Public Law 81–896

General Provisions

TITLE I— DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Salaries and Expenses For necessary expenses of the Department of State not otherwise provided for, including personal services in the District of Columbia; expenses authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended (22 U. S. C. 801–1158), not otherwise provided for; expenses of the National Commission on Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Cooperation as authorized by sections 3, 5, and 6 of the Act of July 30, 1946 (22 U. S. C. 287o, 287q, 287r); expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with activities provided for under this appropriation; hire of passenger motor vehicles; maintenance and operation of aircraft outside the continental United States; printing and binding, including printing and binding outside the continental United States without regard to section 11 of the Act of March 1, 1919 (44 U. S. C. 111); services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); not to exceed $1,000 for payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672); health service program as authorized by law; purchase of uniforms; insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign countries when required by law of such countries; dues for library membership in organizations which issue publications to members only, or to members at a price lower than to others; rental of the lines and teletype equipment; employment of aliens, by contract, for services abroad; refund of fees erroneously charged and paid for passports; establishment, maintenance, and operation of passport and despatch agencies; examination of estimates of appropriations in the field; ice and drinking water for use abroad; excise taxes on negotiable instruments abroad; loss by exchange; radio communications; payment in advance for subscriptions to commercial information, telephone and similar services abroad; relief, protection, and burial of American seamen, and alien seamen in foreign countries and in the United States Territories and possessions; expenses incurred in acknowledging services of officers and crews of foreign vessels and aircraft in rescuing American seamen, airmen, or citizens from shipwreck or other catastrophe abroad; rent and expenses of maintaining in Egypt, Morocco, and Muscat, institutions for American convicts and persons declared insane by any consular court, and care and transportation of prisoners and persons declared insane; expenses, as authorized by law (18 U. S. C. 3192), of bringing to the United States from foreign countries persons charged with crime; and procurement by contract or otherwise, of services, supplies, and facilities, as follows: (1) translating, (2) analysis and tabulation of technical information, (3) preparation of special maps, globes, and geographic aids, (4) maintenance, improvement, and repair of diplomatic and consular properties in foreign countries, including minor construction on Government-owned properties, (5) not to exceed $200,000 for maintenance and operation of commissary and mess services, (6) fuel and utilities for Government-owned or leased property abroad, and (7) rental or lease, for periods not exceeding ten years, of offices, buildings, grounds, and living quarters for the use of the Foreign Service, for which payments may be made in advance; $77,800,000: Provided, That pursuant to section 8 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 118d–1), passenger motor vehicles in possession of the Foreign Service abroad may be exchanged or sold and the exchange allowances or proceeds of such sales shall be available without fiscal year limitation for replacement of an equal number of such vehicles and the cost, including the exchange Allowance, of each such replacement shall not exceed $3,000 in the case of the chief of mission automobile at each diplomatic mission and $1,400 in the case of all other such vehicles except station wagons: Provided further, That of the amount appropriated herein, not to exceed $30,000 shall be expended for carrying out the provisions of the Act of July 31, 1945 (5 U. S. C. 168d).

Representation Allowances For representation allowances as authorized by section 901 (3) of the Foreign Service Act of 1946 (22 U. S. C. 1131), $675,000.

Buildings Fund For carrying into effect the Act of July 25, 1946 (22 U. S. C. 295b), including the initial alterations, repair, and furnishing of buildings acquired under said Act, $6,500,000, which is exclusively for expenditure under the provisions of said Act which relate to payments representing the value of foreign property or credits: Provided, That, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of State or such Assistant Secretary as he may designate, section 6 of the Act of May 7, 1926, may be construed as including leaseholds of not less than ten years.

Emergencies in the Diplomatic and Consular Service For expenses necessary to enable the Secretary of State to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, to be expended pursuant to the requirement of section 291 of the Revised Statutes (31 U. S. C. 107), including personal services in the District of Columbia, $9,900,000: Provided, That the Secretary of State may delegate to subordinate officials the authority vested in him by section 291 of the Revised Statutes pertaining to certification of expenditures.

Contributions to International Organizations For expenses necessary to meet annual obligations to international organizations, the Government of Panama, and Gorgas Memorial Institute, pursuant to treaties, conventions., or specific Acts of Congress, $54,449,297, together with such additional sums due to increase in rates of exchange as the Secretary of State may determine and certify to the Secretary of the Treasury to be necessary to pay, in foreign currencies, the quotas and contributions required by the several treaties, conventions, or laws establishing the amount of the obligation: Provided, That the Department of State, when requested by the United Nations, is authorized to acquire surplus property for the United Nations in accordance with existing surplus property disposal laws and regulations, and the contribution of the United States to the United Nations shall be reduced by the value of the surplus property and necessary expenses, including transportation costs, incidental to the acquisition thereof.

Missions to International Organizations For expenses necessary for permanent representation to certain international organizations in which the United States participates pursuant to treaties, conventions, or specific Acts of Congress, including expenses authorized by the pertinent Acts and Conventions providing for such representation; attendance at meetings of societies or associations concerned with the work of the organizations; salaries, expenses, and allowances of personnel and dependents as authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended (22 U. S. C. 801–1158); purchase (not to exceed two, for replacement only, including one at not to exceed $3,000) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; printing and binding, without regard to section 11 of the Act of March 1, 1919 (44 U. S. C. 111); and purchase of uniforms for guards and chauffeur’s, $1,600,000: Provided, That the provisions of section 8 of the United Nations Participation Act of 1945, as amended, and regulations thereunder, applicable to expenses incurred pursuant to that Act, shall be applicable to the obligation and expenditure of funds in connection with United States participation in the International Civil Aviation Organization.

International Contingencies For necessary expenses of participation by the United States upon approval by the Secretary of State, in international activities which arise from time to time in the conduct of foreign affairs and for which specific appropriations have not been provided pursuant to treaties, conventions, or special Acts of Congress, including personal services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere without regard to civil-service and classification laws; salaries, expenses and Allowances of personnel and dependents as authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended (22 U. S. C. 801–1158); employment of aliens; travel expenses without regard to the Standardized Government Travel Regulations and without regard to the rates of per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence expenses under the Travel Expense Act of 1949; transportation of families and effects under such Regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe; not to exceed $15 per diem in lieu of subsistence for persons serving without compensation in an advisory capacity while away from their homes or regular places of business; stenographic and other services; rent of quarters by contract or otherwise; hire of passenger motor vehicles; contributions for the share of the United States in expenses of international organizations; and printing and binding without regard to section 11 of the Act of March 1, 1919 (44 U. S. C. 111); $2,900,000, of which not to exceed a total of $100,000 may be expended for representation allowances as authorized by section 901 (3) of the Act of August 13, 1946 (22 U. S. C. 1131) and for entertainment.

International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico For expenses necessary to enable the United States to meet its obligations under the treaties of 1884, 1889, 1905, 1906, 1933, and 1944 between the United States and Mexico, and to comply with the Act approved August 19, 1935, as amended (22 U. S. C. 277–277d), including operation and maintenance of the Rio Grande rectification, canalization, flood control, bank protection, boundary fence, and sanitation projects; examinations, preliminary surveys, and investigations; detailed plan preparation and construction (including surveys and operation and maintenance and protection during construction); Rio Grande emergency flood protection; construction and operation of gaging stations; purchase and exchange of map-reproduction machines and other equipment and machinery; personal services in the District of Columbia; services in accordance with section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), at rates for individuals not in excess of $100 per diem; travel expenses, including, in the discretion of the Commissioner, expenses (not to exceed $500) of attendance at meet- ings of organizations concerned with the activities of the International Boundary and Water Commission which may be necessary for the efficient discharge of the responsibilities of the Commission; printing and binding; purchase of four passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; hire, with or without personal services, of work animals, and animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles and aircraft and equipment; acquisition by donation, purchase, or condemnation, of real and personal property, including expenses of abstracts and certificates of title; purchase of ice and drinking water; inspection of equipment, supplies, and materials by contract; drilling and testing of foundations and dam sites, by contract if deemed necessary, purchase of planographs and lithographs; leasing of private property to remove therefrom sand, gravel, stone, and other materials, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (41 U. S. C. 5); payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672), and the Act of August 27, 1935, as amended (22 U. S. C. 277e); and payment of official telephone service in the field in case of official telephones installed in private houses when authorized under Regulations established by the Commissioner; as follows: salaries and expenses For salaries and expenses, regular boundary activities, including examinations, preliminary surveys, and investigations, $1,000,000. construction For detail plan preparation and construction of projects authorized by the Convention concluded February 1, 1933, between the United States and Mexico, the Acts approved August 19, 1935, as amended (22 U. S. C. 277–277d), August 29, 1935 (Public Law 392), June 4, 1936 (Public Law 648), June 28, 1941 (22 U. S. C. 277f), and the projects stipulated in the treaty between the United States and Mexico signed at Washington on February 3, 1944, $3,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That no expenditures shall be made for the lower Rio Grande flood-control project for construction on any land, site, or easement in connection with this project except such as has been acquired by donation and the title thereto has been approved by the Attorney General of the United States: Provided further, That expenditures for the Rio Grande bank-protection project shall be subject to the provisions and conditions contained in the appropriation for said project as provided by the Act approved April 25, 1945 (59 Stat. 89): Provided further, That unexpended balances of Appropriations for construction under the International Boundary and Water Commission available for the next preceding fiscal year shall be merged with this appropriation and shall continue available until expended. rio grande emergency flood protection For emergency flood-control work, including protection, reconstruction, and repair of all structures under the jurisdiction of the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, threatened or damaged by floodwaters of the Rio Grande, which have heretofore been authorized and erected under the provisions of treaties between the United States and Mexico, or in pursuance of Federal laws authorizing improvements on the Rio Grande, $30,000, to be merged with the unobligated balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the next preceding fiscal year, and to remain available until expended.

American Sections, International Commissions For expenses necessary to enable the President to perform the obligations of the United States pursuant to conventions between the United States and Canada signed May 26, 1930 (50 Stat. 1355) and January 29, 1937 (50 Stat. 1351), and treaties between the United States and Great Britain, in respect to Canada, signed January 11, 1909 (36 Stat. 2448) and February 24, 1925 (44 Stat. 2102), including personal services in the District, of Columbia; stenographic reporting services by contract; printing and binding; hire of passenger motor vehicles; the United States share of the expenses of the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission and the International Fisheries Commission, which except for the expenses of the members, may be advanced to the respective Commissions; $508,000, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State and to be available also for additional expenses of the American Sections, International Commissions, as hereinafter set forth: International Joint Commission, United States and Canada, the salary of one Commissioner on the part, of the United States who shall serve at the pleasure of the President (the other Commissioners to serve in that capacity without compensation therefor); salaries of clerks and other employees appointed by the Commissioners on the part of the United States with the approval solely of the Secretary of State; travel expenses and compensation of witnesses in attending hearings of the Commission at such places in the United States and Canada as the Commission or the American Commissioners shall determine to be necessary; and special and technical investigations in connection with matters falling within the Commission’s jurisdiction, including purchase for replacement only of two passenger automobiles: Provided, That the Secretary of State is authorized to transfer to any department or independent establishment of the Government, with the consent of the head thereof, funds from this appropriation for direct expenditure by such department or establishment for such investigations. International Boundary Commission, United States, Alaska, and Canada, the completion of such remaining work as may be required under the award of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal and the existing treaties between the United States and Great Britain; commutation of subsistence to employees while on field duty, not to exceed $6 per day each (but not to exceed $3 per day each when a member of a field party and subsisting in camp); hire of freight and passenger motor vehicles from temporary field employees; and payment for timber necessarily cut in keeping the boundary line clear.

International Information and Educational Activities For expenses necessary to enable the Department of State to carry out international information and educational activities as authorized by the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (22 U. S. C. 1431–1479) and the Act of August 9, 1939 (22 U. S. C. 501), and to administer the program authorized by section 32 (b) (2) of the Surplus Property Act of 1944, as amended (50 U. S. C. App. 1641 (b)) and the program authorized by the Act of August 24, 1949 (Public Law 265), including personal services in the District of Columbia; employment, without regard to the civil-service and classification laws, of persons on a temporary basis (not to exceed $60,000) and aliens within the United States: salaries, expenses, and allowances of personnel and dependents as authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1946 (22 U. S. C. 801–1158): expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with activities provided for under this Appropriation (not to exceed $11,000); printing and binding; entertainment within the United States (not to exceed $5,000); hire of passenger motor vehicles; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); advance of funds notwithstanding section 3648 of the Revised Statutes as amended; actual expenses of preparing and transporting to their former homes the remains of persons, not United States Government employees, who may die away from their homes while participating in activities authorized under this appropriation; establishment and operation of agricultural and other experiment and demonstration stations in other American countries, on land acquired by gift or lease, and construction of necessary buildings thereon; radio activities and acquisition and production of motion pictures and visual materials and purchase or rental of technical equipment and facilities therefor, narration and script-writing, by contract or otherwise; and purchase of objects for presentation to foreign governments, schools, or organizations; $32,700,000, of which sum $100,000 may be available for the purpose of preserving friendships with the peoples of western European countries by means of radio broadcasts, said programs to be created and produced under the supervision and control of the Department of State by experienced private international broadcasting organizations; and of which not to exceed $2,875,000 may be transferred to other appropriations of the Department of State: Provided, That, notwithstanding the provisions of section 3679 of the Revised Statutes (31 U. S. C. 665), the Department of State is authorized in making contracts for the use of the international shortwave radio stations and facilities, to agree on behalf of the United States to indemnify the owners and operators of said radio stations and facilities from such funds as may be hereafter appropriated for the purpose against loss or damage on account of injury to persons or property arising from such use of said radio stations and facilities: Provided further, That in the acquisition of leasehold interests payments may be made in advance for the entire term or any part thereof: Provided further, That funds herein appropriated shall not be used to purchase more than 75 per centum of the effective daily broadcasting time from any person or corporation holding an international shortwave broadcasting license from the Federal Communications Commission without the consent of such licensee: Provided further, That funds appropriated herein shall be available for payment to private organizations abroad in pursuance of contracts entered into for the processing and distribution of motion-–picture films.

Philippine Rehabilitation For liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to authority granted under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1949, $10,000,000, to be consolidated with appropriations heretofore made under said head; and the unobligated balance of such consolidated appropriation shall remain available during the current fiscal year upon the terms and conditions specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1950, for carrying out the purposes of sections 302 (a) and 303 (a) of the Philippine Rehabilitation Act of 1946, as amended (50 U. S. C. App. 1782, 1783), as authorized by the Act of September 7, 1949 (Public Law 295), and for carrying out the purposes of section 311 of the Philippine Rehabilitation Act of 1946, as authorized by section 3 of the Act of July 2, 1948 (Public Law 882).

The Institute of Inter-American Affairs For necessary expenses in carrying out the provisions of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs Act of August 5, 1947 (22 U. S. C. 281–2811), as amended by the Act of September 3, 1949 (Public Law 283), including purchase (not to exceed eighteen for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles, $5,000,000, to remain available until expended, and in addition, the Institute is authorized, prior to June 30, 1953, to enter into contracts for the purposes of such Act, as amended, in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000.

TITLE II— DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Legal Activities and General Administration salaries and expenses, general administration For expenses necessary for the administration of the Department of Justice and for investigation of the official acts, records, and accounts of officers and offices of United States and territorial courts, including personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase of one passenger motor vehicle at not to exceed $4,000, for replacement only; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); miscellaneous and emergency expenses authorized or approved by the Attorney General or his Administrative Assistant; special attorneys and special assistants to the Attorney General; and examination of estimates of appropriations in the field; $2, 175,000. salaries and expenses, general legal activities For expenses necessary for the legal activities of the Department of Justice not otherwise provided for, including personal services in the District of Columbia; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); miscellaneous and emergency expenses authorized or approved by the Attorney General or his Administrative Assistant; and advances of public moneys pursuant to law (31 U. S. C. 529); $7,475,000. salaries and expenses, antitrust division For expenses necessary for the enforcement of antitrust and kindred laws, including personal services in the District of Columbia and services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), $3,750,000, of which $125,000 shall be available exclusively for activities in connection with railroad reparations cases: Provided, That none of this appropriation shall be expended for the establishment and maintenance of permanent regional offices of the Antitrust Division. salaries and expenses, united states attorneys and marshals For necessary expenses of the offices of United States attorneys and marshals and United States district attorneys in Alaska, including purchase of not to exceed six passenger motor vehicles (including four for Alaska at not to exceed $2,200 each, one van for replacement only at not to exceed $2,500, and one bus for replacement only at not to exceed $15,000); services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); expenses incident to the transfer of prisoners in the custody of United States marshals to narcotic farms; services in Alaska in collecting evidence for the United States when specifically directed by the Attorney General; meals and lodging for deputy marshals in attendance upon juries when ordered by the court; notarial fees or like services; and firearms and ammunition; $12,847,000, of which not to exceed $50,000 shall be available for the employment of temporary deputy marshals in lieu of bailiffs at a rate not to exceed $10 per day. fees and expenses of witnesses For expenses, mileage, and per diems of witnesses and for per diems in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by Jaw; and not to exceed $115,000 for such compensation and expenses of witnesses (including expert witnesses) or informants as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General or his Administrative Assistant, which approval shall be conclusive; $1,000,000: Provided, That no part of the sum herein appropriated shall be used to pay any witness more than one attendance fee for any one calendar day. salaries and expenses, claims of persons of japanese ancestry For expenses necessary for payment of claims of persons of Japanese ancestry, pursuant to the Act of July 2, 1948 (50 U. S. C. 1981–1987), including personal services in the District of Columbia, $1,300,000, of which not to exceed $250,000 shall be available for administrative expenses.

Federal Bureau of Investigation salaries and expenses For expenses necessary for the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States; protection of the person of the President of the United States; acquisition, collection, classification and preservation of identification and other records and their exchange with the duly authorized officials of the Federal Government, of States, cities, and other institutions; and such other investigations regarding official matters under the control of the Department of Justice and the Department of State as may be directed by the Attorney General, including personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase (not to exceed five hundred for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; purchase at not to exceed $10,000, for replacement only, of one armored motor vehicle; firearms and ammunition; not to exceed $10,000 for taxicab hire to be used exclusively for the purposes set forth in this paragraph; not to exceed $4,500 for expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with the purposes of this appropriation; not to exceed $3,000 for membership in the International Commission of Criminal Police; payment of rewards when specifically authorized by the Attorney General for information leading to the apprehension of fugitives from justice; and not to exceed $70,000 to meet unforeseen emergencies of a confidential character, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General and to be accounted for solely on his certificate; $57,400,000: Provided, That of the amount herein appropriated $100,000 is to be held as a reserve for emergencies arising in connection with kidnaping, extortion, and bank robbery, to be released for expenditure in such amounts and at such times as the Attorney General may determine: Provided further, That the compensation of the Director of the Bureau shall be $20,000 per annum so long as the position is held by the present incumbent. None of the funds appropriated for the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall be used to pay the compensation of any civil-service employee.

Immigration and Naturalization Service salaries and expenses For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the Administration and enforcement of the laws relating to immigration, naturalization, and alien registration, including personal services in the District of Columbia: advance of cash to aliens for meals and lodging while en route; payment of allowances (at a rate not in excess of $1 per day) to aliens, while held in custody under the immigration laws, for work performed; payment of rewards for information leading to the apprehension or conviction of violators of the immigration laws; not to exceed $20.000 to meet unforeseen emergencies of a confidential character, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General and accounted for solely on his certificate; not to exceed $5,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with the purposes of this appropriation; purchase (not to exceed one hundred and fifty, for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; purchase (not to exceed four for replacement, only) and maintenance and operation of aircraft; firearms and ammunition; free distribution of citizenship textbooks; refunds of head tax, maintenance bills, immigration fines, and other items properly returnable, except deposits of aliens who become public charges and deposits to secure payment of fines and passage money; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); operation, maintenance, remodeling, and repair of buildings and the purchase of equipment incident thereto; reimbursement of the General Services Administration for security guard services for protection of confidential files; and maintenance, care, detention, surveillance, parole, and transportation of alien enemies and their wives and dependent children, including return of such persons to place of bona fide residence or to such other place as may be authorized by the Attorney General; $31,400,000: Provided, That the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization may contract with officers and employees for the use, on official business, of privately owned horses: Provided further, That provisions of law prohibiting or restricting the employment of aliens in the Government service shall not apply to the employment of interpreters in the Immigration and Naturalization Service (not to exceed ten permanent and such temporary employees as are required from time to time) where competent citizen interpreters are not available.

Federal Prison System salaries and expenses, bureau of prisons For expenses necessary for the administration, operation, and maintenance of Federal penal and correctional institutions, including not to exceed $425,000 for departmental personal services; not to exceed $13,500 for expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with the purposes of this appropriation; purchase of not to exceed nineteen passenger motor vehicles for replacement only, including two busses at not to exceed $20,000 each; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); compilation of statistics relating to prisoners in Federal and non-Federal penal and correctional institutions; furnishing of insignia, uniforms, and other distinctive wearing apparel necessary for employees in the performance of their official duties; payment pursuant to law of claims of employees for loss, damage, or destruction of personal property (63 Stat. 167); firearms and ammunition; payment of rewards for the apprehension, or for information leading to the recapture, of escaped prisoners; purchase and exchange of farm products and livestock; construction of buildings at prison camps; and not to exceed $35,000 for acquisition of land adjacent to any Federal penal or correctional institution when in the opinion of the Attorney General the additional land is essential for health or safety; $21,730,000: Provided, That collections in cash for meals, laundry, barber service, uniform equipment, and any other items for which payment is made originally from appropriated funds may be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of this appropriation: Provided further, That there may be transferred to the Public Health Service such amounts as may be necessary, in the discretion of the Attorney General, for direct expenditure by that Service for medical relief for inmates of Federal penal and correctional institutions. buildings and facilities For constructing, remodeling, and equipping necessary buildings and facilities at existing penal and correctional institutions, including all necessary expenses incident thereto, by contract or force account, $800,000, of which $540,000 is for liquidation of authority granted under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1950, to enter into contracts for replacement of a power plant at the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, and of which $170,000 is for replacement of a power plant at the United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia; and in addition, the Attorney General is authorized to enter into contracts and incur obligations in an amount not to exceed $700,000 for completion of the latter project at a total cost not to exceed $870,000: Provided, That labor of United States prisoners may be used for work performed under this appropriation. support of united states prisoners For support of United States prisoners in non-Federal institutions and in the Territory of Alaska, including necessary clothing and medical aid, and payment of rewards for the apprehension, or for information leading to the recapture, of escaped prisoners; $1,875,000.

Office of Alien Property salaries and expenses The Attorney General, or such officer as he may designate, is hereby authorized to pay out of any funds or other property or interest vested in him or transferred to him pursuant to or with respect to the Trading with the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917, as amended (50 U. S. C. App.), necessary expenses incurred in carrying out the powers and duties conferred on the Attorney General pursuant to said Act: Provided, That not to exceed $4, 150,000 shall be available in the current fiscal year for the general administrative expenses of the Office of Alien Property, including rent of private or Government-owned space in the District of Columbia; purchase of not to exceed three passenger motor vehicles; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); personal services in the District of Columbia; and expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with the purposes of this authorization: Provided further, That on or before November 1 of the current fiscal year, the Attorney General shall make a report to the Appropriations Committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives giving detailed information on all administrative and nonadministrative expenses incurred during the next preceding fiscal year in connection with the activities of the Office of Alien Property: Provided further, That of the total amount herein authorized the amount of $100,000 is to be transferred to the appropriation for “Salaries and expenses, general administration”, Department of Justice.

TITLE III— DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Office of the Secretary Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary of Commerce (hereafter in this title referred to as the Secretary) including personal services in the District of Columbia; printing and binding; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August. 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), at rates for individuals not to exceed $50 per diem; and teletype news service (not exceeding $1,000); $1,350,000. Technical and scientific services: For necessary expenses in the performance of activities and services relating to the collection, compilation, and dissemination of technological information as an aid to business in the development of foreign and domestic commerce, including personal services in the District of Columbia; not to exceed $2,000 for services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); and printing and binding, $225,000: Provided, That the Secretary is authorized, upon request of any public or private organization or individual, to reproduce by appropriate process, independently or through any other agency of the Government, any scientific or technical report, document, or descriptive material, foreign or domestic, which has been released for public dissemination, and to sell such reproductions at a price not less than the estimated total cost of reproducing and disseminating same as may be determined by the Secretary, the moneys received from such sale to be deposited in a special account in the Treasury, such account to be available for reimbursing any appropriation which may have borne the expense of such reproduction and dissemination and making refunds to organizations and individuals when entitled thereto.

Bureau of the Census Salaries and expenses, age and citizenship certification: For expenses necessary for searching census records and supplying information incident to carrying out the provisions of the Social Security Act, and other statutory requirements with respect to age and citizenship certification, including personal services at the seat of govern- ment, travel, microfilm, printing and binding, and photographic supplies, $109,000: Provided, That the procedure hereunder for the furnishing from census records of evidence for the establishment, of age of individuals shall be pursuant to regulations approved jointly by the Secretary and the Social Security Administration. Current census statistics: For expenses necessary for collecting, compiling, and publishing current census statistics provided for by law; enumerators at rates to be fixed without regard to the Classification Act; printing and binding; the cost of obtaining State, municipal, and other records; preparation of monographs on census subjects and other work of specialized character by contract; and purchase, construction, repair, and rental of mechanical and electrical tabulating equipment and other laborsaving devices; $6,000,000, of which $100,000 shall be available exclusively for vessel shipping statistics. Seventeenth decennial census: For expenses necessary for taking, compiling, and publishing the seventeenth decennial census including the census of housing as authorized by law (13 U. S. C. 201–219; Public Law 171, approved July 15, 1949), including personal services at the seat of government and elsewhere at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce without regard to the Classification Act of 1949 and the Federal Employees Pay Act of 1945, as amended; printing and binding; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); and compensation of employees of the Department of Commerce and other departments and independent establishments of the Government who may be detailed for field work; $28,500,000, to remain available until December 31, 1952, and to be merged with the appropriation made under this head in the Department, of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1950. General administration, Bureau of the Census: For expenses necessary for general administration, and printing and binding, $898,000.

Civil Aeronautics Administration Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Civil Aeronautics Administration in carrying out the provisions of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended (49 U. S. C. 401), and other Acts incident to the enforcement of safety regulations; maintenance and operation of air navigation facilities and air traffic control; furnishing advisory service to States and other public and private agencies in connection with the construction or improvement of airports and landing areas; and the disposal of surplus airports; including personal services in the District of Columbia; hire of aircraft (not exceeding $420.000); the operation and maintenance of eighty-five aircraft; printing and binding; contract stenographic reporting services; fees and mileage of expert and other witnesses; examination of estimates of appropriations in the field; purchase (not to exceed ten, for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; purchase and repair of skis and snowshoes; and salaries and traveling expenses, together with tuition (not to exceed $20,000) and other contractual expenses in connection therewith, of employees detailed to attend courses of training conducted by the Government or other organizations serving aviation; $98,500,000, and the Departments of the Air Force, Army and Navy, are authorized to transfer to the Civil Aeronautics Administration without, charge, subject to the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, aircraft (for replacement only), aircraft engines, parts, flight equipment, and hangar, line, and shop equipment surplus to the needs of such Departments: Provided, That there may be credited to this appropriation, funds received from States, counties, municipalities, and other public authorities for expenses incurred in the maintenance and operation of airport traffic control towers. Technical development and evaluation: For expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended (49 U. S. C. 401), relative to such developmental work and service testing as tends to the creation of improved air-navigation facilities, including lauding areas, aircraft, aircraft engines, propellers, appliances, personnel, and operation methods, and personal services in the District of Columbia; acquisition of necessary sites by lease or grant: operation and maintenance of five aircraft, which shall be in addition to the number authorized herein under the appropriation for “Salaries and expenses, Civil Aeronautics Administration”; and printing and binding; $1,375,000. Maintenance and operation, Washington National Airport: For expenses incident to the care, operation, maintenance, and protection of the Washington National Airport, including purchase of one passenger motor vehicle for replacement only; printing and binding; not to exceed $3,380 for the purchase, cleaning, and repair of uniforms; and arms and ammunition; $1,300,000. Construction, Washington National Airport: For an additional amount “for construction at the Washington National Airport, including acquisition of an existing fuel system and necessary related facilities, $540,000, to remain available until expended. Federal-aid airport program, Federal Airport Act: For carrying out the provisions of the Federal Airport Act of May 13, 1946 (except section 5 (a)), to be available until June 30, 1953, $37,000,000, of which $34,000,000 is for liquidation of obligations incurred under authority heretofore granted to enter into contracts for the foregoing purposes; and in addition, the Civil Aeronautics Administration is authorized until June 30, 1953, to enter into contracts and incur obligations for purposes of this paragraph in an amount not exceeding 56,700,000, of which $36,000,000 shall be for projects in the States in accordance with section 6 of said Act, $500,000 for projects in Puerto Rico, $150,000 for projects in the Territory of Hawaii, and $50,000 for projects in the Virgin Islands: Provided, That of the amount appropriated herein, $3,000,000 shall be available as one fund for necessary planning, research, and administrative expenses; including personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase (not to exceed twenty-five for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and printing and binding; of which $3,000,000 not to exceed $600,000 may be transferred to the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, Civil Aeronautics Administration”, to provide for necessary administrative expenses, including the maintenance and operation of aircraft and printing and binding: Provided further, That the appropriation under this head for the next preceding fiscal year is hereby merged with this appropriation. Construction of public airports, Territory of Alaska: For an additional amount for construction of public airports, Territory of Alaska, $3,200,000, to remain available until expended for liquidation of obligations incurred under authority granted in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1948, to enter into contracts for such purpose. Air navigation development: For expenses necessary for planning and developing a national system of aids to air navigation and air traffic control common to military and civil air navigation, including research, experimental investigations, purchase, and development, by contract or otherwise, of new types or air navigation aids (including plans, specifications, and drawings); personal services in the District of Columbia; hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; printing and binding; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), at rates for individuals not in excess of $50 per diem; acquisition of necessary sites by lease or grant; payments in advance under contracts for research or development work; and not to exceed $130,000 for administrative expenses, of which $17,500 may be transferred to the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, Civil Aeronautics Administration” for such expenses, including the maintenance and operation of aircraft; $6,000,000, of which $2,885,000 is for liquidation of obligations incurred under authority heretofore granted to enter into contracts for the foregoing purposes, and, in addition, the Civil Aeronautics Administration is authorized to enter into contracts and incur obligations for the purposes contained in this paragraph in an amount not exceeding $2,250,000.

Civil Aeronautics Board Civil Aeronautics Board, salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Civil Aeronautics Board, including personal services in the District of Columbia; contract stenographic reporting services; employment of temporary guards on a contract or fee basis; salaries and traveling expenses of employees detailed to attend courses of training conducted by the Government or industries serving aviation; expenses of examination of estimates of appropriations in the field; hire of passenger motor vehicles; hire, operation, maintenance, and repair of aircraft; and printing and binding; $3,500,000: Provided, That the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force are authorized to transfer to the Civil Aeronautics Board without charge, subject to the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, aircraft (for replacement only), aircraft engines, parts, and accessories surplus to the needs of such Departments.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Salaries and expenses, departmental: For expenses necessary to carry out in the District of Columbia the provisions of the Act of August 6, 1947 (33 U. S. C. 883a–883i), including personal services; purchase of maps and nautical and aeronautical charts; maintenance of an instrument shop and procurement or exchange of metalworking and woodworking supplies and equipment; chart paper, drafting, photographic, photolithographic, and printing supplies and equipment; printing and binding: instruments (except surveying instruments); and stationery for field use; $3,800,000. Salaries and expenses, field: For expenses necessary to carry out in the field the provisions of the Act of August 6, 1947 (33 U. S. C. 883a– 883i), including the operation and maintenance of ships and other field units; replacement of observatories and auxiliary buildings where necessary; purchase of plans and specifications of vessels; lease of sites where necessary and the erection of temporary magnetic and seismological buildings; hire of aircraft; operation, maintenance and repair of an airplane for photographic surveys: packing, crating, and transporting personal household effects of commissioned officers when transferred from one official station to another, and of commissioned officers who die on active duty, and funeral expenses of commissioned officers, as authorized by law; and extra compensation at not to exceed $15 per month to each member of the crew of a vessel when assigned duties as bomber or fathometer reader or duties of a similar nature, and at. not to exceed $1 per day for each station to employees of other Federal agencies while observing tides or currents or tending seismographs; $6,200,000: Provided, That the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force are authorized during the current fiscal year to transfer to the Coast and Geodetic Survey, subject to the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, landing craft, launches, marine engines, electronic equipment, automotive vehicles, parts, equipment, and supplies, excess to the needs of such Departments, which will serve to expedite surveys in Alaska for the national defense. Pay, commissioned officers: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for not to exceed one hundred and seventy-one commissioned officers on the active list and of officers retired in accordance with existing law, including payment of six months’ death gratuity as authorized by law, $1,515,000. The foregoing appropriations for the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall be available for the purchase of not to exceed five passenger motor vehicles for replacement only, and (not to exceed $25,000) for services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a).

Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce Departmental salaries and expenses: For personal services and other necessary expenses of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce at the seat of government, including printing and binding, the purchase of commercial and trade reports, and not to exceed $50,000 for services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), $5, 150,000: Provided, That expenses of field studies or surveys conducted by departmental personnel of the Bureau shall be payable from the amount herein appropriated. Field office service: For expenses necessary to operate and maintain regional, district, and cooperative branch offices for the collection and dissemination of information useful in the development and improvement of commerce throughout the United States and its possessions, including not to exceed $90,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, and printing and binding, $2, 155,000. Export control: For expenses necessary for carrying out the provisions of the Export Control Act of 1949 (Public Law 11, approved February 26, 1949), relating to export controls, including personal services in the District of Columbia and services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), at rates not to exceed $50 per diem for individuals, and printing and binding, $2,000,000, of which not to exceed $828,000 may be transferred to the Bureau of Customs, Treasury Department, for enforcement of the export control program, and of which not to exceed $40,000 may be transferred to the appropriation for “Salaries and expenses” under the Office of the Secretary.

Patent Office Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), at rates for individuals not to exceed $75 per diem (not to exceed $25,000); expenses of transporting to foreign governments publications of patents issued by the Patent Office; defense of suits instituted against the Commissioner of Patents; travel; printing and binding; and other contingent expenses of the Patent Office: Provided, That the headings of the drawings for patented cases may be multigraphed in the Patent Office for the purpose of photolithography, $11,500,000.

Bureau of Public Roads General administrative expenses: For the employment of persons and means, including rent, advertising (including advertising in the city of Washington for work to be performed in areas adjacent thereto), printing and binding, purchase of periodicals, purchase of one hundred passenger motor vehicles for replacement only, health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150), and the preparation, distribution, and display of exhibits, in the city of Washington and elsewhere for the purpose of conducting research and investigational studies, either independently or in cooperation with State highway departments, or other agencies, including studies of highway administration, legislation, finance, economics, transport, construction, operation, maintenance, utilization, and safety, and of street and highway traffic control; investigations and experiments in the best methods of road making, especially by the use of local materials; studies of types of mechanical plants and appliances used for road building and maintenance, and of methods of road repair and maintenance suited to the needs of different localities; for maintenance and repairs of experimental highways; for furnishing expert advice on these subjects; for collating, reporting, and illustrating the results of same; and for preparing, publishing, and distributing bulletins and reports; to be paid from any moneys available from the administrative funds provided under the Act of July 11, 1916, as amended (23 U. S. C. 21), or as otherwise provided. In carrying out the provisions of “An Act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes”, as amended and supplemented (23 U. S. C. 1–117), none of the money appropriated for the work of the Bureau of Public Roads during the current fiscal year shall be paid to any State on account of any project on which convict labor shall be employed, except this provision shall not apply to convict labor performed by convicts on parole or probation: Provided, That during the current fiscal year, whenever performing authorized engineering or other services in connection with the survey, construction, and maintenance, or improvement of roads for other Government agencies, cooperating foreign countries and State cooperating agencies the charge for such services may include depreciation on engineering and road-building equipment used, and the amounts received on account of such charges shall be credited to the appropriation concerned: Provided further, That during the current fiscal year the appropriations for the work of the Bureau of Public Roads shall be available for meeting the expenses of warehouse maintenance and the procurement, care, and handling of supplies, materials, and equipment stored therein for distribution to projects under the supervision of the Bureau of Public Roads, and for sale and for distribution to other Government activities, cooperating foreign countries and State cooperating agencies, the cost of such supplies and materials or the value of such equipment (including the cost of transportation and handling) to be reimbursed to appropriations current at the time additional supplies, materials, or equipment are procured, from the appropriation chargeable with the cost or value of such supplies, materials, or equipment: Provided further, That the appropriations available to the Bureau of Public Roads may be used in emergency for medical supplies and services and other assistance necessary for the immediate relief of employees engaged on hazardous work under that Bureau, and for temporary services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), but at rates for individuals not in excess of $50 per diem: Provided further, That not to exceed $3,000,000, to be derived from the administrative funds provided under the Act of July 11, 1916, as amended or supplemented (23 U. S. C. 21), shall be available until expended for continuing the construction of a laboratory, on a site already acquired, for permanent quarters for the testing and research work of the Bureau of Public Roads. For all necessary expenses to enable the President to utilize the services of the Bureau of Public Roads in fulfilling the obligations of the United States under the Convention on the Pan-American Highway Between the United States and Other American Republics, signed at Buenos Aires, December 23, 1936, and proclaimed September 16, 1937 (51 Stat. 152), for the continuation of cooperation with several governments, members of the Pan American Union, in connection with the survey and construction of the Inter-American Highway as provided in public resolution, approved March 4, 1929 (Public Resolution 104), as amended or supplemented, and for performing engineering service in pan-American countries for and upon the request of any agency or governmental corporation of the United States, $100,000 to be derived from the administrative funds provided under the Act of July 11, 1916, as amended or supplemented (23 U. S. C. 21), or as otherwise provided. Federal-aid postwar highways: For carrying out the provisions of the Federal-Aid Highway Acts of 1944 and 1948 (58 Stat. 838; 62 Stat. 1105), to remain available until expended, $385,000,000, which sum is composed of $263,491,000, the remainder of the amount authorized to be appropriated for the third postwar fiscal year by section 2 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 $115,509,000, a part of the amount authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1950 by section 1 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1948, and $1,828,050 and $4, 171,950, the latter sums being for reimbursement of the sums expended for the repair or reconstruction of highways and bridges which have been damaged or destroyed by floods, hurricanes, or landslides, as provided by section 3 of the Act approved June 18, 1934, and section 7 of the Act approved July 13, 1943 (23 U. S. C. 13a and 13b). Elimination of grade crossings: For the elimination of hazards to life at railroad grade crossings, including the separation or protection of grades at crossings, the reconstruction of existing railroad grade-crossing structures, and the relocation of highways to eliminate grade crossings, to remain available until expended, $4,600,000, which sum is a part of the amount authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1943 by section 5 of the Act approved September 5, 1940 (54 Stat. 869). Forest highways: For expenses necessary for carrying out the provisions of section 23 of the Federal Highway Act of November 9, 1921, as amended (23 U. S. C. 23, 23a), in accordance with section 3a of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1948 (62 Stat. 1105), to remain available until expended, $22,500,000, which sum is composed of $4,900,000, the remainder of the amount authorized by section 9 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 (58 Stat. 842) to be appropriated for the second postwar fiscal year and $17,600,000, a part of the amount authorized by section 3 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1948, to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1950: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the rental, purchase, construction, or alteration of buildings and sites necessary for the storage and repair of equipment and supplies used for road construction and maintenance, but the total cost of any such item under this authorization shall not exceed $15,000. Access roads: During the current fiscal year, not to exceed $70,000 of funds remaining unexpended upon completion of access road projects authorized to be constructed under the provisions of the Defense Highway Act of 1941, as amended by the Act of July 2, 1942 (23 U. S. C. 106), shall be available for the maintenance of roads and bridges under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Public Roads on Government-owned land in Arlington County, Virginia.

