Public Law 75–757

That the following

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

TITLE I— GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS

LEGISLATIVE senate To pay to Ewilda G. Robinson, widow of Honorable Joseph T. Robinson, late a Senator from the State of Arkansas, $10,000. To pay Edward J. Trenwith, as compensation for compiling a revised supplement to the compilation entitled “Treaties, conventions, international acts, and protocols, between the United States and other powers”, to include treaties, conventions, important protocols, and international acts to which the United States may have been a party since March 4, 1923, under resolution of the Senate (S. Res. 132, Seventy-fifth Congress, first session), fiscal year 1938, $2,500. Office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper: For an amount required to increase the compensation of the Secretary of the Majority and the Secretary of the Minority $1,000 each per annum so long as the positions are held by the present incumbents, fiscal year 1938, $2,000. Senate Document Room: For the amount required from September 1, 1937, to June 30, 1938, inclusive, to increase the compensation of the Superintendent of the Senate Document Room at the rate of $1,040 per annum so long as the position is held by the present incumbent, $867. Senate kitchens and restaurants: For repairs, improvements, and equipment for the Senate Restaurant, Capitol Building, including personal and other services, fiscal years 1937 and 1938, $12,300, to be expended by the Architect of the Capitol. house of representatives For payment to the widow of William P. Connery, Junior, late a Representative from the State of Massachusetts, $10,000. For payment to the widow of Philip A. Goodwin, late a Representative from the State of New York, $10,000. For payment to Josephine Dryer, sister of Theodore A. Peyser, late a Representative from the State of New York, $10.000. The three foregoing sums to be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives. Office of the Clerk: For the additional amount required from August 1, 1937, to June 30, 1938, inclusive, to increase the compensation of the following positions at the respective annual rates so long as they are held by the respective present incumbents: Disbursing clerk, $1,040; assistant disbursing clerk, $780; assistant enrolling clerk, $720; stenographer to the Clerk, $520; in all, $2,805. Committee employees: For a janitor to the Committee on Education and an additional janitor to the Committee on Ways and Means from August 1, 1937, to June 30, 1938, inclusive, at the rate of $1,260 each per annum, $2,310. For the amount required from September 1, 1937, to June 30, 1938, inclusive, to increase the compensation of the five senior assistant clerks of the Committee on Appropriations so long as the positions are held, respectively, by the present incumbents thereof, at such additional respective annual rates as may be fixed by the chairman with the approval of the committee; and for an additional assistant clerk to such committee at not to exceed $4,500 per annum, such compensation to be fixed in the same manner; fiscal year, 1938, $7,300. Office of Doorkeeper: For an additional assistant to the Superintendent of the House Press Gallery at the rate of $2,400 per annum, from August 1, 1937, to June 30, 1938, inclusive, $440 plus the unexpended balance of the amount contained in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1938, for a press-gallery page, which is hereby made available for the foregoing purpose. For the amount required from September 1, 1937, to June 30, 1938, inclusive, to increase the compensation of the Superintendent of the Document Room at the rate of $1,040 per annum so long as the position is held by the present incumbent, $867. Contested-election expenses: For payment to J. Will Taylor, contestee, for expenses incurred in the contested-election case of Rutherford versus Taylor, as audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered 1, $550.50, to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House. united states constitution sesquicentennial commission For carrying out the provisions of the public resolution entitled “Joint resolution to enable the United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission to carry out and give effect to certain approved plans, and for other purposes”, approved June 1, 1936 (49 Stat. 1392) as amended by the Act approved August 19, 1937, fiscal year 1938, to remain available until December 31, 1939, $100,000, together with the unexpended balance provided for this purpose in the First Deficiency Act of June 22, 1936. architect of the capitol Capitol Building: For purchase and installation of steel shelving for the Senate Document Room, in room B2, Senate Office Building, fiscal year 1938, $850. Library Building and Grounds: Not to exceed $18,000 of the appropriations heretofore made for the construction of the Annex, Library of Congress, is hereby made available for the construction of a fireproof bookstack, with necessary appurtenances, for the Hispanic room in the Library of Congress. government printing office For payment to William Madden, Preston L. George, and William S. Houston, and on account of Samuel Robinson, messengers on night duty during the first session of the Seventy-fifth Congress, $900 each; in all, $3,600 to be paid from the appropriation for printing and binding for Congress for the fiscal year 1938; such sum on account of Samuel Robinson to be paid in equal amounts to Mary E. Adams and Nettie Bullas, nieces of such person.

