FIRST DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION ACT, FISCAL YEAR 1932 [PUBLIC-No. 5-72D CONGRESS] [H. R. 6660] By the Act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and for other purposes. Approved February 2, 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, to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and for other purposes, namely: TITLE I LEGISLATIVE ESTABLISHMENT SENATE To pay to Elizabeth C. Morrow, widow of Honorable Dwight W. Morrow, late a Senator from the State of New Jersey.. To pay to Hattie W. Caraway, widow of Honorable Thaddeus. H. Caraway, late a Senator from the State of Arkansas.. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fiscal year 1932__. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenographers of committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding 25 cents per hundred words, fiscal year 1932, $100,000: Provided, That except in the case of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation no part of this appropriation shall be expended for services, personal, professional, or otherwise, in excess of the rate of $3.600 per annum: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for per diem and subsistence expenses except in accordance with the provisions of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, approved June 3, 1926. For repairs, improvements, equipment, and supplies for Senate kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be expended from the contingent fund of the Senate under the supervision of the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, fiscal year 1932. [Total, Senate, $207,000.] HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES To pay the widow of Ernest R. Ackerman, late a Representative from the State of New Jersey To pay the widow of James B. Aswell, late a Representative from the State of Louisiana. $10,000,00 10,000.00 75,000.00 100,000.00 12,000.00 10,000.00 10, 000. 00 To pay the widow of Charles G. Edwards, late a Representative from the State of Georgia. $10,000. 00 To pay the widow of Fletcher Hale, late a Representative from the State of New Hampshire--- To pay the widow of George S. Graham, late a Representative from the State of Pennsylvania.. 10,000.00 10,000.00 To pay the widow of Nicholas Longworth, late a Representative from the State of Ohio--- 10,000.00 To pay the widow of Samuel C. Major, late a Representative from the State of Missouri.. 10,000.00 To pay the widow of Charles A. Mooney, late a Representative from the State of Ohio_. To pay the mother of Matthew V. O'Malley, late a Representative from the State of New York_. 10,000.00 To pay the widow of Bird J. Vincent, late a Representative from the State of Michigan.. 10,000.00 10,000.00 10,000.00 To pay the widow of Harry M. Wurzbach, late a Representative from the State of Texas__ The eleven preceding appropriations shall be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives. Committee on Revision of the Laws: For preparation and editing of the laws as authorized by section 10 of the Act approved May 29, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 1, sec. 59), fiscal year 1932, $5,000; for the employment of competent persons to assist in continuing the work of compiling, codifying, and revising the laws and treaties of the United States, fiscal years 1932 and 1933, $3,000___ Not to exceed $1,432.55 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $6,500, contained in the First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1929, for preparation and editing of the laws is continued available during the fiscal year 1932. For folding speeches and pamphlets at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, fiscal year 1932 [Total, House of Representatives, $126,000.] ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL House Office Building: For reconstruction and remodeling of the House Office Building, including all structural, mechanical alterations and other changes, with such modifications as the House Office Building Commission may direct, $60,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to remain available until June 30, 1933, and to be expended by the Architect of the Capitol under the supervision of the House Office Building Commission; and the Architect of the Capitol is hereby authorized to enter into contracts in the open market, to make expenditures for material, supplies, equipment, technical and reference books, and instruments, accessories, advertising, travel expenses and subsistence therefor, and, without regard to section 35 of the Public Buildings Act, approved June 25, 1910, as amended, or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, to employ all necessary personnel, including professional, architectural, and engineering, and other assistants. This appropriation shall be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the Interior Department---- New House Office Building: To enable the Architect of the Capitol to provide furnishings and equipment for the New House Office. Building within the authorized limit of cost for site and construction as provided in Act approved January 10, 1929 (45 Stat. 1071), $400,000 to remain available until June 30, 1933; and the Architect of the Capitol is hereby authorized to enter into contracts in the open market, to make expenditures for material, supplies, equipment, technical and reference books, and instruments, accessories, advertis 8,000.00 8,000.00 60,000.00 ing, travel expenses and subsistence therefor, and, without regard to section 35 of the Public Buildings Act, approved June 25, 1910, as amended, or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, to employ all necessary personnel, including professional, architectural, and engineering, and other assistants. This appropriation shall be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the Interior Department---- Enlarging the Capitol Grounds: To enable the Architect of the Capitol to provide for the demolition and removal of structures in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the enlarging of the Capitol Grounds," approved March 4, 1929 (45 Stat. 1694), as amended by Act approved March 4, 1931 (46 Stat. 1522), 050,000, to remain available until June 30, 1933__. Library building and grounds: For an additional amount for the acquisition of a site for additional buildings for the Library of Congress, as authorized in the Act approved May 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 622), notwithstanding the limit of cost for site named in that Act, but in pursuance of condemnation awards... To enable the Architect of the Capitol to provide for the removal of buildings and structures in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the acquisition of certain property in the District of Columbia for the Library of Congress, and for other purposes," approved May 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 622), $20,000, to remain available until June 30, 1933 [Total, office of Architect of the Capitol, $851,201.94.] [Total, Legislatives, $1,184,201.94.] EXECUTIVE OFFICE AND INDEPENDENT ESTABLISHMENTS $400,000.00 50,000.00 321, 201. 