Safety of employees: To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informed regarding and to enforce compliance with Acts to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads; the Act requiring common carriers to make reports of accidents and authorizing investigations thereof; and to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate and test appliances intended to promote the safety of railway operation, as authorized by the joint resolution approved June 30, 1906 (45 U. S. C. 35), and the provision of the Sundry Civil Act approved May 27, 1908 (45 U. S. C. 36, 37), to investigate, test experimentally, and report on the use and need of any appliances or systems intended to promote the safety of railway operation, inspectors, and for traveling expenses, $506,000, of which amount not to exceed $92,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Reports and investigations. Safety appliances. 34 Stat. 838. 41 Stat. 50 Signal safety systems: For all authorized expenditures under section 25 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended by the Transpor- stat. 835; 54 Stat. 919. tation Act, 1920, the Act of August 26, 1937 (49 U. S. C. 26), and the Transportation Act of 1940, with respect to the provision thereof under which carriers by railroad subject to the Act may be required to install automatic train-stop or train-control devices which comply with specifications and requirements prescribed by the Commission, including investigations and tests pertaining to block-signal and train-control systems, as authorized by the joint resolution approved June 30, 1906 (45 U. S. C. 35), and including the employment of the necessary engineers, and for traveling expenses, $126,810, of which amount not to exceed $40,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Locomotive inspection: For all authorized expenditures under the provisions of the Act of February 17, 1911, entitled "An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto" (45 U. S. C. 22), as amended by the Act of March 4, 1915, extending "the same powers and duties with respect to all parts and appurtenances of the locomotive and tender" (45 U. S. C. 30), and amendment of June 7, 1924 (45 U. S. C. 27), providing for the appointment from time to time by the Interstate Commerce Commission of not more than fifteen inspectors in addition to the number authorized in the first paragraph of section 4 of the Act of 1911 (45 U. S. C. 26), and the amendment of June 27, 1930 (45 U. S. C. 24, 26), including such legal, technical, stenographic, and clerical help as the business of the offices of the director of locomotive inspection and his two assistants may require and for traveling expenses, $475,000, of which amount not to exceed $71,450 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. 34 Stat. 838. 36 Stat. 913; 38 Stat. 1192. 43 Stat. 659. 36 Stat. 914; 46 Stat. 822. Valuation of property of carriers: To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to carry out the objects of the Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to regulate commerce', approved February 4, 1887, and all Acts amendatory thereof, by providing for a valuation of the several classes of property of carriers subject thereto and securing information concerning their stocks, bonds, and other securities", approved March 1, 1913, as amended by the Act of 21:48 Stat. 221. June 7, 1922 (49 U. S. C. 19a), and by the "Emergency Railroad Transportation Act, 1933" (49 U. S. C. 19a), including one director of valuation at $10,000 per annum, one valuation engineer at $7,500 per annum, and traveling expenses, $640,000. Motor transport regulation: For all authorized expenditures necessary to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to carry out the 37 Stat. 701; 42 Stat. 624; 278941-42—PT. I 380. 49 Stat. 543; 24 Stat. 49 U. S. C. §§ 301, 5. 54 Stat. 919. 49 U. S. C. §301. Proviso. Transportation re quests. Attendance at meet ings. provisions of part II of the Interstate Commerce Act and section 5, part I, of the Interstate Commerce Act insofar as applicable to common carriers subject to part II (Transportation Act of 1940), including one director at $10,000 per annum and other personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses; supplies; services and equipment; not to exceed $1,000 for purchase and exchange of books, reports, newspapers, and periodicals; contract stenographic reporting services; purchase (not to exceed $18,000), exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary for official use in field work; not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase of evidence in connection with investigations of apparent violations of said Act, $3,690,000: Provided, That Joint Board members may use Government transportation requests when traveling in connection with their duties as Joint Board members. Not to exceed $2,500 of the appropriations herein made for the Interstate Commerce Commission shall be available for expenses, except membership fees, for attendance at meetings concerned with Transfer of house- the work of the Commission, and not to exceed $5,000 for transfer of household goods and effects as provided by the Act of October 10, 1940 (Public, Numbered 839), and regulations promulgated thereunder. hold effects. 54 Stat 1105. 5 U. S. C. § 73c-1. Post, p. 546. In all, salaries and expenses, Interstate Commerce Commission, $8,858,750. For all printing and binding for the Interstate Commerce Commission, including reports in all cases proposing general changes in transportation rates and not to exceed $17,000 to print and furnish to the States, at cost, report form blanks, and the receipts from such reports and blanks shall be credited to this appropriation, $200,000. Total, Interstate Commerce Commission, $9,058,750. Post, pp. 546,748,822. NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS Salaries and penses. 54 Stat. 1105. 