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Public Law 78–218
Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, and for prior fiscal years, and for other purposes.
Approved July 12, 1943
Statutory text
AN ACT
Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, and for prior fiscal years, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the following
Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1943.
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, and for prior fiscal years, and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I— GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS
LEGISLATIVE senate Office of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper: For the payment of twenty-one pages for the Senate Chamber, at $4 per day each, for the period July 1, 1943, to December 31, 1943, both dates inclusive, $15,456. Senate Restaurants: For payment to the Architect of the Capitol in accordance with the Act approved September 9, 1942 (Public Act 709, Seventy-seventh Congress), fiscal year 1943, $13,592. house of representatives For payment of forty-seven pages, including ten pages for duty at the entrances to the Hall of the House, from July 1 to December 31, 1943, both inclusive, at $4 per day each, $34,592. For an additional allowance for stationery of $300 for each Representative, Delegate, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, for the first session of the Seventy-eighth Congress, $131,400, to remain available until June 30, 1944. architect of the capitol Capitol Buildings: For an additional amount for the Capitol Building, fiscal year 1943, including the same objects specified under this head in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1943, $10,600, to remain available until June 30, 1944.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT foreign war relief The appropriation “Foreign war relief” contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1942, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1944. emergency fund for the president The appropriation “Emergency fund for the President,” contained in the First Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1943, as supplemented by the Second Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1943, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1944, and the limitation on the amount which may be expended for objects of a confidential nature is hereby increased by $25,000,000: Provided, That no part of such fund shall he available after June 30, 1943, for allocation to finance a function or project for which function or project a budget estimate of appropriation was transmitted pursuant to law during the Seventy-eighth Congress and such appropriation denied after consideration thereof by the Senate and House of Representatives or by the Committees on Appropriations of both bodies. defense aid In carrying out the Act of March 11, 1941 (Public Law 11), as amended, transfers are authorized to be made from the consolidated appropriation for “Necessary services and expenses” to the consolidated appropriation for “Administrative expenses” and the amounts so transferred shall be reimbursed by transfer from the appropriation first made hereafter for “Administrative expenses” for Carrying out such Act as amended. office for emergency management War Production Board: For an additional amount for the Office for Emergency Management, War Production Board, fiscal year 1943, including the objects specified for the appropriation under this head in the First Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1943, and including the purchase or hire of fifteen passenger-carrying automobiles; reimbursement, at not to exceed 3 cents per mile, of employees for expenses incurred by them in performance of official travel in privately owned automobiles within the limits of their official stations; not to exceed $20,000 for the temporary employment of persons (including aliens) or organizations by contract or otherwise without regard to the civil service and classification laws; not to exceed $1,250,000 additional for scientific research on materials, material substitutes, and other subjects related to the functions of the Board; and, in addition to the amounts authorized by section 203 of such Act, not to exceed $1,207,000 for travel, and not to exceed $834,000 for printing and binding; $4,497,000. War Shipping Administration: Notwithstanding the provisions of section 203 of the First Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1943 (Public Law 678), the Office for Emergency Management, War Shipping Administration, may expend during the fiscal year 1943 not to exceed $294,430 for travel. office of price administration For printing and binding for the Office of Price Administration, fiscal year 1943, in addition to the amount authorized by section 203 of the First Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1943, $3,000,000: Provided, That the limitation on the amount for printing and binding for the Office of Price Administration for such fiscal year shall not apply to obligations incurred for the printing of forms, instructions, regulations, and coupon books incidental to the rationing of commodities.
INDEPENDENT EXECUTIVE AGENCIES bituminous coal consumers’ counsel Salaries and expenses: For the Office of the Bituminous Coal Consumers’ Counsel, fiscal year 1943, in carrying out the functions thereof as created by the Bituminous Coal Act of 1937, as amended (15 U. S. C. 849 and 852), as further amended by the Act of April 24, 1943 (Public Law 40), and as further amended, to be supplemental to and merged with the appropriation under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1943, and to be available for the same objects of expenditure, $16,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1944. federal security agency public health service Miscellaneous and contingent expenses: For an additional amount for “Miscellaneous and contingent expenses”, fiscal year 1943, including the objects specified under this head in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1943, $31,000. Training for nurses, Public Health Service (national defense): For an additional amount for “Training for nurses (national defense)”, fiscal year 1943, including the objects specified under this head in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1943, $609,000. freedmen’s hospital Miscellaneous expenses: For an additional amount for “Miscellaneous expenses”, Freedmen’s Hospital, fiscal year 1943, including the objects specified under this head in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1943, $55,000: Provided, That the foregoing appropriation shall be chargeable to the District of Columbia as specified under this head in such appropriation Act. howard university For an additional amount, for “Expenses, Howard University”, for the fiscal year 1943, to be used for partial or total conversion of the existing power plant at Howard University from the use of oil as fuel to the use of coal or for an additional boiler and facilities for use of coal as fuel, including the cost of engineering and architectural services, $229,500, to be available until June 30, 1944. Federal Works Agency public buildings administration Salaries and expenses, public buildings and grounds in the District of Columbia and adjacent area: For an additional amount, fiscal year 1943, including the objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1943, $1,203,800. Salaries and expenses, public buildings and grounds outside the District of Columbia: For an additional amount, fiscal year 1943, including the objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1943, $876,000. veterans’ administration Vocational rehabilitation revolving fund (Act of March 24, 1943): To enable the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to carry out the provisions of paragraph 8, part VII, of Veterans Regulation Numbered 1 (a), as amended by Public Law 16, Seventy-eighth Congress, $500,000, to be utilized as a revolving fund and to remain available until expended.