Post, p. 652.

Indemnities, domestic mail: For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of domestic registered matter, insured and collecton-delivery mail, and for failure to remit collect-on-delivery charges, fiscal year 1946 and prior years, $1,270,000.

Unpaid money orders more than one year old: For payment of domestic money orders after one year from the last day of the month of issue of such orders, $800,000.

Post, p. 652.

OFFICE OF THE FOURTH ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL

Post, p. 652.

tem, supplies.

36 Stat. 817. Miscellaneous

Post office stationery, equipment, and supplies: For stationery for

the Postal Service, including the money-order and registry system; Postal Savings Sys- and also for the purchase of supplies for the Postal Savings System,

including rubber stamps, canceling devices, certificates, envelopes, and stamps for use in evidencing

deposits, and penalty envelopes; and for the reimbursement of the Secretary of the Treasury for expenses incident to the preparation, issue, and registration of the bonds

authorized by the Act of June 25, 1910 (39 U.S. C. 760); for miscelequipment and sup- laneous equipment and supplies, including the purchase and repair of

furniture, package boxes, posts, trucks, baskets, satchels, straps, letterbox paint, baling machines, perforating machines, stamp vending and postage meter devices, duplicating machines, printing presses, directories, cleaning supplies, and the manufacture, repair, and exchange of equipment, the erection and painting of letter-box equipment, and for the purchase and repair of presses and dies for use in the manufacture of letter boxes; for postmarking, rating, money-order stamps, and electrotype plates and repairs to same; metal, rubber, and combination type, dates and figures, type holders, ink pads for canceling and stamping purposes, and for the purchase of time recorders, letter balances, scales (exclusive of dormant or built-in platform scales in Federal buildings), test weights, and miscellaneous articles purchased and furnished directly to the Postal Service, including complete equipment and furniture for post offices in leased and rented quarters; for the purchase (including exchange), repair, and replace

ment of arms and miscellaneous items necessary for the protection Post-route maps. of the mails; for miscellaneous expenses in the preparation and publi

cation of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blueprints, including tracing for photolithographic reproduction; for other expenditures necessary and incidental to post offices of the first, second, and third classes, and offices of the fourth class having or to have rural-delivery service, and for letter boxes; for the purchase of atlases and geographical and technical works not to exceed $1,500; for wrapping twine and tying devices; for expenses incident to the shipment of supplies, including hardware, boxing, packing, and not

exceeding $63,800 for the pay of employees in connection therewith Labor-saving devices in the District of Columbia; for rental, purchase, exchange, and repair

of canceling machines and motors, mechanical mail-handling apparatus, accident prevention, and other labor-saving devices, including not

to exceed $35,000 for salaries of thirteen traveling mechanicians, and Sale of maps or blue for traveling expenses, $4,900,000: Provided, That the Postmaster

General may authorize the sale to the public of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blueprints at the cost of printing and 10 per centum thereof added.

Equipment shops, Washington, District of Columbia : For the purchase, manufacture, and repair of mail bags and other mail containers and attachments, mail locks, keys, chains, tools, machinery, and material necessary for same, and for incidental expenses pertaining thereto; material, machinery, and tools necessary for the manufacture and repair of such other equipment for the Postal

prints.

32 Stat. 114; 35 Stat.

Service as may be deemed expedient; accident prevention; for the expenses of maintenance and repair of the mail bag equipment shops building and equipment, including fuel, light, power, and miscellaneous supplies and services; maintenance of grounds; for compensation to labor employed in the equipment shops and in the operation, care, maintenance, and protection of the equipment shops building, grounds, and equipment, $2,480,000; of which not to exceed $780,393 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia : Provided, That out of this appropriation the Postmaster General is

Distinctive equipauthorized to use as much of the sum, not exceeding $15,000, as may ments. be deemed necessary for the purchase of material and the manufacture in the equipment shops of such small quantities of distinctive equipments as may be required by other executive departments; and for service in Alaska, Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, or other island possessions.

Rent, light, power, fuel, and water: For rent, light, power, fuel, and water, for first-, second-, and third-class post offices, and the cost of advertising for lease proposals for such offices, $11,700,000.

Pneumatic-tube service, New York City: For rental of not exceeding twenty-eight miles of pneumatic tubes, hire of labor, communication service, electric power, and other expenses for transmission of mail in the city of New York including the Borough of Brooklyn, $537,000: Provided, That the provisions of the Acts of April 21, 1902, May 27, 412; 12 Stat. 661. 1908, and June 19, 1922 (39 U.S. C. 423), relating to contracts for the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similar devices shall not be applicable hereto.

