Public Law 75–681

That the following 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, 1938, and for prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1938, and June 30, 1989, and for other purposes, namely:

TITLE I— GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS

LEGISLATIVE senate For the procurement of a portrait of Honorable John Nance Garner, Vice President of the United States, $2,500, to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate. Payment to Robert C. Brooks, clerk in office of Official Reporters of Debates, for extra services rendered in connection with journal work for Congressional Record during third session of Seventy-fifth Congress, fiscal year 1938, $500. For attendant authorized by S. Res. 252 adopted May 13, 1938, fiscal year 1939, $1,500. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenographers of committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding 25 cents per hundred words, fiscal year 1938, $70,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for per diem and subsistence expenses except in accordance with the provisions of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, approved June 3, 1926, as amended. 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 1938, is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1939. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fiscal year 1938, $40,000. Effective July 1, 1938, there shall be abolished (1) the office of the assistant clerk of the Committee on Foreign Relations whose compensation is at the rate of $2,880 per annum, and (2) the office of one of the messengers (under the jurisdiction of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper) whose compensation is at the rate of $1,740 per annum. The unobligated balance of the appropriation for miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, contingent fund of the Senate, for the fiscal year 1938, is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1939. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, fiscal year 1938, $3,000. house of representatives To pay the widow of Charles J. Colden, late a Representative from the State of California, $10,000 to be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives. Office of the Doorkeeper: For exchange, maintenance, and repair of folding room motortruck, fiscal year 1938, $150, and in addition not to exceed $450 of the amount available for maintenance and repair of folding room motortruck, contained in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1938, is hereby made available toward the purchase and exchange of such truck; such amounts to remain available during the fiscal year 1939. Contingent expenses: For an additional amount for expenses of special and select committees authorized by the House, fiscal year 1939, $70,000. Contested-election expenses: For payment to Melvin J. Maas, contestee, for expenses incurred in the contested-election case of Williams versus Maas, as audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered 1, $1,250, to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House. For payment to the following contestant and contestee for expenses incurred in the contested-election case of Boy versus Jenks, as audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered 3: To Alphonse Roy, $2,000; To Arthur B. Jenks, $2,000; In all, $4,000, to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House. joint committee on government organization The unexpended balance on June 30, 1938, of the appropriation for the Joint Committee on Government Organization contained in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, approved February 9, 1937 (50 Stat. 9), is hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1939. Office of Architect of the Capitol Senate Office Building: For painting, $20,000; for carpet and rugs, $5,000; in all, for fiscal year 1939, $25,000. House Office Buildings: For an additional amount for maintenance, including the same objects specified under this head in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1939, $600. library of congress Printing and binding: For an additional amount for the printing of catalog cards, fiscal year 1938, $17,000. government printing office Public printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding, Government Printing Office, fiscal year 1938, including the same objects specified under this head in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1938, $408,000. For printing and binding an edition of two thousand two hundred and fifty copies of the Code of Federal Regulations, fiscal year 1939, as authorized by the Federal Register Act, as amended, $450,000. For payment to William Madden, Preston L. George, and William S. Houston, messengers on night duty during the third session of the Seventy-fifth Congress, $900 each; in all $2,700, to be paid from the appropriation for printing and binding for Congress for the fiscal year 1939.

INDEPENDENT ESTABLISHMENTS census of partial employment, unemployment, and occupations Salaries and expenses: Not to exceed $50,000 of the unobligated balance on June 30, 1938 of the allocation of $2,500,000 for the census of partial employment, unemployment, and occupations authorized by the Act of August 30, 1937, made by the President out of funds appropriated by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1937, is hereby continued available until October 31, 1938, for the same purposes and objects of expenditure specified in Executive Order Numbered 7711. civil service commission Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses. Civil Service Commission, fiscal year 1939, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1939, $200,000. Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding for the Civil Service Commission, fiscal year 1939, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1939, $8,000. commission for the commemoration of the battles of chickamauga, lookout mountain, chattanooga, and missionary ridge For carrying out the provisions of the joint resolution entitled “Joint resolution to authorize an appropriation to aid in defraying the expenses of the observance of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Battles of Chickamauga, Georgia, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, and Missionary Ridge, Tennessee; and commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of the removal from Tennessee of the Cherokee Indians, at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and at Chickamauga, Georgia, from September 18 to 24, 1938, inclusive; and for other purposes”, approved June 10, 1938, fiscal years 1938 and 1939, $35,000. commodity credit corporation Administrative expenses: The limitation of $520,288 for administrative expenses of the Commodity Credit Corporation for the fiscal year 1939 contained in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1939, is hereby increased to $700,000. federal power commission Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses of the Federal Power Commission, fiscal year 1939, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1939 $250,000: Provided, That the limitation of $855,000 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, 1939, is hereby increased to $875,000. For an additional amount, for salaries and expenses of the Federal Power Commission, fiscal year 1939, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1939, $125,000: Provided, That the limitation under this head in said Act upon the amount that may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia is hereby increased to $1,140,000: Provided further, That such sum shall not become available unless and until that section of H. R. 10618, Seventy-fifth Congress, a bill “Authorizing the construction of certain public works on rivers and harbors for flood control, and for other purposes”, which authorizes the appropriation of funds to the Federal Power Commission is enacted into law. For an additional amount for salaries and expenses of the Federal Power Commission, fiscal year 1939, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1939, $250,000: Provided, That the limitation under this head in said Act upon the amount that may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia is hereby increased to $1,020,000: Provided further, That such sum shall not become available unless and until H. R. 6586, Seventy-fifth Congress, a bill to regulate the transportation and sale of natural gas in interstate commerce, and for other purposes, is enacted into law. maritime labor board Salaries and expenses: For three Board members and for all other authorized and necessary expenditures of the Maritime Labor Board in performing the duties imposed by law, including contract stenographic reporting services; supplies and equipment; rental of equipment; travel expenses, in accordance with the Standardized Government Travel Regulations and the Act of June 3, 1926, as amended (5 U. S. C. 821–833); and not to exceed $200 for newspapers and periodicals; fiscal year 1939, $75,000, to be immediately available: Provided, That the Board may procure supplies and services without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5) when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $100: Provided further, That such sum shall not become available unless and until the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, is amended to provide for the establishment of the aforesaid Maritime Labor Board. national capital park and planning commission For an additional amount for each and every purpose requisite for and incident to the work of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission necessary toward carrying into effect the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act for the acquisition, establishment, and development of the George Washington Memorial Parkway along the Potomac from Mount Vernon and Fort Washington to the Great Falls, and to provide for the acquisition of lands in the District of Columbia and the States of Maryland and Virginia requisite to the comprehensive park, parkway, and playground system of the National Capital”, approved May 29, 1930; fiscal year 1939, $300,000, to be expended in carrying out the provisions of section 1 (b) of such Act. national mediation board National Railroad Adjustment Board: Not to exceed $12,000 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 1938, may be transferred to the appropriation for printing and binding, National Railroad Adjustment Board, National Mediation Board, fiscal year 1938. northwest territory celebration commission For an additional amount for the expenses of participation of the Government of the United States in the Northwest Territory Celebration Commission, in accordance with Public Resolution Numbered 101, approved May 31, 1938, fiscal year 1939, $15,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until April 15, 1939. perry’s victory celebration To carry out the provisions of the joint resolution (H. J. Res. 620) “Joint Resolution for the observance of the celebration of the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the Battle of Lake Erie”, fiscal year 1939, $15,000, to be immediately available. railroad retirement board Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for three Board members and for all other authorized and necessary expenditures of the Railroad Retirement Board in performing the duties imposed by law or in pursuance of law, fiscal year 1939, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1939, $395.000. Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding for the Railroad Retirement Board, fiscal year 1939, $20,000. securities and exchange commission Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for five Commissioners, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, and for all other authorized expenditures of the Securities and Exchange Commission in performing the duties imposed by law or in pursuance of law, including employment of experts when necessary, fiscal year 1939, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriations Act, 1939, $596,000. Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding for the Securities and Exchange Commission, fiscal year 1939, $4,000. smithsonian institution Smithsonian Gallery of Art Commission: To carry out the provisions of section 2 of Public Resolution Numbered 95, entitled “Joint resolution to set apart public ground for the Smithsonian Gallery of Art, and for other purposes”, approved May 17, 1938, fiscal year 1939, $40,000. temporary national economic committee For each and every purpose requisite and incident to carrying out the provisions of the joint resolution of the Seventy-fifth Congress entitled “Joint resolution to create a temporary National Economic Committee”, fiscal year 1939, to remain available until the expiration of the Seventy-sixth Congress, including rent and personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; contract stenographic reporting services; books of reference; traveling expenses, and all other necessary expenses; $500,000, of which amount not to exceed $100,000 shall be available for expenditure by the Temporary National Economic Committee, and not to exceed $400,000 shall be available for allocation by the President to the departments and agencies represented on the Committee to enable them to carry out their functions under the Joint Resolution: Provided, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5) shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered hereunder when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $100: Provided further, That this appropriation shall not become available unless and until the aforesaid resolution is enacted into law. thomas jefferson memorial commission For the purposes authorized under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the execution of plans for a permanent memorial to Thomas Jefferson”, approved June 3, 1936 (49 Stat. 1397), including commencement of construction of such memorial, $500,000, to remain available until expended. united states maritime commission The limitation of $75,000 for the employment on a contract or fee basis of persons, firms, and corporations, including legal services, by the United States Maritime Commission, contained in the Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, is hereby increased to $125,000: Provided, That after June 30, 1939, the United States Maritime Commission shall not incur any obligations for administrative expenses except pursuant to an annual appropriation specifically therefor or to authority to use appropriations or other funds otherwise available therefor. Federal Ship Mortgage Insurance Fund: To establish a revolving fund authorized by and for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of title XI of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, fiscal year 1939, $500,000, to be immediately available: Provided, That such sum shall not become available unless and until the aforesaid title is enacted into law. water conservation and utility projects For construction, in addition to labor and materials to be supplied by the Works Progress Administration, of water conservation and utilization projects, including acquisition of water rights, rights of way, and other interests in land, in the Great Plains and arid and semiarid areas of the United States, fiscal year 1939, $5,000,000 of the funds made available by section 1 (1) of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1938, to be allocated by the President, in such amounts as he deems necessary, to such Federal Departments, establishments, and other agencies as he may designate, and to be reimbursed to the United States by the water users on such projects in not to exceed forty annual installments: Provided, That expenditures from Works Progress Administration funds shall be subject to such provisions with respect to reimbursability as the President may determine: Provided further, That not to exceed $50,000 may be expended on any one project.