Public Law 79–263

That the following

Labor-Federal Security Appropriation Act, 1946.

sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of Labor, the Federal Security Agency, and related independent agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1946, namely:

TITLE I— DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

office of the secretary Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia, $395,691. Salaries and expenses, Office of Secretary (national defense): For expenses necessary for the administration of the Davis-Bacon Act and Executive orders dealing with premium pay in war industries and for the work of the Wage Adjustment Board, pertaining to building construction contracts financed by Federal funds, including personal services in the District of Columbia, contract stenographic reporting services, and other items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriations under the Department of Labor for contingent expenses, travel expenses, and printing and binding, $63,000. Salaries and expenses, Office of the Solicitor: For personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and for other necessary expenses in the field, including contract stenographic reporting services, $714, 177. Contingent expenses: For expenses of the offices and bureaus of the Department, for which appropriations for expenses are not specifically made, including the purchase of stationery, furniture, and repairs to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloths, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, laundry, not exceeding $1,000 for streetcar fares; purchase, maintenance, and repair of motorcycles and motortrucks; maintenance, operation, and repair of four motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; freight and express charges; commercial and labor-reporting services; postage to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service; purchase and exchange of lawbooks, books of reference, newspapers, and periodicals and, when authorized by the Secretary of Labor, 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, not exceeding $8,000; contract stenographic services; and teletype service and tolls (not to exceed $1, 100); $167,502. Traveling expenses: For traveling expenses under the Department of Labor, $1,058,200: Provided, That all funds transferred to the Department of Labor from any other department or agency under section 601 of the Act of June 30, 1932, as amended (31 U. S. C. 686), and available for travel, and all funds appropriated for traveling expenses under this title, shall be available to reimburse employees at not to exceed 3 cents per mile for expenses of travel performed by them in privately owned automobiles within the limits of their official stations in the field. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Department of Labor, $294,790. For deposit in the general fund of the Treasury for cost of penalty mail of the Department of Labor as required by section 2 of the Act of June 28, 1944 (Public Law 364), $104,850. Salaries and expenses, Division of Labor Standards: For salaries and other expenses, including purchase and distribution of reports, and of material for informational exhibits, in connection with the promotion of health, safety, employment stabilization, and amicable industrial relations for labor and industry, $145,763. Salaries and expenses, safety and health program (national defense): For all expenses necessary to enable the Secretary of Labor to conduct a program of safety and health among employees engaged in national defense industries, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and other items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriations under the Department of Labor for contingent expenses, traveling expenses, and printing and binding, $149,215. The appropriation under this title for traveling expenses shall be available for expenses of attendance of cooperating officials and consultants at conferences concerned with the work of the Division of Labor Standards when called by the Division with the written approval of the Secretary of Labor, and shall be available also in an amount not to exceed $2,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings related to the work of the Division of Labor Standards when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor. Commissioners of Conciliation: For expenses necessary to enable the Secretary of Labor to exercise the authority vested in him by section 8 of the Act creating the Department of Labor (5 U. S. C. 611), including newspapers, books of reference, and periodicals, and not to exceed $78,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $445,300. Commissioners of Conciliation (national defense): For all expenses necessary to enable the Secretary of Labor to perform conciliation services in situations growing out of employment in industries under the national defense program, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and other items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriations under the Department of Labor for contingent expenses, traveling expenses, and printing and binding, $1,786,200. The appropriation in this title for traveling expenses shall be available in an amount not to exceed $2,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings, conferences, or conventions concerned with labor and industrial relations when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor.

bureau of labor statistics Salaries and expenses: For personal services including temporary statistical clerks, stenographers, and typists in the District of Columbia, and including also experts and temporary assistants for field service outside of the District of Columbia; purchase of periodicals, documents, envelopes, price quotations, and reports and materials for reports and bulletins of said Bureau; $1, 104,560, of which amount not to exceed $995,000 may be expended for the salary of the Commissioner and other personal services in the District of Columbia. The appropriation in this title for traveling expenses shall be available, in. an amount not to exceed $2,000, for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Bureau of Labor Statistics when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor. Salaries and expenses (national defense): For all expenses necessary to enable the Secretary of Labor, through the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in relation to the national security and defense, to perform the functions authorized by the Act of June 13, 1888, and other Acts (29 U. S. C. 1); to conduct studies relative to problems connected with labor likely to arise upon the termination of the existing emergent conditions in connection with defense activities throughout the United States, such expenses to include personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and other items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriations under the Department of Labor for contingent expenses, traveling expenses, and printing and binding, and not to exceed $15,000 for the temporary employment of experts without regard to the civil-service and classification laws; $2,356,876: Provided, That not to exceed $585,913 shall be used for a cost of living study and report.

children’s bureau Salaries and expenses: For expenses of investigating and reporting upon matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life, and especially to investigate the questions of infant mortality; personal services, including experts and temporary assistants; purchase of reports and material for the publications of the Children’s Bureau and for reprints from State, city, and private publications for distribution when said reprints can be procured more cheaply than they can be printed by the Government, and other necessary expenses; $338,306, of which amount not to exceed $330,200 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Salaries and expenses, child labor provisions, Fair Labor Standards Act: For all authorized and necessary expenses of the Children’s Bureau in performing the duties imposed upon it by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; supplies; services; equipment; newspapers, books of reference, and periodicals; and reimbursement to State and local agencies and their employees for services rendered, as authorized by section 11 of said Act; $220,339. Salaries and expenses, maternal and child welfare: For all authorized and necessary administrative expenses of the Children’s Bureau in performing the duties imposed upon it by title V of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935, as amended, including personal services, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; supplies; services; equipment; newspapers, books of reference, and periodicals; $379,365: Provided, That no part of any appropriation contained in this title shall be used to promulgate or carry out any instruction, order, or regulation relating to the care of obstetrical cases which discriminates between persons licensed under State law to practice obstetrics: Provided further, That the foregoing proviso shall not be so construed as to prevent any patient from having the services of any practitioner of her own choice, paid for out of this fund, so long as State laws are complied with: Provided further, That any State plan which provides standards for professional obstetrical services in accordance with the laws of the State shall be approved by the Chief of the Children’s Bureau. Salaries and expenses, emergency maternity and infant care (national defense): For necessary expenses of the Children’s Bureau in performing the duties imposed upon it in carrying out the program for emergency maternity and infant care, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and other items otherwise chargeable to the appropriations of the Department of Labor for contingent expenses, traveling expenses, and printing and binding, $38,000. Grants to States for emergency maternity and infant care (national defense): For grants to States, including Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, to provide, in addition to similar services otherwise available, medical, nursing, and hospital maternity and infant care for wives and infants of enlisted men of the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh grades in the armed forces of the United States and of Army aviation cadets, under allotments by the Secretary of Labor and plans developed and administered by State health agencies and approved by the Chief of the Children’s Bureau, $44, 189,500, of which not more than 2% per centum may be allotted to the States for administrative expenses from the date of this Act on the basis of need as determined by the Chief of the Children’s Bureau. Grants to States for maternal and child-health services: 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 (42 U. S. C. 701), as amended, $5,820,000: Provided, That any allotment to a State pursuant to section 502 (b) shall not be included in computing for the purposes of subsections (a) and (b) of section 504 an amount expended or estimated to be expended by the State. Grants to States for services for crippled children: 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 (42 U. S. C. 711), as amended, $3,870,000. Grants to States for child-welfare services: 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 (42 U. S. C. 721), as amended, $1,510,000. In the administration of title V of the Social Security Act, as amended, for the fiscal year 1946, payments to the States for any quarter of the fiscal year 1946 under parts 1, 2, and 3 may be made with respect to any State plan approved under such respective parts by the Chief of the Children’s Bureau prior to or during such quarter, but no such payment shall be made with respect to any plan for any period prior to the quarter in which such plan is submitted to the Chief of the Children’s Bureau for approval. The appropriation in this title for traveling expenses shall be available, in an amount not to exceed $11,000, for expenses of attendance of cooperating officials and consultants at conferences concerned with the administration of work of the Children’s Bureau under the Fair Labor Standards Act and under title V, parts 1, 2, and 3, of the Social Security Act, as amended, when called by the Children’s Bureau with the written approval of the Secretary of Labor, and shall be available also, in an amount not to exceed $6,000, for expenses of attendance at meetings related to the work of the Children’s Bureau when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor.

