44 Stat. 688. Special services. ardized Government Travel Regulations and the Act of June 3, 1926, as amended (5 U. S. C. 821-833); printing and binding; law books, books of reference, and not to exceed $250 for periodicals and newspapers; contract stenographic reporting services; procurement of supplíes, equipment, and services; purchase (at not to exceed $750 each), exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes; typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange; rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; payment of actual transportation expenses and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses of persons serving, while away from their homes, without other compensation from the United States, in an advisory capacity to the Corporation; employment on a contract or fee basis of persons, firms, and corporations for the performance of special services, including legal services; use of the services and facilities of Federal land banks, national farm loan associations, Federal Reserve banks, and agencies of the Government as authorized by said Act of January 31, 1934; and all other necessary administrative expenses: Provided, That all necessary expenses (including services performed on a force account, contract or fee basis, but not including other personal services) in connection with the operation, maintenance, improvement, or disposition of real or personal property of the Corporation shall be considered as nonPayment of admin administrative expenses for the purposes hereof: Provided further, That except for the limitations in amounts hereinbefore specified, and the restrictions in respect to travel expenses, the administrative expenses and other obligations of the Corporation shall be incurred, allowed, and paid in accordance with the provisions of said Act of January 31, 1934, as amended (12 U. S. C. 1016-1020 (h)). Provi808. Nonadministrative expenses. istrative expenses, etc. Administrative pro motions. Short title. June 25, 1940 [8. 3018] [Public, No. 659] Act of 1934, amendment. SEC. 2. The total amount used on an annual basis for administrative within-grade promotions for officers and employees under any appropriation or other fund made available in this Act shall not exceed the amount determined by the Bureau of the Budget to be available for such purpose on the basis of the Budget estimate for such appropriation or fund exclusive of new money in any such Budget estimate for such administrative promotions. This Act may be cited as the "Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1941". Approved, June 25, 1940. [CHAPTER 422] AN ACT To amend section 210 of the Communications Act of 1934, approved June 19, 1934 (48 Stat. 1073; 47 U. S. C. 210), so as to permit communication utilities to contribute free services to the national defense. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Communications United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 210 of the Communications Act of 1934, approved June 19, 1934 (48 Stat. 1073; 47 U. S. C. 210), is hereby amended by inserting after the words "SEC. 210" the letter "(a)" and by adding at the end of the section the following subsection: Common carriers. national defense. "(b) Nothing in this Act or in any other provision of law shall be ernment agencies for construed to prohibit common carriers from rendering to any agency of the Government free service in connection with the preparation for the national defense: Provided, That such free service may be Rules and regula rendered only in accordance with such rules and regulations as the Commission may prescribe therefor.”. Proviso. tions. Approved, June 25, 1940. [CHAPTER 423] AN ACT To amend section 301 (a) of the Sugar Act of 1937. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (a) of section 301 of the Sugar Act of 1937 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "The Secretary is authorized to make payments, notwithstanding a failure to comply with the conditions provided in this subsection, but the payments made with respect to any crop shall be subject to a deduction of $10 for each child for each day, or a portion of a day, during which such child was employed or permitted to work contrary to the foregoing provisions of this subsection, in the 1937, 1938, and 1939 crops.". Approved, June 25, 1940. [CHAPTER 424] AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to grant to the Road Department of the State of Florida an easement for a road right-of-way over the Coast Guard Reservation at Flagler Beach, Florida. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to grant to the Road Department of the State of Florida an easement to construct and maintain a highway across such of the lands constituting a part of the Coast Guard Reservation at Flagler Beach, Florida, as the Secretary may designate. Such easement shall be granted subject to such reasonable conditions as the Secretary may deem desirable to be included therein for the purpose of enabling the United States to use the reservation in such manner as the Government's interests may require. Approved, June 25, 1940. [CHAPTER 425] AN ACT To allow moving expenses to employees in the Railway Mail Service. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter officers and regular clerks in the Railway Mail Service, when arbitrarily transferred under orders of the Department from one official station to another for permanent duty, and who actually have to change their residence, may be allowed their actual and necessary transportation expenses for moving their household goods, including packing and drayage, not in excess of three thousand five hundred pounds. Approved, June 25, 1940. [CHAPTER 426] AN ACT For the protection against unlawful use of the badge, medal, emblem, or other insignia of veterans' organizations incorporated by Act of Congress, and providing penalties for the violation thereof. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the manufacture, sale or purchase for resale, either separately or appended to, or to be appended to, or the reproduction on any article of merchandise manufactured or sold, of the badge, medal, emblem, or other Penalty. June 25, 1940 [H. R. 9958] [Public, No. 664] system. insignia or any colorable imitation thereof, or the reproduction thereof for commercial purposes, of any veterans' organization incorporated by Act of Congress, or the printing, lithographing, engraving or other like reproduction on any poster, circular, periodical, magazine, newspaper, or other publication, or the circulation or distribution of any such printed matter bearing a reproduction of such badge, medal, emblem, or other insignia or any colorable imitation thereof, of any such veterans' organization, is prohibited except when authorized under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by such organization so incorporated. Any person who knowingly offends against any provision of this Act shall on conviction be punished by a fine not exceeding $250 or by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Approved, June 25, 1940. [CHAPTER 427] AN ACT To authorize the purchase by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation of stock of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the National banking United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 304 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide relief in the existing national emergency in banking, and for other purposes", approved March 9, 1933, as amended (U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 12, sec. 51d; Supp. V, title 12, sec. 51d), is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: Purchase by R.F.C. of U. S. owned Fed stock. "The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is authorized to pureral home-loan bank chase at par any part of the stock of any Federal home-loan bank owned by the United States, as evidenced by certificates, receipts, or otherwise, in amounts to be determined by the Corporation, with the approval of the Federal Loan Administrator; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized on behalf of the United States to sell Conditions under such stock to the Corporation. Any such stock so purchased by the Corporation shall be held subject to the same conditions, requirements, rights, and privileges (including all dividend and retirement provisions) as are provided by law for or in connection with the ownership of such stock by the United States.". which held. Reconstruction Fi nance Corporation SEC. 2. Section 2 of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, as amended (U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 15, sec. 602), is hereby 13 U.S. C., Supp. V, amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraphs: Act, amendments. 47 Stat. 15 $602. Partial retirement of capital stock, etc. Increase of outstand ized. "The Corporation is authorized to make payments from time to time to the Secretary of the Treasury in amounts to be determined by the Corporation, with the approval of the Federal Loan Administrator, for the partial retirement of its capital stock at par and in ing obligations author payment of dividends from earnings. The aggregate amount of notes, debentures, bonds, or other such obligations which the Corporation is authorized to issue and have outstanding at any one time under the provisions of law in force on the date this paragraph takes effect shall not be decreased by reason of any retirement of capital stock under this paragraph, and such aggregate amount is hereby increased by an amount sufficient to carry out the provisions 12 U.S. C., Supp. V, of this paragraph and of the second paragraph of section 304 of the Act of March 9, 1933, as amended. 51d. Supra. Retirement of cap ital stock; dividends. "The Corporation, on or before June 30, 1941, may retire its Purchase of stock of capital stock and pay dividends under the preceding paragraph of this section, and may purchase stock of the Federal home-loan banks Federal home-loan banks. under section 304 of the Act of March 9, 1933, as amended, in an aggregate amount of not to exceed $300,000,000 to be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury; but the Corporation, with the approval of the Federal Loan Administrator, shall determine that portion of such aggregate amount which may be used for the retirement of the capital stock of the Corporation, the payment of dividends, and the purchase of such stock of the Federal home-loan banks.". Apportionment. Reconstruction Fi nance Corporation 47 Stat. 7; 49 Stat. 3. SEC. 3. (a) The third paragraph of section 5 of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, as amended (U. S. C., 1934 edi- Act, amendment. tion, title 15, sec. 605; Supp. V, title 15, sec. 605), is hereby amended by striking out "$350,000,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "$500,000,000". (b) The first sentence of section 3 of the Act entitled "An Act to extend the functions of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for two years, and for other purposes", approved January 31, 1935, as amended (U. S. C., 1934 edition, Supp. V, title 15, sec. 605m), is hereby amended by striking out "January 31, 1945" and inserting in lieu thereof "January 31, 1955". SEC. 4. Section 3 of the Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation Act (U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 12, sec. 1020b) is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentences: "The Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation is authorized to repay on or before June 30, 1941, to the Secretary of the Treasury on behalf of the United States, all amounts in excess of $100,000,000 theretofore subscribed to the capital stock of the corporation. The proceeds of such repayment shall be held in the Treasury of the United States as a fund available for subscription, by the Governor on behalf of the United States with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, to the capital of the corporation when, in the judgment of the directors of the corporation, additional subscriptions to its capital are necessary." 