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA contingent and miscellaneous expenses Postage: For an additional amount for postage for strictly official mail matter, including the rental of postage-meter equipment, fiscal year 1943, $4,000. Judicial expenses: For an additional amount for judicial expenses, fiscal year 1943, including the objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1943, $1,675. General advertising: For an additional amount for general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, fiscal year 1941, $108.40. Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding, fiscal year 1943, $8,200. refund of erroneous collections Refund of erroneous collections: For an additional amount for refund of erroneous collections, fiscal year 1943, including the objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1943, $35,000. payment to joseph sharfsin For payment to Joseph Sharfsin, of the Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) bar, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 23, 1942 (Private Law 469), $3,472.39. health department Tuberculosis sanatoria, expenses: For an additional amount for provisions, and so forth, fiscal year 1943, including the objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1943, $28,500. Courts the municipal court for the district of columbia Salaries: For an additional amount for personal services, including pay of retired judges, fiscal year 1943, $5,404.14. Public Welfare general administration, workhouse and reformatory, district of columbia Support of convicts: For an additional amount for support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from District of Columbia, fiscal year 1941, including the objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1941, $6,036.58. national training school for boys National Training School for Boys: For an additional amount for care and maintenance of boys committed to the National Training School for Boys by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract made by the Board of Public Welfare with the Attorney General at a rate of not to exceed $2 per day for each boy so committed, fiscal year 1942, $4,562. nonresident insane Nonresident insane: For an additional amount for deportation of nonresident insane persons, fiscal year 1943, including the objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1943, $4,500. militia For an additional amount for personal services and other expenses, fiscal year 1941, including the objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1941, $453.12. settlement of claims and suits For the payment of claims in excess of $250, approved by the Commissioners in accordance with the Act of February 11, 1929, as amended by the Act approved June 5, 1930 (45 Stat. 1160: 46 Stat. 500), $2,152,54. judgments For the payment of final judgments, including costs, rendered against the District of Columbia, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 44, 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, $11,418.75. 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 (81 U. S. C. 713), being for the service of the fiscal year 1940 and prior fiscal years: Public schools, salaries, District of Columbia, 1940, community centers, $6.08; General advertising, District of Columbia, 1940, $11.24; Support of convicts, District of Columbia, 1940, $108.80; Metropolitan Police expenses, District of Columbia, 1939, motor vehicles, $147.92; Support of convicts, District of Columbia, 1939, $328.50; Support of convicts, District of Columbia, 1938, $149.40; Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, 1937, general advertising, $280; In all, audited claims, $1,037.94. temporary increase in compensation for certain employees of the district of columbia For additional amounts for appropriations for the fiscal year 1943 for the payment of increases in compensation authorized by the Act of April 1, 1943 (Public Law 22, Seventy-eighth Congress), as follows: For Poundmaster, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943, $175; Commission on Mental Health, District of Columbia, 1943, $525; Public schools, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943: Administrative and supervisory, $11,373; attendance officers, $265; teachers and librarians, $470,700; in all, $482,338; Recreation Board, salaries and expenses, District of Columbia, 1943, $14,305; Metropolitan Police, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943: Pay and allowances, officers and members, $48,000; Fire Department, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943: Pay of officers and members, $7.000; Gallinger Municipal Hospital, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943, $36,000; Probation system, courts, District of Columbia, 1943, $750; In all, $589,093. Highway Fund, Gasoline Tax and Motor Vehicle Fees department of vehicles and traffic Expenses: For an additional amount, fiscal year 1941, for purchase, installation, and modification of electric traffic lights, signals and controls, and so forth, including the objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1941, $468.19. refund of paving assessments Refund of paving assessments: For the refund in part of paving assessments paid by abutting property owners in connection with the restoration of abandoned street railway track areas, where portions of such assessments were subsequently paid by the street railway company, $7,426.6.5, payable from the special fund created by the Act of April 23, 1924, as amended by the Act of August 17, 1937. water service Washington Aqueduct: For an additional amount for operation, fiscal year 1943, including the objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1943, $174,763, payable wholly from the revenues of the Water Department. 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 Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine salaries and expenses Gypsy and brown-tail moth control: For an additional amount for gypsy and brown-tail moth control, fiscal year 1943, including the objects specified for the appropriation for this purpose in the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1943, $137,400.