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA executive office Board of Tax Appeals, salaries: For salaries of the Board of Tax Appeals for the District of Columbia, including contract stenographic reporting services without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, in accordance with title IX of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the District of Columbia Revenue Act of 1937, and for other purposes”, approved May 16, 1938, fiscal year 1939, $13,000. Commission on Mental Health, District of Columbia: For compensation of members of the Commission on Mental Health of the District of Columbia, and other personal services, including payment of witness fees and mileage, $10,000 and, in addition, there is hereby transferred to this appropriation $2,300 from the appropriation “Metropolitan Police, Salaries, District of Columbia (Personal Services) 1939” and $1,000 from the appropriation “Writs of Lunacy, District of Columbia, 1939”, fiscal year 1939, to be immediately available. Office of poundmaster: For an additional amount for personal services, maintenance and operation of motor vehicles, and other necessary expenses, fiscal year 1938, $130: Provided, That the salary of the poundmaster shall be at the rate of $2,000 per annum. Assessor’s office, salaries: For an additional amount for personal services, fiscal year 1939, $50,000. Auditor’s office, salaries: For an additional amount for personal services without regard to civil-service requirements, fiscal year 1989, $20,000. office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets The appropriation of $13,000 contained in the Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, for an additional amount for the fiscal year 1938 for contingent expenses for the purpose of making emergency repairs to the municipal fish market, including relocation of toilet facilities, is continued available for the same purpose during the fiscal year 1939. municipal architect’s office For an additional amount for the purchase of land, being lots numbered 31 and 32, in square 175, adjacent to the District of Columbia repair shop, to afford additional shop facilities, housing for automobile trucks, and storage for tools and building materials for the District of Columbia repair shop, fiscal year 1937, $37.14. zoning commission For salaries and expenses necessary for the administration of the Act entitled “An Act providing for the zoning of the District of Columbia and the regulation of the location, height, bulk, and uses of buildings and other structures and of the uses of land in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved June ¹¹So in original. 1938, fiscal year 1939, $5,690. contingent and miscellaneous expenses Contingent expenses: For an additional amount for checks, books, lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals, newspapers, stationery; surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; ice; including the same objects and under the same limitations and conditions applicable to the appropriation for this purpose in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1939, $3,575. Postage: For an additional amount for postage for strictly official mail matter, including the rental of postage-meter equipment, fiscal year 1939, $2,500. 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, fiscal year 1936, $17.28. 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 Acts for the following fiscal years: For 1936, $10.08; For 1937, $38.94. Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding, under the same limitations and conditions applicable to the appropriation for this purpose in the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for the following fiscal years: For 1937, $299.85; For 1938, $3,500; For 1939, $6,100 of which $2,500 shall be available only for the printing of the report of a survey of the Health Department of the District of Columbia made in 1937–1938 by the United States Public Health Service and collaborators. Purchase of streetcar and bus fares: The limitation of $9,900, under the heading “Contingent and Miscellaneous Expenses” in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1939, upon the amount which the Commissioners are authorized to expend for the purchase of streetcar and bus fares, is hereby increased to $10,800. Refund of erroneous collections: For an additional amount for refund of erroneous collections, 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, fiscal year 1938, $1,500. Investigation of public relief, District of Columbia: For an additional amount for an investigation of public relief in the District of Columbia, to be expended for the same purposes and under the same conditions as provided for such investigation in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1939, fiscal years 1938 and 1939, $10,000: Provided, That the time fixed in such Act in which a report of such investigation shall be made is extended to December 1, 1938. Survey of tax structure: For the employment of professional and clerical services and for necessary expenses in connection with a survey and study of the entire tax structure of the District of Columbia in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the District of Columbia Revenue Act of 1937, and for other purposes”, approved May 16, 1938, fiscal year 1939, $10,000. Study of District of Columbia government: The appropriation of $5,000, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1939, for the use of the Senate and House Committees on the District of Columbia for a study of the surveys made of the government of such District may be expended without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and the provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (41 U. S. C. 5). policemen and firemen’s relief For an additional amount to pay the policemen and firemen’s relief and other allowances as authorized by law, fiscal year 1938, $5,000. health department Salaries: For an additional amount for personal services, under the same limitations and conditions applicable to the appropriation for this purpose in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1939, $2,300. Contingent expenses, foods, and drugs: For an additional amount for contingent expenses, to provide an allowance for the fiscal year 1939 of $312 for the furnishing for official use of a privately owned motor vehicle by one inspector of milk-processing and distribution plants, fiscal year 1939, $312. For rent of second floor of premises 901 Eighth Street Northwest, occupied by the Permit Bureau of the Health Department, for the period September 1, 1937, to June 30, 1938, fiscal year 1938, $1,250. juvenile court Salaries: For an additional amount for personal services, fiscal year 1939, $33,500. For an additional amount for expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1939, $2,400. police court Contingent expenses: The limitation of $750 for telephone and telegraph service for the police court contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938 is hereby increased to $900. municipal court Salaries: For an additional amount for personal services, including the same objects and under the same limitations and conditions applicable to the appropriation for this purpose in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1939, $8,300. Jurors: For an additional amount for compensation of jurors under the same conditions and limitations applicable to the appropriation for this purpose in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1938, $300. Contingent expenses: For an additional amount for contingent expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1938, $775. district court of the united states Fees of jurors and witnesses: For an additional amount for fees of jurors and witnesses, District Court of the United States, District of Columbia, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1938, $25,800. court of appeals For eleven copies of volume 66 of the Reports of the United States Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, authorized to be furnished under title 18, section 31, page 161, of the Code of Law of the District of Columbia, at $6.50 each, fiscal year 1938, $71.50. miscellaneous, courts Support of convicts: For an additional amount for support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1938, $26,860. Writs of lunacy: For an additional amount for writs of lunacy, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, $131.25. 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, fiscal year 1937, $1,095.29. Miscellaneous court expenses: For an additional amount for such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia and its officers, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1938, $25,650. public welfare Receiving home for children: For the maintenance, under the jurisdiction of the Board of Public Welfare, of a suitable place in a building entirely separate and apart from the house of detention for the reception and detention of children under seventeen years of age arrested by the police on charge of offense against any laws in force in the District of Columbia, or committed to the guardianship of the Board, or held as witnesses, or held temporarily, or pending hearing, or otherwise, including transportation, food, clothing, medicine, and medicinal supplies, rental, repair and upkeep of buildings, fuel, gas, electricity, ice, supplies and equipment, and other necessary expenses including not to exceed $9,560 for personal services, fiscal year 1939 (January 1 to June 30, 1939, both dates inclusive), $19,000. National Training School for Girls: For personal services; groceries, provisions, light, fuel, clothing, shoes; forage and farm supplies; medicine and medical service (including not to exceed $2,000 for medical care and not to exceed $600 for dental care); transportation; maintenance of non-passenger-carrying vehicles; equipment, fixtures, books, magazines, and other educational supplies; recreational equipment and supplies including rental of motion-picture films; stationery; postage; repairs; and other necessary items including expenses incident to securing suitable homes for paroled or discharged girls, fiscal year 1939, $50,000, of which sum not to exceed $33,000 may be expended for personal services including not to exceed $1,500 for additional services and labor on a per diem basis. Workhouse and Reformatory: The appropriation of $29,000 contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938 for replacing defective electric wiring and equipment of distribution system with underground construction at the District of Columbia penal institutions at Lorton and Occoquan, and moving electric generators from powerhouse at Occoquan to powerhouse at Lorton, is hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1939. Industrial Home School for Colored Children: For an additional amount for maintenance, 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, fiscal year 1938, $6,000. District of Columbia sponsor’s contributions to Works Progress Administration non-construction projects: For amount required by the District of Columbia as sponsor’s contributions toward Works Progress Administration non-construction projects for free lunches for necessitous school children, sewing, household service, housekeeping aides, adult education, nursery schools, and recreation, including the purchase of food, equipment, materials, supplies, and other necessary expenses, fiscal year 1939, $189,500. Transportation of nonresidents: For transportation of indigent nonresident persons to their legal residence or to the home of a relative or relatives, including maintenance pending transportation, fiscal year 1939, $20,000, of which amount not to exceed $5,660 shall be available for personal services. 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 1938, $115,000. Deportation of nonresident insane: The appropriation for deportation of nonresident insane persons contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1939, is hereby amended by striking therefrom the words “ ‘to change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases and for other purposes,’ approved January 31, 1899”, and inserting in lieu thereof the words “To provide for insanity proceedings in the District of Columbia,’ approved June 8, 1938”. 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), $1,333.72, fiscal year 1938, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $26,922.87 for the same purpose contained in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936, the total amount herein appropriated, to continue available until June 30, 1939. 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 the Seventy-fifth Congress in House Documents Numbered 601 and 658, $15,350. judgments For the payment of final judgments, including costs, rendered against the District of Columbia, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 198, and House Document Numbered 611, Seventy-fifth Congress, $10,893.17, 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. 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 (31 U. S. C. 713), being for the service of the fiscal year 1935 and prior fiscal years: For policemen and firemen’s relief fund, District of Columbia, 1933, $75; For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, District of Columbia, 1934, contingent expenses, $14.01; For fees of jurors and witnesses, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, 1934, $1.50; For Home for Aged and Infirm, District of Columbia, 1934, maintenance, $7.20; For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, District of Columbia, 1935, contingent expenses, $3.40; For refunding taxes, District of Columbia, 1935, $35.53; In all, audited claims, $136.64. highway fund, gasoline tax and motor vehicle fees The following sums are appropriated wholly out of the special fund created by 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, and the Act entitled “An Act to provide additional revenue for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved August 17, 1937, for the following purposes: Department of vehicles and traffic, annual inspection of motor vehicles: For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the annual inspection of all motor vehicles in the District of Columbia”, approved February 18, 1938, including not to exceed $30,720 for personal services without regard to civil-service requirements, and not to exceed $103,000 for the construction of two buildings, including grading and paving of roadways, for use as inspection stations on land owned by the District of Columbia, one to be located in square 355 and the other on parcel 141/13, and including purchase of necessary inspection equipment, and printing and binding, $154,720, to remain available until June 30, 1939. Extension of streets and avenues: For an additional amount to carry out the provisions of existing law which authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to open, extend, straighten, or widen any street, avenue, road, or highway, except Fourteenth Street extension beyond the southern boundary of Walter Reed Hospital Reservation, in accordance with the plan of the permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia, including the procurement of chains of title, fiscal year 1937, $50,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available to carry out the provisions of existing law for the opening, extension, widening, or straightening of alleys and minor streets and for the establishment of building lines in the District of Columbia. Refunding erroneous collections: To enable the Commissioners, in cases where motor-vehicle registration fees, motor-vehicle operators’ permit fees, motor-vehicle title fees, motor-vehicle fuel taxes, importers’ license fees, special assessments, or collections of any character have been erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit of the special fund created by 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, and the Act entitled “An Act to provide additional revenue for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved August 17, 1937, to refund such erroneous payments, fiscal years 1938 and 1939, $3,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall also be available for refunding such payments made within the last three fiscal years prior to the fiscal year for which this appropriation was made