I. APPROPRIATIONS MADE DURING THE SECOND SESSION OF THE SEVENTYSEVENTH CONGRESS CONSISTING OF REGULAR ANNUAL, SUPPLEMENTAL, DEFICIENCY, AND MISCELLANEOUS (pp. 5-736). II.—PERMANENT AND INDEFINITE ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS (pp. 737–758). III. RECAPITULATION OF APPROPRIATIONS (pp. 759-763). IV. V. CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF REGULAR, SUPPLEMENTAL, AND DEFI- REFERENCES TO INDEFINITE APPROPRIATIONS (pp. 766-769). VI. AMOUNT OF CONTRACTS AUTHORIZED BY APPROPRIATION OR OTHER ACTS IN ADDITION TO APPROPRIATIONS MADE THEREIN (pp. 770-771). VII. AUTHORIZATIONS FOR APPROPRIATIONS (pp. 772-778). VIII. COMPARISON OF BUDGET ESTIMATES AND APPROPRIATIONS (pp. 779-864). SEVENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION, JANUARY 5, 1942 PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE COMMITTEES ON APPROPRIATIONS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AS REQUIRED BY LAW. (U. S. CODE, TITLE 2, SECTION 105) 653875 COMPILERS' NOTE The previous volumes of this work for each session of Congress from the Fiftieth to the Sixty-seventh, inclusive, covering the fiscal years 1889 to 1924, inclusive, have contained tabulations in accordance with law, showing offices created and omitted. and offices the salaries of which have been increased or reduced. Such tabulations have been eliminated from this publication, under the authority contained in the Legislative Appropriation Act approved June 7, 1924, and reading as follows: "In lieu of the data relating to offices created and omitted and salaries increased and reduced, the statement shall hereafter contain such additional information concerning estimates and appropriations as the committees may deem necessary." The Classification Act of 1923, as amended, providing a method for classification of positions in the District of Columbia, salary schedules and ratings for such positions, and provision for administrative promotions, effective on July 1, 1924, makes impossible the compilation of accurate and useful statements of the character above referred to. This volume, pursuant to the above-quoted authority, contains detailed statements showing each item of appropriation made during the session and each Budget estimate submitted by the President and the increase or decrease in the Budget estimate compared with the appropriation in each instance. This compilation contains laws affecting or making appropriations which were enacted during the second session of the Seventy-seventh Congress, with the exception of private relief acts containing appropriations. Such private acts have been omitted from this compilation but a summary thereof containing the number of the act, the beneficiaries, and the amount appropriated is included. This compilation has been closed as of October 31, 1942, and includes public laws of the session to and including 768 and private laws to and including 515. 2 1 Resigned from the Committee on July 23, 1942, and resigned from the House effective as of August 1, 1942. 2 Resigned as a Member of the House on September 5, 1942. 3 I. APPROPRIATIONS MADE DURING THE SECOND SESSION OF THE SEVENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS, CONSISTING OF REGULAR ANNUAL, SUPPLEMENTAL, DEFICIENCY, AND MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATION ACT, 1943 [PUBLIC LAW 674-77TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 516-2D SESSION] [H. R. 6709] By the Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, and for other purposes, approved July 22, 1942 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 Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, namely: DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY SALARIES For the Secretary, Under Secretary, and Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, and for other personal services in the Office of the Secretary in the District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $618,509, together with such amounts from other appropriations or authorizations as are provided in the schedules in the Budget for the fiscal year 1943 for such services, which several amounts or portions thereof, as may be determined by the Secretary, not exceeding a total of $1,000,488, shall be transferred to and made a part of this appropriation; and there may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia in said Office of the Secretary not to exceed the total amount provided in the Budget schedules for such purpose under this appropriation: Provided, however, That if the total amounts of such appropriations or authorizations for the fiscal year 1943 shall at any time exceed or fall below the amounts estimated, respectively, therefor in the Budget for 1943, the amounts transferred or to be transferred therefrom to this appropriation and the amount which may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia shall be increased or decreased in such amounts as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, after a hearing thereon with representatives of the Department, shall determine are appropriate to the requirements as changed by such reductions or increases in such appropriations or authorizations: Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to contract for stenographic reporting services, and the appropriations made in this Act shall be 5 |