Public Law 75–277

That the following

Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937.

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, 1937, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1937, and June 30, 1938, and for other purposes, namely:

TITLE I— GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS LEGISLATIVE ESTABLISHMENT

senate For the employment of a laborer in the office of the Secretary of the Senate during the fiscal year 1938, $1,260. For folding speeches and pamphlets at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, fiscal year 1937, $5,000. 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 1937, is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1938. The unobligated balances of the appropriations for miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, contingent fund of the Senate, for the fiscal years 1936 and 1937, are reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1938.

house of representatives For payment to the widow of James P. Buchanan, late a Representative from the State of Texas, $10,000. For payment to the widow of Benjamin K. Focht, late a Representative from the State of Pennsylvania, $10,000. For payment to the widow of Henry E. Stubbs, late a Representative from the State of California, $10,000. The three foregoing sums to be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House.

united states constitution sesquicentennial commission The appropriation for the United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission, contained in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936, shall be available, in addition to the objects of expenditure for which available under existing law, for rent in the District of Columbia, individual photographs, books, periodicals, official cards, newspapers, newspaper clippings, purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, notarial seals, per diem allowances in lieu of actual expenses of subsistence within and outside the District of Columbia, and including payment of obligations for the foregoing purposes heretofore incurred in connection with the work of such Commission.

office of the architect of the capitol Capitol Grounds: The unexpended balance on June 30, 1937, of the allocation of $25,000 made immediately available under the appropriation for the Capitol Grounds, contained in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1937, is hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1938.

library of congress Legislative reference: For printing the Digest of Public General Bills for the first session of the Seventy-fifth Congress, prepared in the legislative reference service, fiscal year 1937, $7,500. 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 (U. S. C., title 2, sec. 135a), as amended, fiscal year 1938, $100,000: Provided, That a statement of expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget.

EXECUTIVE INDEPENDENT OFFICES federal communications commission Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses of the Federal Communications Commission, fiscal year 1937, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1937, $60,000. great lakes exposition For the expenses of the participation of the Government of the United States in the Great Lakes Exposition as provided for by Public Resolution Numbered 23, approved April 12, 1937, $100,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the Great Lakes Exposition contained in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice, and for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, to remain available until June 30, 1938. interstate commerce commission General administrative expenses: For an additional amount for eleven Commissioners, secretary, and for all other authorized expenditures necessary in the execution of laws to regulate commerce, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1937, fiscal year 1937, $95,000: Provided, That the reappropriation under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1937, making available for the fiscal year 1937, $118,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1935, is hereby repealed. Regulating accounts: For an additional amount to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce compliance with section 20 and other sections of the Interstate Commerce Act as amended by the Act approved June 29, 1906 (U. S. C., title 49, sec. 20), and as amended by the Transportation Act, 1920 (U. S. C., title 49, sec. 20), including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1937, fiscal year 1937, $5,000: Provided, That the reappropriation under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1937, making available for the fiscal year 1937, $5,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1935, is hereby repealed. Signal safety systems: For an additional amount for all authorized expenditures under section 26 of the Interstate Commerce Act as amended by the Transportation Act, 1920 (U. S. C., title 49, sec. 26), with respect to the provision thereof under which carriers by railroad subject to the Act may be required to install automatic train-stop or train-control devices which comply with specifications and requirements prescribed by the Commission, including investigations and tests pertaining to block signal and train-control systems, as author ized by the joint resolution approved June 30, 1906 (U. S. C., title 45, sec. 35), and including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1937, fiscal year 1937, $2,000: Provided, That the reappropriation under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1937, making available for the fiscal year 1937, $2,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1935, is hereby repealed. Locomotive inspection: For an additional amount for all authorized expenditures under the provisions of the Act of February 17, 1911, entitled “An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto” (U. S. C., title 45, sec. 22), as amended, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1937, fiscal year 1937, $16,000: Provided, That the reappropriation under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1937, making available for the fiscal year 1937, $16,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1935, is hereby repealed. Valuation of property of carriers: For an additional amount to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to carry out the objects of the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate commerce’, approved February 4, 1887, and all Acts amendatory thereof, by providing for a valuation of the several classes of property of carriers subject thereto and securing information concerning their stocks, bonds, and other securities”, approved March 1, 1913, as amended, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1937, fiscal year 1937, $2,000:Provided, That the reappropriation under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1937, making available for the fiscal year 1937, $2,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1935, is hereby repealed. national advisory committee for aeronautics Construction, equipment, and research: 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, 1937, $453,000, to continue available until June 30, 1938, of which amount, $353,000 shall be available only for the construction and equipment of facilities and for the purchase of an airplane of the light metal private type for experimental purposes: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $1,367,000 for scientific research, special investigations, and technical reports, in the field of aeronautics, contained in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1938, for the same purposes. national mediation board National Railroad Adjustment Board: Not to exceed $8,000 of the amount made available only for services of referees under the appropriation for salaries and expenses, National Railroad Adjustment Board, National Mediation Board, fiscal year 1937, may be transferred to the appropriation for printing and binding, National Railroad Adjustment Board, National Mediation Board, fiscal year 1937.

