[PUBLIC-No. 93-73D CONGRESS]

[H.R. 7527]

AN ACT

Making an additional appropriation to carry out the purposes of the Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933, for continuation of the Civil-Works program, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to provide additional funds for carrying out the purposes of the Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933, approved May 12, 1933 (48 Stat. 55), and for continuing the Civil-Works program under the Federal Civil Works Administration as created under authority of title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933 (48 Stat. 200), there is hereby appropriated for these activities, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to remain available until June 30, 1935, the sum of $950,000,000, which shall be available for expenditure for such projects and/or purposes and under such rules and regulations as the President in his discretion may prescribe: Provided, That nothing contained in the Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933 shall be construed as precluding the Federal Emergency Relief Administrator from making grants for relief within a State directly to such public agency as he may designate: Provided further, That no part of the appropriation herein made shall be allotted for expenditure for any Civil Works project under any other department or establishment of the Federal Government except for the completion of projects for the improvement of Federal lands or public property in progress and uncompleted on the date of the approval of this Act, and except such sums as may be necessary for maintenance and operation of reemployment. agencies, and medical, surgical, and hospital services, and for administration, supervision, inspection, disbursing, and accounting purposes, and printing and binding, in connection with State and/or local Civil Works projects: 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 Federal Civil Works Administration when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $300.

SEC. 2. That paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of section 301 of title III of Public Law Numbered 302, Seventy-second Congress, approved July 21, 1932 the Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932-is amended by striking out the date "July 1, 1933 " where it appears in said paragraph and inserting in lieu thereof the date "September 1, 1934."

Approved, February 15, 1934.

[PUBLIC-No. 412-73D CONGRESS]

TITLE II—EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS

EXECUTIVE

For an additional amount for carrying out the purposes of the Act entitled "An Act for the relief of unemployment through the performance of useful public work, and for other purposes ", approved March 31, 1933 (48 Stat. 22); the Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933, approved May 12, 1933 (48 Stat. 55); the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, approved May 18, 1933 (48 Stat. 58); and the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933 (48 Stat. 195); and including $325,000 for an addition to the Executive Office Building and for the furnishings and equipment thereof; $899,675,000, to be allocated by the President for further carrying out the purposes of the aforesaid Acts and to remain available until June 30, 1935: Provided, That not exceeding $500,000,000 in the aggregate of any savings or unobligated balances in funds of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation may, in the discretion of the President, be transferred and applied to the purposes of the Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933 and/or title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act, and any unobligated balances in appropriations (including allocations of appropriations) of the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works may, in the discretion of the President, be transferred and applied to the purposes of such Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933: Provided further, That the amounts to be made available under the authority of this paragraph for public works under the National Industrial Recovery Act shall not exceed in the aggregate $500,000,000.

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is hereby authorized to purchase marketable securities, satisfactory to said Corporation, acquired or to be acquired by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, and any sums paid for such securities shall be available to said Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works for the making of additional loans (but not grants) under the provisions of title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act: Provided, That the amount that the Reconstruction Finance Corporation may have invested at any one time in such securities shall not exceed $250,000,000. The amount of notes, debentures, and bonds or other such obligations which the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is authorized and empowered to have outstanding at any one time pursuant to section 9 of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, as amended, is hereby increased by the sums necessary for these purchases, not to exceed $250,000,000.