women’s bureau Salaries and expenses: For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to establish in the Department of Labor a bureau to be known as the Women’s Bureau”, approved June 5, 1920 (29 U. S. C. 11–16), including personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase of material for reports and educational exhibits; $172,580. The appropriation in this title for traveling expenses shall be available in an amount not to exceed $2,500 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Women’s Bureau when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor.

wage and hour division Salaries: For personal services for the Wage and Hour Division necessary in performing the duties imposed by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and by the Act to provide conditions for the purchase of supplies and the making of contracts by the United States, approved June 30, 1936 (41 U. S. C. 38), including reimbursement to State, Federal, and local agencies and their employees for services rendered, $3,543,470, of which amount not to exceed $615,000 may be expended for departmental salaries. Miscellaneous expenses (other than salaries): For necessary expenses, other than salaries, of the Wage and Hour Division in performing the duties imposed by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and by the Act to provide conditions for the purchase of supplies and the making of contracts by the United States, approved June 30, 1936 (41 U. S. C. 38), including stenographic reporting services by contract or otherwise, purchase of one and maintenance, repair, and operation outside the District of Columbia, of two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals, manuscripts and special reports, newspapers, and reimbursement to State, Federal, and local agencies and their employees for services rendered, $261,200. The Secretary of Labor may allot or transfer, with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, funds from the foregoing appropriations for the Wage and Hour Division to any other bureau or office of the Department of Labor to enable such bureau or office to perform services for the Wage and Hour Division. The appropriation in this title for traveling expenses shall be available in an amount not to exceed $4,750 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Wage and Hour Division when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor. This title may be cited as the “Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1946”.

TITLE II— FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY

american printing house for the blind To enable the American Printing House for the Blind more adequately to provide books and apparatus for the education of the blind in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved February 8, 1927 (20 U. S. C. 101), $115,000.

columbia institution for the deaf For support of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf, including salaries and incidental expenses, books and illustrative apparatus, and general repairs and improvements, $167,000.

food and drug administration For all necessary expenses of the Food and Drug Administration in carrying out the investigations, including collecting, reporting, and illustrating the results thereof, and performing the functions required to carry into effect the provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U. S. C. 301–392); the Tea Importation Act (21 U. S. C. 41–50); the Import Milk Act (21 U. S. C. 141–149); the Federal Caustic Poison Act (15 U. S. C. 401–411); and the Filled Milk Act (21 U. S. C. 61–64); as follows: Enforcement operations: To enable the Federal Security Administrator to carry into effect the provisions of the above statutes, including personal services in the District of Columbia (not exceeding $680,000) and elsewhere; purchase (not to exceed thirty-five), operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; purchase of chemicals, apparatus, and scientific equipment; contract stenographic reporting services; books of reference and periodicals, $2,641,000. Salaries, sea-food inspectors: For salaries of sea-food inspectors designated in accordance with the provisions of section 702A of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, $40,000. General administration: For general administration, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $98,000.

FREEDMEN’S HOSPITAL Salaries and expenses: For all expenses necessary for the operation and maintenance of Freedmen’s Hospital, including repairs to buildings; travel; operation and maintenance of passenger-carrying automobiles; purchase of cotton or duck suits for the use of internes, and cotton or duck uniforms or aprons for cooks, maids, and attendants, and laundering thereof; for expenses of attendance at meetings of a technical nature, pertaining to hospital administration and medical advancement, when authorized by the Federal Security Administrator; not to exceed $250 for the purchase of books, periodicals, and newspapers; not to exceed $2,000 fot the special instruction of student nurses; and not to exceed $540,750 for personal services; $796,750, of which $102,000 shall be transferred to the Federal Works Agency for repairs, alterations, and improvements to the buildings and grounds of the Hospital, and $2,750 shall be transferred to the appropriation “Salaries and miscellaneous expenses, Public Health Service”, for the procurement of stationery and supplies: Provided, That hereafter the amounts to be charged the District of Columbia and other establishments of the Government for the treatment of patients for which they are responsible shall be calculated on the basis of a per diem rate recommended annually in advance by the Federal Board of Hospitalization and approved by the President.

HOWARD UNIVERSITY Salaries: For payment in full or in part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance to be paid from privately contributed funds, $724,000. Expenses, Howard University: For necessary expenses, including equipment, supplies, apparatus, furniture, cases and shelving, stationery, ice, repairs to buildings and grounds, $187,000.