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Office of the Secretary bituminous coal division For the Bituminous Coal Division, fiscal year 1943, in carrying out the purposes of the Bituminous Coal Act of 1937, as amended (15 U. S. C. 828–849), as further amended by the Act of April 24, 1943 (Public Law 40), and as further amended, to be supplemental to and merged with the appropriation under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1943, and to be available for the same objects of expenditure, $709,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1944. Bureau of Indian Affairs Maintenance, Wapato irrigation and drainage system, and so forth, Yakima Reservation, Washington (receipt limitation): For operation and maintenance of the Wapato irrigation and drainage system and auxiliary units thereof, Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, fiscal year 1943, $20,000, to be added to the $165,980 appropriated for this purpose in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1943 (56 Stat. 520). bureau of reclamation Vale project, Oregon: For an additional amount for operation and maintenance, from the reclamation fund, special fund, fiscal year 1943, $4,000. Kendrick project, Wyoming: The limitation of $100,000 upon the amount that may be expended from power revenues for the operation and maintenance of the power system, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1943, is hereby increased to $110,000. Boulder Canyon project: The limitation of $750,000 upon the amount which may be expended from power and other revenues for operation, maintenance, and replacements, including other specific purposes, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1943, is hereby increased to $950,000. geological survey To enable the Geological Survey to meet obligations incurred by it arising from cooperative work pending reimbursement from cooperating agencies in accordance with the provisions of the Acts of February 27, 1925 (43 U. S. C. 39, 40); May 10, 1926, as amended (43 U. S. C. 48); June 17, 1935 (43 U. S. C. 49); March 4, 1915, as amended (31 U. S. C. 686); and July 2, 1942 (56 Stat. 537–539), fiscal year 1943, $400,000, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the 1943 appropriation account of the Geological Survey: Provided, That there shall be returned to the Treasury not later than six months after the close of the fiscal year 1943 out of reimbursements received from cooperating agencies an amount equal to the sum herein appropriated. government in the territories Salaries and expenses, Government of the Virgin Islands: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, fiscal year 1943, including the objects specified for the appropriation for this purpose in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1943 (56 Stat. 560), $7,000. Salaries and expenses, agricultural experiment station and vocational school, Virgin Islands: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, fiscal year 1943, including the objects specified for the appropriation for this purpose in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1943 (56 Stat. 560), $2,100. Defraying deficits in treasuries of municipal governments, Virgin Islands: For an additional amount, fiscal year 1943, for defraying the deficit in the treasury of the municipal government of Saint Croix because of the excess of current expenses over current revenues for the fiscal year 1943 (56 Stat. 560), $45,000. puerto rican hurricane relief The limitation of $19,950 upon the amount that may be expended for administrative expenses, Puerto Rican Hurricane Relief, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1943, is hereby increased to $22,350.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Office of the Attorney General Fees and expenses of conciliation commissioners, United States courts: For an additional amount for fees and expenses of conciliation commissioners, United States courts, fiscal years 1937–40, including the objects specified under this head in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937 (50 Stat. 224), $335.98. Probation system, United States courts: For an additional amount for probation system, United States courts, fiscal year 1939 (52 Stat. 264), 88 cents. Traveling expenses, Department of Justice: For an additional amount for traveling expenses, fiscal year 1943, including the objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1943, $70,000. miscellaneous Salaries and expenses, Lands Division: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, Lands Division, fiscal year 1943, including the objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1943, $280,000. Salaries and expenses of district attorneys, and so forth: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses of district attorneys, and so forth, fiscal year 1943, including the objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1943, $205,000. Salaries and expenses of marshals, and so forth: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses of marshals, and so forth, fiscal year 1943, including the objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1943, $233,000. Pay and expenses of bailiffs: For an additional amount for pay and expenses of bailiffs, fiscal year 1943, including the objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1943, $10,000. penal and correctional institutions Support of United States prisoners: For an additional amount for support of United States prisoners, fiscal year 1943, including the objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1943, $150,000.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT (Out of the postal revenues) office of the chief inspector Clerks, division headquarters: For an additional amount for compensation of three hundred and thirty-two clerks at division headquarters and other posts of duty of post-office inspectors, fiscal year 1943, $8,800. office of the second assistant postmaster general Star Route Service: For an additional amount for inland transportation by star routes (excepting service in Alaska), including temporary service to newly established post offices, fiscal year 1942, $14,000. Railway Mail Service: For an additional amount for Railway Mail Service, salaries, fiscal year 1943, $5,375,000. Railway postal clerks, travel allowance: For an additional amount for travel allowance to railway postal clerks and substitute railway postal clerks, fiscal year 1943, $375,000. Railway Mail Service, traveling expenses: For an additional amount for Railway Mail Service, traveling expenses, fiscal year 1943, $3,000. Domestic air-mail service: For an additional amount for the inland transportation of mail by aircraft, including the objects specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal years which follow, respectively: For 1941, $192,541; For 1942, $327,891. office of the third assistant postmaster general Indemnities, domestic mail: For an additional amount for payment of indemnities, including the objects specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years which follow, respectively: For 1942, $110,000; For 1943, $660,000.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE Printing and binding: For an additional amount for the appropriation, “Printing and binding, Department of State”, fiscal year 1943, $20,000.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT Office of the Secretary Appropriations of the Treasury Department for the fiscal years 1943 and 1944 shall be available, in accordance with the Standardized Government Travel Regulations, the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, as amended (5 U. S. C., ch. 16), and the Act of February 14, 1931, as amended (5 U. S. C. 73a), for the payment of travel expenses to and from their homes or regular places of business and per diem in lieu of subsistence at place of employment of persons employed intermittently away from their homes or regular places of business by the Treasury Department as consultants and receiving compensation on a per diem when actually employed basis. Administrative expenses, Adjusted Compensation Payment Act, 1936: For transfer to the Post Office Department to cover registry fees and postage on mailings of bonds issued under the provisions of the Adjusted Compensation Payment Act of 1936, fiscal year 1943, $3,500. bureau of accounts Refund of moneys erroneously received and covered: For an additional amount for refund of moneys erroneously received and covered, fiscal year 1943, $50,000.