5 U. S. C. 73c-1. ex For scientific research, technical investigations, and special reports in the field of aeronautics, including the necessary laboratory and technical assistants; contracts for personal services in the making of special investigations and in the preparation of special reports; traveling expenses of members and employees, including not to exceed $2,500 for expenses, except membership fees, of attendance upon meetings of technical and professional societies; transfer of household goods and effects as provided by the Act of October 10, 1940 (Public, Numbered 839) and regulations promulgated thereunder; office supplies and other miscellaneous expenses, including technical periodAeronautical labora- icals and books of reference; equipment, maintenance, and operation of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, and the airplane engine research laboratory provided for in the First Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1941, approved June 26, 1940; purchase, maintenance, operation, and exchange of motor-propelled passengercarrying vehicles including one at not to exceed $1,200; personal services in the field and not to exceed $195,380 for personal services in the District of Columbia; in all, $4,567,890. tories. 54 Stat. 599. Post, pp. 546, 748. Ames Acronautical Laboratory. Post. p. 748. For all printing and binding for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, including all of its offices, laboratories, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $25,000. Construction and equipment: For continuing construction and equipment of the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory (at Moffett Field, California) for which an initial appropriation of $1,890,980 was pro vided in the Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1939, and a second appropriation of $4,200,000 in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1941, $3,409,020. Airplane engine research laboratory: For continuing construction and equipment of an airplane engine research laboratory, for which an initial appropriation of $2,000,000 was provided in the First Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1941, including expenses in the District of Columbia and elsewhere for the preparation of plans and specifications, $5,600,000, to remain available until expended. Total, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, $13,601,910. NATIONAL ARCHIVES Salaries and expenses: For the Archivist and for all other necessary and authorized expenditures in carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 19, 1934 (48 Stat. 1122-1124; 40 U. S. C. ch. 2A), as amended; the Act of July 26, 1935 (49 Stat. 500-503; U. S. C., Supp. II, title 44, ch. 8A), as amended; the Act of July 18, 1939 (53 Stat. 1062-1066), and the Act of August 5, 1939 (53 Stat. 1219–1221); including personal services in the District of Columbia; supplies and equipment, including scientific, technical, first-aid, protective, and other apparatus and materials for the arrangement, titling, scoring, repair, processing, editing, duplication, reproduction, and authentication of photographic and other records (including motion-picture and other films and sound recordings) in the custody of the Archivist; purchase and exchange of books, including lawbooks, books of reference, maps, and charts; contract stenographic reporting services; purchase of newspapers, and periodicals; not to exceed $100 for payment in advance when authorized by the Archivist for library membership in societies whose publications are available to members only or to members at a price lower than to the general public; travel expenses, including not to exceed $1,000 for the expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the furtherance of the purposes of the said Acts; exchange of scientific and technical apparatus and labor-saving devices; repairs to equipment; and maintenance, operation, and repair of motor vehicles, $980,940. Printing and binding: For all printing and binding, $12,400. 53 Stat. 1306; 54 Stat. 134. 54 Stat. 599. Post, pp. 822, 830. 44 U. S. C. §§ 301314, 351-361. Salaries and expenses. George Washington NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLANNING COMMISSION For each and every purpose requisite for and incident to the work of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission necessary toward carrying into effect the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act for the acquisition, establishment, and development of the George Memorial Parkway. Washington Memorial Parkway along the Potomac from Mount Vernon and Fort Washington to the Great Falls, and to provide for the acquisition of lands in the District of Columbia and the States of Maryland and Virginia requisite to the comprehensive park, parkway, and playground system of the National Capital", approved May 29, 1930; personal services, including real estate and other technical services, at rates of pay to be fixed by the Commission and not exceeding those usual for similar services and without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; travel expenses; expenses of surveys and searching of titles, purchase of options, and all other costs incident 674. to the acquisition of land, operation and maintenance of passengercarrying vehicles for official use, $1,300,000, to remain available until expended, $250,000 of said sum to be available for carrying out the 46 Stat. 482. 42 Stat. 1488. 46 Stat. 483, 484, 485. provisions of section 1 (a) of said Act; $200,000 to be available for carrying out the provisions of section 1 (b) of said Act, and $850,000 to be available for carrying out the provisions of section 4 of said Act. PROTECTION OF INTERESTS OF THE UNITED STATES IN MATTERS AFFECTING OIL LANDS IN FORMER NAVAL RESERVES Protection of interests of the United States in matters affecting oil lands in former naval reserves: For compensation and expenses of special counsel and for all other expenses, including employment of experts and other assistants at such rates as may be authorized or approved by the President, in connection with carrying into effect the joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution directing the Secretary of the Interior to institute proceedings touching sections 16 and 36, township 30 south, range 23 east, Mount Diablo meridian", approved February 21, 1924, $25,850, to be expended by the President: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be used to compensate any person at a rate in excess of $10,000 per annum. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION For five Comissioners, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, and for all other authorized expenditures of the Securities and Exchange Commission in performing the duties imposed by law or in pursuance of law, including employment of experts when necessary; contract stenographic reporting services; supplies and equipment; purchase and exchange of lawbooks, books of reference, directories, periodicals, and newspapers; travel expenses, including the expense of attendance, when specifically authorized by the Commission, at meetings concerned with the work of the Securities and Exchange Commission; garage rental; foreign postage; mileage and witness fees; rent of quarters outside the District of Columbia; rental of equipment; purchase, including exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle; purchase of rubber gloves; and other necessary expenses; $5,380,000. For all printing and binding for the Securities and Exchange Commission, $60,000. Total, Securities and Exchange Commission, $5,440,000. SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM For all expenses necessary for the operation and maintenance of the Selective Service System as authorized by the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 (Public, Numbered 783); including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, lawbooks, periodicals; newspapers (not to exceed $2,700); books of reference; payment of actual transportation expenses (not exceeding a total of $100,000) 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 Director of Selective Service; and purchase and exchange, and hire, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and printing and binding, $33,500,000: Provided, That such amounts as may be necessary shall be available for the planning, directing, and operation of a program of work of national importance under civilian direction, either independently or in cooperation with governmental or nongovernmental agencies, and the assignment and delivery thereto of individuals found to be conscientiously opposed to participation in work of the land or naval forces, which cooperation with other agencies may include the furnishing of funds to and acceptance of money, services, or other forms of assistance from such nongovernmental agencies for the more effectual accomplishment of the work; and including also the pay and allowances of such individuals at rates not in excess of those paid to persons inducted into the Army under the Selective Service System, and such privileges as are accorded such inductees: Provided further, That the travel of persons engaged in the administration of the Selective Service System, including commissioned, warrant, or enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or their reserve components, may be ordered by the Director or by such persons as he may authorize, and persons so traveling shall be entitled to transportation and subsistence or per diem in lieu of subsistence, at rates authorized by law. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Travel expenses. Post, p. 831. Astrophysical Ob National Collection For expenses of the general administrative office; for the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries; for continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii and the excavation and preservation of archeologic remains; for maintenance of the Astrophysical servatory. Observatory, including assistants, and making necessary observations in high altitudes; for cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibition and safekeeping of collections; and for administration of the National Collection of Fine Arts; including personal of Fine Arts. services, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, traveling expenses, including not exceeding $1,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Institution when specifically authorized by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; uniforms for guards, supplies and equipment, preparation of manuscripts, drawings, and illustrations, supplying of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephone service, repairs and alterations of buildings, shops, sheds, and approaches, and other necessary expenses, $386,260. Preservation of collections: For continuing preservation, exhibition, and increase of collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including personal services, traveling expenses, including not exceeding $1,500 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the National Museum when specifically authorized by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, purchasing and supplying, repairing and cleaning of uniforms for guards and elevator conductors, postage stamps, and foreign postal cards, and all other necessary expenses and not exceeding $5,500 for preparation of manuscripts, drawings, and illustrations for publications, and not exceeding $4,000 for purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals, $626,720. Printing and binding: For all printing and binding for the Smithsonian Institution, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, except the National Gallery of Art, $88,500, of which not to exceed $12,000 shall be available for printing the report of the American Historical Association. Preservation of collections. Post, p. 831. Printing and binding. American Historical Association, report. National Gallery of Salaries and expenses, National Gallery of Art: For the upkeep Art, maintenance. and operation of the National Gallery of Art, the protection and care of the works of art therein, and all administrative expenses incident thereto, as authorized by the Act of March 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51), as amended by the public resolution of April 13, 1939 (Public Resolution Numbered 9, Seventy-sixth Congress), including personal services in the District of Columbia (except as otherwise 20 U. S. C. §§ 71-75. 53 Stat. 577. 20 U. S. C. § 74. |