LIBRARY BUILDING

Salaries: For the superintendent, disbursing officer, and other personal services, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended.

For extra services of employees and additional employees under the Librarian to provide for the opening of the Library Building on Sundays and on holidays, at rates to be fixed by the Librarian_

For special and temporary services in connection with the custody, care, and maintenance of the Library Building, including_extra special services of regular employees at the discretion of the Librarian, at rates to be fixed by the Librarian__.

For mail, delivery, and telephone services, rubber boots, rubber coats, and other special clothing for workmen, uniforms for guards and elevator conductors, medical supplies, equipment, and contingent expenses for the emergency room, stationery, miscellaneous supplies, and all other incidental expenses in connection with the custody and maintenance of the Library Building.

[Total, Library Building, $180,400.]

For any expense of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board not properly chargeable to the income of any trust fund held by the Board

[Total, Library of Congress, $2,567,665.]

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

To provide the Public Printer with a working capital for the following purposes for the execution of printing, binding, lithographing, mapping, engraving, and other authorized work of the Government Printing Office for the various branches of the Government : For salaries of Public Printer and Deputy Public Printer; for salaries, compensation, or wages of all necessary officers and employees additional to those herein appropriated for, including employees necessary to handle waste paper and condemned material for sale; to enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of law granting holidays and half holidays and Executive orders granting holidays and half holidays with pay to employees; to enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of law granting leave to employees with pay, said pay to be at the rate for their regular positions at the time the leave is granted; rental of buildings and equipment, fuel, gas, heat, electric current, gas and electric fixtures; bicycles, motor-propelled vehicles for the carriage of printing and printing supplies, and the maintenance, repair, and operation of the same, to be used only for official purposes, including operation, repair, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and the purchase or exchange of two such passenger vehicles (at a cost, including the allowance on any vehicle given in part payment therefor, of not to exceed $1,000 and $750, respectively), for official use of the officers of the Government Printing Office when in writing ordered by the Public Printer; freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, furniture, typewriters, and carpets; traveling expenses; stationery, postage, and advertising; directories, technical books, newspapers and magazines, and books of reference (not exceeding $500); adding and numbering machines, time stamps, and other machines of similar character; rubber boots, coats, and gloves; machinery (not exceeding $300,000); equipment, and for repairs to machinery, implements, and buildings, and for minor alterations to buildings; necessary equipment, maintenance, and supplies for the emergency room for the use of all employees in the Government Printing Office who may be taken suddenly ill or receive injury while on duty; other necessary contingent and miscellaneous items

$167,800.00

5, 100.00

500,00

7,000.00

500.00

LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

authorized by the Public Printer; for expenses authorized in writing
by the Joint Committee on Printing for the inspection of printing
and binding equipment, material, and supplies and Government print-
ing plants in the District of Columbia or elsewhere (not exceeding
$1,000); for salaries and expenses of preparing the semimonthly and
session indexes of the Congressional Record under the direction of
the Joint Committee on Printing (chief indexer at $3,480, one cata-
loguer at $3,180, two cataloguers at $2,460 each, and one cataloguer
at $2,100); for the printing and distribution of the Federal Register
in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved July 26, 1935;
and for all the necessary labor, paper, materials, and equipment
needed in the prosecution and delivery and mailing of the work; in
all, $3,800,000; to which sum shall be charged the printing and bind-
ing authorized to be done for Congress including supplemental and
deficiency estimates of appropriations, the printing and distribution
of the Federal Register (not exceeding $100,000), the printing and
binding for use of the Government Printing Office, and printing and
binding (not exceeding $2,000) for official use of the Architect of the
Capitol upon requisition of the Secretary of the Senate, in all to an
amount not exceeding $2,800,000: Provided, That not less than
$1,000,000 of such working capital shall be returned to the Treasury
as an unexpended balance not later than six months after the close
of the fiscal year 1938---

Printing and binding for Congress chargeable to the foregoing appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made.

During the fiscal year 1938 any executive department or independent establishment of the Government ordering printing and binding from the Government Printing Office shall pay promptly by check to the Public Printer upon his written request, either in advance or upon completion of the work, all or part of the estimated or actual cost thereof, as the case may be, and bills rendered by the Public Printer in accordance herewith shall not be subject to audit or certification in advance of payment: Provided, That proper adjustments on the basis of the actual cost of delivered work paid for in advance shall be made monthly or quarterly and as may be agreed upon by the Public Printer and the department or establishment concerned. All sums paid to the Public Printer for work that he is authorized by law to do shall be deposited to the credit, on the books of the Treasury Department, of the appropriation made for the working capital of the Government Printing Office for the year in which the work is done, and be subject to requisition by the Public Printer.

