ing. packing, and crating of personal effects of employees upon change of station for permanent duty not to exceed five thousand pounds Printing and bind in any one case); printing and binding; communication services; equipment, materials and supplies, including purchase of ice, rubber boots, and waders for official use of employees, and such other miscellaneous expenses as the Secretary of State may deem necessary: Rio Grande rectification project: For completion of the rectification of the Rio Grande in the El Paso-Juarez Valley under the convention concluded February 1, 1933, between the United States Funds continued and Mexico, the funds made available under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1940, are continued available in an amount not to exceed $60,000 until June 30, 1941. Rio Grande rectification project. 48 Stat. 1621. available. 53 Stat. 894. Lower Rio Grande flood-control project. Balances reappropriated. Lower Rio Grande flood-control project: For the United States portion of the project for flood control on the Lower Rio Grande, as authorized by the Act approved August 19, 1935, as amended (49 Stat. 660, 1370), $950,000, together with the unexpended balances of the appropriations for this purpose for the fiscal year 1940: Approval of title to Provided, That no part of this appropriation for the Lower Rio Grande flood-control project shall be expended for construction on any land, site, or easement until title thereto has been conveyed to the United States by donation and the same has been approved by the Attorney General of the United States. Proviso. acquired land, etc. Rio Grande canalization project. Balances priated. 53 Stat. 894. Rio Grande canalization project: For the Rio Grande canalization project as authorized by the Acts approved August 29, 1935 (49 reappro- Stat. 961), and June 4, 1936 (49 Stat. 1463), $500,000, together with the unexpended balances of the appropriations under this head for the fiscal year 1940. INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY COMMISSION, UNITED STATES AND CANADA To enable the President to perform the obligations of the United States under the treaty between the United States and Great Britain in respect of Canada, signed February 24, 1925; for salaries and expenses, including the salary of the Commissioner and salaries of the necessary engineers, clerks, and other employees for duty at the seat of government and in the field; cost of office equipment and supplies; necessary traveling expenses; commutation of subsistence to employees while on field duty, not to exceed $4 per day each, but not to exceed $1.75 per day each when a member of a field party and subsisting in camp; for payment for timber necessarily cut in keeping the boundary line clear, not to exceed $500; and for all other necessary and reasonable expenses incurred by the United States in maintaining an effective demarcation of the international boundary line between the United States and Canada, and Alaska and Canada under the terms of the treaty aforesaid, including the completion of such remaining work as may be required under the award of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal and existing treaties between the United States and Great Britain, and including the hire of freight- and passenger-carrying vehicles from temporary field employees, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, $43,000. WATERWAYS TREATY, UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN: INTERNATIONAL Salaries and expenses: For salaries and expenses, including salaries of clerks and other employees appointed by the Commissioners on the part of the United States, with the approval solely of the Secretary of State; for necessary traveling expenses, and for expenses incident to holding hearings and conferences at such places in Canada Joint expenses. and the United States as shall be determined by the Commission or by the American Commissioners to be necessary, including traveling expense and compensation of necessary witnesses, making necessary transcript of testimony and proceedings; for cost of lawbooks, books of reference and periodicals, office equipment and supplies; and for one-half of all reasonable and necessary joint expenses of the International Joint Commission incurred under the terms of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain concerning the use of boundary waters between the United States and Canada, and for other purposes, signed January 11, 1909; $19,500, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State: Provided, That the Commissioners on the part of the United States shall serve in that Commissioners. capacity without additional compensation: Provided further, That traveling expenses of the American Commissioners, secretary, and necessary employees shall be allowed in accordance with the provisions of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, as amended (5 U.S. C. 821-833). Special and technical investigations: For an additional amount for necessary special or technical investigations in connection with matters which fall within the scope of the jurisdiction of the International Joint Commission, including personal services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, traveling expenses, procurement of technical and scientific equipment, and the purchase, exchange, hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horsedrawn passenger-carrying vehicles, $48,500, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, who is authorized to transfer to any department or independent establishment of the Government, with the consent of the head thereof, any part of this amount for direct expenditure by such department or establishment for the purposes of this appropriation. INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES COMMISSION 36 Stat. 2448. Provisos. Compensation of Traveling expenses. 44 Stat. 688. Special and techn cal investigations. Personal services. Transfer of funds. Salaries and expenses. 