the restrictions in respect to travel expenses, the administrative expenses and other obligations of the Administration shall be incurred, allowed, and paid in accordance with the provisions of said Act of June 27, 1934, as amended (U. S. C., title 12, secs. 1701-1723): Provided further, That not exceeding $300,000 of the sum herein authorized to be advanced from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation shall be expended in the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1938 for purposes of the Public Relations and Education Division. [For amendment of the foregoing paragraph, see p. 347.] RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION Not to exceed $9,500,000 of the funds of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, established by the Act of January 22, 1932 (47 Stat., p. 5), shall be available during the fiscal year 1938 for administrative expenses of the Corporation, and of the RFC Mortgage Company, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; travel expenses, in accordance with the Standardized Government Travel Regulations and the Act of June. 3, 1926, as amended (U. S. C., title 5, secs. 821-833); printing and binding; law books, books of reference, and not to exceed $500 for periodicals and newspapers; procurement of supplies, equipment, and services; typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange; rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; use of the services and facilities of the Federal Reserve banks; and all other necessary administrative expenses: Provided, That all necessary expenses in connection with. the acquisition, operation, maintenance, improvement, or disposition of any real or personal property belonging to the Corporation or the RFC Mortgage Company or in which they have an interest, including expenses of collections of pledged collateral, shall be considered as nonadministrative expenses for the purposes hereof: Provided further, That except for the limitations in amounts hereinbefore specified, and the restrictions in respect to travel expenses, the administrative expenses and other obligations of the Corporation shall be incurred, allowed, and paid in accordance with the provisions of said Act of January 22, 1932, as amended (U. S. C., title 15, secs. 601-617). FEDERAL EMERGENCY ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC WORKS Not to exceed $10,000,000 of the amount of $300,000,000 made available, upon the direction of the President, to the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works by Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936 shall be available during the fiscal year 1938 for administrative expenses in connection with the liquidation of said Administration, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; travel expenses, in accordance with the Standardized Government Travel Regulations and the Act of June 3, 1926, as amended (U. S. C., title 5, secs. 821-833); printing and binding; law books, books of reference, and not to exceed $500 for periodicals, newspapers, and press clippings; procurement of supplies, equipment, and services; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes; typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange; not to exceed $1,000 for expenses of attendance, when specifically authorized by the Administrator, at INDEPENDENT OFFICES meetings concerned with the work of the Administration; rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and all other necessary administrative expenses: Provided, That except for the limitations in amounts hereinbefore specified, and the restrictions in respect to travel expenses, the administrative expenses and other obligations of the Administration shall be incurred, allowed, and paid in accordance with the provisions of Title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act. [For amendment of the foregoing paragraph, see p. 379.] FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN INSURANCE Not to exceed $256,180 of the funds of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, established by title IV of the National Housing Act of June 27, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 1246), shall be available during the fiscal year 1938, for administrative expenses of the Corporation, including personal services, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; travel expenses, in accordance with the Standardized Government Travel Regulations and the Act of June 3, 1926, as amended (U. S. C., title 5, secs. 821-833); printing and binding; law books, books of reference, and not to exceed $250 for periodicals and newspapers; procurement of supplies, equipment, and services; typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange; use of the services and facilities of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Federal home loan banks, Federal Reserve banks, and agencies of the Government as authorized by said title IV; and all other necessary administrative expenses: Provided, That all necessary expenses in connection with the liquidation of insured institutions under said title IV shall be considered as nonadministrative expenses for the purposes hereof: Provided further, That, except for the limitations in amounts hereinbefore specified, and the restrictions in respect to travel expenses, the administrative expenses and other obligations of the Corporation shall be incurred, allowed, and paid in accordance with the provisions of said Act of June 27, 1934, as amended (U. S. C., title 12, secs. 1725-1732). SEC. 2. In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations contained in this Act, for the payment of personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, 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, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade, advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate: 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 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. SEC. 3. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, the salaries of the Commissioners of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Commissioners of the United States Tariff Commission shall be at the rate of $10,000 each per annum. SEC. 4. This Act may be cited as the "Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1938". Approved, June 28, 1937. Total, Independent Offices Appropriation Act_‒‒‒‒‒ NOTE. In addition to the appropriations for the fiscal year 1938 carried in the foregoing annual Independent Offices Appropriation Act, the following additional amounts are available for such fiscal year under Independent Offices: Permanent in indefinite (pp. 851-853) Second Deficiency Act (p. 321) Third Deficiency Act (pp. 346–348) Public Resolution, No. 45 (p. 382) Farm Credit Administration Act (p. 43)_. Grand total, Independent Offices. $957,738,963.00 94, 733, 960. 00 40, 166, 270. 00 6, 630,000.00 18, 000, 000.00 175,000.00 1,500,000,000.00 449, 880, 000.00 4, 000, 000. 00 3,071,324,193.00 INTERIOR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION ACT [PUBLIC-No. 249-75TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 570-1ST SESSION] By the Act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, and for other purposes, approved August 9, 1937. 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 Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, namely: OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY SALARIES Salaries: For the Secretary of the Interior, Under Secretary, First Assistant Secretary, Assistant Secretary, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $420,000: Provided, That 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 First Assistant Secretary and the Assistant Secretary 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, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate: Provided, That this restriction shall not apply (1) to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical 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______ OFFICE OF SOLICITOR For personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field__ $420,000.00 280,000.00 107 DIVISION OF TERRITORIES AND ISLAND POSSESSIONS For personal services in the District of Columbia... DIVISION OF INVESTIGATIONS For investigating official matters under the control of the Department of the Interior; for protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; for protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation; for adjusting claims for swamplands and indemnity for swamplands; and for traveling expenses of agents and others employed hereunder, $136,100, including not exceeding $27,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia; not exceeding $38,000 for the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motorboats for the use of agents and others employed in the field service; and not to exceed $5,000 to meet unforseen emergencies of a confidential character, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, who shall make a certificate of the amount of such expenditure as he may think it advisable not to specify, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended. DIVISION OF GRAZING For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to stop injury to the public grazing lands by preventing overgrazing and soil deterioration, to provide for their orderly use, improvement, and development, to stabilize the livestock industry dependent upon the public range, and for other purposes", approved June 28, 1934 (48 Stat. 1269), and as amended by the Act of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1976), including examination and classification of lands with respect to grazing or agricultural utility, preparation of land classification maps and reports, traveling and other necessary expenses, payments for the cost of packing, crating, and transportation (including drayage) of personal effects of employees upon permanent change of station, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, not to exceed $55,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $30,000 for the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of motorpropelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $450,000; for payment of a salary of $5 per diem while actually employed and for the payment of necessary travel expenses, exclusive of subsistence, of members of advisory committees of local stockmen, $100,000; in all. For construction, purchase, and maintenance of range improvements within grazing districts, pursuant to the provisions of sections 10 and 11 of the Act of June 28, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 1269) and as amended by the Act of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat., p. 1976), and not including contributions under section 9 of said Act, $250,000: Provided, That expenditures hereunder in any grazing district shall not exceed 25 per centum of all moneys received under the provisions of said Act from such district during the fiscal years 1937 and 1938- CONTINGENT EXPENSES, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the bureaus and offices of the Department; furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, telephone service, including personal services of temporary or emergency telephone operators; street-car fares for use by messengers not exceeding $150; expressage, diagrams, awnings, filing devices, typewriters, adding and addressing machines, and other labor-saving devices, including the repair, exchange, and maintenance thereof; constructing model $56, 460.00 436, 100.00 550,000.00 250,000.00 |