Public Law 75–425

JOINT RESOLUTION

Making appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, for the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Railroad Retirement Account, and other activities, and for other purposes.

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

LEGISLATIVE joint committee on tax evasion and avoidance For payment of salaries and other expenses of the Joint Committee on Tax Evasion and Avoidance authorized by Public Resolution Numbered 40, approved June 11, 1937, including stenographic reporting services under contract without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), per-diem allowances in lieu of actual expenses of subsistence, traveling expenses, law books, books of reference, periodicals, newspaper clippings, and such other expenditures as the joint committee deems advisable, fiscal years 1937 and 1938, $50,000, to be disbursed one-half by the Secretary of the Senate and one-half by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. payment of pages For the payment of twenty-one pages for the Senate and forty-seven pages for the House of Representatives, at $4 per day each, for the period commencing July 1, 1937, and ending with the last day of the month in which the Seventy-fifth Congress adjourns sine die at the first session thereof, so much as may be necessary is appropriated for each legislative body.

EXECUTIVE civilian conservation corps For all authorized and necessary expenses to carry into effect the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a Civilian Conservation Corps, and for other purposes”, approved June 28, 1937, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; the purchase and exchange of law books, books of reference, periodicals, and newspapers; rents in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; the purchase (including exchange), operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes; hire, with or without personal services, of work animals, animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles, and watercraft; printing and binding; travel expenses, including not to exceed $2,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Corps when specifically authorized by the Director; construction, improvement, repair, and maintenance of buildings, but the cost of any building erected hereunder shall not exceed $25,000; and all other necessary expenses; fiscal year 1938, $350,000,000, of which sum not to exceed $200,000 may be expended for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Director: Provided, That an enrollee in the Civilian Conservation Corps, or member, or former member, of the Military Establishment, who shall furnish blood from his or her veins for transfusion to the veins of an enrollee or discharged enrollee of the Civilian Conservation Corps undergoing treatment in a Government or civilian hospital authorized to treat such patient, shall be entitled to be paid therefor a reasonable sum not to exceed $50: Provided further, That the employment of employees of the Emergency Conservation Work and of the cooperating Federal agencies whose compensation is paid from Emergency Conservation Work funds, as of June 30, 1937, and whose employment was not specifically terminated as of that date, may be continued without reappointment, subject to review by the Director. railroad retirement board Railroad retirement account: For an amount sufficient as an annual premium for the payments required under the Railroad Retirement Act, approved August 29, 1935, and the Railroad Retirement Act, approved June 24, 1937, and authorized to be appropriated to the railroad retirement account established under section 15 (a) of the latter Act, fiscal years 1937 and 1938, $99,880,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the payment of annuities to employees, representatives, widows, widowers, or dependent next of kin of employees, contained in the “Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1937” and reappropriated in the “Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1938”: Provided, That such amount shall be available until expended for making payments required under said retirement acts, and the amount not required for current payments shall be invested by the Secretary of the Treasury in accordance with the provisions of said Railroad Retirement Act of June 24, 1937: Provided further, That all payments under sections 3, 4, and 5 of the Railroad Retirement Act, 1935, heretofore made from the appropriation contained in the “Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1937”, and reappropriated in the “Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1938”, shall be considered as having been made from the railroad retirement account herein established. department of agriculture Rent of buildings: Not to exceed $30,000 of such funds available to the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year 1938, as the Secretary of Agriculture may determine, may be transferred to the appropriation for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for such Department for such fiscal year. treasury department For the establishment of “the fund for the payment of Government losses in shipment”, authorized by the “Government Losses in Shipment Act”, $500,000.

Approved, July 1, 1937.