Public Law 77–108

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, 1942, and for prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, and for other purposes, namely:

TITLE I— GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS

LEGISLATIVE senate To enable the Secretary of the Senate to expend from the appropriation for Salaries of officers and employees of the Senate, fiscal year 1942, the necessary amounts from March 1 to June 30, 1942, to increase from $2,460 per annum to $3,000 per annum, the salary of the foreman of the Senate folding room so long as the position is held by the present incumbent. house of representatives Special and select committees: For expenses of special and select committees authorized by the House, fiscal year 1942, $110,000. Reporting committee hearings: For stenographic reports of hearings of committees other than special and select committees, fiscal year 1942, $15,000. office of legislative counsel Salaries and expenses: For salaries and expenses of maintenance of the Office of Legislative Counsel, as authorized by law, fiscal year 1942, $1,500, to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. library of congress Security of collections: For an additional amount to enable the Librarian to effect precautionary measures for the security of the collections of the Library of Congress, and for every expense incidental thereto, including personal services, including special and temporary services at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, services other than personal, rentals of space within or without the District of Columbia, equipment, supplies, travel and subsistence, purchase, hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-vehicles within and without the District of Columbia, fiscal years 1942 and 1943, $100,000. government printing office Working capital and congressional printing and binding: For an additional amount for working capital and congressional printing and binding, fiscal year 1942, including the objects and subject to the conditions and limitations specified under this heading in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1942, and including an additional amount of $100,000 for the printing, binding, and distribution of the Federal Register in accordance with the Act approved July 26, 1935 (44 U. S. C. 301–317), $3,720,000: Provided, That of this sum $2,000,000 shall be returned to the Treasury as an unexpended balance not later than December 31, 1942. General expenses, Office of Superintendent of Documents: For an additional amount tor general expenses, Office of Superintendent of Documents, fiscal year 1942, including the objects and subject to the conditions specified under this heading in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1942, $150,000.

THE JUDICIARY Salaries and expenses of clerks, United States courts: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses of clerks, United States courts, fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified under this head in the Judiciary Appropriation Act, 1942, $25,000.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT office for emergency management Civilian Defense: To enable the Director of Civilian Defense, under such regulations as the President may prescribe (which regulations may provide exemption from the requirements of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes), to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide protection of persons and property from bombing attacks in the United States, and for other purposes”, approved January 27, 1942 (Public Law 415), fiscal year 1942, $100,000,000, to remain available until June 30, 1943, of which not to exceed $3,000,000 shall be available for all administrative expenses, including printing and binding and personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay any person in the Office of Civilian Defense unless such person is directly employed in the administration of such Act of January 27, 1942: Provided further, That no part of the funds appropriated herein may be used for the employment of persons, the rent of facilities or the purchase of equipment and supplies to promote, produce or carry on instruction or to direct instruction in physical fitness by dancers, fan dancing, street shows, theatrical performances or other public entertainments: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available to pay the salary of any person at the rate of $4,500 per annum or more unless such person is appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate: Provided further, That the Director of Civilian Defense shall transmit to the Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives every sixty days following the date of the enactment of this Act, a report in summary and by categories of the progress of the procurement of equipment and material provided by this appropriation: Provided further, That no funds herein appropriated shall be used for the payment of any person especially employed by a contractor to solicit or secure a contract upon any agreement for a commission, percentage, brokerage, or contingent fee.