available: Provided further, That this appropriation shall not be available for refunds authorized by section 10 of the Act of April 23, 1924. division of expenses The foregoing sums for the District of Columbia, unless otherwise therein specifically provided, 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 AGRICULTURE office of the secretary Rent of buildings, Department of Agriculture: Not to exceed $13,040 of such funds available to the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year 1939, 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. Mediterranean Fruit Fly Board: For carrying into effect the Act entitled “An Act to provide for an investigation and report of losses resulting from the campaign for the eradication of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly by the Department of Agriculture”, approved May 23, 1938, fiscal year 1939, $10.000. forest service For the reconstruction or repair of roads, except those under State maintenance, trails, bridges, telephone lines, public campgrounds, and other improvements on the national forests in the State of California damaged or destroyed by floods, fiscal year 1938, $1,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 1938. bureau of entomology and plant quarantine Control of incipient and emergency outbreaks of insect pests and plant diseases: For carrying out the purposes and provisions of and for expenditures authorized under Public Resolution Numbered 91, Seventy-fifth Congress, entitled “Joint resolution to amend the joint resolution entitled ‘Joint resolution making funds available for the control of incipient or emergency outbreaks of insect pests or plant diseases, including grasshoppers, Mormon crickets, and chinch bugs’, approved April 6, 1937”, approved May 9, 1938, $700,000, to remain available until June 30, 1939. bureau of biological survey Maintenance of mammal and bird reservations: For an additional amount for maintenance of mammal and bird reservations, including the same objects specified under this heading in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1939, $60,000. bureau of agricultural economics United States Warehouse Act: For an additional amount to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the United States Warehouse Act, fiscal year 1939, including the same objects specified under this heading in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1939, $55,000, of which not to exceed $4,500 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, not to exceed $800 for printing and binding, and not to exceed $3,600 for the purchase of passenger-carrying vehicles. conservation and use of agricultural land resources, department of agriculture In carrying into effect the provisions of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, and the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to expend out of the appropriations available to carry into effect the provisions of said Acts, during the fiscal years 1938 and 1939, not to exceed $50,000 for the preparation and display of exhibits, including such displays at State, interstate, and international fairs within the United States.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE bureau of marine inspection and navigation Salaries and expenses: Not to exceed $3,000 of the sum of $50,000 made available only for the payment of extra compensation for overtime services, fiscal year 1937, in Public Resolution Numbered 28, Seventy-fifth Congress, entitled “Joint resolution to provide emergent appropriations for certain Federal activities for the remainder of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937” (50 Stat. 136), under the heading “Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation, Salaries and General Expenses”, is hereby made available for the fiscal year 1937 and for all other objects therein specified under that heading. bureau of lighthouses Public works: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $120,000, continuing available until June 30, 1938, contained under the heading “Bureau of Lighthouses, Special Projects” in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936, approved June 22, 1936, for establishing and improving aids to navigation and other works as may be specifically approved by the Secretary of Commerce, is hereby continued available for the same purposes until expended. Retired pay: 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 1938, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1938, $16,500. Claims for damages by collision with Lighthouse vessels: To pay claims adjusted and determined by the Department of Commerce under the provisions of section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 1910 (33 U. S. C. 721), on account of damages occasioned to private property by collision with vessels of the Lighthouse Service and for which the vessels of the Lighthouse Service were responsible, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 679, Seventy-fifth Congress, $200. coast and geodetic survey Field expenses: Not to exceed $200 of the sum of $93,000 appropriated for field expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, for Federal, boundary, and State surveys, in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1938, is hereby made available for payment of the expenses of conveyancing and the expense of making an abstract of title to certain property in Gaithersburg, Montgomery County, Maryland, as authorized in the. Act approved August 16, 1937. bureau of fisheries Inquiry respecting food fishes: For an additional amount for inquiry into the cause of the decrease of food fishes in the waters of the United States, and for investigation and experiments in respect to the aquatic animals, fiscal year 1939, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1939, and the charter, maintenance, and operation of vessels, $76,000, of which sum not to exceed $18,040 shall be available for the pay of permanent employees and not to exceed $10,500 shall be available for traveling expenses. Fish cultural station: For the establishment of a fish cultural station, fiscal year 1939, $6,500.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR office of the secretary Printing and binding: For printing the complete transactions of the Third World Power Conference (which includes the Second Congress on Large Dams), sponsored by the United States pursuant to Public Resolution Numbered 58, approved August 26, 1935, fiscal year 1939, $36,000. george rogers clark sesquicentennial commission The George Rogers Clark Sesquicentennial Commission created by the joint resolution approved May 23, 1928, as amended, shall cease and terminate June 30, 1939, and the unexpended balances of the appropriations heretofore made for carrying out the purposes of such joint resolution, as amended, shall be available until June 30, 1939. mount rushmore national memorial commission Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission: For carrying into effect the provisions of the Mount Rushmore Memorial Act of 1938, fiscal year 1939, $50,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for work on any figure, in addition to the four figures authorized by law, upon which work had not commenced as of June 22, 1936. national bituminous coal commission Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for all necessary expenditures of the National Bituminous Coal Commission in performing the duties imposed upon said Commission by the Bituminous Coal Act of 1937, approved April 26, 1937 (50 Stat. 72), including the same objects specified under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1939 and including the purchase of a passenger-carrying automobile for use in the District of Columbia, fiscal year 1939, $250,000: Provided, That expenditures during the fiscal year 1939 under this head and under the head “Salaries and expenses, office of consumers’ counsel, National Bituminous Coal Commission”, shall not exceed an amount equal to the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury under the provisions of section 3 of the Bituminous Coal Act of 1937. united states housing authority Salaries and expenses: Such unexpended funds as remain, after completion of the housing or slum-clearance projects transferred from the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, from the funds authorized to be expended for such projects by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works under title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act and the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 and transferred to the United States Housing Authority under Executive Order Numbered 7732 of October 27, 1937, as modified by Executive Order Numbered 7839 of March 12, 1938, are hereby reappropriated and made available for the purposes of the United States Housing Act of 1937, and of these funds and other funds of the Authority there is hereby made available during the fiscal year 1939 not to exceed $3,500,000 for administrative expenses of the Authority, in carrying out the United States Housing Act of 1937, including personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses; printing and binding; procurement of supplies, equipment, and services; reproducing, photographing, and labor-saving devices and office appliances, including their repair and exchange; payment, when specifically authorized by the Administrator, of actual transportation expenses and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses to persons serving, while away from their homes, without other compensation from the United States, in an advisory capacity to the Authority; payment of the necessary traveling and other expenses of officers and employees of any agency of the Federal, State, or local Governments whose services are utilized in the work of the Authority; not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase and exchange of law books and other books of reference, periodicals, newspapers, and press clippings; not to exceed $2,500 for exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes; not to exceed $1,000 for expenses of attendance, when specifically authorized by the Administrator, at meetings or conventions concerned with the work of the Authority; not to exceed $10,000 for the preparation, mounting, shipping, and installation of exhibits; not to exceed $5,000 for employing persons or organizations, by contract or otherwise, for special reporting, engineering, technical, and other services determined necessary by the Administrator, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5), and without regard to the civil-service laws and the Classification Act of 1923, as amended: Provided, That all necessary expenses in connection with the completion of construction, development, management, and operation of projects transferred to the Authority by said Executive orders may be considered as nonadministrative expenses for the purposes hereof, and be paid from the funds allotted for or the rents from each project. general land office Salaries and commissions of registers: For an additional amount for salaries and commissions of registers of district land offices, for the following fiscal years: For 1937, $623.16; For 1938, $4,200. Payment 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 1938, $7,279.05: 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. Payment 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 1938, $246,000: 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. Range improvements on public lands outside of grazing districts (receipt limitation): For construction, purchase, and maintenance of range improvements on the public lands subject to grazing leases under the provisions of section 15, and pursuant to the provisions of section 10, of the Act of June 28, 1934 (48 Stat, 1269), as amended by the Act of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1976), fiscal year 1939, $60,000: Provided, That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed 25 per centum of all moneys received under the. provisions of section 15 of said Act during the fiscal years 1938 and 1939. bureau of indian affairs Purchase and transportation of Indian supplies: For additional amounts for expenses of purchase and transportation of goods and supplies for the Indian Service, for the fiscal years that follow: For 1935, $35,000; For 1936, $15,000 For 1937, $140,000; For 1938, $100,000 Suppressing liquor traffic among Indians: For an additional amount for the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors and deleterious drugs among Indians, fiscal year 1937, $1,861.97. Vehicles, Indian Service: The limitation of $290,000 on the amount of applicable appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affair’s contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, that may be expended for the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of employees in the Indian field service, and the transportation of Indian school pupils, is hereby increased to $430,000. Vehicles, Indian Service: The limitation of $190,000 on the amount of applicable appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1938, 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 $200,000. Payment to Sioux Indians for failure to receive allotments: For an additional amount 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, fiscal year 1938, $80, to remain available until expended. Purchase of land, Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho (tribal funds): For the purchase of Indian-owned and privately owned lands or interests therein, and improvements thereon, fiscal year 1939, $40,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the Fort Hall Indians: Provided, That title to any land, interests therein, or improvements so purchased shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation: Provided further, That in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior title may be taken to the surface only. Purchase of land for the Southern Ute Indians, Colorado (tribal funds): For the purchase of land and improvements thereon for the Southern Ute Indians in Colorado, fiscal year 1939, $20,000, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the Southern Ute Band of Ute Indians: Provided, That title to any land or improvements so purchased shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Southern Ute Band of Indians. Purchase of land for Ute Mountain Indians, Colorado (tribal funds): For the purchase of land and improvements thereon for the Ute Mountain Band of Indians in Colorado, fiscal year 1939, $20,000, payable from funds ,on deposit to the credit of the Ute Mountain Band: Provided, That title to any land or improvements so purchased shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Ute Mountain Band of Ute Indians. Industrial assistance (tribal funds): For an additional amount for the construction of homes for individual members of the tribes; for advances to them for the purchase of seed, animals, machinery, tools, implements, building material, and other equipment and supplies; and for advances to old, disabled, or indigent Indians for their support and burial, and Indians having irrigable allotments to assist them in the development and cultivation thereof, fiscal year 1939, $178,000, payable from tribal funds as follows: Fort Apache, Arizona, $25,000; Sells, Arizona, $3,000; Navajo, Arizona and New Mexico, $25,000; Blackfeet, Montana, $125,000; subject to the same conditions specified under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1939. Maintenance, San Carlos irrigation project, Gila River Reservation, Arizona (receipt limitation): For an additional amount for operation and maintenance of the San Carlos project for the irrigation of lands in the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona, fiscal year 1938, $10,000 (power revenues), from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. Irrigation systems on Indian reservations: For additional amounts for the construction, repair, and rehabilitation of irrigation systems on Indian reservations, including the same objects and limitations specified under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1938, to remain available until June 