Pneumatic-tube service, Boston: For the rental of not exceeding two miles of pneumatic tubes, not including labor and power in operating the same, for the transmission of mail in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, $24,000: Provided, That the provisions not inconsistent herewith of the Acts of April 21, 1902 (39 U. S. C. 423), and May 27, 1908 (39 U. S. C. 423), relating to the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similar devices shall be applicable hereto.

Vehicle service: For vehicle service; the hire of vehicles; the rental of garage facilities; the purchase, maintenance, and repair of motor vehicles, including the repair of vehicles owned by, or under the control of, units of the National Guard and departments and agencies of the Federal Government where repairs are made necessary because of utilization of such vehicles in the Postal Service; accident prevention; the hire of supervisors, clerical assistance, mechanics, drivers, garagemen, and such other employees as may be necessary in providing vehicles and vehicle service for use in the collection, transportation, delivery, and supervision of the mail, and United States official mail and messenger service, $21,848,400: Provided, That the Postmaster

Housing of vehicles. General may, in his disbursement of this appropriation, apply a part thereof to the leasing of quarters for the housing of Governmentowned motor vehicles at a reasonable annual rental for a term not exceeding ten years: Provided further, That the Postmaster General may purchase and maintain from this appropriation such tractors and trailer trucks as may be required in the operation of the vehicle service: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for maintenance or repair of motor-propelled passengercarrying vehicles for use in connection with the administrative work of the Post Office Department in the District of Columbia.

Transportation of equipment and supplies: For the transportation and delivery of equipment, materials, and supplies for the Post Office Department and Postal Service by freight, express, or motor transportation, and other incidental expenses, $320,000.

32 Stat. 114; 35 Stat.

Tractors and trailer trucks.

Maintenance restriction.

Personal limitation.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS, MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION Operating force: For personal services in connection with the operation of public buildings, including the Washington Post Office and the Customhouse Building in the District of Columbia, operated by the Post Office Department, together with the grounds thereof and the equipment and furnishings therein, including telephone operators for the operation of telephone switchboards or equivalent telephone switch

board equipment in such buildings jointly serving in each case two or Pay rates for me more governmental activities, $27,164,000: Provided, That in no case chanical labor force.

shall the rates of compensation for the mechanical labor force be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services are employed.

Operating supplies, public buildings: For fuel, steam, gas, and electric current for lighting, heating, and power purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, removal of ashes and rubbish, snow and ice, cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, telephone service for custodial forces, and for miscellaneous services and supplies, accident prevention, vacuum cleaners, tools and appliances and repairs thereto, for the operation of completed and occupied public buildings and grounds, including mechanical and electrical equipment, but not the repair thereof, operated by the Post Office Department, including the Washington Post Office and the Customhouse Building in the District of

Columbia, and for the transportation of articles and supplies authorized services, herein, $6,500,000: Provided, That the foregoing appropriation shall

not be available for personal services except for work done by contract,

or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time Telephone service. the sum of $100 at any one building: Provided further, That the Post

master General is authorized to contract for telephone service in public buildings under his administration by means of telephone switchboards or equivalent telephone switching equipment jointly serving in each case two or more governmental activities, where he determines that joint service is economical and in the interest of the Government, and to secure reimbursement for the cost of such joint service from available appropriations for telephone expenses of the bureaus and offices receiving the same.

Furniture, carpets, and safes, public buildings: For the procurement, including transportation, of furniture, carpets, safes, safe and vault protective devices, and repairs of same, for use in public

buildings which are now, or may hereafter be, operated by the Post services, Office Department, $550,000: Provided, That excepting expenditures

for labor for or incidental to the moving of equipment from or into public buildings, the foregoing appropriation shall not be used for personal services except for work done under contract or for temporary job labor under exigency and not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building: Provided further, That all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings or in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether or not it corresponds with the present regulation plan of furniture.

Scientific investigations: In the disbursement of appropriations contained in this title for the field service of the Post Office Department the Postmaster General may transfer to the Bureau of Standards not to exceed $20,000 for scientific investigations in connection with the purchase of materials, equipment, and supplies necessary in the maintenance and operation of the Postal Service.

Deficiency in postal revenues: If the revenues of the Post Office Department shall be insufficient to meet the appropriations made

Personal limitation,

Use of present furniture.

Transfer of funds to Bureau of Standards.

under title II of this Act, a sum equal to such deficiency in the revenues of such Department is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply such deficiency in the revenues of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1946, and the sum needed may be advanced to the Post Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster General.

This title may be cited as the "Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1946".