OFFICE OF EDUCATION Further development of vocational education: For carrying out the provisions of sections 1, 2, and 3 of the Act approved June 8, 1936 (20 U. S. C. 15h–j), $14,200,000: Provided, That the apportionment to the States shall be computed on the basis of not to exceed $14,483,000 for the fiscal year 1946, as authorized by the Act approved June 8, 1936. For extending to the Territory of Hawaii the benefits of the Act approved February 23, 1917 (20 U. S. C. 11–18), in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved March 10, 1924 (20 U. S. C. 29). $30,000. For extending to Puerto Rico the benefits of the Act approved February 23, 1917 (20 U. S. C. 11–18), in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved March 3, 1931 (20 U. S. C. 11–18, 30: 29 U S. C. 31–35), $105,000. Further endowment of colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts: For carrying out the provisions of section 22 of the Act approved June 29, 1935 (7 U. S. C. 343d), $2,480,000. Library service: For making surveys, studies, investigations, and reports regarding public, school, college, university, and other libraries; fostering coordination of public and school library service; coordinating library service on the national level with other forms of adult education; developing library participation in Federal projects; fostering Nation-wide coordination of research materials among the more scholarly libraries, inter-State library cooperation, and the development of public, school, and other library service throughout the country, and for the administrative expenses incident to performing these duties, including salaries of such assistants, experts, clerks, and other employees in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, as the Commissioner of Education may deem necessary, purchase of miscellaneous supplies, equipment, stationery, postage on foreign mail, books of reference, lawbooks, and periodicals, and all other necessary expenses, $20,965. Services for the blind: For all necessary expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia, for carrying out the provisions of the Act to authorize the operations of stands in Federal buildings by blind persons and to enlarge the economic opportunities of the blind, approved June 20, 1936 (20 U. S. C., ch. 6A), $20, 125. Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia, $386,955. General expenses: For general expenses of the Office of Education, including lawbooks, books of reference, and periodicals; and for the operation, maintenance, and repair of one passenger-carrying automobile; purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational documents, motion-picture films, and lantern slides; collection, exchange, and cataloging of educational apparatus and appliances, articles of school furniture and models of school buildings illustrative of foreign and domestic systems and methods of education, and repairing the same, $39,650. Salaries and expenses: For carrying out the provisions of section 7 of the Act approved February 23, 1917, as amended by the Act of October 6, 1917 (20 U. S. C. 15), and of section 4 of the Act approved June 8, 1936 (49 Stat. 1488), $367,423. The appropriation in this title for traveling expenses shall be available for actual transportation and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses of persons serving, while away from their homes without other compensation from the United States, in an advisory capacity to the Commissioner of Education, in an amount not exceeding $25,000. Salaries and expenses (national defense): For all expenses necessary to enable the Office of Education to liquidate the program provided for during prior fiscal years under the head Education and Training, Defense Workers (national defense), including personal services in the District of Columbia, traveling expenses, and printing and binding, $384,900: Provided, That equipment purchased during prior fiscal years from appropriations under the heading “Education and Training, Defense Workers (national defense)”, in accordance with proposals submitted by educational agencies and approved by the Commissioner, shall remain the property of the agency designated in the proposal and approved by the Commissioner to purchase and to hold title to such equipment, and that the supplies authorized by the Commissioner to be purchased shall remain the property of the agency authorized to purchase such supplies: Provided further, That no school or school system shall be required to surrender possession or use of any property or equipment which it is using in its educational or training programs. The Commissioner may delegate to any officer in the Office of Education any of his powers or duties hereunder.

PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE For necessary expenses in carrying out the functions of the Public Health Service in accordance with the Act of July 1, 1944 (Public Law 410) (hereinafter referred to as the Act), and other Acts, including (with the exception of the appropriation “Pay, and so forth, commissioned officers, Public Health Service”) personal services in the District of Columbia; maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger automobiles; purchase of reports, documents, and other material for publication and of reprints from State, city, and private publications; lawbooks, books of reference, and periodicals, for use at the seat of government and elsewhere; contract stenographic services without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes or the civil-service or classification laws; preparation and display of posters and exhibits by contract or otherwise; packing, unpacking, crating, uncrating, drayage, and transportation of personal effects of commissioned officers and transportation of their dependents on change of station; increased allowances to reserve officers for foreign service and transporting in Government-owned automotive equipment, to and from school, children of personnel who have quarters for themselves and their families at isolated stations; as follows: Venereal diseases: To carry out the purposes of sections 314 (a) and 363 of the Act with respect to venereal diseases, including the purchase of two passenger automobiles, $11,949,000. Venereal diseases (national defense): For the operation and maintenance of centers for the diagnosis, treatment, support, and clothing of persons afflicted with venereal diseases, including travel; printing and binding; transportation and subsistence of such persons and their attendants to and from the place of treatment or allowance in lieu thereof; diagnosis and treatment (including emergency treatment for other illnesses) of such persons through contracts with physicians and hospitals and other appropriate institutions without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes; fees for case finding and referral to such centers of voluntary patients; reasonable expenses of preparing remains or burial of deceased patients; furnishing and laundering of uniforms and other distinctive wearing apparel necessary for employees in the performance of their official duties; recreational supplies and equipment; leasing of facilities and repair and alteration of Government-owned or leased facilities without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and section 322 of the Act of June 30, 1932, as amended (40 U. S. C. 278a); purchase of twenty passenger automobiles; and for grants of money, services, supplies, equipment, and use of facilities to States, as defined in the Act, and with the approval of the respective State health authorities, to counties, health districts, and other political subdivisions of the States, for the foregoing purposes, in such amounts and upon such terms and conditions as the Surgeon General may determine; $4,644,000: Provided, That the Administrator of the Federal Works Agency shall, without transfer of funds by the Federal Security Agency, transfer to the Federal Security Agency all records, equipment, furnishings, and supplies under the jurisdiction of the Federal Works Agency which have been used primarily in the treatment of venereal diseases: Provided further, That funds may be transferred with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget to this appropriation from the appropriation “Control of venereal diseases, Public Health Service”, in an amount not exceeding $356,000, and shall be consolidated with this appropriation and the whole administered and accounted for as one fund. Tuberculosis: To carry out the purposes of section 314 (b) of the Act, $6,047,000. Assistance to States, general: To carry out the purposes of section 314 (c) of the Act, $11,467,000. Communicable diseases: To carry out those provisions of sections 311 and 361 of the Act relating to the prevention and suppression of communicable diseases, the interstate transmission and spread thereof, and the enforcement of any applicable quarantine laws, including the purchase of one passenger automobile, $1,040,000. Industrial hygiene: For field investigations and demonstrations in industrial hygiene, $134,000. Health and sanitation activities, war and defense areas (national defense): To carry out the purposes of section 604 of the Act, and the development and prosecution of a program for the control of communicable diseases, including travel; printing and binding; the purchase of twenty-five passenger automobiles; and the purchase of oils, larvicides, and other diluents, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes; $2,615,000. Malaria and diseases of tropical origin (national defense): To carry out the provisions of sections 311 and 604 of the Act with respect to the control of malaria and diseases of tropical origin, including travel; printing and binding; the purchase of forty-five passenger automobiles; hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; and the purchase of oils, larvicides, and other diluents, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes; $10,897,000. Hospitals and medical care: For carrying out the purposes of section 301 with respect to mental diseases, and sections 302, 321, 322, 324, 326, 331, 332, 341, 343, 344, 502, 504, and 610 of the Act, and Executive Order 9079, dated February 26, 1942, including minor repairs and maintenance; purchase of fifteen passenger automobiles, including one ambulance; transportation to their homes in the continental United States of recovered indigent leper patients; court costs and other expenses incident to proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken for commitment of mentally incompetent persons to hospitals for the care and treatment of the insane; expenses of preparing and transporting remains, or reasonable burial expenses, for any patient dying in hospital; firearms and ammunition; travel; reimbursement to the working capital fund for articles or services furnished by the industrial activities; expenses incurred in pursuing, identifying, and returning escaped prisoners, including rewards for their capture; purchase and exchange of farm products and livestock; not to exceed $500 for newspapers; furnishing and laundering of uniforms and other distinctive wearing apparel necessary for employees in the performance of their official duties; transportation and subsistence allowance, within continental United States, of any narcotic addict voluntarily admitted and discharged as cured; reimbursement to employees for the cost of repair or replacement (where the damage exceeds $2 and does not exceed $100) of personal belongings damaged or destroyed by patients while employees were in line of duty; and tobacco for patients; $15,501,300, of which not to exceed $115,514 shall be available for the furnishing by the Public Health Service to and at the request of any Federal department or independent establishment, including Government-owned corporations, of coordinating and consultative services with respect to methods and standards for operating emergency health facilities in such department or establishment, including in-service training of such emergency health facility personnel, and for providing employees of such agencies (1) tuberculosis and psychiatric examinations, and (2) health and nutrition instruction through lectures and demonstrations: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the expenses incurred in furnishing medical and hospital treatment, including dental care, to active-duty personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps in Marine hospitals and out-patient offices. Foreign quarantine service: For the medical inspection of aliens, the maintenance and ordinary expenses of United States quarantine stations and supplementary activities abroad, and the care and treatment of quarantine detainees in private or other public hospitals when facilities of the Public Health Service are not available, including the purchase of not to exceed three motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; $1,254,000. National Institute of Health, operating expenses: For the activities of the National Institute of Health, not otherwise provided for, including the regulation and preparation of biologic products; the purchase of two passenger automobiles; the purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for the guard force; and maintenance of buildings; $1,688,000, of which $100,000 shall be available for grants-in-aid in accordance with the provisions of Public Law 410, section 301 (d). National Cancer Institute, operating expenses: To carry out the purposes of title IV of the Act, $490,000. Commissioned officers, pay, and so forth: For pay, uniforms and subsistence allowances, increased allowances for foreign service and commutation of quarters for not to exceed nine hundred and two regular active commissioned officers; for retired pay of regular and reserve commissioned officers; and for six months’ death gratuity pay and burial payments for regular commissioned officers, $4,586,200: Provided, That for purposes of pay and pay period the officers appointed to grades above that of senior assistant pursuant to authority contained in the First Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1945, under the heading “Tuberculosis” shall be considered as having had on the date of appointment service equal to that of the junior officer of the grade to which appointed. Training for nurses (national defense): For carrying out the purposes of the Act of June 15, 1943 (Public Law 74, Seventy-eighth Congress, as amended), $59,957,000, of which not to exceed $788,255 shall be available for administrative expenses, including printing and binding; and travel: Provided, That this appropriation is hereby made available for transfer to and consolidation with appropriations of Saint Elizabeths and Freedmen’s Hospitals, in such amounts as may be deemed necessary by the Federal Security Administrator, to cover the cost of items furnished to student nurses in training under plans approved for such hospitals in accordance with the Act of June 15, 1943 (Public Law 74), as amended. Service and supply fund: For the establishment of a service and supply fund, $250,000, without fiscal year limitation, for the payment of salaries, travel, and other expenses necessary to the maintenance and operation of (1) a supply service for the purchase, storage, handling, issuance, packing, or shipping of stationery, supplies, materials, equipment, and blank forms, for which stocks may be maintained to meet, in whole or in part, requirements of the Public Health Service and requisitions of other Government offices, and (2) such other services as the Surgeon General, with the approval of the Administrator of the Federal Security Agency, determines may be performed more advantageously as central services; said fund to be reimbursed from applicable appropriations or funds available when services are performed or stock furnished on the basis of rates which shall include estimated or actual charges for personal services, materials, equipment (including maintenance, repairs, and depreciation), and other expenses. Salaries and miscellaneous expenses: For the divisions and offices of the office of the Surgeon General and for miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the Public Health Service not appropriated for elsewhere, including the supervision of sanitary engineering and dental operations of the Public Health Service; maintenance and operation of the water and sanitary investigations station at Cincinnati, Ohio; collecting and compiling mortality, morbidity, and vital statistics; preparing information, articles, and publications related to public health; conducting studies and demonstrations in public health methods; nominal compensation of collaborating epidemiologists and others; purchase of two passenger automobiles; and allowances for living quarters, including fuel, heat, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (5 U. S. C. 118 (a)); $1,178,000. Post-war planning: To enable the Surgeon General, either independently or in cooperation with public and private agencies, including individuals, to plan post-war health and health facilities construction programs, $317,000. saint elizabeths hospital Salaries and expenses: For support, clothing, and treatment in Saint Elizabeths Hospital of persons who have become insane since their entry into the armed forces of the United States, insane beneficiaries of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, insane beneficiaries of the United States Employees’ Compensation Commission, and all other insane persons whose admission to the hospital is authorized by law, including reimbursement to employees for the cost of repair or replacement (where the damage exceeds $2 and does not exceed $100) of personal belongings damaged or destroyed by patients while employees were in line of duty; travel expenses; printing and binding; and not exceeding $3,000 for maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $185,000 for repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, and not to exceed $15,000 for furnishing and laundering of such wearing apparel as may be prescribed for employees in the performance of their official duties, $2,861,000, including cooperation with organizations or individuals in scientific research into the nature, causes, prevention, and treatment of mental illness, and including maintenance and operation of necessary facilities for feeding employees and others (at not less than cost), and the proceeds therefrom shall reimburse the appropriation for the institution; and not exceeding $1,500 of this sum may be expended in the removal of patients to their friends; for expenses of attendance at meetings of a technical nature, pertaining to hospital administration and medical advancement, when authorized by the Federal Security Administrator; not exceeding $1,500 for the purchase of such books, periodicals, and newspapers as may be required for the purposes of the hospital and for the medical library, and not exceeding $1,500 for the actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension and return to the hospital of escaped patients: Provided, That so much of this sum as may be required shall be available for all necessary expenses in ascertaining the residence of inmates who are not or who cease to be properly chargeable to Federal maintenance in the institution and in returning them to such places of residence: Provided further, That not exceeding $200 additional may be paid to two employees to provide mail facilities for patients in the hospital: Provided further, That during the fiscal year 1946 the District of Columbia, or any branch of the Government requiring Saint Elizabeths Hospital to care for patients for which they are responsible, shall pay by check to the Superintendent upon his written request, either in advance or at the end of each month, such amounts as shall be calculated by the Superintendent to be due for such care on the basis of a per diem rate recommended annually in advance by the Federal Board of Hospitalization and approved by the President and bills rendered by the Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital in accordance herewith shall not be subject to audit or certification in advance of payment; proper adjustments of such bills paid for in advance on the basis of such calculations shall be made monthly or quarterly, as may be agreed upon by the Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital and the District of Columbia government, department, or establishments concerned. All sums paid to the Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the care 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 care and maintenance of the patients at Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the year in which the support, clothing, and treatment is provided, and be subject to requisition upon the approval of the Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital. Construction and equipment: For construction and equipment, in the grounds of the hospital, of a building for the housing, care, and treatment of mentally sick patients, including construction and equipment, preparation of plans and specifications, advertising, and supervision of construction, to remain available until expended, $1,900,000: Provided, That this amount may be transferred, upon the request of the Federal