certify to the Secretary of the Treasury, on or before September 1, 1935, as to Puerto Rico and each State and Territory, whether it has assented to the provisions of the Act of June 29, 1935, and is entitled to receive its share of the appropriations herein provided: Provided further, That the allotments due July 1, 1935, shall be payable upon such certification by the Secretary of Agriculture to the Secretary of the Treasury (U. S. C., title 5, secs. 511, 512; Act June 29, 1935).

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE contingent expenses Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding for the Department of Commerce, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1935, fiscal years 1935 and 1936, $20,000. bureau of lighthouses General expenses, Lighthouse Service: The limitation of $2,000 in the appropriation “General Expenses, Lighthouse Service”, for the fiscal year 1936, for packing, crating, and transporting personal household effects of employees when transferred from, one official station to another for permanent duty, is hereby increased to $3,500. bureau of foreign and domestic commerce Promoting commerce in Europe and other areas: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, fiscal year 1936, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1936, $30,950. Promoting commerce in Latin America: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, fiscal year 1936, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1936, $10,000. Promoting commerce in the Far East: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, fiscal year 1936, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1936, $18,800. Promoting commerce in Africa: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, fiscal year 1936, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1936, $4,550. Transportation of families and effects of officers and employees, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce: For an additional amount for the fiscal year 1936 for the same purpose specified under this head in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1936, $3,600. Allowance for quarters, Foreign Commerce Service: For an additional amount for the fiscal year 1936 for the same purpose specified under this head in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1936, $3,000.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR office of the secretary Contingent expenses: For an additional amount for contingent expenses of the Department of the Interior, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of the Interior Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, fiscal years 1935 and 1936, $10,000. Library: For an additional amount for the purchase or exchange of professional and scientific books, law and medical books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the Department, fiscal year 1933, $50.47. Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding for the Bureau of Mines, fiscal years 1935 and 1936, $8,000. division of investigations Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses of the Division of Investigations, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of the Interior Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, $15,000. war minerals relief Administrative expenses: For administrative expenses made necessary by section 5 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide relief in cases on contracts connected with the prosecution of the war, and for other purposes”, approved March 2, 1919 (40 Stat., 1272), including personal services, without regard to the civil-service laws and regulations; traveling and subsistence expenses; supplies and all other expenses incident to the proper prosecution of this work, both in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, fiscal year 1936, $19,000. bureau of indian affairs General expenses: For an additional amount for transportation and incidental expenses of officers and clerks of the Bureau of Indian Affairs when traveling on official duty; for telegraph and telephone toll messages on business pertaining to the Indian Service sent and received by the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Washington, and for other necessary expenses of the Indian Service for which no other appropriation is available, fiscal year 1934, $4,800. Field representatives, Indian Service: For an additional amount for salaries, traveling and incidental expenses of field representatives of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, fiscal year 1933, $46.45. Menominee Indians: The appropriation of $20,000 from tribal funds of the Menominee Indians, Wisconsin, for the purpose of making an audit of such funds and for other purposes, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936, approved May 9, 1935, is hereby made available for the expenses of such audit from and after February 1, 1935, and the contract or contracts for such audit may be made retroactive to February 1, 1935. Conservation of health among Indians (Sioux Sanatorium and employees’ quarters, South Dakota): The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $375,000 (including the amount impounded under section 320 of the Act of June 30, 1932), contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1932, and continued available by the Acts of April 22, 1932, and February 17, 1933, for the construction of the Sioux Sanatorium and employees’ quarters at Pierre, South Dakota, is hereby reappropriated and made available until June 30, 1937, for such a sanatorium and employees’ quarters at such place in South Dakota as the Secretary of the Interior shall select. Construction, enlargement, or improvement of public-school buildings: For cooperation with public-school districts in the construction, enlargement, or improvement of local public elementary or high schools, including purchase of necessary equipment, as authorized by and in conformity with numerous Acts of the Seventy-fourth Congress approved June 7, 1935, fiscal year 1936, $931,000, as follows: Queets, Washington, $10,000 (Public, Numbered 111); Glacier County, Montana, $100,000 (Public, Numbered 103); Wolf Point, Montana, $50,000 (Public, Numbered 104); Polson, Montana, $40,000 (Public, Numbered 105); Lake and Missoula Counties, Montana, $100,000 (Public, Numbered 106); Brockton, Montana, $40,000 (Public, Numbered 107); Poplar, Montana, $25,000 (Public, Numbered 108); Marysville, Washington, $38,000 (Public, Numbered 110); Frazer, Montana, $25,000 (Public, Numbered 109); White Swan, Washington, $50,000 (Public, Numbered 112); Covelo, California, $50,000 (Public, Numbered 113); Shannon County, South Dakota, $125,000 (Public, Numbered 