THE WHITE HOUSE OFFICE Salaries: For personal services in the office of the President, including the Secretary to the President, two additional secretaries to the President and six administrative assistants to the President at $10,000 each; $224,860: Provided, That employees of the executive departments and other establishments of the executive branch of the Government may be detailed from time to time to the office of the President of the United States for such temporary assistance as may be deemed necessary. Contingent expenses: For contingent expenses of The White House Office, including stationery, record books, telegrams, telephones, books for library, furniture and carpets for offices, automobiles, expenses of garage, including labor, special services, and miscellaneous items to be expended in the discretion of the President, $50,000. For printing and binding, $2,700. Traveling expenses: For traveling and official entertainment expenses of the President of the United States, to be expended in his discretion and accounted for on his certificate solely, $30,000. Total, The White House Office proper, $307,560. EXECUTIVE MANSION AND GROUNDS For the care, maintenance, repair and alteration, refurnishing, improvement, heating and lighting, including electric power and fixtures of the Executive Mansion, the Executive Mansion greenhouses, including reconstruction, and the Executive Mansion grounds, and traveling expenses, to be expended as the President may determine, notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act, $150,670. BUREAU OF THE BUDGET Salaries and expenses: For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Bureau of the Budget, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, contract stenographic reporting services, traveling expenses, including expenses of attendance at meetings when necessary in furthering the work of the Bureau of the Budget, streetcar fares, lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals, and newspapers, purchase (not to exceed $750), maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles for official use, and not to exceed $50,000 for temporary employment of persons or organizations by contract or otherwise without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and including obligations chargeable against the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1941, $993,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation under this head for the fiscal year 1941. For printing and binding, $44,000. National defense activities: For all necessary expenses to enable the Bureau of the Budget during the fiscal year 1942 to continue to perform the functions or activities for the performance of which, during the fiscal year 1941, the Bureau of the Budget received an allocation of funds from the appropriation "Emergency fund for the President" contained in the Military Appropriation Act, 1941, including the objects for which and subject to the conditions under which such allocation was expended during the fiscal year 1941, $200,000. NATIONAL RESOURCES PLANNING BOARD Salaries and expenses: For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the National Resources Planning Board, to perform the functions transferred to said Board on July 1, 1939, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; contract stenographic reporting services; purchase of books of reference, and periodicals; expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with development, conservation, and use of the resources of the Nation; traveling expenses; payment of actual transportation expenses and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses of persons serving, while away from their homes without other compensation from the United States, in an advisory capacity to the Board; purchase of office equipment and supplies, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes when the amount Temporary employ involved in any case does not exceed $50, and not to exceed $50,000 for temporary employment of persons or organizations by contract or otherwise without regard to said section 3709, or classification laws, $701,390, of which not to exceed $40,000 shall be available for printing and binding: Provided, That no part of the funds appropriated under this item shall be used for the performance of any functions or duties other than the functions heretofore authorized by law to be performed by the Federal Employment Stabilization Board. 41 U. S. C. § 5. ment. Proviso. Restriction on use of funds. 54 Stat. 377, 297. Post, pp. 682, 813, 818. Expenditures. National defense activities: For all necessary expenses to enable the National Resources Planning Board during the fiscal year 1942 to continue to perform the functions or activities for the performance of which, during the fiscal year 1941, the National Resources Planning Board received allocations of funds from the appropriations "Emergency fund for the President" contained in the Military Appropriation Act, 1941, and in the Act making appropriations for the Navy Department for the fiscal year 1941, including the objects for which and subject to the conditions under which such allocations were expended during the fiscal year 1941, $400,000. Total, Executive Office of the President, $2,886,620. EMERGENCY FUNDS FOR THE PRESIDENT EMERGENCY FUND FOR THE PRESIDENT To enable the President, through appropriate agencies of the Government, to provide for emergencies affecting the national security and defense and for each and every purpose connected therewith, and to make all necessary expenditures incident thereto for any purpose for which the Congress has previously made appropriation or authorization and without regard to the provisions of law regulating the expenditure of Government funds or the employment of persons in the Government service, such as section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and the civil service and classification laws; and any waiver hereunder of the provisions of any law regulating such expenditure or such employment shall not be exercised by any agency unless the allocation to such agency or subsequent action of the President in connection therewith permits any such waiver to be Contract authoriza availed of; $100,000,000; and, in addition, the President is authorized, 41 U. S. C. § 5. tion. Proviso. Report to Congress. Incurred obliga tions. 