SEC. 15. That personal property as defined in the Act of May 29, 1935 (49 Stat. 311), belonging to the Corps and declared surplus by the Director, shall be disposed of by the Procurement Division, Treasury Department, in accordance with the provisions of said Act: Provided, That unserviceable property in the custody of any department shall be disposed of under the regulations of that Department. Disposal of surplus property. 49 Stat. 311. Proviso. Unserviceable property. Adjustment, etc.. of claims SEC. 16. The Director and, under his supervision, the heads of cooperating departments and agencies are arising out of authorized to consider, ascertain, adjust, determine, and Corps operations. pay from the funds appropriated by Congress to carry out the provisions of this Act any claim arising out of operations authorized by the Act accruing after the effective date thereof on account of damage to or loss of property or on account of personal injury to persons not provided for by section 10 of this Act, caused by the negligence of any enrollee or employee of the Corps while acting within the scope of his employment: Provided, That the amount allowed on account of personal injury shall be limited to necessary medical and hospital expenses: Provided further, That this section shall not apply to any claim on account of personal injury for which a remedy is provided by section 10 of this Act: Provided further, That no claim shall be considered hereunder which is in excess of $500, or which is not presented in writing within one year from the date of accrual thereof: Provided further, That acceptance by any claim Provisos. Personal injury allowance. Exception. Restriction. Acceptance ment. ant of the amount allowed on account of his claim shall deemed full settlebe deemed to be in full settlement thereof, and the action of the Director or of the head of a cooperating department or agency upon such claim so accepted by the claimant shall be conclusive. Appropriations Post, p. 470. SEC. 17. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro- authorized. priated, such sums as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying out the purposes of this Act: Provided, That no part of any such appropriation shall be used in any changes. way to pay any expense in connection with the conduct, operation, or management of any camp exchange, save and except such camp exchanges as are established and operated, in accordance with regulations to be prescribed by the Director, at such camps as may be designated by him, for real assistance and convenience to enrollees in supplying them and their supervising personnel on duty at any such camp with articles of ordinary use and consumption not furnished by the Government: Provided further, That the person in charge of any such ance. camp exchange shall certify, monthly, that during the preceding calendar month such exchange was operated in compliance therewith. SEC 18. This Act, except as otherwise provided, shall take effect July 1, 1937. Approved, June 28, 1937. 159602-40-vol. 3-56 ex. Monthly certificate of compli Effective date. CHAP. 396.-An Act Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, namely: Federal Emer- FEDERAL EMERGENCY ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC WORKS gency Administration of Public Works. expenses. 44 Stat. 688. 5. U. S. C. $$821-833. Not to exceed $10,000,000 of the amount of $300,000,000 made available, upon the direction of the Administrative President, to the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works by Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936 shall be available during the fiscal year 1938 for administrative expenses in connection with the liquidation of said Administration, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; travel expenses, in accordance with the Standardized Government Travel Regulations and the Act of June 3, 1926, as amended (U. S. C., title 5, secs. 821-833); printing and binding; law books, books of reference, and not to exceed $500 for periodicals, newspapers, and press clippings; procurement of supplies, equipment, and services; maintenance, repair, and operation of motorpropelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes; typewriters, adding machines, and Labor-saving other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange; not to exceed $1,000 for expenses of attendance, when specifically authorized by the Administrator, at meetings concerned with the work of the Administration; rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and all other necessary administrative expenses: Provided, ministrative, etc., That except for the limitations in amounts herein before specified, and the restrictions in respect to travel expenses, the administrative expenses and other obligations of the Administration shall be incurred, allowed, and paid in accordance with the provisions of Title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act. devices. Proviso. expenses. 48 Stat. 200. Short title. SEC. 4. This Act may be cited as the "Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1938". Approved, June 28, 1937. June 29, 1937 [H. J. Res. 361] [Pub. Res. No. 47] Vol. 50, p. 352. Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1937. CHAP. 401.-Joint Resolution making appropriations for relief purposes. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, TITLE I relief and work Balances reappropriated. 49 Stat. 1608. Ante, p. 10. 49 Stat. 115. Provisos. That in order to continue to provide relief, and work Continuation of relief on useful public projects, in the United States and relief, appropriaits Territories and possessions (including projects hereto- tion for. fore approved for the Works Progress Administration which projects shall not be subject to the limitations hereinafter specified in this section), there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury_not otherwise appropriated, to remain available until June 30, 1938, and to be used in the discretion and under the direction of the President, $1,500,000,000 together with such unexpended balances, as the President may determine, of appropriations made by (a) the second paragraph of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936, as supplemented by the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, and (b) section 1 of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, including the unexpended balances of appropriations referred to therein: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the following classes of public projects, Federal and non- ects; amounts. Federal, and