30, 1939, as follows: Arizona: Salt River, $42,712, reimbursable; New Mexico: Fruitlands, $130,000, reimbursable. Natives in Alaska: For an additional amount for natives of Alaska, fiscal year 1939, including the same objects specified under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1939, $35,000. Construction and equipment: Point Barrow Hospital, Alaska: The appropriation of $100,000 contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, for the construction and equipment of a hospital at Point Barrow, Alaska, is hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1939. Grazing fees, Tongue River Reservation, Montana (tribal funds): Not to exceed $6,000 of the funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Northern Cheyenne Indians of the Tongue River Reservation, Montana, may be used to pay individual members of the tribe, or their heirs, for the rental of allotments during 1935 and 1936 to the Northern Cheyenne Indian Stockgrowers Association, fiscal year 1938, to remain available until June 30, 1939. Expenses of attorneys, Quinaielt Reservation, Washington (tribal funds): Not to exceed $1,500 of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Quinaielt Indians, Washington, is hereby made available for the fiscal year 1939 for expenses incurred by the attorney of record in prosecuting the claims of the Quinaielt Tribe in the Court of Claims, as authorized by the Act of February 12, 1925 (43 Stat. 886): Provided, That claims for such expenses shall be filed with and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and such claims shall be itemized and supported by proper vouchers: Provided further, That any payments made hereunder shall be deducted from any amount which may hereafter be decreed by the Court of Claims to the attorney for expenses in connection with the suit on behalf of the Quinaielt Indians. Expenses of special attorneys, Osage Nation, Oklahoma (tribal funds): For necessary and proper expenses of attorneys employed under contracts in accordance with existing law, to prosecute tax matters on behalf of the Osage Indians, fiscal year 1939, to remain available until expended, $4,000, payable, upon proper vouchers approved by the Secretary of the Interior, from funds on deposit to the credit of the Osage Tribe. Klamath Reservation, Oregon: For an additional amount for support of Indians and administration of Indian property, Klamath Reservation, Oregon, fiscal year 1939, $4,500, payable from funds on deposit to the credit of the Klamath Indians, which amount shall be available only for fees and expenses of an attorney or firm of attorneys selected by the tribe and employed under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with existing law. Construction, and so forth, buildings and utilities, Indian Service: For an additional amount for the construction, repair, or rehabilitation of school, agency, hospital, or other buildings and utilities, including the purchase of land and the acquisition of easements or rights-of-way when necessary, and including the purchase of furniture, furnishings, and equipment as follows: Choctaw-Chickasaw Sanatorium and General Hospital, Oklahoma: Quarters for employees, $40,000; Pine Ridge, South Dakota: Horse barn, $10,000; nurses’ home and ward attendants’ building, including passageway connecting hospital to present nurses’ home and remodeling such home for hospital use, $40,000; San Xavier Sanatorium, Arizona: Improvements to sewer system, $8,500; Sioux Sanatorium, South Dakota: Remodeling and reconditioning old buildings and utilities, $50,000; Uintah and Ouray, Utah: Quarters for employees, $12,500; United Pueblos, New Mexico: Agricultural building (Albuquerque School), $30,000; In all, fiscal year 1939, $191,000: Provided, That not to exceed 5 per centum of the amount of any specific authorization may be transferred, in the discretion of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to the amount of any other specific authorization but no limitation shall be increased more than 10 per centum by such transfer. Reindeer industry, Alaska: For an additional amount for a survey and appraisal of the property and reindeer authorized to be acquired for the natives of Alaska under the provisions of the Act approved September 1, 1937 (50 Stat. 900), fiscal year 1939, including the same objects and under the same conditions specified under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1939, $25,000, to be immediately available. Construction, and so forth, buildings and utilities: Not to exceed $25,000 of the appropriation of $147,500 for a school building at Lac du Flambeau (Great Lakes Agency), Wisconsin, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1938, is hereby made available until June 30, 1940, for general repairs and improvements to buildings and utilities (including the purchase and erection of a new water tank) under the jurisdiction of the Great Lakes Agency. Payment to Indians of Sioux Reservations: For additional amounts 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, for the fiscal years that follow: For 1933, $126.50; For 1935, $825.30; For 1937, $52.000; For 1938, $160,000. Payment of interest on Indian trust funds: For additional amounts for payment of interest on moneys held in trust for the several Indian tribes, as authorized by various Acts of Congress, for the following fiscal years: For 1937, $26.000; For 1938, $25,000. Roads, Indian reservations: For an additional amount for the construction, improvement, repair, and maintenance of Indian reservation roads, fiscal year 1939, including the same purposes and subject to the limitations under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1939, $2,000,000. Travel expenses, and so forth, of employees, Indian Service: Appropriations made for the Indian Service, for the fiscal year 1939 shall be available for travel expenses of employees on official business; for travel expenses and the cost of packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of personal effects of employees upon permanent change of station with or without a change in official position; for the purchase of ice, and for the purchase of rubber boots for official use of employees. bureau of reclamation The following sums are appropriated, out of the special fund in the Treasury of the United States created by the Act of June 17, 1902 (43 U. S. C. 391, 411), and therein designated “the reclamation fund”, to remain available until June 30, 1939: Salt River project, Arizona: For continuation of construction, $400,000; Yuma project, Arizona-California: For operation and maintenance improvements and betterments, $100,000; Tucumcari project, New Mexico: For construction of a project for the irrigation of the lands of the Arch Hurley Conservancy District in New Mexico as authorized by the Act of August 2, 1937 (50 Stat. 557), as amended by the Act of April 9, 1938 (Public, Numbered 477, Seventy-fifth Congress, third session), $250,000; Klamath project, Oregon-California: For continuation of construction, $100,000; Riverton project, Wyoming: For construction of a transmission line, $125,000; In all, reclamation fund, special fund, $975,000. Commission to investigate reclamation projects: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $30,000 for the Commission to investigate reclamation projects contained in the Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, approved August 25, 1937 (50 Stat. 764), is hereby continued available for the same purposes during the fiscal year 1939. General investigations: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $200,000 to enable the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation, to carry on engineering and economic investigations of proposed Federal reclamation projects, surveys for reconstruction, rehabilitation, or extension of existing projects and studies of water conservation and development plans contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1938, is hereby continued available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1939. bureau of mines Acquisition of helium properties: For acquirement, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of September 1, 1937 (50 Stat. 885), from the Girdler Corporation of helium-producing properties at Thatcher, Colorado, and at Dexter, Kansas, including real estate, buildings, ground equipment, machinery and equipment, materials and supplies, pipe lines, gas wells, engineering and geological data, lease rights, and patent licenses, fiscal year 1939, $537,975.23. Building and equipment, University of Utah: For the erection and equipment of a building or buildings on a site, to be donated to the United States, adjacent to the campus of the University of Utah at Salt Lake City, Utah, suitable for use by the Bureau of Mines for the mining experiment station at Salt Lake City, as authorized by the Act of February 25, 1938 (Public, Numbered 436, Seventy-fifth Congress), including expenses in the District of Columbia and elsewhere for the preparation of plans and specifications, advertising, traveling expenses, and supervision of construction, fiscal year 1939, the sum of $300,000 is hereby made available from the amount allocable for Federal projects under section 201 of the Public Works Administration Appropriation Act of 1938. Laboratory, Boulder City, Nevada: For the purchase of a building at Boulder City. Nevada, formerly used as a carpenter shop during construction of Boulder Dam, for removal of the building from its present location to a site adjacent to the electrometallurgical laboratory of the Bureau of Mines, and for such alterations as may be needed to prepare the building for laboratory use, including personal services, materials, and supplies, fiscal year 1939, $6,000. national park service Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee: For the acquisition of the lands needed to complete the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, including expenses incidental thereto, in accordance with the authority contained in the Act approved February 12, 1938 (Public, Numbered 428, Seventy-fifth Congress), $743,265.29, to remain available until expended. National Historical Parks and Monuments—National Military parks, battlefields, monuments, and cemeteries: The appropriation “Salaries and Expenses, Public Buildings Outside the District of Columbia, National Park Service, 1938” is hereby made available as of July 1, 1937, for expenditure during the fiscal year 1938 in an amount not to exceed $2,880 for maintenance of the museum building, Morristown National Historical Park, New Jersey, and in an amount not to exceed $12,735 for administration, protection, and maintenance of the Statue of Liberty National Monument, New York. The unexpended balance of the amount of $10,000, included in the appropriation for the fiscal year 1938 for “National military parks, battlefields, monuments, and cemeteries”, to provide for the erection and maintenance of permanent markers along the route followed by the armies in Georgia during the War between the States, is continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1939. 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, and continued available during the fiscal year 1938, is hereby continued available for the same purposes during the fiscal year 1939. 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 1938, $40,000: 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. Roads and trails, National Park Service: For an additional amount for the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of roads and trails inclusive of necessary bridges, in the national parks, monuments, and other areas administered by the National Park Service, including the Boulder Dam Recreational Area, and other areas authorized to be established as national parks and monuments, and national park and monument approach roads authorized by the Act of January 31, 1931 (46 Stat. 1053, 1054), as amended, including the roads from Glacier Park Station through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to various points in the boundary line of the Glacier National Park and the international boundary, fiscal year 1939, $3,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $10,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1939. Blue Ridge and Natchez Trace Parkways: For an additional amount for continuing the construction and maintenance, under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 16, 1936 (49 Stat. 1519–1922 ¹¹So in original.), of the Blue Ridge and Natchez Trace Parkways, fiscal year 1939, $2,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which amount not to exceed $10,000 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1939. Salaries and general expenses, public buildings and grounds in the District of Columbia: That portion of the appropriation for “Salaries and general expenses, public buildings and grounds in the District of Columbia, National Park Service”, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1939, reading “per diem employees at rates of pay approved by the Director, not exceeding current rates for similar services in the District of Columbia”, is amended by the addition of the following: “and such employees in emergencies may be entered on duty subject to confirmation by the Secretary of the Interior”. government in the territories Government of the Virgin Islands: The President is hereby authorized to allocate from the appropriation contained in the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1937 the sum of $1,102.47 as an additional amount to cover freight charges in carrying out a project for the improvement, rebuilding, and construction of roads in the Virgin Islands for which there was made available an allocation of funds from the appropriation contained in the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935. Administrative expenses, Equatorial and South Sea Islands: For an additional amount for administrative expenses of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions, in carrying out the provisions of Executive Orders Numbered 7368 and 7828, approved May 13, 1936, and March 3, 1938, respectively, including the same objects specified under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1938, and including reimbursement to other appropriations for services, materials, supplies, and equipment: fiscal year 1938, $8,500; fiscal year 1939, $16,500; in all, $25,000. Insane of Alaska: For an additional amount for the care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in Alaska, including the same objects and for the same services specified in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1938, $4,700. saint elizabeths hospital Continuous-treatment building, Saint Elizabeths Hospital: For an additional amount for construction and equipment of a continuous-treatment building, including preparation of plans and specifications, advertising, and supervision of construction, fiscal year 1938, $30,000. 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 Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1938, $15,000, 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. For an additional amount for Freedmen’s Hospital for the fiscal year 1939, $50,000, of which amount $31,140 shall be available for officers and employees and compensation for all other professional and other services that may be required and expressly approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and $18,860 shall be available for subsistence, fuel and light, supplies, equipment, and other objects specified under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1939, of which amount of $50,000 one-half shall be charged to the District of Columbia and paid in like manner as other appropriations of the District of Columbia are paid. All sums paid to the Surgeon in Chief of Freedmen’s Hospital for the care and treatment of patients that he is authorized by law to receive shall be deposited to the credit on the books of the Treasury Department of the appropriation made for the maintenance and operation of Freedmen’s Hospital for the fiscal year current at the time such sums are so paid, and be subject to requisition upon approval of the Secretary of the Interior.

