Operating Supplies for Public Buildings, Post Office DepartmentOperating supplies, public buildings: For fuel, steam, gas, and electric current for lighting, heating, and power purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, removal of ashes and rubbish, snow and ice, cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, telephone service for custodial forces, and for miscellaneous services and supplies, accident prevention, vacuum cleaners, tools and appliances and repairs thereto, for the operation of completed and occupied public buildings and grounds, including mechanical and electrical equipment, but not the repair thereof, operated by the Post Office Department, including the Washington Post Office and the Customhouse Building in the District of Columbia, and for the transportation of articles and supplies authorized herein, [$5,500,000 $6,500,000: Provided, That the foregoing appropriation shall not be available for personal services except for work done by contract, or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building: Provided further, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes shall not apply to any procurement under this appropriation which does not exceed $2 in amount: Provided further, That the Postmaster General is authorized to contract for telephone service in public buildings under his administration by means of telephone switchboards or equivalent telephone switching equipment jointly serving in each case two or more governmental activities, where he determines that joint service is economical and in the interest of the Government, and to secure reimbursement for the cost of such joint service from available appropriations for telephone expenses of the bureaus and offices receiving the same (Executive Order No. 6166 of June 10, 1933; 55 Stat. 233-234). Estimate 1943, $6,500,000

By objects

02 Supplies and materials.

Appropriated 1942, $5,500,000

Obligations

Estimate, 1943 Estimate, 1942 Actual, 1941

$1,349, 000 921,000

472,500 3,980,000

05 Communication service.

$1, 129, 000

06 Travel expenses.

2,400

07 Transportation of things (service).

921,000 2,400

487, 300

10 Heat, light, and power (service)..

4,343, 500

13 Special and miscellaneous current ex

230, 600 64, 500 6,800,000

ments and establishments for reimburs

$921,300

864,500

2,500

437,300

3,796, 200

217,800 54, 100

6, 293, 700

-845,000 5,448, 700 26, 300

5,475,000

Furniture, Carpets, and Safes for Public Buildings, Post Office Department

Furniture, carpets, and safes, public buildings: For the procurement, including transportation, of furniture, carpets, safes, safe and vault protective devices, and repairs of same, for use in public buildings which are now, or may hereafter be, operated by the Post Office Department, [$637,500】 $748,000: Provided, That, excepting expenditures for labor for or incidental to the moving of equipment from or into public buildings, the foregoing appropriation shall not be used for personal services except for work done under contract or for temporary job labor under exigency and not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building: Provided further, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes shall not apply to any procurement under this appropriation which does not exceed $2 in amount: Provided further, That all furniture now owned by the United States in other

Deficiency in postal revenues: 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, [1942] 1943, and the sum needed may be advanced to the Post Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster General.

SEC. 301. Appropriations for the fiscal year [1942] 1943 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. 302. No appropriation available for the executive departments and independent establishments of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, [1942] 1943, whether contained in this Act or any other Act, shall be expended

(a) To purchase any motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle (exclusive of busses, ambulances, and station wagons), at a cost, completely equipped for operation, and including the value of any vehicle exchanged, in excess of $750, unless otherwise specifically provided for in the appropriation.

(b) For the maintenance, operation, and repair of 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 medical officers on out-patient medical services and except in cases of officers and employees engaged in field work the character of whose duties makes such transportation necessary and then only as to such latter cases when the same is approved by the head of the department or establishment concerned. The limitations of this subsection (b)

shall not apply to any motor vehicles for official use of the President, the heads of the executive departments, Ambassadors, Ministers, and chargés d'affaires.

(c) For the maintenance, upkeep, and repair (exclusive of garage rent, pay of operators, tires, fuel, and lubricants) on any one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, except busses and ambulances, in excess of one-third of the market price of a new vehicle of the same make and class and in no case in excess of $400.

SEC. 303. No part of the money appropriated under this Act shall be paid to any person for the filling of any position for which he or she has been nominated after the Senate upon vote has failed to confirm the nomination of such person.

SEC. 304. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act or authorized hereby to be expended shall be used to pay the compensation of any officer or employee of the Government of the United States, or of any agency the majority of the stock of which is owned by the Government of the United States, whose post of duty is in continental United States, unless such officer or employee is a citizen of the United States or a person in the service of the United States on the date of the approval of this Act who, being eligible for citizenship, has filed a declaration of intention to become a citizen or who owes allegiance to the United States: Provided, That this section shall not apply to enlisted men of the United States Coast Guard

who are on active duty in that service on the effective date of this Act, until the expiration of the period required for such enlisted men to complete their naturalization, nor shall it apply to personnel of the Coast Guard on the retired list, and enlisted men on active duty with over twelve years' honorable service who are ineligible for United States citizenship.

SEC. 305. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who advocates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided, That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be considered prima facie evidence that the person making the affidavit does not advocate, and is not a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided further, That any person who advocates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence and accepts employment the salary or wages for which are paid from any appropriation contained in this Act, shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both: Provided further, That the above penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law (55 Stat. 234–235).

The 12 district banks for cooperatives and the Central Bank for Cooperatives (Washington, D. C.) were organized to make credit available to farmers' cooperative associations on a business basis and were chartered by the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration pursuant to the provisions of the Farm Credit Act of 1933. The banks were organized and began to function in the year 1933. Their charters provide for continued existence until dissolved by law.

The initial capital of the banks was subscribed by the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration from funds available in the revolving fund established under the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929. The Government's investment in the capital stock of these banks, subscribed from this fund, amounted to $89,000,000 on June 30, 1941, and the capital stock and guaranty fund subscribed by

borrowing cooperative associations amounted to $3,790,100 on the same date. The amount of the Governmentowned capital as of June 30, 1941, reflected the repayment of $60,000,000 during the fiscal year ended that date to the revolving fund in the Treasury. Due to the need for capital funds to meet increased requirements for lending purposes, it is contemplated a substantial portion of this amount will be paid in to the banks during the ensuing year.

The banks for cooperatives obtain a portion of their funds for lending purposes by discounting certain of their paper with the Federal intermediate credit banks. The Central Bank for Cooperatives may issue debentures but has never availed itself of the authority.

The receipts, expenditures, and means of financing of these banks are shown in detail in the statement above.

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