1 The sum of $18,000,000, for the Social Security Board, included in this measure as it passed the House and Senate, was transferred to H. J. Res. 386 (Public Res. 36) and deducted from this total The House passed 2 separate bills, 1 for the military and 1 for civil functions of the War Department. The Senate reported and passed 1 bill for the War Department, with separate titles for the V. REFERENCES TO INDEFINITE APPROPRIATIONS SEVENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION Agricultural Appropriation Act: In addition to the total for salaries and expenses of the Forest Service ($14,116,596) such funds as may accrue to the credit of the special fund established by the Act entitled "An Act to facilitate and simplify the work of the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, and to promote reforestation", approved March 3, 1925, are appropriated for the fiscal year 1938 for the purposes defined in section 1 of such Act (p. 23). For the Migratory Bird Conservation Funds there is appropriated for the fiscal year 1938 an amount equal to the sum received during such fiscal year from the proceeds from the sale of stamps and in addition an amount equal to the unobligated balance on June 30, 1937, of the total of the proceeds received from the sale of stamps prior to July 1, 1937 (p. 31). Deficiency Appropriation Acts, 1937: For the amount required to pay increases in rates of exchange to purchase the amount of yen 156,798.39 in connection with the appropriation therefor of $48,000 for payment to the Government of Japan in accordance with the Act of May 21, 1937 (Public Act. No. 99, 75th Cong.), so much as may be necessary is appropriated (p. 358). For the amount required to pay increases in rates of exchange in connection with payment to Mrs. M. N. Shwamberg and others of $500 under the Act of May 6, 1937 (Private Act No. 70, 75th Cong.), so much as may be necessary is appriated (p. 358). For payment of interest on judgments rendered against the United States by United States District Courts and the Court of Claims, so much as may be necessary is appropriated (pp. 313, 314, 337, 338, 365, 366). For such increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay audited claims in foreign currency as specified in certain of the certificates of settlement of the General Accounting Office, so much as may be necessary is appropriated (pp. 316, 342, 369, 372). District of Columbia Appropriation Act: For salary of the Engineer Commissioner, so much as may be necessary to make the salary of the Army officer holding that position equal to such rate in grade 8 of the professional and scientific service of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, as the Board of Commissioners may determine, is appropriated for the fiscal year 1938 (p. 47). The amounts collected from street railway companies for repairing pavements shall be credited to the appropriation for repairs to streets, avenues, alleys, and roads for the fiscal year 1938, and be available for reexpenditure (p. 77). Receipts from the sale of products and services of industrial enterprises at the workhouse and reformatory shall be deposited to the credit of a working-capital fund to operate as a revolving fund during the fiscal year 1938 (p. 69). For investment by the Treasurer of the United States in United States securities for the account of the water fund of the District of Columbia, there is appropriated such amount as the Commissioners may determine to be available for that purpose in such fund during the fiscal year 1938 (p. 80). Independent Offices Appropriation Act: All receipts derived from sales, leases, or other sources by the District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Authority prior to June 30, 1938, are appropriated for such fiscal year to the conversion of inhabited alleys fund of such Authority (p. 86). Independent Offices Appropriation Act-Continued. The receipts from the sale of report-form blanks of the Interstate Commerce Commission to the various States and reports on proposed changes in transportation rates shall be credited to the appropriation for printing and binding for the fiscal year 1938 and be available for expenditure (p. 91). Interior Department Appropriation Act: All moneys reimbursed during the fiscal year 1938 to the appropriation Industrial Assistance, Bureau of Indian Affairs, shall be credited to the appropriation and be available for the purposes of the paragraph (p. 118). Any moneys received in connection with the construction and operation of the Alaska Railroad during the fiscal year 1938 shall be credited to the appropriation (p. 155). State, Justice, Commerce, and Labor Appropriation Act: For payment of such sums as may be due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay in foreign currencies the quotas and contributions required by the several treaties, conventions, or laws establishing the amount of the obligation for the fiscal year 1938 (State Department), there is appropriated so much as may be necessary (p. 235). Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriation Act: All proceeds derived from the work performed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, during the fiscal year 1938, shall be credited when received to the appropriation for such bureau for that fiscal year (p. 281). All moneys recovered by the Bureau of Narcotics from the funds used for the purchase of narcotics for securing evidence shall be credited to the appropriation for such bureau current at the time of deposit (fiscal year 1938) (p. 279). To the extent that the revenues of the Post Office Department shall be insufficient to meet the appropriations made, a sum equal to such deficiency in the revenue is appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply such deficiency in the postal revenues for the fiscal year 1938 (p. 297). War Department Civil Appropriation Act: For maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal, in addition to the specific appropriation for 1938, all money arising from the conduct of business operations authorized by the Panama Canal Act are appropriated (p. 304). All moneys received by the Panama Canal from services rendered or materials and supplies furnished to the United States, the Panama Railroad Co., the Canal Zone government, or to their employees, respectively, or to the Panama Government, from hotel and hospital supplies and services; from rentals, wharfage, and like services; from labor, materials, and supplies and other services furnished to vessels other than those passing through the canal, and to others unable to obtain the same elsewhere; from the sale of scrap and other byproducts of manufacturing and shop operations; from the sale of obsolete and unserviceable materials, supplies, and equipment purchased or acquired for the operation, maintenance, protection, sanitation, and government of the Canal and Canal Zone, are appropriated, without being covered into the Treasury of the United States, for expenditure and reinvestment for the fiscal year 1938 under the several heads of appropriations for the Panama Canal (p. 304). For operation, maintenance, and extension of waterworks, sewers, and pavements in the cities of Panama and Colon, there is appropriated for the fiscal year 1938, the necessary portions of such sums as shall be paid as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for such expenses (p. 304). Public Act No. 3: The moneys appropriated under the authorization made by this Act ($50,000,000) plus any amounts collected for services rendered