INDEPENDENT ESTABLISHMENTS executive office Executive Mansion and Grounds: For an additional amount for the care, maintenance, repairs, and alteration of the Executive Mansion, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1938, to be expended as the President may determine notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act, $17,000. civilian conservation corps The limitation of $200,000 on the amount that may be expended for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Director from the appropriation for the Civilian Conservation Corps contained in the public resolution entitled “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”, approved July 1, 1937, is hereby increased to $255,000. electric home and farm authority The paragraph under this caption in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1938, is hereby amended by striking out the sum “$300,000” and inserting in lieu thereof the sum “$400,000”. federal communications commission Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses of the Federal Communications Commission, fiscal year 1938, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1938, and including reimbursement to ships of the United States for charges incurred by such ships in transmitting information in compliance with section 357 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, $113,000: Provided, That the limitation of $1,050,000 as the amount that may be expended for the personal services in the District of Columbia from the appropriation under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1938, is hereby increased to $1,077,900. Special study of radio requirements necessary for ships navigating the Great Lakes and inland waters of the United States: To enable the Federal Communications Commission to study and report to Congress the radio requirements necessary or desirable for safety purposes for ships navigating the Great Lakes and the inland waters of the United States, as provided in section 15 of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Communications Act of 1934, approved June 19, 1934, for the purpose of promoting safety of life and property at sea through the use of wire and radio communications, to make more effective the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1929, and for other purposes”, approved May 20, 1937 (50 Stat. 189–198), including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; travel expenses, supplies and equipment, and such other contingent and miscellaneous expenses as may be necessary; fiscal year 1938; $20,000. federal housing administration The paragraph in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1938, under the caption “Federal Housing Administration” is hereby amended by striking out the words and sum “not to exceed $10,000,000” and inserting in lieu thereof “not to exceed $5,000,000 of the mutual mortgage insurance fund and $5,000,000”. great lakes exposition For an additional amount for the expenses of 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, fiscal year 1938, $75,000. national capital park and planning commission Not to exceed $10,000 of the unobligated balance of the appropriation of $200,000, fiscal year 1937, 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), contained in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936, is hereby continued available for the same purpose until June 30, 1938. national labor relations board Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses of the National Labor Relations Board, fiscal year 1937, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1937, $15,000. Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses of the National Labor Relations Board for the fiscal year 1938, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1938, $1,735,000. Printing and binding: For an additional amount for all printing and binding for the National Labor Relations Board for the fiscal year 1938, including the same limitations and provisions under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1938, $50,000. social security board Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for the Executive Director of the Social Security Board to make the salary $9,500 per annum, fiscal year 1938, $500; payable from the appropriation for “Salaries and Expenses”, Social Security Board, fiscal year 1938. tennessee valley authority Tennessee Valley Authority Fund: The appropriation under this head for the fiscal year 1938, contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, shall, in addition to the objects specified under that head, be available for the reconstruction and relocation of the George Sam Houston Bridge across the Tennessee River at Guntersville, Alabama. thomas jefferson memorial commission For the purposes authorized under the provisions of the Act approved June 3, 1936 (49 Stat. 1397), entitled “An Act to authorize the execution of plans for a permanent memorial to Thomas Jefferson”, fiscal year 1938, $20,000, including payment of obligations heretofore incurred in the fiscal years 1937 and 1938. united states golden gate international exposition commission For carrying into effect the provisions of the public resolution entitled “Joint resolution providing for the participation of the United States in the world’s fair to be held by the San Francisco Bay Exposition, Incorporated, in the city of San Francisco during the year 1939”, approved July 9, 1937, $1,500,000, to remain available until the termination of the Commission. united states maritime commission In addition to the contracts which may be entered into under funds available to the United States Maritime Commission for carrying out the provisions of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, the Commission is authorized to enter into contracts for further carrying out the provisions of such Act in an amount not to exceed $115,000,000. Out of funds available to the Commission, not to exceed $75,000 may be expended, including payment for obligations heretofore incurred, for the employment on a contract or fee basis of persons, firms, and corporations for the performance of special services, including legal services, deemed necessary by the Commission, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5): Provided further, That such section 3709 shall not apply hereafter to any purchase by or service rendered to the Commission where the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $100. united states new york world’s fair commission For carrying into effect the provisions of the Public Resolution entitled “Joint resolution authorizing Federal participation in the New York World’s Fair 1939”, approved July 9, 1937, $3,000,000, to remain available until the termination of the Commission.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Survey of tax structure, District of Columbia: For the employment of clerical services in connection with a survey and study of the entire tax structure of the District of Columbia in accordance with the provisions of title VII, section 3, of the Act entitled “An Act to provide additional revenue for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved August 17, 1937, fiscal year 1938, $5,000. Office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets: For an additional amount for contingent expenses for the purpose of making emergency repairs to the municipal fish market, including relocation of toilet facilities, fiscal year 1938, $13,000. Public Schools: The authorization for the acquisition of a site for the Jefferson Memorial Junior High School and Library contained in the Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 1938, approved June 29, 1937, shall not be available for the purchase of a site prior to April 1, 1938. District Training School: For an additional amount for repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds for the purpose of repairing a bridge across the Little Patuxent River on the grounds of the District Training School near Laurel, Maryland, fiscal year 1938; $4,500. Miscellaneous expenses, Supreme Court, District of Columbia: 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, $2,706.69. Industrial Home School: For an additional amount for repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds for the purpose of repairing boilers, fiscal year 1938, $2,000. 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 1937, $39,000. Assistance against old-age want: The sum of $75,000 is hereby transferred from the appropriation “Emergency Relief of Residents, District of Columbia, 1938”, to the appropriation “Assistance Against Old-age Want, District of Columbia, 1938”. Judgments: For the payment of final judgments, including costs, rendered against the District of Columbia, as set forth in House Document Numbered 336, Seventy-fifth Congress, $4,088.82, 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, as set forth in House Document Numbered 283, Seventy-fifth Congress, $1,990.64, 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., p. 106), and accretions by repayment of assessments. For payment of the final judgment rendered against the District of Columbia, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 97, Seventy-fifth Congress, $4,206.19, 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., p. 106), and accretions by repayment of assessments. Settlement of claims: For the payment of the 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 the Seventy-fifth Congress in House Documents Numbered 280 and 332, $900. 