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, 1938, fiscal year 1938, $15,000. Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding for the Department of Justice and the courts of the United States, fiscal year 1938, $75,000. federal bureau of investigation Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, Federal Bureau of Investigation, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1938, fiscal year 1938, $158,000. Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, fiscal year 1939, including the same purposes and under the same conditions specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1939, $150,000, to be held as a reserve for emergencies arising in connection with kidnapping and extortion cases and to be released for expenditure in such amounts and at such times as the President, upon recommendation of the Attorney General, may determine. Not to exceed $1,500 of the appropriation “Salaries and Expenses, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1939”, in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1939, shall be available to maintain, on behalf of the United States, membership in the International Criminal Police Commission, as authorized by the Act approved June 10, 1938. Construction of target range: For the construction on the Marine Corps Reservation at Quantico, Virginia, of a target range and range buildings for training of personnel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, including the purchase and installation of machinery and equipment and all expenses incident thereto, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General by contract or purchase of materials and hire of labor and services as the Attorney General may direct, $150,000, to remain available until June 30, 1939. 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 674, Seventy-fifth Congress, $1,050. miscellaneous objects, department of justice Enforcement of antitrust and kindred laws: For an additional amount for the enforcement of antitrust and kindred laws, fiscal year 1939, including experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, except that the compensation paid to any person employed hereunder shall not exceed the rate of $10,000 per annum, and including not to exceed $28,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $200,000. Salaries and expenses, case of Northern Pacific Railway Company and others: For salaries and expenses incident to prosecution of the case of United States against Northern Pacific Railway Company, and others, equity numbered 4389, United States District Court Eastern District of Washington, including traveling and office expenses; law books; stenographic reporting services, by contract or otherwise, including notarial fees or like services, and stenographic work in taking depositions at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General; fees of witnesses and appraisers; compensation of special master in accordance with order of the United States district court; printing and binding; the employment of experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General; and personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, fiscal year 1939, $55,000, together with the unexpended balances of the appropriations for this purpose for the fiscal years 1936–1938. 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, 1938, fiscal year 1938, $60,000. marshals and other expenses of united states courts Salaries and expenses of district attorneys, and so forth: Not to exceed $37,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation “Salaries and Expenses of District Attorneys, United States Courts, 1937”, is hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1938. Fees of Commissioners: For an additional amount for fees of United States Commissioners and other committing magistrates acting under section 1014, Revised Statutes (18 U. S. C. 591), fiscal year 1933, $1.50. Fees and expenses of conciliation commissioners: Not to exceed $75,000 of the unexpended balances of the appropriations “Fees and Expenses of Conciliation Commissioners, United States Courts, 1937”, and “Fees of Conciliation Commissioners, United States Courts, 1938”, is hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1939. Pay of bailiffs: 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, 1938, fiscal year 1938, $44,000. Miscellaneous expenses, United States courts: For an additional amount for miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Acts for the following fiscal years: For 1936, $1,288.06; For 1938, $169,840. penal and correctional institutions For additional amounts for the fiscal year 1939 for salaries and wages of officers and employees in penal and correctional institutions, as follows: United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, $18,600; United States Penitentiary Annex, Leavenworth, Kansas, $7,440; United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia, $18,600; United States Penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington, $11,160; United States Northeastern Penitentiary, $11,160; United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California, $9,300; United States Industrial Reformatory, Chillicothe, Ohio, $16,740; United States Southwestern Reformatory, $3,720; United States Hospital for Defective Delinquents, $5,580; Federal jails, $3,720; Prison camps, $3,720; Federal Reformatory Camp, Petersburg, Virginia, $9,300; National Training School for Boys, Washington, District of Columbia, $10,800; In all, penal and correctional institutions, $129,840. National Training School for Boys, Washington, District of Columbia: For an additional amount for the National Training School for Boys, Washington, District of Columbia, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1938, fiscal year 1938, $9,830, of which amount not to exceed $2,230 may be expended for salaries and wages of officers and employees. Prison camps: The appropriation “Prison Camps, Maintenance, 1939”, shall be available for the purchase of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying bus at not to exceed $14,000.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR office of the secretary Traveling expenses: For an additional amount for all traveling expenses, except travel expenses incident to the deportation of aliens, under the Department of Labor, including all bureaus and divisions thereunder, fiscal year 1939, $20,000. Printing and binding: For an additional amount, fiscal year 1939, for printing and binding for the Department of Labor, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1939, $2,700. Salaries and expenses, Division of Labor Standards: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses. Division of Labor Standards, fiscal year 1939, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1939, $51,000, of which amount not to exceed $12,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. administration of the fair labor standards act To carry into effect the provisions of the “Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938”, including personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, contract stenographic reporting services, travel expenses, printing and binding, law books, books of reference, and periodicals, and all other necessary expenses, fiscal year 1939, to be immediately available, $400,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall not become available unless and until the aforesaid legislation is enacted into law. bureau of labor statistics Investigation of labor conditions in Hawaii: For personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere and all other expenses necessary to collect, assort, arrange, and present in reports, statistical details relating to all departments of labor in the Territory of Hawaii, especially in relation to the commercial, industrial, social, educational, and sanitary conditions of the laboring classes, as directed in the Act approved April 8, 1904 (33 Stat. 164), including supplies, services, equipment, rental of tabulating and office machines, traveling expenses, and printing and binding, fiscal year 1939, $14,900. children’s bureau Grants to States for maternal and child-health services, Social Security Act: For an additional amount for grants to States for the purpose of enabling each State to extend and improve services for promoting the health of mothers and children, as authorized in title V, part 1, of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935 (49 Stat. 629–631), to complete payment of allotments made to the several States for the fiscal year 1937 in excess of the amount appropriated under this head in the Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1937, as therein authorized, $904,000, to remain available for payment of allotments made to the States for the fiscal year 1938 for similar purposes. Grants to States for services to crippled children, Social Security Act: For an additional amount for the purpose of enabling each State to extend and improve services for crippled children, as authorized in title V, part 2, of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935 (49 Stat. 631–633), to complete payment of allotments made to the several States for the fiscal year 1937 in excess of the amount appropriated under this head in the Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1937, as therein authorized, $749,000, to remain available for payment of allotments made to the States for the fiscal year 1938 for similar purposes. Grants to States for child-welfare services, Social Security Act: For an additional amount for grants to States for the purpose of enabling the United States, through the Children’s Bureau, to cooperate with State public-welfare agencies in establishing, extending, and strengthening public-welfare services for the care of homeless or neglected children, or children in danger of becoming delinquent, as authorized in title V, part 3, of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935 (49 Stat. 633), to complete payment of allotments made to the several States for the fiscal year 1937 in excess of the amount appropriated under this head in the Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1937, as therein authorized, $201,000, to remain available for payment of allotments made to the States for the fiscal year 1938 for similar purposes.