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 (U. S. C., title 16, ch. 12a), as amended by the Act approved August 31, 1935 (49 Stat., 1075–1081), including the continued construction of Pickwick Landing Dam, Guntersville Dam, Chickamauga Dam, and Hiwassee Dam, and for construction of a dam at or near Gilbertsville, Kentucky, and for preliminary investigations of sites for dams at or near Watts Bar and at or near Coulter’s Site on the Tennessee River, Tennessee, 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 such Acts, 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, and for examination of estimates of appropriations and activities in the field, fiscal year 1938, $40,166,270: Provided, That this appropriation and any unexpended balance on June 30, 1937, in the “Tennessee Valley Authority fund, 1937”, and the receipts of the Tennessee Valley Authority from all sources during the fiscal year 1938 (except as limited by section 26 of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, as amended), shall be covered into and accounted for as one fund to be known as the “Tennessee Valley Authority fund, 1938”, to remain available until June 30, 1938, and to be available for the payment of obligations chargeable against the “Tennessee Valley Authority fund, 1937”: Provided further, That in addition to the amount herein appropriated, the Tennessee Valley Authority is hereby authorized to incur obligations and enter into contracts for the procurement of equipment to be installed in dams and powerhouses in an amount not in excess of $4,000,000, and this action shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Tennessee Valley Authority and the United States for payment of the cost thereof.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA contingent and miscellaneous expenses Judicial expenses: For an additional amount for judicial expenses, including the same objects and under the same conditions and limitations applicable to the appropriation for this purpose in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1936, $359.21. General advertising: For an additional amount for general advertising, including the same objects and under the same conditions and limitations applicable to the appropriation for this purpose in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1936, $3,311.21. public schools Buildings and grounds: For buildings and grounds, public schools District of Columbia, in addition to the amounts for this purpose contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1937, and subject to the applicable conditions and limitations therein set forth, as follows: Lafayette School, $33,000; Truesdell School,$22,500; Grimke School, $35,000; Paul Junior High School, $33,000; and Eastern High School, $26,500; in all, $150,000. courts Supreme Court, District of Columbia: For an additional amount for fees of jurors and witnesses, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for the following fiscal years: 1935, $207.70; 1936, $1,193.78; 1937, $17,000. 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 1936, $11,509.63. Miscellaneous court expenses: For an additional amount for such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1937, $15,000. Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding for the Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, except records and briefs in cases in which the United States is a party, fiscal year 1936, $48.25. public welfare 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 1937, $58,000. Tuberculosis hospital and sanatorium: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $80,000 for furniture and equipment for the new sanatorium contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1937 is continued available during the fiscal year 1938. District Training School: For an additional amount for maintenance and other necessary expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1937, $12,000. 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 fiscal year 1937, $2,500. Home for Aged and Infirm: For an additional amount for provisions, fuel, forage, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1937, $8,000. 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 1936, $17,496.40. 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 (46 Stat. 1199), $29,691.93, to continue available until June 30, 1938. judgments For the payment of final judgments, including costs, rendered against the District of Columbia, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 61, Seventy-fifth Congress, $13,610.96, 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. For the payment of final judgment, including costs, rendered against the District of Columbia, together with the further sum to pay the interest at not exceeding 4 per centum per annum on such judgment, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment, payable from the special fund created by section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for a tax on motor-vehicle fuels sold within the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved April 23, 1924 (43 Stat. 106), and accretions by repayment of assessments, as follows: The American Oil Co., a Maryland corporation, $95,748.91. 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 1934 and prior fiscal years: Public schools, District of Columbia, 1933, repairs to buildings, $15.77; Public schools, District of Columbia, 1933, books and periodicals, $39; Workhouse and reformatory, District of Columbia, 1934, maintenance, $15.75; District Training School, District of Columbia, 1933, maintenance, $305.19; Playgrounds, District of Columbia, 1934, bathing pools, $35.10; Militia, District of Columbia, 1934, $15.60; In all, audited claims, $426.41. 