7.". 49 Stat. 2. Federal Farm Mort. gage Corporation Act, amendment. 48 Stat. 345. 1020b. Repayment of ex cess capital stock subscriptions. Use of proceeds. Reconstruction Fi nance Corporation SEC. 5. Section 5d of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, as amended (U. S. C., 1934 edition, Supp. V, title 15, sec. 606b), Act, amendment. is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraphs: "In order to aid the Government of the United States in its national-defense program, the Corporation is authorized "(1) To make loans to, or, when requested by the Federal Loan Administrator with the approval of the President, purchase the capital stock of, any corporation (a) for the purpose of producing, acquiring, and carrying strategic and critical materials as defined by the President, and (b) for plant construction, expansion and equipment, and working capital, to be used by the corporation in the manufacture of equipment and supplies necessary to the national defense, on such terms and conditions and with such maturities as the Corporation may determine; and 52 Stat. 212. National-defense program. Loans; capital stock purchases. Strategic, etc., ma test Plant construction, etc., for manufacture of equipment and sup plies. Creation of corpora tons, powers. Strategic, etc., ma terials. Plants for manufacture of arms, etc. "(2) When requested by the Federal Loan Administrator, with the approval of the President, to create or to organize a corporation or corporations, with power (a) to produce, acquire, and carry strategic and critical materials as defined by the President, (b) to purchase and lease land, to purchase, lease, build, and expand plants, and to purchase and produce equipment, supplies, and machinery, for the manufacture of arms, ammunition, and implements of war, (c) to lease such plants to private corporations to engage in such manufacture, and (d) if the President finds that it is necessary for a Government agency to engage in such manufacture, to engage in such manufacture itself. The Corporation may make loans to, or purchase the capital stock of, any such corporation for any purpose conditions. Lease of plants. Manufacture by Government agency. Loans; capital stock purchases; terms and Strategic, etc., materials. vance of delivery. within the powers of the corporation as above set forth related to the national-defense program, on such terms and conditions as the Corporation may determine. "Any corporation created or organized by the Corporation under Payments in ad the preceding paragraph is also authorized, with the approval of the President, to make payments against the purchase price to be paid for strategic and critical materials in advance of the delivery of such materials. Whenever practicable, the Corporation may require the payments so made to be used for purchases of raw or manufactured agricultural commodities to be exported from the United States.". Use of payments. 50 Stat. 5; 53 Stat. 510. 15 U. S. C., Supp. V. § 613c. R.F.C.Act, amend ments. 47 Stat. 6. 47 Stat. 10. SEC. 6. That (a) section 1 of the Act approved January 26, 1937 (U. S. C., 1934 edition, Supp. IV, title 15, sec. 613c), as amended, is hereby amended by striking out "June 30, 1941" and inserting in lieu thereof "January 22, 1947"; (b) the first sentence of section 4 of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act (U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 15, sec. 604), as amended, and the first sentence of section 14 of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act (U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 15, sec. 614), as amended, are hereby amended by striking out the word "ten" and inserting in lieu thereof the word "fifteen"; (c) the second paragraph of section 5d of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act (U. S. C., 1934 edition, Supp. 15 U.S. C., Supp. V, IV, title 15, sec. 606b), as amended, is hereby amended by striking out "June 30, 1939" wherever it appears therein and inserting in lieu thereof "January 22, 1947”. 52 Stat. 212. § 606b. Contingent ex penses. 648, 1043. Approved, June 25, 1940. [CHAPTER 428] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Department of Labor, the Federal Security Agency, and related independent agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, 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 Department of Labor, the Federal Security Agency, and related independent agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, namely: TITLE I-DEPARTMENT OF LABOR OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Salaries: Secretary of Labor, Assistant Secretary, Second Assistant Secretary, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $374,000. Salaries: Office of the Solicitor, $90,000. Contingent expenses: For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of Post, pp. 646, 647, the offices and bureaus of the Department, for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specifically made, including the purchase of stationery, furniture, and repairs to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloths, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, laundry, not exceeding $1,400 for streetcar fares; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motorcycles and motortrucks; maintenance, operation, and repair of three motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; commercial and labor-reporting services; newspaper clippings not to exceed $1,400, postage to foreign countries, telegraph |