WAR DEPARTMENT Civil Functions united states soldiers’ home For maintenance and operation of the United States Soldiers’ Home, to be paid from the Soldiers’ Home Permanent Fund, $44,800: Provided, That no part of the Soldiers’ Home Permanent Fund shall be used for the payment of salaries including overtime in excess of amounts fixed by the Board of Commissioners for the Soldiers’ Home.
TITLE II— WAR OVERTIME PAY AND OTHER COMPENSATION INCREASES
Sec. 201.
For additional amounts for appropriations for the fiscal year 1943, for the payment of increases in compensation authorized by the Acts of August 1, 1942 (Public Law 694, Seventy-seventh
56 Stat. 733, 1068.
5 U. S. C., Supp. II, §§ 673, 678 note, 681; 29 note, 26a note.
Ante, pp. 59, 75.
Congress), December 22, 1942 (Public Law 821, Seventy-seventh Congress), April 9, 1943 (Public Law 25, Seventy-eighth Congress), and May 7, 1943 (Public Law 49, Seventy-eighth Congress), as follows:
legislative branch For reporting debates and proceedings, Senate, 1943, $846; Salaries, Capitol Police, Senate, 1943, $6,373; Salaries and expenses, Joint Committee on Printing, Senate, 1943, $458; Salaries, officers and employees, House of Representatives, 1943, $60.402; Clerk hire, Members and Delegates, House of Representatives, 1943, $177,225; Salaries, Capitol Police, House of Representatives, 1943, $830; Salaries and expenses, Joint Committee on Printing, House of Representatives, 1943, $63; Capitol Building and repairs, 1943, $17,100; Maintenance, legislative garage, 1943, $1,157; Maintenance, Senate Office Building, 1943, $4,500; Maintenance, House Office Buildings, 1943, $23,556; Capitol power plant, 1943, $22,237; Library buildings and grounds, 1943, $9,978; Salaries, Botanic Garden, 1943, $2,810; Salaries, Library proper, Library of Congress, 1943, $36.964: Salaries, Copyright Office, Library of Congress, 1943, $2,750; Legislative Reference Service, Library of Congress, 1943, $9,070; Distribution of card indexes, Library of Congress, 1943, $7,217; Index to State legislation, Library of Congress, 1943, $1,596; Union catalogs, Library of Congress, 1943, $476; Salaries, Library buildings, Library of Congress, 1943, $40,704; Salaries, Office of the Superintendent of Documents, 1943, $89,430; Total, Legislative Establishment, $515,742.
the judiciary For care of Supreme Court Building and grounds, 1943, $2,566; Salaries, United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, 1943, $1,979; Salaries and expenses of clerks, United States Courts, 1943, $141,338; Miscellaneous salaries, United States Courts, 1943, $10,000; Probation system, United States Courts, 1943, $16,658; Salaries, Administrative Office, United States Courts, 1943, $2,748; Total, The Judiciary, $175,289.
executive office of the president For salaries and expenses, National Resources Planning Board, 1943, $23,900; National defense activities, National Resources Planning Board, 1943, $8,000; Salaries and expenses, Board of Economic Warfare, 1943, $889,000. Office for Emergency Management: For Selective Service System, War Manpower Commission, 1943, $2,603,000; Grants to States, employment services, War Manpower Commission, 1943, $798,500; Training within industry, War Manpower Commission, 1943, $25,000; Salaries and expenses, War Production Board, 1943, $5,403,000; Salaries and expenses, Office of Price Administration, 1943, $10,450,000; Total, Executive Office of the President, $20,200,400.
independent establishments For salaries and expenses, Civil Service Commission, 1943, $570,000; Salaries and expenses, Civil Service Commission (national defense), 1943, $520,000; Salaries and expenses, Federal Communications Commission, 1943, $85,000; Salaries and expenses, Federal Communications Commission (national defense), 1943, $215,000: Safety of employees, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1943, $29,300; Signal safety systems, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1943, $1,900; Locomotive inspection, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1943, $21,600; Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1943, $852,000; Salaries, National Labor Relations Board, 1943, $19,800; Salaries and expenses, National Labor Relations Board (national defense), 1943, $21,000; Salaries and expenses, National Mediation Board, 1943, $4,000; Salaries and expenses, National Railroad Adjustment Board, National Mediation Board, 1943, $6,700; Preservation of collections, Smithsonian Institution, 1943, $53,040; Salaries and expenses, National Gallery of Art, 1943, $22,460; United States Tariff Commission, 1943, $62,500; Construction fund, United States Maritime Commission, Act of June 29, 1936, revolving fund (the amount that may be used for administrative expenses for fiscal year 1943 is hereby increased by $1,875,000); Salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Administration, 1943, $6,775,000; Total, independent establishments, $9,259,300.