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, as amended by the Act approved June 5, 1930, and certified to Congress in House Document Numbered 235 of the Seventy-fifth Congress, $3,120.36. Division of expenses: The foregoing sums for the District of Columbia 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 the respective fiscal years for which such sums are provided.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE office of the secretary Printing and binding: For an additional amount for all printing and binding for the Department of Commerce, fiscal year 1937, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1937, $205,000, to continue available until June 30, 1938. national bureau of standards Operation and administration: For an additional amount for the general operation and administration of the Bureau, fiscal year 1937, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1937, $900. Testing, inspection, and information service: For an additional amount for calibrating and certifying measuring instruments, apparatus, and standards in terms of the national standards, fiscal year 1937, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1937, $50,900. Research and development: For an additional amount for the maintenance and development of national standards of measurement, fiscal year 1937, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1937, $34,700. Standards for Commerce: For an additional amount for cooperation with Government purchasing agencies, industries, and national organizations in developing specifications and facilitating their use, fiscal year 1937, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1937, $2,900. bureau of lighthouses General expenses: For an additional amount for supplies, including replacement of and necessary additions to existing equipment, repairs, maintenance, and incidental expenses of lighthouses and other lights, fiscal year 1937, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1937, $132,890, to continue available until June 30, 1938. Salaries, lighthouse vessels: For an additional amount for salaries and wages of officers and crews of light vessels and lighthouse tenders, fiscal year 1937, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1937, $35,000. Retired pay, Lighthouse Service: For an additional amount for retired pay of officers and employees engaged in the field service or on vessels of the Lighthouse Service, fiscal year 1937, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1937, $14,000. bureau of fisheries Removal and reestablishment of the Little White Salmon fish cultural station : For removal of the fish cultural station on the Little White Salmon River in the State of Washington and its reestablishment elsewhere in said State, including purchase of site (not to exceed $6,000), building materials, and equipment; temporary labor; construction of buildings, rearing ponds, water-supply system, and other fish-cultural facilities, and all other necessary expenses, fiscal year 1937, $60,000, to remain available until June 30, 1938. coast and geodetic survey Pay and allowances, commissioned officers: For an additional amount for pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned officers, fiscal year 1936, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Commerce. Appropriation Act, 1936, $2,640.99.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR war minerals relief commission For an additional amount for payment of awards made by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the Act approved May 18, 1936 (49 Stat. 1355), and June 30, 1936 (49 Stat. 2040), amending section 5 of the War Minerals Relief Act of March 2, 1919, as amended, fiscal year 1937, to remain available during the fiscal year 1938, $750,000, of which not more than $100,000 shall be available for the payment of awards under such Act of June 30, 1936: Provided, That all awards made by the Secretary of the Interior for payment under this appropriation shall be certified to the General Accounting Office for settlement through that Office. general land office Payments to States of 5 per centum of proceeds from sales of public lands (receipt limitation): For an additional amount for payment to the several States of 5 per centum of the net proceeds of sales of public lands lying within their limits, for the purpose of education or of making public roads and improvements, fiscal year 1937, $855.93: Provided, That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. Payments to certain counties in Oregon of proceeds of sales of Coos Bay wagon-road grant lands and timber (receipt limitation): For an additional amount for payment of 25 per centum of the balance of the proceeds from sales of the Coos Bay wagon-road grant lands and timber within each of the counties of Coos and Douglas, Oregon, after deducting the accrued taxes in said counties and a sum equal to $2.50 per acre for the land title to which revested in the United States pursuant to the Act of February 26, 1919 (40 Stat. 1179), to be paid to the treasurer of the county for common schools, roads, highways, bridges, and port districts, fiscal year 1937, $12,576.73: Provided, That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. Payments to certain counties in Oregon in lieu of taxes on Oregon and California grant lands (receipt limitation): For an additional amount for payment to the several counties in the State of Oregon, pursuant to the Act of July 13, 1926 (44 Stat. 915), amounts of money in lieu of the taxes that would have accrued against the revested Oregon and California Railroad Company grant