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), being for the service of the fiscal year 1934 and prior fiscal years: Refund of assessments, District of Columbia, 1933 and 1934, $46.12; Coroner’s office, District of Columbia, 1928, $12. In all, audited claims, $58.12. 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 appropriations acts for the respective fiscal years for which such sums are provided.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE bureau of plant industry Dry-land agriculture: For an additional amount for dry-land agriculture investigations, with special reference to the improvement and development of grasses and other forage plants suitable for use under subhumid, semiarid, or dry-land conditions, including the purchase of land, construction of dam and reservoir, installation of distribution and irrigation system, fencing, clearing, and leveling of land, and other necessary expenses, at the United States Southern Great Plains Field Station, Woodward, Oklahoma, fiscal year 1938, $76,000: Provided, That not to exceed $18,000 of this amount may be expended for the purchase of land in connection with these investigations. bureau of dairy industry The limitation of $313,020 on the amount which may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, contained in the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1938, under this head, is hereby increased to $334,860. conservation and use of agricultural land resources, department of agriculture The provision in the item entitled “Conservation and Use of Agricultural Land Resources, Department of Agriculture”, contained in the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1938, making funds available under this head for “the purchase of seeds, fertilizers, or any other farming materials and making grants thereof to agricultural producers to aid them in carrying out farming practices approved by the Secretary of Agriculture in the 1937 programs, for the reimbursement of the Tennessee Valley Authority for fertilizers heretofore or hereafter furnished by it to the Secretary of Agriculture for such purpose, and for the payment of all expenses necessary in making such grants including all or part of the costs incident to the delivery thereof”, is hereby made applicable also to the 1938 programs under the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of February 29, 1936 (50 Stat. 430–431). the sugar act of 1937 To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Sugar Act of 1937, fiscal year 1938, $250,000: Provided, That such sum shall become available when such Act becomes a law. the bankhead-jones farm tenant act To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the provisions of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, approved July 22, 1937, $10,000,000 as authorized by title I of such Act relating to farm tenancy, and $10,000,000 as authorized by title III of such Act relating to the development of a program of land conservation and land utilization including the retirement of submarginal lands; in all, fiscal year 1938, $20,000,000. international production control committees The limitation in the amount which the Secretary of Agriculture may expend for the objects specified under this head in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938, from the funds available to the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, is hereby increased from $7,500 to $10,000. price adjustment payment to cotton producers Notwithstanding any other provisions of section 32 of Public Law Numbered 320, Seventy-fourth Congress, as amended, not to exceed $65,000,000 of the funds available under said section 32 in each of the fiscal years 1938 and 1939 shall be available (at such times and in such amounts as the Secretary of Agriculture may determine) until expended for a price-adjustment payment, upon such terms and conditions as the Secretary of Agriculture may determine, with respect to the 1937 cotton crop to cotton producers who have complied with the provisions of the 1938 agricultural adjustment program formulated under the legislation contemplated by Senate Joint Resolution Numbered 207, Seventy-fifth Congress. Such payments to any producer shall be at a rate per pound equal to the difference between 12 cents per pound and the average price of seven-eighths Middling cotton on the ten designated spot cotton markets on the dates of sale of such cotton, but in no case shall exceed 3 cents per pound. The bases for any such payment, or the amount thereof, when officially determined in conformity with rules prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture shall be reviewable only by the Secretary of Agriculture.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE office of the secretary General Committee of Accident Prevention Conference: For salaries and expenses of the general committee of the Accident Prevention Conference, authorized in the Act entitled “An Act to advance a program of national safety and accident prevention”, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, printing and binding, traveling expenses, and all other expenses authorized in said Act, fiscal year 1938, $17,500. Traveling expenses: The amount appropriated in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1938, for traveling expenses, Department of Commerce, is hereby increased by $360,000 by transfer of the following amounts from the respective appropriations in such Act under the Bureau of Air Commerce: Establishment of air-navi-gation facilities, $126,000; maintenance of air-navigation facilities, 160,000; aircraft in commerce, $45,000; and safety and planning, $29,000. bureau of lighthouses Special projects, vessels, and aids to navigation: For an additional amount for constructing or purchasing and equipping lighthouse tenders and light vessels for the Lighthouse Service, $20,000; and for establishing and improving aids to navigation and other works, $318,600; in all, $338,600, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1938.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR office of the secretary For settling disputed land claims along the shores of the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, with the approval of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and the Attorney General of the United States, to conclude equitable adjustments of conflicting claims of title and interests between the United States of America and adverse claimants to rights and interests in lands, in, under, and adjacent to the Potomac River, the Anacostia River, or Eastern Branch and Rock Creek, including shores, submerged lands, and made lands, for the purpose of establishing the title of the United States as provided by the Act of April 27, 1912 (37 Stat. 93), and the Act of June 4, 1934 (48 Stat. 836), fiscal year 1938, $15,000. bureau of indian affairs Indian agency buildings: For improvement of the sewer system, Pawnee Agency, Oklahoma, fiscal year 1938, $15,000. Purchase and transportation of Indian supplies: Not to exceed $30,000 of the unobligated balance of the appropriation under this head contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1936 is hereby made available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1935. Vehicles, Indian Service: The limitation of $160,000 on the amount of applicable appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, that may be expended for the purchase and exchange of motor-propelled, passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of employees in the Indian field service, including the transportation of Indian school pupils, is hereby increased to $185,000. Santa Rosa Band of Indians, California: For the acquisition of hind for the use and benefit or the Santa Rosa Band of Mission Indians in California, as authorized by the Act of April 17, 1937, fiscal year 1938, $500. Payment to Sioux Indians for failure to receive allotments: For payment to various Sioux Indians of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, or their heirs, on account of allotments of land to which they were entitled but did not receive, and for compensation of attorneys for services performed, all as authorized by the Act of June 29, 1937, fiscal year 1938, $79,038, to remain available until expended. Fort. Peck, Montana, irrigation system: For continuing the construction of the irrigation system, Fort Peck Reservation, Montana, including the purchase or rental of equipment, tools, and appliances and the acquisition of rights-of-way and payment of damages when necessary, fiscal year 1938, $100,000, reimbursable. Maintenance assessments, Indian lands, Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, New Mexico: For operation and