federal security agency For salaries, office of general counsel, Federal Security Agency, 1943, $21,300; Columbia Institution for the Deaf, Federal Security Agency, 1943, $12,200; Salaries and expenses, Food and Drug Administration, Federal Security Agency, 1943, $62,600; Salaries, Freedmen’s Hospital, Federal Security Agency, 1943, $28,700; Salaries, Howard University, Federal Security Agency, 1943, $57,000; Salaries, Office of Education, 1943, $15,200: Library service and research, Office of Education, 1943, $780; Salaries and expenses, vocational education, Office of Education, 1943, $11,500; Salaries and expenses, vocational rehabilitation, Office of Education, 1943, $3,320; Salaries and expenses, Office of Education (national defense), 1943, $24,000; Salaries, Office of Surgeon General, Public Health Service, 1943, $50,400; Pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, 1943, $975,000; Foreign quarantine service, Public Health Service, 1943, $10,000; Expenses, Division of Mental Hygiene, Public Health Service, 1943, $71,800; Disease and sanitation investigations, Public Health Service, 1943, $5,900; Salaries and expenses, National Institute of Health, Public Health Service, 1943, $79,200; Emergency health and sanitation activities, Public Health Service (national defense), 1943, $289,700; Saint Elizabeths Hospital, Federal Security Agency, 1943, $105,500; Salaries, Offices of the Social Security Board, 1943, $28,900; Salaries, Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors’ Insurance, Social Security Board, 1943, $322,200; Salaries, Bureau of Employment Security, Social Security Board, 1943 $3,500; Total, Federal Security Agency, $2,178,700.
federal works agency For general administrative expenses, Public Buildings Administration, 1943, $45,500; Salaries and expenses, public buildings and grounds in the District of Columbia and adjacent area, Public Buildings Administration, 1943, $3,000,000; Salaries and expenses, public buildings and grounds outside the District of Columbia, Public Buildings Administration, 1943, $707,000; Administrative expenses, Public Works Administration, 1943 (increase in limitation on prior year unobligated funds, $3,500). Total, Federal Works Agency, $3,812,500.
department of agriculture For salaries, Office of Secretary of Agriculture, 1943, $90,000; Salaries and expenses, Library, Department of Agriculture, 1943, $39,400; Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 1943, $205,000; Salaries and expenses, Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations, 1943, $22,400; Administrative expenses, Agricultural War Relations, Food Production Administration, 1943, $6,000; Administrative expenses, Agricultural War Relations, Food Distribution Administration, 1943, $1,000; Salaries and expenses, Office of Administrator, Agricultural Research Administration, 1943, $700; Salaries and expenses, Experiment Stations, Agricultural Research Administration, 1943, $10,500; Salaries and expenses, Animal Industry, Agricultural Research Administration, 1943, $10,000; Salaries and expenses, Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering, 1943, $47,000; Salaries and expenses, Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry, Agricultural Research Administration, 1943, $1,400; Salaries and expenses, Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Agricultural Research Administration, 1943, $234,000; Salaries and expenses, Human Nutrition and Home Economics, Agricultural Research Administration, 1943, $9,200; Beltsville Research Center, Agricultural Research Administration, 1943, $7,000; White pine blister rust control, Department of Agriculture, 1943, $52,000; Salaries and expenses, Forest Service, 1943, $997,000; Forest fire cooperation, 1943, $2,000; Administrative expenses, Commodity Credit Corporation, Department of Agriculture, 1943 (the amount that may be used for administrative expenses is hereby increased by $230,900); Salaries and expenses, Soil Conservation Service, 1943, $1,585,000; Land utilization and retirement of submarginal land, Department of Agriculture, 1943, $80,000; Salaries and expenses, Marketing Service, Food Distribution Administration, 1943, $1,289,000; Total, Department of Agriculture, $4,588,600.
department of commerce For salaries, Office of the Secretary, 1943, $19,800; Expenses of the Sixteenth Census, 1943, $100,000; Salaries and expenses, Bureau of the Census, 1943, $217,000; General administration, Office of Administrator of Civil Aeronautics, 1943, $29,000; Maintenance of air-navigation facilities, Office of Administrator of Civil Aeronautics, 1943, $653,000; Maintenance and operation, Washington National Airport, Office of Administrator of Civil Aeronautics, 1943, $28,000; Magnetic and seismological work, Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1943, $6,200; Geodetic control surveys, Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1943, $30,100; Salaries, Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1943, $83,800; Aeronautical charts, Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1943, $24,700; Operation and administration, National Bureau of Standards, 1943, $47,400; Testing, inspection, and information service, National Bureau of Standards, 1943, $77,500; Research and development, National Bureau of Standards, 1943, $52,800; Standards for commerce, National Bureau of Standards, 1943, $16,400; Salaries and expenses, Weather Bureau, Department of Commerce, 1943, $425,000; Total, Department of Commerce, $1,810,700.