National Bureau of Standards For expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March 3, 1901 (5 U. S. C. 591, 597; 15 U. S. C. 271–278), and Acts supplementary thereto affecting the functions of the Bureau and the functions set forth under the Bureau of Standards in the “Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1935”, including personal services in the District of Columbia; rental of laboratories in the field; repairs and alterations to buildings and other plant facilities, and not to exceed $700,000 for improvements to buildings, grounds, and other plant facilities including construction of minor buildings and other facilities in the District of Columbia and in the field to house special apparatus or material which must be isolated from other activities; building of temporary experimental structures; expenses of the visiting committee; demonstration of the results of the Bureau’s work by exhibits or otherwise as may be deemed most effective; purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for guards; printing and binding; not to exceed $100,000 for services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); and purchase of reprints from trade journals or other periodicals of articles prepared officially by Government employees, as follows: Operation and administration: For the general operation and administration of the Bureau; improvement and care of the grounds; plant equipment; maintenance and protection of buildings, including repairs and alterations thereto; $1,270,000. Research and testing: For calibrating and certifying measuring instruments, apparatus, and standards in terms of the national standards; the preparation and distribution of standard materials; the testing of equipment, materials, and supplies in connection with Government purchases; the improvement of methods of testing; advisory services to governmental agencies on scientific and technical matters; the maintenance and development of national standards of measurement; the development of improved methods of measurement; the determination of physical constants and the properties of materials; the investigation of mechanisms and structures, including their economy, efficiency, and safety; the study of fluid resistance and the flow of fluids and heat; the investigation of radiation, radioactive substances, and X-rays; the development of methods of chemical analysis and synthesis, and the investigation of the properties of rare substances; investigations relating to the utilization of materials, including lubricants and liquid fuels: the study of new processes and methods of fabrication; the solutions of problems arising in connection with standards; cooperation with Government purchasing agencies, industries, and national organizations in developing specifications and facilitating their use; encouragement of the application of the latest developments in the utilization and standardization of building materials; the development of engineering and safety codes, simplified practice recommendations, and commercial standards of quality and performance; and the compilation of and dissemination of scientific and technical data; $4,300,000. Radio propagation and standards: For development and maintenance of primary standards of measurement of electrical quantities at radio frequencies; calibrating and certifying radio measuring instruments, apparatus, and standards in terms of the national primary standards; investigation of the phenomena affecting the propagation of radio waves; the broadcasting of radio signals of standard frequency; the compilation and dissemination of scientific and technical data relating to the propagation of radio waves, and measurement of electrical quantities at radio frequencies: Provided, That for employees conducting observations on radio propagation phenomena in the Arctic region, the funds appropriated and the funds transferred or advanced from other Government agencies to the National Bureau of Standards shall be available for the appointment of such employees at base rates not in excess of $5,000 per annum without regard to the civil service and classification laws and titles II and III of the Federal Employees Pay Act of 1945; and for the furnishing of food, shelter, and protective clothing and equipment, without repayment therefor, to employees of the Government assigned to Arctic stations; and the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force are authorized, subject to the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, to transfer without charge to the National Bureau of Standards materials, equipment, and supplies, surplus to their needs and necessary for the establishment, maintenance, and operation of Arctic ionosphere observation stations, $3,000,000. Construction of laboratories: For the acquisition of sites, the preparation of drawings and specifications, and the construction and equipping of a radio laboratory building and a guided missile laboratory building, together with necessary utilities and appurtenances, as authorized by Acts of October 25, 1949 (Public Laws 366 and 386), $500,000, to remain available until expended; and, in addition, the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to enter into contracts and to incur obligations for the purposes of this appropriation in an amount not to exceed $5,675,000.

Weather Bureau Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the Weather Bureau, including personal services in the District of Columbia; maintenance and operation of aircraft; printing and binding; not to exceed $25,000 for services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); and not to exceed $10,000 for maintenance of a printing office in the City of Washington, as authorized by law; not to exceed $10,000 for the United States contribution to the cost of the secretariat of the International Meteorological Committee; $24,897,000: Provided, That during the current fiscal year, the maximum amount authorized under section 3 (a) of the Act of June 2, 1948 (Public Law 573), for extra compensation to employees of other Government agencies for taking and transmitting meteorological observations, shall be $5 per day; and the maximum base rate of pay authorized under section 3 (b) of said Act, for employees conducting meteorological investigations in the Arctic region, shall be $5,000 per annum, except that not more than five of such employees at any one time may receive a base rate of $7,500 per annum, and such employees may be appointed without regard to the Classification Act of 1949.

TITLE IV— THE JUDICIARY

Supreme Court of the United States salaries For the Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices, and all other officers and employees, whose compensation shall be fixed by the Court, except as otherwise provided by law, and who may be employed and assigned by the Chief Justice to any office or work of the Court, $915,000. printing and binding supreme court reports For printing and binding the advance opinions, preliminary prints, and bound reports of the Court, $91,200. miscellaneous expenses For miscellaneous expenses to be expended as the Chief Justice may approve, $52, 100. care of the building and grounds For such expenditures as may be necessary to enable the Architect of the Capitol to carry out the duties imposed upon him by the Act approved May 7, 1934 (40 U. S. C. 13a–13d), including improvements, maintenance, repairs, equipment, supplies, materials, and appurtenances; special clothing for workmen; and personal and other services (including temporary labor without reference to the Classification and Retirement Acts, as amended), and for snow removal by hire of men and equipment or under contract without compliance with sections 3709, as amended, and 3744 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5, 16); $159,200.

Court of Customs and Patent Appeals salaries and expenses For salaries of the chief judge, four associate judges, and all other officers and employees of the court, and necessary expenses of the court, including exchange of books, traveling expenses, and printing and binding, as may be approved by the chief judge, $192,200.

Customs Court salaries and expenses For salaries of the chief judge, eight judges, and all other officers and employees of the court, and necessary expenses of the court, including exchange of books, traveling expenses, and printing and binding, as may be approved by the chief judge, $417,465: Provided, That traveling expenses of judges of the Customs Court shall be paid upon the written certificate of the judge.

Court of Claims salaries and expenses For salaries of the chief judge, four associate judges, seven regular and six additional commissioners, and all other officers and employees of the court, and for other necessary expenses, including stenographic and other fees and charges necessary in the taking of testimony, travel, and printing and binding, $575,000. repairs and improvements For necessary repairs and improvements to the Court of Claims buildings, to be expended under the supervision of the Architect of the Capitol, $10,700.

Other Courts and Services hawaii For salaries of the chief justice and two associate justices of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Hawaii, of judges of the circuit courts in Hawaii, and of judges retired under title 28, United States Code, section 373, $106,500. salaries of judges For salaries of circuit judges; district judges (including judges of the district courts of Alaska, the Virgin Islands, and the Panama Canal Zone); and justices and judges retired or resigned under title 28, United States Code, sections 371,372, and 373; $5,095,000. salaries of clerks of courts For salaries of clerks of United States courts of appeals and United States district courts, their deputies, and other assistants, $4,470,000. probation system For salaries of probation officers and their clerical assistants, as authorized by title 18, United States Code, sections 3654 and 3656, $2, 145,000: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to abridge the right of the district judges to appoint probation officers, or to make such orders as may be necessary to govern probation officers in their own courts: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay the salary or expenses of any probation officer who, in the judgment of the chief or presiding judge certified to the Attorney General, fails to carry out the official orders of the Attorney General with respect to supervising or furnishing information concerning any prisoner released conditionally or on parole from any Federal penal or correctional institution. salaries of criers For salaries of criers as authorized by title 28, United States Code, sections 713 (a) and 755, $520,000. fees of commissioners For fees of the United States commissioners and other committing magistrates acting under title 18, United States Code, section 3041, including fees and expenses of conciliation commissioners, United States courts, including the objects and subject to the conditions specified for such fees and expenses of conciliation commissioners in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1937, $475,000. fees of jurors For fees, expenses, and costs of jurors; meals and lodging for jurors in Alaska, as provided by section 193, title II, of the Act of June 6, 1900 (31 Stat. 362); and compensation for jury commissioners; $2,700,000: Provided, That the compensation of jury commissioners for the District of Columbia shall conform to the provisions of section 1401, title 11 of the District of Columbia Code, but such compensation shall not exceed $250 each per annum. miscellaneous salaries For salaries of all officials and employees of the Federal judiciary, not otherwise specifically provided for, $2,600,000: Provided, That the compensation of secretaries and law clerks of circuit and district judges shall be fixed by the Director of the Administrative Office without regard to the Classification Act of 1949, except that the salary of a secretary shall conform with that of the General Schedule grades (GS) 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8, as the appointing judge shall determine, and the salary of a law clerk shall conform with that of the General Schedule grades (GS) 5, 7, 9, 11, or 12, as the appointing judge shall determine, subject to review by the judicial council of the circuit if requested by the Director, such determination by the judge otherwise to be final: Provided further, That (exclusive of step-increases corresponding with those provided for by title VII of the Classification Act of 1949 and of compensation paid for temporary assistance needed because of an emergency) the aggregate salaries paid to secretaries and law clerks appointed by one judge shall not exceed $9,600 per annum, except in the case of the chief judge of each circuit and the chief judge of each district court having five or more district judges, in which case the aggregate salaries shall not exceed $13,050 per annum. miscellaneous expenses For miscellaneous expenses of the United States courts and their officers; rent in the District of Columbia; printing and binding; purchase of firearms and ammunition; and purchase of envelopes without regard to the Act of June 26, 1906 (34 Stat. 476); $675,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for payment of the cost of contract statistical services for the Office of Register of Wills of the District of Columbia: Provided further, That not to exceed $1,000 of this appropriation shall be available for the payment of fees to attorneys appointed in accordance with the Act of June 8, 1938 (52 Stat. 625), not exceeding $25 in any one case. travel expenses For necessary traveling expenses, not otherwise provided for incurred by the Judiciary, including traveling expenses of probation officers and their clerks, $725,000: Provided, That this sum shall be available, in an amount not to exceed $8,500, for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of Federal probation when incurred on the written authorization of the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. salaries of court reporters For salaries of court reporters for the district courts of the United States, as authorized by title 28, United States Code, section 753, $972,000. administrative office of the united states courts For necessary expenses of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, including personal services in the District of Columbia, travel, printing and binding, advertising, rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and examination of estimates for appropriations in the field, $520,000. repairs and improvements, district court of the united states for the district of columbia For repairs and improvements to the courthouse, including repair and maintenance of the mechanical equipment, and for labor and material and every item incident thereto, $7, 100, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol. repairs and improvements, united states court of appeals for the district of columbia For repairs and improvements to the United States Court of Appeals Building, including repair and maintenance of the mechanical equipment and for labor and material and every item incident thereto, $6,200, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol. salaries of referees For salaries of referees as authorized by the Act of June 28, 1946 (11 U. S. C. 68), $879,000 to be derived from the referees’ salary fund established in pursuance of said Act. expenses of referees For miscellaneous expenses of referees, United States courts, including the salaries of their clerical assistants, travel, printing and binding, purchase of envelopes without regard to the Act of June 26, 1906 (34 Stat. 476), $995,000 to be derived from the referees’ expense fund established in pursuance of the Act of June 28, 1946 (11 U. S. C. 68 (c) (4)). Any surplus arising in the referees’ salary and expense funds for the fiscal years 1949 and 1950 shall remain available until June 30, 1951, for the payment of salaries and expenses of referees within the limitations prescribed hereinbefore.

TITLE V— GOVERNMENT CORPORATIONS

The following corporations, respectively, are hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authority available to each such corporation and in accord with law, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation Control Act, as amended, as may be necessary in carrying out

59 Stat. 598.

31 U. S. C., Sup. III, § 849.

the programs set forth in the Budget for the fiscal year 1951 for each such corporation, except as hereinafter provided:

Department of Justice Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated: Not to exceed $327,000 of the funds of the Corporation shall be available for its Administrative expenses, and not to exceed $388,000 for the expenses of vocational training of prisoners, both amounts to be computed on an accrual basis and to be determined in accordance with the Corporation’s prescribed accounting system in effect on July 1, 1946, and shall be exclusive of depreciation, payment of claims, expenditures which the said accounting system requires to be capitalized or charged to cost of commodities acquired or produced, including selling and shipping expenses, and expenses in connection with acquisition, construction, operation, maintenance, improvement, protection, or disposition of facilities and other property belonging to the Corporation or in which it has an interest.

Department of State The Institute of Inter-American Affairs: Not to exceed $600,000 of the funds available to the Corporation shall be available during the current fiscal year for its administrative expenses, including administrative services performed for the Corporation by other Government agencies. This title may be cited as “Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated, and The Institute of Inter-American Affairs Appropriation Act, 1951”. This chapter may be cited as the “Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, and the Judiciary Appropriation Act, 1951”.

TITLE I— TREASURY DEPARTMENT

Office of the Secretary salaries For personal services in the District of Columbia, $940,000. damage claims For payment of claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672), $30,000. health service programs For health service programs, as authorized by law, in the District of Columbia, $80,000: Provided, That other appropriations in this title shall be available for such programs in the field.

Office of General Counsel salaries For personal services in the District of Columbia, $340,000.

Office of Administrative Services salaries For personal services in the District of Columbia, including the operating force of the Treasury, Liberty Loan, and Auditors’ buildings, and annexes thereof, $1,185,000. miscellaneous expenses For necessary expenses of bureaus and offices of the Treasury Department, not otherwise provided for, including operation of the Treasury, Auditors’, and Liberty Loan buildings and annexes thereof, purchase of uniforms for elevator operators, printing and binding and purchase of materials for the use of the bookbinder located in the Treasury Department; $308,500.

Bureau of Accounts salaries and expenses For necessary expenses in the District of Columbia, including contract stenographic reporting services and printing and binding, $2, 100,000: Provided, That Federal Reserve banks and branches may be reimbursed for printing and binding and other necessary expenses incident to the deposit of withheld taxes in Government depositories. salaries and expenses, division of disbursement For necessary expenses of the Division of Disbursement, including personal services in the District of Columbia, and printing and bind- ing, $10,750,000: Provided, That with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget there may be transferred or advanced to this appropriation from Railroad Retirement Board, “Conservation and use of agricultural land resources, Department of Agriculture”, and from available corporate funds of Government owned or controlled corporations, such sums as may be necessary to cover the expense incurred in performing the function of disbursement therefor. relief of the indigent, alaska For relief of persons in Alaska (not to exceed 10 per centum of the receipts from licenses collected outside of incorporated towns in Alaska), as authorized by law (48 U. S. C. 41), $4,000. government losses in shipment Fund for payment of Government losses in shipment (revolving fund): For the payment of losses in accordance with provisions of the Government Losses in Shipment Act, approved July 8, 1937 (50 Stat. 479–484), as amended, $100,000.

Bureau of the Public Debt administering the public debt For necessary expenses connected with any public-debt operations authorized by the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended (31 U. S. C. 760–762), and with the administration of any public debt or currency issues of the United States with which the Secretary of the Treasury is charged, $50,505,000, to be expended as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct, and the Secretary is authorized to accept services without compensation: Provided, That Federal Reserve banks and branches may be reimbursed for expenditures as fiscal agents of the United States on account of public-debt transactions for the account of the Secretary of the Treasury, and advances to the Postmaster General may be made in accordance with the provisions of section 22 (e) of the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended (31 U. S. C. 757c (e)): Provided further, That the indefinite appropriation provided by section 10 of said Act, as amended, shall not be available for obligation during the current fiscal year. distinctive paper for united states currency and securities For expenses necessary for distinctive paper for United States currency and securities, including personal services and allowance, in lieu of expenses, not to exceed $50 per month each when actually on duty, of officers detailed from the Treasury Department, $1,845,000: Provided, That in order to foster competition in the manufacture of distinctive paper for United States securities, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized, in his discretion, to split the award for such paper for the current fiscal year between the two bidders whose prices per pound are the lowest received after advertisement.

Office of the Treasurer salaries and expenses For necessary expenses of the Office of the Treasurer, including printing and binding, $5,200,000: Provided, That with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, there may be transferred or advanced to this appropriation, from Railroad Retirement Board, “Conservation and use of agricultural land resources, Department of Agriculture”, and from available corporate funds of Government owned or controlled corporations, such sums as may be necessary to cover the expenses incurred in the clearing of checks, servicing of bonds, handling of collections, and rendering of accounts therefor. contingent expenses, public moneys For the collection, safekeeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money and securities of the United States, $475,000.

Bureau of Customs salaries and expenses For expenses necessary for collecting the revenue from customs, enforcement of navigation laws under section 102, Reorganization Plan Numbered III of 1946, and of other laws enforced by the Bureau of Customs, and the detection and prevention of frauds, including not to exceed $100,000 for the securing of information and evidence; transportation and transfer of customs receipts from points where there are no Government depositories; examination of estimates of Appropriations in the field; expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with the purposes of this appropriation; not to exceed $12,000 for maintenance and improvement of buildings and sites, acquired under the Act of June 26, 1930 (19 U. S. C. 68); printing and binding; purchase of one hundred passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; expenses of seizure, custody, and disposal of property; arms and ammunition; not to exceed $1,070,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia exclusive of ten persons from the field force authorized to be detailed under law (19 U. S. C. 1525); $36,600,000.

Bureau of Internal Revenue salaries and expenses For necessary expenses in assessment and collection of internal-revenue taxes; administration of the internal-revenue laws; discharge of functions imposed upon the Commissioner of Internal Revenue by or pursuant to other laws; investigations concerning the enrollment or disbarment of practitioners before the Treasury Department in internal-revenue matters; and acquisition, operation, maintenance, and repair of property under title III of the Liquor Law Repeal and Enforcement Act (40 U. S. C. 304f–m), including personal services in the District of Columbia, and elsewhere; expenses, when specifically authorized by the Commissioner, of attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with ‘internal-revenue matters; purchase (not to exceed one hundred and thirty-four for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; printing and binding; examination of estimates of appropriations in the field; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), and of expert witnesses at such rates as may be determined by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue; not to exceed $1,500,000 for stationery; expenses of seizure, custody, and disposal of property; purchase of chemical analyses and expenses of testimony thereon; ammunition; securing of information and evidence; and not to exceed $500,000 for detecting and bringing to trial persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, as authorized by law (26 U. S. C. 3792); $245,547,500: Provided, That the amount for personal services in the District of Columbia shall not exceed $17,800,000. additional income tax on railroads in alaska For the payment to the Treasurer of Alaska of an amount equal to the tax of 1 per centum collected on the gross annual income of all railroad corporations doing business in Alaska, on business done in Alaska, which tax is in addition to the normal income tax collected from such corporations on net income, the amount of such additional tax to be applicable to general Territorial purposes, $8,000.

Bureau of Narcotics salaries and expenses For expenses necessary to enforce sections 2550–2565; 2567–2571; 2590–2603; 3220–3228; 3230–3238 of the Internal Revenue Code: the Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act, as amended (21 U. S. C. 171–184); the Act of June 14, 1930 (5 U. S. C. 282–282c and 21 U. S. C. 197–198) and the Opium Poppy Control Act of 1942 (21 U. S. C. 188–188n), including personal services in the District of Columbia; printing and binding: services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); purchase of chemical analyses and testimony thereon; expenses of seizure, custody, and disposal of property; hire of passenger motor vehicles; arms and ammunition; not to exceed $10,000 for the collection and dissemination of information and appeal for law observance and law enforcement, including cost of printing; securing of information and evidence; and not to exceed $10,000 for services or information looking toward the apprehension of narcotic law violators who are fugitives from justice; $1,850,000.

Bureau of Engraving and Printing salaries and expenses For expenses necessary for engraving and printing (exclusive of repay work), United States currency and internal-revenue stamps, opium orders and special-tax stamps required under the Act of December 17, 1914 (26 U. S. C. 1040, 1383), checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work, including the Director, two Assistant Directors, and other personal services in the District of Columbia; wages of rotary press plate printers at per diem rates and all other plate printers at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, such rates not to exceed those usually paid for such work; engravers’, printers’, and other materials, including distinctive and nondistinctive paper not otherwise specifically provided for; purchase of card and continuous form checks; equipment of, repairs to, and maintenance of buildings and grounds and minor alterations to buildings; not to exceed $500 for periodicals, examples of engraving and printing, including foreign securities and stamps, and books of reference; not to exceed $1,500 for travel; printing and binding; and not to exceed $15,000 for transfer to the Bureau of Standards for scientific investigations; $16,835,000: Provided, That during the current fiscal year proceeds derived from work performed by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury but not covered in this appropriation, instead of being covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts as provided by the Act of August 4, 1886 (31 U. S. C. 176), shall be credited to this appropriation.

Secret Service Division salaries and expenses For expenses necessary in detecting, arresting, and delivering into other custody dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money, persons engaged in counterfeiting, forging, and altering United States notes, bonds, national bank notes, Federal Reserve notes, Federal Reserve bank notes, and other obligations and securities of the United States and of foreign governments (including endorsements thereon and assignments thereof), as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and persons committing other crimes against the laws of the United States relating to the Treasury Department and the several branches of the public service under its control, and for the protection of the person of the President and the members of his immediate family and of the person chosen to be President of the United States, including personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase (not to exceed fifteen) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; printing and binding; arms and ammunition; and not to exceed $15,000, with the approval of the Chief of the Secret Service, for services or information looking toward the apprehension of criminals; $2, 150,000. salaries and expenses, white house police For necessary expenses, including personal services, uniforms and equipment, and arms and ammunition, purchases to be made in such manner as the President may determine, $418,000. salaries and expenses, guard force For necessary expenses of the guard force for Treasury Department buildings in the District of Columbia, including the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and elsewhere, including purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms; purchase of one passenger motor vehicle for replacement only; and arms and ammunition; $700,000: Provided, That not to exceed $200,000 of the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing”, may be advanced to this appropriation to cover service rendered such Bureau which is not covered in the direct appropriations for such Bureau: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Treasury may detail two agents of the Secret Service to supervise such force. contribution for annuity benefits For reimbursement to the District of Columbia on a monthly basis for benefit payments made from the revenues of the District of Columbia to members of the White House Police force and such members of the United States Secret Service Division as are entitled thereto under the Act of October 14, 1940 (54 Stat. 1118), to the extent that such benefit payments are in excess of the salary deductions of such members credited to said revenues of the District of Columbia during the current fiscal year, pursuant to section 12 of the Act of September 1, 1916 (39 Stat. 718), as amended, such amounts as hereafter may be necessary.

Bureau of the Mint salaries and expenses For necessary expenses at the mints at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, San Francisco, California, and Denver, Colorado; the assay offices at New York, New York, and Seattle, Washington; the bullion depositories at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and West Point, New York; and the Office of the Director of the Mint, and for carrying out the provisions of the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 and the Silver Purchase Act of 1934, including personal services in the District of Columbia, printing and binding, arms and ammunition, purchase and maintenance of uniforms and accessories for guards, cases and enameling for medals manufactured, net wastage in melting and refining and in coining departments, loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coins, not to exceed $1,000 for the expenses of the annual assay commission, and not to exceed $1,000 for acquisition at the dollar face amount or otherwise, of specimen and rare coins, including United States and foreign gold coins and pieces of gold used as, or in lieu of, money, and ores for addition to the Government’s collection; $3,800,000.

Coast Guard operating expenses For expenses necessary for the operation and maintenance of the Coast Guard, not otherwise provided for, including personal services at the seat of government; pay and allowances, as authorized by law, for commissioned officers, cadets, warrant officers, and enlisted personnel, on active duty; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); printing and binding; purchase of not to exceed 66 passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; maintenance, operation, and repair of aircraft; not to exceed $190,000 for recreation, amusement, comfort, and contentment of enlisted personnel of the Coast Guard, to be expended pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Secretary; and examinations of estimates of Appropriations in the field; $136,000,000: Provided, That the number of aircraft on hand at any one time shall not exceed one hundred and ten exclusive of planes and parts stored to meet future attrition: Provided further, That not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be available for expenses of Reserve training, including pay and allowances of Regular and Reserve personnel on active duty engaged primarily in administration of the Reserve training program, and including drill pay at rates not to exceed those prescribed by or pursuant to law for the Naval Reserve: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay any enlisted man of the Coast Guard while detailed for duty at Coast Guard headquarters if such detail increases above thirty the total number of enlisted men so detailed to duty at such time: Provided further, That (a) the unobligated balances of Appropriations to the Coast Guard for the fiscal years 1949 and 1950 for “Salaries, Office of the Commandant,” “Pay and allowances,” “General expenses,” and “Civilian employees” shall be transferred on July 1, 1950, to the account established by the Surplus Fund-Certified Claims Act of 1949 for payment of certified claims; (b) amounts equal to the unliquidated obligations against such prior year appropriations on July 1, 1950, shall be transferred to and merged with this Appropriation, and such merged appropriation shall be available as one fund, except for accounting purposes of the Coast Guard, for the payment of obligations properly incurred against such prior year appropriations and against this appropriation, but on July 1, 1951, there shall be transferred from such merged appropriation to the appropriation for payment of certified claims (1) any remaining unexpended balance of the 1949 appropriations so transferred, and (2) any remaining unexpended balance of the 1950 appropriations so transferred which is in excess of the obligations then remaining unliquidated against such appropriations. acquisition, construction, and improvements For establishing and improving aids to navigation; the purchase or construction of additional and replacement vessels and their equipment; the purchase of aircraft and their equipment; the construction, rebuilding, or extension of shore facilities, including the acquisition of sites and improvements thereon when specifically approved by the Secretary; and for expenditures directly relating thereto, including personal services at the seat of government; $17,000,000, to remain available until expended. retired pay For retired pay for commissioned officers, warrant officers, enlisted personnel, for certain members of the former Life Saving Service authorized by the Act approved April 14, 1930 (14 U. S. C. 431b), and for certain officers and employees entitled thereto by virtue of former employment in the Lighthouse Service engaged in the field service or on vessels of the Coast Guard except persons continuously employed in district offices and shops (33 U. S. C. 763, 765), $15,575,000. This title may be cited as the “Treasury Department appropriation Act, 1951”.

TITLE II— POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT

For administration and operation of the Post Office Department and the postal service, there is hereby appropriated the aggregate amount of postal revenues for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1951, as

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authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 380; 39 U. S. C. 786), together with an amount from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, equal to the difference between such revenues and the total of the Appropriations hereinafter specified and the sum needed may be advanced to the Post Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster General, for the following purposes, namely:

General Administration For expenses necessary for general administration of the postal service, operation of the inspection service, and the conduct of a research and development program, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; printing and binding; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); a health service program as authorized by law; $250.000 to be available exclusively for procurement by contract of things and services related to design, development, and construction of equipment used in postal operations, and for contracts for management studies; rewards for information and services concerning violations of postal laws and regulations, current and prior fiscal years, in accordance with regulations of the Postmaster General in effect at the time the services are rendered or information furnished: and expenses of delegates designated by the Postmaster General to attend meetings and conventions for the purpose of making postal arrangements with foreign governments pursuant to law; $16,000,000: Provided, That expenses of delegates provided for herein, and not to exceed $20,000 for rewards as provided for herein, shall be paid in the discretion of the Postmaster General and accounted for solely on his certificate.

Postal Operations For expenses necessary for postal operations, not otherwise provided for, and for other activities conducted by the Post Office Department pursuant to law, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; printing and binding; a health service program as authorized by law; $500.000 to be available exclusively for manufacture and procurement of improved devices for postal operations and other activities; $7,013,000 to be available exclusively for the purchase of trucks, tractors, and trailers; leasing of space, not exceeding a term of ten years, for the storage and care of vehicles and repair of vehicles owned by, or under control of, units of the National Guard and departments and agencies of the Federal Government where repairs are made necessary because of utilization of such vehicles in the postal service; $1,786,000,000.

Transportation of Mails For payments for transportation of domestic and foreign mails by air, land, and water transportation facilities, including current and prior fiscal years settlements with foreign countries for handling of mail; and for expenses, exclusive of personal services, necessary for operation of Government-owned highway post office transportation service; $400,000,000.

Claims For settlement of claims, pursuant to law, current and prior fiscal years, for damages (28 U. S. C. 2672; 31 U. S. C. 224c); losses resulting from unavoidable casualty (39 U. S. C. 49); loss of or damage to mail, and failure to remit collect-on-delivery charges (5 U. S. C. 372; 39 U. S. C. 244, 245a, 245b, 245d, 381, 382, 387); and domestic money orders more than one year old (31 U. S. C. 725k); $5,500,000.

TITLE III— GOVERNMENT CORPORATIONS

The following corporations and agencies, respectively, are hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authority available to each such corporation or agency and in accord with law, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation Control Act, as amended, as may be

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necessary in carrying out the programs set forth in the Budget for the fiscal year 1951 for each such corporation or agency, except as hereinafter provided:

Export-Import Bank of Washington Not to exceed $965,000 (to be on an accrual basis) of the funds of the Export-Import Bank of Washington shall be available during the current fiscal year for all administrative expenses of the bank, including health-service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150), and not to exceed $5,000 for temporary services, as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a): Provided, That necessary expenses (including special services performed on a contract or fee basis, but not including other personal services) in connection with the acquisition, operation, maintenance, improvement, or disposition of any real or personal property belonging to the bank or in which it has an interest including expenses of collections of pledged collateral, or the investigation or appraisal of any property in respect to which an application for a loan has been made, shall be considered as nonadministrative expenses for the purposes hereof.

Reconstruction Finance Corporation Not to exceed $26,000,000 (to be computed on an accrual basis) of the funds of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation shall be available during the current fiscal year for its administrative expenses and the administrative expenses of the Federal National Mortgage Association; purchase (not to exceed twenty for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles: health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); use of the services and facilities of the Federal Reserve banks: Provided, That as used herein the term “Administrative expenses” shall be construed to include all salaries and wages, services performed on a contract or fee basis, and travel and other expenses, including the purchases of equipment and supplies, of administrative offices: Provided further, That the limiting amount heretofore stated for administrative expenses shall be increased by an amount which does not exceed the aggregate cost of salaries, wages, travel, and other expenses of persons employed outside the continental United States; the expenses of services performed on a contract or fee basis in connection with termination of contracts or in the performance of legal services; and all administrative expenses reimbursable from other Government agencies: Provided further, That the distribution of administrative expenses to the accounts of the Corporation shall be made in accordance with generally recognized accounting principles and practices. This chapter may be cited as the “Treasury-Post Office Departments Appropriation Act, 1951”.

TITLE I— DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

office of the secretary Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the Office of the Secretary of Labor (hereafter in this title referred to as the Secretary), including personal services in the District of Columbia; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); purchase of not to exceed two passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; teletype news service; and payment in advance when authorized by the Secretary for dues or fees for library membership in organizations whose publications are available to members only or to members at a price lower than to the general public; $1,382,000. Salaries and expenses, Office of the Solicitor: For expenses necessary for the Office of the Solicitor, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $1,861,000. Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Labor Standards: For expenses necessary for the promotion of industrial safety, employment stabilization, and amicable industrial relations for labor and industry; performance of the functions vested in the Secretary by title I of the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947 (29 U. S. C. 159 (f) and (g)); and not to exceed $75,000 for the work of the President’s Committee on National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week, as authorized by the Act of July 11, 1949 (63 Stat. 409), including personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase or reports and of material for informational exhibits; $714,000. Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Veterans’ Reemployment Rights: For expenses necessary to render assistance in connection with the exercise of reemployment rights of veterans under section 8 of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended (50 U. S. C., App. 308), the Service Extension Act of 1941, as amended, the Army Reserve and Retired Personnel Service Law of 1940, as amended, and section 9 (h) of title I of the Selective Service Act of 1948 (50 U. S. C., App. 459 (h)), and, under the Act of June 23, 1943, as amended (50 U. S. C., App. 1472), of persons who have performed service in the Merchant Marine, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $281,000.

bureau of apprenticeship Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary to enable the Secretary to conduct a program of encouraging apprentice training, as authorized by the Act of August 16, 1937 (29 U. S. C. 50), including personal services in the District of Columbia, $2,788,000.

bureau of employment security Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the general administration of the employment service and unemployment compensation programs, including personal services in the District of Columbia; temporary employment of persons, without regard to the civil service laws, for the farm placement migratory labor program; for cooperation with the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Secretary of State in negotiating and carrying out agreements relating to the employment of foreign agricultural workers, subject to the immigration laws and when necessary to supplement the domestic labor force; and not to exceed $10,000 for services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); $5,531,000, of which $1,587,000 shall be for carrying into effect the provisions of title IV (except section 602) of the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944. Grants to States for unemployment compensation and employment service administration: For grants to the several States (including Alaska and Hawaii) in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 6, 1933, as amended (29 U. S. C. 49–491), for carrying into effect section 602 of the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, for grants to the States as authorized in title III of the Social Security Act, as amended (42 U. S. C. 501–503), including, upon the request of any State, the purchase of equipment and the payment of rental for space made available to such State in lieu of grants for such purpose, and for necessary expenses in connection with the operation of employment office facilities and services in the District of Columbia and for use in carrying into effect section 602 of the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 in Puerto Rico, $178,500,000, of which $8,500,000 shall be available only to the extent that the Secretary finds necessary to meet increased costs of administration resulting from changes in a State law or increases in the numbers of claims filed and claims paid or salary costs over those upon which the State’s basic grant (or the allocation for the District of Columbia or Puerto Rico) was based, which increased costs of administration cannot be provided for by normal budgetary adjustments: Provided, That no State shall be required to make any appropriation as provided in section 5 (a) of said Act of June 6, 1933, prior to July 1, 1952: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in section 5 (a) or section 6 of the Act of June 6, 1933, or in section 302 (a) of the Social Security Act, as amended, the Secretary of Labor shall from time to time certify to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment to each State found to be in compliance with the requirements of the Act of June 6, 1933, and with the provisions of section 303 of the Social Security Act, as amended, such amounts as he determines to be necessary for the proper and efficient administration of its unemployment compensation law and of its public employment offices: Provided further, That such amounts as may be agreed upon by the Department of Labor and the Post Office Department 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 administration of unemployment compensation systems and employment services by States receiving grants herefrom. In carrying out the provisions of said Act of June 6, 1933, the provisions of section 303 (a) (1) of the Social Security Act, as amended, relating to the establishment and maintenance of personnel standards on a merit basis, shall apply. None of the funds appropriated by this title to the Bureau of Employment Security 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. Grants to States, next succeeding fiscal year: For making, after May 31 of the current fiscal year payments to States under title III of the Social Security Act, as amended, and under the Act of June 6, 1933, as amended, for the first quarter of the next succeeding fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary, the obligations incurred and the expenditures made thereunder for payments under such title and under such Act of June 6, 1933, to be charged to the appropriation therefor for that fiscal year.

bureau of labor statistics Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the work of the Bureau, including advances or reimbursement to State, Federal, and local agencies and their employees for services rendered; personal services in the District of Columbia; and not to exceed $15,000 for services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); $5,720,700. Revision of consumers’ price index: For expenses necessary to enable the Bureau to revise the Consumers’ Price Index, including personal services in the District of Columbia; temporary employees at rates to be fixed by the Secretary without regard to the civil service and classification laws and the Federal Employees Pay Act of 1945, as amended; and services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); $2,000,000.

women’s bureau Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the work of the Women’s Bureau, as authorized by the Act of June 5, 1920 (29 U. S. C. 11–16), including personal services in the District of Columbia and purchase of reports and material for informational exhibits; $399,000.

wage and hour division Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for performing the duties imposed by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, and 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 personal services in the District of Columbia; reimbursement to State, Federal, and local agencies and their employees for inspection services rendered; and expenses of attendance of cooperating officials and consultants at conferences concerned with the work of the Wage and Hour Division; $9,396,400.

