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BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE

A net increase of $170,294 includes increases of $8,385 in the item "Salaries of the Bureau in the District of Columbia", $44,930 for promoting foreign commerce, $19,080 for district and cooperative offices, a gross increase of $25,510 for domestic commerce involving a decrease of $3,000 for purposes provided for in the item for contingent expenses of the Department, $28,310 for customs statistics, $9,500 for lists of foreign buyers, $8,815 for compiling foreign trade statistics, and $28,810 for the new item "Foreign Trade Zones" pursuant to the act of June 18, 1934.

BUREAU OF THE CENSUS

A net decrease of $746,185 includes (1) a net increase. of $200,565 in the item "Salaries and expenses", embracing gross increases of $195,565 for the biennial census of manufactures and $100,000 for vital statistics, financial statistics of cities, the geographer's division, and other statistical work, and a decrease of $95,000 for the completed census of electrical industries and financial statistics of State and local governments; (2) a reduction of $946,750 for the census of agriculture. Appropriation of the amount of the Budget estimate for 1936 will have made available a total of $4,885,000, including $1,000,000 allotted from emergency funds, for the census of agriculture, and should be sufficient for its completion.

BUREAU OF NAVIGATION AND STEAMBOAT INSPECTION

An increase of $122,215 includes $68,000 for maintaining the former sea service section of the Merchant Fleet Corporation transferred to this Bureau, $24,270 for the operation of a new vessel constructed from an allotment of emergency funds, $3,175 to reopen the office of shipping commissioner at Portland, Oreg., $15,000 to reduce furloughs in the field, $6,200 for increased prices, and $5,570 for additional field personnel.

BUREAU OF STANDARDS

An increase of $233,277 is for strengthening most of the activities of the Bureau, the larger items of increase being $56,200 for Bureau salaries; $10,000 for equipment; $12,000 for general expenses; $29,680 for testing structural materials; $11,430 for radio research; $11,440 for testing railroad and mine scales; $30,000 for industrial research; $14,000 for standardization of equipment; $14,500 for investigation of automotive engines, fuel, and lubricants; and $8,000 for the hydraulic laboratory.

BUREAU OF LIGHTHOUSES

An increase of $207,406 includes $3,900 for Bureau salaries, $114,140 for general expenses incident to increased prices and the maintenance of additional aids to navigation installed from emergency fund allotments, $21,860 for salaries of lighthouse keepers, which will be converted into a decrease of $5,140 upon consummation of a contemplated transfer of $27,000 in the current year to this appropriation, $14,180 for the additional cost of manning a new and larger lightship to replace one rammed and sunk off Nantucket, $9,500 for additional personnel in district offices, and $43,800 for retired pay.

COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY

A net decrease of $4,626 includes increases of $2,550 for magnetic observations, $600 for a hydrographic survey for the Bureau of Lighthouses, $6,800 for vessel repairs, $35,900 for pay of commissioned officers incident to the resumption of payment of longevity increases and changes in pay periods, $15,746 for additional departmental personnel to process field data obtained from allotments of emergency funds, and $5,000 for chart and bond paper for this work; decreases of $14,650 for hydrographic work, $20,900 for boundary and State surveys, and $35,175 for personnel of vessels, all caused by the progress made in the current year from emergency fund allotments.

BUREAU OF FISHERIES

A net increase of $39,559 includes increases of $2,890 for departmental personnel, $17,786 to operate additional hatcheries constructed from emergency funds, $4,600 to operate a plant in the Pribilof Islands for the annual utilization of carcasses of approximately 40,000 fur seal from which is expected sufficient revenue to cover operating costs, and $14,430 for a new item made necessary by the Fisheries Cooperative Marketing Act of June 25, 1934, and a decrease of $525 in the item "Upper Missis sippi River Fish Refuge."

