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Attendance at meet

ings.

Provisos.

Return of inmates longer Federal charges.

Mail facilities.

Butter substitutes, restriction.

Care of

patients

from D. C., etc.

causes, prevention, and treatment of mental illness, and including
maintenance and operation of necessary facilities for feeding
employees and others (at not less than cost), and the proceeds there-
from shall reimburse the appropriation for the institution; and not
exceeding $1,500 of this sum may be expended in the removal of
patients to their friends; not exceeding $1,000 for expenses of attend-
ance at meetings or conventions concerned with the work of psychiatry,
medicine, and other scientific subjects of interest to Saint Elizabeths
Hospital, when specifically authorized by the Federal Security Admin-
istrator, not exceeding $1,500 for the purchase of such books, periodi-
cals, and newspapers as may be required for the purposes of the hos-
pital and for the medical library, and not exceeding $1,500 for the
actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension and return
to the hospital of escaped patients: Provided, That so much of this
sum as may be required shall be available for all necessary expenses in no
ascertaining the residence of inmates who are not or who cease to be
properly chargeable to Federal maintenance in the institution and in
returning them to such places of residence: Provided further, That
not exceeding $200 additional may be paid to two employees to pro-
vide mail facilities for patients in the hospital: Provided further,
That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase
of oleomargarine or butter substitutes except for cooking purposes:
Provided further, That during the fiscal year 1942 the District of
Columbia, or any branch of the Government requiring Saint Eliza-
beths Hospital to care for patients for which they are responsible,
shall pay by check to the Superintendent, upon his written request,
either in advance or at the end of each month, all or part of the
estimated or actual cost of such maintenance, as the case may be, and
bills rendered by the Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital
in accordance herewith shall not be subject to audit or certification
in advance of payment; proper adjustments on the basis of the actual
cost of the care of patients paid for in advance shall be made
monthly or quarterly, as may be agreed upon between the Superin-
tendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital and the District of Columbia
government, department, or establishments concerned. All sums paid
to the Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the care of
patients that he is authorized by law to receive shall be deposited to
the credit on the books of the Treasury Department of the appro-
priation made for the care and maintenance of the patients at Saint
Elizabeths Hospital for the year in which the support, clothing, and
treatment is provided, and be subject to requisition upon the approval
of the Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital: Provided further,
That there shall be available for the purchase of one seven hundred
and fifty-horsepower boiler, one one thousand five hundred-kilowatt
turbo-generator, one fifty-ton ammonia compressor, all with acces-
sories, and extension and remodeling the present ash system, including
preparation of plans and specifications, advertising for proposals,
$230,000 from pension funds accrued, or which may accrue, prior to
July 1, 1941, as authorized by the Act approved February 2, 1909
(24 U. S. C. 165); such funds as have accrued to be immediately
available: Provided further, That $1,000 shall be transferred from
this appropriation to the appropriation "Traveling expenses, Federal
Security Agency".

Construction and equipment: For construction and equipment, in the grounds of the hospital, of two continuous treatment buildings, including preparation of plans and specifications, advertising, and supervision of construction, $700,000.

Construction and equipment: For the construction, in the grounds of the hospital, of a building for storeroom, warehouse, laundry, and

Accounting.

Mechanical equip

ment.

Pension funds.

35 Stat. 592.

Transfer of funds.
Ante, p. 471.

Continuous treatment buildings.

Storeroom, warehouse, etc.

Citation of title.

PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 269-JULY 1, 1941

[55 STAT. industrial shops, including preparation of plans and specifications, advertising, supervision of construction, and equipment, $635,000. This title may be cited as the "Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1942".

Employees Com- TITLE III-EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION COMMISSION

pensation Commis

sion Appropriation

Act, 1942.

Ante, p. 63; post, pp.

502, 830.

Reappropriation. 53 Stat. 530. Post, p. 502.

39 Stat. 742.

5 U.S. C. §§ 751–798.

5 U.S. C. § 796.

Salaries and expenses: For three Commissioners and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including not to exceed $1,000 for temporary experts and assistants in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, to be paid at a rate not exceeding $8 per day, and for personal services in the field; for furniture and other equipment and repairs thereto; lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals; stationery and supplies; traveling expenses; fees and mileage of witnesses; contract stenographic reporting services; rent in the District of Columbia for the administration of the Act of May 17, 1928 (45 Stat. 600); and miscellaneous items; $490,000, together with $40,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1940. Printing and binding: For all printing and binding for the Employees' Compensation Commission, $8,000.

