July 1, 1941 [H. R. 4972] [Public Law 147] Corporation, extension to June 30, 1943. [CHAPTER 270] AN ACT To extend the life and increase the credit resources of the Commodity Credit Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commodity Credit United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 7 of the Act approved January 31, 1935 (49 Stat. 4), as amended, is hereby amended by deleting from the first sentence thereof the term "June 30, 1941" and inserting in lieu thereof the term "June 30, 1943". 15 U. S. C. § 713. Annual appraisal of assets. SEC. 2. Section 1 of the Act approved March 8, 1938 (52 Stat. 15 U. S. C. § 713a-1. 107), as amended, is hereby amended by deleting from the second sentence thereof the term "on the basis of market prices at the time of appraisal" and inserting in lieu thereof the term "on the basis. of the cost, including not more than one year of carrying charges, of such assets to the Corporation, or the average market prices of such assets for a period of twelve months ending with March 31 of each year, whichever is less;". Credit resources. 54 Stat. 782. 15 U. S. C. § 713a-4. Non-basic agricultural commodities, ex Maintenance of price. SEC. 3. Section 4 of the Act approved March 8, 1938 (52 Stat. 108), as amended, is hereby amended by deleting the term "$1,400,000,000” and inserting in lieu thereof the term "$2,650,000,000". SEC. 4. (a) Whenever during the existing emergency the Secretary pansion of production. of Agriculture finds it necessary to encourage the expansion of production of any non-basic agricultural commodity, he shall make public announcement thereof and he shall so use the funds made available under section 3 of this Act or otherwise made available to him for the disposal of agricultural commodities, through a commodity loan, purchase, or other operation, taking into account the total funds available for such purpose for all commodities, so as to support a price for the producers of any such commodity with respect to which such announcement was made of not less than 85 per centum of the parity or comparable price therefor. The comparable_price for any such commodity shall be determined and used by the Secretary for the purposes of this section if the production or consumption of such commodity has so changed in extent or character since the base period as to result in a price out of line with parity prices for basic commodities. Any such commodity loan, purchase, or other operation which is undertaken shall be continued until the Secretary has given sufficient public announcement to permit the producers of such commodity to make a readjustment in the production of the commodity. For the purposes of this section, commodities other than cotton, corn, wheat, tobacco, and rice shall be deemed to be nonbasic commodities. Term construed. Declaration of policy. (b) It is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress that the lending and purchase operations of the Department of Agriculture (other than those referred to in subsection (a)) shall be carried out so as to bring the price and income of the producers of non-basic commodities not covered by any such public announcement to a fair parity relationship with other commodities, to the extent that funds for such operations are available after taking into account the operations with respect to the basic commodities and the commodities listed in any such public announcement and the ability of producers to bring supplies into line with demand. Approved, July 1, 1941. Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, and for other purposes. July 1, 1941 [H. R. 5049] [Public Law 148] District of Columbia Appropriation Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to defray the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year Act, 1942. ending June 30, 1942, any revenue (not including the proportionate share of the United States in any revenue arising as the result of the expenditure of appropriations made for the fiscal year 1924 and prior fiscal years) now required by law to be credited to the District of Columbia and the United States in the same proportion that each contributed to the activity or source from whence such revenue was derived shall be credited wholly to the District of Columbia, and, in addition, $6,000,000 is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be advanced July 1, 1941, and all of the remainder out of the combined revenues of the District of Columbia, namely: GENERAL EXPENSES EXECUTIVE OFFICE For personal services, $95,140, plus so much as may be necessary to compensate the Engineer Commissioner at such rate in grade 8 of the professional and scientific service of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, as may be determined by the Board of Commissioners, and including $7,000 for examination of estimates of appropriations and for other purposes without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, or civil-service requirements: Provided, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations contained in this Act for the payment of personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the two civilian Commissioners, 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 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 compensation 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 grade: Provided further, That this restriction shall not apply (1) to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service; (2) to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act; (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; (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. Purchasing division: For personal services, $52,235. Post, p. 835. Provisos. Salary restriction. 42 Stat. 1488. 5 U. S. C. §§ 661-674. Post, p. 613. plicable in designated cases. Restriction not ap 42 Stat. 1490. Post, p. 835. Post, p. 835. Fire escapes. DEPARTMENT OF INSPECTIONS For personal services, $256,960, including two members of plumbing board at $150 each, and two members, board of examiners, steam engineers at $300 each, the inspector of boilers to serve without additional compensation. For completing the inspection of buildings, machinery, and equipment, including temporary personal services without reference to the civil service or classification laws, supplies, furniture, equipment, and other necessary expenses, $15,000. To carry out the provisions of section 10 of the Act of June 4, 1934, entitled "An Act to amend the Act entitled 'An Act to require the erection of fire escapes in certain buildings in the District of D. C. Code § 5-310. Columbia, and for other purposes', approved March 19, 1906, as amended" (48 Stat. 843), $25,000. Post, p. 835. Post, p. 835. Proviso. Post, p. 835. 