department of the interior For salaries, Office of Secretary of the Interior, 1943, $83,000; Salaries, Office of Solicitor, Department of the Interior, 1943, $15,200; Salaries and expenses, Grazing Service, Department of the Interior, 1943, $64,300; Salaries, General Land Office, 1943, $4,500; Salaries and commissions of registers of land offices, 1943, $1,940; Revested Oregon and California Railroad and reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands, Oregon (reimbursable), 1943, $11,630; Salaries, Geological Survey, 1943, $8,300; Salaries, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1943, $2,500; Maintaining law and order on Indian reservations, 1943, $7,000; Expenses of organizing Indian corporations, and so forth, 1943, $4.300; Expenses, sale of timber (reimbursable), 1943, $5,000; Maintenance, San Carlos irrigation project, Gila River Reservation, Arizona (receipt limitation), 1943 (from operation and maintenance collections), $18,000; Improvement and maintenance, irrigation system, Colorado River Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable), 1943, $1,000: Improvement and maintenance, irrigation system, Colorado River Reservation, Arizona (receipt limitations), 1943 (from operation and maintenance collections), $1,000; Maintenance, irrigation systems, Fort Peck Reservation, Montana (reimbursable), 1943, $1,000; Improvement and maintenance, irrigation systems, Blackfeet Reservation, Montana (reimbursable), 1943, $250; Improvement and maintenance, irrigation systems, Crow Reservation, Montana (reimbursable), 1943, $500; Improvement and maintenance, irrigation systems, Crow Reservation, Montana (receipt limitation), 1943 (from operation and maintenance collections), $2,500; Improvement and maintenance, irrigation systems, Klamath Reservation, Oregon (reimbursable), 1943, $350; Maintenance, irrigation systems, Wind River Reservation and ceded lands, Wyoming (reimbursable), 1943, $2,000; Indian boarding schools, 1943, $85,000; Administration of Indian property, 1943, $50,000; Miscellaneous Indian tribal funds, 1943: Arizona: Pima (Camp McDowell), $100, and Truxton Canon, $690; in all, $790; California: Mission, $990; Oregon: Klamath, $9,900; Utah: Uintah and Ouray, $220; Washington: Colville, $600, and Taholah, $140: in ail, $740; Support of Osage Agency and pay of tribal officers, Oklahoma, $7,400; Protection of project works, Bureau of Reclamation (national defense), 1943, $50,000; Advances to Colorado dam fund, Boulder Canyon project, 1943 (amount that may be used from power and other revenues increased by $29,500); Reclamation fund, special fund, Kendrick project, Wyoming, 1943 (amount that may be used from power revenues increased by $9,500); Coal-mine inspections and investigations, Bureau of Mines, 1943, $39,000; Investigation of domestic sources of mineral supply, Bureau of Mines (national defense), 1943, $30,000; Manganese beneficiation pilot plants and research, Bureau of Mines (national defense), 1943, $60,000; Expenses, mining experiment stations, Bureau of Mines, 1943, $20,000; Care, and so forth, buildings and grounds, Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1943, $9,900: Magnesium pilot plants and research (national defense), 1943, $60,000; Salaries and expenses, Government of the Virgin Islands, 1943, $12,250; Salaries and expenses, agricultural experiment station and vocational school, Virgin Islands, 1943, $400; Puerto Rican hurricane relief, administrative expenses, Department of the Interior, 1943 (the amount of available unobligated funds that may be used is hereby increased by $1,790); Total, Department of the Interior, $650,820.
department of justice For salaries, Office of Assistant Solicitor General, Department of Justice, 1943, $1,160; Salaries, Office of Assistant to the Attorney General, 1943, $4,800; Salaries, Administrative Division, Department of Justice, 1943, $92,800; Salaries, Criminal Division, Department of Justice, 1943, $34,100; Salaries, Office of Pardon Attorney, Department of Justice, 1943, $2,140; Salaries and expenses, Lands Division, Department of Justice, 1943, $226,000; Miscellaneous salaries and expenses, field, Department of Justice, 1943, $10,600; Salaries and expenses of district attorneys, etc., Department of Justice, 1943, $264,700; Salaries and expenses of marshals, etc., Department of Justice, 1943, $231,000; Pay and expenses of bailiffs, Department of Justice, 1943, $20,500; Salaries and expenses, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1943, $497,000; Salaries and expenses, Federal Bureau of Investigation (national defense), 1943, $2,125,000; Salaries and expenses, Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1943, $1,788,000; Support of United States prisoners, 1943, $16,800; Total, Department of Justice, $5,314,600.
