V, parts 1, 2, and 3, of the Social Security Act when called by the [Total, Children's Bureau, $8,644,500.] WOMEN'S BUREAU Salaries and expenses: For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to establish in the Department of Labor a bureau to be known as the Women's Bureau", approved June 5, 1920 (U. S. C., title 29, secs. 11-16), including personal services in the District of Columbia, not to exceed $134,500; purchase of material for reports and educational exhibits__. The appropriation under title IV for traveling expenses shall be available in an amount not to exceed $2,500 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Women's Bureau when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor. UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT SERVICE For all administrative expenses, including the Veterans' Placement Service, the Farm Placement Service, and the District of Columbia Public Employment Center, in carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the establishment of a national employment system and for cooperation with the States in the promotion of such system, and for other purposes", approved June 6, 1933 (U. S. C., title 29, secs. 49-491); personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; law books, books of reference, newspapers and periodicals, printing and binding, supplies and equipment, telegraph and telephone service, and miscellaneous expenses, $777,000, including not to exceed $210,000 for personal services in the Department in the District of Columbia... For payment to the several States in accordance with the provisions of the said Act of June 6, 1933 (U. S. C., title 29, secs. 49-491), as amended, $1,500,000: Provided, That apportionments for the fiscal year 1938 shall be on the basis of a total apportionment to all States of $3,000,000: Provided further, That amounts herein and hereafter appropriated, together with the unexpended balances of amounts heretofore appropriated, for payment to the several States in accordance with said Act of June 6, 1933, as amended, shall constitute one fund to remain available until expended, and the unused balances of amounts apportioned to the several States for the fiscal year 1936 for establishing and maintaining public employment offices shall be reapportioned among all the States, in accordance with said Act of June 6, 1933, as amended, without regard to the sufficiency therefor of said fund. [Total, United States Employment Service, $2,277,000.] The appropriation under title IV for traveling expenses shall be available in an amount not to exceed $4,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the United States Employment Service when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor. This title may be cited as the "Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1938". SEC. 2. No part of the money appropriated under this Act shall be paid to any person for the filling of any position for which he $136, 500.00 777,000.00 1,500,000. 00 or she has been nominated after the Senate has voted not to approve of the nomination of said person. Approved, June 16, 1937. Total, Departments of State, Justice, Com- Title I, Department of State--- $18, 584, 080.00 40, 882, 565.00 43, 032, 242.00 23, 628, 500.00 $126,127,387.00 NOTE. In addition to the appropriations for the fiscal year 1938, carried in the foregoing annual act, the following additional appropriations are available for such fiscal year: [In addition to the appropriations made in the foregoing Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, contracts are authorized thereby to be entered into, subject to future appropriations, aggregating $4,000,000. For details, see p. 877.] 1,287, 953. 34 128, 654, 240. 34 TREASURY AND POST OFFICE DEPARTMENTS APPROPRIATION ACT [PUBLIC NO. 77-75TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 180-1ST SESSION] By the Act making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, and for other purposes, approved May 14, 1937. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, TITLE I-TREASURY DEPARTMENT That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, namely: OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Salaries: Secretary of the Treasury, Under Secretary of the Treasury, three Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including the temporary employment of experts, $207,300: Provided, That 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, with the exception of the Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury and the Assistant Postmasters General, 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 further, 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 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____. For personal services in the District of Columbia in connection with carrying out the provisions of the Emergency Banking Act, $207, 300.00 approved March 9, 1933 (48 Stat. 1), the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 (48 Stat. 337), the Silver Purchase Act of 1934 (48 Stat. 1178), and any Executive orders, proclamations, and regulations issued under such Acts--- $30,000.00 DIVISION OF RESEARCII AND STATISTICS Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia. For personal services in the District of Columbia in connection with carrying out the provisions of the Emergency Banking Act, approved March 9, 1933 (48 Stat. 1), the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 (48 Stat. 337), the Silver Purchase Act of 1934 (48 Stat. 1178), and any Executive orders, proclamations, and regulations issued under such Acts--- Subscriptions to paid-in surplus of Federal land banks: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay for subscriptions to the paid-in surplus of Federal land banks under section 23 of the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933, approved May 12, 1933 (48 Stat. 31), $20,000,000, together with the unexpended balances of the fund for this purpose created by