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 Assistant Secretaries of the Navy, 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, (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 (act Mar. 15, 1934, 48 Stat., p. 423). CONTINGENT EXPENSES Contingent Expenses, Navy Department For professional and technical books and periodicals, law books, and necessary reference books, including city directories, railway guides, freight, passenger, and express tariff books and photostating, for department library; for purchase of photographs, maps, documents, and pictorial records of the Navy, photostating and other necessary incidental expenses in connection with the preparation för publication of the naval records of the war with the Central Powers of Europe; for stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, and drawing materials; purchase and exchange of motor trucks or motor delivery wagons, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor trucks or motor delivery wagons; garage rent; street-car fares not exceeding $500; freight, expressage, postage, typewriters, and computing machines, and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, [$75,000] $85,000; it shall not be lawful to expend, unless otherwise specifically provided herein, for any of the offices or bureaus of the Navy Department in the District of Columbia, any sum out of appropriations made for the naval service for any of the purposes mentioned or authorized in this paragraph (act Mar. 15, 1934, 48 Stat., p. 423). PRINTING HISTORICAL AND NAVAL DOCUMENTS Printing Historical and Naval Documents 22, 255 1,684 631 6,211 For continuing the printing of historical and naval documents, including composition, clerical copying in the Navy Department, and other preparatory work, in accordance with the provisions of the appropriation made for the commencement of this work as contained in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $10,000, together with the unexpended balance for this purpose for the fiscal year 1935 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 44, sec. 72a) (act Mar. 15, 1934, 48 Stat., p. 414). Estimate 1936, $10,000 counts." " Obligations By objects Estimate, 1936 Estimate, 1935 Actual, 1934 Personal services. $1,440 Deduct legislative reductions.. $1,440 72 225 10, 140 430 05 Communication service (postage). 06 Street-car fares. 11 Rents (tabulating machines). 3,685 14,935 76, 600 Transferred to Treasury Department. +100 CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES, HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE Contingent and Miscellaneous Expenses, Hydrographic Office For purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart portfolios, electrotyping copperplates, cleaning copperplates; tools, instruments, power, and material for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; reduction of charts by photography; photolithographing charts for immediate use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; purchase of equipment for the storage of plates used in making charts and for the storage of Hydrographic Office charts and publications; purchase of one new offset press and an aerocartograph; modernization, care and repair to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools; extra drawing and engraving; translating from foreign languages; telegrams on public business; preparation of pilot charts and their supplements, and printing and mailing same; purchase of data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; books of reference and works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, and to other professional and technical subjects connected with the work of the Hydrographic Office, [$62,000] $93,000 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 457; act Mar. 15, 1984, 48 Stat., p. 424). Est. 1936, $93,000 App. 1935, $62,000 By objects Supplies and materials: 0200 Stationery and office supplies. 0280 Sundry supplies.. 0290 Materials (chart paper). 02 Total supplies and materials. Communication service: 0500 Telegraph service. 0520 Other communication service.. 05 Total communication service.. 12 Repairs and alterations.. Equipment: 3020 Educational, scientific, and recre- 30 Total equipment..... Grand total obligations.. Transferred to "Ocean and Lake Surveys". Net total obligations. Estimated savings and unobligated balance. Total estimate or appropriation... By objects 02 Supplies and materials. Communication service: 0500 Telegraph service. 0510 Telephone service. 0520 Other communication service. 05 Total communication service.. 11 Rent of office buildings.. 30 Equipment................ Grand total obligations... Estimated savings and unobligated bal ance.... Total estimate or appropriation.. By objects PERSONAL SERVICES, FIELD Total permanent, field Deduct lapses and administrative furloughs. $10,000 17,000 24,000 51,000 Net permanent, field.. Deduct legislative reductions.. Estimate, 1936 Estimate, 1935 Actual, 1934 400 2,600 3,000 2,000 18,000 19,000 37,000 93,000 93,000 93,000 For contingent expenses of branch hydrographic offices at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo, Duluth, Sault Sainte Marie, Seattle, Panama, San Juan (Puerto Rico), Los Angeles, Honolulu, and Galveston, including furniture, fuel, lights, works, and periodicols, relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, stationery, miscellaneous articles, rent and care of offices, care of time balls, car fare and ferriage in visiting merchant vessels, freight and express charges, telegrams, and other necessary expenses incurrred in collecting the latest information for pilot charts, and for other purposes for which the offices were established, [$13,180] $12,160 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 457; act Mar. 15, 1934, 48 Stat., p. 424). Est. 1936, $12,160 App. 1935, $13,180 $5,820 300 1,800 1, 100 Obligations 3, 200 1, 140 2,000 12, 160 12, 160 $10,000 17,000 24,000 51,000 400 2,600 3,000 2,000 3,000 3,000 6,000 62,000 44, 460 62,000 62,000 Obligations Estimate, 1936 Estimate, 1935 Actual, 1934 $5, 820 300 1,800 1, 100 3,200 2. 160 2,000 13, 180 13. 