TITLE II— FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY

american printing house for the blind Education of the blind: For carrying out the Act of August 4, 1919, as amended (20 U. S. C. 101), $115,000.

bureau of employees’ compensation Salaries and expenses: For necessary administrative expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia and not to exceed $49,600 for the Employees’ Compensation Board of Appeals; $1,935,000, together with not to exceed $119,000 to be derived from the War Claims Fund created by section 13 (a) of the War Claims Act of 1948 (50 U. S. C.2012). Employees’ compensation fund: For the payment of compensation and other benefits and expenses (except administrative expenses) authorized by law and accruing during the current or any prior fiscal year, including payments to other Federal agencies for medical and hospital services pursuant to agreement approved by the Bureau of Employees’ Compensation; continuation of payment of benefits as provided for under the head “Civilian War Benefits” in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1947; the advancement of costs for enforcement of recoveries in third-party cases; 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, for 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, treatment, and expenses in such cases; $25,000,000, together with not to exceed $5,000,000 to be derived from the War Claims Fund created by section 13 (a) of the War Claims Act of 1948 (50 U. S. C. 2012) and to be available for payments pursuant to sections 4 (c) and 5 (f) of such Act, which amounts may be accounted for as one fund.

columbia institution for the deaf Salaries and expenses: For the partial support of Columbia Institution for the Deaf, including personal services and miscellaneous expenses, and repairs and improvements, $368,200.

food and drug administration Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses for carrying out the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended (21 U. S. C. 301– 392); the Tea Importation Act, as amended (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, as amended (21 U. S. C. 61–64); including personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase of not to exceed forty-five passenger motor vehicles, of which seventeen shall be for replacement only: reporting and illustrating the results of investigations; purchase of chemicals, apparatus, and scientific equipment; not to exceed $2,000 for payment in advance for special tests and analyses by contract; and payment of fees, travel, and per diem in connection with studies of new developments pertinent to food and drug enforcement operations; $5,466,700. Salaries and expenses, certification and inspection services: For expenses necessary for the certification or inspection of certain products in accordance with sections 406, 504, 506, 507, 604, 702A, and 706 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended (21 U. S. C. 346, 354, 356, 357, 364, 372a, and 376), the aggregate of the advance deposits during the current fiscal year to cover payment of fees by applicants for certification or inspection of such products, to remain available until expended. The total amount herein appropriated shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; purchase of chemicals, apparatus, and scientific equipment; and the refund of advance deposits for which no service has been rendered.

freedmen’s hospital Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for operation and maintenance, including repairs; purchase of one passenger motor vehicle for replacement only; furnishing, repairing, and cleaning of wearing apparel used by employees in the performance of their official duties; transfer of funds to the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, Howard University” for salaries of technical and professional personnel detailed to the hospital; payments to the appropriation of Howard University for instruction of nurses and actual cost of heat, light, and power furnished by such university; $2,600,000: Provided, That no intern or resident physician receiving compensation from this appropriation on a full-time basis shall receive compensation in the form of wages or salary from any other appropriation in this title.

howard university Salaries and expenses: For the partial support of Howard University, including personal services and miscellaneous expenses and repairs to buildings and grounds, $2,500,000. Plans and specifications: For the preparation of plans and specifications for construction, under the supervision of the General services Administration, on the grounds of Howard University of a preclinical medical building, including engineering and architectural services, printing and binding, advertising, and travel, $100,000, which amount, except such part as may be necessary for the incidental expenses of the University, may be transferred to the General Services Administration for the above purposes, to remain available until expended. Construction of buildings: For construction of buildings on the grounds of Howard University, under the supervision of the General Services Administration, to remain available until expended, as follows: For payment of obligations incurred under authority provided under this head in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1950, for construction of a law school building, biology building and greenhouse, administration building, and men’s dormitory units, $1,250,000; For payment of obligations incurred under authority provided under this head in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1948, as amended by the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1949, to enter into contracts for construction of an engineering building and women’s dormitory units, $412,000.

office of education Promotion and further development of vocational education: For carrying out the provisions of section 3 of the Vocational Education Act of 1946 (20 U. S. C. 15), section 4 of the Act of March 10, 1924 (20 U. S. C. 29), and section 1 of the Act of March 3, 1931 (20 U. S. C. 30), $19,977,760: Provided, That the apportionment to the States under the Vocational Education Act of 1946 shall be computed on the basis of not to exceed $19,842,760 for the current fiscal year. Further endowment of colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts: For carrying out the provisions of section 22 of the Act of June 29, 1935 (7 U. S. C. 329), $2,480,000. Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the Office of Education, including surveys, studies, investigations, and reports regarding libraries; fostering coordination of public and school library service; coordination of library service on the national level with other forms of adult education; developing library participation in Federal projects; fostering Nationwide coordination of research materials among libraries, interstate library coordination and the development of library service throughout the country; personal services in the District of Columbia; 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; $1,971,500, of which not less than $533,700 shall be available for the Division of Vocational Education as authorized: Provided, That all receipts from non-Federal agencies representing reimbursement for 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.

office of vocational rehabilitation Payments to States (including Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico): For payments to States (including Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico) in accordance with the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, as amended (29 U. S. C. ch. 4). 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, $20,600,000, of which not to exceed $170,000 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 providing such services in the District of Columbia, printing and binding, including the purchase of reprints, and travel: Provided, That not to exceed 15 per centum of the appropriation shall be used for administrative purposes. Payments to States (including Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico), next succeeding fiscal year: For making, after May 31 of the current fiscal year, payments to States in accordance with the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, as amended (including the objects specified in the preceding paragraph), for the first quarter of the next succeeding fiscal year such sums as may be necessary, the obligations incurred and the expenditures made thereunder to be charged to the appropriation therefor for that fiscal year: Provided, That the payments made pursuant to this paragraph shall not exceed the amount paid to the States for the first quarter of the current fiscal year. Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, as amended, and of the Act approved June 20, 1936 (20 U. S. C., ch. 6A), including personal services in the District of Columbia and not to exceed $3,000 for production, purchase, and distribution of educational films; $705,000.

public health service For necessary expenses in carrying out the Public Health Service Act, as amended (42 U. S. C., ch. 6A) (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; purchase of reports, documents, and other material for publication; 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; and increased allowances to Reserve Officers for foreign service; 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 operation and maintenance of centers for the diagnosis, treatment, support, and clothing of persons afflicted with venereal diseases; 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; fees for case finding and referral to such centers of voluntary patients; reasonable expenses of preparing remains or burial of deceased patients: recreational supplies and equipment; leasing of facilities and repair and alteration of leased facilities; the purchase of not to exceed twenty passenger motor vehicles for replacement only, 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; $14,500,000. Tuberculosis: To carry out the purposes of section 314 (b) of the Act, including the purchase of not to exceed two passenger motor vehicles, $9,800,000. Assistance to States, general: To carry out the purposes of section 314 (c) of the Act; to provide consultative services to States pursuant to section 311 of the Act; to make field investigations and demonstrations pursuant to section 301 of the Act; and to provide for collecting and compiling mortality, morbidity, and vital statistics (including procurement by contract of transcripts of State, municipal, and other records), including the purchase of not to exceed fourteen passenger motor vehicles for replacement only, $16,915,000. Communicable diseases: To carry out those provisions of sections 301, 311, 361, and 704 of the Act relating to the prevention and suppression of communicable diseases, and the interstate transmission and spread thereof, including the purchase of not to exceed twenty passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; and hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; $6,415,000. Engineering, sanitation, and industrial hygiene: For expenses, not otherwise provided, necessary to carry out those provisions of sections 301, 311, and 361 of the Act relating to sanitation and other aspects of environmental health, including enforcement of applicable quarantine laws and interstate quarantine regulations, and for carrying out the functions of the Surgeon General under the Water Pollution Control Act (33 U. S. C. 466–466 (j)), including purchase of not to exceed twenty-one passenger motor vehicles, of which seven shall be for replacement only; $3,670,030. Grants, water pollution control: For grants to carry out section 8 (a) of the Water Pollution Control Act (33 U. S. C. 466–466 (j)), $1,000,000, to remain available until expended. Disease and sanitation investigations and control, Territory of Alaska: To enable the Surgeon General to conduct, in the Service, and to cooperate with and assist the Territory of Alaska in the conduct of, activities necessary in the investigation, prevention, treatment, and control of diseases, and the establishment and maintenance of health and sanitation services pursuant to and for the purposes specified in sections 301, 311, 314 (without regard to the provisions of subsections (d), (f), (h), and (j) and the limitations set forth in subsection (c) of such section), 361,363, and 704 of the Act, including the purchase of one passenger motor vehicle, and hire, operation, and maintenance of aircraft, $1,259,000: Provided, That property of the Public Health Service located in Alaska and used in carrying out the activities herein authorized may be transferred, without reimbursement, to the Territory of Alaska at the discretion of the Surgeon General. Grants for hospital construction: For liquidation of contractual obligations authorized by the Congress to be incurred during the fiscal year 1948 or any subsequent fiscal year for construction grants under part C, title VI, of the Act, as amended, $100,000,000, to remain available until expended. Allotments under such part C to the several States for the current fiscal year shall be made on the basis of $150,000,000. Whenever the Surgeon General shall have approved an application for a construction project in accordance with section 625 of the Act, subject to the amount of the allotments available to the States for such purposes, the Federal share of the cost of such project, as provided by the Act, shall constitute a contractual obligation of the Federal Government. Salaries and expenses, hospital construction services: For salaries and expenses incident to carrying out title VI of the Act, as amended, including the purchase of not to exceed four passenger motor vehicles for replacement only, $1,357,000. Hospitals and medical care: For carrying out the purposes of sections 321, 322, 324, 326, 331, 332, 341, 343, 344, 502, 504, and 710 of the Act, and Executive Order 9079 of February 26, 1942, including purchase and exchange of farm products and livestock; purchase of not to exceed twenty passenger motor vehicles, including ten ambulances, for replacement only; and firearms and ammunition; $29,000,000. Foreign quarantine service: For carrying out the purposes of sections 361 to 369 of the Act, relating to preventing the introduction of communicable diseases from foreign countries, the medical examination of aliens in accordance with section 325 of the Act, and the care and treatment of quarantine detainees pursuant to section 322 (e) of the Act in private or other public hospitals when facilities of the Public Health Service are not available, including insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign countries when required by law of such countries; and the purchase of not to exceed ten passenger motor vehicles for replacement only, $3, 104,000. Employee health service programs: For carrying out the functions of the Public Health Service under the Act of August 8, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 150), $50,000: Provided, That when the Public Health Service, at the request of any department or agency of the Government, establishes or operates a health service program for such department or agency, payment for the estimated cost shall be made in advance by check for deposit to the credit of this appropriation. National Institutes of Health, operating expenses: For the activities of the National Institutes of Health, not otherwise provided for, including research fellowships and grants for research projects pursuant to section 301 of the Act; the regulation and preparation of biologic products; the purchase of not to exceed six passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; not to exceed $1,000 for entertainment of visiting scientists when specifically approved by the Surgeon General; and erection of temporary structures for storage of equipment and supplies and housing of animals, $15,750,000, of which not less than $3,600,000 shall be available exclusively for grants for studies with adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and cortisone (compound E), including grants of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), cortisone, and other chemical substances, and for development of other related compounds for treatment of arthritis, rheumatism, multiple sclerosis, neurological ‘and metabolic diseases, and including studies in the basic sciences related to such diseases and including $200,000 for transfer to the Department of Agriculture for research into utilization of plant material and vegetable sources of cortisone. National Cancer Institute: To enable the Surgeon General, upon the recommendations of the National Advisory Cancer Council, to make grants-in-aid for research and training projects relating to cancer; to cooperate with State health agencies, and other public and private nonprofit institutions, in the prevention, control, and eradication of cancer by providing consultative services, demonstrations, and grants-in-aid; for the purchase of not to exceed six passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; and to otherwise carry out the provisions of title IV, part A, of the Act, $20,686,000, of which not less than $5,000,000 shall be available exclusively for payment of obligations for research and training grants incurred under authority heretofore granted under this head. Mental health activities: For expenses necessary for carrying out the provisions of sections 301, 302, 303, 311, 312, and 314 (c) of the Act with respect to mental diseases, $10,000,000, of which not less than $2,375,000 shall be available exclusively for payment of obligations for research and training grants incurred under authority heretofore granted under this head. National Heart Institute: For expenses necessary to carry out the purposes of the National Heart Act, including the purchase of not to exceed six passenger motor vehicles, $14,750,000, of which $5,350,000 shall be available exclusively for payment of obligations for research and training grants incurred under authority heretofore granted under this head. Dental health activities: For expenses not otherwise provided for, necessary to enable the Surgeon General to carry out the purposes of the Act with respect to dental diseases and conditions, including the purchase of twelve passenger motor vehicles for replacement only, $2,090,000. Construction of research facilities: For construction of research facilities, to be transferred (except such part as may be necessary for incidental expenses and purchase of equipment by the Public Health Service) to the General Services Administration, and to remain available until expended, as follows: For payment of obligations incurred under authority heretofore granted to enter into contracts for construction of a combined hospital and research building as authorized under this head in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Acts of 1949 and 1950, $7,500,000. For payment of obligations incurred under authority heretofore granted to enter into contracts for construction of auxiliary service area structures, as authorized under this head in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1950, $3,600,000. For construction of additional auxiliary structures to provide station quarters for personnel and a grounds maintenance building, including necessary distribution facilities and roads and walks, $1,025,000; and in addition, contracts may be entered into an amount not to exceed $350,000 toward completion of such construction at a cost not to exceed $1,375,000: Provided, That the Surgeon General is authorized to convey by quitclaim deed upon such terms and conditions as he may prescribe not to exceed twenty-five thousand square feet of land presently included in the site of the National Institutes of Health to the Bethesda Fire Department, a body corporate of the State of Maryland, for the purpose of erecting and maintaining a fire station to provide protection for the facilities of the National Institutes of Health and for the adjacent community: Provided further, That such terms and conditions may include an agreement by the Surgeon General to pay to such department on behalf of the United States 33⅓ per centum of the cost of the construction of the station but not to exceed $20,000, to be charged to the maximum limits of costs set out in this paragraph. For purchase and installation of additional equipment and furnishings to partially equip and furnish structures heretofore or herein provided under this head (except structures for station quarters), $3,000,000. 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 one thousand five hundred regular active commissioned officers; for medals, decorations, and retired pay of regular and reserve commissioned officers; for payment of claims for private property lost, destroyed, captured, abandoned, or damaged in the military service of the United States, as authorized by law (31 U. S. C. 222c, h; 42 U. S. C. 213); and for six months’ death gratuity pay and burial payments for regular com- missioned officers; $1,790,000, and the Surgeon General is authorized to advance to this appropriation from appropriations made available to the Public Health Service for the current fiscal year such additional amounts as may be necessary for pay and allowances of the officers herein authorized. Salaries and expenses: For the divisions and offices of the Office of the Surgeon General and for miscellaneous expenses of the Public Health Service not appropriated for elsewhere, including conducting research on technical nursing standards and furnishing consultative nursing services; preparing information, articles, and publications related to public health; conducting studies and demonstrations in public health methods; carrying on international health activities, including not to exceed $1,000 for entertainment of officials of other countries when specifically authorized by the Surgeon General; and purchase of not to exceed two passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; $2,918,000.

saint elizabeths hospital Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the maintenance and operation of the hospital, including purchase of not to exceed two passenger motor vehicles, including one bus-ambulance, for replacement only, clothing for patients and cooperation with organizations or individuals in scientific research into the nature, causes, prevention, and treatment of mental illness, $2,005,000. Construction and equipment, building for the housing, care, and treatment of mentally sick patients: For payment of obligations incurred under authority provided in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1949, for completion of a building for the housing, care, and treatment of mentally sick patients, Saint Elizabeths Hospital, $100,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That any part of this amount may be transferred to the General Services Administration. Major repairs and preservation of buildings and grounds: For miscellaneous construction, alterations, repairs, and equipment, on the grounds of the hospital, including preparation of plans and specifications, advertising, and supervision of construction, $406,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That any part of this amount may be transferred to the General Services Administration. Construction and equipment of treatment building: For construction and equipment, including administrative expenses, of a treatment building (providing separate male and female facilities), and demolition and removal of those buildings designated as Oaks and Toner Buildings with their appurtenances and attachments, within the grounds of Saint Elizabeths Hospital, $1,500,000, to remain available until expended; and, in addition, contracts may be entered into in an amount not to exceed $3,938,000 toward completion of such work at a total cost not to exceed $5,588,000: Provided, That the appropriation in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1950, for preparation of plans and specifications for two treatment buildings, shall be consolidated with this appropriation, to be disbursed and accounted for as one fund which shall be available for all of the foregoing purposes, and any part of such consolidated appropriation may be transferred to the General Services Administration.

social security administration Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Federal Credit Unions: For expenses necessary for the supervision of Federal credit unions, includ- ing personal services in the District of Columbia, $250,000, together with the aggregate of amounts received from certificate, supervision, and examination fees collected from Federal credit unions as authorized by law. Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance: For necessary expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and furnishing, repairing, and cleaning of wearing apparel and equipment used by building guards; not more than $45,988,000 may be expended from the Federal old-age and survivors insurance trust fund, of which not more than $404 shall be available for payment in advance when authorized by the Federal Security Administrator for dues or fees for library membership in organizations whose publications are available to members only or to member’s at a price lower than to the general public: Provided, That any sums received by the Administrator as payment for services performed for any department or agency of the Government by persons whose salaries are paid from the amount made available under this paragraph shall be deposited to the credit of this appropriation for the fiscal year in which such sums are received, and shall be available for the same purposes. Reimbursement to Federal old-age and survivors insurance trust fund: For reimbursement to the Federal old-age and survivors insurance trust fund for benefits paid during the fiscal year 1949 to the survivors of veterans of World War II eligible for benefits as provided under section 210 of the Social Security Act, as amended (42 U. S. C. 410), $3,694,000. Grants to States for public assistance: For grants to States for old-age assistance, aid to dependent children, and aid to the blind as authorized in titles I, IV, and X of the Social Security Act, as amended (42 U. S. C., ch. 7, subch. I, IV, and X), $1,200,000,000, of which such amount as may be necessary shall be available for grants for any period in the prior fiscal year subsequent to March 31 of that year. Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Public Assistance: For expenses necessary for the Bureau of Public Assistance, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $1,413,400. Salaries and expenses, Children’s Bureau: For necessary expenses in carrying out the Act of April 9, 1912, as amended (29 U. S. C. 18a), and title V of the Social Security Act, as amended (42 U. S. C., ch. 7, subch. V), including personal services in the District of Columbia and purchase of reports and material for the publications of the Children’s Bureau and of reprints for distribution, $1,500,000: 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 discriminate 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. Grants to States for maternal and child welfare: For grants to States for maternal and child-health services, services for crippled children, and child-welfare services as authorized in title V, parts 1, 2, and 3, of the Social Security Act, as amended (42 U. S. C., ch. 7, subch. V), $22,000,000: Provided, That any allotment to a State pursuant to section 502 (b) or 512 (b) of such Act shall not be included in computing for the purposes of subsections (a) and (b) of sections 504 and 514 of such Act an amount expended or estimated to be expended by the State. Salaries and expenses, Office of the Commissioner: For expenses necessary for the Office of the Commissioner for Social Security, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $223,000, together with not to exceed $112,000 to be transferred from the Federal old-age and survivors insurance trust fund. Grants to States, next succeeding fiscal year: For making, after May 31 of the current fiscal year, payments to States under titles I, IV, V, and X, respectively, of the Social Security Act, as amended, for the first, quarter of the next succeeding fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary, the obligations incurred and the expenditures made thereunder for payments under each of such titles to be charged to the appropriation therefor for that fiscal year. In the administration of titles I, IV, V, and X, respectively, of the Social Security Act, as amended, payments to a State under any of such titles for any quarter in the period beginning April 1 of the prior year, and ending June 30 of the current year, may be made with respect to a State plan approved under such title prior to or during such period, but no such payment shall be made with respect to any plan for any quarter prior to the quarter in which such plan was submitted for approval.

office of the administrator Salaries, Office of the Administrator: Salaries, Office of the Administrator, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $2,383, 100, together with not to exceed $334,900 to be transferred from the Federal old-age and survivors insurance trust fund: Provided, That the Administrator may advance to this appropriation from appropriations of constituent organizations of the Federal Security Agency such sums as may be necessary to finance the regional office activities of such constituent organizations. Salaries and expenses, Division of Service Operations: For expenses necessary for the Office of the Administrator, including personal services in the District of Columbia for the Division of Service Operations, $1,090,000, together with not to exceed $165,600 to be transferred from the Federal old-age and survivors insurance trust fund: Provided, That the Administrator may advance to this Appropriation from appropriations of constituent organizations of the Federal Security Agency such sums as may be necessary to cover the charges for services, supplies, equipment and materials furnished. Salaries, Office of the General Counsel: Salaries, Office of the General Counsel, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $523, 100, together with not to exceed $22,950 to be transferred from the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, certification and inspection services”, and not to exceed $321, 100 to be transferred from the Federal old-age and survivors insurance trust fund. Surplus property disposal: For expenses necessary for carrying out the provisions of subsections 203 (j) and (k) of the Federal property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, relating to disposal of real and personal excess property for educational purposes and protection of public health, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $333,300.

TITLE III— NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the National Labor Relations Board to carry out the functions vested in it by the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947 (29 U. S. C. 141–167), and

61 Stat. 136.

29 U. S. C., Sup. III, § 167.

other laws, including personal services in the District of Columbia; expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Board when specifically authorized by the Chairman or the General Counsel; printing and binding; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); payment of tort claims

60 Stat. 860.

pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672); and a health service program as

62 Stat. 983.

28 U. S. C., Sup. III, § 2672.

Post, p. 987.

60 Stat. 903.

Post, p. 986.

authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); $8,582,500: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available to organize or assist in organizing agricultural laborers or used in connection with investigations, hearings, directives, or orders concerning bargaining units composed of agricultural laborers as referred to in section 2 (3) of the Act of July 5, 1935 (49 Stat. 450), and as amended by the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947, and as defined in section 3 (f) of

61 Stat. 137.

29 U. S. C. § 203 (f); Sup. III, § 152 (3).

the Act of June 25, 1938 (52 Stat. 1060).

Short title.

This title may be cited as the “National Labor Relations Board Appropriation Act, 1951”.

TITLE IV— NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD

Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the National Mediation Board, including personal services in the District of Columbia, printing and binding, and stenographic reporting services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a)

60 Stat. 810.

$412,200.

Arbitration and emergency boards: For expenses necessary for arbitration boards established under section 7 of the Railway Labor Act,

44 Stat. 582.

44 Stat. 586.

as amended (45 U. S. C. 157), and emergency boards appointed by the President pursuant to section 10 of said Act (45 U. S. C. 160), including printing and binding, and stenographic reporting services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C.

60 Stat. 810.

55a), $150,000.

national railroad adjustment board Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the National Railroad Adjustment Board, including printing and binding, and stenographic reporting services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), $797,300, of which not less than $296,700, shall be available for compensation (at rates not in excess of $75 per diem) and expenses of referees appointed pursuant to section 3 of the Railway Labor Act, as amended. This title may be cited as the “National Mediation Board Appropriation Act, 1951”.

TITLE V— RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD

Salaries and expenses, Railroad Retirement Board (trust fund): For expenses necessary for the Railroad Retirement Board, including personal services in the District of Columbia; not to exceed $1,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Board when specifically authorized by the Board; printing and binding; stenographic reporting services as authorized by section 15 of

60 Stat. 810.

the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); payment of tort claims

62 Stat. 983.

28 U. S. C., Sup. III, § 2672.

Post, p. 987.

60 Stat. 903.

Post, p. 986.

pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672); a health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); $5,446,000, to be derived from the railroad retirement account.

Railroad retirement account: For an amount sufficient as an annual premium for the payments required under the Railroad Retirement

49 Stat. 967; 50 Stat. 307.

45 U. S. C. §§ 228a–228s; Sup. III, §§ 228b–228j.

50 Stat. 316.

45 U. S. C. § 2280 (a).

Acts of August 29, 1935, and June 24, 1937, and authorized to be appropriated to the railroad retirement account established under section 15 (a) of the latter Act, $457,832,724: 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.

This title may be cited as the “Railroad Retirement Board Appropriation

Short title.

Act, 1951”.

TITLE VI— FEDERAL MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION SERVICE

Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the Service to carry out the functions vested in it by the Labor-Management

61 Stat. 130.

29 U. S. C., Sup. III, §§ 171–180, 182.

61 Stat. 154.

29 U. S. C., Sup. III, § 175.

Relations Act, 1947 (29 U. S. C. 171–180, 182), including expenses of the Labor-Management Panel as provided in section 205 of said Act; temporary employment of arbitrators, conciliators, and mediators on labor relations at rates not in excess of $75 per diem; expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with labor and industrial relations; printing and binding; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act

60 Stat. 810, 903; 62 Stat. 983.

28 U. S. C., Sup. III, § 2672.

Post, pp. 986, 987.

of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); and payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672); $2,949,700.

Boards of inquiry: To enable the Service to pay necessary expenses of boards of inquiry appointed by the President pursuant to section 206 of the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947 (29 U. S. C. 176–180, 182), including printing and binding; services as authorized by

61 Stat. 155.

29 U. S. C., Sup. III, §§ 176–180, 182.

60 Stat. 810.

section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); and rent in the District of Columbia, $50,000.

This title may be cited as the “Federal Mediation and Conciliation

Short title.

Service Appropriation Act, 1951”.

This chapter may be cited as the “Labor-Federal Security Appropriation

Citation of chapter.

Act, 1951”.

TITLE I

Research and Marketing Act of 1946 To enable the Secretary to improve and develop, independently or through cooperation among Federal and State agencies, and others, a sound and efficient system for the distribution and marketing of agricultural products under the provisions of title II of the Act of August 14, 1946, as amended (7 U. S. C. 1621–1629), including the objects for which funds are available for titles II and III of such Act of August 14, 1946, $6,000,000: Provided, That not less than $650,000 of this amount shall be available for contracts in accordance with the provisions of section 205 of said Act: Provided further, That the Secretary may make available to any bureau, office, or agency of the Department such amounts from this appropriation as may be necessary to carry out the functions for which it is made (but amounts made available to the Office of the Secretary, Office of the Solicitor, and Office of Information, shall not exceed those which the Bureau of the Budget, after a hearing thereon with representatives of the Department, shall determine), and any such amounts shall be in addition to amounts transferred or otherwise made available to other appropriation items of the Department: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for work relating to fish or shellfish or any product thereof, except for the support of equitable transportation rates before Federal agencies concerned with such rates and for development of foreign markets.

Bureau of Agricultural Economics For necessary expenses in carrying out the provisions of the Act establishing the Bureau of Agricultural Economics (5 U. S. C. 673) and related Acts, as follows: Economic investigations: For conducting investigations and for acquiring and diffusing useful information among the people of the United States, relative to agricultural production, distribution, land utilization, and conservation in their broadest aspects, including farm management and practice, utilization of farm and food products, purchasing of farm supplies, farm population and rural life, farm labor, farm finance, insurance and taxation, adjustments in production to probable demand for the different farm and food products; land ownership and values, costs, prices and income in their relation to agriculture, including causes for their variations and trends, $2,600,000: Provided, That no part of the funds herein appropriated or made available to the Bureau of Agricultural Economics under the heading “Economic investigations” shall be used for State and county land-use planning, for conducting cultural surveys, or for the maintenance of regional offices. Crop and livestock estimates: For collecting, compiling, abstracting, analyzing, summarizing, interpreting; and publishing data relating to agriculture, including crop and livestock estimates, acreage, yield, grades, staples of cotton, stocks, and value of farm crops and numbers, grades, and value of livestock and livestock products on farms, production, distribution, and consumption of turpentine and rosin pursuant to the Act of August 15, 1935 (5 U. S. C. 556b), and for the collection and publication of statistics of peanuts as provided by the Act approved June 24, 1936, as amended May 12, 1938 (7 U. S. C. 951–957), $2,904,000: Provided, That no part of the funds herein appropriated shall be available for any expense incident to ascertaining, collating, or publishing a report stating the intention of farmers as to the acreage to be planted in cotton, or for estimates of apple production for other than the commercial crop.

Agricultural Research Administration office of administrator For necessary expenses of the Office of Administrator, including the purchase of one passenger motor vehicle, travel and subsistence expenses of advisory committees authorized by title III of the Act of August 14, 1946 (7 U. S. C. 1628–1629), and the maintenance, operation, and furnishing of facilities and services at the Agricultural Research Center, $600,000: Provided, That the appropriation current at the time services are rendered may be reimbursed (by advance credits or reimbursements based on estimated or actual charges) from applicable appropriations, to cover the charges, including handling and other related services, for equipment rentals (including depreciation, maintenance, and repairs); for services, supplies, equipment, and material furnished: Provided further, That of the several Appropriations of the Agricultural Research Administration, not to exceed $15,000 shall be available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706 (a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (5 U. S. C. 574), as amended by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a): Provided further, That the several appropriations of the agricultural Research Administration shall be available for the construction, alteration, and repair of buildings and improvements: Provided, however, That unless otherwise provided, the cost of constructing any one building (excepting headhouses connecting greenhouses) shall not exceed $5,000, the total amount for construction of buildings costing more than $2,500 each shall be within the limits of the estimates submitted and approved therefor, and the cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year shall not exceed $2,500 or 2 per centum of the cost of the building as certified by the Research Administrator, whichever is greater. working capital fund, agricultural research center For the establishment of a working capital fund, to be available without fiscal year limitation, for expenses necessary for furnishing facilities and services by the Agricultural Research Center to Government agencies, $300,000. Said fund shall be reimbursed from applicable appropriations or other funds to cover the charges for such facilities and services, including handling and related charges, for equipment rentals (including depreciation, maintenance, and repairs), for supplies, equipment and materials, stores of which may be maintained at the Center, and for building construction, alterations, and repair, and applicable appropriations or other funds may also be charged their proportionate share of the necessary general expenses of the Center not covered by the annual appropriation. research on strategic and critical agricultural materials For expenses necessary to enable the Secretary to carry out his responsibilities under section 7 (b) of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act of July 23, 1946 (50 U. S. C. 98f), $399,000, including not to exceed $30,000 for alterations at the Eastern Regional Research Laboratory, Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, to provide pilot plant facilities for tannin extraction, and such amount shall be in addition to amounts otherwise available for alterations. research on agricultural problems of alaska For expenses necessary to enable the Secretary to conduct research into the basic agricultural needs and problems of the Territory of Alaska, through such agencies of the Department as he may designate, independently or in cooperation with appropriate agencies of the Territory of Alaska, $280,000.

office of experiment stations Payments to States, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico For payments to the States, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico to be paid quarterly in advance where applicable, to carry into effect the provisions of the following Acts relating to agricultural experiment stations: Hatch, Adams, Purnell, Bankhead-Jones, and related Acts: Hatch Act, the Act approved March 2, 1887 (7 U. S. C. 362, 363, 365, 368, 377–379), $720,000; Adams Act, the Act approved March 16, 1906 (7 U. S. C. 369), $720,000; Purnell Act, the Act approved February 24, 1925 (7 U. S. C. 361, 366, 370, 371, 373–376, 380, 382), $2,880,000; Bankhead-Jones Act, title I of the Act approved June 29, 1935 (7 U. S. C. 427–127g), sections 3 and 5, $2,863,708, and sections 9 and 11 of said Act as added by the Act of August 14, 1946 (7 U. S. C. 427h, 427j), including administration by the Office of Experiment Stations in the United States Department of Agriculture, $5,000,000, no part of which latter amount shall be used for beginning construction of any building costing in excess of $15,000, except that a poultry breeding house may be constructed at Purdue University at a cost to this appropriation of not to exceed $29,000; Hawaii, the Act approved May 16, 1928 (7 U. S. C. 386–386b), extending the benefits of certain Acts of Congress to the Territory of Hawaii, $90,000; Alaska, the Act approved February 23, 1929 (7 U. S. C. 386c), extending the benefits of the Hatch Act to the Territory of Alaska, $15,000, and the provisions of section 2 of the Act approved June 20, 1936 (7 U. S. C. 369a), extending the benefits of the Adams and Purnell Acts to the Territory of Alaska, $37,500; Puerto Rico, the Act approved March 4, 1931, as amended (7 U. S. C. 386d–386f), extending the benefits of certain Acts of Congress to Puerto Rico, $90,000; in all, payments to States, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico, $12,416,208. Salaries and Expenses For necessary expenses in connection with administration of grants and coordination of research with States, to carry out the provisions of the Acts approved March 2, 1887, March 16, 1906, February 24, 1925, May 16, 1928, February 23, 1929, March 4, 1931, and June 20, 1936, and Acts amendatory thereto (7 U. S. C. 361–363, 365–383, 386–386f), and title I of the Act approved June 29, 1935, as amended by the Act of September 21, 1944 (7 U. S. C. 427–427g), relative to their administration and for the administration of an agricultural experiment station in Puerto Rico, $237,500; and the Secretary shall prescribe the form of the annual financial statement required under the above Acts, ascertain whether the expenditures are in accordance with their provisions, coordinate the research work of the State agricultural colleges and experiment stations in the lines authorized in said Acts with research of the Department in similar lines, and make report thereon to Congress. Federal Experiment Station, Puerto Rico For expenses necessary to establish and maintain an agricultural experiment station in Puerto Rico, including the preparation, illustration, and distribution of reports and bulletins, and not to exceed $24,950 to replace water supply line and increase capacity of reservoir, $175,000.

bureau of human nutrition and home economics For necessary expenses in connection with conducting investigations of the relative utility and economy of agricultural products for food, clothing, and other uses in the home, with special suggestions of plans and methods for the more effective utilization of such products for these purposes, and such economic investigations, including housing and household buying, as have for their purpose the improvement of the rural home, for coordinating nutrition services made available by Federal, State, and other agencies, and for disseminating useful information on these subjects, $1,500,000.

bureau of animal industry Salaries and Expenses For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act, as amended, establishing a Bureau of Animal Industry, and related Acts, and for investigation concerned with the livestock and meat industries and the domestic raising of fur-bearing animals, as follows: Animal husbandry: For investigations and experiments in animal husbandry and animal and poultry feeding and breeding, and for carrying out the purposes of section 101 (b) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U. S. C. 429) authorizing cooperation with State authorities in the administration of regulations for the improvement of poultry, poultry products, and hatcheries, $2,294,000. Diseases of animals: For scientific investigations of diseases of animals, and for investigations of tuberculin, serums, antitoxins, and analogous products, $1,325,000, including not to exceed $8,000 for the purchase of land and appurtenances near Ames, Iowa, for continuation of a hog cholera experiment station. Animal disease control and eradication: For the control and eradication, including inspections and quarantines, of tuberculosis and paratuberculosis of animals, avian tuberculosis, Bang’s disease of cattle, scabies in sheep and cattle, southern cattle ticks, hog cholera and related swine diseases, and dourine in horses, and inspection and quarantine work; for supervision of the transportation of livestock, including administration of the twenty-eight-hour law; for inspection of vessels; and for carrying out the provisions of the Act of March 4, 1913 (21 U. S. C. 151–158), relating to veterinary biological products, $7,950,000, including $30,000 for the acquisition of land and construction of buildings for inspection of livestock at Canadian border ports of entry: Provided, That no payment hereunder as compensation for any cattle condemned for slaughter for tuberculosis, paratuberculosis, or Bang’s disease shall exceed (1) $25 for any grade animal or $50 for any purebred animal, (2) one-third of the difference between the appraised value and the value of salvage thereof, or (3) the amount paid or to be paid by the State or other cooperating agency, and no payment hereunder shall be made for any animal if at the time of test or condemnation it shall belong to or be upon the premises of any person, firm, or corporation to which it has been sold, shipped, or delivered for slaughter: Provided further, That inspection service shall be maintained at all stockyards having such service during the current fiscal year. Meat inspection: For carrying out the provisions of laws relating to Federal inspection of meat and meat-food products, $12,800,000. Marketing Agreements, Hog Cholera Virus and Serum The sum of $49,300 of the appropriation made by section 12 (a) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, approved May 12, 1933 (7 U. S. C. 612), is hereby made available during the fiscal year for which Appropriations are herein made to carry into effect sections 56 to 60, inclusive, of the Act approved August 24, 1935 (7 U. S. C. 851–855). Eradication of Foot-and-Mouth and Other Contagious Diseases of Animals For expenses necessary in the arrest and eradication of foot-and-mouth disease, rinderpest, contagious pleuropneumonia, or other contagious or infectious diseases of animals, or European fowl pest and similar diseases in poultry, including the payment of claims growing out of past and future purchases and destruction of animals (including poultry) affected by or exposed to, or of materials contaminated by or exposed to, any such disease, wherever found and irrespective of ownership, under like or substantially similar circumstances, when such owner has complied with all lawful quarantine regulations; and for foot-and-mouth disease and rinderpest programs undertaken pursuant to the provisions of the Act of February 28, 1947 (21 U. S. C. Supp. II, 114b–114d), and the Act of May 29, 1884, as amended (7 U. S. C., 391; 21 U. S. C., 111–122), including expenses in accordance with section 2 of said Act of February 28, 1947, the Secretary may transfer from other appropriations or funds available to the bureaus, corporations, or agencies of the Department such sums as he may deem necessary, to be available only in an emergency which threatens the livestock or poultry industry of the country, and any unexpended balances of funds transferred under this head in the next preceding fiscal year shall be merged with such transferred amounts: Provided, That, except for payments made pursuant to said Act of February 28, 1947, the payment for such animals hereafter purchased may be made on appraisement based on the meat, egg-production, dairy, or breeding value, but in case of appraisement based on breeding value no appraisement of any such animal shall exceed three times its meat, egg-production, or dairy value, and, except in case of an extraordinary emergency, to be determined by the Secretary, the payment by the United States Government for any such animals shall not exceed one-half of any such appraisements: Provided further, That poultry may be appraised in groups when the basis for appraisal is the same for each bird.

bureau of dairy industry For necessary expenses in carrying out the provisions of the Act of May 29, 1924 (7 U. S. C. 401–404), including investigations, experiments, and demonstrations in dairy industry, for carrying out the applicable provisions of the Act of May 9, 1902 (26 U. S. C. 2325, 2326 (c)), relating to process or renovated butter, as amended, and the Act of May 23, 1908 (21 U. S. C. 94 (a)), insofar as it relates to the exportation of process or renovated butter, $1,617,500.

bureau of agricultural and industrial chemistry For expenses necessary for investigations, experiments, and demonstrations established under the provisions of section 202 (a) to 202 (e), inclusive, of title II of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U. S. C. 1292); for the development of new and extended food, feed, and industrial uses for agricultural commodities, both plant and animal, and potential replacement crops, and processing, biological, chemical, physical, pharmacological, toxicological, and technological investigation thereof, $7,960,000: Provided, That not to exceed $20,000 shall be available for the alteration to buildings of the Naval Stores Station at Olustee, Florida.

bureau of plant industry, soils, and agricultural engineering For expenses necessary for investigations, experiments, and demonstrations in connection with the production and improvement of farm crops and other plants and plant industries; soils and soil-plant Relationships, and the application of engineering principles to agriculture; plant diseases, including nematodes, and methods for their prevention and control; plant and plant-disease collections, and surveys; the distribution of weeds and means for their control; methods of handling, processing, transportation, and storage of agricultural products; and plants in foreign countries and our possessions for introduction into the United States, including explorations and surveys, and propagation and testing in this country; and for the operation and maintenance of airplanes, as follows: Field crops: For investigations on the production, improvement, and diseases of alfalfa, barley, clover, corn, cotton, flax, grasses, oats, rice, rubber crops, sorghums, soybeans, sugar beets, sugarcane, tobacco, wheat, and other field crops, $3,437,500. Fruit, vegetable, and specialty crops: For investigations on the production, improvement, and diseases of fruit, vegetable, nut, ornamental, and related crops and plants, $3,012,500. Forest diseases: For investigations of diseases of forest and shade trees and forest products, and methods for their control, $452,500. Soils, fertilizers, and irrigation: For investigations of soil management methods to increase and maintain productivity, including fertilization, liming, crop rotations, tillage practices, and other means of improving soils; fertilizers, fertilizer ingredients, and their improvement for agricultural use; soil management and crop production on dry and irrigated lands, and the quality of irrigation water and its use by crops; and for the classification of soils in a national system and indication of their extent and distribution on maps, and determination of their potential productivity under adapted cropping and improved soil management, $2,723,750, including not to exceed $100,000 for construction or acquisition of buildings, facilities, and equipment for the station at Brawley, California. Agricultural engineering: For investigations involving the application of engineering principles to agriculture, including farm power and equipment, rural water supply and sanitation, and rural electrification; farm buildings and their appurtenances and buildings for processing and storing farm products, and the preparation and distribution of building plans and specifications; cotton ginning, and other engineering problems relating to the production, processing, transportation, and storage of agricultural products; $1, 130,000. National Arboretum: For the maintenance and development of the National Arboretum established under the provisions of the Act approved March 4, 1927 (20 U. S. C. 191–194), $152,700.