INDEPENDENT EXECUTIVE AGENCIES employees’ compensation commission Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, fiscal year 1942. including the objects specified under this head in the “Employees’ Compensation Commission Appropriation Act, 1942”, $72,500. Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding for the Employees’ Compensation Commission, fiscal year 1942, $5,000. Employees’ compensation fund: For an additional amount for the payment of compensation provided by the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes”, approved September 7, 1916 (5 U. S. C. 785), fiscal year 1942, including the objects under this head in the Employees’ Compensation Commission Appropriation Act, 1942, $400,000. Salaries and expenses, military bases (national defense): For all necessary expenses of the Employees’ Compensation Commission in administering the Act of August 16, 1941, making applicable the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (33 U. S. C. 901) to military, air, and naval bases outside continental United States, including personal services in the District of Columbia; law-books, books of reference, and periodicals; printing and binding; fees and mileage of witnesses; stenographic reporting services, by contract or otherwise; purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for use in the field; transfer of household goods and effects as provided by the Act of October 10, 1940 ( 54 Stat. 1105); fiscal year 1942, $175,000: Provided, That section 3709, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to any purchase or service outside continental United States when the unit aggregate amount involved does not exceed $500. federal communications commission National defense activities: For an additional amount for national defense activities, fiscal year 1942, including the objects for which and subject to the conditions under which the appropriation under this heading in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1942, is available, $587, 195. federal security agency public health service Expenses, Division of Venereal Diseases: For an additional amount for the maintenance and expenses of the Division of Venereal Diseases, fiscal year 1942, including the same objects specified under this head in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1942, $2,500,000: Provided, That $9,000 shall be transferred from this appropriation to the appropriation “Traveling expenses, Federal Security Agency”, and $8,500 shall be transferred from this appropriation to the appropriation “Printing and binding, Federal Security Agency”. Disease and sanitation investigations: For an additional amount for disease and sanitation investigations, Public Health Service, fiscal year 1942, including the same objects specified under this head in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1942, $77,481: Provided, That the appropriation “Disease and sanitation investigations, Public Health Service, 1942”, as supplemented by this appropriation shall be available for alterations to buildings and equipment of the Public Health Service laboratory at Hamilton, Montana. Emergency health and sanitation activities, Public Health Service (national defense): For an additional amount for emergency health and sanitation activities (national defense), fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified under this head in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1942, and the Surgeon General is authorized to engage in such activities in the areas specified in said Act independently of the State and local authorities, $1,295,000. Training for nurses, Public Health Service (national defense): For an additional amount for training for nurses (national defense), fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified under this heading m the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1942, $600,000: Provided, That the amount of any allotment from this or the appropriation to which this is supplemental remaining unpaid at the end of the fiscal year 1942 shall be available for allotment for the fiscal year 1943. office of education Education and training, defense workers (national defense): For an additional amount for payments to States, and so forth (national defense), for the acquisition by purchase, rental, gift, or otherwise of new or used equipment when needed by agencies in providing courses pursuant to plans approved in the method prescribed in paragraph 2 under this heading in the Labor-Federal Security Appropriation Act, 1942, $10,000,000, to be available until June 30, 1943. federal works agency public roads administration Inter-American Highway: For surveys in connection with and the construction of the Inter-American Highway, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved December 26, 1941 (Public Law 375), and necessary expenses incident thereto, including the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles necessary for use by the Public Roads Administration in carrying out the provisions of said Act in the Central American republics named therein, $7,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That expenditures here-under may be made without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes. national mediation board Salaries and expenses, National Railroad Adjustment Board: For an additional amount for “Salaries and expenses, National Railroad Adjustment Board, National Mediation Board”, fiscal year 1942, $22,500, and, in addition thereto, not to exceed the sum of $2,500 may be transferred from the appropriation “Printing and binding, National Railroad Adjustment Board, National Mediation Board, 1942”: Provided, That the amount available only for services of referees is hereby increased to $65,000. selective service system During the period of the emergency declared by the President on May 27, 1941, so much of section 6 of the Act approved May 6, 1939 (53 Stat. 683), as amended by section 2 of the Act approved June 30, 1939 (53 Stat. 989), as requires the head of each independent establishment and executive department (other than the Post Office Department) to submit to the Postmaster General quarterly reports relating to mail matter which has been transmitted free of postage, is hereby suspended, insofar as the Selective Service System is concerned.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA general expenses Recorder of deeds, rent, District of Columbia: For an additional amount, fiscal year 1942, for rent of offices of the recorder of deeds, to be expended without reference to the provisions of section 6 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1942. $6,250. Office of Superintendent of Weights, Measures, and Markets: For an additional amount for contingent expenses, and maintenance and repairs to markets, fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified in the appropriation for this purpose in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1942, $250; and the limitation upon the purchase of one motor vehicle equipped for making investigations of sales of gasoline and oil by short measure is increased to $1,000. Minimum Wage and Industrial Safety Board—Salaries and expenses: For all necessary expenses, including personal services and printing and binding, fiscal year 1942, $5,320. District of Columbia employees’ compensation fund: For an additional amount for the fiscal year 1942 for carrying out the provisions of section 11 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved July 11, 1919, extending to the employees of the government of the District of Columbia the provisions of the Act of September 7, 1916, providing compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, $8,000. Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding, fiscal year 1942, including the condition specified in the appropriation for this purpose in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1942, $7,500. Central Garage: The limitation of $1,700 contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1942, upon the purchase of two field wagons for the surveyor’s office is increased to $1,900, and the limitation of $650 contained in said Act upon the acquisition, by purchase or exchange, including the value of a vehicle exchanged, of any passenger-carrying automobile, except busses, station wagons, patrol wagons, and ambulances, and except as otherwise specifically authorized in that Act, is increased to $750. sewers Assessment, and permit work: For an additional amount, fiscal year 1942, for assessment and permit work, sewers, $250,000, to continue available until June 30, 1943. metropolitan police Salaries: For an additional amount, fiscal year 1942, for the pay and allowances of officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force, in accordance with the Act of May 27, 1924, as amended by the Act of July 1, 1930 (46 Stat. 839–841), subject to the conditions specified in the appropriation for this purpose in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1942, $53,890. Miscellaneous and contingent expenses: For an additional amount, fiscal year 1942, for miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including the objects and conditions specified in the appropriation for this purpose in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1942, $2,680. Uniforms: For an additional amount, fiscal year 1942, for furnishing uniforms and other official equipment, including the objects specified in the appropriation for this purpose in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1942, $7,125. public schools Repairs and improvements, buildings and grounds: The limitation of $6,000 for a new roof over the auditorium at the Francis Junior High School contained in the appropriation for this purpose in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1942, is increased to $8,500. School building and playground sites: For an additional amount for the purchase of school building and playground sites, as specified in the appropriation for this purpose in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1941, $10,000, to remain available until expended. fire department Miscellaneous: For an additional amount for fuel, fiscal year 1942, $7,700. health department Tuberculosis sanatoria, expenses: The limitation of $800 for purchase and exchange of one motortruck, specified in the appropriation for this purpose in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1942, is increased to $900. public welfare Division of Child Welfare: For an additional amount, fiscal year 1942, for maintenance of the receiving home for children, including the objects and conditions specified in the appropriation for this purpose in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1942, $2,750. Home For Aged and Infirm: For an additional amount for personal services, fiscal year 1942, $13,000. For an additional amount for repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, fiscal year 1942, $48,000. For an additional amount for the fiscal year 1942 for provisions and so forth, including the objects specified in the appropriation for this purpose in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1942, $45,000. militia Militia armory: For completing construction of an armory for the Militia of the District of Columbia, $110,000. national capital parks park police Salaries: For an additional amount, fiscal year 1942, for pay and allowances of the United States Park Police force, in accordance with the Act approved May 27, 1924, as amended, $4,085. Uniforms and equipment: For an additional amount for uniforming and equipping the United States Park Police force, fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified in the appropriation for this purpose in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1942, $2,855. highway fund, gasoline tax and motor vehicle fees Police traffic control: For an additional amount, fiscal year 1942, for police traffic control, payable from the special fund created by the Act of April 23, 1924, as amended by the Act of August 17, 1937 (50 Stat. 676), $9,500, which amount shall be transferred to the appropriation for pay and allowances of officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1942. water service Washington Aqueduct: For an additional amount for the operation, maintenance, repair, and protection of Washington Aqueducts and their accessories, fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified in the appropriation for this purpose in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1942, and the purchase of uniforms for guards, radio equipment, and one additional passenger-carrying motor vehicle at a cost of not to exceed $750. $34,360. Water Department: For the purchase of a site for the erection of an elevated water tank in the vicinity of Alabama and Massachusetts Avenues Southeast, fiscal year 1942, $5,000. For an additional amount, fiscal year 1942, for extension of the water department distribution system, laying of such service mains as may be necessary under the assessment system, $250,000, to continue available until June 30, 1943. The foregoing sums under the water service shall be paid wholly out of the revenues of the Water Department of the District of Columbia. judgments For the payment of final judgments, including costs, rendered against the District of Columbia, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 165 and House Document Numbered 559 of the Seventy-seventh Congress, $21,288, together with such further sum as may be necessary 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. 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 forest service salaries and expenses Fighting forest fires: For an additional amount for fighting and preventing forest fires, fiscal year 1942, $2,050,000.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR general land office Revested Oregon and California Railroad and Reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant Lands, Oregon: For an additional amount for carrying out the provisions of title I of the Act of August 28, 1937, entitled “An Act relating to the revested Oregon and California Railroad and Reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant Lands situated in the State of Oregon”, fiscal year 1942, including the objects and conditions specified under this heading in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1942, $18,000. geological survey Mineral leasing: For an additional amount for mineral leasing, fiscal year 1941, including the objects specified under this heading in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1941, $668.53. bureau of mines Oil and gas investigations: For an additional amount for oil and gas investigations, fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified under this heading in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1942, $66,000; and the limitations under said heading of $6,500 on the amount which may be expended for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and $22,600 on the amount which may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, are hereby increased to $10,500 and $24,800, respectively. Investigation of domestic sources of mineral supply: For an additional amount for investigation of domestic sources of mineral supply, fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified under this heading in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1942, $225,000; and the limitations under said heading of $22,000 on the amount which may be expended for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and $32,500 (as increased by the First Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1942) on the amount which may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, are hereby increased to $24,400 and $35,000, respectively. government in the territories Relief and civilian defense, Hawaii: For restoration to the emergency fund for the President appropriated by the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1942, of the amount allocated therefrom to the Secretary of the Interior by letter of January 12, 1942 (numbered 42–56), for the protection, care, and relief of the civilian population in the Territory of Hawaii, $15,000,000. Reconstruction and improvement of Richardson Highway, Alaska: For reconstruction and improvement of Richardson Highway, Alaska, including construction of necessary bridges, and all expenses incident to the foregoing, fiscal year 1942, $2,200,000, to remain available until expended.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE federal bureau of investigation Salaries and expenses, detection and prosecution of crimes (emergency): For an additional amount for salaries and expenses in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, during the national emergency, in the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States, fiscal year 1942, including the objects and for the purposes specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1942, $2,150,000. 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 (5 U. S. C. 300b), as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 579, Seventy-seventh Congress, $151.20.