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 194, and House Document Numbered 678, Seventy-fifth Congress, $2,000.85. For the necessary expenses of sending the Navy Band to Chester, Pennsylvania, and Salem, New Jersey, on the 29th and 30th of June, 1938, to participate in festivities in connection with the observance of the three-hundredth anniversary of the First Finnish settlements in America, $1,500. bureau of navigation State marine schools, Act March 4, 1911: For an additional amount for maintenance and repair of the particular vessels loaned by the United States to certain States, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938, $30,000, to continue available until June 30, 1939. bureau of engineering Engineering: For an additional amount for repairs, preservation, and renewal of machinery, auxiliary machinery, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1939, $1,750,000. bureau of construction and repair Construction and repair: For an additional amount for designing naval vessels, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1939, $1,750,000. public works, bureau of yards and docks Public Works, Bureau of Yards and Docks: Toward the following public-works and public utilities projects at a cost not to exceed the amount stated for each project, respectively, $12,752,000, which amount, 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: Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Improvement of power plant, $175,000; improvement of shipbuilding ways, $250,000; replace shipway cranes, $150,000; improvement of electric lines to water front, $150,000; improvement of electric power circuits in shops, $100,000; weight-handling and transportation equipment, $67,000; extension of services to Pier Numbered 1, $100,000; improvement of shop cranes, $60,000. Navy Yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Extension of services to water front, $80,000; improvement of power plant, $130,000; additional crane on north shipbuilding ways, $50,000; portal crane for new quay wall, $75,000; weight-handling and transportation equipment, $54,000. Navy Yard, Mare Island, California: Extension of services, paving and loading facilities, $100,000; improvement of power plant, $380,000; improvement of electric lines to water front, $150,000; transportation equipment, $65,000; improvement of electric power circuits in machine shop, $75,000; drydock crane, $150,000; floating crane, $135,000. Navy Yard, New York, New York: Extension of drydock, numbered 4, $400,000; improvement of power plant for battleship construction, $285,000; addition to structural shop and accessories, $1,367,000; extension of electric lines to water front, $150,000; hammer-head crane for heavy duty, $1,200,000; extension of crane runways over shipbuilding ways, $215,000; improvement and extension of distributing systems, $200,000; improvement of shop lighting, $150,000; weight-handling and transportation equipment, $55,000. Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Improvement of power plant, $300,000; improvement of electric-distribution systems, $150,000; extension of electric lines to water front, $135,000; floating crane, $100,000; extend boiler- and structural-shop building and accessories, $500,000; weight-handling and transportation equipment, $130,000; additional crane on Pier Numbered 3, $175,000; improvement and extension of distributing systems, $100,000; hammer-head crane for heavy duty, $1,200,000; additional crane in structural shop, $20,000; improvement of ventilation in foundry and structural shop, $55,000; addition to foundry building and accessories, $300,000. Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Addition to machine-shop building and accessories, $625,000; transportation and outside weight-handling equipment, $200,000; improvement of electric distribution to water front, $150,000. Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Improvement of ship-building ways, $370,000; extension of services to shipbuilding ways and ship fitters’ shop, $50,000; addition to ship fitters’ shop and accessories, $492,000; alterations to ship fitters’ shop, $170,000; crane for handling weldments, $25,000. Navy Yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Graving drydock service and auxiliary construction, $4,500,000; improvement of power plant, $450,000; improvement of shipbuilding dock, $100,000; addition to foundry building and accessories, $300,000; improvement of primary electric-distribution system, $300,000; extension of electric lines to pier 6, $150,000; weight-handling and transportation equipment, $60,000. Navy Yard, Washington, District of Columbia: Improvement of power plant, $415,000; improve electric distribution in shops, $100,000. Naval Training Station, San Diego, California: Extension of sewers and drainage systems of the naval training station and Marine Corps base, $180,000. Naval Proving Ground, Dahlgren, Virginia: Purchase of land for safety zones, $22,000; quarters for officers and accessories, $100,000. Naval Ammunition Depot, Hawthorne, Nevada: Ammunition-storage facilities. $492,000. Model testing plant: To complete the model testing plant authorized by the Act approved May 6, 1936 (49 Stat. 1263, 1264), exclusive of any buildings or facilities for testing other than surface and subsurface craft, $500,000. Public Works. Bureau of Yards and Docks: Toward the following public-works and public utilities projects at a cost not to exceed the amount stated for each project, respectively, $3,500,000, which amount, 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: Navy Yard, Mare Island, California: Paint shop building and accessories, $175,000; machine shop building and accessories, $1,800,000; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Structural assembly shop building and accessories, $630,000; pipe and copper shop building and accessories, $750,000; pickling plant, building and accessories, $120,000; and Navy Yard, Washington, District of Columbia: Gun assembly shop building and accessories, $1,400,000; ordnance storehouse and accessories, $365,000. bureau of aeronautics Aviation, Navy: For an additional amount for navigational, photographic, aerological, radio, and miscellaneous equipment, and so forth, fiscal year 1938, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938, $2,000,000: Provided, That $1,518,000 of this appropriation, and not to exceed $1,000,000 of the appropriation “Aviation, Navy, 1938”, contained in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938, shall continue available until September 30, 1938. Aviation, Navy: For an additional amount for navigational, photographic, aerological, radio, and miscellaneous equipment, and so forth, and for the commencement of the construction of a rigid airship to cost not to exceed $3,000,000, in accordance with the provisions of section 6 of the Naval Expansion Act, approved May 17, 1938 (Public, Numbered 528, Seventy-fifth Congress), fiscal year 1939, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1939, $3,875,000. marine corps General expenses: For additional amounts under each of the following subheads of the appropriation “General Expenses, Marine Corps, 1938”, including the same objects respectively specified under each of such subheads in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938: For clothing for enlisted men, $250,000; For fuel, and so forth, $30,000; For military supplies and equipment, and so forth, $50,000; For repairs and improvements to barracks, and so forth, $70,000; For miscellaneous supplies, and so forth, $165,000; In all, $565,000. Expenses Marine Band at observance of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg: For expenses of the United States Marine Band in attending the observance of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 1, 2, and 3, 1938 as authorized by the Act approved May 9, 1938 (Public Numbered 501, Seventy-fifth Congress), fiscal years 1938 and 1939, $1,500. Expenses Marine Band at the observance of the United Confederate Veterans’ Reunion at Columbia, South Carolina, and at the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at Des Moines, Iowa: For expenses of the United States Marine Band in attending the observance of the United States Confederate Veterans’ Reunion to be held at Columbia, South Carolina, August 30 to September 2, 1938, and in attending the observance of the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic to be held at Des Moines, Iowa, September 4 to 8, 1938, authorized by the Acts approved June ¹¹So in original. 1938 and June ¹¹So in original. 1938, respectively: Provided, That only so much of this appropriation shall be available as may be authorized to be appropriated by the enactment into law of either or both of the aforesaid acts, fiscal year 1939, $11,750. replacement of naval vessels Construction and machinery: On account of hulls and outfits of vessels and machinery of vessels heretofore authorized (and appropriated for in part), and for the commencement of the following vessels authorized by the Act approved March 27, 1934 (48 Stat. 503–505), two battleships, $4,200,000, to remain available until expended, including the same objects and under the same conditions and limitations prescribed under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938. Armor, armament, and ammunition: Toward the armor, armament, and ammunition for vessels hereinbefore described under the head of “Construction and Machinery”, $800,000, to remain available until expended, including the same objects and under the same conditions and limitations prescribed under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938. Construction and machinery: For an additional amount on account of hulls and outfits of vessels and machinery of vessels heretofore authorized (and appropriated for in part), and for the commencement of the following vessels authorized by the Act approved May 17, 1938 (Public, Numbered 528, Seventy-fifth Congress), one aircraft carrier, two cruisers of subcategory (b), one destroyer tender, one large seaplane tender, two small seaplane tenders, two oil tankers, one minelayer, one minesweeper, two fleet tugs, and a program of experimental small vessels, $9,500,000, to remain available until expended, including the same objects and under the same conditions and limitations prescribed under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1939. Armor, armament, and ammunition: For an additional amount toward the armor, armament, and ammunition for vessels described in the preceding paragraph under the head “Construction and Machinery”, $1,550,000, to remain available until expended, including the same objects and under the same conditions and limitations prescribed under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1939.

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT Out of the Postal Revenues office of the postmaster general Personal property or damage claims: The unexpended balance of the appropriation for the payment of personal or property damage claims, 1936, is hereby made available for the payment of claims accruing in subsequent fiscal years. office of first assistant postmaster general Clerks, first- and second-class offices: For an additional amount for compensation to clerks and other employees at first- and second-class post offices, including auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter post offices, printers, mechanics, skilled laborers, watchmen, messengers, laborers, and substitutes, fiscal year 1938, the sum of $500,000 is hereby transferred from the appropriation “Foreign Mail Transportation, 1938” and $2,000,000 from the appropriation “Railroad Transportation and Mail Messenger Service, 1938”. Special-delivery fees: For fees to special-delivery messengers for the fiscal years that follow: For 1937, the sum of $157,000 is transferred from the appropriation “Foreign Mail Transportation, 1937”; For 1938, the sum of $300,000 is transferred from the appropriation “Compensation to Postmasters, 1938”. office of second assistant postmaster general Star Route Service: The sum of $150,000 is hereby transferred from the appropriation “Railroad Transportation and Mail Messenger Service, 1939”, to “Star Route Service, 1939”, to be available for the same objects specified under this latter head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1939, including the transportation of mail by aircraft within the limitations prescribed by section 6 of the Act approved April 15, 1938. 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, 1935, $6,412.08, to be paid from funds available to the United States Maritime Commission which are hereby made available therefor. Not to exceed $100,000 of the appropriation for “Foreign Mail Transportation, 1939”, contained in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1939, is hereby made available for payment for transportation of mail by aircraft from Seattle, Washington, to Juneau, Alaska, and return, and for other expenses authorized by law pertaining thereto: Provided, That the limitation in such Act with respect to obligations for the fiscal year 1940 for carrying foreign mails by aircraft is hereby increased by $200,000. Contract air-mail service: For inland transportation of mail by aircraft, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: For 1936, the sum of $78,500 is transferred from the appropriation “Foreign Mail Transportation, 1936”; For 1937, the sum of $44,000 is transferred from the appropriation “Foreign Mail Transportation, 1937”; Not to exceed $100,000 of the appropriation “Contract Air Mail Service, 1939”, contained in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1939, is hereby made available to provide for and supervise experimental services in connection with the transportation of mail by air, and so forth, as authorized by section 1 of the Act approved April 15, 1938. office of third assistant postmaster general Manufacture and distribution of stamps and stamped paper: The sum of $375,000 is hereby transferred from the appropriation “Rural Delivery Service, 1938” to the appropriation “Manufacture and distribution of stamps and stamped paper, 1938”. office of the fourth assistant postmaster general Pneumatic-tube service, New York City: For rental of not exceeding twenty-eight miles of pneumatic tubes, hire of labor, communication service, electric power, and other expenses for transmission of mail in the city of New York including the Borough of Brooklyn, fiscal year 1939, $561,838: Provided, That not to exceed $7,300 of this sum shall be available toward the cost of the relocation of the pneumatic-tube line and machinery incidental to removal of the post-office station from Varick Street to Canal Street: Provided further, That the provisions of the Acts of April 21, 1902, May 27, 1908, and June 19, 1922 (39 U. S. C. 423), relating to contracts for the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similar devices shall not be applicable hereto.