Security Administrator, to the Public Buildings Administration, Federal Works Agency. For an additional amount for building for storeroom, and so forth, Saint Elizabeths Hospital, Federal Security Agency, including the objects specified under the appropriation for this purpose in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1942, to remain available until expended, $681,665: Provided, That this amount, together with the amounts appropriated for this purpose in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Acts of 1942 and 1945, may be transferred upon the request of the Federal Security Administrator, to the Public Buildings Administration, Federal Works Agency. social security board Grants to States for old-age assistance, aid to dependent children, and aid to the blind: For grants to States for assistance to aged needy individuals, needy dependent children, and needy individuals who are blind, as authorized in titles I, IV, and X, respectively, of the Social Security Act approved August 14, 1935, as amended, $431,000,000, of which sum such amount as may be necessary shall be available for grants under such titles I, IV, and X, respectively, for any period in the fiscal year 1945 subsequent to March 31, 1945: Provided, That payments to States for the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 1945 and for any quarter in the fiscal year 1946 under such titles I, IV, and X, respectively, may be made with respect to any State plan approved under such titles I, IV, or X, respectively, by the Social Security Board prior to or during such period, but no such payment shall be made with respect to any plan for any period prior to the quarter in which such plan was submitted to the Board for approval. Salaries, Bureau of Public Assistance: For personal services in the Bureau of Public Assistance in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $815,000. Grants to States for unemployment compensation administration: For grants to States for unemployment compensation administration, as authorized in title III of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935, as amended, $32,000,000, of which such amounts as may be agreed upon by the Board and the Postmaster General shall be used for the payment, in such manner as said parties may jointly determine, of postage for the transmission of official mail matter in connection with the unemployment compensation administration of States receiving grants herefrom. Salaries, Bureau of Employment Security: For personal services in the Bureau of Employment Security in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $642,474. Salaries, Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance: For personal services in the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $15,750,000. Salaries, offices of the Social Security Board: For personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere of the Social Security Board and its several offices and bureaus, not otherwise appropriated for herein, $2,928,000, including the salary of an executive director at the rate of $9,500 per year. Miscellaneous expenses, Social Security Board: For all expenses, not otherwise appropriated for, necessary to enable the Social Security Board to carry into effect the provisions of the Social Security Act as amended (42 U. S. C. 301–1305), including public instruction and information, and the procurement of information relating to the death of individuals entitled to benefits, receiving benefits, or upon whose death some other individual may become entitled to benefits, under title II of said Act, from proper State and local officials, including officials of the District of Columbia, Alaska, and Hawaii or individuals designated by such State and local officials, and as authorized by the Administrator for personal services on a piece-work basis or otherwise in connection with the procurement of such information without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and the civil-service and classification laws, which expenses shall include reproducing and photographic equipment; periodicals; purchase and exchange of lawbooks and books of reference; library membership fees or dues in organizations which issue publications to members only or to members at a lower price than to others, payments for which may be made in advance; alterations and repairs; purchase (not exceeding three), operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger-carrying automobiles; $2,735,000. If during the fiscal year 1945 or 1946 functions are transferred by the Federal Security Administrator from or between any of the said offices or bureaus, the Administrator may transfer from or between the appropriations herein made for salaries for the Social Security Board the amounts necessary for personal services in connection with the functions so transferred. Not to exceed 5 per centum of any of the foregoing appropriations for salaries for the Social Security Board may, subject to the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, be transferred by the Administrator to any other of such appropriations, but no appropriation may be increased more than 5 per centum thereby. None of the moneys appropriated by this Act to the Social Security Board or to the Children’s Bureau of the Department of Labor for grants-in-aid of State agencies to cover, in whole or in part, the cost of operation of said agencies, including the salaries and expenses of officers and employees of said agencies, shall be withheld from the said agencies of any States which have established by legislative enactment and have in operation a merit system and classification and compensation plan covering the selection, tenure in office, and compensation of their employees, because of any disapproval of their personnel or the manner of their selection by the agencies of the said States, or the rates of pay of said officers or employees. office of vocational rehabilitation For payments, for carrying out the provisions of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, as amended, to States (including Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico) which have submitted and had approved by the Federal Security Administrator State plans for vocational rehabilitation, as authorized by and in accordance with said Act, including payments, in accordance with regulations of the Administrator, for one-half of necessary expenditures for the acquisition of vending stands or other equipment in accordance with section 3 (a) (3) (C) of said Act for the use of blind persons, such stands or other equipment to be controlled by the State agency. $8,258,900, of which not to exceed $102,900 shall be available to the Federal Security Administrator for providing rehabilitation services to disabled residents of the District of Columbia, as authorized by section 6 of said Act, which latter amount shall be available for administrative expenses in connection with such rehabilitation in the District of Columbia, including printing and binding, and travel and subsistence: Provided, That not to exceed 15 per centum of the appropriation shall be used for administrative purposes: And provided further, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes shall not apply to any purchase made or service rendered hereunder when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $400. For general administrative expenses in carrying out the provisions of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, as amended, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere and not to exceed $3,000 for temporary employment of specialists in the fields of medicine and surgery, by contract or otherwise, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and the civil-service and classification laws; expenses incident to courses of instruction, tuition, and books for Federal and State personnel detailed to attend courses of instruction authorized by section 7 of said Act; purchase of reprints of scientific and technical articles published in periodicals and journals; and purchase and exchange of books of reference and periodicals; and purchase and distribution of educational films (not to exceed $30,000); $427,988. office of the administrator Salaries, Office of the Administrator, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $174,000, of which $8, 180 is for personal services incident to the liquidation of the Civilian Conservation Corps in accordance with the applicable provisions under the head “Civilian Conservation Corps” in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1944, and the National Youth Administration in accordance with the applicable provisions under the head “National Youth Administration” in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1945: Provided, That the salary of the Administrator shall be at the rate of $12,000 per annum so long as the incumbent thereof is Chairman of the War Manpower Commission: Provided further, That of the sum herein appropriated the Administrator may expend not to exceed $10,000 for temporary employment of persons, by contract or otherwise, for special services determined necessary by the Administrator, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and the civil-service and classification laws. Community War Services: For all expenses necessary to enable the Federal Security Administrator to carry out the functions transferred from the Offices of Defense Health and Welfare Services by Executive Order 9338, dated April 29, 1943, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; not to exceed $15,000 for the temporary employment of persons by contract or otherwise without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and the civil-service and classification laws; acceptance and utilization of voluntary and uncompensated services; printing and binding; maintenance, operation, and repair of passenger-carrying motor-propelled vehicles; and traveling expenses, including expenses, when specifically authorized by the Administrator, of attendance at meetings concerned with the purposes of this appropriation; $450,000. Temporary aid to enemy aliens and other restricted persons: For expenses necessary to enable the Federal Security Administrator to provide temporary aid, not to extend beyond the duration of the existing war and six months thereafter, to enemy aliens and other persons excluded from areas designated pursuant to authority contained in Proclamations 2525 of December 7, 1941, and 2526 and 2527 of December 8, 1941, and Executive Order 9066 of February 19, 1942, or whose normal means of livelihood has been interrupted by reasons of restrictions imposed by the Attorney General or any law or order authorizing the removal of persons whose presence may be deemed dangerous to the United States, and to the dependents of any of such persons, $61,000: Provided, That not to exceed $2,000,000 of the funds may be transferred with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget to this appropriation from the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, War Relocation Authority”, and shall be consolidated with this appropriation and the whole administered and accounted for as one fund: Provided further, That the Administrator may make expenditures from this appropriation, by advances or grants of funds or otherwise, to such Federal or other agencies as he may designate, expenditures by such other agencies to be without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes or the civil-service and classification laws. Salaries, Division of Personnel Management, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $95,000. Salaries, Division of Service Operations, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $220,000. Salaries, Office of the General Counsel, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $528,000. Miscellaneous expenses, Office of Administrator: For miscellaneous expenses of the Office of the Administrator in the District of Columbia and elsewhere (except printing and binding) including $500 for the liquidation of the Civilian Conservation Corps in accordance with the applicable provisions under the head “Civilian Conservation Corps” in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1944, and the National Youth Administration in accordance with the applicable provisions under the head “National Youth Administration” in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1945; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; purchase and exchange of lawbooks, other books of reference, and periodicals; library membership fees or dues in organizations which issue publications to members only or to members at a lower price than to others, payment for which may be made in advance; and operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $69,000: Provided, That the Administrator may transfer to this appropriation from appropriations of the constituent organizations of the Federal Security Agency such sums as may be necessary to finance the purchase of duplicating materials required in performance of duplicating work for such constituent organizations, unused portions of which sums may, at any time, be retransferred by the Administrator to the original appropriations. Traveling expenses, Federal Security Agency: For traveling expenses (not appropriated for elsewhere) for the Federal Security Agency and all bureaus, boards, and constituent organizations thereof, including expenses, when specifically authorized by the Federal Security Administrator, of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Federal Security Agency (not to exceed $1,500 for the Office of the Administrator); and reimbursement, at not to exceed 3 cents per mile, for travel performed by employees of the Federal Security Agency in privately owned automobiles and within the limits of their official stations, when engaged in the investigation of claims or the furnishing or securing of information concerning claims or wage records under title II of the Social Security Act, as amended (42 U. S. C. 401–409), $2,108,550: Provided, That all receipts from non-Federal agencies representing reimbursement for subsistence and other expenses of travel of employees of the Office of Education performing advisory functions to said agencies shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of this appropriation. Printing and binding, Federal Security Agency: For printing and binding (not appropriated for elsewhere) for the Federal Security Agency and all bureaus, boards, and constituent organizations thereof, including the purchase of reprints of scientific and technical articles published in periodicals and journals, $890,400, of which $514,000 shall be solely for printed forms, tabulating cards, and tabulating forms in the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance. For deposit in the general fund of the Treasury for cost of penalty mail of the Federal Security Agency as required by section 2 of the Act of June 28, 1944 (Public Law 364), $470,934. In order that the Administrator may effectuate reorganization plans submitted and approved pursuant to the Reorganization Act of 1939, he may transfer to the foregoing appropriations under this title from funds available for administrative expenses of the constituent units of the Federal Security Agency such sums as represent a consolidation in the Office of the Administrator of any of the administrative functions of said constituent units: Provided, That no such transfer of funds shall be made unless the consolidation of administrative functions will result in a reduction of administrative salary and other expenses and such reduction is accompanied by savings in funds appropriated to the Federal Security Agency, which savings shall not be expended for any other purpose but shall be impounded and returned to the Treasury. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to transfer to the constituent organizations of the Federal Security Agency from appropriations for traveling expenses and printing and binding, Federal Security Agency, such amounts as the Administrator may request; amounts so transferred shall be set up on the books of the Treasury under suitable titles and shall be available for the same purposes and subject to the same limitations as the appropriations from which transferred: Provided, That balances of any amounts so transferred, or any part of such balances shall, upon request of the Administrator, be retransferred to the appropriations for traveling expenses and printing and binding, Federal Security Agency. This title may be cited as the “Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1946”.