114); Big Horn County, Montana (district numbered 27), $80,000 (Public, Numbered 119); Blaine County, Montana, $15,000 (Public, Numbered 120); Medicine Lake, Montana, $25,000 (Public, Numbered 127); Hardin and Crow Agency, Big Horn County, Montana (district 17-H), $158,000 (Public, Numbered 126): Provided, That plans and specifications for construction, enlargement, or improvement of structures shall be furnished by local or State authorities, without cost to the United States, and upon approval thereof by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs actual work shall proceed under the direction of such local or State officials. Payment for work in place shall be made monthly, on vouchers properly certified by local officials of the Indian Service: Provided further, That any amount expended on any project hereunder shall be recouped by the United States within a period of thirty years, commencing with the date of occupancy of the project, through reducing the annual Federal tuition payments for the education of Indian pupils enrolled in public or high schools of the district involved, or by the acceptance of Indian pupils in such schools without cost to the United States; and in computing the amount of recoupment for each project interest at 3 per centum per annum shall be included on unrecouped balances. national park service Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park: To carry out the purposes of Public Act Numbered 167, Seventy-fourth Congress, entitled “An Act to create a national memorial military park at and in the vicinity of Kennesaw Mountain in the State of Georgia, and for other purposes”, approved June 26, 1935, fiscal year 1936, $70,000. office of education Further endowment of colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts: For carrying out the provisions of section 22 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for research into basic laws and principles relating to agriculture and to provide for the further development of cooperative agricultural extension work and the more complete endowment and support of land-grant colleges”, approved June 29, 1935 (Public Act Numbered 182, Seventy-fourth Congress), fiscal year 1936, $980,000. government in the territories Insane of Alaska: For an additional amount for care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in Alaska, including the same objects and for the same services specified in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $15,900. Legislative expenses, Territory of Alaska: For additional legislative expenses for the fiscal year 1935, including $29 for mileage of members, and $3,021 for printing, indexing, comparing proofs, and binding laws, printing, indexing and binding journals, stationery, supplies, printing of bills, reports, and so forth; in all, $3,050, to be expended under the direction of the Governor or Alaska. columbia institution for the deaf For an additional amount for support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, books and illustrative apparatus, and general repairs and improvements, fiscal year 1935, $4,000. howard university General expenses: For an additional amount for general expenses, Howard University, fiscal year 1933, including the same objects specified under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1933, $240.60. freedmen’s hospital For an additional amount for the maintenance and operation of Freedmen’s Hospital, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of the Interior Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, fiscal years 1935 and 1936, $4,000, of which amount one-half shall be chargeable to the District of Columbia and paid in like manner as other appropriations of the District of Columbia are paid.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE office of the attorney general Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding for the Department of Justice and the courts of the United States, fiscal year 1932, $198.10. Contingent expenses: For an additional amount for contingent expenses, Department of Justice, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, fiscal years 1935 and 1936, $25,000. federal bureau of investigation Salaries and expenses, Federal Bureau of Investigation: That portion of the appropriation for the Federal Bureau of Investigation contained in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1936, reading “hire, purchase and exchange not to exceed $50,000, maintenance, upkeep, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only on official business” is amended to read “purchase and exchange not to exceed $50,000, hire, maintenance, upkeep, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only on official business.” judicial United States Supreme Court, miscellaneous expenses: For miscellaneous expenses of the Supreme Court of the United States to provide for expenses of the advisory committee appointed by the Court to assist it in the preparation of a unified system of general rules for cases in equity and actions at law in the District Courts of the United States and in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia pursuant to the Act entitled “An Act to give the Supreme Court of the United States authority to make and publish Rules in Actions at Law”, approved June 19, 1934 (48 Stat. 1064), including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere and printing and binding, to be expended as the Chief Justice in his discretion may direct, including such per diem allowances in lieu of actual expenses for subsistence at rates to be fixed by him not to exceed $10 per day, fiscal years 1935 and 1936, $25,000. United States Court for China: The appropriation “Salaries and Expenses, United States Court for China, 1936”, shall be available also for allowances for living quarters, including fuel, heat, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 5, sec. 118a), not to exceed $1,700 for any one person. marshals, district attorneys, clerks, and other expenses of united states courts Salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals: For an additional amount for salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1931, $72.33. Salaries and expenses of district attorneys: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1933, $245.68. Payment to special assistants to Attorney General: For compensation in ful to special assistants to the Attorney General for services rendered by them in the case of the United States versus Pan American Petroleum Company (B-115M, in equity) in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, fiscal year 1936, $176,767. Fee of commissioners: For additional amounts for fees of commissioners, United