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Proviso.

50 Stat. 876.

53 Stat. 754.

Boulder Canyon project.

54 Stat. 436.

Reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant Lands situated in the State of Oregon", approved August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 874), fiscal year 1941, $20,000: Provided, That such expenditures shall be reimbursed from the 25 per centum referred to in section c, title II of the Act approved August 28, 1937, of the special fund designated the "Oregon and California Land Grant Fund" and section 4 of the Act approved May 24, 1939, of the special fund designated the "Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant Fund".

BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS

Payment to Cherokee Indians: For payment to the Cherokee Indian Nation or Tribe, as authorized by the Act of November 27, 1940 (54 Stat. 1218), entitled "An Act for the relief of the Cherokee Indian Nation or Tribe, and for other purposes", $2,185.72, with interest at 5 per centum from June 30, 1919, to the date of this Act.

Purchase and transportation of Indian supplies: For additional amounts for expenses of purchase and transportation of goods and supplies for the Indian Service for the following fiscal years: For 1937, $674.69;

For 1940, $120,000.

BUREAU OF RECLAMATION

COLORADO RIVER DAM FUND

Boulder Canyon project: For an additional amount for the construction of the Boulder Dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Black Canyon, including the same objects specified under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1941, $1,000,000, to remain available until advanced to Boulder Dam power the Colorado River Dam fund; and the limitation of $500,000 under

plant.
54 Stat. 437.

Grand Coulee Dam.

54 Stat. 438.

Helium plants and investigations. 54 Stat. 443. Post, p. 553.

this head in such Act on the amount available from power and other revenues for the operation and maintenance of the Boulder Dam, power plant, and other facilities is hereby increased to $750,000.

GENERAL FUND, CONSTRUCTION

Grand Coulee Dam project, Washington: For an additional amount for construction of the Grand Coulee Dam and appurtenant works, including the same objects specified under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1941, $7,500,000, to remain available until expended and to be reimbursed under the reclamation law.

BUREAU OF MINES

Helium plants and investigations: To enable the Secretary of the Interior to increase and improve the production capacity of the helium plant located at Amarillo, Texas, by the construction and equipment of buildings or additions to existing buildings, the drilling of wells and construction of pipe lines, and other appurtenant facilities, and to conduct investigations with respect to available resources of helium-bearing gas, and for all necessary expenses incident to the foregoing, including the employment by contract or otherwise, at such rates of compensation as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, of engineers, architects, or firms or corporations thereof that are necessary to design and construct the buildings, structures, and equipment; supplies and equipment; travel expenses; purchases in the District of Columbia and elsewhere of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding and computing machines, accessories and repairs; and including the purchase, not to exceed $5,250, and exchange as part payment for, operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger-carrying automobiles for official use in field

work, and not to exceed $7,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, fiscal year 1941, $175,000, to remain available until June 30, 1942.

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

Emergency reconstruction and fighting forest fires in national parks: For an additional amount for reconstruction and fighting forest fires in national parks, fiscal year 1941, including the same objects specified under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1941, $110,000.

GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIES

Construction of Palmer-Richardson Road, Alaska: For commencement of construction of a road and necessary bridges between Palmer and the Richardson Highway, Alaska (within a limit of total cost of $1,500,000), and all necessary expenses incident thereto, $1,000,000, to remain available until expended.

Insane of Alaska: For an additional amount for care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in Alaska, fiscal year 1940, including the same objects specified under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1940, $157.58.

Defraying deficits in treasuries of municipal governments, Virgin Islands: For an additional amount for defraying the deficits in the treasuries of the municipal governments because of excess of current expenses over current revenues for the fiscal year 1941 as follows: Municipality of Saint Thomas and Saint John, $29,933.78, to be used for the refund of income taxes in the amount of $25,140.31 erroneously collected by said municipality, together with interest thereon; municipality of Saint Croix, $28,500, to be paid to the treasury of said municipality in monthly installments; in all, $58,433.78.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Contingent expenses: For an additional amount for contingent expenses, Department of Justice, fiscal year 1937, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1937, $104.05.