bureau of entomology and plant quarantine Salaries and Expenses For expenses necessary for investigations, experiments, demonstrations, and surveys for the promotion of economic entomology, for investigating and ascertaining the best means of destroying insects and related pests injurious to agriculture, for importing useful and beneficial insects and bacterial, fungal, and other diseases of insects and related pests, for investigating and ascertaining the best means of destroying insects affecting man and animals, and the best ways of utilizing beneficial insects, for carrying into effect the provisions of the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912, as amended (7 U. S. C. 151–167), the Honey Bee Act (7 U. S. C. 281–283), the Insect Pest Act (7 U. S. C. 141–144), the Mexican Border Act (7 U. S. C. 149), and the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U. S. C. 147a), as amended, authorizing the eradication, control, and prevention of spread of injurious insects and plant pests; including the operation and maintenance of airplanes and the purchase of not to exceed two, as follows: Insect investigations: For the investigation of insects affecting fruits, grapes, nuts, trees, shrubs, forests and forest products, truck and garden crops, cereal, forage and range crops, cotton, tobacco, sugar plants, ornamental and other plants and agricultural products, household possessions, and man and animals; for bee culture and apiary management; for classifying, identifying, and collecting information to determine the distribution and abundance of insects; for investigations in connection with introduction of natural enemies of injurious insects and related pests and for the exchange with other countries of useful and beneficial insects and other arthropods; for developing methods, equipment, and apparatus to aid in enforcing plant quarantines and in the eradication and control of insect pests and plant diseases; and for investigations of insecticides and fungicides, including methods of their manufacture and use and the effects of their application, $4,157,500: Provided, That of the amount allotted for oriental fruitfly, not to exceed $250,000 may be used for contracts with public or private agencies for research without regard to provisions of existing law, and the amounts obligated for contract research shall remain available until expended: Provided further, That $50,000 shall be transferred to applicable appropriations of the Public Health Service for investigations and studies of effects of insecticidal and fungicidal residue on human health. Insect and plant-disease control: For carrying out operations or measures to eradicate, suppress, control, or to prevent or retard the spread of Japanese beetle, sweetpotato weevil, Mexican fruitflies, phony peach and peach mosaic, cereal rusts, pink bollworm and Thurberia weevil, golden nematode, citrus blackfly, white-fringed beetle, and the Hall scale, including the enforcement of quarantine regulations and cooperation with States to enforce plant quarantines as authorized by the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912, as amended (7 U. S. C. 151–167), and including the establishment of such cotton-free areas as may be necessary to stamp out any infestation of the pink bollworm as authorized by the Act of February 8, 1930 (46 Stat. 67), and for cooperation with States in the compensation of growers for losses resulting from the destruction of or for not planting potatoes and tomatoes on lands infested or exposed to infestations of the golden nematode for the purpose authorized by the Golden Nematode Act (Public Law 645, approved June 15, 1948), and for the enforcement of domestic plant quarantines through inspection in transit, including the interception and disposition of materials found to have been transported interstate in violation of Federal plant quarantine laws or regulations, and operations under the Terminal Inspection Act (7 U. S. C. 166), $4,450,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay the cost or value of trees, farm animals, farm crops, or other property injured or destroyed, except potatoes and tomatoes as authorized under the Golden Nematode Act: Provided further, That, in the discretion of the Secretary, no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the control of sweetpotato weevil in any State until such State has provided cooperation necessary to accomplish this purpose, or for barberry eradication until a sum or sums at least equal to such expenditures shall have been appropriated, subscribed, or contributed by States, counties, or local authorities, or by individuals or organizations for the accomplishment of this purpose, or with respect to the golden nematode except as prescribed in section 4 of the Golden Nematode Act. Foreign plant quarantines: For operations against the introduction of insect pests or plant diseases into the United States, including the enforcement of foreign-plant quarantines and regulations promulgated under sections 5 and 7 of the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912, as amended (7 U. S. C. 151–167), the Insect Pest Act of 1905 (7 U. S. C. 141–144), and the Mexican Border Act of 1942 (7 U. S. C. 149), for enforcement of domestic-plant quarantines as they pertain to Territories of the United States and enforcement of regulations governing the movement of plants into and from the District of Columbia promulgated under section 15 of the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912, as amended, and for inspection and certification of plants and plant products to meet the. sanitary requirements of foreign countries, as authorized in section 102 of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U. S. C. 147a), $2,354,700. Control of Emergency Outbreaks of Insects and Plant Diseases For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the joint resolution approved May 9, 1938 (7 U. S. C. 148–148e), including the operation and maintenance of airplanes and the purchase of not to exceed two, and surveys and control operations in Canada in cooperation with the Canadian Government or local Canadian authorities, and the employment of Canadian citizens, $2, 100,000, of which $1,250,000 shall be apportioned for use pursuant to section 3679 of the Revised Statutes for the purposes of said joint resolution only to the extent that the Secretary, with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, finds necessary to meet emergency conditions. Control of Forest Pests For expenses necessary for carrying out operations, measures, or surveys necessary to eradicate, suppress, control, or to prevent or retard the spread of insects or diseases which endanger forest trees on any lands in the United States, and for such quarantine measures relating thereto as may be necessary pursuant to the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912, as amended (7 U. S. C. 151–167), including the purchase (not to exceed three) and operation and maintenance of airplanes, construction and alteration of necessary buildings, not to exceed $23,500 for the purchase of one building at Greenfield, Massachusetts: Provided, That the cost of constructing or altering any one building during the fiscal year shall not exceed $2,500, as follows: Gypsy and brown-tail moths: Gypsy and brown-tail moths, pursuant to section 102 of the Act of September 21, 1944 (7 U. S. C. 147a), $560,000. Forest Pest Control Act: For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved June 25, 1947 (16 U. S. C., Supp. I, 594–1–594–5), $1,650,000, of which $750,000 shall be apportioned for use pursuant to section 3679 of the Revised Statutes for the purposes of said Act only to the extent that the Secretary, with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, finds necessary to meet emergency conditions. White pine blister rust: White pine blister rust, pursuant to the Act of April 26, 1940 (16 U. S. C. 594a), $3,490,000, of which amount $537,050 shall be available to the Department of the Interior for the control of white pine blister rust on or endangering Federal lands under the jurisdiction of that Department or lands of Indian tribes which are under the jurisdiction of or retained under restrictions of the United States; $1,837,475 of said amount to the Forest Service for the control of white pine blister rust on or endangering lands under its jurisdiction; and $1, 115,475 of said amount to the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine for leadership and general coordination of the entire program, method development, and for operations conducted under its direction for such control, including, but not confined to, the control of white pine blister rust on or endangering State and privately owned lands.

Forest Service salaries and expenses For expenses necessary including not to exceed $10,000 for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706 (a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (5 U. S. C. 574), as amended by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); to experiment and make investigations and report on forestry, national forests, forest, fires, and lumbering, but no part of this appropriation shall be used for any experiment or test made outside the jurisdiction of the United States; to advise the owners of woodlands as to the proper care of the same; to investigate and test American timber and timber trees and their uses, and methods for the preservative treatment of timber; to seek, through investigations and the planting of native and foreign species, suitable trees for the treeless regions; to erect necessary buildings: Provided, That the cost of any building purchased, erected, or as improved, exclusive of the cost (not to exceed $1,000) of constructing a water-supply or sanitary system and of connecting the same with any such building, and exclusive of the cost of any tower upon which a lookout house may be erected, shall not exceed $15,000, with the exception that any building erected, purchased, or acquired, the cost of which was $15,000 or more, may be improved out of the Appropriations made under this chapter for the Forest. Service by an amount not to exceed 2 per centum of the cost of such building as certified by the Chief of the Forest Service, and that not to exceed $8,000 may be expended for the installation of an elevator in the Yeon Avenue warehouse in Portland, Oregon; to protect, administer, and improve the national forests, including tree planting and other measures to prevent erosion, drift, surface wash, soil waste, and the formation of floods, and to conserve water; to ascertain the natural conditions upon and utilize the national forests, to transport and care for fish and game supplied to stock the national forests or the waters therein; to collate, digest, report, and illustrate the results of experiments and investigations made by the Forest Service, as follows: General administrative expenses: For general administration, including expenses of the National Forest Reservation Commission as authorized by section 14 of the Act of March 1, 1911 (16 U. S. C. 514), $665,000. National forest protection and management: For the administration, protection, use, maintenance, improvement, and development of the national forests, including the establishment and maintenance of forest tree nurseries, including the procurement of tree seed and nursery stock by purchase, production, or otherwise, seeding and tree planting and the care of plantations and young growth; the operation and maintenance of aircraft and the purchase of not to exceed three; the maintenance of roads and trails and the construction and maintenance of all other improvements necessary for the proper and economical administration, protection, development, and use of the national forests, including experimental areas under Forest Service administration, except that where direct purchases will be more economical than construction, improvements may be purchased; the construction (not to exceed $15,000 for any one structure), equipment, and maintenance of sanitary and recreational facilities; timber cultural operations; development and application of fish and game management plans; propagation and transplanting of plants suitable for planting on semiarid portions of the national forests; estimating and appraising of timber and other resources and development and application of plans for their effective management, sale, and use; examination, classification, surveying, and appraisal of land incident to effecting exchanges authorized by law and of lands within the boundaries of the national forests that may be opened to homestead settlement and entry under the Act of June 11, 1906, and the Act of August 10, 1912 (16 U. S. C. 506–509), as provided by the Act of March 4, 1913 (16 U. S. C. 512); investigation and establishment, of water rights, including the purchase thereof or of lands or interests in lands or rights-of-way for use and protection of water rights necessary or beneficial in connection with the administration and public use of the national forests; and all expenses necessary for the use, maintenance, improvement, protection, and general administration of the national forests, $27, 100,000, of which not to exceed $75,000 shall be available for the purchase of three nursery sites, and not to exceed $5,000 shall be available for the purchase of administrative sites. Cooperative range improvements: For artificial revegetation, construction, and maintenance of range improvements, control of rodents, and eradication of poisonous and noxious plants on national forest lands, pursuant to section 12 of the Act of April 24, 1950 (Public Law Numbered 478), $700,000, to remain available until expended. Fighting forest fires: For fighting and preventing forest fires on or threatening lands under Forest Service administration, including lands under contract for purchase or in process of condemnation for Forest Service purposes, and for liquidation of obligations incurred in the preceding fiscal year for such purpose, $6,000,000, of which $2,500,000 shall be apportioned for use, pursuant to section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, only to the extent that the Secretary, with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, finds necessary to meet emergency conditions. Forest research: For forest research in accordance with the provisions of sections 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, and 10 of the Act approved May 22, 1928, as amended (16 U. S. C. 581, 581a, 581f–581i), including the construction and maintenance of improvements, as follows: Forest and range management investigations: Fire, silvicultural, watershed, and other forest investigations and experiments under said section 2, as amended, and investigations and experiments to develop improved methods of management of forest and other ranges under section 7, at forest or range experiment stations or elsewhere, $3,030,000, of which $41,000 shall be available for such investigations and experiments at Bartlett Experimental Forest only. Forest products: Experiments, investigations, and tests of forest products under section 8, at the Forest Products Laboratory, or elsewhere, $1,300,000, of which $30,000 shall be made available for the establishment of a forest utilization service unit in the Southwest. Forest resources investigations: A comprehensive forest survey under section 9, and investigations in forest economics under section 10, $880,000. forest development roads and trails For expenses necessary for carrying out the provisions of section 23 of the Federal Highway Act approved November 9, 1921, as amended (23 U. S. C. 23, 23a), relating to forest development roads and trails, including the construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of roads and trails on experimental areas under Forest Service administration, $10,348,000, which sum is authorized to be appropriated by the Act of June 29, 1948 (Public Law 834), to remain available until expended: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the rental, purchase, construction, or alteration of buildings necessary for the storage and repair of equipment and supplies used for road and trail construction and maintenance, but the total cost of any such building purchased, altered, or constructed under this authorization shall not exceed $15,000 with the exception that any building erected, purchased, or acquired, the cost of which was $15,000 or more, may be improved within any fiscal year by an amount not to exceed 2 per centum of the cost of such buildings certified by the Chief of the Forest Service. acquisition of lands for national forests Weeks Act: For the acquisition of forest lands under the provisions of the Act approved March 1, 1911, as amended (16 U. S. C. 513–519, 521), $300,000, to be available only for payment toward the purchase price of any lands acquired, including the cost of surveys in connection with such acquisition: Provided, That no part of such funds shall be used for the purchase of lands in the counties of Adair, Cherokee, and Sequoyah, in the State of Oklahoma, without the specific approval of the Board of County Commissioners of the county in which such lands are situated. Superior National Forest: For the acquisition of forest land within the Superior National Forest, Minnesota, under the provisions of the Act approved June 22, 1948 (Public Law 733), $150,000, to remain available until expended. Special Acts: For the acquisition of land to facilitate the control of soil erosion and flood damage originating within the exterior boundaries of the following national forests, in accordance with the provisions of the following Acts authorizing annual appropriations of forest receipts for such purposes, and in not to exceed the following amounts from such receipts: Uinta and Wasatch National Forests, Utah, Act of August 26, 1935 (Public Law 337), as amended, $40,000; Cache National Forest, Utah, Act of May 11, 1938 (Public Law 505), as amended, $10,000; San Bernardino and Cleveland National Forests, Riverside County, California, Act of June 15, 1938 (Public Law 634), as amended, $22,000; Nevada and Toiyabe National Forests, Nevada, Act of June 25, 1938 (Public Law 748), as amended, $10,000; Angeles National Forest, California, Act of June 11, 1940 (Public Law 591), $20,000; Cleveland National Forest, San Diego County, California, Act of June 11, 1940 (Public Law 589), $5,000; Sequoia National Forest, California, Act of June 17, 1940 (Public Law 637), $35,000; in all $142,000. forest-fire cooperation For cooperation with the various States or other appropriate agencies in forest-fire prevention and suppression and the protection of timbered and cut-over lands in accordance with the provisions of sections 1, 2, and 3 of the Act approved June 7, 1924, as amended (16 U. S. C. 564, 566), $9,500,000. farm and other private forestry cooperation To enable the Secretary through the Forest Service to advise timberland owners and associations, wood-using industries or other appropriate agencies in the application of forest management principles to federally owned lands leased to States and to private forest lands, so as to attain sustained-yield management, the conservation of the timber resources, the productivity of forest lands, and the stabilization of employment and economic continuance of forest industries, and to carry into effect, through such agencies of the Department as he may designate, the provisions of the Cooperative Farm Forestry Act, approved May 18, 1937 (16 U. S. C. 568b), (not to exceed $785,034) and the provisions of sections 4 (not to exceed $449,200) and 5 (not to exceed $65,766) of the Act approved June 7, 1924 (16 U. S. C. 567–568), and Acts supplementary thereto; $1,300,000.

Flood Control For expenses necessary, in accordance with the Flood Control Act, approved June 22, 1936 (Public Law 738), as amended and supplemented, to make preliminary examinations and surveys, and to perform works of improvement, and to plan the agricultural phases of the development of the Columbia Basin area in accordance with the provisions of laws relating to the activities of the Department, to remain available until expended, $10,315,000, with which shall be merged the unexpended balances of funds heretofore appropriated or transferred to the Department for flood-control purposes: provided, That no part of such funds shall be used for the purchase of lands in the Yazoo and Little Tallahatchie watersheds without specific approval of the county board of supervisors of the county in which such lands are situated, nor shall any part of such funds be used for the purchase of lands in the counties of Adair, Cherokee, and Sequoyah, in the State of Oklahoma, without the specific approval of the Board of County Commissioners of the county in which such lands are situated: Provided further, That of the funds available herein, not in excess of $8,315,000 may be expended in watersheds heretofore authorized by section 13 of the Flood Control Act of December 22, 1944, for necessary gulley control, flood water detention, and floodway structures in areas other than those over which the Department of the Army has jurisdiction and responsibility.

Soil Conservation Service For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act approved April 27, 1935 (16 U. S. C. 590a–590f), which provides for a national program of erosion control and soil and water conservation, furnishing of subsistence to employees, operation and maintenance of aircraft, and the purchase and erection or alteration of permanent buildings: Provided, That the cost of any building purchased, erected, or as improved, exclusive of the cost of constructing a water supply or sanitary system and connecting the same with any such building, shall not exceed $2,500 except where buildings are acquired in conjunction with land being purchased for other purposes and except for eight buildings to be constructed at a cost not to exceed $15,000 per building: Provided further, That no money appropriated in this chapter shall be available for the construction of any such building on land not owned by the Government: Provided further, That in the State of Missouri where the State has established a central State agency authorized to enter into agreements with the United States or any of its agencies on policies and general programs for the saving of its soil by the extension of Federal aid to any soil conservation district in such State, the agreements made by or on behalf of the United States with any such soil conservation district shall have the prior approval of such central State agency before they shall become effective as to such district, as follows: Soil conservation research: For research and investigations into the character, cause, extent, history, and effects of erosion, soil and moisture depletion and methods of soil and water conservation (including the construction and hydrologic phases of farm irrigation and land drainage, and water regulation to conserve the soil and reduce fire hazards in the Everglades region of Florida, except that expenditures for all work in the Everglades region shall be limited to a sum not in excess of funds made available for such work by the State of Florida, or political subdivisions thereof); and for construction, operation, and maintenance of experimental watersheds, stations, laboratories, plots, and installations, $1,500,000. Soil conservation operations: For carrying out preventive measures to conserve soil and water, including such special measures as may be necessary to prevent floods and the siltation of reservoirs, and including the improvement of farm irrigation and land drainage, the establishment and operation of conservation nurseries, the making of conservation plans and surveys, and the dissemination of information, $52,400,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation may be expended for soil and water conservation operations in demonstration projects: Provided further, That not to exceed $5,000 may be used for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706 (a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (5 U. S. C. 574), as amended by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a).

land utilization and retirement of submarginal land For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, approved July 22, 1937 (7 U. S. C. 1010–1012), and the provisions of the Act approved August 11, 1945 (7 U. S. C. 1011 note), $1,565, 175.

water conservation and utilization projects For expenses necessary to carry into effect the functions of the Department under the Acts of May 10, 1939 (53 Stat. 685, 719), October 14, 1940 (16 U. S. C. 590y–z–10), as amended and supplemented, and June 28, 1949 (Public Law 132), relating to the construction, operation, and maintenance of water conservation and utilization projects, to remain available until expended, $500,000, which sum shall be merged with the unexpended balances of funds heretofore appropriated or transferred to said Department for the purposes of said Act.

Production and Marketing Administration conservation and use of agricultural land resources To enable the Secretary to carry into effect the provisions of sections 7 to 17, inclusive, of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, approved February 29, 1936, as amended (16 U. S. C. 590g– 590q), including not to exceed $6,000 for the preparation and display of exhibits, including such displays at State, interstate, and International fairs within the United States; $282,500,000, to remain available until December 31 of the next succeeding fiscal year for compliance with the program of soil-building practices and soil-and water-conserving practices authorized under this head in the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1950, carried out during the period July 1, 1949, to December 31, 1950, inclusive: Provided, That not to exceed $25,500,000 of the total sum provided under this head shall be available during the current fiscal year for salaries and other administrative expenses for carrying out such program, the cost of aerial photographs, however, not to be charged to such limitation; but not more than $5,000,000 shall be transferred to the appropriation account, “Administrative expenses, section 392, Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938”: Provided further, That payments to claimants hereunder may be made upon the certificate of the claimant, which certificate shall be in such form as the Secretary may prescribe, that he has carried out the conservation practice or practices and has complied with all other requirements as conditions for such payments and that the statements and information contained in the application for payment are correct and true, to the best of his knowledge and belief, under the penalties of title 18, United States Code: Provided further, That none of the funds herein appropriated or made available for the functions assigned to the Agricultural Adjustment Agency pursuant to the Executive Order Numbered 9069, of February 23, 1942, shall be used to pay the salaries or expenses of any regional information employees or any State information employees, but this shall not preclude the answering of inquiries or supplying of information at the county level to individual farmers: Provided further, That such amount shall be available for salaries and other administrative expenses in connection with the formulation and administration of the 1951 program of soil-building practices and soil-and water-conserving practices, under the Act of February 29, 1936, as amended (amounting to $285,000,000, including administration, and formulated on the basis of a distribution of the funds available for payments and grants among the several States in accordance with their conservation needs as determined by the Secretary, except that the proportion allocated to any State shall not be reduced more than 15 per centum from the distribution for the next preceding program year, and no participant shall receive more than $2,500); but the payments or grants under such programs shall be conditioned upon the utilization of land with respect to which such payments or grants are to be made in conformity with farming practices which will encourage and provide for soil-building and soil-and water-conserving practices in the most practical and effective manner and adapted to conditions in the several States, as determined and approved by the State committees appointed pursuant to section 8 (b) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended (16 U. S. C. 590h (b)), for the respective States: Provided further, That not to exceed 5 per centum of the allocation for the agricultural conservation program for any county may be allotted with the approval of the State committee to the Soil Conservation Service for services of its technicians in formulating and carrying out the agricultural Conservation program and the funds so allotted shall not be utilized by the Soil Conservation Service for any purpose other than technical and other assistance in such county: Provided further, That such amounts shall be available for the purchase of seeds, fertilizers, lime, trees, or any other farming materials, or any soil-terracing services, and making grants thereof to agricultural producers to aid them in carrying out farming practices approved by the Secretary under programs provided for herein: Provided further, That no part of any funds available to the Department, or any bureau, office, corporation, or other agency constituting a part of such Department, shall be used in the current fiscal year for the payment of salary or travel expenses of any person who has been convicted of violating the Act entitled “An Act to prevent pernicious political activities, approved August 2, 1939, as amended, or who has been found in accordance with the provisions of title 18, United States Code, section 1913, to have violated or attempted to violate such section which prohibits the use of Federal appropriations for the payment of personal services or other expenses designed to influence in any manner a Member of Congress to favor or oppose any legislation or Appropriation by Congress except upon request of any Member or through the proper official channels. acreage allotments and marketing quotas To enable the Secretary to formulate and carry out acreage Allotment and marketing quota programs pursuant to the provisions of title III of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended (7 U. S. C. 1301–1393), $32,300,000, of which not more than $5,500,000 shall be transferred to the appropriation account “Administrative expenses, section 392, Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938”: Provided, That $4,000,000 of this appropriation shall be placed in reserve pending determination by the Secretary as to necessity of marketing quotas on the 1951 crops of wheat, corn, and rice, to be released in such amounts and at such times as determined by the Bureau of the Budget to be necessary in connection with such marketing quotas. sugar act To enable the Secretary to carry into effect the provisions of the Sugar Act of 1948 (7 U. S. C. 1101–1160), $63,750,000, to remain available until June 30 of the next succeeding fiscal year: Provided, That expenditures (including transfers) from this appropriation for other than payments to sugar producers shall not exceed $1,500,000. national school lunch act To enable the Secretary to carry out the provisions of the National School Lunch Act (42 U. S. C. 1751–1760), $83,500,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for nonfood assistance under section 5 of said Act. marketing services For expenses necessary in conducting investigations, experiments, and demonstrations, as follows: Market news service: For collecting, publishing, and distributing by telegraph, mail, or otherwise, timely information on the market supply and demand, commercial movement location, disposition quality, condition, and market prices of livestock, meats, fish, and animal products, dairy and poultry products (including broilers), fruits and vegetables, peanuts and their products, grain, hay, feeds, cottonseed, and seeds, and other agricultural products, $2, 118,500. Market inspection of farm products: For the investigation and certification, in one or more jurisdictions, to shippers and other interested parties of the class, quality, and condition of any agricultural commodity or food product, whether raw, dried, canned, or otherwise processed, and any product containing an agricultural commodity or derivative thereof when offered for interstate shipment or when received at such important central markets as the Secretary may from time to time designate, or at points which may be conveniently reached therefrom under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, including payment of such fees as will be reasonable and as nearly as may be to cover the cost for the service rendered, $780,000. Marketing farm products: For acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful information relative to the needed Sues, standardization, classification, grading, preparation for et, handling, transportation, storage, and marketing of farm and food products, including the demonstration and promotion of the use of uniform standards of classification of American farm and food products throughout the world, for making analyses of cotton fiber as provided by the Act of April 7, 1941 (7 U. S. C. 473d), for carrying out the provisions of section 201 (a) to 201 (d), inclusive, of title II of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U. S. C. 1291), including not to exceed $25,000 for employment at rates not to exceed $100 per diem, pursuant to the second sentence of section 706 (a), of the Organic Act of 1944 (5 U. S. C. 574), as amended by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), and not to exceed $20,000 for transportation and other necessary expenses including not to exceed $10 per diem of persons serving without compensation while away from their homes or regular places of business, $1,260,000: Provided, That the Secretary may make available to any bureau, office, or agency of the Department such amounts from this appropriation as may be necessary to carry out the functions for which this Appropriation is made, and any such amounts shall be in addition to amounts transferred or otherwise made available to appropriation items in this Act. Tobacco Acts: To carry into effect the provisions of the Act to establish and promote the use of standards of classification for tobacco, to provide and maintain an official tobacco-inspection service, approved August 23, 1935 (7 U. S. C. 511–511q), the Act to provide for the collection and publication of statistics of tobacco by the Department, approved January 14, 1929 (7 U. S. C. 501–508), as amended, and the Act to prohibit the exportation of tobacco seed and plants, approved June 5, 1940 (7 U. S. C. 516), $1,660,500. Cotton Statistics, Classing, Standards and Futures Acts: To carry into effect the provisions of the Act authorizing the Secretary to collect and publish statistics of the grade and staple length of cotton, approved March 3, 1927, as amended by the Act of April 13, 1937 (7 U. S. C. 471–476), and to perform the duties imposed upon him by chapter 14 of the Internal Revenue Code relating to cotton futures (26 U. S. C. 1920–1935), and to carry into effect the provisions of the United States Cotton Standards Act, approved March 4, 1923, as amended (7 U. S. C. 51–65), $1,675,000. Marketing regulatory Acts: For expenses necessary to carry into effect the provisions of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, as amended (7 U. S. C. 499a–499r), the Act to prevent the destruction or dumping of farm produce (7 U. S. C. 491–497), the Act to provide standards for baskets and containers for fruits and vegetables, as amended (15 U. S. C. 251–256), the Act to fix standards for hampers, round stave baskets, and splint baskets for fruits and vegetables (15 U. S. C. 257–257i), the Act to provide export standards for apples and pears (7 U. S. C. 581–589), the United States Grain Standards Act (7 U. S. C. 71–87), the United States Warehouse Act (7 U. S. C. 241–273), the Federal Seed Act (7 U. S. C. 1551–1610), the Packers and Stockyards Act, as amended (7 U. S. C. 181–229), the Naval Stores Act (7 U. S. C. 91–99), and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U. S. C. 135–135k), $3,495,000.

Commodity Exchange Authority To enable the Secretary to carry into effect the provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act, as amended (7 U. S. C. 1–17a), $650,000.

Federal Crop Insurance Corporation For operating and administrative expenses, $7,204,000.

Rural Electrification Administration To carry into effect the provisions of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, as amended (7 U. S. C. 901–915), as follows: salaries and expenses For administrative expenses, including not to exceed $500 for financial and credit reports, $8,550,000. loan authorization For loans in accordance with said Act, and for carrying out the provisions of section 7 thereof, to be borrowed from the Secretary of the Treasury in accordance with the provisions of section 3 (a) of said Act as follows: Rural electrification program, $350,000,000; and rural telephone program, $32,500,000; and additional amounts, not to exceed a total of $150,000,000 (including the uncommitted balance available as a carryover from the fiscal year 1950), may be borrowed for the rural electrification program under the same terms and conditions if and to the extent that the Secretary of Agriculture shall certify, from time to time, to the Secretary of the Treasury that such additional amounts are required during the fiscal year 1951, under the then existing conditions, for the expeditious and orderly development of the program. Farmers’ Home Administration To carry into effect the provisions of titles I, II, and the related provisions of title IV of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended (7 U. S. C. 1000–1031), the Farmers’ Home Administration Act of 1946 (7 U. S. C. 1001, note; 31 U. S. C. 82h; 12 U. S. C. 371; 35 D. C. Code 535; 60 Stat. 1062–1080); the Act of July 30, 1946 (40 U. S. C. 436–439); the Act of October 19, 1949 (Public Law 361); the Act of August 28, 1937, as amended (16 U. S. C. 590r–590x, 590z–5), for the development of facilities for water storage and utilization in the arid and semiarid areas of the United States; and the provisions of title V of the Housing Act of 1949 relating to financial assistance for farm housing (Public Law 171, approved July 15, 1949), as follows: loan authorization For loans (including payments in lieu of taxes and taxes under section 50 of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended, and advances incident to the acquisition and preservation of security of obligations under the foregoing several authorities): Title I and section 43 of title IV of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended and title V of the Housing Act of 1949 (except grants under 504 (a)) $65,000,000, of which not to exceed $3,500,000 or the amount available for the purposes of title I and section 43 of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended, may be distributed to States and Territories without regard to farm population and prevalence of tenancy, in addition to the amount otherwise distributed thereto, for loans in reclamation projects and to entrymen on unpatented public land (sums available for loans under title V of the Housing Act of 1949 to remain available until expended); title II of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended, $85,000,000; the Act of August 28, 1937, as amended, $4,000,000: Provided, That not to exceed the foregoing several amounts shall be borrowed in one account from the Secretary of the Treasury on the request of the Secretary of Agriculture at such rate of interest as may be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, but not in excess of 3 per centum per annum; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to lend such sums to the Secretary upon the security of any obligations of borrowers from the Secretary under the provisions of said Acts: Provided further, That the Secretary may utilize proceeds from payments of principal and interest under such Acts to repay the Secretary of the Treasury the amounts borrowed therefrom for the purposes of such Acts: Provided further, That for the purpose of making loans pursuant to the foregoing authority, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use as a public-debt transaction the proceeds from the sale of any securities issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended, and the purposes for which securities may be issued under the Act are extended to include such loans to the Secretary: Provided further, That repayments to the Secretary of the Treasury on such loans shall be treated as a public-debt transaction. grants For grants and for the grant portion of combination loans and grants for the purpose of section 504 (a) of the Housing Act of 1949, $650,000, to remain available until expended. salaries and expenses For the making, servicing, and collecting of loans and insured mortgages, the servicing and collecting of loans made under prior authority, the liquidation of assets transferred to Farmers Home Administration pursuant to the Farmers Home Administration Act of 1946, and the extension of financial assistance under the Housing Act of 1949, $28,500,000, together with a transfer to this appropriation item of not to exceed $80,000 of the fees and administrative expense charges made available by subsections (d) and (e) of section 12 of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended.

Farm Credit Administration For necessary expenses, including not to exceed $5,000 for attendance at meetings or conventions of members of organizations at which matters of importance to the work of the Farm Credit Administration are to be discussed or transacted; 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; not to exceed $20,000 for expenditures authorized by section 602 of the Organic Act of 1944 (12 U. S. C. 833); purchase of one passenger motor vehicle (for replacement only) for use in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; garage rental in the District of Columbia; payment of actual transportation and other necessary expenses and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence of persons serving, while away from their homes, without other compensation from the United States, in an advisory capacity to the Farm Credit administration, except that such expenditures shall not exceed $10,000; examination of corporations, banks, associations, and institutions operated, supervised, or regulated by the Farm Credit Administration $585,000, together with not to exceed $2,325,000 of collections from Federal Farm Credit agencies of assessments and charges, to be advanced by transfer and counter warrant to this appropriation, to cover the cost of Farm Credit Administration facilities, examinations, and other services rendered to such agencies; $2,910,000.

Extension Service payments to states, hawaii, alaska, and puerto rico For payments to the States, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico, for cooperative agricultural extension work as follows: Capper-Ketcham, Bankhead-Jones, and related Acts: Capper-Ketcham Act, the Act approved May 22, 1928 (7 U. S. C. 343a, 343b), $1,480,000; Bankhead-Jones Act, section 21, title II, of the Act approved June 29, 1935, (7 U. S. C. 343c), $12,000,000; Bankhead-Jones Act, section 23, title II, of the Act approved June 29, 1935, as amended by the Act of June 6, 1945 (7 U. S. C. 343d–1), $12,500,000; additional extension work, the Act approved April 24, 1939, as amended (7 U. S. C. 343c–1), $555,000; Alaska, the Act approved February 23, 1929 (7 U. S. C. 386c), extending the benefits of the Smith-Lever Act to the Territory of Alaska, $13,950, and the Act approved October 27, 1949 (Public Law 417), extending to the Territory of Alaska the benefits of the Capper-Ketcham Act and sections 21 and 23 of title II of the Bankhead-Jones Act, $42, 150; Puerto Rico, section 3 of the Act of March 4, 1931 (7 U. S. C. 386f), authorizing extension of the Capper-Ketcham Act to Puerto Rico, $31,348; the Act approved August 28, 1937 (7 U. S. C. 343f–343g), extending the benefits of section 21 of the Bankhead-Jones Act to Puerto Rico, $408,000, and the Act approved October 26, 1949 (Public Law 406), extending the benefits of section 23 of title II of the Bankhead-Jones Act to Puerto Rico, $40,000; and section 506a of title V of the Housing Act of 1949 (Public Law 171), $33,050; in all, payments to States, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico, $27, 103,498. salaries and expenses For expenses necessary to administer the provisions of the Smith-Lever Act, approved May 8, 1914 (7 U. S. C. 341–348), and Acts amendatory or supplementary thereto, and to coordinate the extension work of the Department and the several States, Territories, and insular possessions, $900,000.

Office of the Secretary For expenses of the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture, including the purchase of one passenger motor vehicle for replacement only; travel expenses, including examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; stationery, supplies, materials, and equipment; freight, express, and drayage charges; advertising, communication service, postage, washing towels, repairs and alterations, and other miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for and necessary for the practical and efficient work of the Department of Agriculture, $2, 161,300, together with such amounts from other appropriations or authorizations as are provided in the schedules in the Budget for the current fiscal year for such services and expenses, which several amounts or portions thereof as may be determined by the Secretary not exceeding a total of $109,280, shall be transferred to and made a part of this appropriation: Provided, however, That if the total amounts of such appropriations or authorizations for the current fiscal year shall at any time exceed or fall below the amounts estimated, respectively, therefor in the Budget for such year, the amounts transferred or to be transferred therefrom to this appropriation shall be increased or decreased in such amounts as the Bureau of the Budget, after a hearing thereon with representatives of the Department, shall determine are appropriate to the requirements as changed by such reductions or increases in such appropriations or authorizations.

Office of the Solicitor For necessary expenses, including payment of fees or dues for the use of law libraries by attorneys in the field service, $2,562,500, together with such amounts from other appropriations or authorizations as are provided in the schedules in the budget for the current fiscal year for such expenses which several amounts not exceeding a total of $207,000 shall be transferred to and made a part of this Appropriation.

Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations For necessary expenses for the Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations and for enabling the Secretary to coordinate and integrate activities of the Department in connection with foreign agricultural work, $600,000.

Office of Information For necessary expenses in connection with the publication, indexing, illustration, and distribution of bulletins, documents, and reports, the preparation, distribution, and display of agricultural motion and sound pictures, and exhibits, and the coordination of informational work and programs authorized by Congress in the Department, $1,265,800, together with such amounts from other appropriations or authorizations as are provided in the schedules in the Budget for the current fiscal year for such expenses, which several amounts or portions thereof, as may be determined by the Secretary, not exceeding a total of $16,200, shall be transferred to and made a part of this appropriation, of which total appropriation amounts not exceeding those specified may be used for the purposes enumerated as follows: For preparation and display of exhibits, $109,959; for preparation, distribution, and display of motion and sound pictures, $58,700; for farmers’ bulletins, which shall be adapted to the interests of the people of the different sections of the country, an equal proportion of four-fifths of which shall be delivered to or sent out under the addressed franks furnished by the Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, as they shall direct (7 U. S. C. 417) and not less than two hundred thirty thousand eight hundred and fifty copies for the use of the Senate and House of Representatives of part 2 of the annual report of the Secretary (known as the Yearbook of Agriculture), as authorized by section 73 of the Act of January 12, 1895 (44 U. S. C. 241), $611,128: Provided, That when and to the extent that in the judgment of the Secretary agricultural exhibits and motion and sound pictures relating to the programs of the various agencies of the Department authorized by Congress can be more advan- tageously prepared, displayed, or distributed by the Office of information, as the central agency of the Department therefor, additional funds not exceeding $300,000 for these purposes may be transferred to and made a part of this appropriation, from the funds applicable, and shall be available for the objects specified herein: Provided further, That in the preparation of motion pictures or exhibits by the Department, not exceeding a total of $10,000 may be used for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706 (a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (5 U. S. C. 574), as amended by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a): Provided further, That no part of this Appropriation shall be used for the establishment or maintenance of regional or State field offices, or for the compensation of employees in such offices except that not to exceed $10,000 may be used to maintain the San Francisco radio office.

Library For necessary expenses, including 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; $713,293.

TITLE II— CORPORATIONS

The following corporations and agencies are hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authority available to each such corporation or agency and in accord with law, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation Control Act, as amended, as may be necessary in

50 Stat. 698.

31 U. S. C., Sup. III, § 849.

carrying out the programs set forth in the Budget for the fiscal year 1951 for such corporation or agency, except as hereinafter provided:

Federal Crop Insurance Corporation.

Commodity Credit Corporation: Nothing in this chapter shall be so construed as to prevent the Commodity Credit Corporation from carrying out any activity or any program authorized by law: Provided,

Administrative expenses.

That not to exceed $16,350,000 shall be available for administrative expenses of the Corporation: Provided further, That all

Nonadministrative expenses.

necessary expenses (including legal and special services performed on a contract or fee basis, but not including other personal services) in connection with the acquisition, operation, maintenance, improvement, or disposition of any real or personal property belonging to the Corporation or in which it has an interest, including expenses of collections of pledged collateral, shall be considered as nonadministrative expenses for the purposes hereof: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to discharge $66,698,457 of the indebtedness of the Commodity Credit corporation to the Secretary of the Treasury by canceling notes in such amount issued by the Corporation to the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to section 4 of the Act of March 8, 1938, as amended (15

52 Stat. 108.

Ante, p. 261.

U. S. C. 713a–4).

Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation: Not to exceed $1,280,000 (to

Administrative expenses.

be computed on an accrual basis) of the funds of the Corporation shall be available for administrative expenses, including employment on a contract or fee basis of persons, firms, and corporations for the performance of special services, including legal services, and the use of the services and facilities of Federal land banks, national farm loan associations, Federal Reserve banks, and agencies of the Government as authorized by the Act of January 31, 1934 (12 U. S. C. 1020–1020h); and said total sum shall be exclusive of services and facilities

48 Stat. 344.

12 U. S. C., Sup. III, § 1020c–1.

furnished and examinations made by the Farm Credit administration central office, interest expense, and expenses in connection with the acquisition, operation, maintenance, improvement, protection, or disposition of real or personal property belonging to the Corporation

Dividends.

or in which it has an interest: Provided, That promptly after June 30 of each fiscal year all cash funds in excess of the estimated operating requirements for the current fiscal year shall be declared as

Bonds.

dividends and paid into the general fund of the Treasury: Provided further, That the aggregate amount of bonds the Corporation may issue and have outstanding at any one time shall not exceed $500,000,000.