maintenance assessments on newly reclaimed Indian lands within the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, New Mexico, fiscal year 1935, $12,570, or so much thereof as may be necessary, reimbursable. bureau of reclamation Bonneville project: For administering and carrying out the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the completion, maintenance, and operation of the Bonneville project, for navigation and for other purposes”, approved August 20, 1937, including necessary personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; the purchase of easements and rights-of-way; purchase, exchange, and operation of automobiles; purchase of office furniture and equipment; stationery and office supplies; purchase of equipment and other supplies; rent, traveling expenses, telegraph and telephone expenses, printing and binding and all other necessary expenses, fiscal year 1938, $100,000. Cabinet Gorge project, Idaho: For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Act of August 14, 1937 (Public, Numbered 279, Seventy-fifth Congress, first session), entitled “An Act to provide for studies and plans for the development of a hydroelectric power project at Cabinet Gorge, on the Clark Fork of the Columbia River, for irrigation pumping or other use, and for other purposes”, $25,000. Commission to investigate reclamation projects: For expenses and all necessary disbursements, including salaries, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, of the Commission authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to create a commission and to extend further relief to water users on United States reclamation projects and on Indian irrigation projects”, fiscal year 1938, $30,000: Provided, That such sum shall not become available unless and until the aforesaid legislation is enacted into law. bureau of mines Acquirement of land, helium plant: For acquirement from Gilbert D. Landis of three hundred and thirty-one acres (more or less) of land in Potter County, Texas, for disposal thereon of wastes from the helium plant at Amarillo, Texas, fiscal year 1938, $10,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended until all claims against the United States in the case of Gilbert D. Landis against United States of America in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas are extinguished and valid title, free of encumbrances, to the three hundred and thirty-one acres (more or less) of land involved in said case vests in the United States of America: Provided further, That payment hereunder, together with any payments from other appropriations made by the United States on account of said claims, shall not exceed the amount of the judgment heretofore awarded in said case. national park service Yosemite National Park, California: For the acquisition of certain lands, including expenses incidental thereto, as set forth in the Act of Congress approved July 9, 1937 (Public, Numbered 195, Seventy-fifth Congress), there is hereby made available, not to exceed $2,005,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation contained in the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, heretofore earmarked thereunder for that purpose, notwithstanding the reappropriating provisions with respect to such unexpended balance in section 1 of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1937. Acquisition of land: For completing payment of awards in condemnation proceedings for the acquisition of certain lands to carry out the purposes of the Act of March 31, 1933 (48 Stat. 22), in areas designated by Executive Order Numbered 6542, dated December 28, 1933, the President is authorized to allocate not to exceed $192,568 from funds made available by reappropriation of unexpended balances by section 1 of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1937. Ackia National Memorial Commission and Battleground National Monument: The unexpended balance of the appropriation to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Ackia, Mississippi, and the establishment of the Ackia Battleground National Monument, and for other purposes”, approved August 27, 1935, contained in the Supplemental Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936, is continued available for the fiscal year 1938 in order to provide for the commemoration during that year of the two-hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Ackia. Salaries and general expenses, public buildings and grounds in the District of Columbia, 1938: Of the appropriation of $7,137,280 for salaries and general expenses, public buildings and grounds in the District of Columbia, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1938, not to exceed $24,000 may be expended for the construction of a steam line to connect the National Gallery of Art with the steam distribution system of the Central Heating Plant. office of education Cooperative vocational rehabilitation, residents of the District of Columbia: For an additional amount for personal services, printing and binding, travel and subsistence, and payment of expenses of training, placement, and other phases of rehabilitating disabled residents of the District of Columbia under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents of the District of Columbia”, approved February 23, 1929 (45 Stat. 1260), as amended by the Act approved April 17, 1937 (Public Act Numbered 41, Seventy-fifth Congress), fiscal year 1938, $10,000. government in the territories Territory of Alaska: For an additional amount for the repair and maintenance of roads, tramways, ferries, bridges, and trails, Territory of Alaska, to be expended under the provisions of the Act approved June 30, 1932 (48 U. S. C. 321a–321d), fiscal year 1935, $11.56. Government of the Virgin Islands: For an additional amount for salaries of the Governor and employees incident to the execution of the Act of March 3, 1917 (U. S. C., title 48, sec. 1391), fiscal year 1938, including the same objects specified under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938, $4,250.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE contingent expenses Printing and binding: Not to exceed $30,000 may be transferred from the appropriation “Support of United States prisoners, 1937”, to the appropriation “Printing and binding, Department of Justice and courts, 1937.” 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 Senate Document Numbered 106 of the Seventy-fifth Congress, $233.88. united states supreme court Salaries: For an additional amount for salaries, Supreme Court of the United States, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938, $1,200. marshals, clerks, and other expenses of united states courts Case of the United States against the Northern Pacific Railway Company and Others: For an additional amount for “Salaries and expenses, case of Northern Pacific Railway Company and Others, 1936–1938”, including the same objects specified under this head in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1936, $79,000. Marshals, and so forth: 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, $37.65. Fees of jurors and witnesses: The limitation upon the amount of the appropriation “Fees of jurors and witnesses, United States courts 1938”, that may be expended for such compensation and expenses of witnesses or informants as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General is hereby increased from $10,000 to $25,000. Fees of commissioners: For an additional amount for fees of United States commissioners and other committing magistrates acting under section 1014, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 18, sec. 591), fiscal year 1925, $550.25. penal institutions Buildings and equipment: For an additional amount for “Buildings and Equipment, Penal Institutions”, for repairs and extension to the warehouse at the Federal Industrial Institution for Women, Alderson, West Virginia, $50,000, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General by contract or purchase of material and hire of labor and services and utilization of labor of United States prisoners as the Attorney General may direct. 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, $174.50; For 1932, $477.61.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR office of the secretary Salaries and expenses, Division of Labor Standards: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses in connection with the promotion of health, safety, employment, stabilization, and amicable industrial relations for labor and industry, fiscal year 1938, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1938, $35,960, of which amount not to exceed $10,560 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Traveling expenses: For an additional amount for all traveling expenses, except travel expenses incident to the deportation of aliens, under the Department of Labor, fiscal year 1938, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1938, $13,900. Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding for the Department of Labor, fiscal year 1938, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1938, $3,560.