50 Stat. 1351. Salaries and expenses: For the share of the United States of the expenses of the International Fisheries Commission, under the convention between the United States and Canada, concluded January 29, 1937, including salaries of two members and other employees of the Commission, traveling expenses, charter of vessels, purchase of books, periodicals, furniture, and scientific instruments, contingent expenses, rent in the District of Columbia, and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the Secretary of State may deem proper, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, $28,000, to be available immediately: Provided, That not to exceed $750 shall be expended by the Commissioners in attending meetings of ings. the Commission. INTERNATIONAL PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES COMMISSION Salaries and expenses: For the share of the United States of the expenses of the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission, under the convention between the United States and Canada, concluded May 26, 1930, including personal services; traveling expenses; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passengercarrying vehicles; charter of vessels; purchase of books, periodicals, furniture, and scientific instruments; contingent expenses; rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the Secretary of State may deem proper, including the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of the purposes herein specified, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $35,000, to be available immediately. Rent. Proviso. Attendance at meet Salaries and ex penses. Post, pp. 651, 1044. 53 Stat. V, §§ 249, 2498. ing. Post, p. 1109. ings. Vehicles. COOPERATION WITH THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS Salaries and expenses: For all expenses necessary to enable the Secretary of State to carry out the purposes of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the President to render closer and more effective the relationship between the American Republics", approved 23.9.20, Supp. August 9, 1939, and to supplement appropriations available for carrying out other provisions of law authorizing related activities, including personal services in the District of Columbia; not to exceed $45,000 for printing and binding; stenographic reporting, translating, and other services by contract, without regard to section 3709 of the Attendance at meet- Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5); expenses of attendance at meetings or conventions of societies and associations concerned with the furtherance of the purposes hereof; hire, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; and purchase of books of reference and periodicals, $120,500; and the Secretary of State is hereby authorized, subject to the approval of the President, to transfer to other departments, agencies, and independent establishments of the Government for expenditure in the United States and in the other American Republics not exceeding the following amounts, respectively: Civil Aeronautics Authority, $2,500; Department of Commerce, for the Coast and Geodetic Survey, $15,000; Federal Security Agency for the Public Health Service, including not to exceed two additional regular active commissioned officers, $25,000, and the Office of Education, $10,000; Department of the Interior, for the Office of the Secretary, $18,000, and the Bureau of Fisheries, $10,000. Transfer of funds. Minor purchases, etc. Post, p. 1109. Rent; restriction. Inspectors, etc., of buildings. Couriers. Short title. Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1941. Salaries. Section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5) shall not apply to any purchase by or service rendered for the Department of State when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $100, or with respect to articles, materials, or supplies for use outside the United States, $300; or when the purchase or service relates to the packing of personal and household effects of Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Service officers and clerks for foreign shipment. Unless expressly authorized, no portion of the sums appropriated in this title shall be expended for rent or rental allowances in the District of Columbia or elsewhere in the United States. The President, in his discretion, may assign officers of the Army or Navy or officers or employees of the Treasury Department or Federal Works Agency for duty as inspectors of buildings owned or occupied by the United States in foreign countries, or as inspectors or supervisors of buildings under construction or repair by or for the United States in foreign countries, under the jurisdiction of the Department of State, or for duty as couriers of the Department of State, and when so assigned they may receive the same traveling expenses as are authorized for officers of the Foreign Service, payable from the applicable appropriations of the Department of State. This title may be cited as the "Department of State Appropriation Act, 1941". TITLE II-DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Salaries: Secretary of Commerce, Under Secretary of Commerce, Assistant Secretary, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including the Chief Clerk and Superintendent, who shall be chief executive officer of the Department and who may be designated by the Secretary of Commerce to sign minor routine official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary, the Under Secretary, and the Assistant Secretary of the Department, $384,500. CONTINGENT EXPENSES, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Contingent expenses: For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureaus of the Department, except the Patent Office and the Bureau of the Census, including those for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are specifically made, including professional and scientific books, lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals, blank books, pamphlets, maps, newspapers (not exceeding $1,500); purchase of atlases or maps; stationery; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges; fuel, lighting and heating; purchase and exchange of motortrucks and bicycles; purchase, including exchange, of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle for the use of the Secretary of Commerce ($1,800); maintenance, repair, and operation of three motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (one for the Secretary of Commerce and two for the general use of the Department), and motortrucks and bicycles, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; postage to foreign countries; telegraph and telephone service; teletype service and tolls (not to exceed $1,000), typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange; first-aid outfits for use in the buildings occupied by employees of this Department; $77,500, which sum shall constitute the appropriation for contingent expenses of the Department, except the Patent Office and the Bureau of the Census, and shall also be available for the purchase of necessary supplies and equipment for field services of bureaus and offices of the Department for which contingent and miscellaneous appropriations are specifically made in order to facilitate the purchase through the central purchasing office (Division of Purchases and Sales) as provided by law. Traveling expenses: For all necessary traveling expenses under the Department of Commerce, including all bureaus and divisions thereunder except the Bureau of the Census, and including the examination of estimates of appropriations in the field, $238,000: Provided, That not exceeding $2,500 of this appropriation shall be available for the hire of automobiles for travel on official business, without regard to the provisions of the Act of July 16, 1914 (38 Stat. 508). Contingent and miscellaneous expenses. Vehicles. Traveling expenses. Proviso. Hire of automobiles. 