cordance with ices and rent at the seat of Government and elsewhere, for law books, books of reference, and periodicals) as may be necessary for the administration of this Act, and as may be provided for by the Congress from time to time. Salaries in ac- The compensation of the director and such experts and Classification Act. clerical and other assistants shall be fixed in accordance Vol. 42, p. 1488; Vol. 45, p. 776; with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended. The sess. P. 1003; C. director and his staff may be domiciled in and attached S. C. Supp. IV, to one of the executive departments. There is hereby May be at authorized to be appropriated annually such sum as may tached to a de- be necessary for the expenses of the board. Public laws, 2d p. 25. partment. Permanent annual appropriations authorized. Basis of action. Questions to be considered. · Construction ntracts. Data furnished by Department o Labor. Index of employment. Public works emergency appro priation. President to transmit recom for, whenever bus exists. BASIS OF ACTION OF BOARD SEC. 4. (a) In advising the President the board shall take into consideration the volume, based upon value, of contracts awarded for construction work in the United States, or in any substantial portion thereof, during any three-month period in comparison with the corresponding three-month period of three previous calendar years. (b) The board may also take into consideration the index of employment prepared by the Department of Labor, and any other information concerning employment furnished the Department of Labor or by any other public or private agency, and any other facts which it may consider pertinent. PUBLIC WORKS EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION SEC. 5. Whenever, upon recommendation of the board, mendations of the President finds that there exists, or that within the board to Congress six months next following there is likely to exist, in the iness depression United States or any substantial portion thereof, a period of business depression and unemployment, he is requested to transmit to the Congress by special message, at such time and from time to time thereafter, such supplemental estimates as he deems advisable for To be expended emergency appropriations, to be expended during such period upon authorized construction in order to aid in preventing unemployment and permit the Government to avail itself of the opportunity for speedy, efficient, and economical construction during any such period. Estimates to Except as provided in this Act, such supplemental estimates shall conform to the provisions of the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921. on authorized construction, etc. conform to Budg et. Uses specified. Federal highways. WORKS ON WHICH APPROPRIATION USED SEC. 6. Such emergency appropriations are authorized and shall be expended only (a) For carrying out the provisions of the Federal Highway Act, as now or hereafter amended and supplemented; River and harimprove (b) For the preservation and maintenance of existing bor river and harbor works, and for the prosecution of such ments. projects heretofore and hereafter authorized as may be most desirable in the interest of commerce and navigation; (c) For prosecuting flood-control projects heretofore or hereafter authorized; and (d) For carrying into effect the provisions of the Public Buildings Act, approved May 25, 1926, as now or hereafter amended and supplemented, in respect of public buildings within and without the District of Columbia. (e) For prosecuting such other construction as may now or hereafter be authorized by the Congress, and which is or may be included in the six-year advance plans, as hereinafter provided. ACCELERATION OF EMERGENCY CONSTRUCTION Flood control. Public building projects. Vol. 45, p. 919. Other authorized construction. Emergency construction. Acceleration stimulated to pre ment, etc. SEC. 7. For the purpose of aiding in the prevention of unemployment during periods of business depression and vent unemploy of permitting the Government to avail itself of opportunity for speedy, efficient, and economical construction during such periods the President may direct the construction agencies to accelerate during such periods, to such extent as is deemed practicable, the prosecution of all authorized construction within their control. ADVANCE PLANNING Advance planning. Purposes of, declared. For stabilizing industry and em SEC. 8. (a) It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to arrange the construction of public works so far as practicable in such manner as will assist in the ployment. stabilization of industry and employment through the proper timing of such construction, and that to further this object there shall be advance planning, including preparation of detailed construction plans, of public works by the construction agencies and the board. Preparation of plans. Six year advance plan and estimates by each construcmade. tion agency to be (b) Each head of a department or independent establishment having jurisdiction over one or more construction agencies shall direct each such construction agency to prepare a six-year advance plan with estimates showing projects allotted to each year. Such estimates shall show separately the estimated cost of land, the cluded. estimated cost of new construction, and the estimated annual cost of operation and of repairs and alterations. (c) Each construction agency shall also prepare a program for prompt commencement and carrying out of an expanded program at any time. This program shall include organization plans. It shall also include the plans for the acquisition of sites and the preparation of advance detailed construction plans for not less than one year in advance, except where in the judgment of the board this would not be practicable. Details to be in Emergency program to be prepared. Organization plans. Acquisition of sites, advance construction, etc. Plans, etc.. to be submitted. and Revision extension of plans. (d) Such programs, plans, and estimates for the sixyear period shall be submitted to the board and to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget. The Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall report to the President from time to time consolidated plans and estimates. (e) Each construction agency shall keep its six-year plan up-to-date by an annual revision of the plans and estimates for the unexpired years and by annually extending the plan and estimates for an additional year. (f) The President is requested each year, before recommending the amount of construction appropriations for Volume of work the next fiscal year to take into consideration the volume of construction in the United States, the state of employment, and the activity of general business. Recommendations of the Presi. dent. to be considered. Information as to advance plans to etc. (g) The board shall collect information concerning be collected, advance construction plans and estimates by States, municipalities, and other public and private agencies which may indicate the probable volume of construction within the United States or which may aid the construction agencies in formulating their advance plans. February 1931. [H. R. 8290.] 