NAVY DEPARTMENT 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 Senate Document Numbered 108 and House Document Numbered 316, Seventy-fifth Congress, $1,745.21. bureau of yards and docks Public works, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For the following public-works and public-utilities projects at a cost not to exceed the amount stated for each project, respectively: Navy Yard, New York, New York: Improvement of facilities for battleship construction, $285,000 is hereby made available from the appropriation “Replacement of Naval Vessels, Construction and Machinery”. Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Improvement of facilities for battleship construction, $250,000 is hereby made available from the appropriation “Replacement of Naval Vessels, Construction and Machinery”. Navy Yard, Mare Island, California: Replacement of paint and oil storage building and accessories, destroyed by fire, $275,000. Saint Inigoes, Maryland, Memorial: For acquisition of land and erection thereon of the memorial authorized by the Act approved June 15, 1937, $2,000. The two sums immediately preceding this paragraph, 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. replacement of naval vessels The appropriations for construction and machinery, and armor, armament, and ammunition, as contained in the appropriation for replacement of naval vessels appearing in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938, approved April 27, 1937, are hereby made available, including the same objects and under the same conditions and limitations prescribed under these heads in said appropriation Act, for the commencement of one seaplane tender, one destroyer tender, one minesweeper, one submarine tender, one fleet tug, and one oiler, as authorized by the Act approved July 30, 1937: Provided, That under the funds made available by this paragraph contracts shall not be made with private shipbuilders or orders placed with navy yards for more than two of such vessels and the cost of either shall not exceed the estimated cost thereof set forth on pages 524 and 525 of the hearings of the House Committee on Appropriations on the Third Deficiency Appropriation Bill for the fiscal year 1937. marine corps For expenses of the United States Marine Band in attending the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic to be held at Madison, Wisconsin, September 5 to 10, 1937, as authorized by the Act approved July 28, 1937, $7,500.