the amounts to be used for each class shall not, except as hereinafter provided, exceed the respective amounts stated, namely: (a) Highways, roads, and streets, $415,000,000; (b) public buildings, parks and other recreational facilities, including buildings therein, public utilities, electric transmission and distribution lines or systems to serve persons in rural areas including projects sponsored by and for the benefit of nonprofit and cooperative associations, sewer systems, water supply and purification, airports and other transportation facilities, flood control, conservation, eradication of insect pests, and miscellaneous work projects, $630,000,000; (c) assistance for educational, professional, and self-help, and clerical persons and women's projects, $380,000,000; and (d) National Youth Administration, $75,000,000: Provided further, That no portion of the funds hereby appropriated shall be allocated or used for any purpose except to provide relief or work relief for persons in need: Provided further, That not to exceed 5 per centum of the amount allotted or used by any department or agency may be expended for administration of such relief or work relief; except that this provision shall not apply to allocations made to the General Accounting Office, the Department of Justice, the Treasury Department, the Employees' Compensation Commission, the United States Employment Service of the Department of Labor, the Bureau of Air Commerce of the Department of Commerce, the National Emergency Council, the Resettlement Administration or to the Prison Industries Reorganization Administration, for administrative expenses in performing functions for or on behalf of the relief or work Use restricted. Amount for administration. Exceptions. increases Proportionate, relief program: Provided further, That the amount mitted; use of bal specified for any of the foregoing classes may be increased ences. 49 Stat. 608. per Interchange of funds. unless sum for cated. projects. proportionately in accordance with the amount of such unexpended balances as the President transfers for the purposes of this section from the appropriations made by 115, (a) the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 and (b) the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936, as supplemented: Provided further, That the amount specified for any of the foregoing classes may be increased by not to exceed 15 per centum thereof by transfer of an amount or amounts from any other class or classes in order to effectuate the purposes of the foregoing approWork forbidden priation: Provided, That no Federal construction project completion allo- shall be undertaken or prosecuted under this appropriation unless and until there shall have been allocated and irrevocably set aside Federal funds sufficient for its Non-Federal completion; and no non-Federal project shall be undertaken or prosecuted under this appropriation unless and until the sponsor has made a written agreement to finance such part of the entire cost thereof as is not to be supplied from Federal funds. This appropriation Expenditure for shall be available for expenditure by the Resettlement Administration for such loans, relief, and rural rehabilitation for needy persons as the President may determine, including such cost of administration as the President Refusal of pri- may direct: Provided, That no person employed on work projects and certified as in need of relief who refuses a bona-fide offer of private employment under reasonable working conditions which pays as much or more in compensation for the same length of service as such person receives or could receive under this appropriation and who is capable of performing such work, shall be retained in employment under this appropriation for the period of such private employment would be available: Provided private employ further, That any person who takes such private employment shall at the expiration thereof be entitled to immediate resumption of his previous employment status under this appropriation if he is still in need of relief and if he has lost the private employment through no fault of his own. loans, relief, etc. vate employment offer. Expiration ment. Apportionment and distribution to cover total amount for year. Rules and regulations. Provisos. Prevailing rates of pay. The funds herein appropriated shall be so apportioned and distributed over the twelve months of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, and shall be so administered during such fiscal year, as to constitute the total amount that will be furnished during such fiscal year for relief purposes. SEC. 2. In carrying out the purposes of the foregoing appropriation the President is authorized (a) to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary and to utilize agencies within the Government and to empower such agencies to prescribe rules and regulations to carry out the functions delegated thereto by the President: Provided, That the rates of pay for persons engaged upon projects under the foregoing appropriation shall be not less than the prevailing rates of pay for work of a similar Voluntary and uncompensated Employing needy not hereto Restriction employment. nature in the same locality as determined by the Works on Restoration to rolls where sepa ration not due to fault of enrollee, etc. Adjusted compensation not con sidered in deteremployment. mining need of illegally entered, restric SEC. 3. The departments, agencies, or establishments Employment of having supervision of projects for which funds from the etc., aliens on foregoing appropriation are made available shall not projects, tion. knowingly employ on such projects aliens illegally within the limits of the United States or aliens who have not filed declaration of intention to become citizens, and they shall make every reasonable effort consistent with prompt employment of the destitute unemployed to see that such aliens are not employed, and if employed and their status as such alien is disclosed they shall thereupon be discharged: Provided, That preference shall be given to American citizens who are in need of relief in employment given citizens, etc. by the Works Progress Administration and next those aliens who are in need of relief and who have declared their intention to become citizens prior to the enactment of this joint resolution: Provided further, That veterans Provisos. World War and erans. of the World War and Spanish War who are in need of Spanish War vetrelief shall be given preference for employment by the Works Progress Administration. |