54 Stat. 377. 54 Stat. 297. through such agencies, to enter into contracts during the fiscal year 1942 for the same purposes to an amount not exceeding $25,000,000: Provided, That an account shall be kept of all expenditures made or authorized hereunder, and a report thereon shall be submitted to the Congress on June 30, 1942. For the payment of obligations incurred under the contract authorization of $66,000,000 under this head in the Military Appropriation Act, 1941, $66,000,000. For the payment of obligations incurred under the contract authorization of $34,000,000 under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal Proviso. year ending June 30, 1941, $34,000,000: Provided, That the unobligated portion of said contract authorization is hereby continued in obligated balances. effect until June 30, 1942, and the unobligated balance of the appropriation under this head for the fiscal year 1941 is hereby continued available until June 30, 1942. INDEPENDENT ESTABLISHMENTS Post, p. 544. 42 Stat. 1509. Acquisition of land abroad. 46 Stat. 818. AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION For every expenditure requisite for or incident to the work of the American Battle Monuments Commission authorized by the Act of March 4, 1923 (36 U. S. C. 121–138), and by Executive Order Numbered 6614 of February 26, 1934, including the acquisition of land or interest in land in foreign countries for carrying out the purposes of said Act and Executive order without submission to the Attorney General of the United States under the provisions of section 355 of the Revised Statutes (34 U. S. C. 520; 40 U. S. C. 255); employment of personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; including not to exceed $3,000 for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (5 U. S. C. 118a); purchase and repair of uniforms for caretakers of national cemeteries and monuments in Europe at a cost not exceeding $500; travel expenses; rent of office and garage space in foreign countries which may be paid for in advance; the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles which may be furnished to the Commission by other departments of the Government or acquired by purchase; printing, binding, engraving, lithographing, photographing, and typewriting, including the publication of information concerning the American activities, battlefields, memorials, and cemeteries in Europe; transfer of household goods and effects as provided by the Act of October 10, 1940 (Public, Numbered 839), and regulations promulgated thereunder, and expenses of travel of dependents of employees when transferred from one official station to another by order of the Commission; the purchase of maps, textbooks, newspapers and periodicals, $134,250: Provided, That notwithstanding the requirements of existing laws or regulations, and nical personnel. under such terms and conditions as the Commission may in its discretion deem necessary and proper, the Commission may contract for work, supplies, materials, and equipment in Europe and engage, by contract or otherwise, the services of architects, firms of architects, and other technical and professional personnel: Provided further, That when traveling on business of the Commission, officers of the Army serving as members or as secretary of the Commission may be reimbursed for expenses as provided for civilian members of the Commission: And provided further, That the Commission may delegate to its chairman, secretary, or officials in charge of either its Washington or Paris offices, under such terms and conditions as it may prescribe, such of its authority as it may deem necessary and proper. BOARD OF TAX APPEALS Post, p. 544; 54 Stat. 1105. 5 U. S. C. § 73c-1. Provisos. Supplies and tech Travel expenses, Delegation of authority. Post, p. 830. Salaries and expenses. 43 Stat. 336; 44 Stat. Stat. 286. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Board of Tax Appeals as authorized under title IX, section 900, of the Revenue Act of 1924, approved June 2, 1924, as amended by 105; 45 Stat. 871; 47 title X of the Revenue Act of 1926, approved February 26, 1926, and title IV of the Revenue Act of 1928, approved May 29, 1928, and title IX of the Revenue Act of 1932, approved June 6, 1932, including personal services and contract stenographic reporting serv Salaries and ex penses. Post, pp. 544, 820. 54 Stat. 1105. ices, rent outside the District of Columbia, traveling expenses, carfare, stationery, furniture, office equipment, purchase and exchange of typewriters, lawbooks and books of reference, periodicals, and all other necessary supplies, $522,000. For all printing and binding for the Board of Tax Appeals, $32,000. Total, Board of Tax Appeals, $554,000. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION For three Commissioners and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including personal services required for examination of Presidential postmasters, and including not to exceed $2,500 for employment of expert examiners not in the Federal service on special subjects for which examiners within the service are not available, and for personal services in the field; for medical examinations; for necessary traveling expenses, including those of examiners acting under the direction of the Commission, and for expenses of examinations and investigations held elsewhere than at Washington, including not to exceed $5,000 for expenses incident to attendance at meetings concerned with problems of public officials, educational groups, Government employees as such, and other similar organizations, which are peculiar to the interests and business of the Commission, when specifically directed by the Commission; transfer of household goods and effects as provided by the Act of October 10, 1940 (Public, Numbered 839), and regulations promulgated thereunder; for furniture and