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE office of secretary of state Salaries: For an additional amount for salaries, Department of State, subject to the limitations specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1939, fiscal year 1939, $66,000. contingent expenses, department of state For an additional amount for contingent expenses, Department of State, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1938, fiscal year 1938, to remain available until June 30, 1939, $31,750, of which amount there may be expended not to exceed $1,500 for the purchase of typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their exchange, and not to exceed $7,500 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Department of State when authorized by the Secretary of State. foreign intercourse Contingent expenses, Foreign Service: The unexpended balance of the allocation of not to exceed $42,000 for remodeling and altering, including equipment of, the United States Legation building in Praha (Prague), Czechoslovakia, contained in the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Foreign Service, 1938”, is continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1939. Foreign Service buildings fund: The unexpended balance of the appropriation for the Foreign Service buildings fund contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, is made available for the erection and initial furnishing of a residence building on the Government-owned site at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and such unexpended balance is also made available for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the Foreign Service Buildings Act, 1926, as amended (22 U. S. C. 292–299), and for each and every object thereof, including the initial alterations, repairs, and furnishing of buildings heretofore acquired under specific authorization of Congress for the use of the diplomatic and consular establishments in foreign countries at such foreign capitals or other foreign cities, in addition to those specified in the appropriation or in substitution therefor, as may be determined by the Foreign Service Buildings Commission. Emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, 1938: The unexpended balance of the appropriation “Emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, 1938”, contained in the Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, is continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1939. Waterways treaty, United States and Great Britain: Special and technical investigations: For an additional amount for waterways treaty, United States and Great Britain, fiscal year 1939, for necessary special or technical investigations in connection with matters which fall within the scope of the jurisdiction of the International Joint Commission, including personal services in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, traveling expenses, procurement of technical and scientific equipment, and the purchase, exchange, hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, $10,000, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, who is authorized to transfer to any department or independent establishment of the Government, with the consent of the head thereof, any part of this amount for direct expenditure by such department or establishment for the purposes of this appropriation. Pan-American Highway: To meet such expenses as the President in his discretion may deem necessary to enable the United States to collaborate with the several governments, members of the Pan-American Union, in regard to the proposed Pan-American Highway, as authorized by the convention ratified by the United States, July 15, 1937, $50,000, fiscal year 1939, to be immediately available; the expenditure of such sum shall be subject to the receipt of assurances satisfactory to the President from such governments of their cooperation as provided in said convention, but no part of such sum shall be expended except for engineering advice and assistance. International Conference for Regulation of Whaling: For the expenses of participation by the United States in the International Conference for Regulation of Whaling, to be held at London, England, in 1938, and in the preliminary conversations at Oslo, Norway, 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 and other services by contract if deemed necessary, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5); rent; traveling expenses; local transportation; printing and binding; official cards; purchase of necessary books, documents, newspapers, maps, 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 1938, to remain available until December 31, 1938, $5,000. Commission of Experts on the Codification of International Law, Lima, Peru: For the expenses of participation by the United States in the meeting of the Commission of Experts on the Codification of International Law, to be held at Lima, Peru, in 1938, including personal services in the District of Columbia or 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 (41 U. S. C. 5); rent; traveling expenses; hire, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; equipment; purchase of necessary books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, and maps; stationery; official cards; entertainment; printing and binding; and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State, including the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of the purposes herein specified, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, fiscal years 1938 and 1939, $3,600. Tenth International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy: For the expenses of organizing and holding the Tenth International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy in the United States in 1939, 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; communication services; stenographic reporting, translating, and other services by contract if deemed necessary, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5); travel expenses; local transportation; hire of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; transportation of things; rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; printing and binding; including the payment of not to exceed $500 to the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States toward the cost of printing the report of the American Delegation to the Tenth Congress; entertainment; official cards; purchase of newspapers, periodicals, books, and documents; stationery; membership badges; expenses which may be actually and necessarily incurred by the Government of the United States by reason of observance of appropriate courtesies in connection therewith, 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 during the fiscal year 1938, fiscal year 1939, $50,000, to remain available until January 31, 1940. International Committee on Political Refugees: For the expenses of participation by the United States in the International Committee on Political Refugees, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere without regard to the civil-service laws and regulations or 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 (41 U. S. C. 5); rent; traveling expenses; purchase of necessary books, documents, newspapers, and periodicals; stationery; equipment; 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, $50,000, to remain available until June 30, 1939: Provided, That no salary shall be paid hereunder at a rate in excess of $10,000 per annum. Payment to Norwegian Government: For payment to the Norwegian Government for the account of the crew of the Norwegian steamer Sagatind, as authorized by and in accordance with the Act, approved May 13, 1938, fiscal year 1938, $5,000. Fourth International Conference on Private Air Law: For the expenses of participation by the United States in the Fourth International Conference on Private Air Law, to be held in Belgium, or elsewhere in Europe, during the fiscal year 1939, as authorized by and in accordance with the public resolution of May 13, 1938, $15,500, to remain available until June 30, 1939. Third Pan-American Highway Conference: For the expenses of participation by the United States in the Third Pan-American Highway Conference, to be held in Chile during the fiscal year 1939, as authorized by and in accordance with the public resolution of May 20, 1938, fiscal year 1939, $15,000. Reappropriations: The unexpended balances of the appropriations “International Monetary and Economic Conference, 1933–1938”, and “General Disarmament Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 1933–1938”, contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, are continued available for the same purposes respectively until June 30, 1939. The unexpended balance of the appropriation “Conference to Revise the Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, Brussels, Belgium, 1935–1938”, contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act fiscal year 1937, is continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1939. The unexpended balance of the appropriation “Conference on Oil Pollution of Navigable Waters, Geneva, Switzerland, 1936–1938”, contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, is continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1939. The unexpended balance of the appropriation “Telecommunication Conference, Cairo, Egypt, 1937 and 1938”, contained in the Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, is continued available for the same purposes until December 31, 1938. Not to exceed $350 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation “Commission to Study the Subject of Hernando de Soto’s Expedition” made in Public Act Numbered 440, approved February 11, 1936, and continued available until June 30, 1937, in Public Act Numbered 739, approved June 22, 1936, is hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1939. The appropriation of $10,000 for the United States Delaware Valley Tercentenary Commission, contained in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1938, and continued available for the fiscal year 1939 by the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1939, may be expended, notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act, upon the certification of the President or Vice President of the Commission, which certification shall be final and conclusive upon the accounting officers in the auditing of all accounts of the United States Delaware Valley Tercentenary Commission.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT office of the secretary Return to certain States of portions of Federal employers’ tax for 1936: For carrying out the provisions of the Act of August 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 754), entitled “An Act to make available to each State which enacted in 1937 an approved unemployment-compensation law a portion of the proceeds from the Federal employers’ tax in such State for the year 1936”, $40,561,886.43, to be paid to each such State unemployment fund, with respect to employment in such State or Territory during the calendar year 1936, as follows: Alaska, $110,479.64; Arkansas, $699,581.18; Delaware, $676,683.16; Florida, $1,595,820.77; Georgia, $2,467,192.82; Hawaii, $449,022.95; Illinois, $20,814,013.81; Kansas, $1,689,044.96; Missouri, $6,394,668.20; Montana, $650,697.20; Nebraska, $1,330,835.90; Nevada, $177,659.37; North Dakota, $238,116.11; Washington, $2,925,602.61; Wyoming, $342,467.75: Provided, That no adjustment of funds credited to the various States or Territories under this appropriation shall be made on account of refunds to or additional tax collected subsequent to January 31, 1938, from employers who had employees within such States or Territories during the calendar year 1936 under the provisions of title IX of the Social Security Act: Provided further, That the amounts herein appropriated shall be in full and final settlement of any or all sums due under such Act. Restoration, capital impairment, Commodity Credit Corporation: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury, on behalf of the United States, to restore the amount of the capital impairment of the Commodity Credit Corporation as of March 31, 1938, by a contribution to the Corporation as provided by the Act approved March 8, 1938 (Public, Numbered 442, Seventy-fifth Congress), $94,285,404.73. 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 192, and House Document Numbered 681, Seventy-fifth Congress, $971.67. office of chief clerk and superintendent Contingent expenses: For an additional amount for contingent expenses, Treasury Department, fiscal year 1938, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1938, $10,000. division of printing Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding, Treasury Department, fiscal year 1938, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1938, and for the cost of transportation to field offices of printed and bound material, including the cost of necessary packing materials, $157,600. Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding, Treasury Department, fiscal year 1936, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1936, $11,117. Stationery: For an additional amount for stationery for the Treasury Department, fiscal year 1938, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1938, $99,400. public debt service Distinctive paper for United States securities: For an additional amount for distinctive paper for United States securities, fiscal year 1938, to remain available until June 30, 1939, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1938, $100,000. bureau of customs Refunds and drawbacks: For an additional amount for refunds and drawbacks, Customs, fiscal year 1938, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1938, $2,000,000. bureau of the budget Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses in the District of Columbia and in the field, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1939, and including not to exceed four positions at rates of pay to be fixed by the Director without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; expenses of attendance at meetings when necessary in furthering the work of the Bureau of the Budget; not to exceed $7,500 for the purchase (including one at not to exceed $1,500), maintenance, repair, and operation, of passenger-carrying automobiles for official use; not to exceed $5,000 for the temporary employment of persons or organizations, by contract or otherwise without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and without regard to the civil-service laws or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, $132,710. Printing and binding: Not to exceed $1,000 of the appropriation for salaries and expenses, Bureau of the Budget, fiscal year 1938, may be transferred to the appropriation for printing and binding, Bureau of the Budget, fiscal year 1938. bureau of internal revenue Refunding internal-revenue collections: For an additional amount for refunding internal-revenue collections, as provided by law, including the payment of claims for the fiscal year 1938 and prior years and accounts arising under “Allowance or drawback (Internal Revenue)”, “Redemption of stamps (Internal Revenue)”, “Refunding legacy taxes, Act of March 30, 1928”, and “Repayment of taxes on distilled spirits destroyed by casualty”, $2,500,000: Provided, That a report shall be made to Congress by internal-revenue districts and alphabetically arranged of all disbursements hereunder in excess of $500 as required by section 3 of the Act of May 29, 1928 (26 U. S. C. 1676), including the names of all persons and corporations to whom such payments are made together with the amount paid to each. Salaries and expenses, refunding of processing taxes: Not to exceed $4,200,000 of 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 1938 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 1939 for the same purpose, including the same objects specified under this head in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937. 