as may be authorized by the Secretary of State, including the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of the purposes herein specified, fiscal years 1931 and 1932, $30,000. TREASURY DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE SUPERVISING ARCHITECT Lynchburg, Virginia, post office and courthouse: There is hereby authorized and directed to be acquired for this project for the sum of $183,000, by purchase agreement with the owner notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, subdivisions of lot 8, city block, numbered 214 and 216, abutting on Ninth Street and immediately adjoining the property of the United States Government, including the building thereon. The appropriations made for this project under the provisions of the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1928, approved May 29, 1928 (45 Stat. 921), and of the First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1930, approved March 26, 1930 (46 Stat. 119), shall be available for payment of said sum of $183,000, to be paid in full settlement and release of all claims and demands of whatsoever nature or character arising out of or in any manner connected with the acquisition hereunder authorized. The owner and occupant of the property authorized to be acquired hereunder shall be afforded a reasonable time, not exceeding twelve months from the date of approval hereof, within which to remove his plant therefrom and to another site. EMERGENCY CONSTRUCTION Coast Guard: For rebuilding and repairing stations, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1931, $70,000. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE For special studies of, and demonstration work in, rural sanitation, including the purchase and distribution of medical supplies, in the drought-stricken areas, and including personal services, fiscal years 1931 and 1932, $2,000,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for demonstration work in rural sanitation unless the State, county, or municipality affected agrees to pay such proportion of the expenses of such demonstration work, as shall be required in regulations to be prescribed by the Public Health Service, in which due consideration shall be given to State and local economic conditions and human needs, the extent and circumstances of such cooperation in each case to be reported to Congress at the beginning of each regular session. WAR DEPARTMENT EMERGENCY CONSTRUCTION For emergency construction of public works and repairs thereto, including the same objects specified in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931, approved May 28, 1930, for the purpose of increasing public employment, including the procurement of supplies, materials, equipment, and labor in order to accelerate construction work by the various arms, services, and bureaus of the War Department on projects already authorized by law, to remain available until expended, as follows: MILITARY ACTIVITIES QUARTERMASTER CORPS Construction and repair of hospitals: For repair of buildings and roads, $42,500. Military posts: For construction, Army housing program, $730,030. SEACOAST DEFENSES Seacoast defenses, United States, Engineers: For the construction of a magazine, extension of wharf, and miscellaneous repairs, $92,700. AIR CORPS Air Corps, Army: For construction and repair of technical buildings, $504,800; and torque stands and repair of buildings and equipment, $366,300; in all, $871,100. ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT Repairs of arsenals: For general and specific repairs to arsenals and depots, $471,005. CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE Chemical Warfare Service, Army: For repair of reserve chemical plants, $50,000. MILITIA BUREAU Arming, equipping, and training the National Guard: For construction of buildings and utilities at camps, $1,000,000. United States Military Academy: For repairs and alterations to buildings, roads, and electric, gas, water, and sewer systems, $750,000. NONMILITARY ACTIVITIES QUARTERMASTER CORPS Cemeterial expenses: For general repairs at National Cemeteries, $131,712. Gettysburg National Military Park: For construction of road, $10,000. Shiloh National Military Park: For rebuilding and resurfacing with concrete the road situated in Shiloh National Military Park in Tennessee from the original boundaries of the park to the Corinth National Cemetery at Corinth, Mississippi, at a limit of cost of $306,000, there is hereby reappropriated the sum of $50,000 appropriated for said road in the Act making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, and for other purposes, approved May 28, 1930, and also there is hereby appropriated the additional sum of $256,000, all to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War under the terms of this Act instead of under the terms of said Act of May 28, 1930. Antietam battlefield: For reconstruction of roads, $150,000. National monuments: For improvement of roads and grounds, Fort McHenry, Maryland, and Chalmette, Louisiana, $90,000. Lincoln birthplace memorial: For general improvements, $20,000. DAMAGE CLAIMS For the payment of claims for damages to or losses of privately owned property adjusted and determined by the following respective departments under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case," approved December 28, 1922 (U. S. C., title 31, secs. 215-217), as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 