Employees' compensation fund: 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), including medical examinations, traveling and other expenses, and loss of wages payable to employees under sections 21 and 22; all services, appliances, and supplies provided by section 9 as amended, including payments to Army, Navy, and Veterans' Administration hospitals; the transportation and burial expenses provided by sections 9 and 11; and advancement of costs for the enforcement of recoveries provided in sections 26 and 27 where necessary, accruing during the fiscal year 1942 or in prior fiscal years, $5,000,000.

EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION FUND, CIVIL WORKS

For administrative expenses (not to exceed $6,000) and payment of compensation in connection with the administration of the benefits for employees of the Civil Works Administration in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act making an additional appropriation to carry out the purposes of the Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933, for continuation of the Civil Works program, and for other purposes", approved February 15, 1934 (48 Stat. 352), and in connection with the administration of the benefits authorized by title V of the Act entitled "An Act to liberalize the provisions of Public Law Numbered 484, Seventy-third Congress, to effect uniform provisions in laws administered by the Veterans' Administration, to extend the Employees' Compensation Act with limitations to certain World War veterans and other persons, and for other purposes", approved June 29, 1936 (49 Stat. 2035), $175,000 of the special fund set up on the books of the Treasury pursuant to the provisions of said Act of February 15, 1934, shall be available for expenditure during the fiscal year 1942.

EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION FUND, EMERGENCY CONSERVATION WORK

For administrative expenses (not to exceed $38,140) and payment of compensation in connection with the administration of the benefits for enrollees of the Civilian Conservation Corps in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "Emergency Appropriation Act. fiscal year 1935", approved June 19, 1934 (48 Stat. p. 1057), $675,000

of the special fund set up on the books of the Treasury pursuant to the provisions of said Act shall be available for expenditure during the fiscal year 1942.

This title may be cited as the "Employees' Compensation Commission Appropriation Act, 1942".

TITLE IV-NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD Salaries: For three Board members of the National Labor Relations Board and other personal services of the Board in the District of Columbia and elsewhere necessary in performing the duties imposed by law or in pursuance of law, $2,173,600.

Miscellaneous expenses (other than salaries): For all authorized and necessary expenditures, other than salaries, of the National Labor Relations Board in performing duties imposed by law or in pursuance of law, including repairs and alterations; communication services; contract stenographic reporting services; lawbooks; books of reference; periodicals; and operation, maintenance, and repair of one automobile, $545,000.

Printing and binding: For all printing and binding for the National Labor Relations Board in Washington and elsewhere, $234,500.

This title may be cited as the "National Labor Relations Board Appropriation Act, 1942".

TITLE V-NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD

For three members of the Board, and for other authorized expenditures of the National Mediation Board in performing the duties imposed by law, including contract stenographic reporting services; supplies and equipment; not to exceed $200 for books of reference, and periodicals, $153,000, of which amount not to exceed $118,620 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.

Arbitration and emergency boards: To enable the National Mediation Board to pay necessary expenses of arbitration boards, and emergency boards appointed by the President pursuant to Section 10 of the Railway Labor Act approved May 20, 1926 (45 U. S. C. 160), including compensation of members and employees of such boards, together with their necessary traveling expenses and expenses actually incurred for subsistence while so employed, and printing of awards, together with proceedings and testimony relating thereto, as authorized by the Railway Labor Act, including also contract stenographic reporting service, and rent of quarters when suitable quarters cannot be supplied in any Federal building, the unexpended balance of previous appropriations for these purposes shall be available.

Printing and binding: For all printing and binding for the National Mediation Board, $2,500.

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

Salaries and expenses: For authorized expenditures of the National Railroad Adjustment Board, in performing the duties imposed by law, including contract stenographic reporting services and supplies and equipment, $201,440, of which $45,000 shall be available only for services of referees at a rate of compensation not in excess of $50 per day and not more than $111,380 may be expended for other personal services.

Printing and binding: For all printing and binding for the National Railroad Adjustment Board, $20,000.