States courts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Acts making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the following fiscal years: For 1930, $1.65; For 1931, $8: For 1933, $2,702.32. Fees and expenses of conciliation commissioners: For an additional amount for fees of conciliation commissioners, and per diem allowance and traveling expenses of supervising conciliation commissioners, as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States’, approved July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto”, approved March 3, 1933, as amended, fiscal years 1935 and 1936, $209,000. Fees of jurors and witnesses: For an additional amount for fees of jurors and witnesses, United States courts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, $140,000. Rent of court rooms: For an additional amount for rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers, fiscal year 1935, $17,000. Supplies: For an additional amount for supplies for United States courts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1934, $863.61. penal and correctional institutions Building and equipment: For construction and repair of buildings, including the purchase and installation of machinery and equipment, and all expenses incident thereto, to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to inmates of the institutions, fiscal year 1936, at the following institutions: United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, $22,000; United States Penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington, $55,000; United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California, $48,000; United States Industrial Reformatory, Chillicothe, Ohio, $4,500; United States Hospital for Defective Delinquents, $24,500. Support of United States prisoners: For an additional amount for support of United States prisoners, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, $390,000. United States Penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington, buildings and equipment: The unexpended balance of the appropriation “United States Penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington, buildings and equipment, 1935”, is continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1936.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR office of the secretary Commissioners of Conciliation, salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1936, $281,000, to be immediately available, of which not to exceed $125,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided, That, officers and employees may be appointed and paid from the amount herein appropriated without regard to the provisions of the civil-service laws requiring competitive examinations: Provided further, That said officers and employees (except Commissioners of Conciliation) shall be required to take nonassembled examinations. 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 same objects specified under this head in the Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1936, $5,500. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Department of Labor, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1936, $13,500. 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 Kiel; 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., Supp. VII, 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 1936, $28,000.

NAVY DEPARTMENT office of the secretary Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Observatory: Not to exceed $6,000 of the appropriation of $110,000 for the purchase and installation of equipment, utilities, and appurtenances for astrographic and research work and modernization of astronomical plant of the Naval Observatory, as contained in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1933, approved June 30, 1932, is hereby reappropriated and made available until June 30, 1936, for the payment of obligations heretofore incurred under said appropriation. Claims for damages by collision with naval vessels: To pay claims for damages adjusted and determined by the Secretary of the Navy under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to settle claims for damages to private property arising from collision with naval vessels”, approved December 28, 1922 (U. S. C., title 34, sec. 599), as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 202, Seventy-fourth Congress, $291. Navy and Marine Memorial Monument: For payment in full for the transportation of the Navy and Marine Memorial Monument to the site on Columbia Island, District of Columbia, chosen for such memorial, for the erection of such memorial on the granite pedestal base constructed on such site, and for the landscaping and approach work of land adjacent to such base, as authorized by Public Resolution Numbered 5, approved February 16, 1924 (43 Stat. 14), as amended by Public Resolution Numbered 47, approved June 26, 1934 (48 Stat. 1243), fiscal year 1936, $13,000. bureau of supplies and accounts Pay, subsistence and transportation of naval personnel: The limitation on the number of officers of the Dental Corps contained in the Navy Department Appropriation Act approved June 24, 1935, is hereby increased from one hundred and eighty-six officers of the Dental Corps to two hundred and thirty-four officers of the Dental Corps. Fuel and transportation: For an additional amount for coal and other fuel for submarine bases and steamers’ and ships’ use, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year 1935, $1,970,000. bureau of navigation Transportation: For travel allowances, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, $10. bureau of yards and docks Public Works, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For the following-named public works and public-utilities projects at a limit of cost not to exceed the amount stated for each project enumerated, respectively: Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida: Barracks and mess hall, $650,000; assembly and repair shop, $675,000; quarters for student officers, $500,000; improvement to power plant and distributing systems, roads, walks, and sewer systems, $175,000; Marine Barracks, Quantico, Virginia: Quarters for officers, $1,050,000; In all, $3,050,000, which, together with unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made under this head, shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law and shall constitute one fund: Provided, That of the amount herein appropriated not to exceed $90,000 shall be available for the employment or classified personal services in the Bureau of Yards and Docks and in the field service to be engaged upon such work and to be in addition to employees otherwise provided for.

