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POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT

(OUT OF THE POSTAL REVENUES)

DEPARTMENTAL

SALARIES IN BUREAUS AND OFFICES

For an additional amount for salaries, Office of the Solicitor for the Post Office Department, fiscal year 1942

CONTINGENT EXPENSES

Printing and binding, Post Office Department: For an additional amount for printing and binding for the Post Office Department, fiscal year 1942-

$8, 265.00

200, 000, 00

FIELD SERVICE

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF INSPECTOR

Post-office inspectors, salaries: For an additional amount for salaries of inspectors, fiscal year 1942, $65,000: Provided, That the number of inspectors that may be employed for the remainder of the fiscal year 1942 is hereby increased from six hundred and thirty-five to seven hundred and thirty-five___.

Post-office inspectors, traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For an additional amount, fiscal year 1942, for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of post-office inspectors, including the objects specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1942---

OFFICE OF THE FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL

Compensation to postmasters: For an additional amount for compensation to postmasters, fiscal year 1941, including the objects and conditions specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1941.

Detroit River postal service: For an additional amount for the Detroit River postal service, fiscal year 1941_-----

65, 000, 00

49,000.00

300, 000, 00

500.00

Special-delivery fees: For an additional amount for fees to specialdelivery messengers, fiscal year 1941.

125,000.00

Unusual conditions at post offices: For an additional amount for

unusual conditions at post offices, fiscal year 1942

300,000.00

Miscellaneous items, first- and second-class post offices: For an additional amount for miscellaneous items, first- and second-class post offices, fiscal year 1942

300,000.00

[Total, Office of First Assistant Postmaster General, $1,025,500.]

OFFICE OF THE SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL

Star Route Service, Alaska: For an additional amount for inland transportation by star routes in Alaska, fiscal year 1942.

30,000.00

OFFICE OF THE FOURTH ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL

Vehicle service: For an additional amount for vehicle service, fiscal year 1942, including the objects and conditions specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1942[Total, Post-Office Department, $2,377,765.]

1,000,000.00

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

CONTINGENT EXPENSES (DEPARTMENTAL)

Contingent expenses, Department of State: For an additional amount for contingent expenses, Department of State, fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1942, $150,000, of which there may be expended not to exceed $35,000 for the purchase of typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including rental, exchange, and repair thereof, and $4,000 for the purchase and exchange of books, maps, and periodicals, and, when authorized by the Secretary of State, 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, newspapers, teletype rentals, and tolls

FOREIGN INTERCOURSE

Emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service: For an additional amount to enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, fiscal year 1942, including the objects and subject to the limitations specified under this heading in the Department of State Appropriation Act for 1942, $5,000,000, to remain available until June 30, 1943. [Total, Department of State, $5,150,000.]

TREASURY DEPARTMENT

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

Consolidated emergency fund: For all expenses necessary, including personal services in the District of Columbia, in connection with the performance by the bureaus and offices of the Treasury Department hereinafter named of additional or increased functions and activities arising out of the war emergency, fiscal year 1942, $253,000, from which sum, transfers, not to exceed the amounts specified, may be made to said bureaus and offices as follows: Office of the Secretary, $41,396; Office of the Chief Clerk, for contingent expenses, $37,500, for personal services, $15,000; Superintendent of Treasury Buildings, $36,680; Division of Personnel, $15,934; and Bureau of Internal Revenue, $106,490: Provided, That none of the funds herein appropriated shall be used for producing moving pictures.

CUSTODY OF TREASURY BUILDINGS

Salaries and expenses, guard force: The limitation on the amount which may be obligated for purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms contained in the appropriation under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act 1942, is hereby increased from $9,875 to $13,575.

BUREAU OF ACCOUNTS

Contingent expenses, public moneys: For an additional amount for contingent expenses, public moneys, fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1942__.

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$150,000.00

5,000,000.00

253,000.00

150,000.00

Refund of moneys erroneously received and covered: For an additional amount for refund of moneys erroneously received and covered, fiscal year 1942__

BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT

Expenses of loans: The limitation on the amount that may be obligated during the fiscal year 1942 under the indefinite appropriation "Expenses of loans, Act of September 24, 1917, as amended and extended", contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1941, is hereby increased from $9,800,000 to $26,000,000: Provided, That such appropriation shall be available during the fiscal years 1942 and 1943 for payment of all necessary expenses connected with public-debt issues or with any refunding operations, to be expended as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct.