PROCUREMENT DIVISION, PUBLIC WORKS BRANCH

Public buildings: For emergency construction of public-building · projects outside of the District of Columbia (including the acquisition, where necessary, by purchase, condemnation, exchange, or otherwise of sites and additional land for such buildings; the demolition of old buildings where necessary and the construction, remodeling, or extension of buildings; rental of temporary quarters during construction, including moving expenses; purchase of necessary equipment for buildings and such additional administrative expenses and salaries as may be required solely for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this paragraph), $65,000,000; such projects, including the sites therefor, to be selected by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster General, acting jointly, from the public-building projects specified in Statements Numbered 2 and 3 incorporated in House Report Numbered 1879, Seventy-third Congress, pages 24 to 40, inclusive, and projects selected shall be carried out within the respective estimated or proposed limits of cost specified in such statements except as such limits are authorized to be modified by the provisions of the next paragraph: Provided, That with a view to relieving country-wide unemployment the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster General, in the selection of towns or cities in which buildings are to be constructed, shall endeavor to distribute the projects equitably throughout the country so far as may be consistent with the needs of the public service; and the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster General may also select for prosecution under this appropriation such projects not included in such report as in their judgment are economically sound and advantageous to the public service: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to direct the preparation of all sketches, estimates, plans, and specifications (including supervision and inspection thereof), and to enter into all contracts, necessary for carrying out the purposes of this paragraph, and he is hereby authorized, when deemed by him desirable and advantageous, to employ, by contract or otherwise, temporary professional, technical, or nontechnical employees, firms or corporations, to such extent as may be required to carry out the purposes of this paragraph, without reference to civil-service laws, rules, and regulations, or to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, or to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States: Provided further, That in the acquisition of any land or sites for the purposes of Federal public buildings and in the construction of such buildings provided for in this paragraph, the provisions of sections 305 and 306 of the Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932, as amended, shall apply.

In order to permit the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into contracts when the bid of the lowest responsible bidder received in response to public advertisement exceeds the amount available for any project selected under the preceding paragraph and/or for projects for which allotment has been heretofore, or may hereafter be, made to the Treasury Department for public buildings construction by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works (which allotments shall remain available for the execution of the projects concerned unless released by the Secretary of the Treasury), there.

shall be made available by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works an additional sum of $2,500,000 out of any unobligated funds under the control of such Administration, which total sum shall be transferred immediately upon the enactment of this Act to the Treasury Department and, when approved by the President, may be used in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into contracts for public buildings in an amount not exceeding, in any one case, 10 per centum in excess of the amount available therefor: Provided further, That not exceeding $30,000 of the sum herein appropriated shall be expended for construction of a retaining wall and/or improvement of grounds of Federal Building at Reno, Nevada.

SEC. 2. This title may be cited as the "Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935."

Approved, June 19, 1934.

[H. J. Res. 117]

JOINT RESOLUTION

Making appropriations for relief purposes.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to provide relief, work relief and to increase employment by providing for useful projects, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be used in the discretion and under the direction of the President, to be immediately available and to remain available until June 30, 1937, the sum of $4,000,000,000, together with the separate funds established for particular areas by proclamation of the President pursuant to section 15 (f) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (but any amounts thereof shall be available for use only for the area for which the fund was established); not exceeding $500,000,000 in the aggregate of any savings or unexpended balances in funds of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation; and not exceeding a total of $380,000,000 of such unexpended balances as the President may determine are not required for the purposes for which authorized, of the following appropriations, namely: The appropriation of $3,300,000,000 for national industrial recovery contained in the Fourth Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1933, approved June 16, 1933 (48 Stat. 274); the appropriation of $950,000,000 for emergency relief and civil works contained in the Act approved February 15, 1934 (48 Stat. 351); the appropriation of $899,675,000 for emergency relief and public works, and the appropriation of $525,000,000 to meet the emergency and necessity for relief in stricken agricultural areas, contained in the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, approved June 19, 1934 (48 Stat. 1055); and any remainder of the unobligated moneys referred to in section 4 of the Act approved March 31, 1933 (48 Stat. 22): Provided, That except as to such part of the appropriation made herein as the President may deem necessary for continuing relief as authorized under the Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933, as amended, or for restoring to the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works any sums which after December 28, 1934, were, by order of the President impounded or transferred to the Federal Emergency Relief Administration from appropriations heretofore made available to such Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works (which restoration is hereby authorized), this appropriation shall be available for the following classes of projects, and the amounts to be used for each class shall not, except as hereinafter provided, exceed the respective amounts stated, namely: (a) Highways, roads, streets, and grade-crossing elimination, $800,000,000; (b) rural rehabilitation and relief in stricken agricultural areas, and water conservation, trans-mountain water. diversion and irrigation and reclamation, $500,000,000; (c) rural electrification, $100,000,000; (d) housing, $450,000,000; (e) assist