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT out of the postal revenues office of the chief inspector Payment of rewards: For an additional amount for payment of rewards, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year 1934, $15,000. office of the second assistant postmaster general Star-route service, Alaska: For an additional amount for inland transportation by star routes in Alaska, fiscal year 1935, $5,000. Rural Delivery Service : For an additional amount for pay of rural carriers, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year 1935, $2,685,000. Foreign-mail transportation: For transportation of foreign mail by aircraft, including mail for island possessions and territories of the United States, across the Pacific Ocean between the United States and Asia, fiscal year 1936, $1,000,000, to be expended under a contract or contracts which will not create annual obligations for the fiscal year 1936 or for any subsequent fiscal year in excess of $1,850,000.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE Salaries of Ambassadors and Ministers, fiscal years 1935 and 1936: So much as may be necessary of the appropriations for salaries of Ambassadors and Ministers contained in the Department of State Appropriations Acts for the fiscal years 1935 and 1936 shall be available for the salary of an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to China at the rate of $17,500 per annum. Miscellaneous salaries and allowances, Foreign Service: For an additional amount for miscellaneous salaries and allowances, Foreign Service, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1936, $9,000. Contingent expenses, Foreign Service: For an additional amount for contingent expenses, Foreign Service, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1936, $41,000. Emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service: For an additional amount for emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1936, $25,000. Foreign Service buildings fund: For the purpose of further carrying into effect the provisions of the Foreign Service Buildings Act, 1926, as amended (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 22, sec. 295), and for each and every object thereof, including the acquisition of a site, erection of buildings, and the furnishings thereof, for the use of the diplomatic and consular establishments of the United States at Helsingfors, Finland, as authorized by Public Act Numbered 145, approved June 15, 1935, $300,000, to remain available until expended. International Labor Organization, Geneva, Switzerland: For the expenses of participation by the Government of the United States in the General Conference and in the meetings of the Governing Body of the International Labor Organization, to be held at Geneva, Switzerland, 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, including the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of the purposes herein specified, fiscal year 1936, $27,300. General and Special Claims Conventions, United States and Mexico: For an additional amount for General and Special Claims Conventions, United States and Mexico, including the same objects specified under this head in Department of State Appropriation Act, 1936, $65,120. 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, translating, and other 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, fiscal year 1936, $90,000. International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy: For the expenses of participation by the United States in the Eighth International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy to be held at Brussels, Belgium, in 1935, as authorized by Public Resolution Numbered 21, approved May 24, 1935, 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; purchase of necessary 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 ; to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of State; fiscal year 1935, $8,000, to remain available until June 30, 1936. Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany: The unexpended balance of the appropriation “Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany, 1934–1935”, contained in the Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1934, is continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1936. International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, Italy, 1934: So much as may be necessary of the unexpended balance of the appropriation “International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, Italy, 1934”, contained in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1934, is made available to pay for publications of the International Institute of Agriculture received by the Department of Agriculture during the years 1931, 1932, 1933, and 1934. Third Pan American Financial Conference, Santiago, Chile, and Commercial Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina: The unexpended balance of the appropriation “Third Pan American Financial Conference, Santiago, Chile, and Commercial Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1934 and 1935” is continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1936. Bureau of Interparliamentary Union for Promotion of International Arbitration: For an additional amount for United States’ contributions to international commissions, congresses, and bureaus, including $2,500 for the contribution of the United States toward the maintenance of the Bureau of Interparliamentary Union for Promotion of International Arbitration in addition to the amount contained in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1936; and $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 and other 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, and 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; in all, fiscal year 1936, $12,500. Payment to Germaine M. Finley: For payment to Germaine M. Finley, widow of James G. Finley, late a Foreign Service officer of the United States at Havre, France, of one year’s salary of her deceased husband, who died while in the Foreign Service, as authorized by the Act approved June 24, 1935, $2,750. Payment to Lily M. Miller: For payment to Lily M. Miller, widow of Ransford S. Miller, late American consul general, of one year’s salary of her deceased husband, who died while in Foreign Service, as authorized by the Act approved June 29, 1935, $9,000. Payment to Anna S. Carrigan: For payment to Anna S. Carrigan, widow of Clarence Carrigan, late American consul at Montevideo, Uruguay, of one year’s salary of her deceased husband, who died of illness incurred while in the Consular Service, as authorized by the Act approved March 4, 1935, $7,000. Payment to Sophie de Soto: For payment to Sophie de Soto, widow of Hernando de Soto, late American consul at Leipzig, Germany, of one year’s salary of her deceased husband, who died of illness incurred while in the Consular Service, as authorized by the Act approved March 14, 1935, $6,000. Payment to Sarah J. Hitchcock: For payment to Sarah J. Hitchcock, widow of Henry S. Hitchcock, late American Consul at Nagasaki, Japan, of one year’s salary of her deceased husband, who died while in the Foreign Service, as authorized by the Act approved May 6, 1935, $5,000.