Public Law 74–6

JOINT RESOLUTION

Making additional appropriations for the Federal Communications Commission, the National Mediation Board, and the Securities and Exchange Commission for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, and for other purposes.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SENATE For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fiscal year 1935, $140,000. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenographers of committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding 25 cents per hundred words, fiscal year 1935, $75,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for services, personal, professional, or otherwise, in excess of the rate of $3,600 per annum: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for per diem and subsistence expenses except in accordance with the provisions of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, approved June 3, 1926, as amended. Salaries of Senators appointed to fill vacancies in the Senate shall commence on the day of their appointment and continue until their successors are elected and qualified: Provided, That when Senators have been elected during a sine die adjournment of the Senate to succeed appointees, the salaries of Senators so elected shall commence on the day following their election. Salaries of Senators elected during a session to succeed appointees shall commence on the day they qualify: Provided, That when Sena-tors have been elected during a session to succeed appointees, but have not qualified, the salaries of Senators so elected shall commence on the day following the sine die adjournment of the Senate. When no appointments have been made the salaries of Senators elected to fill such vacancies shall commence on the day following their election.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA-VIRGINIA BOUNDARY COMMISSION For an additional amount for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of Public Act Numbered 125, Seventy-third Congress, entitled “An Act to provide for the appointment of a Commission to establish the boundary line between the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Virginia”, approved March 21, 1934, including salaries, travel, and subsistence expenses as authorized by law, fiscal year 1935, $4,000.

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION For all authorized expenditures of the Federal Communications Commission in performing the duties imposed by the Communications Act of 1934, approved June 19, 1934 (48 Stat., 1064), the Ship Act, approved June 24, 1910, as amended (U. S. C., title 46, sees. 484–487), the International Radiotelegraphie Convention (45 Stat., pt. 2, 2760), and Executive Order Numbered 3513, dated July 9, 1921, as amended by Executive Order Numbered 6779, dated June 30, 1934, relating to applications for submarine cable licenses, including personal services, contract stenographic reporting services, rental of quarters, newspapers, periodicals, reference books, law books, special counsel fees, supplies and equipment, including purchase and exchange of instruments, which may be purchased without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $25. improvement and care of grounds and repairs to buildings, traveling expenses, including expenses of attendance at meetings which in the discretion of the Commission are necessary for the efficient discharge of its responsibilities, and other necessary expenses, $480,000.

NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD For all printing and binding for the National Mediation Board, $1,750. national railroad adjustment board For authorized expenditures of the National Railroad Adjustment Board, in performing the duties imposed by law, including personal services; contract stenographic reporting services; supplies and equipment; law books and books of reference; periodicals; traveling expenses; and rent of quarters outside the District of Columbia, $150,000.

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION For all authorized expenditures of the Securities and Exchange Commission in performing the duties imposed by law or in pursuance of law and for other personal services, including employment of experts when necessary; contract stenographic reporting services; supplies and equipment; purchase and exchange of law books, books of reference, directories, periodicals, newspaper and press clippings; travel expenses, including the expense of attendance, when specifically authorized by the Commission, at meetings concerned with the work of the Securities and Exchange Commission; garage rental; foreign postage; mileage and witness fees; rent of building and equipment at the seat of Government and elsewhere; and other necessary expenses; $900,000. For all printing and binding for the Securities and Exchange Commission, $21,000.

COMPENSATION OF GOVERNMENT OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES Sec. 2. (a) Section 3 (b) of title II of the Act entitled “An Act to maintain the credit of the United States Government”, approved March 20, 1933, as amended, is amended by striking out “shall not exceed 5 per centum during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935”, and inserting in lieu thereof “shall not, during the portion of the fiscal year 1935 prior to April 1, 1935, exceed 5 per centum, and after March 31, 1935, there shall be no such reduction.” (b) Subsections (b) and (c) of section 21 of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1935, are amended by striking out “the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935”, wherever such phrase appears, and inserting in lieu thereof “that portion of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, prior to April 1, 1935,” except that this amendatory provision shall not apply to section 107 (a) (1), (2), (3), and (4) of part II of the Legislative Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1933 (relating to certain special salary reductions). (c) Nothing in this resolution shall be construed as permitting any reduction in rates of compensation in effect at the time of the passage of this resolution. (d) There is hereby appropriated so much as may be necessary for the payment of sums due and payable out of the Treasury of the United States, by reason of the discontinuance of the reduction of compensation provided for in this resolution; and limitations on amounts for personal services are hereby respectively increased in proportion to the increase in appropriations for personal services made in this subsection. In the case of officers and employees of the municipal government of the District of Columbia, such sums 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 Act for the fiscal year 1935.

Approved, February 13, 1935.