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class or classes: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provisions of this Title, or of the Anti-Deficiency Act, the Works Progress Administrator is authorized, from time to time, out of funds appropriated in this sub-section, to use such amount or amounts not to exceed in the aggregate $25,000,000, as may be determined by the President to be necessary, for the purpose of providing direct relief for needy persons; such amounts may be used in the discretion and under the direction of the President and through such agency or agencies as he may designate;

(2) To the Works Progress Administration for the National Youth Administration, $75,000,000, together with the balances of allocations heretofore made or hereafter to be made to the Works Progress Administration for the National Youth Administration under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1937 and the joint resolution of March 2, 1938, which remain unobligated on June 30, 1938, and such sums shall be available to provide, subject to the approval of the President, on projects of the types specified under (1) (d) hereof for the Works Progress Administration, part-time work and training to needy young persons who are no longer in regular attendance at school and who have been unable to obtain employment, and to enable needy young persons to continue their education at schools, colleges, and universities;

(3) To the Secretary of Agriculture, $175,000,000, together with balances of allocations heretofore made or hereafter to be made to the Farm Security Administration under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1937 and the joint resolution of March 2, 1938, which remain unobligated on June 30, 1938, and such sums shall be available for administration, loans, relief, and rural rehabilitation for needy persons;

(4) To the Department of the Interior, Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration, $6,000,000 together with the balance of allocations heretofore made or hereafter to be made to such Administration under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1937 and the joint resolution of March 2, 1938, which remain unobligated on June 30, 1938, and such amounts shall be available for administration, loans, and rural rehabilitation for needy persons and for Federal and non-Federal projects of the type specified for the Works Progress Administration under limitations (1), (2), and (3) of (1) (d) hereof;

(5) To the following agencies for administrative expenses incident to carrying out the purposes of this title: (a) General Accounting Office, $4,180,000; (b) Treasury Department: Procurement Division, Branch of Supply, $5,500,000; Division of Disbursement, $3,500,000; Office of the Treasurer, $750,000; Secret Service Division, $300,000; Office of Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits and Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants, $8,000,000 for administrative accounting; total, Treasury Department, $18,050,000; and (c) Department of Commerce, Bureau of Air Commerce, $325,000;

(6) To the United States Employees' Compensation Commission for expenditure in accordance with the provisions of section 16 of this title, $3,500,000; and any allocations heretofore made or here

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after to be made to such Commission under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1937 or prior Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts shall not be rescinded or reallotted for any other purpose; (7) To the following agencies for administrative expenses: (a) National Emergency Council, $850,000; (b) National Resources Committee, $750,000; and (c) Department of Labor, United States Employment Service, $3,000,000; and

(8) To the Department of Justice, $1,250,000, for administrative expenses in carrying out the provisions of section 5 of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935;

Total of appropriations, title I, $1,712,905,000.

The funds made available by this title shall be used only for work relief or relief for persons in need except as otherwise specifically provided herein.

SEC. 2. [Funds appropriated to be apportioned over fiscal year 1929.]— The funds appropriated in this title to the Works Progress Administration shall be so apportioned and distributed over the period ending February 28, 1939, and shall be so administered during such period as to constitute the total amount that will be furnished to such Administration during such period for relief purposes, except that upon the happening of some extraordinary emergency or unusual circumstance, which could not be anticipated at the time of making such apportionment, the same may be waived or modified by the President, who shall fully set forth the reasons therefor at the time of any such action and communicate the same to Congress in connection with any estimates for additional appropriations to carry out the purposes of this title, but any such waiver or modification shall not have the effect of reducing the total period of apportionment of such funds as provided herein by more than one month; and the funds appropriated in this title to the Secretary of Agriculture, to the Works Progress Administration for the National Youth Administration, and to the other agencies, shall be so apportioned and distributed over the twelve months of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, and shall be so administered during such fiscal year as to constitute the total amounts that will be furnished to the Secretary of Agriculture, to the Works Progress Administration for the National Youth Administration, and to the other agencies during such fiscal year for the purposes of this title.

SEC. 3. [Allocation of funds to other departments.]-The Administrator of the Works Progress Administration is authorized to allocate to other Federal departments, establishments, and agencies, for the purpose of operating projects of the types specified for the Works Progress Administration under section 1 of this title, including administrative expenses of any such department, establishment, or agency incident to the operation of such projects, not to exceed $60,000,000 of the funds made available by such section of such Administration and to prescribe rules and regulations for the operation of such projects: Provided, That not to exceed 5 per centum of the total amount so allotted to any such department, establishment, or agency shall be expended for such administrative expenses.

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Security Administration within the Department of Agriculture, the National Emergency Council, and the National Resources Committee are hereby extended until June 30, 1939, to carry out the purposes of this title.

SEC. 5. No Federal construction project, except flood control and water conservation projects authorized under other law, shall be undertaken or prosecuted under the appropriations in this title unless and until there shall have been allocated and irrevocably set aside Federal funds sufficient for its completion; and no non-Federal project shall be undertaken or prosecuted under such appropriations 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.

SEC. 6. Federal agencies having supervision of projects prosecuted under the appropriations in this title are authorized to receive from sponsors of non-Federal projects contributions in services, materials or money, such money to be deposited with the Treasurer of the United States. Such contributions shall be expended or utilized as agreed upon between the sponsor and the Federal agency.

SEC. 7. In carrying out the purposes of this title, the heads of the departments, establishments, and agencies to which funds are appropiated herein are authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary.