5 U. S. C. § 78. Printing and bind Proviso. Printing and binding: For all printing and binding for the Depart- ing ment of Commerce, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, except the Patent Office and the Bureau of the Census, $328,000: Provided, That an amount not to exceed $2,000 of this appropriation may be expended tors. for salaries of persons detailed from the Government Printing Office for service as copy editors. BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE Detail of copy edi Salaries and expenses. Post, p. 64C. Departmental salaries and expenses: For the salary of the Director and other personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $1,325,000), and for all other authorized and necessary expenditures of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce at the seat of Government in performing the duties imposed by law or in pursuance of law, including functions incident to the establishment, operation, and maintenance of foreign trade zones in ports of entry of the United States and administration of the China Trade Act; newspapers (not exceeding $1,500), periodicals, and books of reference; purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriters and labor-saving devices; contract stenographic reporting services; fees and mileage of witnesses, and other contingent expenses in the District of Columbia, $1,360,000: Provided, That expenses, except printing and binding and traveling expenses, of field studies or surveys conducted by depart- surveys. 193470°-41-PT. I -13 China Trade Act, administration. 42 Stat. 849. 15 U. S. C. §§ 141 162, Supp: V; 142 160. Proviso. Field office service. mental personnel of the Bureau shall be payable from the amount herein appropriated. Field office service: For salaries (not to exceed $397,000) and all other expenses necessary to operate and maintain regional, district, and cooperative branch offices for the collection and dissemination of information useful in the development and improvement of commerce throughout the United States and its possessions, including foreign and domestic newspapers (not exceeding $300), periodicals and books Transportation of of reference, and packing, crating, and transporting personal household effects of employees (not exceeding 5,000 pounds in any one case) when transferred from one official station to another for permanent duty, $422,000. household effects. Customs statistics. 42 Stat. 1109. Attendance at meet ings. Expenses of the Six teenth Census. Ante, p. 87. 46 Stat. 21. V, §§ 106, 107. Monographs. Customs statistics: For all expenses necessary for the operation of the section of customs statistics transferred to the Department of Commerce from the Treasury Department by the Act approved January 5, 1923 (15 U. S. C. 194), and expenses connected with the monthly publication of statistics showing the United States exports and imports by customs districts and destinations, including personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $75,000) and elsewhere; rent of or purchase of tabulating, punching, sorting, and other mechanical labor-saving machinery or devices, including adding, typewriting, billing, computing, mimeographic, multigraphing, photostat, and other duplicating machines and devices, including their exchange and repair; telegraph and telephone service; freight, express, drayage; tabulating cards, stationery, and miscellaneous office supplies; books of reference and periodicals; furniture and equipment; ice, water, heat, light, and power; streetcar fare; and all other necessary incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, $381,000. The appropriation in this title for traveling expenses shall be available in an amount not to exceed $7,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the promotion of foreign and domestic commerce, or either, and also expenses of illustrating the work of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce by showing of maps, charts, and graphs at such meetings, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS For continuing the work of taking, compiling, and publishing the Sixteenth Census of the United States, as authorized by the Act of June 18, 1929 (13 U. S. C. 201-218), and the national census of 13 U. S. C., Supp. housing as authorized by the Act of August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1406), and for carrying on other authorized census work, including personal services and rentals in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; the cost of transcribing State, municipal, and other records; contracts for the preparation of monographs on census subjects and other work of specialized character which cannot be accomplished through ordinary employment; per diem compensation of employees of the Department of Commerce and other departments and independent establishments of the Government who may be detailed for field work; expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the collection of statistics, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce; purchase of books of reference, periodicals, maps, newspapers, manuscripts, first-aid outfits for use in the buildings occupied by employees of the census; maintenance, operation, and repair of a passenger-carrying automobile to be used on official busietc., ness; construction, purchase, exchange, or rental of punching, tabulating, sorting, and other labor-saving machines, including technical, mechanical, and other services in conection therewith; printing and Tabulating, machines. |