This title may be cited as the "National Mediation Board Appropriation Act, 1942".

Citation of title.

National Labor Relations Board Appropriation Act, 1942. Post, pp. 822, 831.

Citation of title.

National Mediation Board Appropriation Act, 1942.

Post, pp. 748, 831.

Post, p. 748.

44 Stat. 586.

Post, p. 831.

Citation of title.

Railroad Retirement Board Appropriation Act, 1942.

54 Stat. 1105.
5 U. S. C. § 73c-1.

49 Stat. 967; 50 Stat. 45 U. S. C. § 215

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TITLE VI-RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD Salaries: For three members of the Railroad Retirement Board and other personal services of the Board in the District of Columbia and elsewhere necessary in performing the duties imposed by law or in pursuance of law, $2,445,000.

Miscellaneous expenses (other than salaries): For all authorized and necessary expenditures, other than salaries, of the Railroad Retirement Board in performing the duties imposed by law or in pursuance of law, including rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses, including not to exceed $1,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Board when specifically authorized by the Board; not to exceed $2,500 for payment of actual transportation expenses, and per diem (not to exceed $10) in lieu of subsistence and other expenses, of persons serving while away from their homes without other compensation in an advisory capacity to the Railroad Retirement Board; expenses of the transfer of household goods and effects, as provided by the Act of October 10, 1940 (Public Numbered 839), and regulations promulgated thereunder, to the extent that such expenses are determined by the Board to have been incurred in the administration of the Railroad Retirement Act; repairs and alterations; contract stenographic reporting services; other fees and compensation; office appliances and labor-saving devices; supplies and equipment (including photographic equipment); not to exceed $5,000 for lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals, and for payment in advance when authorized by the Board for library membership in organizations which issue publications to members only or to members at a price lower than to the general public; purchase (including exchange) of one motorpropelled passenger-carrying vehicle; operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and expenses incident to moving the office of the Board from one building to another; $650,000.

Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Railroad Retirement Board, $55,000.

Railroad retirement account: For an amount sufficient as an annual premium for the payments required under the Railroad Retirement Act, approved August 29, 1935, and the Railroad Retirement Act, approved June 24, 1937, and authorized to be appropriated to the railroad retirement account established under section 15 (a) of the latter Act, $140,850,000: Provided, That such amount shall be available until expended for making payments required under said retirement Acts, and the amount not required for current payments shall be invested by the Secretary of the Treasury in accordance with the provisions of said Railroad Retirement Act of June 24, 1937. This title may be cited as the "Railroad Retirement Board Appropriation Act, 1942".

TITLE VII-GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 701. In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment of personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act U.S. C. 661-674. of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the Assistant Secretary

42 Stat. 1488.

Post, p. 613.

and the Second Assistant Secretary of Labor, the average of the
salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau,
office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the
average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such

Proviso.

Restriction not ap

plicable in designated

Act, as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated
the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the com-
pensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious
cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher
than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not
more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next
higher rate: Provided, That this restriction shall not apply (1) to
grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or (2) to
require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation cases.
was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section
6 of such Act, or (3) to require the reduction in salary of any person
who is transferred from one position to another position in the same
or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other
appropriation unit, or (4) to prevent the payment of a salary under
any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade
when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923,
as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or (5) to
reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in which only
one position is allocated.

SEC. 702. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be paid to any person for the filling of any position for which he or she has been nominated after the Senate has voted not to approve of the nomination of said person.

SEC. 703. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act or authorized hereby to be expended shall be used to pay the compensation of any officer or employee of the Government of the United States, or of any agency the majority of the stock of which is owned by the Government of the United States, whose post of duty is in continental United States unless such officer or employee is a citizen of the United States or a person in the service of the United States on the date of the approval of this Act who being eligible for citizenship has filed a declaration of intention to become a citizen or who owes allegiance to the United States.

SEC. 704. 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. 705. This Act may be cited as the "Labor-Federal Security Appropriation Act, 1942".

Approved, July 1, 1941.

42 Stat. 1490.
5 U. S. C. § 666.

Nominees not approved by Senate.

Citizenship require

ment.

Persons advocating overthrow of U. S. Government.

Provisos.
Affidavit.

Penalty.

Short title.

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