TITLE III— EMPLOYEES’ COMPENSATION COMMISSION

Employees’ Compensation Commission Appropriation Act, 1946.

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Salaries and expenses: For all necessary administrative expenses of the United States Employees’ Compensation Commission, including personal services and rent in the District of Columbia; lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals; fees and mileage of witnesses, including experts; contract stenographic reporting services; maintenance and repair of passenger automobiles; printing and binding, not to exceed $22,400; and not to exceed $13,000 for deposit in the general fund of the Treasury for cost of penalty mail as required by section 2 of the Act of June 28, 1944; $1,387,000, together with the unobligated balance

58 Stat. 394.

39 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 321d.

58 Stat. 567.

of the amount of $272,480 available for administrative expenses under the appropriation “Employees’ compensation fund, relief”, fiscal year 1945: Provided, That section 3709, Revised Statutes, shall not apply

41 U. S. C. § 5.

to any purchase or service outside continental United States when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $500.

Employees’ compensation fund: For the payment of compensation and other benefits and expenses (except administrative expenses and except wage accruals authorized by the Act of December 2, 1942, as

56 Stat. 1028.

42 U. S. C., Supp. IV, §§ 1701–1717.

amended) authorized by law and accruing during the fiscal year 1946 or in any prior fiscal year, including payments to other Federal agencies for medical and hospital services pursuant to agreement approved by the Commission; the advancement of costs for enforcement of recoveries in third party cases; rehabilitation expenses, including fees or other payments to other agencies of the United States and public or private agencies, including individuals, for services or facilities rendered or furnished pursuant to agreement approved by the Commission ; the furnishing of medical and hospital services and supplies, treatment, and funeral and burial expenses, including transportation and other expenses incidental to such services, treatment, and burial, to such enrollees of the Civilian Conservation Corps as were certified by the Director of such Corps as receiving hospital services and treatment at Government expense on June 30, 1943, and who are not otherwise entitled thereto as civilian employees of the United States, and the limitations and authority of the Act of September 7, 1916, as amended (5 U. S. C. 796), shall apply in providing such services,

39 Stat. 742.

5 U. S. C. §§ 751–791, 793; Supp. IV, § 751 et seq.

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treatment, and expenses in such cases; $13,575,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation “Employees’ compensation fund, relief”, fiscal year 1945, except the amount therein available for administrative expenses.