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Salaries and expenses, detection and prosecution of crimes (emergency) For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, fiscal year 1941, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1941, $975,000. Claim for damages: For the payment of claims for damages to any person or damages to or loss of privately owned property caused by employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, acting within the scope of their employment, considered, adjusted, and determined by the Attorney General, under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the adjustment and settlement of certain claims arising out of the activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation", approved March 20, 1936 (5 U. S. C. 300b), as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 103, Seventy-seventh Congress, $169.50.

IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE

Salaries, Office of Commissioner (departmental salaries): For an additional amount for personal services in the District of Columbia, fiscal year 1941, $200,000.

54 Stat. 449.

Alaska.
Post, p. 827.

53 Stat. 734.

Virgin Islands.

49 Stat. 1322.

Detection and pros

ecution of crimes (emergency).

54 Stat. 200.

49 Stat. 1184.

Departmental sal

Field service.

54 Stat. 576.

Alien registration. 54 Stat. 645.

Transfer of funds.
Post, p. 555.

Post, p. 556.

Transfer of funds.

Post, p. 202.

Post, p. 556

42 Stat. 1066.

34 U. S. C. § 599.

Proviso.

54 Stat. 73.

Salaries, field service: For an additional amount for salaries, field service, fiscal year 1941, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1941, $200,000.

Salaries and expenses, Immigration and Naturalization Service (alien registration): For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, Immigration and Naturalization Service (alien registration), fiscal year 1941, including the same objects specified under this head in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1940, $2,900,000. The sum of $105,000 of the unobligated balance of the appropriation "General Expenses, Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1941" is hereby transferred and made available for the purposes of the appropriations to which transferred, as follows: The sum of $35,000 to "Traveling Expenses, Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1941"; the sum of $20,000 to "Contingent Expenses, Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1941"; and the sum of $50,000 to "Printing and Binding, Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1941".

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION

Salaries: Not to exceed $29,000 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", and not to exceed $5,000 of the appropriation "Salaries, Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor, 1941", may be transferred to the appropriation "Contingent Expenses, Department of Labor, 1941".

NAVY DEPARTMENT

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

Claims for damages by collision with naval vessels: To pay claims for damages adjusted and determined by the Secretary of the Navy under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to settle claims for damages to private property arising from collisions with naval vessels", approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 24, and House Document Numbered 104, Seventy-seventh Congress, $1,133.57.

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT

(OUT OF THE POSTAL REVENUES)

OFFICE OF CHIEF INSPECTOR

Salaries of inspectors: For an additional amount for salaries of inspectors, fiscal year 1941, $9,000: Provided, That the number of inspectors that may be employed is hereby increased from six hundred to six hundred and twenty for the remainder of the fiscal year 1941.

OFFICE OF FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL

Unusual conditions: For an additional amount for unusual conditions at post offices, fiscal year 1941, $50,000.

Miscellaneous items, first- and second-class post offices: For an additional amount for miscellaneous items, first- and second-class post offices, fiscal year 1941, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1941, $250,000.

OFFICE OF SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL

Railway Mail Service, traveling expenses: For an additional amount for Railway Mail Service, traveling expenses, fiscal year 1941, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1941, $7,500.

Domestic air mail: For an additional amount for the inland transportation of mail by aircraft, fiscal year 1940, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1940, $285,000.

OFFICE OF THIRD ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL

Unpaid money orders more than one year old: For an additional amount for payment of domestic money orders after one year from the last day of the month of issue of such orders, fiscal year 1941, $60,000.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

Contingent expenses (departmental): For an additional amount for contingent expenses (departmental), fiscal year 1941, including the same objects specified under this head in the State Department Appropriation Act, 1941, $37,500, of which amount there may be expended not to exceed $10,000 for the purchase of typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including rental, exchange, and repair thereof.

FOREIGN INTERCOURSE

54 Stat. 74.

Post, p. 560.

53 Stat. 677.

Post, p. 202.

54 Stat. 182.

Services during ex

isting emergency.

