1934 (48 Stat., p. 354), March 10, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 402), June 19, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 1021), February 20, 1935 (49 Stat., p. 28), March 21, 1935 (49 Stat., p. 49), April 8, 1935 (49 Stat., p. 115), and Executive Order Numbered 7305, dated February 28, 1936; examination of corporations, banks, associations, credit unions, and institutions operated, supervised, or regulated by the Farm Credit Administration: Provided, That the expenses and salaries of employees engaged in such examinations shall be assessed against the said corporations, banks, or institutions in accordance with the provisions of existing laws; in all, $4,000,000, together with not to exceed $2,950,000 from the funds made available under section 5 of the Emergency Crop Loan Act of February 23, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 354), Public Resolution Numbered 16, Seventy-third Congress, approved March 10, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 402) under the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, approved June 19, 1934 (48 Stat., pp. 1021, 1056), and under section 5 (a) of the Emergency Crop Loan Act of February 20, 1935 (49 Stat., p. 28) -- FEDERAL FARM MORTGAGE CORPORATION Not to exceed $15,000,000 of the funds of the Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation, established by the Act of January 31, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 344), 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 of officers and employees of the Corporation, 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; contract stenographic reporting services; procurement of supplies, equipment, and services; purchase (at not to exceed $750 each), exchange, 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; rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; payment of actual transportation expenses and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses of persons serving, while away from their homes, without other compensation from the United States, in an advisory capacity to the Corporation; employment on a contract or fee basis of persons, firms, and corporations for the performance of special services, including legal services; use of the services and facilities of Federal land banks, national farm loan associations, Federal Reserve banks, and agencies of the Government as authorized by said Act of January 31, 1934; and all other necessary administrative expenses: Provided, That all necessary expenses (including services performed on a force account, contract or fee basis, but not including other personal services) in connection with the operation, maintenance, improvement, or disposition of real or personal property of the Corporation 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 31, 1934, as amended (U. S. C., title 12, secs. 1016-1020 (h)). This title may be cited as the "Farm Credit Administration Appropriation Act of 1938". Approved, June 29, 1937. $4, 000, 000. 00 $626, 381, 208. 00 Total, Title I, Department of Agriculture... 4, 000, 000. 00 Total, Title II, Farm Credit Administration____ Total, Department of Agriculture and Farm Credit Administration Appropriation Act, 1938 NOTE. In addition to the appropriations for the fiscal year 1938, carried in the foregoing annual appropriation act, the following additional amounts are available for such fiscal year: Permanent and indefinite: Department of Agriculture, proper (pp. 853-855)--- Third Deficiency Appropriation Act: $7, 228, 665. 00 120, 000, 000. 00 Department of Agriculture, proper (p. 350). 20, 326, 000, 00 Department of Agriculture, proper (p. 676). 1, 000, 000. 00 Public Resolution No. 55: $630,381,208.00 148, 554, 665.00 778, 935, 873.00 4, 000, 000. 00 774, 935, 873.00 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPROPRIATION ACT [PUBLIC NO. 172-75TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 403-1ST SESSION] [H. R. 5996] By the Act making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, and for other purposes, approved June 29, 1937. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to defray the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, any revenue (not including the proportionate share of the United States in any revenue arising as the result of the expenditure of appropriations made for the fiscal year 1924 and prior fiscal years) now required by law to be credited to the District of Columbia and the United States in the same proportion that each contributed to the activity or source from whence such revenue was derived shall be credited wholly to the District of Columbia, and, in addition, $5,000,000 is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be advanced July 1, 1937, and all of the remainder out of the combined revenues of the District of Columbia, namely: [For authority for advance of Federal funds for the fiscal year 1938, see p. 530.] GENERAL EXPENSES EXECUTIVE OFFICE For personal services, $48,060, plus so much as may be necessary to compensate the Engineer Commissioner at such rate in grade 8 of the professional and scientific service of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, as may be determined by the Board of Commissioners: Provided, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations contained in this Act for the payment of personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the two civilian Commissioners 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; (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 posi tion 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 additional appropriation for 1938, see p. 348.] Purchasing division: For personal services Building inspection division: For personal services. Plumbing inspection division: For personal services, $43,160; two members of plumbing board at $150 each; in all---. Smoke and boiler regulation: For personal services, equipment, instruments, supplies, transportation, and other contingent expenses necessary for the enforcement of the Act entitled "An Act to prevent the fouling of the atmosphere in the District of Columbia by smoke and other foreign substances, and for other purposes", approved August 15, 1935 (49 Stat., p. 653), and the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the inspection, control, and regulation of steam boilers and unfired pressure vessels in the District of Columbia", approved June 25, 1936 (49 Stat., p. 1917)... Office of Poundmaster: For personal services, maintenance and operation of motor vehicles, and other necessary expenses, $10,490: Provided, That the salary of the poundmaster shall be at the rate of $2,000 per annum. [Total, Executive office, $300,870.] PUBLIC CONVENIENCE STATIONS For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensation of necessary employees- CARE OF THE DISTRICT BUILDINGS For personal services, including temporary labor, and service of cleaners as necesssary at not to exceed 48 cents per hour, $96,700: Provided, That no other appropriation made in this Act shall be available for the employment of additional assistant engineers or watchmen for the care of the District Buildings For fuel, light and power, repairs, laundry, and miscellaneous supplies For personal services__. ASSESSOR'S OFFICE $48, 060.00 and indefinite 57,000.00 121, 360. 00 43, 460,00 20, 500.00 10, 490.00 14,000.00 96, 700.00 30,000.00 221, 000, 00 COLLECTOR'S OFFICE For personal services__. AUDITOR'S OFFICE For personal services, $131,700, of which $5,000 shall be available without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and civil-service requirements for examination of estimates of appropriations and for other purposes; and the compensation of the present incumbent of the position of disbursing officer of the District of Columbia shall be exclusive of his compensation as United States property and disbursing officer for the National Guard of the District of Columbia 47,900.00 131, 700.00 OFFICE OF CORPORATION COUNSEL Corporation counsel, including extra compensation as general counsel of the Public Utilities Commission, and other personal services___ ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL BOARD For personal services, street-car and bus transportation, telephone service, not exceeding $1,000 for the purchase of samples, not exceeding $100 for witness fees, and other necessary contingent and miscellaneous expenses- CORONER'S OFFICE For personal services, including deputy coroners, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended_--- For the maintenance of a non-passenger-carrying motor wagon for the morgue, jurors' fees, witness' fees, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies, repairs to the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony and photographing unidentified bodies. OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF WEIGHTS, MEASURES, AND MARKETS For personal services. For contingent expenses, and maintenance and repairs to markets, including not to exceed $1,000 for purchase of commodities and for personal services in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles, and not exceeding $750 for the purchase including exchange, of one motor vehicle equipped for making investigations of sales of gasoline and oil by short measure. For additional appropriation for 1938, see p. 348.] [Total, Office of Superintendent of Weights, Measures, and Markets, $62,975.] OFFICE OF CHIEF CLERK, ENGINEER DEPARTMENT For personal services, $31,940, including $2,600 for the employment of one safety inspector-- MUNICIPAL ARCHITECT'S OFFICE For personal services. All apportionments of appropriations for the use of the municipal architect in payment of personal services employed on construction work provided for by said appropriations shall be based on an amount not exceeding 3 per centum of a total of not more than $2,000,000 of appropriations made for such construction projects and not exceeding 234 per centum of a total of the appropriations in excess of $2,000,000. $98, 060.00 42, 440.00 10, 600.00 4,000.00 53, 800.00 9, 175.00 31, 940. 00 57,980.00 PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION For two commissioners, people's counsel, and for other personal services, $61,500, of which amount not to exceed $5,000 may be used for the employment of expert services by contract or otherwise and without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended... For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorized by law, including the purchase of newspapers- 61, 500.00 1,500.00 |