lands if the lands had remained privately owned and taxable, fiscal year 1937, $465,000: Provided, That payments to the counties shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. bureau of indian affairs Payment to Indians of Sioux Reservations: For payment of Sioux benefits to Indians of the Sioux Reservations, as authorized by the Act of March 2, 1889 (25 Stat. 895), as amended, fiscal year 1935, $412.65. Suppressing contagious diseases among livestock of Indians: For reimbursing Indians of the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico, for stock destroyed on account of being infected with Malta fever and for expenses in connection with the eradication and prevention of thisdisease, fiscal year 1937, $7,500, to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe and to remain available until June 30, 1938. Operation and maintenance, San Xavier irrigation project, Arizona (tribal funds): For operation and maintenance of the irrigation project on the San Xavier Reservation, Arizona, fiscal year 1936, to remain available until June 30, 1938, $500, payable from the funds derived from the rental of San Xavier tribal lands for motion-picture enterprises. Improvement and maintenance, irrigation system, Colorado River Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable): For an additional amount for improvement, operation, and maintenance of the pumping plants and irrigation system on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona, as provided by the Act of April 4, 1910 (36 Stat. 273), fiscal year 1937, $6,500, reimbursable. Irrigation, Indian reservations (reimbursable): For repairs to the Zuni Dam, Zuni Indian Pueblo, New Mexico, fiscal year 1937, to remain available until June 30, 1938, $80,000, reimbursable. Construction and equipment, Point Barrow Hospital, Alaska: For the construction and equipment of a hospital at Point Barrow, Alaska, $100,000, to remain available until June 30, 1938: Provided,That any money received from insurance on the Point Barrow Hospital building destroyed by fire shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts. New vessel for Indian Service, Alaska, emergency construction: For an additional amount for construction of a new vessel with a carrying capacity of not less than 1,300 tons, to take the place of the Boxer, fiscal year 1931, $222.54. Support of hospitals, Chippewas in Minnesota (tribal funds): For an additional amount for support of hospitals maintained for the benefit of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, fiscal year 1937, $9,000, payable from the principal sum on deposit to the credit of said Indians arising under section 7 of the Act of January 14, 1889 (25 Stat. 645). Expenses, Annette Island Reserve, Alaska (receipt limitation): For an additional amount for pay of employees, village improvements, relief of destitution, and such other purposes as may be requested by the town council of Matlakahtla, Annette Island Reserve, Alaska, and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, fiscal year 1937, to remain available until June 30, 1938, $40,000: Provided, That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. national park service Salaries and general expenses, public buildings and grounds in the District of Columbia: For an additional amount for administration, protection, and maintenance of public buildings and grounds in the District of Columbia, under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of the Interior Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, $421,315. Emergency reconstruction and fighting forest fires in national parks: For an additional amount for reconstruction, replacement, and repair of roads, trails, bridges, buildings, and other physical improvements and of equipment in national parks or national monuments that are damaged or destroyed by flood, fire, storm, or other unavoidable causes and for fighting or emergency prevention of forest fires in national parks or other areas administered by the National Park Service, or fires that endanger such areas, fiscal year 1937, $130,000: Provided, That the allotment of these funds to the various national parks or areas administered by the National Park Service as may be required for fire-fighting purposes shall be made by the Secretary of the Interior, and then only after the obligation for the expenditure has been incurred. office of education Salaries and expenses, vocational rehabilitation: For an additional amount for carrying out the provisions of section 6 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry, and so forth”, approved June 2, 1920 (U. S. C., title 29, sec. 31), and the Acts of June 9, 1930, and June 30, 1932 (U. S. C., title 29, secs. 31, 40), and August 14, 1935 (49 Stat. 620), fiscal year 1937, $4,000. government in the territories Legislative expenses, Territory of Alaska: For an additional amount for legislative expenses for the fiscal year 1937, including $5,400 for salaries of members; $1,290 for salaries of employees; $2,010 for printing, indexing, comparing proofs, and binding laws, printing, indexing, and binding journals, stationery, supplies, printing of bills, reports, and so forth; in all, $8,700, to be expended under the direction of the Governor of Alaska. Alaska Railroad Appropriated Fund: For an additional amount for every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Alaska Railroad including the same objects and subject to the same limitations specified under this head in the Department of the Interior Appropriation Act, 1937, and including alterations and repairs to chartered vessels and payment of commissions to dock agents, $172,222, to continue available until expended. 