Department of Labor: For salaries and expenses, Children's Bureau, $15.64. For payment to officers and employees of the United States in foreign countries due to appreciation of foreign currencies (Labor), $9.89. For salaries and expenses, Immigration and Naturalization Service, $154. For Salaries and expenses, commissioners of conciliation, $8.18. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Labor Statistics, $1.75. For investigation of cost of living in the United States, $7. Navy Department: For payment to officers and employees of the United States in foreign countries due to appreciation of foreign currencies (Navy), $1,891.11. For Miscellaneous expenses, Navy, $315.17. For pay, miscellaneous, $1.15. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $118.57. For organizing the Naval Reserve, $370.41. For engineering, Bureau of Engineering, $6,456. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $231,955.25. For pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy, $35,041.97. For pay of the Navy, $659.06. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $1,585.85. For pay, Marine Corps, $3,197.19. For judgments, bounty for destruction of enemy's vessels, $17.77. For increase of the Navy, emergency construction, $256,965.47. Post Office Department: For operating supplies for public buildings, general fund, $5.98. For transportation of equipment and supplies, general fund, $266.75. Department of State: For salaries, Foreign Service officers, $1,011.31. For office and living quarters, Foreign Service, $22.92. For rescue, relief, and protection of American seamen, $50.33. For salaries, Foreign Service clerks, $315.37. For contingent expenses, Foreign Service, $82.59. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $28.79. For transportation of Foreign Service officers, $118.07. For payment to officers and employees of the United States in foreign countries due to appreciation of foreign currencies (State), $238.83. For International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico, 95 cents. Treasury Department: For expenses, Emergency Banking, Gold Reserve and Silver Purchase Acts, 63 cents. For payment to officers and employees of the United States in foreign countries due to appreciation of foreign currencies (Treasury), $37.47. For contingent expenses, Treasury Department, $6.18. For stationery, Treasury Department, $5.86. For collecting the revenue from customs, $427.26. For refunds and drawbacks, customs, $47.48. For collecting the internal revenue, $1,110.85. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $457.99. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Narcotics, $3.60. War Department. 44 Stat. 1054. For Coast Guard, $78.40. For contingent expenses, Coast Guard, $374.92. For outfits, Coast Guard, $45.54. For pay and allowances, Coast Guard, $270.46. For rebuilding and repairing stations, and so forth, Coast Guard, $1.69. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $2.31. For suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, $57.42. For expenses, Division of Mental Hygiene, Public Health Service, $17.25. For interstate quarantine service, $13.40. For pay, and so forth, commissioned officers, Public Health Service, $332.53. For quarantine service, $792.94. For salaries and expenses, mints and assay offices, $10.73. For contingent expenses, national currency (reimbursable), $5.29. For general administrative expenses, Public Works Branch, Procurement Division, $27.23. For operating expenses, Treasury buildings, Procurement Division, $8.29. For operating force for public buildings, 66 cents. For operating force for public buildings, Procurement Division, $8.60. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, Procurement Division, $175.50. For salaries and expenses, Branch of Supply Procurement Division, $3.94. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, Procurement Division, $14.18. For repairs, preservation, and equipment, public buildings, Procurement Division, $51.74. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, Procurement Division, $29.25. For salaries and expenses, Division of Disbursement, $3.69. War Department: For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $11,054.12. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $8,923.92. For pay of the Army, $5,447.87. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $1,300.07. For subsistence of the Army, $994.32. For travel, military and civil personnel, War Department, $108.94. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, War with Spain, $102.52. For incidental expenses of the Army, $15.75. For National Guard, $1,284.12. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $1,380.34. For pay, and so forth, of the Army (Longevity, Act January 29, 1927), $1,205.25. For mileage of the Army, $104.32. For barracks and quarters, $1,125.84. For arms, uniforms, equipment, and so forth, for field service, National Guard, $33.79. For extra pay to Regular Army, War with Spain, $21.60. For payment to officers and employees of the United States in foreign countries due to appreciation of foreign currencies (War), $155.73. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $500.28. For signal service of the Army, $7,164.80. For replacing ordnance and ordnance stores, $46.55. For extra pay to volunteers, War with Spain, $216.40. For pay, and so forth, of the Army (estates of deceased soldiers, section 4818, Revised Statutes), $1,141. For horses, draft and pack animals, $14.16. For Medical and Hospital Department, Army, $47. For claims of officers and men of the Army for destruction of private property (Act March 3, 1885), $206.72. For replacing medical supplies, $117.74. For Reserve Officers' Training Corps, $136.18. For Organized Reserves, $166.96. For ordnance service and supplies, Army, $6,571.13. For fortifications in insular possessions, $16. For Air Service, Army, $58.33. For travel of the Army, $22.77. For construction and repair of hospitals, Army, $580. For contingent expenses, War Department, $1.22. For clothing and equipage, $65.58. For seacoast defenses, $3.77. For replacing clothing and equipage, $7. For cemeterial expenses, War Department, $9.61. For Emergency Conservation Fund (transfer to War, Act March 31, 1933), $4,495.66. For Emergency Conservation Fund (transfer to War, Act June 19, 1934), $23,566.39. R. S. § 4818. 24 U. S. C. § 44. 23 Stat. 350. 48 Stat. 22. 48 Stat. 1021. For loans and relief in stricken agricultural areas (transfer from Post Office Department, Postal Service (out of the postal revenues): For city delivery carriers, $514.49. For clerks, first- and second-class post offices, $146.58. For compensation to postmasters, $94.80. For electric- and cable-car service, $960.72. For foreign mail transportation, $121.06. For freight, express, or motor transportation of equipment, and so forth, $436.23. For furniture, carpets, and safes for public buildings, $128.48. For indemnities, domestic mail, $310.90. For miscellaneous items, first- and second-class post offices, $2.17. For operating force for public buildings, Post Office Department, $5. For operating supplies for public buildings, $46.81. For operating supplies for public buildings, Post Office Department, $173.61. For post office equipment and supplies, $4. For railroad transportation and mail messenger service, $182,155.17. 