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT office of the secretary Payments to Federal land banks on account of reductions in interest rate on mortgages: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay each Federal land bank such amount as the land bank commissioner certifies to the Secretary of the Treasury is equal to the amount by which interest payments on mortgages held by such bank have been reduced, in accordance with the provisions of section 24 of the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933, approved May 12, 1933 (48 Stat. 31), as amended by section 3 of the Farm Credit Act of 1935, approved June 3, 1935 (Public, Numbered 87), fiscal year 1936, $36,000,000: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $7,950,000 made in the Emergency Appropriation Act of June 19, 1934 (48 Stat. 1060), for the purposes of said section 24, shall be available for the purposes named herein until June 30, 1936. Subscriptions to paid-in surplus of Federal land banks: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay for subscriptions to the paid-in .surplus of Federal land banks under section 23 of the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933, approved May 12, 1933 (48 Stat. 31), fiscal year 1936, $20,000,000: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $75,000,000 made in the Emergency Appropriation Act approved June 19, 1934 (48 Stat. 1060) for the purpose of said section 23, shall remain available until June 30, 1936. Expenses, Emergency Banking, Gold Reserve, and Silver Purchase Acts: The unobligated balance of the appropriation of $2,000,000 for “National Banking Emergency, Act March 9, 1933”, contained in the Emergency Banking Act, approved March 9, 1933, and the unobligated balance of the appropriation of $4,500,000 for “Expenses, Emergency Banking, Gold Reserve, and Silver Purchase Acts, 1934 and 1935”, contained in the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, approved June 19, 1934, are hereby consolidated, effective July 1, 1935, into an appropriation account, “Expenses, Emergency Banking, Gold Reserve and Silver Purchase Acts”, to remain available until June 30, 1936, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury for any purpose in connection with the carrying out of the provisions of the Emergency Banking Act, approved March 9, 1933 (48 Stat. 1), the Gold Reserve Act of 1934, approved January 30, 1934 (48 Stat. 337), the Silver Purchase Act of 1934, approved June 19, 1934 (48 Stat. 1178), any Executive orders, proclamations, and regulations issued under the foregoing Acts, and section 3653 of the Revised Statutes, including costs of transportation, insurance, and protection of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates transferred to Federal Reserve banks and branches, United States mints and assay offices, and the Treasury, after March 9, 1933, losses sustained by Federal Reserve banks due to abrasion of gold coin, and reimbursement to Federal Reserve banks and branches for expenses incurred by them in carrying out instructions issued by the Secretary of the Treasury after March 4, 1933. The Comptroller General of the United States is authorized and directed to allow credit in the accounts of Guy F. Allen, chief disbursing officer, Division of Disbursement, and J. L. Summers, disbursing clerk. Division of Disbursement, for disbursements made from the fund “Expenses, National Banking Emergency, Act March 9, 1933, Comptroller of Currency”, during the period March 6, 1933, to July 1, 1934, in connection with the emergency arising out of the national banking crisis and disallowed by the Comptroller General of the United States for any reason except fraud: Provided, That such total credit shall not exceed the sum of $25,000. division of supply Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding, Treasury Department, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1935, fiscal years 1935 and 1936, $48,760. office of commissioner of accounts and deposits Payment of unclaimed moneys: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to meet any expenditures of the character formerly chargeable to the appropriation accounts abolished under section 17 of the Permanent. Appropriation Repeal Act of 1934, approved June 26, 1934, payable from the funds held by the United States in the trust fund receipt account “Unclaimed moneys of individuals whose whereabouts are unknown”, fiscal year 1936, $10,000. bureau of the budget Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, Bureau of the Budget, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1936, $25,000. bureau of engraving and printing Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appro-priation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $491,780: Provided, That the limitations in said Act as to the number of delivered sheets of internal-revenue stamps, including opium orders and special-tax stamps required under the Act of December 17, 1914, is increased from 97,175,283 to 132,175,283 and as to the number of delivered sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work, from 10,438,121 to 10,738,121. secret service division White House Police: For an additional amount for salaries at the rates of pay provided by law, fiscal year 1936, $28,800. For an additional amount for uniforming and equipping the White House Police, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1936, $750. bureau of the mint Salaries and expenses, Mints and Assay Offices: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, Mints and Assay Offices, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1936, and in addition thereto the purchase of uniforms, arms, ammunition, and accessories for guards; procurement and installation of emergency gasoline-driven generator sets, emergency electric call systems, alarms, flood lights, radio-communication systems, tear-gas equipment, bullet-proof booths and window shields, wire screens and bars for windows, armor-plate covers for doors, heavy fences, and any other protective devices, fiscal year 1936, $150,000. procurement division—public works branch New York, New York, appraisers’ stores (old): The limit of cost fixed in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1930 (46 Stat. 901), for remodeling the New York, New York, appraisers’ stores (old), is hereby increased from $600,000 to $604,154.31. Payment of claims for relief of contractors, Act of June 16, 1934: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to make payment of claims settled and certified by the Comptroller General of the United States under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide relief to Government contractors whose costs of performance were increased as a result of compliance with the Act approved June 16, 1933, and for other purposes”, approved June 16, 1934 (48 Stat. 974), fiscal year 1936, $700,000. memorial to personnel of american expeditionary forces For settlement of any indebtedness in connection with Pershing Hall, a memorial already erected in Paris, France, under the auspices of the American Legion, Inc., to the commander in chief, officers, men, and auxiliary services of the American Expeditionary Forces, and for the creation by the Secretary of the Treasury of a special fund to be known as the “Pershing Hall Memorial Fund”, to be derived from the “Recreation fund, Army”, created by the War Department Appropriation Act approved March 4, 1933: Provided, That the amount herein appropriated shall not be used until the legal title to said property shall have been vested in the Government of the United States for the use and benefit of all American officers and enlisted men of the World War, all as authorized by the Act approved June 28, 1935, to remain available until expended, $482,032.92.