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 1937, $10,000, 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 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, 1937, fiscal year 1937, $16,000. federal bureau of investigation Claims for damages: For the payment of claims for damages to any person or damages to or loss of privately owned property caused by employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, acting within the scope of their employment, considered, adjusted, and determined by the Attorney General, under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and settlement of certain claims arising out of the activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation”, approved March 20, 1936 (49 Stat. 1184), as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 221 of the Seventy-fifth Congress, $796.05. judicial Salaries of judges: For an additional amount for salaries of circuit, district, and retired judges, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1937, fiscal year 1937, $45,000. Salaries and expenses, United States Court for China: The appropriation for salaries and expenses, United States Court for China, contained in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1938, is hereby made immediately available for the payment of obligations (not to exceed $1,850) for such court incurred in the fiscal year 1937. marshals and other expenses of united states courts Salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals: For additional amounts for salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1931, $170.64. Salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals: For 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 1937, $33,000. Case of The United States against the Northern Pacific Railway Company and Others: The unexpended balance of the appropriation “Salaries and Expenses, case of Northern Pacific Railway Co. and Others, 1936 and 1937”, contained in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936, is continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1938. Pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts: For additional amounts for pay of special assistant attorneys, 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 1934, $4,000; For 1935, $2,948.57. Salaries and expenses of clerks: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses of clerks, United States courts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1937, fiscal year 1937, $20,000. Fees of commissioners: For additional amounts for fees of United States commissioners and other committing magistrates acting under section 1014, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 18, sec. 591), for the following fiscal years: For 1925, $688.10; For 1930, $24.45; For 1933, $52,23. Fees and expenses of conciliation commissioners, United States courts: For an additional amount for fees of conciliation commissioners, and per-diem allowance and traveling expenses of supervising conciliation commissioners, as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States’, approved July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto”, as amended, fiscal years 1935 and 1936, $40,000. Pay or bailiffs, and so forth: For an additional amount for pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1937, fiscal year 1937, $20,000. Miscellaneous expenses: For an additional amount for miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1937, fiscal year 1937, $75,000. Rent of courtrooms, United States courts: For an additional amount for rent of rooms for the United States courts and juridical officers, fiscal year 1935, $245.81. Supplies for United States courts: 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, fiscal year 1934, $1.75. Compensation of special master in case of United States against Walker River Irrigation District and others: For the compensation of B. F. Curler as special master in case of United States against Walker River Irrigation District and others, in accordance with the order of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada, dated April 13, 1936, $12,000. penal and correctional institutions United States Penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington: For an additional amount for the acquisition of land on McNeil Island, and Gertrudis Island, and Pitt Island, in the State of Washington, $53,000. Support of United States prisoners: For additional amounts for support of United States prisoners, including the same objects specified under this head in the Acts making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the following fiscal years: For 1929, $61.45; For 1932, $201.30. National Training School for Boys, Washington, District of Columbia: For an additional amount for National Training School for Boys, Washington, District of Columbia, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1937, fiscal year 1937, $11,500.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR immigration and naturalization service Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, Immigration and Naturalization Service, fiscal year 1937. for payment only of extra compensation for overtime services or inspectors and employees for which the United States receives reimbursement in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March 2, 1931 (U. S. C., title 8, secs. 109a and 109b), $100,000. women’s bureau Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to establish in the Department of Labor a Bureau to be known as the Women’s Bureau”, approved June 5, 1920 (U. S. C., title 29, secs. 11–16), fiscal year 1937, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1937, $825.