52 Stat. 370; 53 Stat. 1108. OFFICE OF POUNDMASTER For personal services, including the salary of the poundmaster at $2,400 per annum, maintenance and operation of motor vehicles, and other necessary expenses, $12,420. PUBLIC CONVENIENCE STATIONS For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensation of necessary employees, $16,000. CARE OF THE DISTRICT BUILDINGS For personal services, including temporary labor, and service of cleaners as necessary at not to exceed 48 cents per hour, $254,004: Provided, That no other appropriation made in this Act shall be available for the employment of additional assistant engineers or watchmen for the care of the District buildings. For fuel, light and power, repairs, laundry, and miscellaneous supplies, $117,843. ASSESSOR'S OFFICE For personal services, $286,740. BOARD OF TAX APPEALS For personal services in accordance with title IX of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the District of Columbia Revenue Act of 1937, D. C. Code 47- and for other purposes", approved May 16, 1938, as amended by the Act of July 26, 1939, $14,040. 2401 to 47-2412. Post, p. 835. Post, p. 835. 42 Stat. 1488. COLLECTOR'S OFFICE For personal services, $49,885; for temporary clerk hire, $2,500; in all, $52,385. For purchase of cash register machines, $9,500, and adding machines, $728; in all, $10,228. AUDITOR'S OFFICE For personal services, $126,880, including $2,000 for continuing the 5 U. S. C. $$ 661-674. employment of a real-estate expert without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, or civil-service requirements. Post, p. 613. OFFICE OF CORPORATION COUNSEL Corporation counsel, including extra compensation as general counsel of the Public Utilities Commission, and other personal services, $121,625. ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL BOARD For personal services, streetcar and bus transportation, telephone service, not exceeding $1,000 for the purchase of samples, not exceeding $100 for witness fees, and not less than $10,000 for beverage tax stamps, and other necessary contingent and miscellaneous expenses, $45,560. CORONER'S OFFICE For personal services, including deputy coroners, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, $14,620. For the maintenance of a non-passenger-carrying motor wagon for the morgue, jurors' fees, witnesses' fees, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies and services, repairs to the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony and photographing unidentified bodies, $5,000. OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF WEIGHTS, MEASURES, AND MARKETS For personal services, $60,080. Weights, measures, and markets, expenses: For contingent expenses, and maintenance and repairs to markets, including not to exceed $1,000 for purchase of commodities and for personal services in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles, and not exceeding $750 for the purchase, including exchange, of one motor vehicle equipped for making investigations of sales of gasoline and oil by short measure, $9,175. OFFICE OF CHIEF CLERK, ENGINEER DEPARTMENT For personal services, $30,340. MUNICIPAL ARCHITECT'S OFFICE For personal services, $68,460, of which $2,600 shall be available without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, or civil-service requirements for the employment of one engineering examiner and computer. Apportionments of appropriations. Provisos. All apportionments of appropriations for the use of the municipal architect in payment of personal services employed on construction work provided for by said appropriations shall be based on an amount not exceeding 3 per centum of a total of not more than $2,000,000 of appropriations made for such construction projects and not exceeding 234 per centum of a total of the appropriations in excess of $2,000,000, and appropriations specifically made in this Act for the preparation of plans and specifications shall be deducted from any allowances authorized under this paragraph: Provided, That reimbursements may be made to this fund from appropriations contained in this Act for services rendered other activities of the District Government, without reference to fiscal-year limitations on such appropriations: Provided further, That employment of per- Employmen sonal services from this fund may be made during the fiscal year 1942 without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and civil-service requirements. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION For two commissioners, and for other personal services, $69,920. by law, including the purchase of newspapers, $1,500. of per 41 U. S. C. § 5. Meters in taxicabs; zones and rates. Post, p. 835. Post, p. 835. 52 Stat. 797. D. C. Code §§ 5-413 to 5-428. Post, p. 835. Post, p. 835. 41 Stat. 104. 5 U. S. C. § 794. 39 Stat. 742. 5 U.S. C. §§ 751-793. Post, p. 835. No part of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be used for or in connection with the preparation, issuance, publication, or enforcement of any regulation or order of the Public Utilities Commission requiring the installation of meters in taxicabs, or for or in connection with the licensing of any vehicle to be operated as a taxicab except for operation in accordance with such system of uniform zones and rates and regulations applicable thereto as shall have been prescribed by the Public Utilities Commission. DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE For personal services, $24,200. SURVEYOR'S OFFICE For personal services, including $12,700 for the employment of two temporary field parties, $93,520. MINIMUM WAGE BOARD For personal services, $15,280. ZONING COMMISSION For salaries and expenses necessary for the administration of the Act entitled "An Act providing for the zoning of the District of Columbia and the regulation of the location, height, bulk, and uses of buildings and other structures and of the uses of land in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved June 20, 1938, $12,420. COMMISSION ON MENTAL HEALTH For compensation of members of the Commission on Mental Health of the District of Columbia, and other personal services, $20,702: Provided, That the salary of the executive secretary shall be at the rate of $3,000 per annum and the salary of each physician-member shall be at the rate of $3,800 per annum. BOARD OF INDETERMINATE SENTENCE AND PAROLE For salaries and expenses, including not to exceed $300 for travel in attending parole conventions and conferences, $20,865. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION FUND For carrying out the provisions of section 11 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved July 11, 1919, extending to the employees of the government of the District of Columbia the provisions of the Act entitled "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, $55,000. Administrative expenses, compensation to injured employees in the District of Columbia: For the enforcement of the Act entitled "An Act to provide compensation for disability or death resulting from injury to employees in certain employments in the District of D.C. Code $$ 36-501, Columbia, and for other purposes", approved May 17, 1928 (45 Stat. 600), $83,800, for transfer to and expenditure by the Employees' Compensation Commission under its appropriations "Salaries and expenses", $83,300, and "Printing and binding", $500. 36-502. Transfer of funds. Retirement Act, contribution. For financing of the liability of the government of the District of Columbia, created by the Act entitled "An Act for the retirement |