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT (Out of the Postal Revenues) office of the second assistant postmaster general 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 for the fiscal year 1936, $82,000.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE Contingent expenses: For an additional amount for contingent expenses, Department of State, fiscal year 1938, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1938, and including not to exceed $1,400 for the purchase and exchange of typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, $8,000. Payment to Government of Great Britain: For payment to the Government of Great Britain for the account of N. J. Moosa, $15.59; the Shanghai Electric Construction Company, Limited, $78.60; and the estate of Samuel Richardson, $1,000; in all, $1,094.19, as authorized by and in accordance with the Acts of May 6, 1937 (Public Acts Numbered 60, 63, and 75, Seventy-fifth Congress), $1,094.19. Payment to Government of China: For payment to the Government of China for the account of Li Po-tien, $300; Ch’u Shih-hsiang (Cheu S. Ziang), $300; Ma Jui-hsiang (Mo Zung Poo), $300; Chang Hsi Ying, $500; Li Yingting (Li Ing Ding), $1,500; Ling Mau Mau, $1,500; Yao Ah-Ken, $1,500; Chiang Ah-erh (Tsiange Ah Erh), $1,500; and the family of Ts’ao Jung-K’uan (Dzao Yong Kwer), $1,500; in all, $8,900, as authorized by and in accordance with the Acts of May 6, 1937 (Public Acts Numbered 66, 67, 69, 70, 72, and 73, Seventy-fifth Congress), $8,900. Payment to Government of Netherlands: For payment to the Government of the Netherlands for the account of the family of Miguel Paula, as authorized by and in accordance with the Act of May 6, 1937 (Public Act Numbered 61, Seventy-fifth Congress), $3,500. Payment to French Government: For payment to the French Government for the account of Henry Borday, as authorized by and in accordance with the Act of May 6, 1937 (Public Act Numbered 62, Seventy-fifth Congress), $1,000. Payment to Government of Canada: For payment to the Government of Canada for the account of Janet Hardcastle Ross, as authorized by and in accordance with the Act of May 6, 1937 (Public Act Numbered 64, Seventy-fifth Congress), $920.45. Payment to Government of Chile; For payment to the Government of Chile for the account of Enriqueta Koch v. de Jeanneret, as authorized by and in accordance with the Act of May 6, 1937 (Public Act Numbered 67, Seventy-fifth Congress), $2,000. Payment to Government of Nicaragua: For payment to the Government of Nicaragua for the account of Mercedes V. de Williams and others, as authorized by and in accordance with the Act of May 6, 1937 (Public Act Numbered 74, Seventy-fifth Congress), $18,508.55. Payment to Government of Dominican Republic: For payment to the Government of the Dominican Republic for the account of Mercedes Martinez Viuda de Sanchez, as authorized by and in accordance with the Act of May 6, 1937 (Public Act Numbered 71, Seventy-fifth Congress), $500. Payment to Government of Japan: To reimburse the Government of Japan in the amount of yen 156,798.39 ($48,000) together with such additional amount due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to purchase this amount of yen, is ¹¹ So in original. authorized by and in accordance with the Act of May 21, 1937 (Public Act Numbered 99, Seventy-fifth Congress), $48,000. Payment to Mrs. M. N. Shwamberg and others: For payment to (1) Mrs. M. N. Shwamberg, as an act of grace, and without reference to the legal liability of the United States, as full indemnity for personal injuries sustained by her as the result of a collision between a public jinrikisha in which she was riding and a United States Marine Corps ambulance on Seymour Road, Shanghai, China, on January 31, 1935, Mexican $1,000; (2) the Country Hospital, Shanghai, China, for treatment furnished to Mrs. Shwamberg on account of this accident, Mexican $374.50; (3) Doctor Ed Birt, Shanghai, China, for medical treatment furnished Mrs. Shwamberg on account of this accident, Mexican $170; as authorized by the Act of May 6, 1937 (Private Act Numbered 70, Seventy-fifth Congress), $500, together with such additional amount due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary for this purpose. Payment to Government of Mexico, and executors or administrators of estate of R. E. Fishburn, deceased: For payment to the Government of Mexico for the account of General Higinio Alvarez, $15,000, and to the executors or administrators of the estate of R. E. Fishburn, deceased, $5,000, in all $20,000, as authorized by and in accordance with the Act of May 6, 1937 (Public Act Numbered 68, Seventy-fifth Congress). Payment to certain Foreign Service officers and employees: For payment of the sums of money authorized by and in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act for the relief of certain officers and employees of the Foreign Service of the United States who, while in the course of their respective duties, suffered losses of personal property by reason of war, catastrophes of nature, and other causes”, approved June 22, 1937 (Private Act Numbered 170, Seventy-fifth Congress), $20,174.46. Interest payments on American Embassy drafts: For payment, as authorized by Public Law Numbered 771, approved June 24, 1936, to the following individuals and corporations, or their attorneys in fact in the United States, of the amounts specified, representing interest at 4¾ per centum on certain drafts drawn on the Secretary of State by the American Embassies in Russia and Turkey and transfers which the Embassy in Turkey undertook to make by cable communications to the Secretary of State during the period from 1915 to 1920, payment of which was deferred: Credit Lyonnais, Paris, France, $3,569.35; Riggs National Bank, Washington, District of Columbia, $1,607.95; Brown Brothers and Company, New York, New York, $2,763.96; Bank of New York and Trust Company, New York, New York, $6,216.86; Berg Bergamali, Manchester, England, $36.36; and The Wiener Bank Verein, Berlin, Germany, $30,208.67; in all, $44,403.15. Salaries of ambassadors and ministers: For an additional amount for salaries of ambassadors and ministers, fiscal year 1938, for the salary of an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Lithuania at $10,000 per annum, $8,333.34: Provided, That the appropriation for salaries of ambassadors and minister’s, fiscal year 1938, shall be available for payment of the salary of an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Estonia and Latvia’ at $10,000 per annum. Eleventh International Dairy Congress, Berlin, Germany: For the expenses of participation by the Government of the United States in the Eleventh International Dairy Congress, to be held in Berlin, Germany, in 1937, as authorized by and in accordance with Public Resolution Numbered 38 of the Seventy-fifth Congress, approved June 3, 1937, fiscal year 1938, $10,000. International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission: For the share of the United States of the expenses of the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission, under the convention between the United States and Canada, concluded May 26, 1930, including personal services; traveling expenses; charter of vessels; purchase of books, periodicals, furniture, and scientific instruments; contingent expenses; rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the Secretary of State may deem proper, including the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of the purposes herein specified, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, fiscal year 1938, $7,500. Telecommunication Conference, Cairo, Egypt: For an additional amount for Telecommunication Conference, Cairo, Egypt, 1937 and 1938, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1938, $30,000. Interparliamentary Union: The unexpended balance of the appropriation for the Interparliamentary Union for the expenses of the American Group of the Interparliamentary Union made in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1937, is hereby made available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1938. The certificate of the president and executive secretary of the American Group of the Interparliamentary Union shall hereafter be final and conclusive upon the accounting officers in the auditing of all accounts of the American Group of the Interparliamentary Union. Emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service: For an additional amount to enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States and to meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the Neutrality Act, to be expended pursuant to the requirement of section 291 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 107), fiscal year 1938, $500,000. Inter-American Radio Conference: For the expenses of participation by the United States in the Inter-American Radio Conference to be held in 1937 at Habana, Cuba, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; stenographic reporting, trans-lating, 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, and periodicals; 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, fiscal year 1938, $10,000. Payment to Cecile C. Cameron: For payment to Cecile C. Cameron, widow of Alfred D. Cameron, late a Foreign Service officer of the United States at London, England, of one year’s salary of her deceased husband who died while in the Foreign Service, as authorized by the Act approved August 14, 1937 (Private Act Numbered 293, approved August 14, 1937), fiscal year 1938, $4,400. Seventh World’s Poultry Congress and Exposition: For the expenses of participation by the Government of the United States in the Seventh World’s Poultry Congress and Exposition, to be held in the United States in 1939, as authorized by and in accordance with the public resolution of July 30, 1937, $100,000, to remain available until December 31, 1939.