TITLE III-GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 301. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who advocates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided, That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be considered prima facie evidence that the person making the affidavit does not advocate, and is not a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided further, That any person who advocates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence and accepts employment, the salary or wages for which are paid from any appropriation contained in this Act, shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both: Provided further, That the above penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law.

SEC. 302. This Act may be cited as the "Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriation Act, 1946".

Approved April 24, 1945.

[CHAPTER 94]

AN ACT

To amend sections 4, 7, and 17 of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187) for the purpose of extending the time in which amendatory contracts may be made, and for other related purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4 (d) of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 is hereby amended to read as follows:

"(d) For each project contract unit where a repayment contract is entered into pursuant to this section, each year the percentage of the normal returns for said year by which the annual returns of said year exceed or are less than said normal returns shall be determined by the Secretary. For each unit or major fraction of a unit of said percentage of said increase or decrease there shall be an increase or decrease, respectively, of 2 per centum in the amount or amounts of the installment or installments for said year under the organization's obligation or obligations as determined under subsections (b) and (e) of this section. Said latter amount or amounts as thus increased or decreased shall be the payment or payments of construction charges due and payable for said year, except that in no event shall the amount of the said payment or payments due and payable for any year be less than 15 per centum nor, as determined by the Secretary, more than from 150 to 200 per centum, inclusive, of the amount or

Citation of title.

Persons advocating overthrow of U. 8. Government.

Affidavit.

Penalty.

Short title.

April 24, 1945 [8. 37] [Public Law 39]

Reclamation Project Act of 1939, amendments.

53 Stat. 1190.

43 U. S. C. §485c (d). Variable repayment contracts.

Determination of amount of installment.

tract amendments.

53 Stat. 1192.

Execution of contract only after ap

Amendments

53 Stat. 1198.

43 U. 8. C. $ 485b note.

Duration of authority.

53 Stat. 1188, 1189.

485c

amounts of the installment or installments for said year under the

organization's obligation or obligations as determined under subConformity of con- sections (b) and (e) of this section. The Secretary is hereby author

ized to amend any repayment contracts heretofore or hereafter entered into pursuant to the provisions of this section to conform to the provisions of this amendment."

Sec. 2. Section 7 (c) of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 is 43 U.S. C. $ 485f (c).

hereby amended to read as follows:

"(c) The Secretary from time to time shall report to the Congress proval of Congress. on any proposed contracts negotiated pursuant to the authority of

subsection (a) or (b) (1) of this section, and he may execute any

such contract on behalf of the United States only after approval

by thereof has been given by Act of Congress. Contracts, so approved, mutual agreement.

however, may be amended from time to time by mutual agreement and without further approval by Congress if such amendments are

within the scope of authority heretofore or hereafter granted to the Exception.

Secretary under any Act, except that amendments providing for repayment of construction charges in a period of years longer than authorized by this Act, as it may be amended, shall be effective only when approved by Congress."

Sec. 3. Section 17 of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 is hereby amended to read as follows:

“(a) The authority granted in sections 3 and 4 of this Act for

modification of existing repayment contracts or other forms of obli$143. V. 8. C. $$ 485b, gations to pay construction charges shall continue through December Ante, p. 78. 31, 1950, or December 31 of the fifth full calendar year after the

cessation of hostilities in the present war, as determined by proclamation of the President or concurrent resolution of the Congress, whichever period is the longer.

“(b) The Secretary is hereby authorized, subject to the provisions of this subsection, to defer the time for the payment of such part of any installments of construction charges under any repayment contract or other form of obligation (exclusive of contracts entered into under this Act) that are due and unpaid as of the date of this amendment or which will become due prior to the expiration of the authority under subsection (a) of this section as he deems necessary to adjust such installments to amounts within the probable ability of the water users to pay. Any such deferment shall be effected only after findings by the Secretary that the installments under consideration probably cannot be paid on their due dates without undue burden on the water users, considering the various factors which in the Secretary's

judgment bear on the ability of the water users so to pay, Conditions, etc. “The Secretary may effect the deferments hereunder subject to such

conditions and provisions relating to the operation and maintenance of the project involved as he deems to be in the interest of the United States. If, however, any deferments would affect installments to accrue more than twelve months after the action of deferment, they shall be effected only by a formal supplemental contract. Such a contract shall provide by its terms that, it being only an interim solution of the repayment problems dealt with therein, its terms are

not, in themselves, to be construed as a criterion of the terms of any 53 Stat. 1188, 1189, amendatory contract that may be negotiated pursuant to sections 3, 43 U. 8. C. 98 4856, 4, or 7 of this Act." Ante, p. 75; supra.

Approved April 24, 1945.

Deferred install. ments,

1192.

4850, 4851.