PATENT OFFICE

An increase of $330,439 includes increases of $83,069 for 60 additional clerical positions, $113,970 for reallocation in grades of the examining personnel, $5,000 for law and reference books, $45,000 for reproducing copies of patents, $2,000 for filing cases and $95,000 for printing due to increased prices incident to the provisions of section 23 of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1935, and the increase in cost of paper; and decreases of $13,300 for a reduction of seven in the number of junior examiners and $300 to absorb the cost of investigating public use or sale of inventions.

SHIPPING BOARD BUREAU

A decrease of $24,750. The amount of the estimate provides $149,600 for salaries of the present personnel and $56,000 for salaries of employees now on the rolls of the Merchant Fleet Corporation who become eligible and are transferred to the rolls of the Shipping Board Bureau.

Permanent appropriations:

An increase of $106,500 is caused by two new trust funds, created under section 20 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934, to which are credited advances from fur companies to cover expenses incurred in taking fox and seal furs in the Pribilof Islands, and tonnage taxes collected in the United States upon vessels coming from the Philippine Archipelago and required by law to be paid into the Philippine treasury. From these funds expenditures aggregating $110,000 are expected, and this gross increase is partially offset by dropping two permanent appropriations aggregating $3,000 from the Department of Commerce estimates, as provided in the repeal act, and a reduction of $500 in the appropriation "Wages and effects of American seamen."

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

Salaries, Office of Secretary of Commerce

Salaries: Secretary of Commerce, two Assistant Secretaries, 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 official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries, of the Department, [$326,000] $350,030 [:Provided, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the four Assistant Secretaries of State and the legal adviser of the Department of State, the Assistant to the Attorney General, the Assistant Solicitor General, and six Assistant Attorneys General, the Assistant Secretaries of Commerce, the Assistant Secretary and the Second Assistant Secretary of Labor, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate: Provided, That this restriction shall not apply (1) to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or (2) to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act, (3) to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, or (4) to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or (5) to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated] (U. S. Č., title 5, sec. 591; act Apr. 7, 1934, 48 Stat., p. 546).

Estimate 1936, $350,030

Appropriated 1935, $326,000

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Contingent Expenses, Department of Commerce

Contingent expenses: For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureaus of the Department, except the Patent Office, including those for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are specifically made, including professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, blank books, pamphlets, maps, newspapers (not exceeding $2,800); 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 motor trucks and bicycles and not to

exceed $3,500 for one motor-propelled, passenger-carrying vehicle for the official use of the Secretary of Commerce; 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 motor trucks and bicycles, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; postage to foreign countries; telegraph and telephone service; 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; street-car fares, not exceeding $600; and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, [$121,000] $128,325, which sum shall constitute the appropriation for contingent expenses of the Department, except the Patent Office, 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 (U. S. C., title 5, secs. 591, 605; acts Apr. 7, 1934, 48 Stat., p. 546; June 19, 1934, 48 Stat., p. 1032).

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Printing and Binding, Department of Commerce—

Printing and binding: For all printing and binding for the Department of Commerce, including all of its bureaus, offic institutions, and services in the District of Columbia and elswhere, except the Patent Office, [$350,410] $430,000: Provård That an amount not to exceed $2,000 of this appropriation m be expended for salaries of persons detailed from the Government Printing Office for service as copy editors (U. S. C., title 31, 30. 588; act Apr. 7, 1934, 48 Stat., p. 546). Estimate 1936, $430,000

Appropriated 1935, $350,410

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1 Estimated; all of the work ordered in 1934 is not completed and billed. Included in appropriation for "Salaries and expenses, Federal Employment sta zation Board."

The allotment first made to the Bureau of the Census for 1934 was $45,000. For *** purpose of publishing certain reports in connection with authorized studies and inves gations, which reports had been delayed owing to lack of available funds, there w sequently allotted to the Bureau $75,643 released from impounded printing and hir funds and $56,790 transferred from "Salaries and expenses, Bureau of the Censu Shipping Board transferred to Department of Commerce Aug. 10, 1933. Apr tion for 1934 made to the Shipping Board.

