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54 Stat. 470.

54 Stat. 1056.

Post, p. 747.

54 Stat. 470.

54 Stat. 473.

54 Stat. 477.

Proviso.

Federal Register.

54 Stat. 479.

Defense housing.
Temporary shelter.

Ante, p. 14.

Ante, p. 63.

39 Stat. 749.

54 Stat. 594.

For payment to the widow of Pius L. Schwert, late a Representative from the State of New York, $10,000.

The two foregoing sums to be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives.

Contingent expenses: For an additional amount for miscellaneous items, fiscal year 1941, including the objects specified under this head in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1941, $15,350, such sum to be paid to the Architect of the Capitol in accordance with section 208 of the First Supplemental Civil Functions Appropriation Act,

1941.

For an additional amount for stationery for Representatives, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, including the objects and subject to the conditions specified under this head in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1941, $1,400.

ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL

Capitol power plant: For an additional amount for lighting, heating, and power for the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, Supreme Court Building, Congressional Library Buildings, and so forth, fiscal year 1941, including the objects specified under this head in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1941, $128,330.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

Working capital and congressional printing and binding: For an additional amount for working capital and congressional printing and binding, fiscal year 1941, including the objects specified under this head in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1941, $900,000: Provided, That the limitation under this head in such Act upon the amount which may be expended for the printing, binding, and distribution of the Federal Register is hereby increased to $175,000.

Salaries, Office of Superintendent of Documents: For an additional amount for salaries, Office of Superintendent of Documents, fiscal year 1941, including the objects specified under this head in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1941, $7,000.

INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

EMERGENCY FUNDS FOR THE PRESIDENT

Defense housing: For an additional amount to enable the President of the United States to provide temporary shelter in localities where by reason of national defense activities a shortage of housing exists, fiscal year 1941, including the objects and subject to the conditions specified under this head in the Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1941, approved March 1, 1941, $15,000,000, to remain available until June 30, 1942.

EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION COMMISSION

Employees' Compensation Fund: For an additional amount for the payment of compensation provided by "An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes", approved September 7, 1916 (5 U. S. C. 785), fiscal year 1941, including the objects specified under this head in the Employees' Compensation Commission Appropriation Act, 1941, $500,000.

FEDERAL LOAN AGENCY

FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION

Administrative expenses: In addition to the funds made available to the Federal Housing Administration for administrative expenses by the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1941, not to exceed $2,560 from the account in the Treasury, comprised of funds derived from premiums collected under authority of Section 2 (f), title I, of the National Housing Act, as amended, and $68,320 of the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund, are hereby made available for administrative expenses of such Administration for the fiscal year 1941, including the objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1941: Provided, That the first proviso in the appropriation of the Federal Housing Administration, contained in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1941, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Provided, That all necessary expenses of the Administration (including services performed on a contract or fee basis, but not including other personal services) in connection with the acquisition, protection, completion, operation, maintenance, improvement, or disposition of real or personal property of the Administration, acquired under authority of titles I, II, and VI, of said National Housing Act shall be considered as nonadministrative expenses for the purposes hereof, and such expenses with respect to title I property shall be paid from funds in the Treasury derived from premiums collected under authority of Section 2 (f), title I of said Act; such expenses with respect to title II property shall be paid from the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund or the Housing Insurance Fund, as provided in title II of said Act; and such expenses with respect to title VI shall be paid from the Defense Housing Insurance Fund": Provided further, That the appropriation of the Federal Housing Administration, contained in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1941, is hereby amended by adding the following at the end of the third proviso thereof: ": Provided further, That subject to the provisions of the National Housing Act, as amended, with respect to the availability for general expenses of the various insurance funds thereby established and within the aggregate amount of funds made available by various appropriation Acts for administrative expenses, the Administrator may charge each of such insurance funds with the proper proportion, as determined in accordance with sound accounting principles, of the total administrative expenses without regard to the particular allocations included in such appropriation Acts".