94 20,000.00 EXECUTIVE OFFICE Protection of interests of the United States in matters affecting oil lands in former naval reserves: For an additional amount for compensation and expenses of special counsel and for all other expenses, including employment of experts and other assistants at such rates as may be authorized or approved by the President, in connection with carrying into effect the joint resolution directing the Secretary of the Interior to institute proceedings touching sections 16 and 36, township 30 south, range 23 east, Mount Diablo meridian, approved February 21, 1924 (43 Stat. 15), fiscal year 1932, $10,000, to be expended by the President. FEDERAL BOARD FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION Cooperative vocational education in agriculture and home economics: For an additional amount for carrying out the provisions of section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the further development of vocational education in the several States and Territories," approved February 5, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 20, secs. 15a, 15c), fiscal year 1932 Vocational education in Porto Rico: For extending to Porto Rico the benefits of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational education; to provide for cooperation with the States in the promotion of such education in agriculture and the trades in industries; to provide for cooperation with the States in the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects; and to appropriate money and regulate its expenditure," approved February 23, 1917 (U.S. C., title 20, secs. 11-18), in accordance with the provisions of the 10,000.00 83,000.00 Act entitled "An Act to extend the provisions of certain laws relating to vocational education and civilian rehabilitation to Porto Rico," approved March 3, 1931 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 20, sec. 30), fiscal year 1932 FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION For an additional amount for authorized expenditures of the Federal Trade Commission in performing the duties imposed by law, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1932 ". GEORGE WASHINGTON BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION For an additional amount for the George Washington Bicentennial Commission for the fiscal years 1932 and 1933, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1932. OFFICE OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PUBLIC PARKS OF THE NATIONAL Mount Vernon Memorial Highway: Not to exceed $4,000 of the appropriation "Salaries, maintenance, and care of buildings, 1932," and $10,000 of the appropriation "General expenses, maintenance, and care of buildings, 1932," contained in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1932, are hereby made available for the fiscal year 1932, for the maintenance of the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway and other Federal lands authorized by the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482). VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION Military and naval compensation: For an additional amount for the payment of military and naval compensation accruing during the fiscal year 1932 or in prior fiscal years, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Veterans' Administration for the fiscal year 1932. [Total Executive Office and Independent Establishments, $47,255,975.] DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MUNICIPAL ARCHITECT'S OFFICE Not to exceed $50,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for buildings and grounds, public schools, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1931, is hereby made available until June 30, 1932, for payment of personal services employed on construction work under the supervision of the Municipal Architect's Office. STREET AND ROAD IMPROVEMENT AND REPAIR The item for the paving of Benning Road northeast, Fifteenth Street to culvert, $154,400, under the appropriation for Gasoline Tax Road and Street Fund, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1932, is hereby made available to include the construction of a pedestrian underpass at Twenty-fourth Street and Benning Road northeast. $45,000.00 20,000.00 225,000.00 46, 872, 975. 00 COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSE Not to exceed $260,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $550,000 provided for sites and construction, incinerators for refuse, contained in the First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1930, is hereby made available for the same purpose until June 30, 1933, and the commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for the construction and equipment of such incinerators at a cost which, together with other expenditures authorized by the Act approved March 4, 1929 (45 Stat. 1549), including a resident engineer at not to exceed the rate of $3,800 per annum, shall not exceed $760,000: Provided, That the limitation of $25,000, contained in the First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1930, for the employment by contract or otherwise of such expert and other personal services as may be required for the preparation of plans for the construction of said incinerators is hereby increased to $35,000, to enable the commissioners to pay for services not exceeding $10,000 in addition to the amount of $25,000 for such services as set forth in the existing contract of June 13, 1930. PUBLIC SCHOOLS Instruction of the Deaf: For an additional amount for maintenance and instruction of colored deaf-mutes of teachable age belonging to the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, fiscal year 1932, $250: Provided, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education----Furniture: For furnishing and equipping buildings and additions to buildings and stadiums, as follows: Dunbar High School stadium, $1,800; Western High School stadium, $2,900; Key School, $4,000; Stoddert School, $8,000; Hearst School, $8,000; Janney School, $5,000; Orr School, $4,000; Hine Junior High School, $9,000; Macfarland Junior High School, $22,000; Paul Junior High School, $10,000; Randall Junior High School, $6,300; in all, fiscal years 1932 and 1933__ METROPOLITAN POLICE House of Detention: For alterations and improvements to number 2 police precinct station house to fit it for use as a house of detention, including the expense of removing and relocating cell blocks and other equipment and the cost of additional equipment; and for necessary changes in number 3 police precinct station house to make it available for use as a police inspection district headquarters, such work to be performed by day labor or otherwise, in the discretion of the commissioners, fiscal year 1932. COURTS Printing and Binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding for the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, except records and briefs in cases in which the United States is a party, fiscal year 1932 PUBLIC WELFARE Gallinger Municipal Hospital: Not exceeding $7,680 of the appropriation of $10,000 contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1932 for the isolating ward for minor contagious diseases at Providence Hospital is hereby authorized to be transferred to and made a part of the appropriation for personal services, Gallinger Municipal Hospital, fiscal year 1932. $250.00 81,000.00 12, 000. 00 1,500.00 |