180 $8,033 15, 825 21, 115 44.973 Obligations 400 2,600 3,000 1,820 2,645 3,562 6,207 56,000 8,000 For services of necessary employees at branch offices, [$40,014] $44,460 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 457; act Mar. 15, 1934, 48 Stat., p. 424). Est. 1936, $44,460 App. 1935, $40,014 44, 460 2,223 64,000 9,000 73,000 $4,717 255 1,745 1,100 3, 100 2,783 1,000 11, 600 3,400 15,000 Estimate, 1936 Estimate, 1935 Actual, 1934 Posi- Av. Posi- Av. Posi- Av. tions salary tions salary tions salary 24 $44,460 24 $44,460 23 $42,660 265 42, 395 5.489 CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES, NAVAL OBSERVATORY Contingent and Miscellaneous Expenses, Naval Observatory For professional and scientific books, books of reference, periodicals, engravings, photographs, and fixtures for the library; for apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same; for repairs to buildings (including quarters), fixtures, and fences; for cleaning. repair, and upkeep of grounds and roads; furniture and furnishings for offices and quarters, gas, chemicals, paints, and stationery, · including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, foreign postage; plants, seeds, and fertilizers; for fuel, oil, grease, pipe, wire, and other materials needed for the main tenance and repair of boilers, engines, heating apparatus, electric lighting and power, and water supply; purchase and meinterance of teams; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor trucks and passenger automobiles, and of horse-drawn vehicles; telegraph and telephone service; and other absolutely necessary expenses, [$20,000] $21,500 (acts Aug. 31, 1842, 5 Stat., p. 576; Mar. 15, 1934. 48 Stat., p. 424). Estimate 1936, $21,500 Appropriated 1935, $20,000 Estimate 1936, $671,870 Obligations Total, Navy Department: Estimate 1936, $489,871,347 1,700 3,700 $42, 237 -2, 223 54 7,300 50 21, 500 40, 014 21,500 Obligations Estimate, 1936 Estimate, 1935 Actual, 1934 $7,386 $6,425 550 560 200 Grand total obligations... ance.. Total estimate or appropriation.... 53 Refunds, awards, and indemnities: Obligations-1934, $696,898.93. $7,386 $36,906 550 560 200 1,700 3,700 54 5,800 50 20,000 4.44 41,360 20,000 1.548 3,25 DES $3 36 18, 00 Total, contingent and miscellaneous expenses, annual appropriations, general fund: Appropriated 1935, $595,194 SEC. 2. No part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be used for maintaining, driving, or operating any Government-owned motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle not used exclusively for official purposes; and "official purposes" shall not include the transportation of officers and employees between their domiciles and places of employment except in cases of medical officers on outpatient medical service and except in cases of officers and employees engaged in field work the character of whose duties makes such transportation necessary and then only as to such latter cases when the same is approved by the head of the department. This section shall not apply to any motor vehicle for official use of the Secretary of the Navy, and no other persons connected with the Navy Department or the naval service, except the commander in chief of the United States Asiatic Fleet, Marine Corps officers serving with expeditionary forces in foreign countries, and medical officers on out-patient medical service, shall have a Government-owned motor vehicle assigned for their exclusive use (act Mar. 15, 1934, 48 Stat., p. 425). Appropriated 1935, $286,368,132 DEPARTMENT OF STATE Summary of estimates of appropriations for the fiscal year 1936, compared with appropriations for the fiscal year 1935 The Budget estimates for 1936, including salaries on a 100-percent basis with all pay cuts restored, total $13,904,100, which is a reduction of $2,263,887 from the available appropriations of $16,167,987 for 1935, which carried salaries on a 95-percent basis. The amount estimated as necessary to restore the final 5-percent reduction in compensation of employees is $509,748. Excluding this figure, the net decrease in the Budget estimates for 1936, resulting from the increases and decreases in items other than restoration of salaries, is shown as $2,773,635. The details of the increases and decreases in items other than restoration of the final 5-percent cut in pay are given below. Annual appropriations: OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE Included under this caption are the estimates for salaries and expenses of the Department of State at Washington and the several passport agencies in the United States, the expenses of collecting and editing official papers of the Territories of the United States, and for hearings before the Committee for Reciprocity Information in connection with foreign trade agreements. There is an increase of $12,427 in the estimate for salaries in 1936 over the appropriation for 1935 but since $8,478 of the 1935 appropriation was transferred to the Disbursement Division of the Treasury Department, the actual increase for 1936 over available funds for 1935 is $20,905. There is an increase of $10,470 for the contingent expenses of the Department, which includes $4,000 for an automobile for the official use of the Sec retary of State, to replace the one purchased in 1929. There is also an increase of $15,000 in printing and binding. For collecting and editing territorial papers an increase of $10,004 is requested, all of which is for printing; the organic act providing for this project authorizes to be appropriated not more than $125,000 for carrying out the purposes of the act, with a restriction that not more than $50,000 shall be appropriated for any one year, and thus far appropriations amounting to $51,158 have been made. Executive Order No. 6750 issued pursuant to section 4 of the act entitled, "An Act to amend the Tariff Act of 1930", approved June 12, 1934, created the Committee for Reciprocity Information to represent the President in receiving the views of persons interested in any proposed foreign-trade agreement; an appropriation of $75,000 was provided for the expenses of this committee for 1935 and a like amount is requested for 1936. FOREIGN SERVICE The estimates submitted under this title are for the operation of the Foreign Service of the United States, for money to meet contributions of Foreign Service officers