98907-39-PT 2- 2 District of Colum Post Office Department. For rent, light, and fuel, $2,569.65. Total; additional sum, increases in rates of exchange. Judgments against collectors of customs. R. S. § 989. 28 U. S. C. § 842. Interest withheld from claimants. 1516. For Rural Delivery Service, $118.69. For transportation of equipment and supplies, $1,268.25. Total, audited claims, section 204, $1,122,354.01, together with such additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency as specified in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office. SEC. 205. Judgments against collectors of customs: For the payment of claims allowed by the General Accounting Office covering judgments rendered by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against a collector of customs, where certificates of probable cause have been issued as provided for under section 989, Revised Statutes (28 U. S. C. 842), and certified to the Seventy-sixth Congress in Senate Document Numbered 13, under the Department of Labor, $7,467.45. SEC. 206. Interest withheld from claimants: For payment of interest on amounts withheld from claimants by the Comptroller 18 Stat. 481; 47 Stat. General of the United States, Act of March 3, 1875, as amended by section 13 of the Act of March 3, 1933 (31 U. S. C. 227), as allowed by the General Accounting Office, and certified to the Seventy-sixth Congress in Senate Document Numbered 17, under the Treasury Department, $1,327.44. 31 U. S. C. § 227. Short title. March 16, 1939 [H. R. 3743] [Public, No. 8] Appropriation 1940. Act, SEC. 207. This Act may be cited as the "First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1939". Approved, March 15, 1939. [CHAPTER 11] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Independent Offices United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, namely: EXECUTIVE OFFICE COMPENSATION OF THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT For compensation of the President of the United States, $75,000. For compensation of the Vice President of the United States, $15,000. OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Salaries: For personal services in the office of the President, including the Secretary to the President, and two additional secretaries to the President at $10,000 each; $136,500: Provided, That employees of the executive departments and other establishments of the executive branch of the Government may be detailed from time to time to the office of the President of the United States for such temporary assistance as may be deemed necessary. Contingent expenses: For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, including stationery, record books, telegrams, telephones, books for library, furniture and carpets for offices, automobiles, expenses of garage, including labor, special services, and miscellaneous items to be expended in the discretion of the President, $50,000. For printing and binding, $2,700. Printing and bind ing. Traveling, etc., ex- Traveling expenses: For traveling and official entertainment expenses of the President of the United States, to be expended in his pepes, discretion and accounted for on his certificate solely, $25,000. Total, Executive Office proper, $304,200. EXECUTIVE MANSION AND GROUNDS For the care, maintenance, repair and alteration, refurnishing, improvement, heating, and lighting, including electric power and fixtures of the Executive Mansion, the Executive Mansion greenhouses, including reconstruction, and the Executive Mansion grounds, and traveling expenses, to be expended as the President may determine, notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act, $146,750. Total, Executive Office, $450,950. INDEPENDENT ESTABLISHMENTS AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION Care, repair, etc. All expenses. Acquisition of land abroad. R. S. § 355. 34 U. S. C. § 520; Living quarters. 46 Stat. 818. 5 U. S. C. § 118a. Uniforms for caretakers. Vehicles. etc. Printing, binding, For every expenditure requisite for or incident to the work of the American Battle Monuments Commission authorized by the Act of March 4, 1923 (36 U. S. C. 121-138), and by Executive Order Num- Supp. IV, ch. 8. bered 6614 of February 26, 1934, including the acquisition of land or interest in land in foreign countries for carrying out the purposes of said Act and Executive order without submission to the Attorney General of the United States under the provisions of section 355 of the Revised Statutes (34 U. S. C. 520; 40 U. S. C. 255); employment 40 U. S. O. § 255. of personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; including not to exceed $3,000 for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (5 U. S. C. 118a); purchase and repair of uniforms for caretakers of national cemeteries and monuments in Europe at a cost not exceeding $600; travel expenses; rent of office space in foreign countries; the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles which may be furnished to the Commission by other departments of the Government or acquired by purchase; printing, binding, engraving, lithographing, photographing, and typewriting, including the publication of information concerning the American activities, battlefields, memorials, and cemeteries in Europe; the purchase of maps, textbooks, newspapers and periodicals, $140,000: Provided, That notwithstanding the requirements of existing laws or regulations, and under such terms and conditions as the Commission may in its discretion deem necessary and proper, the Commission may contract for work, supplies, materials, and equipment in Europe and engage, by contract or otherwise, the services of architects, firms of architects, and other technical and professional personnel: Provided further, That the Commission may purchase supplies and materials in the United States without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5) when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $500: Provided further, That when traveling on business of the Commission, officers of the Army serving as members or as secretary of the Commission may be reimbursed for expenses as provided for civilian members of the Commission: And provided further, That the Commission may delegate to its chairman, secretary, or officials in charge of either its Washington or Paris offices, under such terms and conditions as it may prescribe, such of its authority as it may deem necessary and proper. Provisos. Technical, etc., work in Europe. Minor purchases. R. S. § 3709. 41 U. S. C. § 5. Traveling expenses. Delegation of authority. |