WAR DEPARTMENT military activities quartermaster corps Subsistence of the Army: For an additional amount for “Subsistence of the Army, 1935”, including the same objects specified under this head in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $1,800,000. Claim of the Public Service Coordinated Transport of Newark, New Jersey: For payment of the claim of the Public Service Coordinated Transport of Newark, New Jersey, upon settlement and adjustment by the Comptroller General of the United States, arising out of the removal by the War Department during the late war of certain tracks, car house, storage tracks, and so forth, belonging to said company or its predecessor, as authorized and directed in Private Act Numbered 25, Seventy-fourth Congress, approved April 24, 1935, $122,422.43, or so much thereof as may be necessary. ordnance department Seacoast defenses, insular possessions: For payment of General Accounting Office settlement, dated January 14, 1935, in favor of Wharton and Northern Railroad Company, fiscal year 1929, $117.10. Replacing ordnance and ordnance stores: For payment of General Accounting Office settlement, dated February 6, 1935, in favor of Carlos M. Aquino, fiscal years 1926 and 1927, $23.60. For payment of General Accounting Office Settlement Numbered 0301581, in favor of the Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company, chargeable to the appropriation “Replacing Ordnance and Ordnance Stores, 1926 and 1927”, $812.91. nonmilitary activities Construction of buildings for United States representative in the Philippine Islands: For the necessary housing for office and residence purposes for the establishment of the United States representative in the Philippine Islands, including the acquisition of land, the purchase, construction, and reconstruction of buildings, and the procurement of furniture, furnishings, and equipment, as authorized by the Act approved June 24, 1935, to remain available until expended, $750,000. Cemeterial expenses: For the purchase of ten thousand additional headstones, fiscal year 1936, $90,300. Protective works and measures, Lake of the Woods and Rainy River, Minnesota : For an additional amount for purchase of flowage easements and for protective works and measures along the shores of Lake of the Woods and the banks of Rainy River as authorized by sections 1 and 2 of the Act entitled “An Act to carry into effect provisions of the convention between the United States and Great Britain to regulate the level of Lake of the Woods, concluded on the 24th day of February 1925”, approved May 22, 1926, including the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles, printing and binding, and any other necessary expenses connected therewith, $125,000, to remain available until expended, and in addition thereto the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $375,000 made by the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1928, approved May 29, 1928 (45 Stat. 930), as extended by the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1932, approved July 1, 1932 (47 Stat. 542), is hereby continued and made available until expended.

TITLE II— GENERAL PUBLIC WORKS

tennessee valley authority For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “The Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933”, approved May 18, 1933 (48 Stat. 58), including the continued construction of Norris Dam, Wheeler Dam, Pickwick Landing Dam, and the beginning of construction on a dam at or near Guntersville, Alabama, and a dam at or near Chickamauga Creek, both on the Tennessee River, and a dam on the Hiwassee River, a tributary of the Tennessee River, at or near Fowlers Bend, and the continuation of preliminary investigations as to the location and desirability of a dam at or near Aurora Landing and a dam at or near Whites Creek, and the acquisition of necessary land, the clearing of such land, relocation of highways, and the construction or purchase of transmission lines and other facilities, and all other necessary works authorized by said Act, and for printing and binding, law books, books of reference, newspapers, periodicals, purchase, maintenance, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles, rents in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and all necessary salaries and expenses connected with the organization, operation, and investigations of the Tennessee Valley Authority, $36,000,000: Provided, That this appropriation and all appropriations, allotments, and other funds made available heretofore to the Tennessee Valley Authority, including any unexpended balances remaining from the appropriation of $50,000,000 made to the Tennessee Valley Authority by the Fourth Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1933, the allocation of $25,000,000 made to the Tennessee Valley Authority under the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, and the receipts of the Tennessee Valley Authority from all sources, except as limited by section 26 of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act approved May 18, 1933 (48 Stat. 58), shall be covered into and accounted for as one fund to be known as the “Tennessee Valley Authority Fund” and shall remain available until June 30, 1936: Provided further, That not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be expended on the dam on the Hiwassee River.