special mexican claims commission Special Mexican Claims Commission: For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a commission for the settlement of the special claims comprehended within the terms of the convention between the United States of America and the United Mexican States concluded April 24, 1934”, approved April 10, 1935, and amended August. 19, 1937, including personal services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, without regard to the provisions of any statute relating to employment; rent in the District of Columbia or elsewhere; furniture; office supplies, and equipment, including law books and books of reference; stenographic reporting and translating services by contract if deemed necessary without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec, 5); traveling expenses; transportation of things; printing and binding; and such other necessary expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State, $70,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation made available for this purpose in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, which unexpended balance is continued available until August 31, 1938.

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 land bank have been reduced during the fiscal year 1938, and prior thereto, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph “Twelfth” of section 12 of the Federal Farm Loan Act (12 U. S. C. 771) as amended, $15,000,000. Payments to the Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation on account of reductions in interest rate on mortgages: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation such amount as the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration certifies to the Secretary of the Treasury is equal to the amount by which interest payments on mortgages held by such Corporation have been reduced during the fiscal year 1938, m accordance with the provisions of section 32 of the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933, approved May 12, 1933 (12 U. S. C. 1016), as amended, such payments to be made quarterly, beginning as soon as practicable after October 1, 1937, $5,000,000. Subscription to capital stock, United States Housing Authority; To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to make payments on account of subscriptions to the capital stock of the United States Housing Authority in accordance with the provisions of the United States Housing Act of 1937, fiscal year 1938, to remain available until expended, $1,000,000. 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 Senate Document Numbered 104, Seventy-fifth Congress, $77.89. office of commissioner of accounts and deposits Not to exceed $5,200 of the amount appropriated for “Contingent expenses, public moneys”, in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1938, may be transferred to the appropriation for “Salaries, Office of Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits, 1938”. bureau of narcotics The appropriation for salaries and expenses, Bureau of Narcotics, contained in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1938, is hereby made available for the payment of expenses in administering and enforcing the provisions of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937. coast guard That portion of the appropriation for pay and allowances, Coast Guard, contained in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act for 1938, reading “and two civilian instructors”, is amended to read “and three civilian instructors”. public health service Division of Venereal Diseases: The President is hereby authorized to allot to the Public Health Service, Treasury Department, for the fiscal year 1938, not to exceed $200,000 out of unexpended balances made available by sections 1 and 13 of the Emergency Belief Appropriation Act of 1937, for the purpose of continuing the operation and maintenance of the Hot Springs Transient Medical Center Infirmary located at Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas. National Cancer Institute: For carrying into effect the provisions of section 7 (b) of the National Cancer Institute Act, approved August 5, 1937, fiscal year 1938, $400,000, of which $200,000 shall be available for the purchase of radium. office of the treasurer of the united states Refunding to National Bank Associations excess of duty: For refunding excess duty collected during the fiscal year 1937 and prior years authorized under section 547, title 12, United States Code, $276.36. The provision in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act for 1938 authorizing transfers to certain appropriations of the Treasury Department from funds available to the several agencies enumerated therein, to cover the expenses incurred on account of said agencies in the clearing of checks, servicing of bonds, handling of collections, and rendering of accounts therefor, is hereby amended to authorize transfers to the same appropriations from funds available to the Civilian Conservation Corps and to corporations and banks under the supervision of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and the limitation contained in such Act on the total amount which may be transferred to such appropriations is hereby increased from $250,000 to $400,000. procurement division—public buildings branch Sites and construction, public buildings, Act of May 25, 1926, as amended: For continuation or completion of construction in connection with any or all projects authorized under the provisions of sections 3 and 5 of the Public Buildings Act, approved May 25, 1926, and the Acts amendatory thereof approved February 24, 1928, and March 31, 1930 (U. S. C., title 40, secs. 341–349), within the respective limits of cost fixed for such project, there shall be available not to exceed $175,000 from any appropriations heretofore made for specific public-building projects under section 3 of the Act of May 25, 1926, as amended (U. S. C., title 40, secs. 341–349), or balances thereof which are unobligated upon the date of the approval of this Act, which appropriations or balances thereof shall be consolidated into the fund established by the provisions of the “Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year, 1930”, out of appropriations made pursuant to section 5 of said Act of May 25, 1926, and shall be available to the same extent and for the same purposes as other moneys included in such fund. Emergency construction of 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, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated a total amount of $70,000,000 for expenditure over a period of three years, toward which amount $22,500,000 is hereby appropriated; 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 House Report Numbered 1879, Seventy-third Congress, second session, as revised May 17, 1937; and the projects so selected shall be carried out within the respective estimates of proposed limits of cost specified in such revised report and those hereafter fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster General under the provisions of this paragraph, 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), as augmented by the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936 (49 Stat. 1638), shall be available for the augmentation of limits of cost of projects selected under the provisions of this paragraph in an amount not exceeding 10 per centum for any project in addition to a further sum of $500,000 which is hereby appropriated for the same purposes as specified in this and previous Acts: 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 Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster General may also select for prosecution under this program such projects not included in such revised report as in their judgment are economically sound and advantageous to the public service, including the purchase of property at 1212 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois, at a cost not to exceed $450,000 and for the remodeling and furnishing thereof for the accommodation of Government activities: 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: Provided, That the total obligations under the $70,000,000 program herein authorized shall not exceed $30,000,000 for the fiscal year 1938 but the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to enter into contracts for any or all of the projects selected under this program in amounts not exceeding the respective estimated total costs of individual projects, and he is hereby authorized, when deemed by him desirable and advantageous, to employ, by contract or otherwise, the personal services of temporary professional, technical, or nontechnical employees 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: 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. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, additional building: For completion of construction of an additional building for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and other Treasury Department activities, $2,325,000. Grand Central Station Post Office and Office Building, New York, New York: For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved July 12, 1932 (47 Stat. 656), authorizing purchase of land and building thereon, for a post-office building and for other Government purposes, $10,107,065.94, payment from such sum to constitute complete settlement. Treasury Building, Washington, District of Columbia: For renewing the electric wiring system of the Treasury Building, except elevators, and changing said system from direct current to alternating current, including feeders, switches, transformer vaults, switchboards, panel boards, and other requisite equipment, fiscal year 1938, $100,000. Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii. Schofield Barracks post-office station: There is hereby transferred to the jurisdiction and control of the Secretary of the Treasury, as a site for a post-office building, a portion of the military reservation at Schofield Barracks, Oahu Island, Territory of Hawaii, particularly described under this heading in House Document Numbered 215 of the Seventy-fifth Congress. Winchester, Virginia, post office: The limit of cost authorized under the provisions of the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, approved June 19, 1934. for the acquisition of additional land and the extension and remodeling of the post-office building at Winchester, Virginia, is hereby increased from $62,000 to $65,753. Memorial to persons killed in the wreck of the Navy dirigible Shenandoah; For carrying out the provisions of the Act of May 22, 1936, entitled “An Act authorizing the erection of a memorial to those who met their death in the wreck of the dirigible Shenandoah”, as amended by the Act entitled “An Act to permit the erection of the Shenandoah Memorial in or near Ava, Onio”, approved August 2, 1937, fiscal year 1938, $2,500: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for expenditure until title to the land upon which the tablet or marker is to be erected is acquired by the United States. Cedar City, Utah, post office: The authorization for the purchase of a site and the construction of a post office at Cedar City, Utah, contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, approved July 3, 1930, as decreased by Act approved June 30, 1932, is hereby extended to include the purchase of an additional tract of land for the enlargement of the post-office site (Act of July 3, 1930, 46 Stat., p. 894). American Printing House for the Blind: To enable the American Printing House for the Blind more adequately to provide books and apparatus for the education of the blind as provided by law, fiscal year 1938, $50,000.

