found interfering, in violation of section 6 of the Act of May 14, 1908 (33 U. S. Č. 761), with aids to navigation maintained by the Coast Guard; and all other necessary expenses which are not included under any other heading; $13,974,150, of which $2,026,000 shall be available immediately; Civilian employees, Coast Guard: For compensation of civilian employees in the field, including per diem labor, but excluding personnel provided for in the appropriation "General Expenses, Coast Guard", $3,500,000; Airplanes: For replacement and additional airplanes and their equipment, including radio and ordnance equipment, spare parts, and accessories, to be constructed or purchased in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, $663,000, to remain available until June 30, 1943; Construction of vessels and shore facilities: For additional and replacement vessels and their equipment, and the construction, rebuilding, or extension of shore facilities, including the acquisition of sites therefor, $8,111,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, of which amount not to exceed four per centum shall be available for administrative expenses in connection therewith, including personal services in the District of Columbia, and of which amount $5,000,000 is for the construction and equipment of three large cutters within a total limit of cost of $11,370,000 and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to enter into contracts during the fiscal years 1941 and 1942 for their construction and equipment within such limit; Establishing and improving aids to navigation: For establishing and improving aids to navigation and other works, $1,500,000, which sum shall be available for all expenditures directly relating to the respective projects and of which $950,000 shall be immediately available; Retired pay, former Lighthouse Service, Coast Guard: For retired pay of certain officers and employees entitled thereto by virtue of former employment in the Lighthouse Service engaged in the field service or on vessels of the Coast Guard, except persons continuously employed in district offices and shops, $1,000,000; Construction of aviation shore stations, No part of the appropriations contained in this Act under the Coast Guard, nor of any appropriation heretofore made, shall be restriction. used for the construction for the Coast Guard of any new permanent aviation shore station or for the permanent enlargement of the capacity of any existing aviation shore station, but this limitation shall not apply to expenditures for completion of construction for which funds were made available by the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1938, or by the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1940; 52 Stat. 1151; 54 Stat. 91. Replacement of civilians by military 14 U. S. C. § 101. Wherever during the fiscal year 1942, civilian employees of the Coast Guard are replaced by military personnel, as provided in the personnel. Act of August 5, 1939 (53 Stat. 1216); funds for the pay and allowances of such military personnel may be transferred, with the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, from the appropriation or appropriations which provide for the pay of such civilian personnel to the appropriation "Pay and Allowances, Coast Guard"; Total, Coast Guard, $62,193,150. BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work, during the fiscal year 1942, United States currency and internalrevenue stamps, including opium orders and special-tax stamps Ante, p. 221. 38 Stat. 785. 26 U. S. C. §§ 2550, 3220. Post, p. 565. Materials. required under the Act of December 17, 1914 (26 U. S. C. 1040, 1383), checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work, as follows: Salaries and expenses: For the Director, two Assistant Directors, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including wages of rotary press plate printers at per diem rates and all other plate printers at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work; for engravers' and printers' materials and other materials, including distinctive and nondistinctive paper, except distinctive paper for United States currency and Federal Reserve bank currency; equipment of, repairs to, and maintenance of buildings and grounds and for minor alterations to buildings; directories, technical books and periodicals, examples of engraving and printing, including foreign securities and stamps, and books of reference; not exceeding $500; traveling expenses not to exceed $2,000; miscellaneous expenses, including not to exceed $1,500 for articles approved by the Secretary of the Treasury as being necessary for the protection of the person of employees; for Scientific investiga- transfer to the Bureau of Standards for scientific investigations in connection with the work of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, not to exceed $15,000; and for the maintenance and driving of two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; $10,000,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. During the fiscal year 1942 all proceeds derived from work performed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, not covered and embraced in the appropriation for such Bureau for such fiscal year, instead of being covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, as provided by the Act of August 4, 1886 (31 U. S. C. 176), shall be credited when received to the appropriation for such Bureau for the fiscal year tions. Credit of proceeds from work. 24 Stat. 227. Post, p. 835. Post, p. 565. 1942. SECRET SERVICE DIVISION Salaries: For the Chief of the Division and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $69,543. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For salaries and other expenses under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal or other officer having jurisdiction, dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money, persons engaged in counterfeiting, forging, and altering United States notes, bonds, national-bank notes, Federal Reserve notes, Federal Reserve bank notes, and other obligations and securities of the United States and of foreign governments (including endorsements thereon and assignments thereof), as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and persons committing other crimes against the laws of the United States relating to the Treasury Department and the several branches of the public service under its control; purchase (not to exceed $15,000), exchange, hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; purchase of arms and ammunition; traveling expenses; transfer of household goods and effects as provided by the Act of October 10, 1940 (Public, Numbered 839), and regulations promulgated thereunder; and for no other purpose whatsoever, except in the performance of other duties specifically authorized by law, and Protection of the in the protection of the person of the President and the members of his immediate family and of the person chosen to be President of the United States, $1,009,000: Provided, That no part of the amount herein appropriated shall be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial Post, p. 565. 54 Stat. 1105. 5 U. 8. C. § 73c-1. President, etc. Provisos. Post, p. 295. con before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for "Fees of witnesses, Department of Justice": Provided further, That of the amount herein appropriated not to exceed cerning law violations. $15,000 may be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the laws relating to the Treasury Department, and for services or information looking toward the apprehension of criminals. White House Police: For one captain, two lieutenants, four sergeants, and seventy-three privates, at rates of pay provided by law; in all, $195,900. For uniforming and equipping the White House Police, including the purchase, issue, and repair of revolvers, and the purchase and issue of ammunition and miscellaneous supplies, to be procured in such manner as the President in his discretion may determine, $6,500. BUREAU OF THE MINT OFFICE OF DIRECTOR OF THE MINT Salaries: For the Director of the Mint and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $119,540. Transportation of bullion and coin: For transportation of bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints, assay offices, and bullion depositories, $187,500, including compensation of temporary employees and other necessary expenses incident thereto. Contingent expenses and examination of mints: For assay laboratory chemicals, fuel, materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, and for examination of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purpose of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations and for the collection of statistics relative to the annual production and consumption of the precious metals in the United States, $14,300. Post, p. 835. Post, p. 835. 48 Stat. 337, 1178. 31 U. S. C. §§ 440Incidental, etc., expenses. Salaries and expenses, mints and assay offices: For compensation of officers and employees of the mints at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; San Francisco, California; Denver, Colorado; and New Orleans, Louisiana, the assay offices at New York, New York; and Seattle, Washington, and the bullion depositories at Fort Knox, Kentucky; and West Point, New York, including necessary personal services for carrying out the provisions of the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 and the Silver Purchase Act of 1934, and any Executive orders, proclamations and regulations issued thereunder, and for incidental and contingent expenses, includ- 446; 448-4480. ing traveling expenses, new machinery, and repairs, arms, and ammunition, purchase and maintenance of uniforms and accessories for guards, protective devices, and their maintenance, training of employees in use of firearms and protective devices, purchase (not exceeding $1,700) and exchange of a motorbus, maintenance, repair, and operation of two motorbusses for use at the Fort Knox Bullion Depository, cases and enameling for medals manufactured, net wastage in melting and refining and in coining departments, loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coins, not to exceed $500 for the expenses of the annual assay commission, and not exceeding $1,000 for the acquisition, at the dollar face amount or otherwise, of specimen and rare coins, including United States and foreign gold coins and pieces of gold used as, or in lieu of, money, and ores, for addition to the Government's collection of such coins, pieces, and ores; $3,191,500. Annual assay commission. Provisos. Transfer of funds for pay of details, etc. Payments for supplies, services, etc. PROCUREMENT DIVISION Salaries and expenses: For the Director of Procurement and other personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field service, and for miscellaneous expenses, including office supplies and materials, purchase and exchange of motortrucks and maintenance thereof, telegrams, telephone service, traveling expenses, office equipment, fuel, light, electric current, and other expenses for carrying into effect regulations governing the procurement, warehousing, and distribution by the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department of property, equipment, stores, and supplies in the District of Columbia and in the field (including not to exceed $500 to settle claims for damages caused to private property by motor vehicles used by the Procurement Division), $889,000: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed during the fiscal year 1942 to transfer to this appropriation from any appropriations or funds available to the several departments and establishments of the Government for the fiscal year 1942 