Wage accruals: For the payment of wage accruals authorized by

Post, p. 635.

56 Stat. 1028.

42 U. S. C., Supp. IV, §§ 1701–1717.

the Act of December 2, 1942, as amended (42 U. S. C. 1701), $3,000,000, to remain available until expended.

This title may be cited as the “Employees’ Compensation Commission

Citation of title.

Appropriation Act, 1946”.

TITLE IV— NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

National Labor Relations Board Appropriation Act, 1946.

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Salaries: For three Board members of the National Labor Relations Board and other personal services of the Board in the District of Columbia and elsewhere necessary in performing the duties authorized by law, $1,780,000.

Miscellaneous expenses: For all necessary expenses, other than

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salaries, of the National Labor Relations Board in performing duties authorized by law, including repairs and alterations; contract stenographic reporting services; reimbursement to employees, at not to exceed 3 cents per mile, for expenses of travel performed by them in privately owned automobiles within the limits of their official stations in the field; lawbooks; books of reference; and periodicals; $464,000.

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For deposit in the general fund of the Treasury for cost of penalty mail of the National Labor Relations Board as required by section 2

58 Stat. 394.

39 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 321d.

of the Act of June 28, 1944, Public Law 364, $15,930.

Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the National Labor Relations Board, $210,000.

Labor disputes.

Salaries and expenses (national defense): For all expenses necessary to enable the National Labor Relations Board to perform the duties authorized by law in connection with disputes involving labor in industries under the national defense program, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and other items otherwise properly chargeable to appropriations of the National Labor Relations Board for miscellaneous expenses and printing and binding, $473,000.

Unfiled complaint cases.

No part of the funds appropriated in this title shall be used in any way in connection with a complaint case arising over an agreement, or a renewal thereof, between management and labor which has been in existence for three months or longer without complaint being filed

Notice of agreement.

by an employee or employees of such plant: Provided, That, hereafter, notice of such agreement or a renewal thereof shall have been posted in the plant affected for said period of three months, said notice containing information as to the location at an accessible place of such agreement where said agreement shall be open for inspection by any interested person: Provided further, That these limitations shall not apply to agreements with labor organizations formed in violation

49 Stat. 452.

of section 158, paragraph 2, title 29, United States Code.

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Salaries and expenses: For all expenses necessary to enable the National Labor Relations Board to perform the duties imposed upon

57 Stat. 163.

50 U. S. C., Supp. IV, app. §§ 1501–1511.

it by the War Labor Disputes Act (50 U. S. C. App. 1501–11), including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and other items otherwise properly chargeable to appropriations of the National Labor Relations Board for miscellaneous expenses and printing and binding, $192,500.

Citation of title.

This title may be cited as the “National Labor Relations Board Appropriation Act, 1946”.

TITLE V— NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD

Salaries and expenses: For three members of the Board, and for other authorized expenditures of the National Mediation Board in performing the duties imposed by law, including contract stenographic reporting services; supplies and equipment; not to exceed $200 for books of reference, and periodicals, $243,300, of which amount not to exceed $176,950 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.

For deposit in the general fund of the Treasury for cost of penalty mail of the National Mediation Board and the National Railroad

58 Stat. 394.

39 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 321d.

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Adjustment Board as required by section 2 of the Act of June 28, 1944 (Public Law 364), $700.

Arbitration, emergency, and emergency panel boards: For necessary expenses of arbitration boards established under section 7 of

44 Stat. 582, 586.

the Railway Labor Act (45 U. S. C. 157), emergency boards appointed by the President pursuant to section 10 of said Act (45 U. S. C. 160), and boards appointed from the National Railway

3 CFR, Cum. Supp., p. 1164.

Labor Panel under Executive Order 9172, including compensation of members and employees of such boards in the District of Columbia enable the Chairman of the Railway Labor Panel to perform his functions under Executive Order 9299; necessary transportation

45 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 156 note.

expenses of Board members to and from their homes or regular places of business, and $6 per diem in lieu of subsistence on such days as they are actually engaged in performance of the duties of said boards; printing and binding of awards and proceedings and testimony relating thereto; contract stenographic reporting services; rent of quarters when suitable quarters cannot be supplied in any Federal building, $100,000.

Printing and binding: For all printing and binding for the National Mediation Board, $2,500.

national railroad adjustment board Salaries and expenses: For authorized expenditures of the National Railroad Adjustment Board, in performing the duties imposed by law, including contract stenographic reporting services and supplies and equipment, $252,400, of which $65,000 shall be available only for compensation not in excess of $50 per day and expenses of referees, and not more than $123,680 for other personal services. Printing and binding: For all printing and binding for the National Railroad Adjustment Board, $17,500. This title may be cited as the “National Mediation Board Appropriation Act, 1946”.

TITLE VI— RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD

Railroad Retirement Board Appropriation Act, 1946.

Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere necessary in performing the duties imposed by law, $1,700,000.

Miscellaneous expenses (other than salaries): For all necessary expenditures, other than salaries and printing and binding, of the Railroad Retirement Board in performing the duties imposed by law, including rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses, including not to exceed $1,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Board when specifically authorized by the Board; repairs and alterations; contract stenographic reporting services; supplies and equipment (including photographic equipment); not to exceed $5,000 for lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals; and for payment in advance when authorized by the Board for library membership in organizations which issue publications to members only or to members at a price lower than to the general public; and operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; $435,000.

Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Railroad Retirement Board, $33,000.

For deposit in the general fund of the Treasury for cost of penalty mail of the Railroad Retirement Board as required by section 2 of

58 Stat. 394.

39 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 321d.

the Act of June 28, 1944 (Public Law 364), $54,000.

Railroad retirement account: For an amount sufficient as an annual premium for the payments required under the Railroad Retirement Act, approved August 29, 1935, and the Railroad Retirement Act,

49 Stat. 967; 50 Stat. 307.

45 U. S. C. §§ 215–228r; Supp. IV, §§ 215–228 et seq.

50 Stat. 316.

45 U. S. C. § 228o.

approved June 24, 1937, and authorized to be appropriated to the railroad retirement account established under section 15 (a) of the latter Act, $291,913,000, of which $50,681,000 shall be immediately available: Provided, That such total amount shall be available until expended for making payments required under said retirement Acts, and the amount not required for current payments shall be invested by the Secretary of the Treasury in accordance with the provisions of said Railroad Retirement Act of June 24, 1937.