NAVY DEPARTMENT office of the secretary Claim for damages by collision with naval vessels: To pay claims for damages adjusted and determined by the Secretary of the Navy under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to settle claims for damages to private property arising from collisions with naval vessels”, approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 226, Seventy-fifth Congress, $103.59. bureau of navigation Transportation: For travel allowance, 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 1923, fiscal year 1923, $44.30. 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: Navy Yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Improvement of switching equipment, including shelter, $85,000; Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Virginia: Extension of assembly and repair shop, $75,000; Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, Virginia: For an additional amount for improvement of water front, $160,000; Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida: Improvement of water supply, $40,000; In all, $360,000, 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. naval observatory Contingent and miscellaneous expenses: For professional and scientific books 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, fiscal year 1935, $13.69.

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT (Out of the Postal Revenues) office of the postmaster general Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding for the Post Office Department, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, fiscal year 1937, $100,000. 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 Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1936, fiscal year 1936, $4,000. office of the first assistant postmaster general Compensation to postmasters: For an additional amount for compensation to postmasters, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1937, fiscal year 1937, $1,000,000. Clerks, first- and second-class post offices: For an additional amount for compensation to clerks and employees at first- and second-class post offices, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1937, fiscal year 1937, $6,500,000. Clerks, third-class post offices: For an additional amount for allowances to third-class post offices to cover the cost of clerical services, fiscal year 1937, $225,000. Carfare and bicycle allowance: For an additional amount for carfare and bicycle allowance, including special-delivery carfare, fiscal year 1937, $25,000. City delivery carriers: For an additional amount for pay of letter carriers, City Delivery Service, fiscal year 1937, $400,000. Special-delivery fees: For an additional amount for fees to special delivery messengers, for the following fiscal years: For 1936, $318,000; For 1937, $875,000. office of second assistant postmaster general Railroad transportation and mail messenger service: For an additional amount for inland transportation by railroad routes and for mail messenger service, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1937, fiscal year 1937, $5,300,000. Foreign-mail transportation: For an additional amount for transportation of foreign mails by steamship, aircraft, or otherwise, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1938, fiscal year 1938, $488,500: Provided, That the limitations in such Act with respect to expenditures for the fiscal year 1938 and obligations for the fiscal year 1939 for carrying foreign mails by aircraft are hereby increased in the amount of $488,500. Contract air-mail service: For an additional amount for the inland transportation of mail by aircraft, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1936, fiscal year 1936, $12,000. office of third assistant postmaster general Manufacture and distribution of stamps and stamped paper: For an additional amount for the manufacture and distribution of stamps and stamped paper, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1937, fiscal year 1937, $250,000.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE Printing and binding, Department of State: For an additional amount for printing and binding in the Department of State, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, fiscal year 1937, $5,500. Passport agencies: For an additional amount for passport agencies, Department of State, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1937, fiscal year 1937, $6,510. 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, 1937, fiscal year 1937, $53,200. Foreign Service clerks’ salaries: The sum of $9,000 is hereby transferred from the appropriation “Office and living quarters. Foreign Service, 1936”, to the appropriation “Salaries, Foreign Service clerks, 1936”. Conference on Extraterritorial Rights in Egypt: For the expenses of participation by the United States in a Conference on Extraterritorial Rights in Egypt, to be held at Montreux, Switzerland, in 1937, including personal services in the District of Columbia or 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); rent; traveling expenses; local transportation; printing and binding; official cards; purchase of necessary books, documents, newspapers, and periodicals; stationery; entertainment; and such other expenses as the Secretary of State may authorize, including the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of the purposes herein specified, fiscal year 1937, $3,500, to remain available until June 30, 1938. Joint Committee of American and Philippine Experts: For expenses of the American section of a joint committee of American and Philippine experts in making preparations for the conference authorized by section 13 of the Act of March 24, 1934 (48 Stat. 456), including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere without regard to the civil-service laws and the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; 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); rent in the District of Columbia or elsewhere; traveling expenses; purchase of necessary furniture and fixtures, books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, and charts; 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, $42,000, to remain available until June 30, 1938. Reappropriations for international conferences: The unexpended balances of the appropriations “International Monetary and Economic Conference, 1933–1937”, and “General Disarmament Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 1933–1937”, contained in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936, are continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1938. The unexpended balance of the appropriation “International Radio Consulting Committee, Rumania, 1937”, contained in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1937, is continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1938. The unexpended balance of the appropriation “Conference to Revise Convention for Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, Brussels, Belgium, 1936 and 1937”, contained in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936, is continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1938. The unexpended balance of the appropriation “Conference on oil pollution of navigable waters, 1936 and 1937”, contained in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936, is continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1938. The unexpended balance of the appropriation “Arbitration of smelter fumes controversy, United States and Canada, 1936 and 1937”, contained in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1937, is continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1938. Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany: For an additional amount for the Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany, fiscal year 1937, to remain available until June 30, 1938, $35,000, including the same objects specified under this head in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936. General Claims Convention, United States and Mexico: For an additional amount for the General Claims Convention, United States and Mexico, fiscal year 1938, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1938, $8,400.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT office of the secretary Administrative expenses, Adjusted Compensation Payment Act: For an additional amount, fiscal years 1936 and 1937, for expenditure under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury for carrying out of the provisions of the Adjusted Compensation Payment Act, 1936, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including the same objects specified under this head in the Supplemental Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936, $1,682,000, to remain available until June 30, 1938, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to advance, from time to time, to the Postmaster General, from this appropriation, such sums as are certified by the Postmaster General to be required for the expenses of the Post Office Department in connection with the handling of the bonds issued under the Adjusted Compensation Payment Act of 1936, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall reimburse the Postmaster General, from this appropriation, for such postage and registry fees as may be required in connection with the transmittal of such bonds to the various Federal Reserve banks and to the Treasury Department, Washington, District of Columbia. Claims for damages, operation of vessels, Coast Guard and Public Health Service: To pay claims for damages adjusted and determined by the Secretary of the Treasury under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and settlement of certain claims for damages resulting from the operation of vessels of the Coast Guard and the Public Health Service, in sums not exceeding $3,000 in any one case”, approved June 15, 1936, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 222, Seventy-fifth Congress, $609.95. division of printing Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding, Treasury Department, fiscal year 1937, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1937, $150,000. Stationery: For an additional amount for stationery for the Treasury Department, fiscal year 1937, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1937, $75,000. public debt service Distinctive paper for United States securities: For an additional amount for distinctive paper for United States currency and Federal Reserve bank currency, fiscal year 1937, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1937, $126,600. bureau of customs Collecting the revenue from customs: For an additional amount for collecting the revenue from customs, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1937, $125,000. bureau of internal revenue Salaries and expenses, refunding of processing taxes: The unexpended balance of the funds transferred to the Treasury Department from the appropriation “Exportation and domestic consumption of agricultural commodities, Department of Agriculture, 1936”, and made available for the fiscal year 1937 for the purpose of providing for the salaries and administrative expenses of the Treasury Department in making refunds and payments of processing and related taxes, as authorized by titles IV and VII of the Revenue Act of 1936, is hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1938 for the same purpose, including personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, stationery and office supplies, equipment, furniture, mechanical devices, law books, books of reference, trade journals, periodicals, newspapers, stenographic reporting services, telegraph and telephone services, postage, freight, express, printing and binding, notarial fees, travel expenses, witness fees and mileage of experts, mileage and per diem of witness in lieu of subsistence, payment of which fees, mileage, or per diem may be made in advance upon certification of such officer as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue or the Secretary of the Treasury may designate. Refunds and payments of processing and related taxes: For refunds and payments of processing and related taxes as authorized by titles IV and VII, Revenue Act of 1936, for refunds of taxes erroneously, illegally, or otherwise wrongfully collected, under the Cotton Act of April 21, 1934, as amended (48 Stat., p. 598), the Tobacco Act of June 28, 1934, as amended (48 Stat., p. 1275), and the Potato Act of August 24, 1935 (49 Stat., p. 782); and for redemption of tax stamps purchased under the aforesaid Tobacco and Potato Acts, fiscal year 1938, $15,000,000, together with the unexpended balance of the funds transferred to the Treasury Department from the appropriation “Exportation and domestic consumption of agricultural commodities, Department of Agriculture, 1936”, and made available for the fiscal year 1937 for the purpose of providing for refunds and payments under title IV, Revenue Act of 1936. bureau of narcotics Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, Bureau of Narcotics, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1937, $50,000. coast guard Outfits: For an additional amount for outfits, fiscal year 1937, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1937, $24,160, to remain available until June 30, 1938. Rebuilding and repairing stations and so forth: For an additional amount for rebuilding and repairing stations, fiscal year 1937, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1937, $147,600, which amount, together with not to exceed $125,000 of the appropriation of $310,700 under this head in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1936, shall remain available until June 30, 1938. Communication lines: For an additional amount for communication lines, Coast Guard, fiscal year 1937, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1937, $40,000, to remain available until June 30, 1938. Repairs to Coast Guard vessels: For an additional amount for repairs to Coast Guard vessels, fiscal year 1937, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1937, $50,000, to remain available until June 30, 1938. Additional airplanes: The appropriation of $697,500 for additional airplanes and their equipment, spare parts, and accessories, as provided in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1937, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1938. Interchange of appropriations: Such part of any appropriation for the Coast Guard, contained in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1938, except the appropriations “Pay and allowances”, “Civilian Employees”, and “Salaries, Office of the Commandant”, as may be necessary for freight and express charges on materials, supplies, and equipment, may be transferred, with the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, to the appropriation for contingent expenses of the Coast Guard in order to make such payments. bureau of the mint Medal to George M. Cohan: For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the President to present a gold medal to George M. Cohan”, approved June 29, 1936 (49 Stat., pt. 2, 327), $700. Medal to Lincoln Ellsworth: For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to award a special gold medal to Lincoln Ellsworth”, approved June 16, 1936, $700. procurement division—public buildings branch Operating force for public buildings: For an additional amount for personal services, fiscal year 1937, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1937, $35,000. Operating supplies for public buildings: For an additional amount for operating supplies, fiscal year 1937, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1937, $15,000.