SEC. 8. The appropriations in this title for administrative expenses and such portion of other appropriations in this title as are available for administrative expenses shall not be obligated for such administrative expenses in excess of the amounts which the department, establishment, or agency, with the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury as necessary for such purposes. The amounts so certified for administrative expenses shall be available for expenditure by such department, establishment, or agency concerned for personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere and for the objects set forth in subsection (a) of section 3 of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 and with the authority set forth in subsection (b) of such section of such Act: Provided, That not to exceed 5 per centum of the amount made available in section 1 of this title to the Works Progress Administration and to the Works Progress Administration for the National Youth Administration shall be used for administration.

SEC. 9. The rates of pay for persons engaged upon projects under the appropriations in this title shall be not less than the prevailing rates of pay for work of a similar nature in the same locality as determined by the Works Progress Administration: Provided, That if minimum rates of pay for persons employed by private employers in any occupation are established by or pursuant to the authority conferred by any Labor Standards Act enacted at the third session of the Seventy-fifth Congress, not less than the minimum rates of pay so established shall be paid to persons in similar occupations in the same locality employed on projects under the appropriation in subsection one of section one of this title.

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SEC. 10. [Eligibility of applicants for employment.]-In the employment of persons on projects under the appropriations in this title, applicants in actual need whose names have not heretofore been placed on relief rolls shall be given the same eligibility for employment as applicants whose names have heretofore appeared on such rolls: Provided, That in order to insure the fulfillment of the purposes for which such appropriations are made and to avoid competition between the Works Progress Administration and other Federal or non-Federal agencies in the employment of labor on construction projects of any nature whatsoever, financed in whole or in part by the Federal Government, no relief worker shall be eligible for employment on any project of the Works Progress Administration who has refused to accept employment on any other Federal or nonFederal project at a wage rate comparable with or higher than the wage rate established for similar work on projects of the Works Progress Administration: Provided further, That any relief worker who has been engaged on any Federal or non-Federal project and whose service has been regularly terminated through no fault of his own shall not lose his eligibility for restoration to the relief rolls or for reemployment on any other Federal or non-Federal project on account of such previous employment: Provided further, That the fact that a person is entitled to or has received either adjusted-service bonds or a Treasury check in payment of an adjusted-compensation certificate shall not be considered in determining actual need of such employment: Provided further, That every relief worker employed on any Federal or non-Federal Works Progress Administration project shall be required, as a condition to his continued employment, to file quarterly a statement as to the amount of his earnings, if any, from outside employment while he was assigned to such a project, and the statements so filed shall be taken into consideration in assigning such workers to employment on such projects and in continuing them in such employment. Farmers in need and who need employment to supplement their farm income but who are not on relief rolls shall have the same eligibility for employment on projects in rural areas as persons on such rolls. SEC. 11. [Employment of aliens-Preference to needy veterans, American citizens, Indians, and aliens who have declared their intention to become American citizens.]-No alien illegally within the limits of the United States, and no alien who has not, prior to the date of enactment of this joint resolution, filed a declaration of intention to become an American citizen which is valid and has not expired, shall knowingly be given employment or continued in employment on any project prosecuted under the appropriations in this title: Provided, That preference in employment on such projects shall be given in the following order: (1) Veterans of the World War and the Spanish-American War and veterans of any campaign or expedition in which the United States has been engaged (as determined on the basis of the laws administered by the Veterans' Administration) who are in need and are American citizens; (2) other American citizens, Indians and other persons owing allegiance to the United States who are in need; and (3) those aliens in need whose declarations of intention to become

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SEC. 12. No person employed on work projects under the appropriations in this title and in need 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 such appropriations and who is capable of performing such work, shall be retained in employment for the period such private employment would be available: Provided, That any person who takes such private employment shall at the expiration thereof be entitled to immediate resumption of his previous employment status if he is still in need and if he has lost the private employment through no fault of his own.

SEC. 13. Appointments to Federal positions of an administrative or advisory capacity under the appropriations in this title in any State shall be made from among the bona fide citizens of that State so far as not inconsistent with efficient administration.

So far as not inconsistent with efficient administration no part of the appropriations in this title shall be available to pay the compensation of any officer or employee of the United States who holds an administrative, executive, or supervisory position under this joint resolution, if the position is in any office located outside the District of Columbia or is on any project prosecuted in any place outside the District of Columbia, unless such person is an actual and bona fide citizen of the State, Territory, region, or district in which the office or project is situated, but this provision shall not apply to the temporary and emergency assignment of any person to a position where the period of service in such position does not exceed sixty days.

SEC. 14. No part of any appropriation in this title shall be used to pay the salary or expenses of any person in a supervisory or administrative position who is a candidate for any State, district, county, or municipal office (such office requiring full time of such person and to which office a salary or per diem attachés), in any primary, general or special election, or who is serving as a campaign manager or assistant thereto for any such cadidate.

SEC. 15. Hereafter, so far as not inconsistent with efficient administration, all appointments of persons to the Federal Service for employment within the District of Columbia, under the provisions of this joint resolution, whether such appointments be within the classified civil service or otherwise, shall be apportioned among the several States and the District of Columbia upon the basis of population as ascertained at the last preceding census.

In making separations from the Federal Service, or furloughs without pay to last as long as three months, of persons employed within the District of Columbia, under the provisions of this joint resolution the appointing power shall give preference, as nearly as good administration will warrant, in retention to appointees from States that have not received their share of appointments according to population: Provided, however, That soldiers, sailors, and marines, the widows of such, or the wives of injured soldiers, sailors, and marines, who themselves are not qualified, but whose wives are quali