243 and House Document Numbered 688 of the Seventy-first Congress, as follows: Department of Commerce, $860.39; Department of Agriculture, $1,180.83; Navy Department, $1,458.18; Post Office Department (out of the postal revenues), $18,286.67; Treasury Department, $3,595.91; War Department, $1,483.47; In all, $27,439.23. JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Art of March 3, 1887, entitled "An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States," as amended by the Judicial Code, approved March 3, 1911 (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 41, par. 20; sec. 258; secs. 761-765), certified to the Seventy-first Congress, in Senate Document Numbered 241 and House Document Numbered 690, under the following departments namely: Navy Department, $8,439.76; Post Office Department, $6,254.11; War Department, $14,498.47; in all, $29,192.34, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of 4 per centum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made. For the payment of judgments, including costs of suits, rendered against the Government of the United States by United States district courts under the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act authorizing suits against the United States in admiralty for damage caused by and salvage services rendered to public vessels belonging to the United States, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1925 (U. S. C., title 46, secs. 781-789), certified to the Seventy-first Congress in House Document Numbered 690, under the following departments, namely: Navy Department, $4,607.95; Treasury Department, $394.73; War Department, $13,762; in all, $18,764.68, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest as and where specified in such judgments. For payment of the judgment rendered against the Government by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in favor of the Peter Hand Brewing Company, and certified to the Seventy-first Congress, in House Document Numbered 691. under the Department of Justice, $7,056.20. None of the judgments contained under this caption shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired except such as have become final and conclusive against the United States by failure of the parties to appeal or otherwise. Payment of interest wherever provided for judgments contained in this Act shall not in any case continue for more than thirty days after the date of approval of the Act. JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims and reported to the Seventy-first Congress, in Senate Document Numbered 244 except the judgment numbered J-543 in favor of the Pocono Pines Assembly Hotels Company, amounting to $227,239.53, and Senate Document Numbered 245 and House Document Numbered 693, under the following departments and establishments. namely: United States Shipping Board, $254,622.59; United States Veterans' Bureau, $61,030.62; Department of Agriculture, $14,988; Department of the Interior (Indians), $2,169,168.58; Navy Department, $84,272.44; Treasury Department, $1,431.92; War Department, $170,688.61; in all, $2,756,202.76, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on certain of the judgments at the legal rate per annum as and where specified in such judgments. None of the judgments contained under this caption which have not been affirmed by the Supreme Court or otherwise become final and conclusive against the United States shall be paid until the expiration of the time within which application may be made for a writ of certiorari under subdivision (b) section 3, of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Judicial Code, and to further define the jurisdiction of the circuit courts of appeals and of the Supreme Court, and for other purposes," approved February 13, 1925 (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 288). AUDITED CLAIMS SEC. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874 (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 713), and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1928 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 266), as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 694, Seventy-first Congress, there is appropriated as follows: INDEPENDENT OFFICES For Interstate Commerce Commission, $5.50. For salaries and expenses, Veterans' Bureau, $1,114.72. For military and naval compensation, Veterans' Bureau, $1,448.47. For vocational rehabilitation, Veterans' Bureau, $1,016.45. For medical and hospital services, Veterans' Bureau, $73.47. For meat inspection, Bureau of Animal Industry, $1.76. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $86.90. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $100. For salaries and expenses, Office of Experiment Stations, $2. For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce, $34.45. For air-navigation facilities, $7,017.14. For compiling foreign-trade statistics, $60. For promoting commerce, Department of Commerce, $198.68. For transportation of families and effects of officers and employees, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, $12.08. For economics of mineral industries, Bureau of Mines, $3.25. For medical relief in Alaska, $55. For expenses, sale of timber (reimbursable), $160.80. For Indian-school transportation, $184.91. For Indian boarding schools, $23.16. For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases |