For wrapping twine and tying devices.. For expenses incident to the shipment of supplies, including hardware, boxing, packing, and not exceeding $54,100 for the pay of employees in connection therewith in the District of Columbia__ For rental, purchase, exchange, and repair of canceling machines and motors, mechanical mail-handling apparatus, and other laborsaving devices, including cost of power in rented buildings and miscellaneous expenses of installation and operation of same, including salaries of seven traveling mechanicians and thirty-nine scale mechanicians, and for traveling expenses_ For the purchase, manufacture, and repair of mail bags and other mail containers and attachments, mail locks, keys, chains, tools, machinery, and material necessary for same, and for incidental expenses pertaining thereto; also material, machinery, and tools necessary for the manufacture and repair in the equipment shops at Washington, District of Columbia, of such other equipment for the Postal Service as may be deemed expedient; for compensation to labor employed in the equipment shops at Washington, District of Columbia, $1,450,000, of which not to exceed $675,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided, That out of this appropriation the Postmaster General is authorized to use as much of the sum, not exceeding $15,000, as may be deemed necessary for the purchase of material and the manufacture in the equipment shops of such small quantities of distinctive equipments as may be required by other executive departments; and for service in Alaska, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, or other island possessions- For rent, light, fuel, and water for first, second, and third class post offices, and the cost of advertising for lease proposals for such offices For the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similar devices in the city of New York, including the Borough of Brooklyn of the city of New York, at an annual rate not in excess of $19,500 per mile of double line of tubes, including power, labor, and all other operating expenses--- For the rental of not exceeding two miles of pneumatic tubes, not including labor and power in operating the same, for the transmission of mail in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, $24,000: Provided, That the provisions not inconsistent herewith of the Acts of April 21, 1902 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 423), and May 27, 1908 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 423), relating to the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similar devices shall be applicable hereto. For vehicle allowance, the hiring of drivers, the rental of vehicles, and the purchase and exchange and maintenance, including stable and garage facilities, of wagons or automobiles for, and the operation of, screen-wagon and city delivery and collection service, $16,500,000: Provided, That the Postmaster General may, in his disbursement of this appropriation, apply a part thereof to the leasing of quarters for the housing of Government-owned automobiles at a reasonable annual rental for a term not exceeding ten years: Provided further, That this appropriation is available for the maintenance of the Government-owned post-office garage at Washington, District of Columbia, including such changes and additions to the mechanical equipment as, in the opinion of the Postmaster General, may be necessary: Provided further, That the Postmaster General, during the fiscal year 1933, may purchase and maintain from the appropriation "Vehicle service" such tractors and trailer trucks as may be required in the operation of the screenwagon and city delivery and collection service: Provided further, $330,000. 00 65,000.00 550,000.00 1,450,000.00 17, 500, 000. 00 516,000.00 24,000.00 That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for maintenance or repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for use in connection with the administrative work of the Post Office Department in the District of Columbia... For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. [Total, office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $39,289,500.] In the disbursement of appropriations contained in this Act for the field service of the Post Office Department the Postmaster General may transfer to the Bureau of Standards not to exceed $20,000 for scientific investigations in connection with the purchase of materials, equipment, and supplies necessary in the maintenance and operation of the Postal Service. If the revenues of the Post Office Department shall be insufficient to meet the appropriations made under Title II of this Act, a sum equal to such deficiency in the revenues of such department is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply such deficiency in the revenues of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, and the sum needed may be advanced to the Post Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster General... SEC. 2. Appropriations for the fiscal year 1933 available for expenses of travel of civilian officers and employees of the executive departments and establishments shall be available also for expenses of travel performed by them on transfer from one official station to another when authorized by the head of the department or establishment concerned in the order directing such transfer: Provided, That such expenses shall not be allowed for any transfer effected for the convenience of any officer or employee. SEC. 3. Expenditures from appropriations made herein for the maintenance, upkeep, and repair, exclusive of garage rent, pay of operator, fuel and lubricants, on any one passenger-carrying vehicle used by the Treasury or Post Office Department shall not exceed one-third of the market price of a new vehicle of the same make or class and in any case more than $500. SEC. 4. No part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be used for purchasing any motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle (except busses, station wagons, and ambulances) at a cost, delivered and completely equipped for operation, in excess of $750, including the value of a vehicle exchanged where exchange is involved; nor shall any money appropriated herein be used for maintaining, driving, or operating any Government-owned motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle not used exclusively for official purposes; and "official purposes" shall not include the transportation of officers and employees between their domiciles and places of employment except in cases of officers and employees engaged in field work the character of whose duties makes such transportation necessary and then only when the same is approved by the head of the department. This section shall not apply to any motor vehicle for official use of the Secretary of the Treasury or the Postmaster General. SEC. 5. In the expenditure of appropriations in this Act or appropriations hereafter made, the Secretary of the Treasury in the case of the Treasury Department, and the Postmaster General in the case of the Post Office Department, shall, unless in his discretion the interest of the Government will not permit, purchase, or contract for, within the limits of the United States, only articles of the growth, production, or manufacture of the United States, not $16,500,000.00 4, 500. 00 Indefinite. withstanding that such articles of the growth, production, or manufacture of the United States may cost more, if such excess of cost be not unreasonable. In giving effect to this section special consideration shall be given to the domestic article where the raw material of which the article is made is grown in the United States and the article is manufactured in the United States. SEC. 6. The United States Bureau of Efficiency is authorized and directed to prepare and submit to Congress on the first day of the next regular session a report showing the make, year, type, annual mileage, useful purpose, assignment, and other similar pertinent information relative to each Government-owned passenger automobile and motor boat in the custody of the several field services on June 30, 1932, and shall indicate in such report which of such vehicles were forfeited to the United States for violation of law. SEC. 7. No part of any appropriation made by this Act shall be used to pay the actual expenses of subsistence in excess of $6 each for any one calendar day or per diem allowance for subsistence in excess of the rate of $5 for any one calendar day to any officer or employee of the United States, and payment accordingly shall be in full, notwithstanding any other statutory provision. Approved, July 5, 1932. Total, Title II, Post Office Department.. Total, Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriation NOTE. In addition to the appropriations for the fiscal year 1933 carried in the annual Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriation Act the following appropriations are available for such year: Permanent and indefinite Treasury Department (pp. 497-500). Emergency Relief and Construction Act, 1932- Total___ Grand total: Treasury Department_. Total_ $805,939,675.00 250,308,158.00 1,056,247,833.00 WAR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION ACT [PUBLIC-No. 72D CONGRESS] [H. R. 11897] By the Act making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, and for other purposes, approved July 14, 1932. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, and for other purposes, namely: TITLE I.-MILITARY ACTIVITIES AND OTHER EX- SALARIES, WAR DEPARTMENT Secretary of War, $15,000; Assistant Secretary of War, $10,000--For compensation for other personal services in the District of Columbia, as follows: Office of Secretary of War, $270,060: Provided, That no fieldservice appropriation shall be available for personal services in the War Department except as may be expressly authorized herein. Office of Chief of Staff_ Adjutant General's office. For assembling, classifying, and indexing the military personnel records of the World War, including personal services in the District of Columbia and the purchase of necessary supplies and materials__ Office of the Inspector General--- Office of the Judge Advocate General, $113,294: Provided, That not to exceed $29,122 may be used for the employment of such experts, at rates of pay to be fixed by the Secretary of War, and other employees as may be required by the Judge Advocate General of the Army for the preparation of evidence for use in behalf of the Government in claims or suits filed in Federal courts on account of alleged patent infringements and other causes and for like services in connection with other patent matters and other causes, including not to exceed $2,365 for necessary per diem and traveling expenses in connection therewith, as authorized by law. Office of the Surgeon General. Office of Chief of Bureau of Insular Affairs. Office of Chief of Engineers, $124,526: Provided, That the services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the $25,000.00 270, 060.00 232, 034.00 1,461, 402. 00 250,000.00 28, 345.00 113, 294.00 382, 720.00 830, 825.00 106,620.00 234, 105, 00 282,489.00 85,413.00 office of the Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, surveys, and preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor estimates and bills, to be paid from such appropriations: Provided further, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1933 shall not exceed $218,830; the Secretary of War shall each year, in the Budget, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each--- Office of Chief of Ordnance_ Office of Chief of Chemical warfare Service. Militia Bureau, War Department. In all, salaries, War Department, $5,101,254. In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the Assistant Secretaries of War the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended: Provided, That this restriction shall not apply (1) to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clericalmechanical service, or (2) to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act, (3) to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, (4) to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or (5) to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated. CONTINGENT EXPENSES, WAR DEPARTMENT For stationery; purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, including their exchange; books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, maps; typewriting and adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, linoleum, filing equipment, photo supplies, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor trucks and motor cycles; freight and express charges; street-car fares, not exceeding $750; postage to Postal Union countries; and other absolutely necessary expenses, including not to exceed $750 for traveling expenses__. For printing and binding for the War Department, its bureaus and offices, and for all printing and binding for the field activities under the War Department, except such as may be authorized in accordance with existing law to be done elsewhere than at the Government Printing Office, $500,000: Provided, That the sum of $3,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used for the publication, from time to time, of bulletins prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General of the Army, for the instruction of medical officers, when approved by the Secretary of War, and not exceeding $95,854 shall be available for printing and binding under the direction of the Chief of Engineers.. [Total, War Department, proper, $5,746,004.] $124, 526.00 446, 618.00 52, 279.00 25,720.00 149, 804. 00 144, 750.00 500,000.00 |