for maintenance of the Foreign Service retirement and disability fund, and for the acquisition of buildings and grounds in foreign countries for the use of the Government of the United States. The estimate for salaries, Foreign Service officers, shows a net decrease of $149,050, composed of an increase of $65,000 for automatic promotions as authorized by section 33 of the Foreign Service Act of February 23, 1931, and a reduction in personnel of $214,050. There have been consolidated with this estimate the estimates (previously carried separately) for salaries, Foreign Serv ice officers while receiving instructions and in transit, $15,000, and salaries, chargés d'affaires ad interim, $20,000. For transportation of Foreign Service officers there is a reduction of $22,500 in the estimate for 1936 compared with the amount appropriated for 1935, but as $17,278 of the appropriation made for this purpose for 1934-35 was expended in 1935, there is an actual decrease in available funds of $39,778. There is a reduction in office and living quarters Foreign Service, of $318,415, but as $126,000 of the 1935 appropriation was expended in 1934, there is an actual decrease of $192,415. În cost of living allowance, Foreign Service officers, there is shown a decrease of $125,000 which is an actual reduction of $75,000 because $50,000 of the 1935 appropriation was expended in 1934. The estimate for salaries, Foreign Service clerks, is reduced by $113,050. An item appropriated for 1935 which does not appear in the Budget for 1936 is $1,165,000 for the Foreign Service building fund; this amount is for the construction of the American embassy at Moscow, Russia, and represents the balance of $10,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the purchase or construction of sites and buildings in foreign countries for the use of the diplomatic, consular, and other establishments of the United States by the act of May 7, 1926. " The Foreign Service retirement and disability appropriated fund has been increased $3,300, from $159,100 to $162,400, the maximum amount permitted under section 26 (a) of the Foreign Service Act of February 23, 1931, which provides that the aggregate total appropriations shall not exceed the aggregate total of the contributions of Foreign Service officers, and accumulated interest thereon. There is a net increase of $66,779 in contingent expenses, Foreign Service; and there has been consolidated in this estimate the estimates (previously carried separately) for rescue, relief, and protection of American seamen, $6,000, pay of consular agents for services to American vessels and seamen, $10,000, expenses of prisons for American convicts, $1,250, and bringing home persons charged with crime, $2,000. An amount of $806,470 is recommended for contributions by the United States to international commissions, congresses, and bureaus for 1936, which is a net increase of $182,011 over 1935. As it is impossible to determine at this time the exact amounts which will be due and payable in 1936 because of the fluctuations in exchange, the contributions and quotas have been computed on the basis of the old mint par rates, with a clause in the estimate providing for such additional sums, due to increases in rates of exchange, as may be necessary to pay in foreign currencies the quotas and contributions required by the several treaties, conventions, or laws establishing the amount of the obligation. New items appearing under this title in the Budget for 1936 are $174,630 for the international labor organization, $8,037 for implementing the narcotics convention of 1931, and $588 for the permanent association of international road congresses. There is an increase of $1,633 for the International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico. There is an increase of $2,755 for the International Boundary Commission, United States and Canada and Alaska and Canada, but as $215 was transferred from the 1935 appropriation to the Disbursement Division of the Treasury Department, the actual increase over available funds for 1935 amounts to $2,970. The estimate for waterways treaty, United States and Great Britain, includes $30,610 for salaries and expenses of the United States section of the International Joint Commission (an increase of $70), $52,000 for determining the apportionment of the waters of certain rivers on the Canadian boundary (a decrease of $6,000), and $19,000 for continuing the studies of damage to property in the United States by fumes from the smelter at Trail, British Columbia (the same amount as for the current year). For 1935 an appropriation of $170,000 was made for the General and Special Claims Conventions, United States and Mexico, for the expenses of final and complete settlement and adjustment of these claims, but it is estimated that at least another year will be required to complete this work, and an additional amount of $170,000 is included in the Budget for 1936. Items appropriated for 1935 which will not appear in the Budget for 1936 are $57,000 for Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany, $75,000 for claims adjustment, United States and Turkey, $14,000 for Pan American Financial and Commercial Conference, $3,000 for Pan American Sanitary Conference, and $1,000,000 to enable the United States to cooperate with the several governments, members of the Pan American Union, in connection with the survey and construction of the proposed Inter-American Highway. Permanent appropriations: The indefinite appropriation for pay of consular agents for services to American vessels and seamen is made an annual appropriation by section 2 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, and there is included in the estimate for contingent expenses, Foreign Service, an amount of $10,000 for this purpose, which is the estimated expenditure for 1935. The indefinite appropriations for refunding penalties or charges erroneously exacted, refunding moneys erroneously received and covered, and refunding passport fees, amounting to $1,000, are omitted from the Budget for 1936, as they are repealed and covered into the account "Refund of moneys erroneously received and covered" by section 18 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act. |