other equipment and repairs thereto; rental of equipment; supplies; advertising; telegraph, telephone, and laundry service; freight and express charges; streetcar fares not to exceed $1,000; stationery; purchase and exchange of lawbooks, books of reference, directories, subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals, not to exceed $10,000; not to exceed $100 for payment in advance when authorized by the Commission for library membership in societies whose publications are available to members only or to members at a price lower than to the general public; charts; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motortrucks, motorcycles, and bicycles; garage rent; postage stamps to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries; special-delivery stamps; and other like miscellaneous necessary expenses not hereinbefore provided for, $4,975,000, of which not to exceed $175,000 shall be available for reimbursement of the Veterans' Administration for services rendered the Commission in connection with physical examinations of applicants for and the employees in the Federal classified service: Provided, That notwithstanding any provisions of law to the contrary, the Civil Service Commission is authorized to expend not to exceed $3,000 of this amount for actuarial services pertaining to the civil service, Canal Zone, and Alaska Railroad retirement and disability funds, to be obtained by contract, without obtaining competition, at such rates of compensation as the from de- Commission may determine to be reasonable: Provided further, That no details from any executive department or independent establishment in the District of Columbia or elsewhere to the Commission's central office in Washington or to any of its district offices shall be made during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, but this shall not affect the making of details for service as members of the boards of examiners outside the immediate offices of the district managers: Emergency trans- Provided further, That the Civil Service Commission shall have power in case of emergency to transfer or detail any of its employees Reimbursement of Veterans' Administration. Provisos. Actuarial services. Details partments, etc., restriction. fers, etc. Prevention of per- to or from its office or field force. nicious political ac tivities. Post, p. 544. Prevention of pernicious political activities: For all necessary expenditures of the Civil Service Commission in performing the 18 U. S. C. 61a, duties imposed upon it by the Act of July 19, 1940 (54 Stat. 767), 61, 61, 81-6it." including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; contract stenographic reporting services; advertising; streetcar fares (not to exceed $100); purchase and exchange of books of reference and periodicals (not to exceed $500); traveling expenses; transfer of household goods and effects as provided by the Act of October 10, 1940 (Public, Numbered 839), and regulations promulgated thereunder; witness fees and mileage, including fees to deponents and persons taking deposition, at rates paid in the courts of the United States; and printing and binding, $25,000. For all printing and binding for the Civil Service Commission, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington and elsewhere, $160,000. National defense activities: For all necessary expenses to enable the Civil Service Commission during the fiscal year 1942 to continue to perform the functions or activities for the performance of which, during the fiscal year 1941, the Civil Service Commission received allocations of funds from the appropriations "Emergency Fund for the President" contained in the Military Appropriation Act, 1941, and the Act making appropriations for the Navy Department for the fiscal year 1941, including the objects for which and subject to the conditions under which such allocations were expended during the fiscal year 1941, $3,000,000. CIVIL-SERVICE RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY FUND For financing of the liability of the United States, created by the Act entitled "An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes", approved May 22, 1920, and Acts amendatory thereof (38 U. S. C. 11), $100,911,562, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the "civil-service retirement and disability fund". CANAL ZONE RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY FUND For financing of the liability of the United States, created by the Act entitled "An Act for the retirement of employees of the Panama Canal and the Panama Railroad Company, on the Isthmus of Panama, who are citizens of the United States", approved March 2, 1931, and Acts amendatory thereof (48 U. S. C. 1371n), $1,177,000, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the "Canal Zone retirement and disability fund". ALASKA RAILROAD RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY FUND For financing of the liability of the United States created by the Act entitled "An Act for the retirement of employees of the Alaska Railroad, Territory of Alaska, who are citizens of the United States", approved June 29, 1936 (49 Stat. 2017), $175,000, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the "Alaska Railroad retirement and disability fund". Total, Civil Service Commission, $110,423,562. THE ALLEY DWELLING AUTHORITY 54 Stat. 1105. Printing and binding. Post, pp. 545, 820. National defense activities. Post, pp. 545, 820. 54 Stat. 377, 297, 41 Stat. 614. 46 Stat. 1471. 5 U. S. C., §§ 745745r. Reappropriation. 48 Stat. 931. The unexpended balance on June 30, 1941, of the "Conversion of inhabited alleys fund", established pursuant to the provisions of the District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Act, together with all accretions during the fiscal year 1942 to said fund under the provisions of said (a). Act and of the United States Housing Act of 1937 shall be available until June 30, 1942, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of said District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Act. 278941-42—PT. I——7 50 Stat. 899. 42 U. S. C. § 1428. |