department of labor For salaries, Office of the Secretary of Labor, 1943, $32,400; Salaries and expenses, Office of the Solicitor, Department of Labor, 1943, $13,900; Salaries and expenses, Division of Labor Standards, Department of Labor, 1943, $7,500; Salaries and expenses, safety and health program, Department of Labor (national defense), 1943, $11,000; Salaries and expenses, Commissioners of Conciliation, Department of Labor, 1943, $26,300; Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1943, $107,400; Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Labor Statistics (national defense), 1943, $100,000; Salaries and expenses, Children’s Bureau, 1943, $14,900; Salaries and expenses, child labor provisions, Fair Labor Standards Act Children’s Bureau, 1943, $10,500; Salaries and expenses, maternal and child welfare, Social Security Act, Children’s Bureau, 1943, $13,600; Salaries and expenses, Women’s Bureau, 1943, $15,900; Total, Department of Labor, $353,400.
post office department (Out of the postal revenues) For salaries, Office of the Postmaster General, 1943, $22,800; Salaries, Office of Budget and Administrative Planning, 1943, $330; Salaries, Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, 1943, $56,400; Salaries, Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, 1943, $44,300; Salaries, Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, 1943, $56,870; Salaries, Office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, 1943, $9,200; Salaries, Office of the Solicitor for the Post Office Department, 1943, $3,000; Salaries, Office of the Chief Inspector, 1943, $20,000; Salaries, Office of the Purchasing Agent, 1943, $2,200; Salaries, Bureau of Accounts, 1943, $14,200; Post Office inspectors, salaries, 1943, $158,000; Post Office inspectors, clerks, division headquarters, 1943, $8,300; Compensation to postmasters, 1943, $5,088,200; Compensation to assistant postmasters, 1943, $971.900; Clerks, first- and second-class post offices, 1943, $24,329,000; Separating mails, 1943, $28,600; Unusual conditions at post offices, 1943, $82,000; Clerks, third-class post offices, 1943, $564,000; Miscellaneous items, first- and second-class post offices, 1943, $3,900; Village delivery service, 1943, $93,100; City delivery carriers, 1943, $14,707,000; Special-delivery fees, 1943, $866,000; Railroad transportation and mail messenger service, 1943, $2,100; Railway Mail Service, salaries, 1943, $4,968,000: Rural Delivery Service, 1943, $4,544,900; Operating force for public buildings, Post Office Department, 1943, $3,503,000; Vehicle service, 1943, $981,000; Total, Post Office Department, $61,128,300.
department of state For salaries, Department of State, 1943, $299,400; Passport agencies, Department of State, 1943, $4,000; Salaries, Foreign Service officers, 1943, $177,000; Salaries, Foreign Service clerks, 1943, $316,400; Miscellaneous salaries and allowances, Foreign Service, 1943, $38,200; Foreign Service, auxiliary (emergency), 1943, $127,600; International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico, 1943, $21,800; Rio Grande canalization, Department of State, 1943, $16,200; Salaries and expenses, International Joint Commission, United States and Great Britain, 1943, $1,000; Total, Department of State, $1,001,600.
treasury department For salaries and expenses, foreign-owned property control, 1943, $146,200: Salaries, Division of Research and Statistics, Treasury Department, 1943, $13,600; Salaries, Office of General Counsel, Treasury Department, 1943, $6,700; Salaries, Division of Personnel, Treasury Department, 1943, $18,300; Salaries, office of chief clerk, Treasury Department, 1943, $22,700; Salaries, operating force, Treasury Department buildings, 1943, $73,400; Salaries and expenses, guard force, Treasury Department buildings. Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Accounts, Treasury Department, 1943, $52,300; Salaries and expenses, Division of Disbursement, 1943, $232,600; Salaries and expenses, Bureau of the Public Debt, 1943, $311,400; Expenses of loans, Act September 24, 1917, as amended and extended, 1943 (the amount that may be used is hereby increased by $913,800); Salaries, Office of Treasurer of United States, 1943, $357,300; Salaries, Office of Treasurer of United States (Federal Reserve notes, reimbursable), 1943, $5,200; Collecting the revenue from customs, 1943, $1,336,200: Salaries, Office of Comptroller of the Currency, 1943, $12,600; Collecting the internal revenue, 1943, $7,398,000; Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Narcotics, 1943, $26,500: Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, 1943, $107,000; Salaries and expenses, Procurement Division, 1943, $11,100; Total, Treasury Department, $10,202,600.
war department civil functions For cemeterial expenses, War Department, 1943, $56,800; Sanitation, Canal Zone, Panama Canal, 1943, $146,800; Civil government, Panama Canal and Canal Zone, 1943, $111,000; Total, War Department, Civil Functions, $314,600.