Federal intermediate credit banks: Not to exceed $1,496,000 (to be

Administrative expenses.

computed on an accrual basis) of the funds of the banks shall be available for administrative expenses and services performed for the banks by other Government agencies (except services and facilities furnished and examinations made by the Farm Credit administration central office, and services performed by any Federal Reserve bank and by the United States Treasury in connection with the financial transactions of the banks); and said total sum shall be exclusive of interest expense, legal and special services performed on a contract or fee basis, and expenses in connection with the acquisition, operation, maintenance, improvement, protection, or disposition of real or personal property belonging to the banks or in which they have an interest.

Production credit corporations: Not to exceed $1,358,000 (to be

Administrative expenses.

computed on an accrual basis) of the funds of the corporations shall be available for administrative expenses and services performed for the corporations by other Government agencies (except services and facilities furnished and examinations made by the Farm Credit Administration central office); and said total sum shall be exclusive of interest expense, legal and special services performed on a contract or fee basis, and expenses in connection with the acquisition, operation, maintenance, improvement, protection, or disposition of real or personal property belonging to the corporations or in which they have an interest.

TITLE III— REDUCTIONS IN APPROPRIATIONS

Amounts available from appropriations are hereby reduced in the sums hereinafter set forth, such sums to be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury immediately upon the approval of this chapter:

An amount of $199,990,000 in the revolving fund held in the Treasury available to the Governor, Farm Credit Administration, as authorized by the Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation Act, as

48 Stat. 346.

amended (12 U. S. C. 1020b), for resubscriptions to the capital stock of the Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation.

The total amount of $125,000,000 in the revolving fund appropriated to the Office of the Secretary, Treasury Department, as authorized

47 Stat. 12.

by the Federal Farm Loan Act, as amended (12 U. S. C. 698), for subscriptions to the capital stock of the Federal land banks.

TITLE IV— GENERAL PROVISIONS

TITLE I Office of the Secretary

salaries and expenses For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior (hereafter in this chapter referred to as the Secretary), including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; for purchase of one passenger motor vehicle for replacement only at not to exceed $4,500; printing and binding; employment of a Director of the Oil and Gas Division without regard to the civil service laws; and teletype rentals and service; $2,315,000.

enforcement of the connally hot oil act For expenses necessary for controlling the interstate shipment of contraband oil as required by law (15 U. S. C. 715), including personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase of not to exceed four passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; and printing and binding; $180,000.

working capital fund For establishment of a working capital fund, to be available without fiscal year limitation, for expenses necessary for the maintenance and operation of (1) a central reproduction service; (2) communication services; (3) a central supply service for stationery, supplies, equipment, blank forms, and miscellaneous materials, for which adequate stocks may be maintained to meet in whole or in part requirements of the bureaus and offices of the Department in the city of Washington and elsewhere; (4) a central library service; (5) health services; and (6) such other similar service functions as the Secretary determines may be performed more advantageously on a reimbursable basis; $300,000. Said fund shall be reimbursed from available funds of bureaus, offices, and agencies for which services are performed at rates which will return in full all expenses of operation, including reserves for accrued annual leave and depreciation of equipment.

operation and maintenance, southeastern power marketing area For necessary expenses of marketing electric power and energy produced or to be produced at multiple-purpose projects of the Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, in carrying out the provisions of section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1944 (16 U. S. C. 825s), as applied to the area east of the Mississippi River, including purchase (not to exceed two) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and printing and binding; $150,000.

construction, southwestern power administration For construction and acquisition of transmission lines, substations, and appurtenant facilities, and for administrative expenses connected therewith, in carrying out the provisions of section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1944 (16 U. S. C. 825s), as applied to the southwestern power area, to remain available until expended, $8,620,000, of which not to exceed $5,000,000 is for liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to authority previously granted; and, in addition, the Secretary is authorized to enter into contracts for the purposes of this appropriation in an amount not to exceed $1,730,000: Provided, That the unexpended balances of funds appropriated under the head “construction, operation, and maintenance, power transmission facilities” in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1950, for the foregoing purposes shall be transferred to and merged with this appropriation.

operation and maintenance, southwestern power administration For necessary expenses of operation and maintenance of power transmission facilities and of marketing electric power and energy pursuant to the provisions of section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1944 (16 U. S. C. 825s), as applied to the southwestern power area, $760,000.

Commission of Fine Arts salaries and expenses For expenses made necessary by the Act establishing a Commission of Fine Arts (40 U. S. C. 104), including personal services in the District of Columbia, hire of passenger motor vehicles, printing and binding and payment of actual traveling expenses of the members and secretary of the Commission in attending meetings and committee meetings of the Commission either within or outside of the District of Columbia, to be disbursed on vouchers approved by the Commission, $12,530.

Bonneville Power Administration construction For construction and acquisition of transmission lines, substations, and appurtenant facilities, as authorized by law, to remain available until expended, $39,500,000, of which not to exceed $17,000,000 is for liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to authority previously granted; and, in addition, the Administrator is authorized to enter into contracts for the purposes of this appropriation in an amount not to exceed $20,000,000: Provided, That unexpended balances of prior year appropriations, including unused balances of related contract authorizations, for the foregoing purposes shall be transferred to and merged with this appropriation. operation and maintenance For necessary expenses of operation and maintenance of the Bonneville transmission system and of marketing electric power and energy, $5,000,000.

Bureau of Land Management management of lands and resources For expenses necessary for protection, use, improvement, development, disposal, cadastral surveying, classification, and performance of other functions, as authorized by law, in the management of lands and their resources under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, $7, 127,810: Provided, That this appropriation may be expended on a reimbursable basis for surveys of lands other than those under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management. construction For construction of access roads on the revested Oregon and California Railroad and reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands; acquisition of rights-of-way and of existing connecting roads adjacent to such lands; and for acquisition, construction, or reconstruction of buildings and appurtenant facilities in Alaska; to remain available until expended, $700,000, of which not to exceed $200,000 is for liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to authority granted under the head “Revested Oregon and California Railroad and reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands” in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1950: Provided, That the amounts of appropriation made herein for road construction shall be transferred to the Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Commerce.

range improvements For construction, purchase, and maintenance of range improvements pursuant to the provisions of sections 3 and 10 of the Act of June 28, 1934, as amended (43 U. S. C. 315), sums equal to the aggregate of all moneys received as range improvement fees under section 3 of said Act and of 25 per centum of all moneys received under section 15 of said Act during the current and prior fiscal years but not yet appropriated, to remain available until expended.

payments to states (proceeds of sales) For payment to the several States of 5 per centum of the net proceeds of sales of public lands and materials lying within their limits, for the purpose of education or of making public roads and improvements, sums equal to the aggregate of receipts (not to exceed $20,000) covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Act of June 26, 1934 (31 U. S. C. 725c), during the current and prior fiscal years but not yet appropriated.

payment to oklahoma For payment to the State of Oklahoma in lieu of all State and local taxes upon tribal funds accruing under the provisions of the joint resolution of June 12, 1926 (44 Stat. 740), to be expended by the State in the same manner as if received under section 35 of the Act approved February 25, 1920 (30 U. S. C. 191), sums equal to 37½ per centum of the royalties received during the current and prior fiscal years (but not yet appropriated) from the south half of Red River in Oklahoma under the provisions of said joint resolution of June 12, 1926.

leasing of grazing lands For leasing State, county, or privately owned lands in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 23, 1938 (43 U. S. C. 315m–1), sums equal to the aggregate of receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with the Act of June 23, 1938 (43 U. S. C. 315m–4), during the current and prior fiscal years but not yet appropriated.

payments to states (grazing fees) Sums not in excess of 33⅓ per centum of all grazing fees received during the current and prior fiscal years (but not yet appropriated) from each grazing district on Indian lands ceded to the United States for disposition under the public-land laws, to be paid to the State in which said lands are situated, in accordance with the provisions of section 11 of the Act of June 28, 1934, as amended (43 U. S. C. 315j).

Bureau of Indian Affairs health, education, and welfare services For expenses necessary to provide health, education, and welfare services for Indians, either directly or in cooperation with States and other organizations, including payment (in advance or from date of admission) of care, tuition, assistance, and other expenses of Indians in boarding homes, institutions, or schools; grants and other assistance to needy Indians; maintenance of law and order, and payment of rewards for information or evidence concerning violations of law on Indian reservations or lands; operation of Indian arts and crafts shops and museums; and per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses of Indians participating in folk festivals; $40,252,328. resources management For expenses necessary for management, development, improvement, and protection of resources and appurtenant facilities under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, including payment of irrigation assessments and charges; acquisition of water rights; conducting agricultural experiments and demonstrations; furnishing plants or seed to Indians; advances for Indian industrial and business enterprises; payment of expenses of Indian fairs, including premiums for exhibits; and development of Indian arts and crafts as authorized by law (25 U. S. C. 305), including expenses of exhibits; $10,814,576. construction For construction, major repair, and improvement of irrigation and power systems, buildings, utilities, roads and trails, and other facilities; acquisition of lands and interests in lands; preparation of lands for farming; and architectural and engineering services by contract; to remain available until expended, $23,272,651, of which not to exceed $3,737,500 is for liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to authority previously granted; and, in addition, the Secretary is authorized to enter into contracts for the purposes of this appropriation in an amount not to exceed $3,500,000: Provided, That no part of the sum herein appropriated shall be used for the acquisition of land within the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming outside of the boundaries of existing Indian reservations: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the acquisition of land or water rights within the States of Nevada, Oregon, and Washington either inside or outside the boundaries of existing reservations. The unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made, including unused balances of related contract authorizations, under the heads “Construction, and so forth, buildings and utilities, Indian Service,” “Construction, and so forth, irrigation systems, Indian Service,” “Roads, Indian Service,” “Navajo and Hopi construction and maintenance services,” and “Acquisition of lands for Indian tribes”, shall be transferred to and merged with this appropriation. general administrative expenses For expenses necessary for the general administration of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, including such expenses in field offices, $3,600,000. revolving fund for loans For an additional amount for loans as authorized by sections 10 and 11 of the Act of June 18, 1934 (25 U. S. C. 470, 471), as amended and supplemented, $2,400,000.

claims and treaty obligations For fulfilling treaties with Senecas and Six Nations of New York, Choctaws and Pawnees of Oklahoma, and payment to Indians of Sioux reservations, to be expended as provided by law, such amounts as may be necessary during the current fiscal year.

proceeds from power Sums not in excess of the amount of power revenues covered into the Treasury to the credit of each of the power projects, including revenues credited prior to August 7, 1946, to be available for the purposes authorized by section 3 of the Act of August 7, 1946 (Public Law 647), as amended, including printing and binding, in connection with the respective projects from which such revenues are derived.

tribal funds In addition to the tribal funds authorized to be expended by existing law, there is hereby appropriated $2,437,965 from tribal funds not otherwise available for expenditure for the benefit of Indians and Indian tribes, including pay and travel expenses of employees; care, tuition and other assistance to Indian children attending public and private schools (which may be paid in advance or from date of admission); purchase of land and improvements on land, title to which shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the tribe for which purchased; lease of lands and water rights; printing and binding; compensation and expenses of attorneys and other persons employed by Indian tribes under approved contracts; pay, travel and other expenses of tribal officers, councils, and committees thereof, or other tribal organizations, including mileage for use of privately owned automobiles and per diem in lieu of subsistence at rates established administratively but not to exceed those applicable to civilian employees of the Government: relief of Indians, without regard to section 7 of the Act of May 27, 1930 (46 Stat. 391), including cash grants; and employment of a recreational director for the Menominee Reservation and a curator for the Osage Museum, each of whom shall be appointed with the approval of the respective tribal councils and without regard to the classification laws: Provided, That in addition to the amount appropriated herein, tribal funds may be advanced to Indian tribes during the current fiscal year for such purposes as may be designated by the governing body of the particular tribe involved and approved by the Secretary. Any tribal funds advanced under this authority shall be reported to the Congress in the annual Budget for the fiscal year 1952: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the acquisition of land or water rights within the States of Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming, either inside or outside the boundaries of existing Indian reservations.

Bureau of Reclamation For carrying out the functions of the Bureau of Reclamation as provided in the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto) and other Acts applicable to that Bureau, as follows: general investigations For engineering and economic investigations of proposed Federal reclamation projects and studies of water conservation and development plans; engineering and economic investigations, as a basis for legislation, and for reports thereon to Congress, relating to projects for the development and utilization of the water resources of Alaska; formulating plans and preparing designs and specifications for authorized Federal reclamation projects or parts thereof prior to appropriations for construction of such projects or parts; and activities preliminary to the reconstruction, rehabilitation and betterment, financial adjustment, or extension of existing projects; to remain available until expended, $5,875,000, of which $5, 116,000 shall be derived from the reclamation fund and $500,000 shall be derived from the Colorado River development fund: Provided, That the expenditure of any sums from this appropriation for investigations of any nature requested by States, municipalities, or other interests shall be upon the basis of the State, municipality, or other interest advancing at least 50 per centum of the estimated cost of such investigations: Provided further, That the limitation on the amount available for surveys and preconstruction work in connection with the North Side pumping division, Minidoka project, Idaho, stated in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1950, is increased from $725,000 to $1,000,000: Provided further, That, except as herein expressly provided with respect to investigations in Alaska, no part of this appropriation shall be expended in the conduct of activities which are not authorized by law. construction and rehabilitation For construction and rehabilitation of authorized reclamation projects or parts thereof (including power transmission facilities) and for other related activities, as authorized by law, to remain available until expended, $295,828,000, of which $25, 135,700 shall be derived from the reclamation fund, and in addition thereto the Commissioner of Reclamation is hereby authorized to incur obligations and enter into contracts for additional work, materials, and equipment in an amount not exceeding $3,000,000 for power transmission lines and substations in the fiscal year 1951: Provided, That hereafter when funds appropriated under this head are transferred to the credit of the appropriate regional disbursing officer of the Treasury Department for expenditure in connection with Hoover Dam and related works, such funds, solely for the purpose of computing interest on advances under the provisions of section 2 of the Act of December 21, 1928, as amended (43 U. S. C. 617a (b), 617a (d), 618e), shall be considered as if advanced to the Colorado River Dam fund: Provided further, That $3,000,000 of the funds provided in this paragraph plus $3,000,000 contract authority shall be available for construction of transmission lines and substations in South Dakota, to include a transmission loop from Fort Randall through the load centers of Armour, Huron, Aberdeen, Andover, Watertown, Brookings, Sioux Falls, and Gavins Point to Fort Randall, and lines from Fort Randall to Winner and from Rapid City to Midland: Provided further, That in order to promote agreement among the States of Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado and to avoid any possible alteration of existing vested water rights, no part of this or of any prior appropriation shall be used for construction or for further commitment for construction of the Glendo unit or any feature thereof, until a definite plan report thereon has been completed, reviewed by the States of Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado, and approved by Congress: Provided further, That no part of this or prior appropriations shall be used for construction, nor for further commitments to construction of Moorhead Dam and Reservoir, Montana, or any feature thereof until a definite plan report thereon has been completed, reviewed by the States of Wyoming and Montana, and approved by the Congress. Of the amount appropriated under the preceding paragraph, $1,600,000 is for liquidation of the contract authority granted under the appropriation “Reclamation fund, special fund, construction, Santa Barbara County project, California, Cachuma unit”, in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1949; $225,700 is for partial liquidation of the contract authority granted under the appropriation “General fund, construction, advances to Colorado River dam fund, Boulder Canyon project (All-American Canal)” in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1950; $1,000,000 is for liquidation of the contract authority provided under the appropriation “General fund, construction, Fort Sumner project, New Mexico”, in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1950; and $1,770,000 is for partial liquidation of the contract authority granted under the appropriation “General fund, construction, Missouri River Basin”, in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1950. operation and maintenance For operation and maintenance of reclamation projects or parts thereof and of other facilities, as authorized by law; and for a soil and moisture conservation program on lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Reclamation, pursuant to law, $15,491,000, of which $12,001,400 shall be derived from the reclamation fund and $1,808,000 shall be derived from the Colorado River dam fund: Provided, That funds advanced for operation and maintenance of reclamation projects or parts thereof shall be deposited to the credit of this appropriation and may be expended for the same objects and in the same manner as sums appropriated herein may be expended, and the unexpended balances of such advances shall be credited to the appropriation for the next succeeding fiscal year. general administrative expenses For necessary expenses of general administration and related functions in the offices of the Commissioner of Reclamation and in the regional offices of the Bureau of Reclamation, $7,200,000, to be derived from the reclamation fund and to be nonreimbursable pursuant to the Act of April 19, 1945 (43 U. S. C. 377): Provided, That no part of any other appropriation in this Act shall be available for activities or functions budgeted for the current fiscal year as general administrative expenses: Provided further, That not exceeding $150,000 of funds available for expenditure under this appropriation shall be used for salaries and expenses in connection with information work. special funds Sums herein referred to as being derived from the reclamation fund, the Colorado River dam fund, or the Colorado River development fund, are appropriated from the special funds in the Treasury created by the Act of June 17, 1902 (43 U. S. C. 391), the Act of December 21, 1928 (43 U. S. C. 617a), and the Act of July 19, 1940 (43 U. S. C. 618a), respectively. Such sums shall be transferred, upon request of the Secretary, to be merged with and expended under the heads herein specified; and the unexpended balances of sums transferred for expenditure under the heads “Operation and maintenance” and “General administrative expenses” shall revert and be credited to the special fund from which derived. prior year appropriations Except for the emergency fund established in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1949, the unexpended balances on June 30, 1950, of sums heretofore appropriated for the Bureau of Reclamation which were made available until expended shall be classified under the corresponding heads herein established, shall be transferred to and merged with the amounts appropriated under those headings, and shall be available for the purposes therein specified.

appropriation of certain payments There are hereby appropriated from the reclamation fund such sums as may be necessary after June 30, 1950, to make payments, to the extent authorized by the Act of May 25, 1948 (62 Stat. 273), to the Farmers’ Irrigation District on behalf of the Northport Irrigation District (North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming) for water carriage in accordance with contracts entered into pursuant to said Act.

refunds and returns There are hereby appropriated such amounts as may be necessary after June 30, 1950, for the Bureau of Reclamation to refund over-collections, and to return deposits in excess of amounts applied to the purposes for which the deposits were accepted, each such refund or return to be derived from the account into which such overcollection or deposit shall have been covered.

transfer of ephrata air force base For the purpose of assisting in the construction, operation, and maintenance, and settlement programs on the Columbia Basin project in the State of Washington, the Armed Services, General Services Administration, or other Federal agency having ownership or custody thereof or interest therein, is authorized and directed to transfer to the Bureau of Reclamation, without reimbursement or transfer of funds, all of their right, title, and interest to certain buildings, facilities, and equipment at the Ephrata Air Force Base, Ephrata, Washington, including the following buildings in accordance with block and building numbers: Block 800, building numbered 68; block 1900, buildings numbered 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17; block 2000, four buildings numbered 75, two buildings numbered 56; block 3000, buildings numbered 56, 131, 58; block 2900, buildings numbered 59, 53, 55, 57, 66, 89, 90, 85, 84, 124, 141, two buildings numbered 60, two buildings numbered 64. two buildings numbered 65; block 3300, eleven buildings numbered 28; block 3400, seven buildings numbered 28; block 3500, buildings numbered 43, 46; block 3600, buildings numbered 34, 35, 36, 38, two buildings numbered 37; block 3700, buildings numbered 35, 38, four buildings numbered 31, two buildings numbered 32, two buildings numbered 34, two buildings numbered 37; block 3800, buildings numbered 35, 38, 39, 42, two buildings numbered 37; block 4300, buildings numbered 19, 20, 21, 22; block 4400, buildings numbered 113, 114, two buildings numbered 112; block 4600, buildings numbered 134; block 4700, buildings numbered 94, 95, 96, 99, 109, 100, 35, 108, 104, 110, six buildings numbered 97; block 4800, buildings numbered 53, 40, 102, 101, 103, 105, 107, 111, two buildings numbered 32, five buildings numbered 106, three buildings numbered 98, together with one sewage-disposal plant numbered 116, one water tank numbered 115, one well, one flag pole numbered 118, two garbage racks numbered 155, two garbage racks numbered 158, one wash rack numbered 63, two grease racks numbered 62, and sewer system, water lines, electric-power lines, railroad spur and siding, road improvements, and all other facilities and equipment incident to the foregoing property, and including land and rights-of-way formerly under Reclamation withdrawal to other federally owned land on which said buildings are situate, which have heretofore or which may hereafter be declared surplus to the needs of the Armed Forces: Provided, That amounts equal to the value of all property transferred hereunder and used shall be charged, in the same manner as appropriations are charged, as part of the construction or appropriate other costs of the Columbia Basin project, such value to be determined by appraisal approved by the Administrator of General Services of the market value of such property current at the time of transfer hereunder less expenditures on such property by the Bureau of Reclamation prior to such transfer.

Geological Survey surveys, investigations, and research For expenses necessary for the Geological Survey to perform surveys, investigations, and research covering topography, geology, and the mineral and water resources of the United States, its territories and possessions; classify lands as to mineral character and water and power resources; give engineering supervision to power permits and Federal Power Commission licenses; enforce departmental regulations applicable to oil, gas, and other mining leases, permits, licenses, and operating contracts; and publish and disseminate data relative to the foregoing activities; $19,382,000, of which $3, 100,000 shall be available only for cooperation with States or municipalities for water resources investigations: Provided, That the share of the Geological Survey in any topographic mapping or water resources investigations carried on in cooperation with any State or municipality shall not exceed 50 per centum of the cost thereof.

Bureau of Mines conservation and development of mineral resources For expenses necessary for promoting the conservation, exploration, development, production, and utilization of mineral resources, including fuels, in the United States, its Territories, and possessions; developing synthetics and substitutes; producing and distributing helium; and controlling fires in inactive coal deposits on public lands, and on private lands, with the consent of the owner; $17,758,000: Provided, That the Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to make suitable arrangements with owners of private property or with a State or its subdivisions for payment in the current fiscal year of a sum equal to not less than one-half the amount of expenditure to be made for control or extinguishment of fires in inactive coal deposits from funds provided under the authorization of this Act except that expenditure of Federal funds for this purpose in any privately owned operating coal mine shall be limited to investigation and supervision. health and safety For expenses necessary for promotion of health and safety in mines and in the minerals industries as authorized by law, $3,805,000. construction For construction and improvement of facilities under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Mines, to remain available until expended, $1,268, 100, of which not to exceed $550,000 is for liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to authority granted under the heads “Anthracite research laboratory” and “Drainage tunnel, Leadville, Colorado”, in The Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1950: Provided, That unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made, including unused balances of related contract authorizations, under the heads, “Synthetic liquid fuels”, “Drainage tunnel, Leadville, Colorado”, “Lignite research laboratory”, and “Anthracite research laboratory” shall be transferred to and merged with this appropriation. general administrative expenses For expenses necessary for general administration of the Bureau of Mines, including such expenses in the regional offices, $1,300,000.

administrative provisions Appropriations and funds available to the Bureau of Mines may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase (not to exceed one hundred and fifty, of which one hundred and forty-five shall be for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; printing and binding, including purchase of reprints; providing transportation services in isolated areas for employees, student dependents of employees, and other pupils, and such activities may be financed under cooperative arrangements; temporary and emergency contracts for personal services and employment of persons without regard to civil-service regulations as required in the conduct of programs for the control of fires in inactive coal deposits and flood prevention in anthracite mines; purchase and bestowal of certificates and trophies in connection with mine rescue and first-aid work: Provided, That the Secretary is authorized to accept lands, buildings, equipment and other contributions from public and private sources and to prosecute projects in cooperation with other agencies, Federal, State, or private: Provided further, That power produced in the operation of the power plant, of the Bureau of Mines at Louisiana, Missouri, in excess of the Bureau’s needs may be sold to non-Federal purchasers, but the expenses of the Bureau in the production and sale of such excess power shall not exceed the total amount of such sales, and expenditures for the production of excess power shall not be deemed a charge against the total appropriations authorized by the Synthetic Liquid Fuels Act, as amended: Provided further, That the sums made available for the current fiscal year in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force for the acquisition of helium from the Bureau of Mines shall be transferred to the Bureau of Mines on July 1 of said fiscal year: Provided further, That the Bureau of Mines is authorized, during the current fiscal year, to sell directly or through any Government agency, including corporations, any metal or mineral product that may be manufactured in pilot plants operated by the Bureau of Mines, and the proceeds of such sales shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. The Veterans’ Administration is authorized to transfer to the Department of the Interior, for the use of the Bureau of Mines, without compensation therefor, full jurisdiction, possession, and control of a parcel of forty-three acres, more or less, within the boundaries of the Fort Snelling Government Reservation in Hennepin County, Minnesota.

National Park Service management and protection For expenses necessary for the management and protection of the areas and facilities administered by the National Park Service, including protection of lands in process of condemnation; and for plans, investigations, and studies of the recreational resources (exclusive of preparation of detailed plans and working drawings) and archaeological values in river basins of the United States (except the Missouri River Basin); $7,688,700: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation under the head “Mississippi River Parkway” in the Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1950, shall be transferred to and merged with this appropriation. maintenance and rehabilitation of physical facilities For expenses necessary for the operation, maintenance, and rehabilitation of roads, trails, buildings, utilities, and other physical facilities essential to the operation of areas administered pursuant to law by the National Park Service, $7,400,000. construction For construction and improvement, without regard to the Act of August 24, 1912, as amended (16 U. S. C. 451), of roads, trails, parkways, buildings, utilities, and other physical facilities; and the acquisition of lands, interests therein, improvements, and water rights; to remain available until expended, $19,667,000, of which not to exceed $7,935,000 is for liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to authority granted under the heads “Independence National Historical Park, Pennsylvania”, Parkways, National Park Service,” and “Roads and Trails, National Park Service”, in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1950: Provided, That the unexpended balances of prior year appropriations, including unused balances of related contract authorizations, for the foregoing purposes, shall be transferred to and merged with this appropriation: Provided further, That not to exceed $150,000 of the funds available for the Independence National Historical Park, Pennsylvania, shall be available after January 1, 1951, for the management, protection, maintenance, and rehabilitation of Independence Hall, grounds, and structures in that Park. general administrative expenses For expenses necessary for general administration of the National Park Service, including such expenses in the regional offices, $1,314,500.

Fish and Wildlife Service management of resources For expenses necessary for conservation, management, protection, and utilization of fish and wildlife resources, and for the performance of other authorized functions related to such resources; operation of the industrial properties within the Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge (61 Stat. 770); maintenance of the herd of long-homed cattle on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge; purchase or rent of land, and functions related to wildlife management in California (16 U. S. C. 695–695c); and not to exceed $30,000 for payment, in the discretion of the Secretary, for information or evidence concerning violations of laws administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service; $7,082,000. investigations of resources For expenses necessary for scientific and economic studies and investigations respecting conservation, management, protection, and utilization of fish and wildlife resources, including related aquatic plants and products; collection, compilation, and publication of information concerning such studies and investigations; and the performance of other functions related thereto; as authorized by law; $4, 125,000. construction For construction and acquisition of buildings and other facilities required in the conservation, management, protection, and utilization of fish and wildlife resources and the acquisition of lands and interests therein, including continuing the construction of fish cultural facilities on lands owned by the State of South Dakota; to remain available until expended, $2,423,450, of which not to exceed $50,000 is for liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to authority granted under the head “Investigations respecting food fishes” in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1950. general administrative expenses For expenses necessary for general administration of the Fish and Wildlife Service, including such expenses in the regional offices, $917,500. federal aid in wildlife restoration For carrying out the provisions of the Act of September 2, 1937, as amended (16 U. S. C. 669–669j), amounts equal to the sums credited during the next preceding fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter to the special fund created by said Act. migratory bird conservation fund For carrying into effect section 4 of the Act of March 16, 1934, as amended (16 U. S. C. 718–71811), amounts equal to the sums received during the current year and each fiscal year thereafter from the proceeds from the sale of stamps, to be warranted monthly and to remain available until expended. management of national wildlife refuges For management of national wildlife refuges, including the construction, improvement, repair, and alteration of buildings, roads, and other facilities, and enforcement of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918, as amended (16 U. S. C. 703–711), amounts equal to 75 per centum of the net proceeds received during the next preceding fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter under the provisions of section 401 of the Act of June 15, 1935 (16 U. S. C. 715s), to remain available until expended.

Territories and Island Possessions administration of territories and possessions For expenses necessary for the administration of Territories and possessions under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, including expenses of the Offices of the Governors of Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam, and the Government of the Virgin Islands, including the agricultural station; compensation and mileage of members of the legislatures in Alaska and Hawaii; compensation of members of the Supreme Court and the legislature in Guam; care of insane as authorized by law for Alaska (48 U. S. C. 46–50); grants to the Virgin Islands and Guam, in addition to current local revenues, for support of governmental functions; personal services, household equipment and furnishings, and utilities necessary in the operation of the several Governors’ houses; and personal services in the District of Columbia; $3,392, 180: Provided, That the territorial and local governments of the Virgin Islands and Guam are authorized to make purchases for their public institutions through the General Services Administration. construction of roads, alaska For construction of roads, tramways, buildings, ferries, bridges, and trails, including surveys and plans for new road construction; acquisition of lands or interests in lands by purchase, donation, condemnation, or otherwise; to remain available until expended, $20,400,000, of which not to exceed $8,000,000 is for liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to authority previously granted; and, in addition, the Secretary is authorized to enter into contracts for the purposes of this appropriation in an amount not to exceed $8,000.000: Provided, That the unexpended balances of prior year appropriations, including unused balances of related contract authorizations, for the foregoing purposes, shall be transferred to and merged with this appropriation. operation and maintenance of roads, alaska For operation and maintenance of roads, tramways, buildings, ferries, bridges, and trails, $2,600,000. The total of the amounts appropriated for construction, operation and maintenance of roads in Alaska shall be available in one fund, except that the appropriation herein made for operation and maintenance shall be available only for the service of the current fiscal year. construction, alaska railroad For the authorized work of the Alaska Railroad, including improvements and new construction, to remain available until expended, $30,000,000, of which not to exceed $17,000,000 is for liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to authority granted in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1950: Provided, That funds appropriated under this head may be transferred to the Alaska Railroad Special Fund for purposes of accounting and administration. operation and maintenance, alaska railroad The Alaska Railroad Special Fund shall continue available until expended for the work authorized by law, including personal services in the District of Columbia; operation of facilities under the jurisdiction of the railroad in Mount McKinley National Park; operation and maintenance of oceangoing or coastwise vessels by ownership, charter, or arrangement with other branches of the Government service, for the purpose of providing additional facilities for transportation of freight, passengers, or mail, when deemed necessary for the benefit and development of industries or travel in the area served; and payment of compensation and expenses as authorized by section 42 of the Act of September 7, 1916 (5 U. S. C. 793), to be reimbursed as therein provided: Provided, That no one other than the general manager of said railroad, and one assistant general manager at not to exceed $13,000 per annum, shall be paid an annual salary out of said fund of more than $11,000.

TITLE II— VIRGIN ISLANDS CORPORATION

grants For payment to the Virgin Islands Corporation in the form of grants, $474,000, for estimated losses to be sustained during the fiscal years 1950 and 1951, as authorized by section 8 (a) of the Virgin Islands Corporation Act, in the conduct of activities budgeted as predominantly revenue producing.

administrative expenses During the current fiscal year the Virgin Islands Corporation is hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of funds available to it and in accord with law, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal-year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation Control Act, as amended, as may be necessary in carrying out its programs as set forth in the budget for the fiscal year 1951: Provided, That not to exceed $121,480 shall be available for administrative expenses (to be computed on an accrual basis) of the Corporation, covering the categories set forth in the 1951 Budget estimates for such expenses. This chapter may be cited as the “Interior Department appropriation Act, 1951”.

TITLE I EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

compensation of the president For compensation of the President, including an expense allowance at the rate of $50,000 per annum, as authorized by the Act of January 19, 1949 (Public Law 2), $150,000.

the white house office Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for The White House Office, including personal services in the District of Columbia; printing and binding; not to exceed $100,000 for services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), at such per diem rates for individuals as the President may specify, and other personal services without regard to the provisions of law regulating the employment and compensation of persons in the Government service; and travel and official entertainment expenses of the President, to be accounted for solely on his certificate; $1,585,553.

emergency fund for the president To provide for emergencies affecting the national interest or security, without regard to such provisions of law regulating the expenditure of Government funds as the President may specify, and for supplementing the efforts and available resources of State and local governments or other agencies in alleviating hardship or suffering caused by flood, fire, hurricane, earthquake, or other catastrophe in any part of the United States, $1,000,000: Provided, That assistance in alleviating hardship or suffering caused by such a catastrophe may be rendered through such agency or agencies as the President may designate and in such manner as he shall determine, without regard to such provisions of law regulating the expenditure of Government funds or the employment of persons in the Government service as he shall specify, whenever he finds that such a catastrophe is of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant emergency assistance by the Federal Government in alleviating hardship or suffering caused thereby, and if the Governor of any State in which such a catastrophe shall occur shall certify that such assistance is required, and shall have entered into an agreement with such agency of the Government as the President may designate, giving assurance of expenditure of a reasonable amount of the funds of She government of such State, local governments therein, or other agencies, for the same or similar purposes with respect to such catastrophe: Provided further, That within any affected area Federal agencies are authorized to participate in any such emergency assistance: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation which may be allocated for alleviating hardship or suffering caused by a catastrophe shall be expended for departmental personal services or for permanent construction: And provided further, That no part of this Appropriation shall be available 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 Eighty-first Congress or the first session of the Eighty-second Congress and such appropriation denied after consideration thereof by the Senate or House of Representatives or by the Committee on Appropriations of either body.

executive mansion and grounds For the care, maintenance, repair and alteration, refurnishing, improvement, heating and lighting, including electric power and fixtures, of the Executive Mansion and the Executive Mansion grounds, and traveling expenses, to be expended as the President may determine, notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act, $266,000.

bureau of the budget Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the Bureau of the Budget, personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; exchange of books; newspapers and periodicals (not exceeding $200); teletype news service (not exceeding $900); printing and binding; not to exceed $20,000 for services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), at rates not to exceed $50 per diem for individuals; a health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); and the payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672); $3,412,000.

council of economic advisers Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Council in carrying out its functions under the Employment Act of 1946 (15 U. S. C. 1021), including personal services in the District of Columbia; travel expenses; purchase of one passenger motor vehicle for replacement only; printing and binding; newspapers and periodicals (not exceeding $200); press clippings (not exceeding $300); a health Service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); and payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672); $300,000.

Office for Emergency Management philippine alien property administration Administrative expenses, Philippine Alien Property administration: The Philippine Alien Property Administrator is hereby authorized to pay out of any funds or other property or interest vested in him or transferred to him, necessary expenses incurred in carrying out the powers and duties conferred on him pursuant to the Trading With the Enemy Act, as amended (50 U. S. C. App.), and the Philippine Property Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 418): Provided, That not to exceed $187,750 shall be available for the current fiscal year for the general administrative expenses of the Philippine Alien Property Administration; printing and binding; rent of private or Government-owned space in the District of Columbia; employment outside the United States of persons without regard to the civil service and classification laws including services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); personal services in the District of Columbia and expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with the work of the agency: Provided further, That on or before November 1 of the current fiscal year the Philippine Alien Property Administrator shall make a report to the Appropriations Committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives giving detailed information on all administrative and nonadministrative expenses incurred during the next preceding fiscal year, in connection with the activities of the Philippine Alien property Administration: Provided further, That the Philippine Alien Property Administration shall cease to exist after June 30, 1951, and all duties being performed by such Administration as of that date shall be transferred to the Office of Alien Property Custodian, including all records, files, and other property.

INDEPENDENT OFFICES american battle monuments commission Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses, as authorized by the Act of June 26, 1946 (36 U. S. C. 121 123–132, 138), including the acquisition of land or interest in land in foreign countries; personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase and repair of uniforms for caretakers of national cemeteries and monuments outside of the United States and its Territories and possessions at a cost not exceeding $4,845; travel expenses; rent of office and garage space in foreign countries; the purchase of one passenger motor vehicle; insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign countries when required by law of such countries; and printing, binding, engraving, lithographing, photographing, and typewriting; $670,000: Provided, That where station allowance has been authorized by the Department of the Army for officers of the Army serving the Army at certain foreign stations, the same allowance shall be authorized for officers of the armed forces assigned to the Commission while serving at the same foreign stations, and this appropriation is hereby made available for the payment of such allowance: Provided further, That when traveling on business of the Commission, officers of the armed forces serving as members or as secretary of the Commission may be reimbursed for expenses as provided for civilian members of the Commission. Construction of memorials and cemeteries: For the permanent design and construction of memorials and cemeteries in foreign countries as authorized by the Act of June 26, 1946 (36 U. S. C. 121, 123– 132, 138), and the Act of August 5, 1947 (50 U. S. C. 1819), and personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $8,500,000, of which $5,000,000 is for payment of obligations incurred under authority provided under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1950, to remain available until expended; and in addition the Commission is authorized to enter into contracts in the amount of $1,500,000 for the purposes of this appropriation.

ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION For expenses necessary to carry out the purposes of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, including personal services in the District of Columbia and employment of aliens; purchase of land and interests in land; services authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); purchase of not to exceed one hundred and fifty passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; purchase, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; printing and binding; health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); publication and dissemination of atomic information; payment of tort claims pursuant to law; purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms; purchase of news- papers and periodicals (not to exceed $8,000) and travel expenses; official entertainment expenses (not to exceed $5,000); reimbursement of the General Services Administration for security guard services; and payment of obligations incurred under prior year contract authorizations; $647,820,000, together with the unexpended balances, as of June 30, 1950, of prior year appropriations to the Atomic Energy Commission, of which amounts $100,000 may be expended for objects of a confidential nature and in any such case the certificate of the Commission as to the amount of the expenditure and that it is deemed inadvisable to specify the nature thereof shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended; from which appropriation transfers of sums may be made to other agencies of the Government for the performance of the work for which this appropriation is made, and in such cases the sums so transferred may be merged with the appropriation to which transferred; and in addition to the amount herein provided, the Commission is authorized to contract for the purposes of this appropriation during the current fiscal year in an amount not exceeding $300, 150,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay the salary of any officer or employee (except such officers and employees whose compensation is fixed by law, and scientific and technical personnel) whose position would be subject to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, if such Act were applicable to such position, at a rate in excess of the rate payable under such Act for positions of equivalent difficulty or responsibility: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation or contract authorization shall be used— (A) to start any new construction project for which an estimate was not included in the budget for the current fiscal year; (B) to start any new construction project the currently estimated cost of which exceeds the estimated cost included therefor in such budget; or (C) to continue any community facility construction project whenever the currently estimated cost thereof exceeds the estimated cost included therefor in such budget; unless the Director of the Bureau of the Budget specifically approves the start of such construction project or its continuation and a detailed explanation thereof is submitted forthwith by the Director to the Appropriations Committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives and the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy; the limitations contained in this proviso shall not apply to any construction project the total estimated cost of which does not exceed $500,000; and, as used herein, the term “construction project” includes the purchase, alteration, or improvement of buildings, and the term “budget” includes the detailed justification supporting the budget estimates: Provided further, That whenever the current estimate to complete any construction project (except community facilities) exceeds by 15 per centum the estimated cost included therefor in such budget or the estimated cost of a construction project covered by clause (A) of the foregoing proviso which has been approved by the Director, the Commission shall forthwith submit a detailed explanation thereof to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget and the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and of the House of Representatives and the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy: Provided further, That the two foregoing provisos shall have no application with respect to technical and production facilities (1) if the Commission certifies to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget that immediate construction or immediate continuation of construction is necessary to the national defense and security, and (2) if the Director agrees that such certification is justified: Provided further, That no part of the foregoing appropriation or contract authorization shall be used in connection with the payment of a fixed fee to any contractor or firm of contractors engaged under a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract or contracts at any installation of the Commission, where that fee for community management is at a rate in excess of $90,000 per annum, or for the operation of a transportation system where that fee is at a rate in excess of $45,000 per annum.

CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia; not to exceed $28,000 for services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); not to exceed $10,000 for medical examinations performed for veterans by private physicians on a fee basis; travel expenses of examiners acting under the direction of the Commission, and expenses of examinations and investigations held in Washington and elsewhere; payment in advance for library membership in societies whose publications are available to members only or to members at a price lower than to the general public; printing and binding; not to exceed $50,000 for performing the duties imposed upon the Commission by the Act of July 19, 1940 (54 Stat. 767); reimbursement of the General Services Administration for security guard services for protection of confidential files; a health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672); and not to exceed $5,000 for actuarial services by contract, without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes, as amended; $15,511,913: Provided, That no details from any executive department or independent establishment in the District of Columbia or elsewhere to the Commission’s central office in Washington or to any of its regional offices shall be made during the current fiscal year, but this shall not affect the making of details for service as members of the boards of examiners outside the immediate offices of the Commission in Washington or of the regional directors, nor shall it affect the making of details of persons qualified to serve as expert examiners on special subjects: Provided further, That the Civil Service Commission shall have power in case of emergency to transfer or detail any of its employees to or from its office or field force: Provided further, That members of the Loyalty Review Board in Washington and of the regional loyalty boards in the field may be paid actual transportation expenses, and per diem in lieu of subsistence authorized by the Travel Expense Act of 1949 while traveling on official business away from their homes or regular places of business, and while en route to and from and at the place where their services are to be performed: Provided further, That nothing in section 281 or 283 of title 18, United States Code, or in section 190 of the Revised Statutes (5 U. S. C. 99) shall be deemed to apply to any person because of his appointment for part-time or intermittent service as a member of the Loyalty Review Board or a regional loyalty board in the Civil Service Commission. No part of the appropriations herein made to the Civil Service Commission shall be available for the salaries and expenses of the Legal Examining Unit in the Examining and Personnel Utilization Division of the Commission, established pursuant to Executive Order Numbered 9358 of July 1, 1943, or for the compensation or expenses of any member of a board of examiners (1) who has not made affidavit that he has not appeared in any agency proceeding within the preceding two years, and will not thereafter while a board member appear in any agency proceeding, as a party, or in behalf of a party to the proceeding, before an agency in which an applicant is employed who has been rated or will be rated by such member; or (2) who, after making such affidavit, has rated an applicant who at the time of the rating is employed by an agency before which the board member has appeared as a party, or in behalf of a party, within the preceding two years: Provided, That the definitions of “agency”, “agency proceeding” and “party” in section 2 of the Administrative Procedure Act shall apply to these terms as used herein. No part of appropriations herein shall be used to pay the compensation of officers and employees of the Civil Service Commission who allocate or reallocate supervisory positions in the classified civil service solely on the size of the group, section, bureau, or other organization unit, or on the number of subordinates supervised. References to size of the group, section, bureau, or other organization unit or the number of subordinates supervised may be given effect only to the extent warranted by the work load of such organization unit and then only in combination with other factors, such as the kind, difficulty, and complexity of work supervised, the degree and scope of responsibility delegated to the supervisor, and the kind, degree, and value of the supervision actually exercised. Panama Canal construction annuity fund: For payment of annuities authorized by the Act of May 29, 1944, as amended (48 U. S. C. 1373a), $2,803,177. Civil-service retirement and disability fund: For financing the liability of the United States, created by the Act approved May 22, 1920, and Acts amendatory thereof (5 U. S. C. chap. 14), $305,000,000, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the “civil-service Retirement and disability fund”.

COMMISSION ON RENOVATION OF THE EXECUTIVE MANSION For all expenses of the Commission on Renovation of the Executive Mansion as authorized by Public Law 40, Eighty-first Congress, $35,000, together with not exceeding $30,000 of the unobligated balances of funds appropriated for such purpose in the Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1949, and the Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1950.

DISPLACED PERSONS COMMISSION Displaced Persons Commission: For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Displaced Persons Act of 1948, as amended by the Act of June 16, 1950 (Public Law 555), including personal services and rents in the District of Columbia; travel expenses, including travel expenses outside continental United States without regard to the Standardized Government Travel Regulations, as amended, and the rates of per diem allowances under the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, as amended; purchase (not to exceed three), and hire of passenger motor vehicles; printing and binding, including printing and binding outside the continental limits of the United States without regard to section 11 of the Act of March 1, 1919 (44 U. S. C. 111); expenses incident to the primary and secondary education of American children who are dependents of Government personnel paid from this appropriation and stationed overseas; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672); health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); employment of aliens; and payment of rent in foreign countries in advance; $8,000,000: Provided, That allocations may be made from this appropriation by the Commission upon approval by the Bureau of the Budget to any Department, agency, corporation, or independent establishment of the Government for direct expenditure for the purposes of this Appropriation, and any such expenditures may be made under the specific authority herein contained or under the authority governing the activities of the department, agency, corporation, or independent establishment to which amounts are allocated: Provided further, That the Commission may enter into agreements with United States governmental agencies and may make payment in advance or by reimbursement for expenses incurred by such agencies in rendering assistance to the Commission in carrying out the provisions of this Act.

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses in performing the duties imposed by the Communications Act of 1934, approved June 19, 1934 (48 Stat. 1064), the Ship Act of 1910, approved June 24, 1910, as amended (46 U. S. C. 484–487), the International Radiotelegraphic Convention (45 Stat. pt. 2, p. 2760), Executive Order 3513, dated July 9, 1921, as amended under date of June 30, 1934, relating to applications for submarine cable licenses, and the radiotelegraphy provisions of the Convention for Promoting Safety of Life at Sea, ratified by the President July 7, 1936, including personal services in the District of Columbia, contract stenographic reporting services, special counsel fees, health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150), payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672), improvement and care of grounds and repairs to buildings (not to exceed $17,500), purchase of not to exceed twenty passenger motor vehicles for replacement only, travel expenses (not to exceed $93,000), and printing and binding, $6,625,000, of which $25,000 shall be available only for services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), for a survey as to ways and means of expediting business: Provided, That funds appropriated under this paragraph may be used for application processing and hearings in connection with broadcast activities and for application processing in connection with safety and special services without regard to the apportionment of funds required by the Act of February 27, 1906 (31 U. S. C. 665).

FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the work of the Commission, not otherwise provided for, as authorized by law, including personal services in the District of Columbia; not to exceed $256,500 for travel; health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672); printing and binding; and purchase (not to exceed two, for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and not to exceed $500 for newspapers; $4,013,300, of which amount not to exceed $10,000 Shall be available for special counsel and services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), but at rates not exceeding $50 per diem for individuals. Flood-control surveys: For expenses necessary for the work of the Commission as authorized by section 4 of the Act of June 28, 1938 (33 U. S. C. 701j), and similar provisions in subsequent Acts, including personal services in the District of Columbia; contract stenographic reporting services, and printing and binding, $351,700.

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase of one passenger motor vehicle; health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672); contract stenographic reporting services; and printing and binding; and not to exceed $700 for newspapers; $3,891,695, of which not less than $223,473 shall be available for trade practice agreement work: Provided, That no part of the funds appropriated herein for the Federal Trade Commission shall be expended upon any investigation hereafter provided by concurrent resolution of the Congress until funds are appropriated subsequently to the enactment of such resolution to finance the cost of such investigation.

GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $32,689,500. Miscellaneous expenses: For necessary expenses, including printing and binding and the purchase of one passenger motor vehicle for replacement only, $1,750,000. Appropriations for the General Accounting Office shall be available for a health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150), for payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672), for newspapers and periodicals (not exceeding $300), and services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a).

GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION Sites and planning, public buildings outside the District of Columbia: For expenses necessary for continuing the program for the acquisition of sites and the preparation of drawings and specifications for Federal public building projects outside the District of Columbia, as authorized and provided for by title I of the Act of June 16, 1949 (Public Law 105), and by the Act of May 25, 1926 (44 Stat. 630), as amended, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $22,000,000, to remain available until expended. Renovation and improvement of federally owned buildings outside of the District of Columbia: For expenses necessary for continuing the program for the renovation and improvement of federally owned buildings outside the District of Columbia, for which funds are not otherwise available, including appurtenances and approaches thereto, that are under the control of the General Services Administration for repair and preservation, as authorized by title III of the Act of June 16, 1949 (Public Law 105), including personal services in the District of Columbia, $10,000,000, to remain available until expended. Repair, preservation, and equipment, outside the District of Columbia: For the repair, alteration, improvement, preservation, and equipment, not otherwise provided for, including personal services in the District of Columbia, of completed Federal buildings, the grounds and approaches thereof, wharves, and piers, together with the necessary dredging adjacent thereto, and care and safeguarding of sites acquired for Federal buildings and of surplus real property, the custody of which is the responsibility of the General Services Administration under the Act of August 27, 1935 (40 U. S. C. 304), and Public Law 152, Eighty-first Congress, pending sale or disposition; the demolition of buildings thereon; the purchase and repair of equipment and fixtures in buildings under the administration of the General Services Administration; and for changes in, maintenance of, and repairs to the pneumatic-tube system in New York City installed under franchise of the city of New York, approved June 29, 1909, and June 11, 1928, and the payment of any obligations arising thereunder in accordance with the provisions of the Acts approved August 5, 1909 (36 Stat. 120), and May 15, 1928 (45 Stat. 533); $10,000,000. Federal office building, Nashville, Tennessee: For completion of construction of a Federal office building in Nashville, Tennessee, to remain available until expended, $1,200,000, which shall be for payment of obligations incurred under authority granted under this head in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1949. Buildings and facilities, Cincinnati, Ohio: For completion of construction of buildings and facilities at Cincinnati, Ohio, for the use of the Public Health Service, as authorized by section 8 (b) of the Act of June 30, 1948 (Public Law 845), $1,400,000, to remain available until expended, and in addition thereto the General Services Administration is authorized to enter into contracts for such purposes in an amount not exceeding $2,400,000. Federal Courts Building, District of Columbia: For completion of construction of a building for the use of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, as authorized by the Act of May 14, 1948 (Public Law 527), to remain available until expended, $6,000,000, which shall be for payment of obligations incurred under authority granted under this head in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1948. General Accounting Office Building, District of Columbia: For completion of construction of a building for the use of the General Accounting Office on square 518, in the District of Columbia, under the provisions of the Act of May 18, 1948 (Public Law 533), to remain available until expended, $15,358, 194, which shall be for payment of obligations incurred under authority granted under this head in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1948. Renovation and modernization, Executive Mansion: For completing the renovation, repair, and modernization of the Executive Mansion, to remain available until expended, $3,400,000, which shall be for payment of obligations incurred under authority granted under this head in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1949. For necessary expenses in carrying out the provisions of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act of July 23, 1946, including personal services in the District of Columbia; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); purchase of five passenger motor vehicles; and printing and binding; $605,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which $240,000,000 is for liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to authority heretofore granted under this head; and in addition to the amount herein appropriated, contracts may be entered into for the purposes of the said Act of July 23, 1946, in an amount not in excess of $125,000,000: Provided, That any funds received as proceeds from sale or other disposition of materials on account of the rotation of stocks under said Act shall be deposited to the credit, and be available for expenditure for the purposes, of this appropriation: Provided further, That during the current fiscal year, there shall be no limitation on the value of surplus strategic and critical materials which, in accordance with subsection 6 (a) of the Act of July 23, 1946 (60 Stat. 598), may be transferred to stock piles established in accordance with said Act. For refunds under section 403 (a) (4) (D) (relating to the recomputation of the amortization deduction) and by the last sentence of section 403 (i) (3) (relating to excess inventories) of the Renegotiation Act; and to refund any amount finally adjudged or determined to have been erroneously collected by the United States pursuant to a unilateral determination of excessive profits, with interest thereon (at a rate not to exceed 4 per centum per annum) as may be determined by the War Contracts Price Adjustment Board, computed to the date of certification to the Treasury Department for payment; $7,400,000: Provided, That to the extent refunds are made from this appropriation of excessive profits collected under the Renegotiation Act and retained by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation or any of its subsidiaries, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation or the appropriate subsidiary shall reimburse this appropriation: Provided further, That refunds made hereunder shall be based solely on the certificate of the War Contracts Price Adjustment Board or its duly authorized representatives. To increase the General Supply Fund established by section 109 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (Public Law 152, approved June 30, 1949), $4,000,000. Alaska public works: For an additional amount for expenses necessary for carrying out the provisions of the Act of August 24, 1949 (Public Law 264), relating to the development of the Territory of Alaska, to remain available until June 30, 1955, $9,000,000, of which $4,000,000 shall be for the liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to authority heretofore granted under this head and of which not to exceed $500,000 shall be available for administrative expenses, including the purchase of not to exceed two passenger motor vehicles: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for expenditure on any project until a certificate has been received from the Secretary of Defense that the installation of such facility will be of value in connection with national defense. Advance planning of non-Federal public works: For an additional amount for expenses necessary for carrying out the provisions of the Act of October 13, 1949 (Public Law 352), relating to the advance planning of public works, to remain available until expended, $20,000, 000, of which $14, 100,000 is for liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to authority heretofore granted under this head and of which not to exceed $1,704,000 shall be available for administrative expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia; and in addition, the General Services Administration is authorized to enter into contracts, in an amount not to exceed $27,000,000, for the purposes of this appropriation. Grants for plan preparation, water pollution control: For an additional amount for grants to States, municipalities, or interstate agencies to aid in financing the cost of action preliminary to the construction of projects for water pollution control as authorized by section 8 (c) of the Water Pollution Control Act of June 30, 1948 (62 Stat. 1155), $750,000. Administrative expenses, water pollution control: For expenses necessary to carry out the administrative functions of the General Services Administration under the provisions of the Water Pollution Control Act of June 30, 1948 (62 Stat. 1155), as authorized by section 8 (e) of said Act, including personal services in the District of Columbia; travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles; health service programs as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); and exchange of books; $52,285. Virgin Islands public works: For an additional amount to carry out the provisions of the Act of December 20, 1944 (58 Stat. 827), $1,000,000, and, in addition, the General Services Administration is authorized to enter into contracts, for an amount not to exceed $1,467,000, for the purposes of this appropriation. Public works advance planning: Not to exceed $4,350,000 of the unexpended balances on June 30, 1950, of funds made available for public works advance planning under title V of the War Mobilization and Reconversion Act of 1944 (58 Stat. 791), are hereby continued available for expenditure until June 30, 1951. The sum of $1,324,000 carried in the said unexpended balances shall be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury immediately upon the approval of this Act. Liquidation of public works advance planning: Not to exceed $125,000 of the unobligated balance on June 30, 1950, of the funds made available for public works advance planning under title V of the War Mobilization and Reconversion Act of 1944 (58 Stat. 791) shall be available during the current fiscal year for administrative expenses incident to the liquidation of the activity for which said funds were appropriated, including the objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1946. War public works (community facilities) liquidation: For Administrative expenses necessary during the current fiscal year for the liquidation of all activities under titles II, III, and IV of the Act of October 14, 1940, as amended (42 U. S. C. 1531–1534, 1541, and 1562), except expenses related to the maintenance, operation and disposal of Federal project properties, and those in connection with the management and disposal of project securities, including personal services and rents in the District of Columbia; printing and binding; and a health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); not to exceed $40,000 of the unobligated balances of the funds heretofore appropriated for carrying out the provisions of titles II, III, and IV of the Act of October 14, 1940, as amended (42 U. S. C. 1531–1534, 1541, and 1562). Operating expenses: For necessary expenses of the General Services Administration not otherwise provided for, including: Operation, maintenance, protection, repair, and improvement of public buildings and grounds to the extent that such buildings and grounds are under the control of the General Services Administration for any of such purposes (including the operation, maintenance, and protection of the District Court Building in the District of Columbia); rental of buildings or parts thereof in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; the restoration of leased premises; moving Government agencies in connection with the assignment, allocation, and transfer of building space; ground rent, which may be paid in advance where required; demolition of buildings; furnishings and equipment; acquisition by purchase or otherwise and disposal by sale or otherwise of real estate and interests therein; payment of sums in lieu of taxes accruing against real property declared surplus by Government corporations under the Surplus Property Act of 1944, where legal title to such property remains in the Government corporation; compliance with the provisions of the National Industrial Reserve Act of 1948 (50 U. S. C. 4511Ï); payment of per diem employees employed in connection with any of the foregoing functions at rates approved by the Administrator of General Services or his designee not exceeding current rates for similar services in the place where such services are employed; arms and ammunition for the guard force; purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for guards and elevator operators; purchase of not to exceed twenty-three passenger motor vehicles; processing and determining net renegotiation rebates; liquidation of activities under the Act to promote the defense of the United States (55 Stat. 31); scientific, technical and other apparatus and materials for the arrangement, titling, scoring, repair, editing, processing, duplication, and reproduction of photographic and other records (including motion-picture and other films and sound recordings) in the custody of the Archivist of the United States and preparation of guides and other finding aids to records of the Second World War; $78,500,000. Section 322 of the Act of June 30, 1932, as amended (40 U. S. C. 278a) shall not apply to any lease entered into by, or transferred to, the General Services Administration, for the housing of agencies specifically exempted from the requirements of said section. The foregoing appropriation shall be credited with (1) advances or reimbursements for salaries and administrative expenses chargeable against other appropriations of the General Services administration, and such salaries and expenses may be paid from this appropriation; (2) advances or reimbursements for services, quarters, maintenance, or other facilities furnished other agencies on a reimbursable basis; (3) cost of maintenance, upkeep, and repair included as part of rentals received from Government corporations pursuant to law (40 U. S. C. 129); (4) reimbursements for services performed in respect to bonds and other obligations under the jurisdiction of the General Services Administration, issued by public authorities, States, or other public bodies, and such services in respect to such bonds or obligations as the Administrator deems necessary and in the public interest may, upon the request and at the expense of the issuing agencies, be provided from this appropriation; and (5) as respects property transferred to the General Services Administration pursuant to the Act of July 2, 1948 (50 U. S. C. 451ff), (a) advances or reimbursements for necessary utilities and services furnished private occupants of industrial plants, and such utilities and services may be provided at cost from this appropriation; (b) proceeds received from insurance against damage to such property, and such proceeds may, at the direction of the Secretary of Defense, be used to repair or restore the damaged property; and (c) appropriations or funds available to other agencies, and transferred to the General Services Administration, in connection with such property, and such appropriations or funds may, with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, be so transferred. Appropriations or other funds available to the General Services Administration shall be available during the current fiscal year for personal services in the District of Columbia; health service programs as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); printing and binding; purchase of newspapers and periodicals (not to exceed $400); preparation, shipment, and installation of photographic displays, exhibits, and other descriptive materials; and payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C.2672). During the current fiscal year, no part of any money appropriated in this or any other Act shall be used during any quarter of such fiscal year to purchase typewriting machines (except bookkeeping and billing machines) at a price which exceeds 90 per centum of the lowest net cash price, plus applicable Federal excise taxes, accorded the most-favored customer (other than the Government, the American National Red Cross, and the purchasers of typewriting machines for educational purposes only) of the manufacturer of such machines during the six-month period immediately preceding such quarter. No part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act for any agency of the executive branch of the Government (which shall include all departments, independent establishments, and wholly owned Government corporations) shall be used during the current fiscal year for the purchase within the continental limits of the United States of any typewriting machines (except typewriting machines for veterans under public laws administered by the Veterans’ administration) unless the Administrator of General Services certifies that he is unable to furnish such agency with suitable typewriting machines out of stock on hand. The Administrator of General Services is authorized and directed at such times as he may determine to be necessary to survey and determine the numbers and kinds of type- writing machines located in the continental limits of the United States which are at any time surplus to the requirements of any agency in the executive branch of the Government (which shall include all departments, independent establishments, and wholly owned Government corporations). Upon such determination, the Administrator of General Services is authorized to direct, upon such notice and in such manner as he may prescribe, the head of any such agency to surrender to the General Services Administration any and all typewriting machines surplus to its requirements, the costs of packing, shipping, and handling thereof to be charged to the general supply fund. Each such agency shall furnish the Administrator of General Services such information regarding typewriting machines, wherever located, as he may from time to time request. The General Services Administration is authorized and directed to receive, hold, sell, exchange, or supply to any branch of the Government, including the District of Columbia, typewriting machines surrendered to it hereunder. The Administrator of General Services is authorized to charge each agency to which typewriting machines are supplied hereunder amounts equal to the fair value thereof, as determined by him, and such amounts shall be credited to the general supply fund.

HOUSING AND HOME FINANCE AGENCY office of the administrator Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Office of the Administrator, including personal services and rent in the District of Columbia; purchase of one passenger motor vehicle, for replacement only; printing and binding; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with the work of the agency; payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672); a health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); and transportation expenses and not to exceed $25 per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 73b–2), for persons serving without compensation as members of any advisory committee established pursuant to Title VI of the Housing Act of 1949; $4,200,000: Provided, That the Administrator may, with the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, transfer to this account from funds of the constituent agencies such sums as relate primarily to functions which are consolidated in the Office of the Administrator as authorized by Title III of the Housing Act of 1948, as amended: Provided further, That necessary expenses of inspections of projects financed through loans to educational institutions authorized by Title IV of the Housing Act of 1950 shall be compensated by such institutions by the payment of fixed fees which in the aggregate in relation to the development costs of such projects will cover the costs of rendering such services, and expenses for such purpose shall be considered nonadministrative, and for the purpose of providing such inspections, the Administrator may utilize any agency and such agency may accept reimbursement or payment for such services from such institutions or the administrator, and shall credit such amounts to the appropriations or funds against which such charges have been made. public housing administration Annual contributions: For the payment of annual contributions to public housing agencies in accordance with section 10 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U. S. C. 1410), $7,500,000: Provided, That except for payments required on contracts entered into prior to April 18, 1940, no part of this appropriation shall be available for payment to any public housing agency for expenditure in connection with any low-rent housing project, unless the public housing agency shall have adopted regulations prohibiting as a tenant of any such project by rental or occupancy any person other than a citizen of the United States, but such prohibition shall not be applicable in the case of a family of any serviceman or the family of any veteran who has been discharged (other than dishonorably) from, or the family and any serviceman who died in, the armed forces of the United States within four years prior to the date of application for admission to such housing: Provided further, That all expenditures of this appropriation shall be subject to audit and final settlement by the Comptroller General of the United States under the provisions of the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, as amended. Administrative expenses: For administrative expenses of the Public Housing Administration, $9,000,000, to be merged with and expended under the authorization for such expenses contained in title II of this chapter.

INDIAN CLAIMS COMMISSION Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary to carry out the purposes of the Act of August 13, 1946 (25 U. S. C. 70), creating an Indian Claims Commission, including personal services in the District of Columbia and printing and Binding, $91,700, together with not exceeding $7,300 of the unobligated balance available for such purpose contained in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1950.

INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION General expenses: For expenses necessary in performing the functions vested by law in the Commission (49 U. S. C. 1–24, 301–327, 901–923, 1001–1022), except those otherwise specifically provided for in this Act, and for general administration, including not to exceed $5,000 for the employment of special counsel; contract stenographic reporting services; personal services in the District of Columbia; newspapers (not to exceed $200); health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672); purchase of twenty passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; and printing and binding; $9,889,600 (and any part of the amounts of $100,000 for valuations of pipe lines, and $3,831,920 for the work of the Bureau of Motor Carriers, contained in this paragraph, may be transferred as the Commission may determine for carrying out other functions of the Commission), of which $100,000 shall be available for valuations of pipe lines, and $3,831,920 shall be available for the work of the Bureau of Motor Carriers: Provided, That Joint Board members and cooperating State commissioners may use Government transportation requests when traveling in connection with their duties as such. Railroad safety: For expenses necessary in performing functions authorized by law (45 U. S. C. 1–15, 17–21, 35–46, 61–64; 49 U. S. C. 26) to insure a maximum of safety in the operation of railroads, including authority to investigate, test experimentally, and report on the use and need of any appliances or systems intended to promote the safety of railway operation, including those pertaining to block-signal and train-control systems, as authorized by the joint resolution approved June 30, 1906, and the Sundry Civil Act of May 27, 1908 (45 U. S. C. 35–37), and to require carriers by railroad subject to the Act to install automatic train-stop or train-control devices as prescribed by the Commission (49 U. S. C. 26), including the employment of inspectors, engineers, and personal services in the District of Columbia, and payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672), $1,000,000. Locomotive inspection: For expenses necessary in the enforcement of the Act of February 17, 1911, entitled “An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto”, as amended (45 U. S. C. 22–34), including personal services in the District of Columbia, and payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672), $718,600.

INTERSTATE COMMISSION ON THE POTOMAC RIVER BASIN Contribution to Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay in advance to the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin the Federal contribution toward the expenses of the Commission during the current fiscal year in the administration of its business in the conservancy district established pursuant to the Act of July 11, 1940 (54 Stat. 748), $5,000.

MOTOR CARRIER CLAIMS COMMISSION salaries and expenses For expenses necessary for the Motor Carrier Claims Commission established by the Act of July 2, 1948 (Public Law 880), including personal services in the District of Columbia, travel, printing and binding, and services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), $190,000.

NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Committee, including contracts for the making of special investigations and reports and for engineering, drafting and computing services; equipment, maintenance, and operation of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, and the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory; purchase and maintenance of cafeteria equipment; maintenance and operation of aircraft; purchase of eight passenger motor vehicles of which seven shall be for replacement; printing and binding; personal services in the District of Columbia; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672); and a health service program for employees as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); in all, $42,500,000: Provided, That statutory provisions prohibiting the payment of compensation to aliens shall not apply to any person whose employment by the Committee shall be determined by the Chairman thereof to be necessary: Provided further, That aircraft and parts, equipment, and supplies may be transferred to the Committee by the Air Force, Army, and Navy without reimbursement: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the operation of a field office outside the continental or territorial limits of the United States. Construction and equipment: For construction and equipment at laboratories and research stations of the Committee, to be available until June 30 of the next succeeding year, $15,500,000, of which $10,000,000 and $5,000,000 shall be available for payments under contracts entered into pursuant to the contract authority under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Acts, 1949 and 1950 respectively: Provided, That in addition, the Committee may enter into contracts for the purposes of this appropriation in an amount not in excess of $11,000,000.

NATIONAL CAPITAL HOUSING AUTHORITY Maintenance and operation of properties: For the maintenance and operation of properties under title I of the District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Authority Act $38,000: Provided, That all receipts derived from sales, leases, or other sources shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States monthly: Provided further, That so long as funds are available from appropriations for the foregoing purposes, the provisions of section 507 of the Housing Act of 1950 (Public Law 475, Eighty-first Congress) shall not be effective.

NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLANNING COMMISSION Land acquisition, National Capital and metropolitan area: For necessary expenses for the National Capital Park and Planning Commission m connection with the acquisition of land for the park, parkway, and playground system of the National Capital, as authorized by the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), and amendment of August 8, 1946 (60 Stat. 960), including services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), and real estate appraisers, by contract or otherwise without regard to the civil service and Classification laws, at rates of pay or fees not to exceed those usual for similar services; and purchase of options and other costs incident to the acquisition of land; $724,500, to remain available until expended, $480,500 of said sum to be used for carrying out the provisions of section 1 (b) of said Act and $244,000 for carrying out the provisions of section 4 of said Act: Provided, That not exceeding $29,000 of the funds available under the above appropriation during the current fiscal year may be used for regular and part-time personal services of the Commission, excepting services by contract.

OFFICE OF SELECTIVE SERVICE RECORDS Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the operation and maintenance of the Office of Selective Service Records, as authorized by the Act of March 31, 1947 (61 Stat. 31), and by section 10 (a) (4) of the Selective Service Act of 1948 (62 Stat. 604), including personal services in the District of Columbia; printing and binding; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672); and a health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); $4,954,000.

PHILIPPINE WAR DAMAGE COMMISSION Philippine War Damage Commission: For carrying out the provisions of title I of the Philippine Rehabilitation Act of 1946, $40,200,000, to remain available until April 30, 1951, of which not to exceed $1,620,000 shall be for necessary expenses of the Philippine War Damage Commission for the current fiscal year, including personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase of newspapers and periodicals not to exceed $200; housing of American employees by rental or lease and necessary repairs and alterations to and maintenance of quarters, without regard to section 322 of the Act of June 30, 1932, as amended (40 U. S. C. 278a); printing and binding without regard to section 11 of the Act of March 1, 1919 (44 U. S. C. 111); and services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a): Provided, That the provisions of the Act of June 29, 1936 (46 U. S. C. 1241), shall not apply to any travel or transportation of effects payable from this appropriation: Provided further, That no payment shall be made under the provisions of such title of such Act to any person who, by a civil or military court having jurisdiction, has been found guilty of collaborating with the enemy or of any act involving disloyalty to the United States or the Republic of the Philippines or, m any case involving charges of such collaboration or disloyalty which have not been adjudicated by any such court, where the Commission, after hearing and evidence, certifies that it is satisfied that the person so charged is guilty of such collaboration or disloyalty: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for engaging in any phase of activity or for undertaking any phase of activity authorized by the Philippine Rehabilitation Act of 1946 which would result in obligating the Government of the United States in any sense or respect to the future payment of amounts in excess of the amounts authorized to be appropriated in such Act.

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia; health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672); not to exceed $1, 150 for the purchase of newspapers; printing and binding; and services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); $6,230,000.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Salaries and expenses, Smithsonian Institution: For all necessary expenses for the preservation, exhibition, and increase of collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government and from other sources; for the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries; for anthropological researches among the American Indians and the natives of lands under the jurisdiction or protection of the United States, independently or in cooperation with State, educational, and scientific organizations in the United States, and the excavation and preservation of archeological remains; for maintenance of the Astrophysical Observatory and making necessary observations in high altitudes; for the administration of the National Collection of Fine Arts; for the administration, and for the construction and maintenance, of laboratory and other facilities on Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone, under the provisions of the Act of July 2, 1940, as amended by the provisions of Reorganization Plan Numbered 3 of 1946; for the maintenance and administration of a national air museum as authorized by the Act of August 12, 1946 (20 U. S. C. 77); including personal services in the District of Columbia and not to exceed $35,000 for services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); traveling expenses; payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672); a health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); printing and binding, including printing the report of the American Historical Association; purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for guards and elevator conductors; repairs and alterations of buildings and approaches; and preparation of manuscripts, drawings, and illustrations for publications; $2,700,000. Salaries and expenses, National Gallery of Art: For the upkeep and operation of the National Gallery of Art, the protection and care of the works of art therein, and administrative expenses incident thereto, as authorized by the Act of March 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51), as amended by the public resolution of April 13, 1939 (Public Resolution 9, Seventy-sixth Congress), including personal services in the District of Columbia; health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672); services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); traveling expenses; payment in advance when authorized by the treasurer of the Gallery for membership in library, museum, and art associations or societies whose publications or services are available to members only, or to members at a price lower than to the general public; purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for guards and elevator operators; printing and binding; purchase or rental of devices and services for protecting buildings and contents thereof, and maintenance and repair of buildings, approaches, and grounds; and not to exceed $15,000 for restoration and repair of works of art for the National Gallery of Art by contracts made, without advertising, with individuals, firms, or organizations at such rates or prices and under such terms and conditions as the Gallery may deem proper, $1,179,000.

TARIFF COMMISSION Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Tariff Commission, including personal services in the District of Columbia, printing and binding, subscriptions to newspapers (not to exceed $250), health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150), and contract stenographic reporting services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), $1,290,700: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay the salary of any member of the Tariff Commission who shall hereafter participate in any proceedings under sections 336, 337, and 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, wherein he or any member of his family has any special, direct, and pecuniary interest, or in which he has acted as attorney or special representative.

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, as amended (16 U. S. C., ch. 12A), including purchase (not to exceed two) and hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of aircraft; the purchase (not to exceed two hundred and twenty-five for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles, $102,714,000 to remain available until expended, and to be available for the payment of obligations chargeable against prior appropriations.

THE TAX COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses, including printing and binding and contract stenographic reporting services, $826,900: Provided, That travel expenses of the judges shall be paid upon the written certificate of the judge.

UNITED STATES MARITIME COMMISSION Ship construction: For new ship construction, including reconditioning and betterment, as authorized by title V of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 (except for construction of one prototype vessel under title VII of said Act), $35,000,000, of which $30,000,000 is for payment of obligations for new ship construction incurred under authority granted in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1948; and, in addition, the Commission is authorized to enter into contracts for new ship construction in an amount not to exceed $63,000,000: Provided, That not to exceed $64,875,000 of the funds and contract authority made available for new ship construction, including reconditioning and betterment, in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1950, shall continue to be available until December 31, 1950: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation or contract authorization shall be used (1) to start any new ship construction for which an estimate was not included in the budget for the current fiscal year; or (2) to start any new ship construction the currently estimated cost of which exceeds by 10 per centum the estimated cost included therefor in such budget unless the Director of the Bureau of the Budget specifically approves the start of such ship construction and the Director shall submit forthwith a detailed explanation thereof to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and of the House of Representatives; and, as used herein, the term “budget” includes the detailed justification supporting the budget estimates. Operating-differential subsidies: For operating-differential subsidies, as authorized by the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, $26,450,000, together with funds appropriated under this head in the Supplemental Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1949, the independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1950, not to exceed $16,770,000 from the special deposit account established with receipts from sales under Public Laws 44 and 305 of the Seventy-eighth Congress, and not to exceed $3,529,000 from the special deposit account established from the refund of unobligated amounts out of the working fund established with the Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, for development of reserve fleet sites, all to be available until expended for payment of operating-differential subsidies for the fiscal years 1949, 1950, and 1951, to grant operating-differential subsidies on a long-term basis and to obligate the United States to make future payments in accordance with the terms of such contracts: Provided, That to the extent that the operating-differential subsidy accrual (computed on the basis of parity) is represented on the operator’s books by a contingent accounts receivable item against the Commission as a partial or complete offset to the recapture accrual, the operator (1) shall be excused from making deposits in the special reserve fund, and (2) as to the amount of such earnings the deposit of which is so excused shall be, entitled to the same tax treatment as though it had been deposited in said special reserve fund. To the extent that any amount paid to the operator by the Commission reduces the balance in the operator’s contingent receivable account against the Commission, such amount, unless it is forthwith deposited in the fund, shall be considered as withdrawn under section 607 (h) of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended: Provided further, That nothing contained in this Act, or in any prior appropriation Act, shall be construed to affect the authority of the Commission pursuant to the provisions of section 603 (a) of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, (1) to grant operating-differential subsidies on a long-term basis, and (2) to obligate the United States to make future payments in accordance with the terms of such operating-differential subsidy contracts: Provided further, That no part of the foregoing appropriation shall be available for obligation, nor any obligation made, for the payment of an operating-differential subsidy for any number of ships in excess of the number of two hundred and sixty-three, unless a certificate has been received from the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, with the approval of the Secretary of Defense, that an operating differential subsidy is required for a larger number of such ships in connection with national defense: Provided further, That the balance in excess of $16,770,000 as of June 30, 1950, in the special deposit account established with receipts from sales under Public Laws 44 and 305 of the Seventy-eighth Congress, together with any receipts after that date from such sales, shall be covered into miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury. Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for carrying into effect the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, and other laws administered by the United States Maritime Commission, $19,903,300, within limitations as follows: Administrative expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia; printing and binding; not to exceed $2,000 for newspapers and periodicals; purchase of live passenger motor vehicles, for replacement only; not to exceed $17,700 for services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); not to exceed $1, 125 for entertainment of officials of other countries when specifically authorized by the Chairman; payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672); and $50,000 to be available exclusively for ship structure research, testing and models; $9,271,000: Provided, That the Maritime Commission is authorized to dispense with the administrative audit of agents’ accounts covering voyages beginning prior to April 1, 1949; Maintenance of shipyard facilities, $452,000; Operation of warehouses, $436,000; Reserve fleet expense, $8,978,600; Maintenance and operation of terminals, $765,000. Maritime training: For training personnel for the manning of the merchant marine (including operation of training stations at Kings Point, New York; Sheepshead Bay, New York; Alameda, California, and the United States Maritime Service Institute), including not to exceed $2,477,000 for administrative personal services (exclusive of pay of cadet midshipmen and other trainees) in the District of Columbia and elsewhere which may be used to provide pay and Allowances for personnel of the United States Maritime Service comparable to those of the Coast Guard as authorized by law (46 U. S. C. 1126, 14 F. R. 7707); purchase of three passenger motor vehicles, for replacement only; printing and binding; health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); not to exceed $2,500 for contingencies for the Superintendent, United States Merchant Marine Academy, to be expended in his discretion; not to exceed $77,000 for transfer to applicable appropriations of the Public Health Service for services rendered the Commission; $4,348,520, including the pay of cadet midshipmen and other trainees. State marine schools: To reimburse the State of California, $50,000; the State of Maine, $50,000; the State of Massachusetts, $50,000; and the State of New York, $50,000; for expenses incurred in the maintenance and support of marine schools in such States as provided in the Act authorizing the establishment of marine schools, and so forth, approved March 4, 1911, as amended (34 U. S. C. 1121–1123); $153,000 for the maintenance and repair of vessels loaned by the United States to the said States for use in connection with such State marine schools, and $749,050 for the pay of seven hundred and ten cadet midshipmen at $65 per month and $275 per annum for the subsistence of each cadet midshipman; $1, 102,050. Vessel operating functions: For expenses (other than Administrative expenses) necessary for liquidating the operating functions transferred to the United States Maritime Commission by section 202 of the Naval Appropriation Act, 1947 (60 Stat. 501), $764,760, together with not to exceed $150,000 of the unobligated balance for this purpose contained in the Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1949, which latter sum, together with not to exceed $150,000 of the amount herein appropriated, shall be available for liquidation of liens or claims which may take precedence over the Government’s preferred mortgage on vessels, and other expenses necessary to protect the Government’s interest in vessels sold or chartered: Provided, That receipts from such functions during the current fiscal year shall be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. No additional vessels shall be allocated under charter, nor shall any vessel be continued under charter by reason of any extension of chartering authority beyond June 30, 1949, unless the charterer shall agree that the Commission shall have no obligation upon redelivery to accept or pay for consumable stores, bunkers, and slop-chest items, except with respect to such minimum amounts of bunkers as the Commission considers advisable to be retained on the vessel and that prior to such redelivery all consumable stores, slop-chest items, and bunker’s over and above such minimums shall be removed from the vessel by the charterer at his own expense. War Shipping Administration liquidation: The unexpended balance of the appropriation to the Secretary of the Treasury in the Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1948, for liquidation of obligations approved by the General Accounting Office as properly incurred against funds of the War Shipping Administration prior to January 1, 1947, is hereby continued available during the current fiscal year. Construction fund: For an additional amount for payment of obligations (exclusive of obligations for ship construction, reconditioning, and betterments incurred pursuant to authority contained in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1948) incurred prior to July 1, 1948, against the Construction fund established pursuant to the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, $10,000,000, to be available until June 30, 1951, for expenditure only. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Commission is authorized to furnish utilities and services and make necessary repairs in connection with any lease, contract, or occupancy involving Government property under control of the Commission, and payments received by the Commission for utilities, services, and repairs so furnished or made shall be credited to the appropriation charged with the cost thereof: Provided, That rental payments under any such lease, contract, or occupancy on account of items other than such utilities, services, or repairs shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. The United States Maritime Commission shall not incur any obligations during the current fiscal year from the construction fund established by the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, or otherwise, in excess of the appropriations and limitations contained in this chapter, or in any prior appropriation Act, and all receipts which otherwise would be deposited to the credit of said fund shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.

VETERANS’ ADMINISTRATION Administration, medical, hospital, and domiciliary services: For necessary expenses of the Veterans’ Administration, including maintenance and operation of medical, hospital, and domiciliary services, in carrying out the functions pursuant to all laws for which the Administration is charged with administering, including personal services in the District of Columbia; health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); purchase of ninety-three passenger motor vehicles for replacement only, and one without reference to the provisions of this or any other Act; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); maintenance and operation of farms; recreational articles and facilities at Institutions maintained by the Veterans’ Administration; expenses incidental to securing employment for war veterans; funeral, burial, and other expenses incidental thereto for beneficiaries of the Veterans’ Administration except burial awards authorized by Veterans’ Administration Regulation Numbered 9 (a), as amended; aid to State or Territorial homes in conformity with the Act approved August 27, 1888, as amended (24 U. S. C. 134), for the support of veterans eligible for admission to Veterans’ Administration facilities for hospital or domiciliary care; not to exceed $5,600 for newspapers and periodicals; payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672); not to exceed $44,000 for the preparation, shipment, installation, and display of exhibits, photographic displays, moving pictures, and other visual educational information and descriptive material, including the purchase or rental of equipment; and not to exceed $800,000 for research work in connection with prosthetic appliances: $881,750,000, together with not to exceed $179,000 of the unobligated balance of funds appropriated for this purpose in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1950 from which allotments and transfers may be made to the Federal Security Agency (Public Health Service), the Army, Navy, and Interior Departments, for disbursements by them under the various headings of their applicable Appropriations, of such amounts as are necessary for the care and treatment of beneficiaries of the Veterans’ Administration: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay in excess of seventy persons engaged in public relations work: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of any site for or toward the construction of any new hospital or home, or for the purchase of any hospital or home; and not more than $4,708,000 of this appropriation may be used to repair, alter, improve, or provide facilities in the several hospitals and homes under the jurisdiction of the Veterans’ Administration either by contract or by the hire of temporary employees and the purchase of materials: Provided further, That hereafter the Administrator shall assign as his representatives, as provided for in the last sentence of section 1100 (a) of the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 (38 U. S. C. 696f), only such numbers of regional or sectional representatives as he finds necessary to provide for the processing of readjustment allowances in an efficient and economical manner. Compensation and pensions: For the payment of compensation, pensions, gratuities, and allowances (including subsistence allowances authorized by part VII of Veterans Regulation la, as amended), authorized under any Act of Congress, or regulation of the President based thereon, including emergency officers’ retirement pay and annuities, the administration of which is now or may hereafter be placed in the Veterans’ Administration, and for the payment of adjusted-service credits as provided in sections 401 and 601 of the Act of May 19, 1924, as amended (38 U. S. C. 631 and 661), $2, 147,520,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended. Readjustment benefits: For the payment of benefits to or on behalf of veterans as authorized by titles II, III, and V, of the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, $2,505,600,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended. Military and naval insurance: For military and naval insurance, $6,830,000 to remain available until expended. Hospital and domiciliary facilities: For hospital and domiciliary facilities, $160,000,000, to remain available until expended for the payment of obligations heretofore or herein authorized to be incurred under this head, for extending, with the approval of the President, any of the facilities under the jurisdiction of the Veterans’ Administration or for any of the purposes set forth in sections 1 and 2 of the Act approved March 4, 1931 (38 U. S. C. 438 j–k) or in section 101 of the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 (38 U. S. C. 693a): Provided, That the authority contained in the Third Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1946, the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1948, the Supplemental Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1949, and the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1950, to incur obligations for the purposes specified in those Acts, is hereby extended to July 1, 1952: Provided further, That not to exceed 5.5 per centum of the foregoing appropriation and contract authorizations shall be available for the employment in the District of Columbia and in the field of all necessary technical and clerical personnel for the preparation of plans and specifications for the projects as approved hereunder and in the supervision of the execution thereof, and for all travel expenses, field office equipment, and supplies in connection therewith, except that whenever the Veterans’ Administration finds it necessary in the construction of any project to employ other Government agencies or persons outside the Federal service to perform such services not to exceed 9 per centum of the cost of such projects may be expended for such services: Provided further, That the amount of the foregoing contract authorizations available for obligation for portable initial equipment, is increased from $10,000,000 to $25,000,000, including the purchase of one hundred and seventy-six passenger motor vehicles. National service life insurance: For the payment of benefits and for transfer to the national service life insurance fund, in accordance with the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, as amended, $31,600,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That certain premiums shall be credited to this appropriation as provided by the Act. Veterans’ miscellaneous benefits: For the payment of burial awards authorized by Veterans’ Administration Regulation Numbered 9 (a), as amended, and for supplies, equipment, and tuition authorized by part VII and payments authorized by part IX of Veterans’ Administration Regulation Numbered 1 (a), as amended, $71, 100,000, to remain available until expended. Grants to the Republic of the Philippines: For payments to the Republic of the Philippines of grants in accordance with the Act of July 1, 1948 (Public Law 865), for expenses incident to medical care and treatment of veterans, $3,285,000. No part of the foregoing appropriations shall be available for hospitalization or examination of any persons except beneficiaries entitled under the laws bestowing such benefits to veterans, unless reimbursement of cost is made to the appropriation at such rates as may be fixed by the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs.

WAR CLAIMS COMMISSION payment of claims For payment of claims, as authorized by the War Claims Act of 1948, from funds deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the war claims fund created by section 13 (a) of said Act, such sums as may be necessary, to be available to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment of claims under sections 4 (a), 4 (b) (2), 5 (e), 6 (b), and 7 Positions formerly held by employees who entered armed forces. of said Act to the payees named and in the amounts stated in certifications by the War Claims Commission and the Federal Security Administrator or their duly authorized representatives, which certifications shall be in lieu or any vouchers which might otherwise be required: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be available for administrative expenses: Provided further, That no claims shall be allowed or paid under the provisions of said War Claims Act of 1948 from any funds other than those covered into the Treasury pursuant to the provisions of section 39 of the Trading With the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917, as amended, as provided by section 13 (a) of said War Claims Act of 1948. administrative expenses For expenses necessary for the War Claims Commission, including personal services in the District of Columbia; travel; printing and binding; purchase of one passenger motor vehicle; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the purposes of this appropriation; and advances or reimbursements to other Government agencies for use of their facilities and services in carrying out the functions of the Commission; $600,000, to be derived from the war claims fund created by section 13 (a) of the War Claims Act of 1948 (Public Law 896, approved July 3, 1948).

TITLE II— CORPORATIONS

The following corporations and agencies, respectively, are hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authority available to each such corporation or agency and in accord with Jaw, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation Control Act, as amended, as may be

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necessary in carrying out the programs set forth in the Budget for the fiscal year 1951 for each such corporation or agency, except as hereinafter provided:

HOUSING AND HOME FINANCE AGENCY Home Loan Bank Board: Not to exceed a total of $455,000 to be derived from the special deposit account established under the provisions under the head “Federal Home Loan Bank Administration” in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1944, and from receipts of the Federal Home Loan Bank Administration, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, or the Home Loan Bank Board for the current fiscal year and prior fiscal years, shall be available during the current fiscal year for administrative expenses of the Home Loan Bank Board, including health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150), and the Board may utilize and may make payment for services and facilities of the Federal home-loan banks, the Federal Reserve banks, the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, and other agencies of the Government: Provided, That all necessary expenses in connection with the conservatorship of institutions insured by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation and all necessary expenses (including services performed on a contract or fee basis, but not including other personal services) in connection with the handling, including the purchase, sale, and exchange, of securities on behalf of Federal home-loan banks, and the sale, issuance, and retirement of, or payment of interest on, debentures or bonds, under the Federal Home Loan Bank Act, as amended, shall be considered as nonadministrative expenses for the purposes hereof: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, except for the limitation in amount herein-before specified, the administrative expenses and other obligations of the Board shall be incurred, allowed, and paid in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act of July 22, 1932, as amended (12 U. S. C. 1421–1449). Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation: Not to exceed $635,000 shall be available for administrative expenses, including health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150), which shall be on an accrual basis and shall be exclusive of interest paid, depreciation, properly capitalized expenditures, expenses in connection with liquidation of insured institutions, liquidation or handling of assets of or derived from insured institutions, payment of insurance, and action for or toward the avoidance, termination, or minimizing of losses in the case of specific insured institutions, and legal fees and expenses, and said Corporation may utilize and may make payment for services and facilities of the Federal home-loan banks, the Federal Reserve banks, the Home Loan Bank Board, the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, and other agencies of the Government: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, except for the limitation in amount hereinbefore specified, the Administrative expenses and other obligations of said Corporation shall be incurred, allowed and paid in accordance with title IV of the Act of June 27, 1934, as amended (12 U. S. C. 1724–1730). Home Owners’ Loan Corporation: Not to exceed $1,400,000 shall be available for administrative expenses, including health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150), which shall be on an accrual basis and shall be exclusive of interest paid, depreciation, properly capitalized expenditures, expenses (including personal services) in connection with the termination or liquidation of accounts carried on the books of the Corporation not to exceed $500,000, expenses (including services performed on a force account, contract, or fee basis, but not including other personal services) in connection with the acquisition, protection, operation, maintenance, improvement, or disposition of real or personal property belonging to said Corporation or in which it has an interest, and legal fees and expenses, and said Corporation may utilize and may make payment for services and facilities of the Federal home-loan banks, the Federal Reserve banks, the Home Loan Bank Board, the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, and other agencies of the Government: Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, except for the limitation in amount hereinbefore specified, the administrative expenses and other obligations of said Corporation shall be incurred, allowed, and paid in accordance with the Home Owners’ Loan Act of 1933, as amended (12 U. S. C. 1461–1468). Federal Housing Administration: In addition to the amounts available by or pursuant to law (which shall be transferred to this authorization) for the administrative expenses of the Federal Housing Administration in carrying out duties imposed by or pursuant to law, not to exceed $5,425,000 of the various funds of the Federal Housing Administration shall be available for expenditure, in accordance with the National Housing Act, as amended (12 U. S. C. 1701): Provided, That, except as herein otherwise provided, all expenses and obligations of said Administration shall be incurred, allowed, and paid in accordance with the provisions of said Act: Provided further, That funds available for expenditure shall be available for contract actuarial services (not to exceed $1,500); purchase of periodicals and newspapers (not to exceed $1,500); health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); and the purchase of two passenger motor vehicles, of which one shall be for replacement only. Public Housing Administration: Of the amounts available by or pursuant to law for the administrative expenses of the Public Housing Administration in carrying out duties imposed by or pursuant to law including funds appropriated by title I of this chapter, not to exceed $15,024,000 shall be available for such expenses, including purchase of not to exceed nine passenger motor vehicles, of which eight shall be for replacement only; expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with the work of the Administration; and a health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150): Provided, That necessary expenses of providing representatives of the Administration at the sites of non-Federal projects in connection with the construction of such non-Federal projects by public housing agencies with tile aid of the Administration, shall be compensated by such agencies by the payment of fixed fees which in the aggregate in relation to the development costs of such projects will cover the costs of rendering such services, and expenditures by the Administration for such purpose shall be considered nonadministrative expenses, and funds received from such payments may be used only for the payment of necessary expenses of providing representatives of the administration at the sites of non-Federal projects or for administrative expenses of the Administration not in excess of the amount authorized by the Congress: Provided further, That the Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency may relinquish and transfer, pursuant to the same general terms and conditions specified in subsections 505 (a) and (b) of the Act of October 14, 1940, as added by the Act of June 28, 1948 (Public Law 796), title to temporary housing provided for certain veterans and their families under title V of said Act of October 14, 1940, as amended, to any State, county, city, other public body, educational institution, or nonprofit organization: Provided further, That any application for such relinquishment and transfer shall be filed with the Administrator by December 31, 1950: Provided further, That funds made available by the Act of June 29, 1936 (49 Stat. 2035) shall be available for necessary expenses, including administrative expenses, of the Public Housing Administration in carrying out the provisions of the Act of May 19, 1949 (Public Law 65).

INLAND WATERWAYS CORPORATION Inland Waterways Corporation (administered under the supervision and direction of the Secretary of Commerce): Not to exceed $542,000 shall be available for administrative expenses, to be determined in the manner set forth under the title “General expenses” in the Uniform System of Accounts for Carriers by Water of the Interstate Commerce Commission (effective January 1, 1947): Provided, That no funds shall be used to pay compensation of employees normally subject to the Classification Act of 1949 at rates in excess of rates fixed for similar services under the provisions of said Act, nor to pay the compensation of vessel employees and such terminal and other employees as are not covered by said Act, at rates in excess of rates prevailing in the river transportation industry in the area (including prevailing leave allowances for vessel employees, but the granting of such allowances shall not be construed as establishing a different leave system within the meaning of that term as used in section 3 of the Act of December 21, 1944 (5 U. S. C. Old)).

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY Not to exceed $4,026,000 of the funds available to the Tennessee Valley Authority, shall be available during the current fiscal year for all administrative and general expenses of the Corporation, which expenses shall be inclusive of costs of all administrative offices and other activities representing management and other functions serving the programs and projects of the Corporation in general.

General Provisions

TITLE I— INDEPENDENT OFFICES

NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the National Security Council, including personal services in the District of Columbia; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), at rates not in excess of $50 per diem for individuals; printing and binding; payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672); acceptance and utilization of voluntary and uncompensated services; and expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with work related to the activity of the Council; $160,000.

NATIONAL SECURITY RESOURCES BOARD Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the National Security Resources Board, including personal services in the District of Columbia; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), at rates for individuals not in excess of $50 per diem and contracts with temporary or part-time employees may be renewed for one year; expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with the work of the National Security Resources Board; printing and binding; travel expenses; purchase (not to exceed one for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672); a health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); reimbursement of the General Services Administration for security guard services for protection of confidential files; and not to exceed $5,000 for emergency and extraordinary expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Chairman for such purposes as he deems proper, and his determination thereon shall be final and conclusive; $3,500,000.

TITLE II— DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary of Defense salaries and expenses For expenses necessary for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Armed Forces Policy Council, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Joint Staff, the Munitions Board, and the Research and Development Board, including personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase (not to exceed four, including one at not to exceed $3,000) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and not to exceed $50,000 for emergency and extraordinary expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Defense for such purposes as he deems proper, and his determination thereon shall be final and conclusive; $11,300,000. claims For payment of claims by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Army (except as provided in appropriations for civil functions administered by the Department of the Army), Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 946; 28 U. S. C. 2672; 31 U. S. C. 222c, 222e, 223b, 223d, 224d; 34 U. S. C. 600; 35 U. S. C. 91; 39 U. S. C. 135; 46 U. S. C. 797; Act of November 15, 1945, 59 Stat. 582); claims (not to exceed $1,000 in any one case) for damages to or loss of private property incident to the operation of Army and Air National Guard camps of instruction, either during the stay of units of said organizations at such camps or while en route thereto or therefrom; claims, as authorized by law, for damage to property of railroads under training contracts; and repayment of amounts determined by the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, or the Secretary of the Air Force, or officers designated by them, to have been erroneously collected from military and civilian personnel of the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force or from States, Territories, or the District of Columbia, or members of National Guard units thereof; $5,000,000. retired pay For retired pay and retirement pay, as authorized by law, of military personnel on the retired lists of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the Air Force, including the reserve components thereof; and retainer pay for personnel of the inactive Fleet Reserve; $342,000,000.

TITLE III— DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

Office of the Secretary of the Army contingencies of the army For emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising in the Department of the Army or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices in the District of Columbia, or in the Army at large, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, including personal services; the actual and necessary expenses or per diem in lieu thereof, as may be determined and approved by the Secretary of the Army, of military and civilian personnel in and under the Department of the Army on special duty in foreign countries; and for examination of estimates of Appropriations and of military activities in the field, to be expended on the approval or authority of the Secretary of the Army, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, and his determination thereon shall be final and conclusive upon the accounting officers of the Government and payments from this appropriation may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Army, be made on his certificate that the expenditures were necessary for confidential military purposes; $51,878,000.

General Staff Corps field exercises For expenses, not otherwise provided for; required for the conduct of special field exercises, including participation therein by the National Guard and the Organized Reserves, and including personal services of temporary employees, expenses of troop movements and temporary duty travel of military and civilian personnel, in connection with special field exercises, including special combat training for small units, movement of materiel, maintenance and operation of structures and utilities, rental of land or purchase of options to rent land without reference to section 3648, Revised Statutes, and for use or repair of private property, $5,350,000. inter-american relations, department of the army For expenses necessary to enable the Secretary of the Army to adopt such measures, appropriate to the functions and activities of the Department of the Army, as he may deem advisable, to promote better relations with the other American countries, including transportation and subsistence expenses, while traveling in the Western Hemisphere, of Army officers and military students of the other American countries and Army officers of the United States, $432,000.

Finance Department finance service, army For Finance Service, Army, to be accounted for as one fund, as follows— pay of the army For pay and allowances (except commuted rations for enlisted personnel) of cadets and all other personnel of the Army of the United States on active duty (other than personnel of the Reserve components, including the National Guard, on active duty while undergoing Reserve training); pay of civilian employees at military headquarters; interest on soldiers’ deposits; payment of life insurance premiums authorized by law; mustering-out payments, as authorized by the “Mustering-Out Payment Act of 1944 ‘, as amended (38 U. S. C. 691–691g), to persons who were or may be denied such payments because they were discharged from the Army to enter the United States Military Academy or the United States Naval Academy and subsequently were discharged from either academy because of physical disability; expenses of military courts, boards and commissions; expenses of apprehension and delivery of deserters, escaped military prisoners, and soldiers absent without leave, including payment of rewards, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Army, not exceeding $25 in any one case, to civil officers and citizens, costs of confinement of military prisoners in nonmilitary facilities, donations of not to exceed $25 to each civilian prisoner upon each release from an Army prison and each soldier discharged otherwise than honorably upon each release from confinement under court-martial sentence, and donations of not to exceed $10, as authorized by law, to each person discharged for fraudulent enlistment; $1,447,660,000: Provided, That section 212 of the Act of June 30, 1932 (5 U. S. C. 59a), shall not apply to retired military personnel on duty at the United States Soldiers’ Home: Provided further, That the duties of librarian at the United States Military Academy may be performed by an officer of the Regular Army retired from active service, and detailed on active duty for that purpose; travel of the army For travel allowances and travel in kind, as authorized by law, for persons traveling in connection with the military activities of the Department of the Army, including mileage, transportation, reimbursement of actual expenses, or per diem allowances, to officers, contract surgeons, and others whose rank, pay and allowances are assimilated to officers; transportation of troops; transportation, or reimbursement therefor, of cadets, enlisted personnel, recruits, recruiting parties, applicants for enlistment between places of acceptance for enlistment and recruiting stations, rejected applicants for enlistment, general prisoners, cadets and accepted cadets from their homes to the Military Academy, discharged cadets, civilian employees, civilian witnesses before courts martial, and dependents of civilian and military personnel; travel pay to discharged military personnel; transportation of discharged or paroled prisoners and persons discharged from Saint Elizabeths Hospital after transfer thereto from the military service; transportation of persons discharged other than honorably; monetary allowances for liquid coffee for troops traveling when supplied with cooked or travel rations; commutation of quarters and rations to enlisted personnel traveling on detached duty when it is impracticable to carry rations, and to applicants for enlistment and general prisoners traveling under orders; per diem allowances or actual cost of subsistence while in a travel status, to civilian employees and civilian witnesses before courts martial; for rental of camp sites and the local procurement of communication service, fuel, light, water service, and other necessary supplies and services incident to individual or troop movements, including transportation of organizational equipment and impedimenta; and for expenses, not otherwise provided for, incident to the transportation of authorized baggage of military and civilian personnel; $76,500,000: Provided, That other appropriations for the Department of the Army shall be charged with such amounts as may be required for travel in connection with development, procurement, production, maintenance, or construction activities; and, with such exception, no other Army Appropriation in this Act shall be available for any expense for or incident to travel of personnel of the Regular Army or civilian employees under the Department of the Army, except the appropriation “contingencies of the Army” and the appropriations for Engineer Service, Army, the Army National Guard, the Organized Reserves, the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, and the appropriations “Special Field Exercises”, and “Inter-American Relations, Department of the Army”; finance service For compensation of field personnel of the Finance Department, and those engaged in financial management activities not otherwise provided for; payment of exchange fees and exchange losses incurred by disbursing officers or their agents; and losses in the accounts of Army disbursing officers in accordance with the Acts of December 13, 1944 (31 U. S. C. 95a), December 23, 1944 (50 U. S. C. 1705–1707), and July 26, 1947 (61 Stat. 493); $29,000,000.

Quartermaster Corps quartermaster service, army For Quartermaster Service, Army, to be accounted for as one fund, as follows— welfare of enlisted men For the equipment and conduct of school, reading, lunch, and amusement rooms, service clubs, chapels, gymnasiums, and libraries, including periodicals and other publications and subscriptions for newspapers, transportation of books and equipment for these services, rental of films, purchase of slides for and making repairs to moving-picture outfits, and for similar and other recreational purposes at training and mobilization camps now established or which may be hereafter established, including expenses for the entertainment and instruction of enlisted personnel, $8,362,500: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the instruction of officers on the same basis as enlisted men; subsistence of the army For purchase of subsistence supplies for issue as rations to troops, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, general prisoners of war, and general prisoners at posts; ice for issue to organizations of enlisted men and for coding drinking water and for preservation of stores; subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the Army Transport Service; meals for recruiting parties and applicants for enlistment while under observation; sales to officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps while on active duty, and enlisted men of the Army; payment of allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men as authorized by law; commuted rations for enlisted men, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, civilian employees who are entitled to subsistence at public expense, and general prisoners while sick in hospitals, to be paid to the surgeon in charge; advertising; for subsistence of supernumeraries necessitated by emergent military circumstances; prizes to be established by the Secretary of the Army for enlisted men of the Amy who graduate from the Army schools for bakers and cooks; and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; in all, $160,000,000: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated in this title shall be used for the payment of any subsidy on agricultural or other products: provided further, That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this chapter shall be available for the procurement of any article of food or clothing not grown or produced in the United States or its possessions, except to the extent that the Secretary of the Department concerned shall determine that a satisfactory quality and sufficient quantity of any articles of food or clothing grown or produced in the United States or its possessions cannot be procured as and when needed at United States market prices and except procurements by vessels in foreign waters and emergency procurements or procurements of perishable foods by establishments located outside the continental United States, except the Territories of Hawaii and Alaska, for the personnel attached thereto: Provided further, That nothing herein shall preclude the procurement of foods manufactured or processed in the United States or its possessions; regular supplies of the army For supplies, services, and other expenses, not otherwise provided for, incident to the design, development, procurement, manufacture, care, protection, alteration, repair, maintenance, installation, storage and issue of Quartermaster Corps supplies, materials, and equipment (exclusive of fixed installations m buildings otherwise provided for), including petroleum and other products, market reports and personal services; supplies and equipment for troops and general service schools; operation of field printing plants not otherwise provided for and contract printing and binding; purchase, subsistence, and care of animals required in connection with Army training and other activities; expenses incident to raising and harvesting forage on military reservations, including, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of the Army, the cost of irrigation; $107,247,258; clothing and equipage For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the purchase and manufacture of clothing for the Army, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, for issue and for sale; commutation of clothing due to warrant officers of the mine-planter service and to enlisted men; altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning when necessary, including laundry work for enlisted men while patients in a hospital; operation of laundries, existing or now under construction, including purchase and repair of laundry machinery therefor; authorized issues of articles for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and for applicants for enlistment while held under observation; equipment and repair of equipment of existing dry-cleaning plants, salvage and sorting storehouses, hat-repairing shops, shoe-repair shops, clothing-repair shops, and garbage-reduction works; equipage; issue of toilet kits to recruits upon their first enlistment; expenses of packing and handling and similar necessaries; citizens’ outer clothing and an overcoat, when necessary, the cost of all not to exceed $30, to be issued each person upon each release from an Army prison, each soldier discharged otherwise than honorably, to each enlisted man convicted by civil court for an offense resulting in confinement in a penitentiary or other civil prison, and to each enlisted man ordered interned as an alien enemy, or, for the same reason, discharged without internment; $93,853,365; incidental expenses of the army Postage; personal services; incidental expenses of recruiting; for activities of chaplains (excluding ritual garments and personal services); for tests and experimental and development work and scientific research, not otherwise provided for, including that to be performed by the Bureau of Standards for the Quartermaster Corps; for inspection service and instruction furnished by the Department of Agriculture which may be transferred in advance; for such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operation of the Army and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other departments; for burial of the dead as authorized by Acts of May 17, 1938 (10 U. S. C. 916–916d), and July 8, 1940 (5 U. S. C. 103a), including remains of personnel of the Army of the United States who die while on active duty, including travel Allowances of attendants accompanying remains, communication service, transportation of remains, and acquisition by lease or otherwise of temporary burial sites; $101,998,313.

Transportation Corps transportation service, army For expenses necessary for the transportation of Army supplies, equipment, funds of the Army, including packing, crating, and unpacking; maintenance and operation of transportation facilities and installations, including the purchase, construction, alteration, operation, lease, repair, development, and maintenance of and research in transportation equipment, including boats, vessels, and railroad equipment; personal services in the District of Columbia; procurement of supplies and equipment; printing and binding; communication service; maps, wharfage, tolls, ferriage, drayage, and cartage; conducting instruction in Army transportation activities; $289,960,000: Provided, That during the current fiscal year the cost of transportation from point of origin to the first point of storage or consumption of supplies, equipment, and material in connection with the manufacturing and purchasing activities of the Quartermaster Corps may be charged to the appropriations from which such supplies, equipment, and material are procured: Provided further, That vessels under the jurisdiction of the Maritime Commission, the Department of the Army, or the Department of the Navy may be transferred or otherwise made available without reimbursement to any of such agencies upon the request of the head of one agency and the approval of the agency having jurisdiction of the vessels concerned.

Signal Corps signal service of the army Purchase, equipment, operation, installation and repair of military telegraph, telephone, radio, cable, signaling, and aircraft warning systems; signal equipment and stores, heliographs, signal lanterns, flags, and other necessary instruments; wind vanes, barometers, anemometers, thermometers, and other meteorological instruments; photographic and cinematographic work performed for the Army by the Signal Corps; motor-driven and other vehicles for technical and official purposes in connection with the construction, operation, and maintenance of communication or signaling systems, and supplies for their operation and maintenance; maps for use of the Signal Corps and in the office of the Chief Signal Officer; telephone apparatus, including rental and payment for commercial, exchange, message, trunk-line, long-distance, and leased-line telephone service, excepting telephone service for the various bureaus in the District of Columbia, and the rental of commercial telegraph lines and equipment, and their operation, at or connecting any Army facility, including payment for official individual telegraph messages transmitted over commercial lines; electrical installations and maintenance thereof, electric time service, fire control and direction apparatus, and matériel for Field Artillery; salaries of civilian employees, including those necessary as instructors at vocational schools; supplies, general repairs, reserve supplies, and other expenses connected with the collection and transmitting of information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise; experimental investigation, research, purchase, and development, or improvements in apparatus, and maintenance of signaling and accessories thereto, including machines, instruments, and other equipment for laboratory and repair purposes; lease, alteration, and repair of such buildings required for storing or guarding Signal Corps supplies, equipment, and personnel when not otherwise provided for, including the introduction of water, electric light and power, sewerage, grading, roads and walks, and other equipment required; for all expenses, not otherwise provided for, incident to the preparation of plans, and construction, purchase, installation, equipment, maintenance, repair, and operation of aircraft warning service systems, and their accessories, including purchase of lands and rights-of-way, acquisition of leaseholds and other interests therein, and temporary use thereof; $158,248,000.

Medical Department medical and hospital department For the manufacture and purchase of medical and hospital supplies for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital ships and transports, and supplies required for mosquito destruction in and about military posts in the Canal Zone; operation of the Army Medical Library and Museum under the direct supervision of the Surgeon General; purchase of veterinary supplies and hire of veterinary surgeons; expenses of medical supply depots and maintenance of branch depots; medical care and treatment of patients when entitled thereto by law, regulation, or contract, including their care, treatment, and subsistence in private hospitals, whether on duty or on furlough or on leave of absence except when elective medical treatment has been obtained by such personnel in civilian hospitals or from civilian physicians or dentists; medical care and treatment of authorized personnel of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States when such care and treatment cannot be obtained from medical units of their own country; care and treatment of epidemic and contagious diseases in the Army or at military posts or stations, including measures to prevent the spread thereof; pay of male and female nurses, not including the Army Nurse Corps, and of cooks and other civilians employed for the proper care of patients, under such Regulations fixing their number, qualifications, assignments, pay, and Allowances as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Army; pay of internes; pay of civilian physicians employed to examine physically applicants for enlistment and enlisted men and to render other professional services from time to time under proper authority; pay of other employees of the Medical Department; payment of express companies and local transfers employed directly by the Medical Department for the transportation of medical and Hospital supplies, including bidders’ samples and water for analysis; supply of Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas; advertising, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, including tuition and fees of military and civilian personnel at civilian educational institutions; $54,883,000.

Corps of Engineers engineer service, army For expenses necessary for the procurement, manufacture, maintenance, and issue of utilities, engineer supplies, materials, and equipment; procurement, preparation, and reproduction of maps and similar data for military purposes; military surveys, engineering planning, and investigation and design; expenses incident to military and training operations, including operation of the Engineer School; personal services; travel and transportation; rentals, at the seat of Government or elsewhere, maintenance, installation, alteration, repair, protection, and operation of buildings, grounds, and other facilities, including appurtenances thereto; administration of real estate, acquisition of lands, easements, rights-of-way, or other similar interests in and temporary use of lands, and, in administering the provisions of 43 U. S, C, 315q, rentals may be paid in advance; payment of deficiency judgments and interest thereon arising out of condemnation proceedings; relocation of utilities not otherwise provided for; utility services for buildings erected at private cost, as authorized by law (10 U. S. C. 1346), and buildings on military reservations authorized by Department of the Army regulations to be used for a similar purpose; and expenses of packing, crating, unpacking, and uncrating of supplies, materials, equipment, and baggage not otherwise provided for; $304, 187,500: Provided, That the sum of $2,000,000 of the Appropriation “Engineer Service, Army”, fiscal year 1947, shall remain available until June 30, 1951, for the payment of obligations incurred under contracts executed thereunder prior to July 1, 1947. military construction, army For construction, installation, and equipment of temporary or permanent public works, military installations, and facilities for the Army, as authorized by the Act of June 17, 1950 (Public Law 564, Eighty-first Congress), without regard to sections 1136 and 3734. Revised Statutes, as amended, including hire of passenger motor vehicles; $95,318,585, to remain available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $661,400 of the funds appropriated under this head in the Military Functions Appropriations Act, 1949, are hereby made available for construction authorized by the Act of October 27, 1949 (Public Law 414).

Ordnance Department ordnance service and supplies, army For manufacture, procurement, storage, and issue, including research, planning, design, development, inspection, test, alteration, maintenance, repair, and handling of ordnance material and aircraft, together with the machinery, supplies, and services necessary thereto; supplies and services in connection with the general work of the Ordnance Department, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, light, water, advertising, stationery, typewriting and computing machines, including their exchange, and furniture, tools, and instruments of service; instruction, training, and other incidental expenses of the ordnance service; purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; ammunition for military salutes at Government establishments and institutions to which the issues of arms for salutes are authorized; services, material, tools, and appliances for operation of the testing machines and chemical laboratory in connection therewith; publications for libraries of the Ordnance Department, including the Ordnance Office; $647,327,000.

Chemical Corps chemical service, army For purchase, manufacture, and test of chemical agents and toxic substances, incendiary materials and munitions, gas masks, or other offensive or defensive materials or appliances required for chemical purposes, investigations, research, design, experimentation, and operation, purchase of chemicals, special scientific and technical apparatus and instruments, including services connected therewith; maintenance and repair of plants, buildings, and equipment, and the machinery therefor; receiving, storing, and issuing of supplies, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuels, gasoline, lubricants, paints and oils, rope and cordage, light, water, advertising, stationery, typewriting and computing machines including their exchange, office furniture, tools, and instruments; incidental expenses; civilian employees; libraries of the Chemical Corps; expenses incidental to the organization, training, and equipment of special gas troops not otherwise provided for, including the training of the Army in Chemical Corps activities, both offensive and defensive, together with the necessary schools, tactical demonstrations, and maneuvers; expenses of chemical projectile filling plants and proving grounds, including maintenance of rail transportation, repairs, alterations, accessories, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and grading ranges; $37,300,000.

Army Training For miscellaneous supplies, material, equipment, personal and other services, tuition and other incidental expenses, not otherwise provided for, essential in conducting instruction in service schools and elsewhere; contingencies for the Commandant of the National War College, to be expended in his discretion (not exceeding $1,000); purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for guards at the National War College; operation or the Office, Chief, Army Field Forces, subordinate commands, installations, and boards, not otherwise provided for, $7,830,000.

United States Military Academy maintenance and operation For text and reference books for instruction; increase and expense of library; office equipment and supplies; stationery, blank books, forms, printing and binding; diplomas for graduates; expense of lectures; apparatus, equipment, supplies, and materials for purpose of instruction and athletics, and maintenance and repair thereof; musical instruments and maintenance of band; care and maintenance of organ; equipment for cadet mess; postage, telephones, and telegrams; freight and expressage; for commutation of rations to the cadet mess for civilians employed and subsisted at cadet mess in the same amount as deducted from each civilian’s pay for said rations; maintenance of children’s school (not exceeding $12,200); contingencies for Superintendent of the Military Academy (not exceeding 5,200) and for the Commandant of Cadets (not exceeding $1,200), to be expended in their respective discretions; expenses of the members of the Board of Visitors (not exceeding $1,500); contingent fund, to be expended under the direction of the Academic Board (not exceeding $1,000); improvement, repair, and maintenance of buildings and grounds (including roads, walls, and fences); shooting galleries and ranges; cooking, heating, and lighting apparatus and fixtures and operation and maintenance thereof; maintenance of water, sewer, and plumbing systems; maintenance of and repairs to cadet camp; fire-extinguishing apparatus; machinery and tools and repairs of same; policing buildings and grounds; furniture, refrigerators, and lockers for Government-owned buildings at the Academy and repair and maintenance thereof; fuel for heat, light, and power; pay of employees; and other necessary incidental expenses in the discretion of the superintendent; in all, $5, 120,000: Provided, That not to exceed $3,750 of this amount shall be available to liquidate the indebtedness of cadets separated from the service for any reason during their first year, who at the time of their separation are in debt to the Treasurer of the United States Military Academy.

Civilian Components army national guard For expenses necessary for equipping, maintaining, operating and training the Army National Guard, including expenses of camps, airfields, storage facilities and alterations and additions to present structures, transportation and erection of temporary structures, either on Government-owned or State-owned land, or on land made available by lease or loan from any political subdivision of a State or any individual, corporation, or organization for a period of not less than ten years, construction and maintenance of buildings, structures, rifle ranges, and facilities, the purchase (not to exceed one hundred) and hire of passenger motor vehicles for official use only, and the modification, repair, maintenance and operation of airplanes; transportation of things; personal services at the seat of government or elsewhere (including personal services in the National Guard Bureau and services of personnel of the Army National Guard employed as civilians, without regard to their military rank) necessary for the care, maintenance, modification and repair of materials and equipment, for Federal property and custodial accounting work, and for Administrative and such other duties as may be required; medical and hospital treatment of members of the Army National Guard who suffer injury or contract disease in line of duty and other expenses connected therewith as authorized by law; pay at a rate not less than $2,400 per annum and travel of property and disbursing officers for the United States: travel expenses (other than mileage), at the same rates as authorized by law for Army National Guard personnel on active Federal duty, of Army National Guard division and regimental commanders while inspecting units in compliance with National Guard regulations when specifically authorized by the Chief, National Guard Bureau; attendance of Army National Guard personnel at military service schools; drill pay of the Army National Guard; expenses of temporary duty travel of personnel of the Regular Army in connection with activities of the Army National Guard; procurement and issue to the Army National Guard of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia of military equipment and supplies, as provided by law, including motor-propelled vehicles and airplanes, and repair and modification of such equipment and supplies; $210,500,000: Provided, That the Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized to issue to the Army National Guard without charge against this appropriation except for actual expenses incident to such issue, supplies and equipment from surplus or excess supplies or equipment purchased for the Army: Provided further, That the number of caretakers authorized to be employed for any one unit or pool under the provisions of section 90 of the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as amended, may be such as is deemed necessary by the Secretary of the Army.