Renovation and modernization loans and insurance: The amount of the funds of the account in the Treasury comprised of premiums collected under authority of Section 2 (f) of the National Housing Act, as amended, made available by the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1941, for the payment of losses under insurance granted under Sections 2 and 6, title I, of the National Housing Act, as amended, is hereby increased by $651,393.

FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY

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Defense housing.
Ante, p. 65; post, p.

National defense housing: For an additional amount to enable the Federal Works Administrator to carry out the purposes of the Act 855. of October 14, 1940 (Public, Numbered 849), entitled "An Act to expedite the provision of housing in connection with national defense, and for other purposes", as amended by the Act approved April 29, note. 1941 (Public Law 42), $150,000,000, to remain available until

54 Stat. 1125.
42 U. S. C., ch. 9
Ante, p. 147; post, p.

361.

54 Stat. 1115.

42 U. S. C., ch. 9 note.

Public buildings and grounds, D. C.

54 Stat. 126.

54 Stat. 1225.

54 Stat. 140.

Ante, p. 65.

54 Stat. 310.

Ante, p. 66.

54 Stat. 314.

Ante, p. 66.

expended and to be expended in accordance with the authority and limitations applying to the expenditure of funds under such Acts and Public Resolution Numbered 106, approved October 14, 1940.

Public Buildings Administration: Salaries and expenses, public buildings and grounds in the District of Columbia: For an additional amount, fiscal year 1941, for administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement of public buildings and grounds in the District of Columbia, maintained and operated by the Public Buildings Administration, Federal Works Agency, including the objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1941, $1,000,000.

TEMPORARY NATIONAL ECONOMIC COMMITTEE

Not to exceed $2,500 of the funds appropriated for the Temporary National Economic Committee which remain unexpended and unobligated on April 3, 1941, shall be available until December 31, 1941, for expenditure by the Committee, upon vouchers approved by the chairman, for the purpose of winding up the affairs of the Committee, including the employment of necessary clerical and other assistants in connection therewith.

VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION

Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding, Veterans' Administration, fiscal year 1941, $30,000.

Hospital and domiciliary facilities: For an additional amount for hospital and domiciliary facilities, including the objects and subject to the limitations specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1941, approved April 18, 1940, $1,000,000, to remain available until expended.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

RECORDER OF DEEDS

For an additional amount for miscellaneous and contingent expenses, fiscal year 1941, including the objects and subject to the limitation specified in the appropriation for this purpose in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1941, $3,000.

SEWERS

For an additional amount for assessment and permit work, sewers, fiscal year 1941, $100,000, to continue available until June 30, 1942.

COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSES

For an additional amount for the fiscal year 1941 to enable the Commissioners to carry out the provisions of law governing the collection and disposal of garbage, and so forth, including the objects and subject to the conditions specified in the appropriation for this purpose in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1941, $15,000.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Buildings and grounds: For the construction of an eight-room extensible elementary school building on a site to be acquired in the vicinity of Pennsylvania and Alabama Avenues, Southeast, $190,000, to remain available until expended.

POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN'S RELIEF

For an additional amount for the fiscal year 1941 to pay the Policemen and Firemen's Relief and other allowances as authorized by law, $30,000.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT

Tuberculosis Sanatoria, expenses: For an additional amount for the fiscal year 1941 for provisions and so forth, including the objects and subject to the conditions specified in the appropriation for this purpose in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1941, $4,000.

Gallinger Municipal Hospital: For an additional amount for the fiscal year 1941 for maintenance of the hospital, and so forth, including the objects and subject to the conditions specified in the appropriation for this purpose in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1941, $52,600.

WATER DEPARTMENT

For an additional amount for the fiscal year 1941 for extension of the water department distribution system, laying of such service mains as may be necessary under the assessment system, $90,000, to continue available until June 30, 1942, and to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the Water Department of the District of Columbia.

SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS AND SUITS

For the payment of claims approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia under and in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to settle claims and suits against the District of Columbia", approved February 11, 1929 (45 Stat. 1160), as amended by the Act approved June 5, 1930 (46 Stat. 500), and certified to Congress in House Document Numbered 188, Seventy-seventh Congress, $1,450, of which sum $1,000 shall be paid from the special highway fund (gasoline tax and motor vehicle fees).

DIVISION OF EXPENSES

The foregoing sums for the District of Columbia, unless otherwise specifically provided, shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the Treasury of the United States in the manner prescribed by the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for the respective fiscal years for which such sums are provided.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Commodity Credit Corporation, salaries and administrative expenses: The limitation of $2,000,000 for administrative expenses of the Commodity Credit Corporation for the fiscal year 1941 contained in the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1941, is hereby increased to $2,250,000.

Water conservation and utilization projects, Department of Agriculture: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture through such agencies of the Department of Agriculture as he may designate to carry out the functions vested in such Secretary or such Department by the Act of October 14, 1940 (54 Stat. 1119), there is hereby transferred from the appropriation "Water Conservation and Utility Projects" contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1941, $580,000, to be available until expended.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

PATENT OFFICE

Salaries: For an additional amount for the Commissioner of Patents and other personal services in the District of Columbia, fiscal year 1941, $70,000.

54 Stat. 323.

54 Stat. 323.

Ante, p. 66.

D. C. Code §§ 1-902 to 1-905.

54 Stat. 562.

Transfer of appropriations.

16 U. S. C. §§ 590y to 590z-10.

54 Stat. 438.

54 Stat. 199.

54 Stat. 408.

54 Stat. 406. Proviso.

Ante, p. 134.

Ante, p. 135. 53 Stat. 1433.

Ante, p. 70.

54 Stat. 579.

54 Stat. 181.

Ante, p. 71.

54 Stat. 182.

54 Stat. 182.

Ante, p. 72.

54 Stat. 185.

Photolithographing: For an additional amount, fiscal year 1941, for producing copies of weekly issue of drawings of patents and designs, and reproductions of copies of drawings and specifications of exhausted patents, designs, trade-marks, and other papers, such other papers when reproduced for sale to be sold at not less than cost plus 10 per centum, including the objects specified under this head. in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1941, $35,000. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

Salaries and expenses, Bituminous Coal Division: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, Bituminous Coal Division, fiscal year 1941, including the objects and subject to the limitations specified under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1941, $260,000.

OFFICE OF SOLICITOR

Salaries and expenses, Consumers' Counsel Division: For an additional amount for Consumers' Counsel Division, salaries and expenses, fiscal year 1941, including the objects and subject to the limitations specified under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1941, $28,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be subject to the Act of April 11, 1941 (Public Law 34), and the unexpended balances thereof shall be transferred to the Office of the Bituminous Coal Consumers' Counsel in accordance with and in the manner prescribed by section 2 of such Act whenever the Solicitor of the Department of the Interior ceases to perform, in accordance with section 22 (b) of the Bituminous Coal Act of 1937, as amended, the duties which were transferred to the office of such Solicitor by Reorganization Plan II.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION

Miscellaneous expenses (other than salaries): Not to exceed $30,000 of the appropriation "Salaries, Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor, 1941", may be transferred to the appropriation "Miscellaneous expenses, Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor, 1941.” DEPARTMENT OF STATE

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE

Salaries: For an additional amount for salaries, fiscal year 1941, including the objects and subject to the limitations specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1941, $336,000, of which amount $300,000 shall remain available until June 30, 1942.

Contingent expenses: For an additional amount for contingent expenses, fiscal year 1941, including the objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1941, $65,000, of which there may be expended not to exceed $14,000 for the purchase of typewriters, adding machines, and other labor saving devices, including rental, exchange, and repair thereof.

Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding, fiscal year 1941, including the objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1941, $16,000.

FOREIGN INTERCOURSE

Contingent expenses, Foreign Service: For an additional amount for contingent expenses, Foreign Service, fiscal year 1941, including the objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1941, $135,000.

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