Citation of title.

This title may be cited as the “Railroad Retirement Board Appropriation Act, 1946”.

TITLE VII— EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

Office for Emergency Management war manpower commission General administration: For all necessary expenses for the general administration of the War Manpower Commission, including one Deputy Chairman and one Executive Director at $9,000 each per annum; not to exceed $10,000 for the employment of aliens; not to exceed $200,000 for printing and binding; and not to exceed $1,116,666 for travel expenses; in all $11,732,000, of which $1,235,410 shall be for use in carrying into effect the provisions of title IV (except section 602) of the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944. penalty mail costs For deposit in the general fund of the Treasury, for cost of penalty mail of the War Manpower Commission, as required by section 2 of the Act of June 28, 1944 (Public Law 364), $531,000. apprentice training service Apprentice training service: For all expenses necessary to enable the Chairman of the War Manpower Commission to conduct a program of encouraging apprentice training, including printing and binding (not to exceed $12,500), and travel expenses (not to exceed $93,900), $550,000. Apprentice training service (national defense): For all expenses necessary to enable the Chairman of the War Manpower Commission to conduct a program of encouraging apprentice training in national defense industries, including printing and binding (not to exceed $4,500), and travel expenses (not to exceed $56,000), $450,000. employment office facilities and services Employment office facilities and services: For all necessary expenses of the War Manpower Commission in connection with the operation and maintenance of employment office facilities and services, and the performance of functions, duties, and powers relating to employment service transferred to the War Manpower Commission by Executive Order 9247, including the recruitment and placement of individuals for work or training in occupations essential to the war effort, and for carrying into effect section 602 of the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944; such expenses to include contract janitorial services, at not to exceed $300 for any individual; reimbursement, at not to exceed 3 cents per mile, for official travel performed by employees in privately owned automobiles within the limits of their official station; printing and binding (not to exceed $119,500); travel expenses (not to exceed $2,372,400); and rent in the District of Columbia: Provided, That payment of salaries may be made to employees while taking annual and sick leave based upon unused leave accrued under State regulations found by the Social Security Board to conform to the requirements of title III of the Social Security Act, as amended, and on the basis of State employment which had been financed in whole or in part from grants under title III of said Act, including payment for accrued leave to be substituted for leave without pay taken between January 1, 1942, and June 30, 1942, which payment shall not exceed in any case the amount payable for such purposes under Federal laws with respect to the maximum accumulation of such leave: Provided further, That the Chairman of the War Manpower Commission may transfer funds from this appropriation to the Social Security Board for “grants to States for unemployment compensation administration” as authorized in title III of the Social Security Act, as amended, to meet costs incurred by States in making available to the War Manpower Commission premises, equipment, supplies, facilities, and services, needed by the Commission in the operation and maintenance of employment office facilities and services, any sum so transferred and not expended in accordance with this proviso to be retransferred to this appropriation, $54,091,363, of which $7,791,134 shall be for use in carrying into effect the provisions of title IV, section 602, of the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944: Provided further, That pending the return to State control after the war emergency of the Employment Service facilities, property and personnel loaned by the States to the United States Employment Service, no portion of the sum herein appropriated shall be expended by any Federal agency for any salary, to any individual engaged in employment-service duties in any position within any local or field or State office, which substantially exceeds the salary which would apply to such position and individual if the relevant State merit system applied and if State operation of such office had continued without interruption: Provided further, That the Employment Service facilities, property and personnel loaned by the States to the United State Employment Service, shall be returned to the States not later than three months after the termination of hostilities in the war with Japan as determined by Presidential proclamation or by concurrent resolution of Congress: Provided further, That no portion of the sum herein appropriated shall be expended by any Federal agency for the salary of any person who is engaged for more than half of the time, as determined by the State director of unemployment compensation, in the administration of the State unemployment compensation act, including claims taking but excluding registration for work. Training Within Industry Service, War Manpower Commission (national defense): For all expenses necessary to enable the Chairman of the War Manpower Commission to promote and facilitate on-the-job training and maximum utilization of workers by industries and activities essential to the war by affording training to supervisory personnel; including the final liquidation of the service by December 31, 1945, including the temporary employment of persons by contract or otherwise without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and the civil-service and classification laws; reimbursement, at not to exceed 3 cents per mile, for official travel performed by employees in privately owned automobiles within the limits of their official stations; printing and binding (not to exceed $3,500); and travel expenses (not to exceed $200,000); $600,000. Migration of workers: To enable the War Manpower Commission to provide, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Chairman of said Commission for the temporary migration of workers from foreign countries within the Western Hemisphere (pursuant to agreements between the United States and such foreign countries), for employment in the continental United States with industries and services essential to the war effort, including the transportation of such workers from points outside the United States to points of entry or reception centers in the United States and return (including transportation from place of employment in the United States to reception centers or point of departure from the United States in any case of default by an employer to provide such transportation to a worker, in which event the employer shall be liable to the United States for the cost thereof); cost of temporary maintenance of workers in reception centers in foreign countries and in the United States, including transportation of workers in connection therewith when necessary; reasonable subsistence and emergency medical care of such workers from the time of reporting for transportation to the United States or return to the country of origin until arrival at the destination; necessary assistance to meet emergency health and welfare problems while in the United States, when such assistance is not otherwise available to such persons; expenses (not to exceed $125 in any one case) of preparation of remains and burial of workers dying in the United States; and guaranties of employment while in the United States to the extent agreed upon with the foreign country from which the workers are imported; $800,000, of which not to exceed $91,000 shall be available for all administrative expenses necessary for the foregoing, including payment for the rental of office space and utility services outside the continental United States without regard to section 3648, Revised Statutes (31 U. S. C. 529); not to exceed $20,000 for temporary employment of administrative personnel outside continental United States; not to exceed $2,000 for printing and binding outside continental United States without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and section 11 of the Act of March 1, 1919 (44 U. S. C. 111); and not to exceed $18,800 for travel expenses: Provided, That no transportation of workers shall be allowed hereunder unless the employer and the worker have entered into a contract for employment approved by said Chairman or his designee, and unless said Chairman certifies that reasonably adequate use is being made of local labor supply: Provided further, That this appropriation shall remain available after June 30, 1946, for the purpose of fulfilling guaranties and other obligations theretofore incurred with respect to such foreign workers and for all other purposes connected with the protection and ultimate return of any workers theretofore transported: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the recruitment or transportation of workers for employment in agriculture (Act of June 28, 1944, Public Law 373): Provided, That no part of the funds herein appropriated shall be available for any transportation of railroad workers.

TITLE VIII— GENERAL PROVISIONS