veterans’ administration Hospital and domiciliary facilities: For hospital and domiciliary facilities, $21,250,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That this amount is authorized to be used by the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs, with the approval of the President, for extending any of the facilities under the jurisdiction of the Veterans’ Administration or for any of the purposes set forth in sections 1 and 2 of the Act approved March 4, 1931 (46 Stat. 1550): Provided further, That not to exceed 3 per centum of this amount shall be available for the employment in the District of Columbia and in the field of necessary technical and clerical assistants at the customary rates of compensation exclusively to aid in the preparation of the plans and specifications for the projects authorized herein and for the supervision of the execution thereof, and for traveling expenses, rentals in the District of Columbia, field office equipment, and supplies in connection therewith.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR bureau of reclamation Boulder Canyon project: For the continuation of construction of the Boulder Canyon Dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Black Canyon, to create a storage reservoir, and of a complete plant and incidental structures suitable for the fullest economic development of electrical energy from the water discharged from such reservoir; to acquire by proceedings in eminent domain or otherwise, all lands, rights-of-way, and other property necessary for such purposes; and for incidental operations, as authorized by the Boulder Canyon Project Act, approved December 21, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. V, I, title 43, ch. 12A): $14,000,000, to remain available until advanced to the Colorado River Dam fund, which amount shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field without regard to the civil-service laws and the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and for all other objects of expenditure that are specified for projects included in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1936, under the caption “Bureau of Reclamation”: Provided, That of this fund not to exceed $35,000, reimbursable, shall be available for investigation and reports as authorized by section 15 of the Boulder Canyon Project Act.

NAVY DEPARTMENT bureau of yards and docks Public Works, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For public works and public utilities as authorized by the Act approved April 15, 1935 (Public Act Numbered 36, Seventy-fourth Congress), and for improvement of fresh-water system at the Fleet Air Base, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, $13,874,000, of which not to exceed $416,000 shall be available for the employment of classified personal services in the Bureau of Yards and Docks and in the field service to be engaged upon such work and to be in addition to employees otherwise provided for: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to commence, continue, or complete the construction of, or make provision for, by contract or otherwise, the following-named public-works and public-utilities projects at a limit of cost not to exceed the amount stated for each project enumerated, respectively: Navy Yard, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Floating dry dock, type B, including mooring facilities and accessories, $10,000,000; floating dry dock, type D, including mooring facilities and accessories, $750,000; Naval Ammunition Depots, Balboa, and Coco Solo, Canal Zone: Ammunition storage facilities, including buildings and accessories, $2,000,000; Fleet Air Base, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Barracks and mess hall for enlisted men, $587,000; quarters for officers, $200,000; quarters for chief petty officers, $180,000; paint and oil storehouse building and accessories, $30,000; garage and fire-station buildings and accessories, $22,000; boathouse building and accessories, $25,000; improvement of fresh-water system, $80,000. Navy Yard, Puget Sound, Washington: For purchase of land for foundry extension, $10,000. increase of the navy Armor, armament, and ammunition: For an additional amount toward the armor, armament, and ammunition for vessels heretofore authorized, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Navy Department for the fiscal year 1935, $6,110,000, to remain available until expended.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE For the erection and initial furnishing of a building on the site at Shanghai, China, owned by the Government of the United States; and for the acquisition of an embassy residence and the initial alteration, repair and furnishing thereof and the conversion by alteration, repair and furnishing of the government owned combined office and residence building, to provide office accommodations for the use of the diplomatic and consular and other establishments of the United States at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and for the acquisition of a legation residence and the initial alteration, repair, and furnishing thereof, at Ottawa, Canada, $1,325,000, which shall be available for the purposes and subject to the applicable provisions of the Foreign Service Buildings Act of 1926, as amended (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 22, secs. 292–299).