NAVY DEPARTMENT Office of the Secretary Claims for damages by collision with naval vessels: To pay claims for damages adjusted and determined by the Secretary of the Navy under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to settle claims for damages to private property arising from collisions with naval vessels”, approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 578, Seventy-seventh Congress, $771.41.

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT (out of the postal revenues) departmental salaries in bureaus and offices For an additional amount for salaries, Office of the Solicitor for the Post Office Department, fiscal year 1942, $8,265. contingent expenses Printing and binding, Post Office Department: For an additional amount for printing and binding for the Post Office Department, fiscal year 1942, $200,000. field service office of the chief inspector Post-office inspectors, salaries: For an additional amount for salaries of inspectors, fiscal year 1942, $65,000: Provided, That the number of inspectors that may be employed for the remainder of the fiscal year 1942 is hereby increased from six hundred and thirty-five to seven hundred and thirty-five. Post-office inspectors, traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For an additional amount, fiscal year 1942, for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of post-office inspectors, including the objects specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1942, $49,000. office of the first assistant postmaster general Compensation to postmasters: For an additional amount for compensation to postmasters, fiscal year 1941, including the objects and conditions specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1941, $300,000. Detroit River postal service: For an additional amount for the Detroit River postal service, fiscal year 1941, $500. Special-delivery fees: For an additional amount for fees to special-delivery messengers, fiscal year 1941, $125,000. Unusual conditions at post offices: For an additional amount for unusual conditions at post offices, fiscal year 1942, $300,000. Miscellaneous items, first- and second-class post offices: For an additional amount for miscellaneous items, first- and second-class post offices, fiscal year 1942, $300,000. office of the second assistant postmaster general Star Route Service, Alaska: For an additional amount for inland transportation by star routes in Alaska, fiscal year 1942, $30,000. office of the fourth assistant postmaster general Vehicle service: For an additional amount for vehicle service, fiscal year 1942, including the objects and conditions specified under this read in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1942, $1,000,000.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE contingent expenses (departmental) Contingent expenses, Department of State: For an additional amount for contingent expenses, Department of State, fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1942, $150,000, of which there may be expended not to exceed $35,000 for the purchase of typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including rental, exchange, and repair thereof, and $4,000 for the purchase and exchange of books, maps, and periodicals, and, when authorized by the Secretary of State, dues for library membership in societies or associations which issue publications to members only, or at a price to members lower than to subscribers who are not members, news-papers, teletype rentals, and tolls. foreign intercourse Emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service: For an additional amount to enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, fiscal year 1942, including the objects and subject to the limitations specified under this heading in the Department of State Appropriation Act for 1942, $5,000,000, to remain available until June 30, 1943.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT office of the secretary Consolidated emergency fund: For all expenses necessary, including personal services in the District of Columbia, in connection with the performance by the bureaus and offices of the Treasury Department hereinafter named of additional or increased functions and activities arising out of the war emergency, fiscal year 1942, $253,000, from which sum, transfers, not to exceed the amounts specified, may be made to said bureaus and offices as follows: Office of the Secretary, $41,396; Office of the Chief Clerk, for contingent expenses, $37,500, for personal services, $15,000; Superintendent of Treasury Buildings, $36,680; Division of Personnel, $15,934; and Bureau of Internal Revenue, $106,490: Provided, That none of the funds herein appropriated shall be used for producing moving pictures. custody of treasury buildings Salaries and expenses, guard force: The limitation on the amount which may be obligated for purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms contained in the appropriation under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act 1942, is hereby increased from $9,875 to $13,575. bureau of accounts Contingent