Includes $10,000 appropriated to the Shipping Board.

Total, Office of Secretary of Commerce, annual appropr tions, general fund:

Estimate 1936, $908,355

Appropriated 1935, $799,410

FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT STABILIZATION OFFICE

Salaries and Expenses, Federal Employment Stabilization OfficeSalaries and expenses: To enable the Secretary of Commerce to carry out the provisions of the Employment Stabilization Act of 1931, approved February 10, 1931 (U. S. C., Supp. [VI] VII, title 29, secs. 48-48g), including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling expenses, [purchases of equipment, furniture, stationery and office supplies, printing and binding, repairs to equipment, law books, books of reference, and other necessary publications,] and to procure by contract or otherwise any information or data concerning construction which may be considered pertinent, [and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, $40,000, $50,000, of which amount not to exceed [$35,000] $29,520 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 29, secs. 48-489; act Apr. 7, 1934, 48 Stat., p. 547).

Estimate 1936, $30,000

Appropriated 1935, $40,000

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ing, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs; purchase, including exchange (not to exceed $2,000), maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work; purchase and replacement, including exchange, of airplanes (not to exceed $16,500); purchase of airplane motors, airplane and motor accessories and spare parts; maintenance, operation, and repair of airplanes and airplane motors; purchase of special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment for aviation purposes; purchase of books of reference and periodicals; newspapers, reports, documents, plans, specifications, maps, manuscripts, and all other publications; and all other necessary expenses not included in the foregoing; in all [$644,000 $734,800: Provided, That none of the money appropriated in this Act shall be used for the purchase of any airplane ordered after the approval of this Act which is equipped or propelled by a Liberty motor or by any motor or airplane engine purchased or constructed prior to July 1, 1920 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 49, sec. 173d; act Apr. 7, 1934, 48 Stat., p. 547). Estimate 1936, $734,800

Appropriated 1935, $644,000

Aircraft in Commerce

Aircraft in commerce: To carry out the provisions of the Act approved May 20, 1926, entitled "An Act to encourage and regulate the use of aircraft in commerce, and for other purposes " (U. S. C., title 49, secs. 171–184), as amended by the Act approved February 28, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. [VI] VII, title 49, sec. 173d), and acts approved June 19 and 20, 1934 (48 Stat. 1113, 1116), including personal ervices in the District of Columbia (not to exceed [$192,000] $235,956), and elsewhere; rent in the District of Columbia and sewhere; traveling expenses; contract stenographic reporting services; fees and mileage of witnesses; purchase of furniture and equipment; stationery and supplies, including medical supplies, typewrit

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Air-Navigation Facilities—

Air-navigation facilities: For the establishment and mainte nance of aids to air navigation, including the equipment of additional air mail routes for day and night flying; the construction of necessary, lighting, radio, and other signaling and communicating structures and apparatus; repairs, alterations, and all expenses of maintenance and operation; investigation, research, and experi mentation to develop and improve aids to air navigation; for per sonal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed [$111,700] $123,071) and elsewhere; purchase, maintenance, operation, an! repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for officia use in field work, including their exchange; replacement, including exchange, of not to exceed two airplanes, maintenance, operation, | and repair of airplanes, including accessories and spare parts and special clothing, wearing apparel, and suitable equipment for aviation purposes; and for the acquisition of the necessary sites by lease or grant, [$4,561,250] $5,274,900: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for any purpose not authorized by the Air Commerce Act of 1926 (U. S. Č., title 5, sec. 591; Supp. VII, title 33, sec. 711, title 49, sec. 175; acts Apr. 7, 1934, 48 Stat., p. 547; June 19, 1934, 48 Stat., p. 1032).

Estimate 1936, $5,274,900

• Includes $306,550 appropriated in Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1934.

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