13, Public, No. 626.] Vol. 45. p. 1095. Mohican River. and its tributar Examination of, ies, to be made for flood control. Approved, February 10, 1931. CHAP. 128.-An Act To authorize and direct a preliminary examination of the Mohican River Ditch from Lake Fork, Ohio, south a distance of eight miles. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause a preliminary examination to be made of the Mohican River and its tributaries, especially the Mohican River Ditch south of Lake Fork, Ohio, a distance of eight miles, with a view to control the floods in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for control of the floods of the Mississippi River, and of the Sacramento River, Fund available. California, and for other purposes," approved March 1, 1917, the cost thereof to be paid from appropriations heretofore or hereafter made for examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors. Vol. 39, p. 950. February 1931. [H. R. 12014.] 14. Approved, February 13, 1931. CHAP. 165.-An Act To permit payments for the operation of motor cycles and automobiles used for necessary travel on official business, on a mileage basis in lieu of actual operating expenses. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That a civilian officer or employee engaged in necessary travel on official business away from his designated post Rates allowed of duty may be paid, in lieu of actual expenses of transmotor portation, under regulations to be prescribed by the President, not to exceed 3 cents per mile for the use of for, by automo- his own motor cycle or 7 cents per mile for the use of his own automobile for such transportation, whenever such mode of travel has been previously authorized and payment on such mileage basis is more economical and advantageous to the United States. This Act shall take effect July 1, 1931, and all laws or parts of laws are hereby modified or repealed to the extent same may be in conflict herewith. Approved, February 14, 1931. CHAP. 277.-An Act Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and for other purposes. [Public No. 716.] Vol. 46, pp.1217, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 1218, 1219, 1233, of the United States of America in Congress assembled, TITLE I-TREASURY DEPARTMENT 1235. De partment appro priations, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any Treasury year, 1932. Supply Division. DIVISION OF SUPPLY pairs. Repairs to typewriting machines (except bookkeeping Typewriter reand billing machines) in the Government service in the District of Columbia may be made at cost by the General Supply Committee, payment therefor to be effected by transfer and counterwarrant, charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation "Salaries and expenses, General Supply Committee." Typewriting Prices of stand No part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used during the fiscal year 1932 for machines, etc. the purchase of any standard typewriting machines, except bookkeeping and billing 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, ard machines es$75; fourteen inches, $77.50; sixteen inches, $82.50; tablished for 1932. 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, $87.50; twelve inches, $90.54; Proviso. Purchases to be from stock Committee. of fourteen inches, $93.34; eighteen inches, $96.26: Provided, That standard typewriting machines distinctively quiet in operation purchased during such fiscal year by any such department, establishment, or municipal government shall only be purchased on the written order of the head thereof. All purchases of typewriting machines during the fiscal year 1932 by executive departments and independent establishments for use in the District of Columbia or in the field, except as hereinafter provided, shall be made from the surplus machines in the stock of the General Supply Committee. If the General Supply Committee is unable to furnish serviceable machines to any such service of the Government, it shall furnish Unserviceable unserviceable machines, if available, at current exchange prices, and such machines shall then be applied by the service of the Government receiving them as part payment for new machines from commercial sources in accordance with the prices fixed in the preceding paragraph. And in selling typewriting machines to the various services the General Supply Committee may accept an equal number of unserviceable machines as part payment thereon at the exchange prices quoted in the current general schedule of supplies. machines allowed for exchange. Acceptance part payment. in Joint telephone * switchboard con PUBLIC BUILDINGS, OPERATING EXPENSES * *. Provided further, That the Secretary of the tracts authorized. Treasury is authorized to contract for telephone service in public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department by means of telephone switchboards or equivalent telephone-switching equipment jointly serving in each case two or more Government activities where he finds that joint service is economical and in the interest of the Government, and to secure reimbursement for the cost of such joint service from available appropriations for telephone expenses of the bureaus. and offices receiving the same. February 23, 1931 [H. R. 15593.] [Public, No. 718.] Vol. 46, pp. 1277, 1302, 1305, 1306. ment appropria CHAP. 279.-An Act Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, War Depart: That the following sums are appropriated, out of any tions, fiscal year money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and for other purposes, namely: 1932. |