district of columbia For executive office, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943, $1,540; Purchasing Division, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943, $620; District buildings, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943, $27,400; Board of Tax Appeals, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943, $440; Collector, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943, $3,680; Auditor, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943, $4,200; Corporation Counsel, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943, $100; Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, District of Columbia, 1943, $130; Coroner, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943, $1,380; Chief clerk, Engineer Department, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943, $1,530; Department of Insurance, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943, $470; Commission on Mental Health, District of Columbia, 1943, $130; Board of Indeterminate Sentence and Parole, District of Columbia, 1943, $110; Office of Administrator of Rent Control, salaries and expenses, District of Columbia, 1943, $1,570; Register of Wills, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943, $710; Recorder of Deeds, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943, $8,500; Motor vehicles, District of Columbia, 1943, $470; Free Public Library, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943, $22,600; Collection and disposal of refuse, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943, $3,180; Electrical Department, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943, $7,630; Public schools, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943, $107,700; Metropolitan Police, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943, $10,200; Tuberculosis Sanatoria, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943, $28,700; Gallinger Municipal Hospital, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943, $30,800; Division of Child Welfare, detention of children, District of Columbia, 1943, $1,050; Workhouse and reformatory, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943, $27,600; Industrial Home School for Colored Children, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943, $2,600; Industrial Home School, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943, $3,660; Municipal Lodging House, District of Columbia, 1943, $470; Public parks, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943, $6,400; National Zoological Park, District of Columbia, 1943, $7,690; Total, District of Columbia, exclusive of highway and water funds, $313,260. For trees and parking, salaries, highway fund, District of Columbia, 1943, to be paid wholly out of the special fund created by the Act entitled “An Act to provide a tax on motor-vehicle fuels sold within the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved April 23, 1924 (43 Stat. 106), and the Act entitled “An Act to provide additional revenue for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved August 17, 1937, $740. For general expenses, Washington Aqueduct, District of Columbia, 1943, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the Water Department of the District of Columbia, $49,800; Total, District of Columbia, including highway and water funds, $363,800. The foregoing gums for the District of Columbia, unless otherwise 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 Act, 1943. Total, section 201, $121,870,951.
Sec. 202.
The restrictions contained in appropriations or affecting
Waiver of restrictions on amounts for personal services, etc.
appropriations or other funds, available during the fiscal year 1943, limiting the amounts which may be expended for personal services or for other purposes, are hereby waived to the extent necessary to meet the increases in compensation authorized by the Act of August 1, 1942 (Public Law 694), amending section 13 of the Classification Act
56 Stat. 733, 1068.
5 U. S. C., Supp. II, §§ 673, 678 note, 681; 29 note, 26a note.
of 1923, the Act of December 22, 1942 (Public Law 821), authorizing the payment of overtime compensation to civilian employees in or under the United States Government, the Act of April 9, 1943 (Public
Ante, p. 59.
Law 25), authorizing additional compensation for employees in the Postal Service, and by other legislation enacted during and applicable to the fiscal year 1943 authorizing overtime compensation for civilian employees of the Government: Provided, That the head of any department,
Allocations of funds.
establishment, or agency is hereby authorized to allocate from the sum herein appropriated under any appropriation title administered by him to any subappropriation under such title such amount as may be necessary for the purposes of this section.
TITLE III— GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 301.
No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall
Persons advocating overthrow of U. S. Government.
be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who advocates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided, That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be considered
Affidavit.
prima facie evidence that the person making the affidavit does not advocate, and is not a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or
Penalty.
violence: Provided further, That any person who advocates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force, or violence and accepts employment the salary or wages for which are paid from any appropriation in this Act shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both: Provided further, That the above penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law.
Sec. 302.
Except as otherwise provided for in this Act, no part of any appropriation contained in or authorized to be expended by this Act shall be used to pay the compensation of any officer or employee of the Government of the United States whose post of duty is in continental United States unless such person (1) is a citizen of the United States, or (2) is a person in the service of the United States on the date of enactment of this Act who, being eligible for citizenship, had filed a declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States prior to such date, or (3) is a person who owes
Affidavit.
allegiance to the United States: Provided, That for the purpose of this section, an affidavit signed by any such person shall be considered prima facie evidence that the requirements of this section with
Exceptions.
respect to his status have been complied with. The provisions of this section shall not apply to citizens of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
Sec. 303.
Appropriations contained herein may be used to reimburse the Emergency Fund for the President for advances made therefrom to meet payroll obligations for which funds are provided in this Act.
Sec. 304.
No part of any appropriation, allocation, or fund (1) which is made available under or pursuant to this Act, or (2) which is now, or which is hereafter made, available under or pursuant to any other Act, to any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States, shall be used, after November 15, 1943, to pay any part of the salary, or other compensation for the personal services, of Goodwin B. Watson, William E. Dodd, Junior, and Robert Morss Lovett, unless prior to such date such person has been appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate: Provided, That this section shall not operate to deprive any such person of payment for leaves of absence or salary, or of any refund or reimbursement, which have accrued prior to November 15, 1943: Provided further, That this section shall not operate to deprive any such person of payment for services performed as a member of a jury or as a member of the armed forces of the United States nor any benefit, pension, or emolument resulting therefrom.
Sec. 305.
The appropriations and authority with respect to appropriations in this Act in whole or in part for the fiscal year 1944 shall be available from and including July 1, 1943, for the purposes respectively
Ratification of incurred obligations.
provided in such appropriations and authority. All obligations incurred during the period between June 30, 1943, and the date of the enactment of this Act in anticipation of such appropriations and authority are hereby ratified and confirmed if in accordance with the terms thereof.
Sec. 306.
This Act may be cited as the “Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1943”.
Approved July 12, 1943.