TREASURY DEPARTMENT procurement division—public works branch Public buildings outside the District of Columbia: For emergency construction of public building projects outside of the District of Columbia (including the acquisition, where necessary, by purchase, condemnation, exchange, or otherwise of sites and additional land for such buildings; the demolition of old buildings where necessary and construction, remodeling, or extension of buildings; rental of temporary quarters during construction, including moving expenses; purchase of necessary equipment for buildings and such additional administrative expenses and salaries as may be required solely for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this paragraph), $60,000,000; such projects, including the sites therefor, to be selected by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster General, acting jointly, from the public-building projects specified in Statement Numbered 1 contained in House Report Numbered 1879 Seventy-third Congress, second session, as revised April 15, 1935, and Statement Numbered 2 attached thereto, and the projects so selected shall be carried out within the respective estimates of proposed limits of cost specified in such Statement Numbered 1 and those hereafter fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster General for projects selected from Statement Numbered 2 and otherwise, except that the unobligated balance of the $2,500,000 fund established by the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, approved June 19, 1934 (48 Stat. 1061), shall be available also for the augmentation of limits of cost of projects selected under the provisions of this Act in an amount not exceeding 10 per centum for any project and including $70,000 for the, completion of the Oak Park (Illinois), post-office building as planned by the Treasury Department, and $56,000 for the Marquette (Michigan), post-office and courthouse building, in order to award the contract therefor to the lowest responsible bidder: Provided, That with a view to relieving country-wide unemployment the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster General, in the selection of towns or cities in which buildings are to be constructed, shall endeavor to distribute the projects equitably throughout the country so far as may be consistent with the needs of the public service; and the Secretaiy of the Treasury and the Postmaster General may also select for prosecution under this appropriation such projects not included in such revised report as in their judgment are economically sound and advantageous to the public service: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to direct the preparation of all sketches, estimates, plans and specifications (including supervision and inspection thereof), and to enter into all contracts necessary for carrying out the purposes of this paragraph, and he is hereby authorized, when deemed by him desirable and advantageous to employ by contract or otherwise, temporary professional, technical, or nontechnical employees, firms, or corporations to such extent as may be required to carry out the purposes of this paragraph, without reference to civil-service laws, rules, regulations, or to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, or to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5): Provided further, That in the acquisition of land or sites for the purposes of Federal public buildings and in the construction of such buildings provided for in this paragraph, the provisions of sections 305 and 306 of the Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932, as amended, shall apply. Public buildings, District of Columbia: The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into contracts for construction of the following public-building projects in the District of Columbia, in amounts not exceeding the following respective estimated limits of cost, which limits of cost shall include salaries and other expenses required solely for the purpose of carrying out said public-building projects; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to direct the preparation of all sketches, estimates, plans, and specifications (including supervision and inspection thereof), and to enter into all contracts necessary for carrying out the purposes of this paragraph, and he is hereby authorized, when deemed by him desirable and advantageous, to employ, by contract or otherwise, temporary professional, technical, or nontechnical employees, firms, or corporations, to such extent as may be required to carry out the purposes of this paragraph, without reference to civil-service laws, rules, and regulations, or to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, or to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5): Bureau of Engraving and Printing: For site and construction of an additional building for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and other Treasury Department activities, including furniture, equipment, moving expenses, rental of temporary quarters during construction, demolition of the Economics Building located on the proposed site and, if necessary, the replacement thereof on Government-owned land, railroad sidings, and all necessary tunnels connecting the proposed building with the railroad sidings and with the main Bureau of Engraving and Printing Building, $2,000,000, within a total limit of cost not to exceed $5,500,000. Government Printing Office: For necessary land and construction of annex buildings for the Government Printing Office, including rights-of-way, furniture, moving expenses, rental of temporary quarters during construction, railroad sidings, alterations to existing buildings, all necessary tunnels connecting proposed and existing buildings, demolition of existing structures, all necessary changes in mechanical equipment, $2,000,000, within a total limit of cost not to exceed $5,885,000. General Accounting Office: For the extension on land owned by the Government and remodeling of the old Pension Office Building now occupied by the General Accounting Office, including furniture, equipment, rent of temporary quarters during construction, and moving expenses, $2,000,000, within a total limit of cost not to exceed $4,700,000.

WAR DEPARTMENT quartermaster corps Construction of buildings, utilities, and appurtenances at military posts: For construction, remodeling, reconditioning, and installation at military posts of buildings and appurtenances thereto, including interior facilities, necessary services, roads, connections to water, sewer, gas, and electric mains, and similar improvements without reference to sections 1136 and 3734, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 10, sec. 1339; title 40, sec. 267), including also the engagement by contract or otherwise without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), and without regard to the restrictions of existing law governing the employment or compensation of employees of the United States, and at such rates of compensation as the Secretary of War may determine of the services of architects or firms or corporations thereof and other technical and professional personnel as may be necessary, and including also general overhead expenses of transportation, engineering, supplies, inspection and supervision, travel connected therewith, and such services as may be necessary in the office of the Quartermaster General, to remain available until expended, $9,850,000 as follows: Toward construction at the United States Military Academy, $5,324,250; toward construction of an airdrome in Hawaii, $4,525,750. corps of engineers River and Harbor Works: For an additional amount for the construction, preservation, and maintenance of works of river and harbor improvement, including the same objects specified under this head in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $10,000,000, to remain available until expended.

TITLE III— JUDGMENTS AND AUTHORIZED CLAIMS