the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936, and of the appropriation for this purpose continued in the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935- Old-age reserve account, Social Security Act: For an amount sufficient as an annual premium for the payments required under title II of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935 (U. S. C., title 42, sec. 401), and authorized to be appropriated to the old-age reserve account established under section 201 (a) of the Act, $500,000,000: Provided, That such amount shall be available until expended for making payments required under the Act, and the amounts not required for current payments shall be invested from time to time in such amounts and in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem most expedient in accordance with the provisions of such Act---- [For additional appropriation for 1938 for reduction in interest on farm mortgages and for capital stock of the United States Housing Authority, see p. 360.] Total, Office of the Secretary, $520,367,300.] OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL Salaries: For the General Counsel and other personal services in the District of Columbia. For personal services in the District of Columbia in connection with carrying out the provisions of the Emergency Banking Act, approved March 9, 1933 (48 Stat. 1), the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 (48 Stat. 337), the Silver Purchase Act of 1934 (48 Stat. 1178), and any Executive orders, proclamations, and regulations issued under such Acts.. OFFICE OF CHIEF CLERK AND SUPERINTENDENT Salaries: For the Chief Clerk and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including the operating force of the Treasury, Liberty Loan, and Auditors' Buildings, and the Treasury Department Annex, Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place, and of other buildings under the control of the Treasury Department.. For personal services in the District of Columbia in connection with carrying out the provisions of the Emergency Banking Act, approved March 9, 1933 (48 Stat. 1), the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 (48 Stat. 337), the Silver Purchase Act of 1934 (48 Stat. 1178), and any Executive orders, proclamations, and regulations issued under such Acts- 60,000.00 70,000.00 20, 000, 000, 00 500, 000, 000. 00 97,000.00 55,000.00 520,000.00 25,000.00 MISCELLANEOUS AND CONTINGENT EXPENSES, TREASURY DEPARTMENT For miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the bureaus and offices of the Department, including operating expenses of the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Auditors', and Liberty Loan Buildings; newspaper clippings, financial journals, books of reference, law books, technical and scientific books, newspapers, and periodicals, expenses incurred in completing imperfect series, library cards, supplies, and all other necessary expenses connected with the library; not exceeding $5,000 for traveling expenses, including the payment of actual transportation and subsistence expenses to any person whom the Secretary of the Treasury may from time to time invite to the city of Washington or elsewhere for conference and advisory purposes in furthering the work of the Department; freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service; purchase and exchange of motor trucks, and maintenance and repair of motor trucks and three passenger automobiles (one for the Secretary of the Treasury and two for general use of the Department), all to be used for official purposes only; file holders and cases; fuel, oils, grease, and heating supplies and equipment; gas and electricity for lighting, heating, and power purposes, including material, fixtures, and equipment therefor; purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriters and labor-saving machines and equipment and supplies for same; floor covering and repairs thereto; furniture and office equipment, including supplies therefor and repairs thereto; awnings, window shades, and fixtures; cleaning supplies and equipment; drafting equipment; ammonia for ice plant; flags; hand trucks, ladders; miscellaneous hardware; streetcar fares not exceeding $500; thermometers; lavatory equipment and supplies; tools and sharpening same; laundry service; laboratory supplies and equipment, removal of rubbish; postage; uniforms for Treasury guards not exceeding $1,200; custody, care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, acquired and held under sections 3749 and 3750 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 40, secs. 301, 302), the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers' fees in connection therewith; and other absolutely necessary articles, supplies, and equipment not otherwise provided for; $170,000: Provided, That the appropriations for the Public Debt Service, Internal Revenue Service, Federal Alcohol Administration, and Division of Disbursement for the fiscal year 1938 are hereby made available for the payment of items otherwise properly chargeable to this appropriation, the provisions of section 6, Act of August 23, 1912 (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 669), to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided further, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for the Treasury Department when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $50__. For supplies and materials, communications service, travelling expenses, equipment, and miscellaneous expenses in connection with carrying out the provisions of the Emergency Banking Act, approved March 9, 1933, the Gold Reserve Act of 1934, the Silver Purchase Act of 1934, and any Executive orders, proclamations, and regulations issued under such Acts----. DIVISION OF PRINTING Salaries: For the Chief, Division of Printing, and other personal services in the District of Columbia---- Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, 17994-37-18 $170,000.00 55,000.00 69, 240. 00 |