54 Stat. 2643.
50 U. S. C., app.,

prec. § 1 note.

Salaries, Ambassadors and Ministers: During the period of the existing state of emergency proclaimed by the President on September 8, 1939, any Ambassador or Minister whose salary as such is payable from the appropriation "Salaries, Ambassadors and Ministers" and who prior to appointment as Ambassador or Minister was legally appointed and served as a diplomatic or consular officer of career or as a Foreign Service officer, and who on account of emergent conditions abroad is unable properly to serve the United States at his regular post of duty, or on account of such emergent conditions abroad it shall be or has been found necessary in the public interest to terminate his appointment as Ambassador or Minister at such post, may be appointed or assigned to serve in any capacity in which a Foreign Service officer is authorized by law to serve, and, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the payment from such appropriation for the fiscal years 1941 and 1942 of the salary of such officer, while serving under such assignment, is hereby authorized: Provided, That no person, while serving under such emergency appointment or assignment, shall receive compen- pensation. sation in excess of $9,000 per annum while serving in continental United States or in excess of $10,000 per annum while serving elsewhere.

The appropriation for "Salaries of Ambassadors and Ministers" contained in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1941, shall be available for the salary of an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Uruguay at the rate of $17,500 per annum.

Transportation, Foreign Service: For an additional amount for transportation, Foreign Service, fiscal year 1941, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1941, $330,000.

Proviso.
Limitation on com-

Ambassador to Uruguay. 54 Stat. 183.

54 Stat. 183,

54 Stat. 184.

54 Stat. 185.

Post, p. 202.

54 Stat. 185.

International Joint Commission, U. S. and Great Britain.

54 Stat. 190.

Mixed Claims Commission, U. S. and Germany.

49 Stat. 1631.

Eighth Pan American Child Congress.

Salaries of clerks, Foreign Service: For an additional amount for salaries of clerks, Foreign Service, fiscal year 1941, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1941, $94,000.

Miscellaneous salaries and allowances, Foreign Service: For an additional amount for miscellaneous salaries and allowances, Foreign Service, fiscal year 1941, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1941, $18,000.

Contingent expenses, Foreign Service: For an additional amount for contingent expenses, Foreign Service, fiscal year 1941, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1941, $650,000.

INTERNATIONAL COMMISSIONS, CONFERENCES, CONGRESSES, AND SO FORTH International Joint Commission, United States and Great Britain: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, fiscal year 1941, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1941, $2,000.

Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany: For completing the work of the Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany, fiscal year 1941, including the same objects specified under this head in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936, $9,500.

Eighth Pan American Child Congress: For the expenses of organizing and holding the Eighth Pan American Child Congress in the United States in 1941, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, without regard to classification laws; stenographic reporting, translating, and other services by contract if deemed necessary, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5); communication service; rent; travel expenses; local transportation; transportation of things; purchase of necessary books, documents, newspapers, and periodicals; stationery; equipment; official cards; printing and binding; costs of assembling, installing, packing, transporting, safekeeping, demonstrating, and renovating a suitable exhibit, by contract, if deemed necessary, without regard to said section 3709, and the purchase of supplies incident thereto; entertainment and other expenses which may be actually and necessarily incurred by the Government of the United States in the observance of appropriate courtesies to foreign participants; and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State, including the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of the Availability of un- purposes herein specified, fiscal years 1941 and 1942, $9,000: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation "Eighth Pan American Child Congress, San Jose, Costa Rica" made in the Urgent Deficiency and Supplemental Appropriation Act, fiscal years 1939 and 1940, approved June 30, 1939, and continued available for the same purposes in the "Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1940", approved June 27, 1940, is hereby made available for the purposes enumerated herein, and continued available until June 30,

Proviso.

expended funds.

53 Stat. 987.

54 Stat. 651.

Post, p. 562.

54 Stat. 652.

1942.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

Foreign-owned property control: For an additional amount for "Salaries and Expenses, Foreign-owned Property Control", fiscal year 1941, including the same objects specified under this head in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1940, $550,000.

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