under section 5 (b) and all collections of principal and interest of loans made under this Act may be used by the Governor for making loans under this Act and for all necessary administrative expenses in connection with the making and collection of such loans (p. 535). Public Act No. 177: For defraying during the first half of the month of July 1937 all expenses of the necessary operations of the Federal Government, which, on July 1, 1937, remain unprovided with appropriations through the failure of enactment on or before such date of the supply bills customarily providing for such operations, there are appropriated such sums as may be necessary to extend during such period the appropriations available for obligation for such expenses during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, but not to exceed in any case one-twentyfourth thereof (p. 386). Public Act No. 192: All recoveries and repayments on account of loss, destruction, or damage to valuables of which replacement shall have been made out of the fund for the payment of Government losses in shipment shall be credited to it and shall be available for the purposes of such fund (p. 752). Public Act No. 207: The provisions of Public Act No. 177, supra, are extended for and during the last half of the month of July 1937 and the amount of appropriations thereby made are limited to not to exceed one twenty-fourth of the appropriations available for obligation for similar purposes during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937 (p. 387). Public Act No. 214: The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized, upon notice of the appraisal of certain lands by the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture, to transfer an equal amount of money from the national forest receipts and credit the same to the Oregon and California land-grant fund (p. 580). Public Act No. 234: Collections by the Public Health Service for medical and hospital service rendered to dependent members of families of officers and enlisted men of the Coast Guard shall be credited to the applicable appropriation for operation of marine hospitals and relief stations (p. 583). Public Act No. 244: Any income derived from gifts of money to the National Cancer Institute, or Public Act No. 310: Payments to the Lighthouse Service for damage or destruction of aids to navigation or other property by private persons shall be placed in special deposit acacounts in the Treasury and be available for payment to the persons or person replacing or repairing such property and refund to any person or persons making any excess payment therefor (p. 598). Public Act No. 314: Until June 30, 1938, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to advance from time to time, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may requisition to meet the general expenses of such District; such advances to be reimbursed to the United States (p. 530). Public Act No. 323: The unexpended balances of appropriations to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to make subscriptions to the paid-in surplus of the Federal Land Banks, specified in section 19, and the proceeds of all repayments on account of such paid-in surplus, shall be held in the Treasury as a revolving fund and shall be available for subscriptions to such paid-in surplus made pursuant to law (sec. 19) (p. 446). Any and all funds derived from the sale, lease, operation, or other disposition of any property, real or personal, acquired by the United States on account of or as a result of any loan made pursuant to the provisions of the Agricultural Marketing Act shall be covered into and become a part of the Agricultural Marketing Fund (sec, 38) (p. 454). Public Act No. 329: The Treasury shall set up and maintain from receipts from transmission and sale of electric energy generated at the Bonneville project a continuing fund of $500,000 to the credit of the Administrator and subject to check by him to defray emergency expenses and to insure continuous operation (sec. 11) (p. 611). Public Act No. 337: All expenses incurred by the Customs Service in connection with the importation of articles for exhibit at the International Petroleum Exposition to be held at Tulsa, Okla., May 14 to May 21, 1938, shall be reimbursed to the United States and deposited as refunds to the appropriation from which such expenses were paid (p. 614). Public Act No. 382: All moneys in the hands of the United States Maritime Commission and all funds coming into the hands of such commission as set forth in section 2 are made available for carrying out the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 (p. 620). Public Act No. 401: In the case of any person who was employed by any corporation, all of the stock of which was owned by the Federal Subsistence Homesteads Corporation of Delaware, and who was transferred to a position in the Department of the Interior with the same or substantially similar duties but at an increase in his rate of compensation, if there have been heretofore withheld or deducted from any amounts, otherwise payable to such person out of Government funds, any amount on account of any payment of salary to such person, subsequently disallowed or held to have been illegally made under any decision of the Comptroller General that such transfer to such position in the Department of the Interior constituted an administrative promotion within the provisions of section 7, as amended and extended, of the Treasury-Post Office Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1934, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to such person a sum equal to the amount so withheld or deducted (p. 626). Public Act No. 404: Revenue derived from leases or other contracts negotiated by the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of the Metlakahtla Indians and such other persons occupying the Annette Islands Reserve, Alaska, as come within the purview of the Act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat. 1101), shall be deposited into the Treasury as trust funds pursuant to the provisions of section 20 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934 (48 Stat. 1224), shall bear interest at the rate of 4 per centum per annum, and shall be subject to expenditure under such rules and regulations as the said Secretary may prescribe. SEC. 2. There shall be credited to the trust-fund account so established the excess, if any, of (1) the unexpended balance of the repealed special fund appropriation "5S740 Annette Islands Reserve, Alaska, fund from leases" and (2) the amount of receipts derived from the Annette Islands Reserve, Alaska, covered into the Treasury pursuant to section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934, over expenditures from appropriations provided for "Expenses, Annette Islands Reserve, Alaska (Receipt Limitation)", and the amount so credited shall be subject to expenditure as prescribed in section 1 hereof. SEC. 3. Interest accruing on said trust-fund account shall be available for the same purposes as the principal (p. 628). Public Act No. 408: The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept donations of money and expend the same for the purchase or maintenance of land, interest in land, buildings, structures, and other property within 1 mile from the boundaries of the Fort Donelson National Military Park (p. 633). Public Act No. 411: All moneys received from the operation of this act (except moneys received in payment for helium from Government agencies) shall be credited to a special |