WAR DEPARTMENT Military Activities salaries, war department Office of Chief of Staff: There is hereby transferred to the appropriation for “Salaries, War Department, Office of Chief of Staff, 1937”, the sum of $2,480 from the appropriation “Pay of the Army, 1937”. finance department Travel of the Army: The appropriation “Travel of the Army, 1937” shall be available for expenses of travel, including per-diem allowances in lieu of subsistence of $2.75 each for the Corps of Cadets, United States Military Academy, the band, and necessary commissioned and enlisted personnel attending the inaugural ceremonies held in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, on January 20, 1937. Nonmilitary Activities corps of engineers Flood control, Mississippi River and tributaries: For an additional amount for prosecuting work of flood control in accordance with the provisions of the Flood Control Act, approved May 15, 1928 (U. S. C., title 33, sec. 702a), fiscal year 1937, $1,000,000, to remain available until expended. Claims for damages, River and Harbor Work: To pay claims for damages under river and harbor work adjusted and determined by the War Department under the provision of section 9 of the River and Harbor Act approved June 5, 1920 (U. S. C., title 33, sec. 564), as set forth in House Document Numbered 220 of the Seventy-fifth Congress, $1,256.41. No part of any appropriation contained in this or any other Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, shall be available for the payment of enlistment allowance to enlisted men for reenlistment within a period of three months from date of discharge as to reenlistments made during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, notwithstanding the applicable provisions of sections 9 and 10 of the Act entitled “An Act to readjust the pay and allowances of the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service”, approved June 10, 1922 (U. S. C., title 37, secs. 13 and 16).

TITLE II— JUDGMENTS AND AUTHORIZED CLAIMS