such amounts as may be approved by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, not to exceed the sum of (a) the amount of the annual compensation of employees who may be transferred or detailed to the Procurement Division, respectively, from any such department or establishment, where the transfer or detail of such employees is incident to a transfer of a function or functions to that Division and (b) such amount as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget may determine to be necessary for expenses other than personal services incident to the proper carrying out of functions so transferred: Provided further, That payments during the fiscal year 1942 to the general supply fund for materials, and supplies (including fuel), and services, and overhead expenses for all issues shall be made on the books of the Treasury Department by transfer and counterwarrants prepared by the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department and countersigned by the Comptroller General, such warrants to be based solely on itemized invoices prepared by the Procurement Division at issue prices to be fixed by the Director of Procurement: Provided further, That advances received pursuant to law (31 U. S. C. 686) from departments and establishments of the United States Government and the government of the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1942 shall be credited to the general supply fund: Provided further, That not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be available from the general supply fund during the fiscal year 1942 for personal services: Provided further, That the term "fuel" shall be held to include "fuel oil": Provided further, Purchases of coal That the requirements of sections 3711 and 3713 of the Revised Statutes (40 U. S. C. 109) relative to the weighing of coal and wood and the separate certificate as to the weight, measurement, or quantity of coal and wood purchased shall not apply to purchases by the Procurement Division at free-on-board destination outside of the District of ColumReconditioning of bia: Provided further, That the reconditioning and repair of surplus property and equipment, for disposition or reissue to Government service, may be made at cost by the Procurement Division, payment therefor to be effected by charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation "Salaries and expenses, Procurement Division". Crediting vances. of Personal services. "Fuel." and wood. surplus property. ad Purchase of typewriting machines. Repairs to typewriting machines (except bookkeeping and billing machines) in the Government service in the District of Columbia may be made at cost by the Procurement Division, payment therefor to be effected by charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation "Salaries and expenses, Procurement Division". No part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used during the fiscal year 1942 for the purchase of any standard typewriting machines (except bookkeeping, billing, and electric machines) at a price in excess of the following for models with carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches (correspondence models), $70; twelve inches, $75; fourteen inches, $77.50; sixteen inches, $82.50; eighteen inches, $87.50; twenty inches, $94; twenty-two inches, $95; twenty-four inches, $97.50; twenty-six inches, $103.50; twenty-eight inches, $104; thirty inches, $105; thirty-two inches, $107.50; or, for standard typewriting machines distinctively quiet in operation, the maximum prices shall be as follows for models with carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches, $80; twelve inches, $85; fourteen inches, $90; eighteen inches, $95. This title may be cited as the "Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1942". TITLE II-POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT Citation of title. Post Office Department Appropriation The following sums are appropriated in conformity with the Act of July 2, 1836 (5 U. S. C. 380; 39 U. S. C. 786), for the Post Office Act, 1942. Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, namely: POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Salaries: For the Postmaster General and other personal services in the office of the Postmaster General in the District of Columbia, $226,904. SALARIES IN BUREAUS AND OFFICES For personal services in the District of Columbia in bureaus and offices of the Post Office Department in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, $391,420. Office of the purchasing agent, $47,240. CONTINGENT EXPENSES, POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT For contingent and miscellaneous expenses; stationery and blank books, index and guide cards, folders and binding devices, including purchase of free penalty envelopes; telegraph and telephone service, furniture and filing cabinets and repairs thereto; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of tools, electrical supplies, typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; purchase (including exchange) of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, and for maintenance of motortrucks and of two motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes (one for the Postmaster General and one for the general use of the Department); streetcar fares; floor coverings; postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad, which is not exempt under article 49 of the Buenos Aires convention of the Universal Postal Union; purchase and exchange of lawbooks, books of reference, railway guides, city directories, and books necessary to conduct the business of the Department; newspapers, not exceeding $200; expenses, except membership fees, of attendance at meetings or conventions concerned with postal affairs, 5 Stat. 80. Post, p. 834. Post, p. 834. Post, p. 559. Vehicles. Correspondence addressed abroad. 54 Stat. 2074. |