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. 598), the Tobacco Act of June 28, 1934, as amended (48 Stat. 1275), and the Potato Act of August 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 782); and for redemption of tax stamps purchased under the aforesaid Tobacco and Potato Acts, fiscal year 1939, $50,000,000, together with the unexpended balance of the funds made available to the Treasury Department for these purposes for the fiscal year 1938 by the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937. For the refunding, which is hereby authorized, in accordance with rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, of all amounts collected by any collector of internal revenue as tax (including penalties and interest) under the Bankhead Cotton Act of 1934 (48 Stat. 598), as amended, the Kerr Tobacco Act (48 Stat. 1275), as amended, and the Potato Act of 1935 (49 Stat. 750), fiscal year 1939, so much of the appropriation in the immediately preceding paragraph as may be requisite is hereby made available for the purposes of and in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph: Provided, That no refund shall be made or allowed of any amount paid by or collected from any person as tax under such Acts, unless, after the date of the enactment of this Act, and prior to July 1, 1939, a claim for refund has been filed by such person: Provided further, That no refund shall be denied upon the ground that a proceeding to recover had become barred by the limitation provisions of such Acts, or by the provisions of section 3226, as amended, of the Revised Statutes, or by the provisions of section 608 of the Revenue Act of 1928: Provided further, That in the absence of fraud all findings of fact and conclusions of law of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue upon the merits of any such claim for refund, and the mathematical calculations made in connection therewith, shall not be subject to review by any court or by any other officer, employee, or agent of the United States: Provided further, That no refund of any tax shall be made under this paragraph unless liability for the payment of such tax was satisfied by the payment of money: Provided further, That no interest shall be allowed in connection with any refund made under the authority of this paragraph: Provided further, That in the case of amounts paid as tax under the Bankhead Cotton Act of 1934 with respect to the ginning of cotton (a) refund shall be allowed to the ginner of the cotton only to the extent that the ginner has not shifted the burden of the tax by including it in any charge or fee for ginning, or by collecting it from the owner or owners of the cotton ginned, or in any manner whatsoever, and (b) refund shall be allowed to the owner or owners of the cotton at the time of ginning, to the extent that the amount of tax was shifted to such owner or owners by the cotton ginner and was not shifted by such owner or owners to other persons, and in such cases, but only for the purposes of this paragraph, the tax shall be considered to have been paid by the ginner to the United States for the account of such owner or owners. No part of the amount of any refund made under this paragraph in excess of 10 per centum of the amount of such refund shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with such refund, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding; and any person violating the provisions of this sentence shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. coast guard Office of the Commandant: Not exceeding $5,000 of the amount appropriated for “Pay and allowances, Coast Guard”, in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1938, may be transferred to the appropriation for “Salaries, Office of Coast Guard, 1938”. Rebuilding and repairing stations: The unexpended balance of the appropriation under this head contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, is hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1939. Replacement airplanes and equipment: The appropriation of $363,500 for replacement airplanes and their equipment, including radio equipment, spare parts, and accessories, contained in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1938, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1939, and the appropriation of $270,000 under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1939, is hereby made immediately available. Air station, Elizabeth City, North Carolina: For establishing and equipping a Coast Guard air station at Elizabeth City, North Carolina, $540,000, to remain available until June 30, 1939. Air station, San Francisco, California: For establishing and equipping a Coast Guard air station at the San Francisco Airport on the west shore of San Francisco Bay, twelve miles south of San Francisco, California, $600,000, to remain available until June 30, 1939. Additional airplanes: For additional airplanes and their equipment, including radio equipment, spare parts, and accessories, to be constructed or purchased in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, for the foregoing stations, one-half of the number of each type of planes procured hereunder to be assigned to each station, $654,000, to remain available until June 30, 1939. bureau of engraving and printing Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Acts for the following fiscal years: For 1938, $500,000; For 1939, $1,000,000. public health service Division of Venereal Diseases: For an additional amount for the maintenance and expenses of the Division of Venereal Diseases, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Act of May 24, 1938 (Public, Numbered 540, Seventy-fifth Congress), including rent and personnel and other services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriations for printing and binding, stationery, and miscellaneous and contingent expenses for the Treasury Department; purchase of reports, documents, and other material for publication and of reprints from State, city, and private publications; purchase (not to exceed $1,500), maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles for official use in field work; transportation; traveling expenses, including attendance at public meetings when directed by the Surgeon General; and the packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of personal effects of commissioned officers, scientific personnel, pharmacists, administrative assistants, aides, dietitians, and nurses of the Public Health Service upon permanent change of station, fiscal year 1939, $3,000,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the pay and allowances of not to exceed twenty commissioned officers. The Administrator of the Works Progress Administration is authorized to allocate during the fiscal year 1939 to the Public Health Service, Treasury Department, with the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, from the funds appropriated by section 1 of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1938, not to exceed $400,000 for expenses of the Public Health Service (including personal and other services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere) in furnishing through its facilities medical, surgical, and hospital services to injured emergency relief workers, and not to exceed $500,000 for expenses of the Public Health Service (including personal and other services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere) in furnishing technical supervision for community sanitation, malaria control drainage, and mine-sealing projects of the Works Progress Administration within the several States. procurement division, public buildings branch War Department Building: For the acquisition of land as a site for buildings for the War Department, and for the construction of the first building unit, under the provisions of the Public Buildings Act approved May 25, 1926 (44 Stat. 630), as amended, including the extension of steam and water mains, removal or diversion of such sewers and utilities as may be necessary, and for administrative expenses in connection therewith, $3,000,000, within a total limit of cost of $10,815,000; and such sum of $3,000,000 is hereby made available from the appropriation of $965,000,000 in section 201 (a) of the Public Works Administration Appropriation Act of 1938 and is hereby transferred to the Procurement Division, Treasury Department, for the purposes of this paragraph: Provided, That such sum of $3,000,000 shall not be subject to any of the other provisions of such Act. Social Security Board and Railroad Retirement Board Buildings: For the acquisition of the necessary land and the construction of buildings for the Social Security Board and the Railroad Retirement Board, under the provisions of the Public Buildings Act approved May 25, 1926 (44 Stat. 630), as amended, including connecting tunnels, the extension of steam and water mains, removal or diversion of such sewers and utilities as may be necessary, and for administrative expenses in connection therewith, $3,000,000, within a total limit of cost of $14,250,000; and such sum of $3,000,000 is hereby made available from the appropriation of $965,000,000 in section 201 (a) of the Public Works Administration Appropriation Act of 1938 and is hereby transferred to the Procurement Division, Treasury Department, for the purposes of this paragraph: Provided, That such sum of $3,000,000 shall not be subject to any of the other provisions of such Act. Navy Department Building, Washington, District of Columbia: For the construction of an additional story on each of two wings of the Navy Department Building, under the provisions of the Public Buildings Act approved May 25, 1926, as amended, including administrative expenses in connection therewith, $210,000. Columbus (Mississippi) post-office site: The appropriation “General administrative expenses, Public Buildings Branch, Procurement Division”, contained in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1939, is hereby made available for the payment in advance of rent for the site acquired for the proposed Federal building at Columbus, Mississippi, as authorized in the Act approved August 27, 1935. Albert Gallatin Statue, Washington, District of Columbia: For the preparation of the site and erection of a pedestal for the statue of Albert Gallatin within the grounds of the Treasury Building, authorized by public resolution approved June 15, 1937 (50 Stat. 260), fiscal year 1939, $10,000. Operating supplies, public buildings: For an additional amount for operating supplies, fiscal year 1938, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1938, $21,000.

WAR DEPARTMENT Military Activities secretary of war Educational orders: For placing educational orders to familiarize private manufacturing establishments with the production of munitions of war of special or technical design, noncommercial in character, as authorized by law, fiscal year 1939, a sum or sums not exceeding a total of $2,000,000 may be transferred from appropriations available for other Military Activities for fiscal year 1939 and not required for such activities and may be utilized for the purposes of this paragraph. quartermaster corps Subsistence of the Army: For an additional amount for subsistence of the Army, including the same objects specified under this head in the Military Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938, $1,921,875. Acquisition of land, Mitchel Field, New York: For an additional amount for the acquisition of land in the vicinity of Mitchel Field, New York, as authorized by the Acts approved August 12, 1935 (49 Stat. 610), and July 1, 1937 (50 Stat. 452), $500,000, to remain available until expended. Acquisition of land, West Point, New York: For an additional amount for the acquisition of land in the vicinity of West Point, New York, as authorized by the Acts approved March 3, 1931 (46 Stat. 1491), and July 1, 1937 (50 Stat. 452), $300,000, to remain available until expended. Civil Functions office of secretary of war Seventy-fifth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg: For an additional amount to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize an appropriation to aid in defraying the expenses of the observance of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, to be held at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, from June 29 to July 6, 1938, and for other purposes”, approved May 16, 1938, fiscal year 1938, to remain available until June 30, 1939, $286,943, which amount shall be available only for traveling and per diem expenses of veterans and their attendants, and for their food and shelter at Gettysburg. Claims for damages to and loss of private property: To pay claims for damages adjusted and determined by the Secretary of War under the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, and for other purposes”, approved August 24, 1912 (5 U. S. C. 208), as set forth in House Document Numbered 633, Seventy-fifth Congress, $986. corps of engineers Claims for damages, river and harbor work: To pay claim 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 (33 U. S. C. 564), as set forth in House Document Numbered 680, Seventy-fifth Congress, $1,051. Flushing Bay, New York: For improvement in accordance with Senate Commerce Committee Document, Seventy-fifth Congress, third session, $194,000, payable from the appropriation for rivers and harbors contained in the War Department Civil Appropriation Act, 1939. Flood control, Mississippi River and tributaries: The Secretary of War, upon approval by the President, is authorized to transfer not to exceed a total of $6,000,000 from the sum of $18,000,000 made available by the War Department Civil Appropriation Act, 1939, from the appropriation in section 1 (1) of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1938, to the appropriation contained in such War Department Civil Appropriation Act, 1939, for “Flood control, Mississippi River and tributaries”: Provided, That such authorization for transfer of funds shall not become effective unless and until there is enacted into law the provisions under the heading “Dower Mississippi River” contained in H. R. 10618, Seventy-fifth Congress, entitled “An Act authorizing the construction of certain public works on rivers and harbors for flood control, and for other purposes”.

TITLE II— JUDGMENTS AND AUTHORIZED CLAIMS