Organized Reserves For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, transportation (including mileage, actual and necessary expenses, or per diem in lieu thereof), and medical and hospital treatment and related expenses, as authorized by law, for personnel of the Organized Reserve Corps while on active duty undergoing Reserve training or while performing drills or equivalent duty; maintenance, operation, repair, and other necessary expenses of facilities for the training and administration of the Organized Reserve Corps; construction of buildings, structures, rifle ranges, and facilities, including alterations and additions thereto, and acquisition of land, rights pertaining thereto, leasehold, and other interests therein and temporary use thereof; personal services: expenses of temporary-duty travel in connection with activities of the Organized Reserve Corps; transportation of things; purchase (not to exceed two hundred) and hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; supplies, services, matériel, and equipment, not otherwise provided for, necessary to train and equip the Organized Reserve Corps; and expenses of modification, issue, maintenance, and use of supplies, matériel, and equipment, which may be furnished without reimbursement from excess Army stocks; $114,525,000. The pay and allowances of such additional officers and nurses of the Medical Reserve Corps as are required to supplement the like officers and nurses of the Regular Army in the care of beneficiaries of the United States Veterans’ Administration treated in Army hospitals may be paid from the funds allotted to the Department of the Army by that Administration under existing law.

army reserve officers’ training corps For expenses necessary for the operation of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, as authorized by law, including procurement, maintenance, transportation, and issue of supplies and equipment; pay, subsistence, allowances, transportation (including mileage), and medical and hospital treatment and related expenses for members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps as authorized by law; hire of passenger motor vehicles; maintenance and operation of facilities; establishment and maintenance of camps; cleaning and laundering of uniforms and clothing at camps; expenses of temporary duty travel in connection with activities of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; expenses for institutions as authorized by section 1225, Revised Statutes, as amended, and section 55c of the National Defense Act, as amended (34 U. S. C. 1129; 10 U. S. C. 1180, 1181); expenses of modification, issue, maintenance, and use of supplies, materials, and equipment, which may be furnished without reimbursement from excess Army stocks; to remain available until June 30, 1952, $24,900,000.

National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice, Army Promotion of rifle practice: For construction, equipment, and maintenance of rifle ranges, the instruction of citizens in marksmanship; and promotion of practice in the use of rifled arms, for arms, ammunition, targets, and other accessories for target practice, for issue and sale in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and approved by the Secretary of the Army; clerical services, including not exceeding $91,427 in the District of Columbia; procurement of materials, supplies, trophies, prizes, badges, services, and such other items as are authorized in section 113, Act of June 3, 1916, and under this head in War Department Appropriation Act of June 7, 1924; conduct of the national matches, including incidental travel of rifle teams and of individuals and of Marine Corps and other detachments required in the operation of the matches and including incidental travel of rifle teams and individuals attending regional, national, and international competitions, and for the purchase of medals and badges for use in National Rifle Association competitions, including those fired as a part of the national matches; mileage at 8 cents per mile for members of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice when authorized by the Secretary of the Army, any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding; and maintenance of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, including not to exceed $10,500 for incidental expenses in addition to the amount authorized by Act of May 28, 1928; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Army; $160,000: Provided, That officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the National Guard and Organized Reserves, who, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Army, volunteer to participate without pay as competitors or range officers in the national matches to be held during the current fiscal year, may attend such matches without pay, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, but shall be entitled to travel and subsistence allowances at the same rates as are provided for civilians who attend and participate in said matches, but this proviso shall not operate to prohibit the pay of such competitors or range officers, provided funds for such payment are available from this appropriation, nor shall any provision in this Act operate to deprive a Reserve officer ordered to active duty incident to the national matches of pay for the full period of such active duty, provided funds for such payment are available from this appropriation: Provided further, That officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the National Guard and Organized Reserves may be ordered to duty, with their consent, for the care, maintenance, and operation of the ranges used in the conduct of the national matches, and such officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men while so engaged shall be entitled to the same pay, subsistence, and transportation as officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of corresponding grades of the Regular Army are entitled by law, which expense shall be provided by this appropriation; and after being duly mustered may be paid for the period from the date of leaving home rendezvous to date of return thereto as determined in advance, both dates inclusive.

Departmental Salaries and Expenses salaries, department of the army For compensation for personal services in the Department of the Army proper, to be accounted for as one fund, as follows: Office of Secretary of the Army: Secretary of the Army, Under Secretary of the Army, Assistant Secretaries of the Army and other personal services, $3,368,271; Office of Chief of Staff, $6,576,293; Adjutant General’s Office, $9,777,200; Office of the Inspector General, $203,880; Office of the Judge Advocate General, $595,375; Office of the Chief of Finance, $1,483,202; Office of the Quartermaster General, $6,981,504; Office of the Chief of Transportation, $2,940,000; Office of the Chief Signal Officer, $2,455,821; Office of Chief of Special Services, $58,636; Office of the Provost Marshal General, $116,038; Office of the Surgeon General, $2,475,873; Office of Chief of Engineers, $3,751,026; Office of Chief of Ordnance, $4, 137,696; Office of Chief, Chemical Corps, $817,707; Office of Chief of Chaplains, $131, 100. contingent expenses, department of the army For miscellaneous expenses at the seat of government, $9,970,000.

TITLE IV— DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY

Military Personnel, Navy For pay, allowances, subsistence, interest on deposits, gratuities, clothing, hire of quarters, permanent change of station travel (including expenses of temporary duty between permanent duty stations), and transportation of dependents, as authorized by law, for regular and reserve personnel on active duty (except those on active duty while undergoing reserve training), $1, 162,435,000.

Military Personnel, Naval Reserve For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, and travel, as authorized by law, for personnel of the Naval Reserve on active duty while undergoing reserve training, or while performing drills or equivalent duty, $66,893,000.

Military Personnel, Officer Candidates For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, travel, and insurance premiums, as authorized by law, for officer candidates, including midshipmen at the Naval Academy, aviation midshipmen, aviation cadets, regular and contract enrollees in the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, and Reserve officer candidates; and retainer pay authorized by the Act of August 13, 1946 (34 U. S. C. 1020h), to remain available until June 30, 1952; $18,430,300.

Navy Personnel, General Expenses For expenses necessary for general training, education and Administration of regular and reserve personnel, including tuition, cash book allowances of not to exceed $50 for each Naval Aviation College program student, and other costs incurred at civilian schools, general training aids and devices, procurement of military personnel, and authorized annuity premiums and retirement benefits for civilian members of teaching staffs; maintenance and operation of Navy training and personnel facilities, including the Naval Academy, Naval Postgraduate School, Naval War College, Naval Home, Navy training schools and facilities, disciplinary barracks, and retraining commands; rent; hire of motor vehicles; not to exceed $30 per person for civilian clothing, including an overcoat when necessary, for enlisted personnel discharged otherwise than honorably-welfare and recreation; medals and other awards; research and development; care of the Naval Academy collection of ship models; and departmental salaries; $60,533,000.

Military Personnel, Marine Corps For pay, allowances, subsistence, interest on deposits, gratuities, clothing, hire of quarters, permanent change of station travel (including expenses of temporary duty between permanent duty stations), and transportation of dependents, as authorized by law, for regular and reserve personnel on active duty (except those on active duty while undergoing reserve training), $200,923,000.

Military Personnel, Marine Corps Reserve For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, and travel, as authorized by law, for personnel of the Marine Corps Reserve and the Marine Corps platoon leaders class on active duty while undergoing reserve training, or while performing drills or equivalent duty, $17,532,000.

Marine Corps Troops and Facilities For necessary expenses of troops and facilities of the Marine Corps not otherwise provided for, including maintenance and operation of equipment and facilities, and procurement of military personnel; training and education of regular and reserve personnel, including tuition and other costs incurred at civilian schools; welfare and recreation; not to exceed $30 per person for civilian clothing, including an overcoat when necessary, for enlisted personnel discharged otherwise than honorably; research and development; procurement and manufacture of ordnance, ammunition, and other military supplies, equipment and clothing; purchase (for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; transportation of things; industrial mobilization; rent; medals, awards, emblems and other insignia; care of the dead; and departmental salaries; $82,354,000.

Aircraft and Facilities For expenses necessary for maintenance, operation, and modification of aircraft; maintenance, operation, and lease of air stations and facilities, testing laboratories, fleet and other aviation activities; procurement of services, supplies, special clothing, tools, materials, and equipment, including rescue boats; research and development; industrial mobilization; aerological services, supplies, and equipment for the Navy and Marine Corps; and departmental salaries; $532,226,000: Provided, That the unexpended balances of the appropriations for “Aviation, Navy, 1947” and “Aviation, Navy, 1948” shall remain available until June 30, 1951, for the liquidation of contract obligations incurred thereunder during the fiscal years 1947 and 1948, respectively, for aircraft equipment and research and development.

Construction of Aircraft and Related Procurement For construction, procurement, and modernization of aircraft and equipment, including ordnance, spare parts, and accessories therefor; expansion of public plants, and not to exceed $500,000 for expansion of private plants; procurement and installation of equipment in public or private plants; and departmental salaries necessary for the purposes of this appropriation, to remain available until expended, $620,000,000, of which $530,000,000 is for liquidation of obligations incurred under authority heretofore granted to enter into contracts for the foregoing purposes: Provided, That there is hereby established a 1951 aircraft procurement program (including all purposes and objects provided for under this head) in an amount of $790,293,000, to be provided from (1) this appropriation, (2) the contract authority granted hereinafter, and (3) $124,797,000 of the balance of the contract authority granted under this head in the “National Military Establishment Appropriation Act, 1950”, but this proviso shall not be construed to prevent the use in the fiscal year 1951 of other unused contract authority heretofore granted for aircraft procurement: Provided farther, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enter into contracts for the purposes of this appropriation in an amount not to exceed $575,496,000.

Ships and Facilities For expenses necessary for design, maintenance, operation, and alteration of vessels; maintenance and operation of facilities; procurement of plant equipment, appliances, and machine tools, and installation thereof in public or private plants; procurement of equipment, supplies, special clothing and services, including subsistence and other expenses of civilian crews of vessels; installation, maintenance, and removal of ships’ ordnance; lease of facilities and docks; charter and hire of vessels; relief of vessels in distress; maritime salvage services; research and development; industrial mobilization; and departmental salaries; $411,782,000.

Construction of Ships For an additional amount for “Construction of Ships,” to remain available until expended, $111,420,000, of which $76,400,000 is for liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to authority heretofore granted under this head: Provided, That the limitation imposed under this head on the total obligations to be incurred for construction, conversion, or replacement approved during the fiscal year 1950 is hereby increased by $35,020,000, and obligations incurred for construction, conversion, or replacement approved during the current fiscal year shall also be charged against said limitation.

Ordnance and Facilities For expenses necessary for the production and procurement of Navy ordnance and ammunition (except ordnance for new aircraft, new ships, and ships authorized for conversion); alteration, preservation, and handling of ordnance and ammunition; maintenance of ordnance (except installation, maintenance, and removal of ships’ ordnance, and line maintenance of ordnance installed in aircraft); maintenance and operation of ordnance facilities; procurement of equipment, supplies, special clothing and services; procurement of plant equipment, appliances, and machine tools, and installation thereof in naval or private plants; lease of facilities; research and development; industrial mobilization; and departmental salaries; $181,665,000.

Ordnance for New Construction For an additional amount for “Ordnance for New Construction,” to remain available until expended, $41,856,000, of which $30,000,000 is for liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to authority heretofore granted under this head: Provided, That the limitation imposed under this head on the total obligations to be incurred for armor, armament, and ammunition for construction, conversion, or replacement approved during the fiscal year 1950 is hereby increased by $11,856,000 and obligations incurred for such purposes for construction, conversion, or replacement approved during the current fiscal year shall also be charged against said limitation.

Increase and Replacement of Naval Vessels construction and machinery For an additional amount for “Construction and machinery”, including, during the current fiscal year, personal services in the Bureau of Ships necessary for the purposes of this appropriation, $43,800,000. armor, armament, and ammunition For an additional amount for “Armor, armament, and ammunition,” including, during the current fiscal year, personal services in the Bureau of Ordnance necessary for the purposes of this Appropriation, $47,400,000.

Medical Care For expenses necessary for maintenance and operation of naval hospitals, medical centers, clinics, schools, research facilities, the medical supply system, and other medical activities; procurement of medical and dental supplies, equipment and services; rent; instruction of medical personnel in naval hospitals, naval medical schools, and civilian schools; research and development; industrial mobilization; care of the dead; and departmental salaries; $37,862,000.

Civil Engineering For expenses necessary for maintenance and operation of district public works offices, public works centers, advance base depots, construction battalion centers, defense housing projects, other civil engineering facilities, and shore activities not otherwise provided for; procurement of services, supplies and equipment for the foregoing activities; purchase (for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; research and development; advance engineering planning: industrial mobilization; and departmental salaries; $34,778,000.

Public Works For construction, installation, and equipment of temporary or permanent public works, naval installations, and facilities for the Navy, as authorized by the Act of June 16, 1948 (62 Stat. 459), and the Act of June 17, 1950 (Public Law 564, Eighty-first Congress); major repairs and improvements to the Davisville pier, Naval Base, Newport, Rhode Island; furniture for public quarters; personnel in the Bureau of Yards and Docks and other personal services necessary for the purposes of this appropriation; and engineering and architectural services as authorized by section 3 of the Act of April 25, 1939 (34 U. S. C. 556); $62,928,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That the funds appropriated by the Act of June 25, 1948 (62 Stat. 1027), for construction of two new storehouses at Adak, Alaska, may be used for the conversion of existing facilities, if the Secretary of the Navy determines such action would result in a savings to the Government.

Research For conduct and encouragement of research and development, not otherwise provided for; dissemination of scientific information; administration of patents, trademarks, and copyrights; maintenance and operation of research and development facilities; development, installation, and maintenance of special devices (including specialized housing therefor); procurement of supplies, services, and equipment; departmental salaries; and other expenses necessary in carrying out the Act of August 1, Ï946 (5 U. S. C. 475), to remain available until expended, $43,083,000: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the funds made available under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act, 1947, shall remain available until June 30, 1951, for liquidation of obligations incurred thereunder during the fiscal year 1947.

Service-Wide Supply and Finance For expenses necessary for maintenance and operation of service-wide supply and finance activities, including supply depots and centers, clothing depots, market and purchasing offices, supply demand control points, fleet fueling facilities, overseas air cargo terminals, regional accounting and disbursing offices, the material catalog office, the cost inspection service, and other service-wide supply and finance facilities, as designated by the Secretary; procurement of supplies, services, special clothing, and equipment; rent; intra-Navy transportation of things, including contract operation of tankers, all transportation of navy stock fund and clothing and small stores fund material, and transportation of household effects; research and development; industrial mobilization; losses in exchange and in the accounts of disbursing officers, as authorized by law; and departmental salaries; $209,292,000.

Service-Wide Operations For expenses necessary for maintenance and operation of the Naval Observatory, the Hydrographic Office, Service-wide communications, Naval Records Centers, Naval District Headquarters (except training and public works offices), River Commands, Sea Frontiers and other service-wide operations and functions not otherwise provided for; procurement of supplies, services and equipment for activities financed hereunder; Latin-American cooperation; not to exceed $26,090,000 for emergencies and extraordinary expenses, as authorized by section 6 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 419c), to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary, and his determination shall be final and conclusive upon the accounting officers of the Government; for examination of estimates for appropriations and of naval activities in the field for any branch of the naval service; and departmental salaries: $99,281,000.

Island Governments For expenses incident to the administration of island governments, including liberated and occupied areas and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, $1,500,000.

Operation and Conservation of Naval Petroleum Reserves For expenses necessary for exploration, prospecting, conservation, development, use, and operation of the naval petroleum reserves, as authorized by law, $4,000,000.

Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 4, Alaska For expenses necessary for exploration and prospecting in Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 4, $11,000,000: Provided, That the unexpended balances of the appropriations made available under this head by the “Department of the Navy Appropriation Act, 1949” and the “Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1950” shall be consolidated herewith, to be disbursed and accounted for as one fund which shall remain available until June 30, 1952.

TITLE V— DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE

Construction of Aircraft and Related Procurement For construction, procurement, and contract modification of aircraft and equipment, armor and armament, spare parts and accessories therefor; electronic and communication equipment, detection and warning systems, and specialized equipment; expansion of public plants, and Government-owned equipment and installation thereof in public or private plants for the foregoing purposes; industrial mobilization, including maintenance of reserve plants and equipment and procurement planning; and other expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes, including rents, transportation of things and personal services in the field; to remain available until expended, $1,700,000,000, of which $1,525,000,000 is for payment of obligations incurred under authority heretofore granted to enter into contracts for the foregoing purposes: Provided, That there is hereby established a 1951 aircraft procurement program (including all purposes and objects provided for under this head) in an amount of $1,711,440,000, to be provided from (1) this appropriation, (2) the contract authority granted hereinafter, and (3) $726, 151,000 of the balance of the contract authority granted under this head in the “National Military Establishment Appropriation Act, 1950”, but this proviso shall not be construed to prevent the use in the fiscal year 1951 of other unused contract authority heretofore granted for aircraft procurement: Provided further, That the unexpended balances of the appropriations granted under the head “Air Corps, Army,” for the fiscal years 1947 and 1948, shall remain available until June 30, 1951, for the payment of obligations incurred thereunder prior to July 1, 1947, and July 1, 1948, respectively: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Air Force is authorized to enter into contracts for the foregoing purposes in an amount not to exceed $810,289,000.

Special Procurement For the procurement of ordnance supplies, materials, and equipment, and spare parts therefor; purchase of passenger motor vehicles (including one at not to exceed $3,000); and supplies, materials, and equipment, not otherwise provided for, $147,900,000.

Acquisition and Construction of Beal Property For construction, installation, and equipment of temporary or permanent public works, military installations, and facilities for the Air Force, as authorized by the Act of March 30, 1949 (Public Law 30, Eighty-first Congress), the Act of October 27, 1949 (Public Law 415, Eighty-first Congress), the Act of May 11, 1949 (Public Law 60, Eighty-first Congress), and the Act of June 17, 1950 (Public Law 564, Eighty-first Congress), without regard to sections 1136 and 3734, Revised Statutes, as amended, including hire of passenger motor vehicles, to remain available until expended, $164,784,000, of which $25,000,000 is for liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to authority granted under this head in the Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1950, or authorized to be transferred to this head by the National Military Establishment Appropriation Act, 1950.

Maintenance and Operations For expenses necessary for the maintenance, operation, and modification of aircraft, and for maintenance, operation, repair, and other expenses necessary for Air Force facilities, including transportation of things; rents at the seat of government and elsewhere, and in administering the provisions of 43 U. S. C. 315q payments of rents may be made in advance; field printing plants; hire of passenger motor vehicles; training and instruction of military and civilian personnel of the Air Force, including tuition and related expenses; pay, allowances and travel expenses of contract surgeons; utility services for buildings erected at private cost as authorized by law (10 U. S. C. 1346), and buildings on military reservations authorized by Air Force regulations to be used for welfare and recreational purposes; rental of land or purchase of options to rent land without reference to section 3648, Revised Statutes, as amended, use or repair of private property, and other necessary expenses of combat maneuvers; expenses of courts, boards, and commissions; organizational clothing and equipage; civilian clothing and when necessary an overcoat, the cost of all not to exceed $30, for each person upon each release from a military prison, each enlisted man discharged otherwise than honorably, each enlisted man convicted by a civil court for an offense resulting in confinement in a civil prison, and each enlisted man interned, or discharged without internment as an alien enemy; payment of exchange fees and exchange losses incurred by Air Force disbursing officers or their agents; losses in the accounts of Air Force disbursing officers as authorized by law (31 U. S. C. 95a; 50 U. S. C. 1705–1707; Act of July 26, 1947, Public Law 248); burial of the dead as authorized by law (10 U. S. C. 916– 916d; 5 U. S. C. 103a), including remains of personnel of the Air Force of the United States who die while on active duty, travel Allowances of attendants accompanying remains, and acquisition by lease or otherwise of temporary burial sites; conduct of schoolrooms, service clubs, chapels, and other instructional, entertainment, and welfare expenses for enlisted men; expenses for inter-American cooperation as authorized for the Navy by the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 421f), for Latin-American cooperation; payments of deficiency judgments and interests thereon arising out of condemnation proceedings heretofore instituted; and special services by contract or otherwise, $1,027,662,000.

Military Personnel Requirements For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, transportation, interest on deposits of enlisted personnel, payment of life insurance premiums, and travel in kind for cadets and all other personnel of the Air Force of the United States on active duty (other than personnel of the Reserve components, including the Air National Guard, on active duty while undergoing reserve training), including mileage, per diem allowances, reimbursement of actual expenses of travel, transportation of troops, commutation of quarters, subsistence supplies for issue as rations to enlisted personnel, cloth and materials and clothing for issue and sale, and clothing allowances, as authorized by law; and, in connection with personnel paid from this appropriation, for rental of camp sites and local procurement of utility services and other necessary expenses incident to individual or troop movements (including packing and unpacking and transportation of organizational equipment), ice, meals for recruiting parties, monetary allowances for liquid coffee for troops when supplied cooked or travel rations, altering and fitting clothing, and commutation of rations, as authorized by law, to enlisted personnel, including those sick in hospitals (to be paid to the surgeon in charge); transportation, as authorized by law, of dependents, baggage, and household effects of personnel paid from this appropriation; transportation, or reimbursement therefor, of applicants for enlistment between places of acceptance for enlistment and recruiting stations, rejected applicants for enlistment, general prisoners, and discharged cadets; travel pay to discharged military personnel; transportation of persons discharged otherwise than honorably, prisoners upon each termination of confinement, and persons discharged from Saint Elizabeths Hospital after transfer thereto from the military service; commutation of quarters and rations to applicants for enlistment and general prisoners traveling under orders: rations for civilian employees when entitled thereto, applicants for enlistment, prisoners of war, and general prisoners; subsistence supplies for resale, as authorized by law; commutation of rations, as authorized by regulations, to applicants for enlistment, civilian employees entitled to subsistence at public expense, and general prisoners, while sick in hospitals (to be paid to the surgeon in charge); subsistence of supernumeraries necessitated by emergent military circumstances; issues of toilet articles and barbers’ and tailors’ material to general prisoners confined at military posts without pay and allowances, applicants for enlistment, and recruits upon first enlistment; expenses of apprehension and delivery of deserters, stragglers, and escaped military prisoners; payment, in the discretion of the Secretary, of rewards (not to exceed $25 in any one case) for the apprehension of deserters; confinement of military prisoners in nonmilitary facilities; donations of not to exceed $25 to each civilian prisoner upon each release from a military prison, to each enlisted man discharged otherwise than honorably upon each release from confinement under court-martial sentence, and to each person discharged for fraudulent enlistment, $1,245,000,000.

Research and Development For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific research and development, by contract or otherwise, and transportation of things, to remain available until expended, $182,611,000.

Air Force Reserve For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, transportation (including mileage, actual and necessary expenses, or per diem in lieu thereof), and medical and hospital treatment and related expenses, as authorized by law, for personnel of the Air Force Reserve while on active duty undergoing Reserve training or while performing drills or equivalent duty; maintenance, operation, repair, and other necessary expenses of facilities for the training and administration of the Air Force Reserve; maintenance, operation, and modification of aircraft; personal services at the seat of the government and elsewhere; transportation of things; hire of passenger motor vehicles; supplies, materials, and equipment, not otherwise provided for, necessary to train and equip Air Force Reserve organizations; and expenses incident to the maintenance and use of supplies, materials, and equipment furnished from stocks under the control of the Air Force; $73,235,000.

Air Reserve Officers’ Training Corps For pay, subsistence, transportation, and allowances, including travel allowances, commutation of subsistence and uniforms, medical and hospital treatment and related expenses, as authorized by law, for the Air Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; and for necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, of training and instruction of the Air Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, including maintenance and operation of facilities; transportation of things; hire of passenger motor vehicles; procurement and issue to institutions of supplies, materials, and equipment, including uniforms, necessary for the training and instruction of the Air Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, as authorized by law; and expenses incident to the maintenance and use of supplies, materials, and equipment furnished from stocks under the control of the Air Force; to remain available until June 30, 1952; $10,600,000.

Air National Guard For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, transportation (including mileage, actual and necessary expenses, or per diem in lieu thereof), medical and hospital treatment and related expenses, for members of the Air National Guard while undergoing Reserve training or while performing drills or equivalent duty, as authorized by law; travel expenses (other than mileage), on the same basis as authorized by law for Air National Guard personnel on active Federal duty of Air National Guard commanders while inspecting units in compliance with National Guard regulations when specifically authorized by the Chief, National Guard Bureau; establishment, maintenance, operation, repair, and other necessary expenses of facilities for the training and administration of the Air National Guard, either on Government-owned or State-owned land or on land made available by lease or loan from any political subdivision of a State or any individual, corporation, or organization, for a period of not less than ten years, including construction of facilities, and additions, extensions, alterations, improvements, and rehabilitation of existing facilities; maintenance, operation, and modification of aircraft; personal services at the seat of government and elsewhere; transportation of things; hire of passenger motor vehicles; procurement and issue to the Air National Guard of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia of supplies, materials, and equipment, as authorized by law; and expenses incident to the maintenance and use of supplies, materials, and equipment, including such as may be furnished from stocks under the control of agencies of the Department of Defense; $103,935,000: Provided, That the number of caretakers authorized to be employed under the provisions of law (32 U. S. C. 42) may be such as is deemed necessary by the Secretary of the Air Force.

Salaries and Expenses, Administration For expenses necessary for the administration of the Air Force at the seat of government and at headquarters of major commands, including personal services; transportation of things; hire of passenger motor vehicles; and travel expenses, transportation of dependents, baggage, and household effects of civilian employees upon permanent change of station; $58,545,000.

Contingencies For emergencies and extraordinary expenses, including personal services at the seat of government and elsewhere, to be expended on the authority or approval of the Secretary of the Air Force, and such expenses may be accounted for solely on his certificate, $26,714,000.

TITLE VI— GENERAL PROVISIONS

TITLE VII— REDUCTION IN APPROPRIATIONS

TITLE I— FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT

economic cooperation For expenses necessary to enable the President to carry out the provisions of the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, as amended by the Act of April 19, 1949 (Public Law 47), and as further amended by the Act of June 5, 1950 (Public Law 535), including expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the purposes of this Appropriation (not to exceed $30,000); hire of passenger motor vehicles; maintenance and operation and hire of aircraft; payment of damage claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672); health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); rents in the District of Columbia; transportation of privately owned automobiles; entertainment (not to exceed $20,000); exchange of funds without regard to section 3651 of the Revised Statutes; and loss by exchange; $2,250,000,000, of which not to exceed $50,000 shall be available for expenditures of a confidential character (other than entertainment) under the direction of the Administrator or the Deputy Administrator, who shall make a certificate of the amount of each such expenditure which he may think it advisable not to specify, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the amount therein specified: Provided, That this appropriation shall be consolidated and merged with funds heretofore made available for the purposes of the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948. as amended, and such consolidated appropriation may be used during the fiscal year 1951 within the limitations herein specified: Provided further, That the Administrator is authorized and directed to issue notes from time to time during the fiscal year 1951 for purchase by the Secretary of the Treasury, who is hereby authorized and directed to make such purchases, in an amount not exceeding in the aggregate $62,500,000 for the purpose of assistance to Spain, to be extended upon credit terms as provided in section 111 (c) (2) of the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, as amended: Provided further, That not to exceed $14,000,000 of such consolidated appropriation shall be available for administrative expenses during the fiscal year 1951, of which not more than $25,000 shall be available to the Administrator for any further action he may consider advisable to carry out the provisions of section 115 (f) of the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, as amended: Provided further, That not to exceed $500,000,000 shall be available for transfers under section 111 (d) of the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, as amended: Provided further, That after November 1, 1950, no funds herein appropriated shall be made available to any nation of which a dependent area fails in the opinion of the President to comply with any treaty to which the United States and such dependent area are parties: Provided further, That no part of the funds herein appropriated shall be used to provide assistance to any participating country which, in the opinion of the President, has failed, refused, or neglected to support the United Nations in resisting aggression.

assistance to the republic of korea For expenses necessary to provide assistance to the Republic of Korea, as authorized by law, including expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the purposes of this appropriation; payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672); health service programs as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); transportation of privately owned automobiles; hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; exchange of funds without regard to section 3651 of the Revised Statutes; and loss by exchange; $90,000,000: Provided, That not to exceed $1,500,000 shall be available for administrative expenses.

international development For expenses necessary to enable the President to carry out the provisions of the Act for International Development (title IV of Public Law 535, approved June 5, 1950), including personal services in the District of Columbia; expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the purposes of this appropriation; purchase (not to exceed twelve), and hire of passenger motor vehicles for use outside the continental limits of the United States; printing and binding; payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672); health service programs as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign countries when required by law of such countries; acquisition of temporary quart era outside the continental limits of the United States to house employees of the United States Government by rental (without regard to section 322 of the Act of June 30, 1932, as amended (40 U. S. C. 278a)), lease, or construction, and necessary repairs and alterations to such temporary Quarters; exchange of funds without regard to section 3651 of the Revised Statutes (31 U. S. C. 543); entertainment (not to exceed $2,000); health and accident insurance for foreign trainees and technicians while absent from their own countries participating in activi- ties authorized under this appropriation, and actual expenses of preparing and transporting to their former homes the remains of such persons who may die away from their homes while participating in such activities; services of commissioned officers of the Public Health Service and of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and for purposes of providing such services the Public Health Service may appoint not to exceed twenty officers in the Regular Corps to grades above that of senior assistant, but not above that of director, as otherwise authorized in accordance with section 711 of the Act of July 1, 1944, as amended (42 U. S. C. 211a), and the Coast and Geodetic Survey may appoint for such purposes not to exceed twenty commissioned officers in addition to those otherwise authorized; $26,900,000; and, in addition, there may be transferred to this appropriation for the purposes hereof not to exceed $2,600,000 from the appropriation to the Department of State for “International information and educational activities,” fiscal year 1951: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for contracts or agreements entered into during the fiscal year 1951 pursuant to section 405 (e) of the Act for International Development which entail commitments for the expenditure of funds for not to exceed three years: Provided, however, That no part of this appropriation may be expended for the duplication of any program being carried on by any other agency of the United States Government or any international agency to which the United States is a major contributor, nor for the construction of any project except for demonstration or instructional purposes, nor for any purpose except administrative expenses, and preliminary surveys and technical cooperation programs upon which reports shall be made to the Congress of the United States quarterly: Provided further, That the making of any survey or the advancement of any technical cooperation program or the preparation of plans for projects does not constitute any obligation whatsoever on the part of the Government of the United States to make any loan or grant for the execution or construction of any project or for the completion of any program devised under title IV of Public Law 535, approved June 5, 1950: Provided further, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to give written notice to each recipient of funds or beneficiary under said title that such assistance shall not be construed as an obligation on the part of the United States to make funds available for the construction or execution of any project and to report such action to Congress.

mutual defense assistance For expenses necessary to enable the President to carry out the provisions of the Mutual Defense Assistance Act of 1949, as amended, for the period through June 30, 1951, $1,678,023,729, of which (a) $1,000,000,000 shall be available, in accordance with section 102 (b), for carrying out the provisions of title I, including expenses, as authorized by section 408 (b), of administering the provisions of said Act and the Act of May 22, 1947 (61 Sat. 103), as amended; (b) $131,500,000 shall be available for carrying out the provisions of title II; (c) $91,000,000 shall be available for carrying out the provisions of title III, including $16,000,000 as authorized by section 302 (b) and $75,000,000 as authorized by section 303 (b); and (d) $455,523,729 shall be available for payment of obligations incurred under the authority to enter into contracts granted under this head in the Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1950: Provided, That the unexpended balances of appropriations and contract authorizations granted under this head in the Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1950, shall continue available until June 30, 1951.

TITLE II— DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army, Civil Functions government and relief in occupied areas For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary to meet the responsibilities and obligations of the United States in connection with the government or occupation of certain foreign areas (except Germany), including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere and, subject to such authorizations and limitations as may be prescribed by the head of the department or agency concerned, tuition, personal allowances (not to exceed $10 per day), travel expenses (not to exceed those authorized for like United States military or civilian personnel), and fees incident to instruction in the United States or elsewhere of such persons as may be required to carry out the provisions of this appropriation; travel expenses and transportation; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), at rates not in excess of $50 per diem for individuals: health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); payment of claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672); translation rights, photographic work, educational exhibits, and dissemination of information, including preview and review expenses incident thereto; expenses incident to the operation of schools in Japan for American children who are dependents of Government personnel; printing and binding; purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; repair and maintenance of buildings, utilities, facilities, and appurtenances; contingencies for the United States commanders, commissioners, or other administrators of foreign areas, to be expended in their respective discretions (not exceeding amounts authorized or approved by the head of the Department or agency concerned); such minimum supplies for the civilian populations of such areas as may be essential to prevent starvation, disease, or unrest, prejudicial to the objectives sought to be accomplished; and such supplies, commodities, and equipment as may be essential to carry out the purposes of this appropriation; $288,000,000, of which not to exceed $18,200,000 shall be available for Administrative expenses: Provided, That the general provisions of the Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1951 for the military functions of the Department of the Army shall apply to expenditures made by that Department from this appropriation: Provided further, That expenditures from this appropriation may be made outside continental United States, when necessary to carry out its purposes, without regard to sections 355, 1136, 3648, and 3734, Revised Statutes, as amended, civil service or classification laws, or provisions of law prohibiting payment of any person not a citizen of the United States: Provided further, That expenditures from this appropriation may be made, when necessary to carry out its purposes, without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes, as amended, and the Armed Services Procurement Act of 1947 (41 U. S. C. 151–161): Provided further, That expenditures may be made hereunder for the purposes of economic rehabilitation in such occupied areas in such manner as to be consistent with the general objectives of the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, as amended: Provided further, That funds appropriated hereunder and unexpended at the time of the termination of occupation by the United States, of any area for which such funds are made available, may be expended by the President for the procurement of such commodities and technical services, and commodities procured from funds herein or heretofore appropriated for government and relief in occupied areas and not delivered to such an area prior to the time of the termi- nation of occupation, may be utilized by the President, as may be necessary to assist in the maintenance of the political and economic stability of such areas: Provided further, That Before any such assistance is made, available, an agreement shall be entered into between the United States and the recognized government or authority with respect to such area containing such undertakings by such government or authority as the President may determine to be necessary in order to assure the efficient use of such assistance in furtherance of such purposes: Provided further, That such agreement shall, when applicable, include requirements and undertakings corresponding to the requirements and undertakings specified in sections 5, 6, and 7 of the Foreign Aid Act of 1947 (Public Law 389, approved December 17, 1947): Provided further, That funds appropriated hereunder may be used, insofar as practicable, and under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the head of the department or agency concerned to pay ocean transportation charges from United States ports, including territorial ports, to ports in Japan and the Ryukyus for the movement of supplies donated to, or purchased by United States voluntary nonprofit relief agencies registered with and recommended by the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid or of relief packages consigned to individuals residing in such countries: Provided further, That under the rules and regulations to be prescribed, the head of the department or agency concerned shall fix and pay a uniform rate per pound for the ocean transportation of all relief packages of food or other general classification of commodities shipped to Japan or the Ryukyus regardless of methods of shipment and higher rates charged by particular agencies of transportation, but this proviso shall not apply to shipments made by individuals to individuals: Provided further, That the President may transfer to any other department or agency any function or functions provided for under this appropriation, and there shall be transferred to any such department or agency such unobligated balances of this appropriation and, without reimbursement and without regard to the appropriation from which procured, such property as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall determine to relate primarily to any function or functions so transferred; and any funds so transferred may be expended either under the authority contained herein or under the authority governing the activities of the department or agency concerned.

TITLE III— DEPARTMENT OF STATE

government in occupied areas of germany For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary to meet the responsibilities and obligations of the United States in connection with the government, occupation, and control of occupied areas of Germany, under such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, including personal services in the District of Columbia; one deputy to the United States High Commissioner for Germany at a salary of $17,500; tuition, personal allowances (not to exceed $10 per day), travel expenses (not to exceed those authorized for United States civilian personnel), health and accident insurance, and fees incident to instruction in the United States or elsewhere, of such persons as may be required to carry out the provisions of this appropriation; actual expenses of preparing and transporting to their former homes the remains of persons who may die away from their homes while participating in activities authorized under this appropriation; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), at rates not in excess of $50 per diem for individuals; health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 150); payment of tort claims pursuant to law (28 U. S. C. 2672) and payment of tort claims in the manner authorized in the first paragraph of section 2672, as amended, of title 28 of the United States Code when such claims arise in foreign countries; expenses for translation and reproduction rights; acquisition, maintenance, operation, and distribution of educational, informational, reorientation, and rehabilitation materials and equipment for Germany, including grants; medical and health assistance for the civilian population of Germany; expenses incident to the operation of schools for American children who are dependents of Government personnel; expenses incident to maintaining discipline and order in occupied areas (including trial and punishment by courts established by or under authority of the President); printing and binding, including printing and binding outside continental United States without regard to section 11 of the Act of March 1, 1919 (44 U. S. C. 111); purchase, rental, operation, and maintenance of printing and binding machines, equipment, and devices abroad; purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; transportation to occupied Germany of property donated for the purposes of this appropriation; unforeseen contingencies (not to exceed $100,000) for the United States High Commissioner for Germany, to be accounted for pursuant to the provisions of section 291 of the Revised Statutes (31 U. S. C. 107); and representation allowances (not to exceed $20,000) similar to those authorized by section 901 (3) of the Foreign Service Act of 1946 (22 U. S. C. 1131); $27,000,000: Provided, That provisions of law, including current appropriation Acts, applicable to the Department of State shall be available for application to expenditures made from this appropriation: Provided further, That when section 601 of the Economy Act of 1932, as amended (31 U. S. C. 686), is employed to carry out the purposes of this appropriation the requisitioned agency may utilize the authority contained in this appropriation: Provided further, That expenditures from this appropriation may be made outside the continental United States, when necessary to carry out its purposes, ‘without regard to sections 355 and 3648, Revised Statutes, as amended: Provided further, That the Department of State is authorized to utilize for carrying out the purposes of this appropriation, including unforeseen contingencies, without dollar reimbursement from this or any other appropriation (1) currencies deposited in Germany by the Federal Republic of Germany in accordance with section 115 (b) (6) of the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, as amended, and which may be made available by the Economic Cooperation Administration, (2) currencies otherwise deposited in Germany by the Federal Republic of Germany and which become available for use of the Government of the United States, its Representatives or agencies in Germany, in such quantities and under such terms and conditions as may be determined by the Secretary of State after consultation with the Administrator for Economic Cooperation, and (3) other currencies derived from activities carried on under this appropriation: Provided further, That civilian employees of the United States serving in Germany who received appointments in October 1949 to the Foreign Service of the United States for service in Germany shall, for the purposes of section 625 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, be considered to have been in class on September 30, 1949: Provided further, That for the purposes of this appropriation appointments may be made to the Foreign Service Reserve without regard to the four-year limitation contained in section 522 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946: Provided further, That in the event the President assigns to the Department of State responsibilities and obligations of the United States in connection with the government, occupation, or control of foreign areas in addition to Germany, the authorities contained in this appropriation may be utilized by the Department of State in connection with such government, occupation, or control of such foreign areas: Provided further, That when the Department of the Army, under the authority of the Act of March 3, 1911, as amended (10 U. S. C. 1253), furnishes subsistence supplies to personnel of civilian agencies of the United States Government serving in Germany, payment therefor by such personnel shall be made at the same rate as is paid by civilian personnel of the Department of the Army serving in Germany.

aid to palestine refugees For contributions by the United States to the United Nations for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, as authorized by title III of the Foreign Economic Assistance Act of 1950 (Public Law 535, approved June 5, 1950), $27,450,000. This chapter may be cited as the “Foreign Aid Appropriation Act, 1951”.

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