All amounts in the Budget for the fiscal year 1939 for printing and binding for any department or establishment, so far as the Bureau of the Budget may deem practicable, shall be incorporated in a single item for printing and binding for such department or establishment and be eliminated as a part of any estimate for any other purpose. And if any amounts for printing and binding, including the total cost of work produced on the multilith, multigraph, and other similar equipment, are included as a part of any estimates for any other purposes, such amounts shall be set forth in detail in a note immediately following the general estimate for printing and binding: Provided, That the foregoing requirements shall not apply to work to be executed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

$3, 800, 000. 00

No part of any money appropriated in this Act shall be paid to any person employed in the Government Printing Office while detailed for or performing service in the executive branch of the public service of the United States unless such detail be authorized by law.

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS

For the Superintendent of Documents, assistant superintendent, and other personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and compensation of employees paid by the hour who shall be subject to the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate and fix rates of pay for employees and officers of the Government Printing Office", approved June 7, 1924 (U. S. C., title 44, sec. 40), $600,000: Provided, That for the purpose of conforming to section 3 of this Act this appropriation shall be considered a separate appropriation unit

For furniture and fixtures, typewriters, carpets, labor-saving machines and accessories, time stamps, adding and numbering machines, awnings, curtains, books of reference; directories, books, miscellaneous office and desk supplies, paper, twine, glue, envelopes, postage, car fares, soap, towels, disinfectants, and ice; drayage, express, freight, telephone and telegraph service; traveling expenses (not to exceed $200); repairs to buildings, elevators, and machinery; preserving sanitary condition of building; light, heat, and power; stationery and office printing, including blanks, price lists, bibliographies, catalogues and indexes; for supplying books to depository libraries; in all, $215,000: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be used to supply to depository libraries any documents, books, or other printed matter not requested by such libraries, and the requests therefor shall be subject to approval by the Superintendent of Documents

In order to keep the expenditures for printing and binding for the fiscal year 1938 within or under the appropriations for such fiscal year, the heads of the various executive departments and independent establishments are authorized to discontinue the printing of annual or special reports under their respective jurisdictions: Provided, That where the printing of such reports is discontinued the original copy thereof shall be kept on file in the offices of the heads of the respective departments or independent establishments for public inspection.

Purchases may be made from the foregoing appropriation under the "Government Printing Office", as provided for in the Printing Act approved January 12, 1895, and without reference to section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 1910 (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 7), concerning purchases for executive departments.

[Total, Government Printing Office, $4,615,000.]

SEC. 2. No part of the funds herein appropriated shall be used for the maintenance or care of private vehicles.

SEC. 3. 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, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in the Botanic Garden, the Library of Congress, or the Government Printing Office, 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

$600, 000. 00

215, 000, 00

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;
(2) to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compen-
sation 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.

SEC. 4. This Act may be cited as the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1938.

Approved, May 18, 1937.

Total, Legislative Branch Appropriation Act---

NOTE.

In addition to the appropriations for the fiscal year 1938 contained in the foregoing Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, the following appropriations are available for such fiscal year:

Permanent and indefinite appropriations (p. 851)
Second Deficiency Appropriation Act (p. 318) –
Third Deficiency Appropriation Act (pp. 344-346)
Public Resolution No. 50 (p. 383).

Grand total, Legislative Branch__.

$24,085, 736. 78

67,800.00 101, 260.00 72, 239.00

61, 656. 00

24, 388, 691. 78

17994-37-12

MILITARY APPROPRIATION ACT, 1938

[PUBLIC NO. 176-75TH CONGRESS]

[CHAPTER 423-1ST SESSION]
[H. R. 6692]

By the Act making appropriations for the Military Establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, and for other purposes, approved July 1, 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 Military Establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, and for other purposes, namely:

SALARIES, WAR DEPARTMENT

For compensation for personal services in the District of Columbia, as follows:

Office of Secretary of War: Secretary of War, Assistant Secretary of War, and other personal services, $270,300: Provided, That no field-service 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 personal services, to be employed exclusively in assembling, classifying, and indexing the military personnel records of the World War, and for the purchase of necessary supplies and materials used in such work..

Office of the Chief of Air Corps.

Office of the Surgeon General__

Office of Chief of Bureau of Insular Affairs.

Office of Chief of Engineers, $131,300: 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 office of the Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors and flood control, surveys, and preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor and flood control estimates and bills, to be paid from such appropriations: Provided further, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1938 shall not exceed $413,840; 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, $424,160: Provided, That the services of such additional technical and clerical personnel as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Ordnance, to carry into effect the various appropriations for development, manufacture, storage, and issue of ordnance