expenses, public moneys: For an additional amount for contingent expenses, public moneys, fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1942, $150,000. Refund of moneys erroneously received and covered: For an additional amount for refund of moneys erroneously received and covered, fiscal year 1942, $40,000. bureau of the public debt Expenses of loans: The limitation on the amount that may be obligated during the fiscal year 1942 under the indefinite appropriation “Expenses of loans, Act of September 24, 1917, as amended and extended”, contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1941, is hereby increased from $9,800,000 to $26,000,000: Provided, That such appropriation shall be available during the fiscal years 1942 and 1943 for payment of all necessary expenses connected with public-debt issues or with any refunding operations, to be expended as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct. office of the treasurer of the united states Check forgery insurance fund (revolving fund): To carry out the purposes of an Act to authorize the Treasurer of the United States to make settlements with payees of lost or stolen checks, which have been paid on forged endorsements, in advance of reclamation, and for other purposes, approved November 21, 1941 (Public Law 310), $50,000, which amount shall be deposited with the Treasurer of the United States in the special deposit account authorized to be established by said Act, entitled the “Check forgery insurance fund” (revolving fund), and shall be available for expenditure for the purposes of the Act by the Treasurer of the United States at the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. bureau of customs Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for collecting the revenue from customs, including the objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1942, $471,000, and the limitation under said head on the amount which may be expended for the purchase of passenger-carrying vehicles is hereby increased from $87,500 to $140,055. secret service division Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For an additional amount for suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, for the fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1942, $229,000. Salaries, White House Police: For an additional amount for “Salaries, White House Police”, fiscal year 1942, for fifty-five privates, two sergeants, two lieutenants and one inspector, in addition to the number specified in the Act of April 22, 1940, $50,000. Uniforms and equipment, White House Police: For an additional amount for uniforming and equipping the White House Police., fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1942, $10,770. bureau of the mint Transportation of bullion and coin: For an additional amount for transportation of bullion and coin, between mints, assay offices, and bullion depositories, including compensation of temporary employees, fiscal year 1942, $500,000, to remain available until June 30, 1943. Salaries and expenses, mints and assay offices: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, mints and assay offices, fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1942, $1,395,900. procurement division The appropriation “Salaries and expenses, Procurement Division”, contained in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1942, is hereby made available for the payment of per diem employees engaged in work in connection with operations of the fuel yards at rates of pay approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding current rates for similar services in the District of Columbia, and the second paragraph under the caption “Procurement Division” in such Act is hereby amended by adding after the words “District of Columbia” the words “and areas adjacent thereto”. coast guard Claims for damages, operation of vessels: To pay claims for dam-ages adjusted and determined by the Secretary of the Treasury under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and settlement of certain claims for damages resulting from the operation of vessels of the Coast Guard and the Public Health Service, in sums not exceeding $3,000 in any one case”, approved June 15, 1936, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 587, Seventy-seventh Congress, $1,243.57.

WAR DEPARTMENT military activities office of the secretary of war Claims for damages to and loss of private property: To pay claims for damages adjusted and determined by the Secretary of War under the provisions of an 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, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 580, Seventy-seventh Congress, $4,955.71. civil functions corps of engineers Claim for damages, river and harbor work: To pay claims for damages under river and harbor work adjusted and determined by the War Department under the provision-of section 9 of the River and Harbor Act, approved June 5, 1920 (33 U. S. C. 564), as set forth in House Document Numbered 586, Seventy-seventh Congress, $100.

TITLE II— JUDGMENTS AND AUTHORIZED CLAIMS

TITLE III— GENERAL PROVISIONS