WAR DEPARTMENT—CIVIL FUNCTIONS corps of engineers, river and harbor work Improvement of Indian River Inlet and Bay, Delaware: For the improvement of Indian River Inlet and Bay, Delaware, in accordance with plans and conditions set forth in report of the Chief of Engineers dated July 7, 1937, submitted in response to resolution of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors of the House of Representatives, adopted February 21, 1935, at an estimated cost of $443,000, $160,000, payable from the appropriation for rivers and harbors contained in the War Department Civil Appropriation Act, 1938; and in addition there shall be contributed by local interests $160,000. Flushing Bay, New York: For improvement in accordance with River and Harbor Committee Document Numbered 35, Seventy-fifth Congress, $505,000, payable from the appropriation for rivera and harbors contained in the War Department Civil Appropriation Act, 1938.

TITLE II— JUDGMENTS AND AUTHORIZED CLAIMS

legislative establishment For public printing and binding, Government Printing Office, $8.88.

independent offices For National Industrial Recovery, Civil Works Administration, $24. For Federal Civil Works Administration, $5.47. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $119. For farmers’ crop production and harvesting loans, Farm Credit Administration, $154.60. For loans and relief in stricken agricultural areas (transfer to Farm Credit Administration), $1,330. For loans to farmers in drought- and storm-stricken areas, emergency relief, $450. For agricultural credits and rehabilitation, emergency relief, $18.59. For salaries and expenses, Farm Credit Administration, $1,961.67. For Army and Navy pensions, $146.75. For medical and hospital services, Veterans’ Bureau, $1. For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Administration, $1,152.91.

department of agriculture For salaries and expenses, library, Department of Agriculture, $1.95. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $19.66. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Dairy Industry, $12. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $78.40. For salaries and expenses, Forest Service, $33. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, $480. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, $30.04. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, $75. For chinch bug control, Department of Agriculture, $105.96. For payment to officers and employees of the United States in foreign countries due to appreciation of foreign currencies (Agriculture), $48.26. For National Industrial Recovery, Resettlement Administration, subsistence homesteads (transfer to Agriculture), $1,549.31. For emergency relief and public works, Agriculture, wildlife refuges, $12.67.

department of commerce For air-navigation facilities, $74. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $27.76.

department of the interior For Emergency Conservation Fund (transfer from War to Interior, Act March 31, 1933), $550. For salaries and expenses, office of national parks, buildings and reservations, $1.50. For National Park Service, $400. For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, $553.09. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $15.39. For support of Indians and administration of Indian property, $36.91. For fulfilling treaties with Sioux of different tribes, including Santee Sioux of Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, $9.78. For education, Sioux Nation, $573.30. For conservation of health among Indians, $99.82. For loans and relief in stricken agricultural areas (transfer from Agriculture to Interior, Indians), $4.21. For Emergency Conservation Fund (transfer from War to Interior, Indians, Act June 19, 1934), $1,294.20. For Indian service supply fund, $91.25.

department of justice For fees of commissioners, United States courts, 67 cents. For fees of jurors and witnesses, United States courts, $41.09. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $169.50. For support of United States prisoners, $21,969.80. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Prisons, $1. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $98.48. For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, $26. For salaries and expenses, Division of Investigation, $1. For salaries and expenses, Alcoholic Beverage Unit, Department of Justice, $1. For United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia, maintenance, $1,815.45.

department of labor For expenses of regulating immigration, $2. For payment to officers and employees of the United States in foreign countries due to appreciation of foreign currencies (Labor), $9.52.

navy department For payment to officers and employees of the United States in foreign countries due to appreciation of foreign currencies (Navy), $30.73. For pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy, $351.88. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $1.94. For aviation, Navy, $5,135.87. For pay, Marine Corps, $64.95. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $6.670,15. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $7,111.42. For engineering, Bureau of Engineering, $5,897.91. For instruments and supplies, Bureau of Navigation, $47.42.

department of state For office and living quarters, Foreign Service, $10. For payment to officers and employees of the United States in foreign countries due to appreciation of foreign currencies (State), $16.75.

treasury department For collecting the revenue from customs, $2.41. For collecting the internal revenue, $325.09. For contingent expenses, Coast Guard, $18.13. For fuel and water, Coast Guard, $44.60. For pay and allowances, Coast Guard, $149.99. For quarantine service, $1.19. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $13.89. For operating expenses, Treasury buildings, Procurement Division, $24.50. For vaults and safes for public buildings, $7.50.

war department For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $2,002.09. For pay of the Army, $600.82. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $2. For extra pay to volunteers, War with Spain, $30. For Army transportation, $193.54. For clothing and equipage, $55.66. For barracks and quarters, $3,682.41. For subsistence of the Army, $952.49. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $12.78. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $265.16. For National Guard, $102.06. For organized reserves, $3.31. For Air Corps, Army, $205.12. For seacoast defenses, Panama Canal, Coast Artillery, $250. For replacing ordnance and ordnance stores, $145.15. For Coast Artillery school, Fort Monroe, Virginia, $300. For library, Surgeon General’s Office, $1.82, For barracks and quarters, other buildings, and utilities, $74.54. For Emergency Conservation Fund (transfer to War, Act June 19, 1934), $5,410.23. For loans and relief in stricken agricultural areas (transfer from Emergency Conservation Work to War, Act June 19, 1934), $51.15.

post office department—postal service (Out of the Postal Revenues) For clerks, first- and second-class post offices, $50.06. For compensation to postmasters, $54.52. For indemnities, domestic mail, $61.60. For railroad transportation and mail messenger service, $51.97. For rent, light, and fuel, $1,676. For village delivery service, $563.80. Total, audited claims, section 4 (b) $78,410.44, together with such additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency as specified in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office.