OFFICE OF THE TREASURER OF THE UNITED STATES

Check forgery insurance fund (revolving fund): To carry out the purposes of an Act to authorize the Treasurer of the United States to make settlements with payees of lost or stolen checks, which have been paid on forged endorsements, in advance of reclamation, and for other purposes, approved November 21, 1941 (Public Law 310), $50,000, which amount shall be deposited with the Treasurer of the United States in the special deposit account authorized to be estab'lished by said Act, entitled the "Check forgery insurance fund" (revolving fund), and shall be available for expenditure for the purposes of the Act by the Treasurer of the United States at the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury--

BUREAU OF CUSTOMS

Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount of collecting the revenue from customs, including the objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1942, $471,000, and the limitation under said head on the amount which may be expended for the purchase of passenger-carrying vehicles is hereby increased from $87,500 to $140,055--

SECRET SERVICE DIVISION

Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For an additional amount for suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, for the fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1942--

Salaries, White House Police: For an additional amount for "Salaries, White House Police", fiscal year 1942, for fifty-five privates, two sergeants, two lieutenants, and one inspector, in addition to the number specified in the Act of April 22, 1940_

Uniforms and equipment, White House Police: For an additional amount for uniforming and equipping the White House Police, fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1942

[Total, Secret Service Division, $289,770.]

$40,000.00

50,000.00

471,000.00

229,000.00

50,000.00

10, 770.00

BUREAU OF THE MINT

Transportation of bullion and coin: For an additional amount for transportation of bullion and coin, between mints, assay offices, and bullion depositories, including compensation of temporary employees, fiscal year 1942, $500,000, to remain available until June 30, 1943. Salaries and expenses, mints and assay offices: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, mints and assay offices, fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1942‒‒‒‒

PROCUREMENT DIVISION

The appropriation "Salaries and expenses, Procurement Division", contained in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1942, is hereby made available for the payment of per diem employees engaged in work in connection with operations of the fuel yards at rates of pay approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding current rates for similar services in the District of Columbia, and the second paragraph under the caption "Procurement Division" in such Act is hereby amended by adding after the words "District of Columbia" the words "and areas adjacent thereto".

COAST GUARD

Claims for damages, operation of vessels: To pay claims for damages adjusted and determined by the Secretary of the Treasury under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the adjustment and settlement of certain claims for damages resulting from the operation of vessels of the Coast Guard and the Public Health Service, in sums not exceeding $3,000 in any one case", approved June 15, 1936, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 587, Seventy-seventh Congress

[Total, Treasury Department, $3,150,913.57.]

WAR DEPARTMENT

MILITARY ACTIVITIES

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR

Claims for damages to and loss of private property: To pay claims for damages adjusted and determined by the Secretary of War under the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, and for other purposes", approved August 24, 1912, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 580, Seventy-seventh Congress--.

CIVIL FUNCTIONS

CORPS OF ENGINEERS

Claim for damages, river and harbor work: To pay claims for damages under river and harbor work adjusted and determined by the War Department under the provisions of section 9 of the River and Harbor Act, approved June 5, 1920 (33 U. S. C. 564), as set forth in House Document Numbered 586, Seventy-seventh Congress..

[Total, Title 1, $160,155,054.42.]

$500,000.00

1, 395, 900.00

1,243. 57

4, 955. 71

100.00

TITLE II-JUDGMENTS AND AUTHORIZED CLAIMS

PROPERTY DAMAGE CLAIMS

SEC. 201. (a) For the payment of claims for damages to or losses of privately owned property adjusted and determined by the following respective departments and independent offices, under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in the sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case", approved December 28, 1922 (31 U. S. C. 215), as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 574, Seventy-seventh Congress, as follows:

Executive Office of the President-Office for Emergency Management, $42.50;

Federal Security Agency, $77.63;
Federal Works Agency, $1,735.19;
Veterans' Administration, $279.25;
Department of Agriculture, $4,670.19;
Department of Commerce, $314.74;
Department of the Interior, $1,212.37;
Department of Justice, $38.63;
Navy Department, $3,684.92;
Treasury Department, $1,309.20;

War Department, $34,662.47;

Post Office Department, payable from postal revenues, $3,466.28; In all, $51,493.37: Provided, That the amount allowed in the caseof item 82 on page 80 of such House Document Numbered 574, is corrected to read "$23.17”.

(b) For the payment of claims for damages to or losses of privately owned property adjusted and determined by the following respective departments and independent offices, under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in the sums. not exceeding $1,000 in any one case", approved December 28, 1922 (31 U. S. C. 215), as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 174, Seventy-seventh Congress, as follows:

Federal Works Agency, $1,202.24;

Department of Agriculture, $199.08;
Department of the Interior, $422.72;
Navy Department, $1,513.35;

Treasury Department, $218.75;

War Department, $8,243.87;

In all___

[Total, Property Damage Claims, $63,293.38.]

JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS

SEO. 202. (a) For the payment of the final judgments, including costs of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1887, entitled "An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States", as amended by section 297 of the Act of March 3, 1911 (28 U. S. C. 761), and which have been certified to the Seventy-seventh Congress in House Document Numbered 572, under the following departments and establishments:

Department of Agriculture, $731.88;
Post Office Department, $468.81;
Treasury Department, $8,250.41;

$51, 493. 37

11, 800. 01

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