1931, with a view to increasing employment," approved December 20, 1930, is hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1934.

The appropriation of $2,000,000 for roads on unappropriated or unreserved public lands, nontaxable Indian lands, and so forth, contained in the act entitled 'An act to relieve destitution, to broaden the lending powers of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and to create employment by providing for and expediting a public-works program," approved July 21, 1932, is hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1934, and not to exceed $4,373 may be used for personal services in the District of Columbia.

That paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of section 301 of title 3 of the Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932 is amended by striking out the date of "July 1, 1933," where it appears in said paragraph and inserting in lieu thereof the date "January 1, 1934."

Total, Bureau of Public Roads, $35,000,000.

FOREST ROADS AND TRAILS

For carrying out the provisions of section 23 of the Federal Highway Act approved November 9, 1921 (U. S. C., title 23, sec. 23), including not to exceed $74,269 for departmental personal services in the District of Columbia, $4,457,400, a part of the amount authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1933 by the act approved May 5, 1930: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the rental, purchase, or construction of buildings necessary for the storage of equipment and supplies used for road and trail construction and maintenance, but the total cost of any such building purchased or constructed under this authorization shall not exceed $2,500: Provided further, That during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, the expenditures on forest highways in Alaska from the amount herein appropriated or from similar appropriations heretofore made shall not exceed $350,000.

The appropriation of $800,000 for the construction on Government Island, Alameda, California, of buildings required by the Bureau of Public Roads and Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture and the Coast Guard of the Treasury Department, contained in the act entitled "An act making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1931, and June 30, 1932", approved March 4, 1931, is hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1934. The appropriation of $5,000,000 for construction and improvement of nationalforest highways contained in the act entitled "An act to relieve destitution, to broaden the lending powers of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and to create employment by providing for and expediting a public-works program", approved July 21, 1932, is hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1934.

Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 80, 1933, and June 30, 1934, and for other purposes

EXECUTIVE OFFICE AND INDEPENDENT ESTABLISHMENTS

NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY AND TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY

For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to encourage national industrial recovery, to foster fair competition, and to provide for the construction of certain useful public works, and for other purposes", approved June 16, 1933, and also for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act for the relief of unemployment through the performance of useful public work, and for other purposes", approved March 31, 1933, and for each and every object thereof, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the President, to be immediately available, and except

as hereinafter provided to remain available until June 30, 1935, $3,300,000,000; of which not to exceed $50,000,000 shall be available to the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and to remain available until expended, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled "The Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933", approved May 18, 1933, including the acquisition of necessary land, the clearing of such land, relocation of highways, and the construction and/or purchase of transmission lines and other facilities, the construction of the Cove Creek Dam and power house and all other necessary works authorized by said Act, and for printing and binding, law books, books of reference, newspapers, periodicals, purchase, maintenance, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles, rents in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and all necessary salaries and expenses connected with the organization, operation, and investigations of the Tennessee Valley Authority, including reimbursements for any expenses prior to the enactment of this appropriation incurred at the direction of the President.

Approved June 16, 1933.

APPROPRIATION ACT OF MARCH 26, 1934

[48 Stat. 491, 499]

ΑΝ ΔΟΤ

Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture and for the Farm Credit Administration for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, and for other purposes

TITLE I-DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAY SYSTEM

For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes ", approved July 11, 1916 (39 Stat., pp. 355–359), anu all Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, to be expended in accordance with the provisions of said Act, as amended, including not to exceed $176,400 for departmental personal services in the District of Columbia, $8,000,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, which sum is a part of the sum of $125,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, by section 1 of the Act approved April 4, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 141): Provided, That none of the money herein appropriated shall be paid to any State on account of any project on which convict labor shall be employed, except this provision shall not apply to convict labor performed by convicts on parole or probation: Provided ¡urther, That not to exceed $45,000 of the funds provided for carrying out the provisions of the Federal Highway Act of November 9, 1921 (U. S. C., title 23, secs. 21 and 23), shall be available for the purchase of motor-propelled passengercarrying vehicles necessary for carrying out the provisions of said Act, including the replacement of not to exceed one such. vehicle for use in the administrative work of the Bureau of Public Roads in the District of Columbia: Provided further, That, during the fiscal year 1935, whenever performing authorized engineering or other services in connection with the survey, construction and maintenance, or improvement of roads for other Government agencies the charge for such services may include depreciation on engineering and roadbuilding equipment used, and the amounts received on account of such charges shall be credited to the appropriation concerncu.

The appropriation of $2,000,000 for roads on unappropriated or unreserved public lands, nontaxable Indian lands, and so forth, contained in the Act entitled "An act to relieve destitution, to broaden the lending powers of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and to create employment by providing for and expediting a public-works program", approved July 21, 1932, is hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1935, and not to exceed $4,290 may be used for personal services in the District of Columbia. Total, Bureau of Public Roads, $8,000,000.

FOREST ROADS AND TRAILS

For carrying out the provisions of section 23 of the Federal Highway Act approved November 9, 1921 (U. S. C., title 23, sec. 23), including not to exceed $10,521 for departmental personal services in the District of Columbia, $1,500,000, a part of the amount authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1933 by the Act approved May 5, 1930: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the rental, purchase, or construction of buildings necessary for the storage of equipment and supplies used for road and trail construction and maintenance, but the total cost of any such building purchased or constructed under this authorization shall not exceed $2,500: Provided further, That during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, the expenditures on forest highways in Alaska from the amount herein appropriated or from similar appropriations heretofore made shall not exceed $350,000.

Approved March 26, 1934.

EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION ACT, FISCAL YEAR 1935

[48 Stat. 1032, 1057, 1058]

AN ACT

Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental general and emergency appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 80, 1934, and June 30, 1935, and for other purposes

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS

For the construction of roads within the grounds of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation at Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia, fiscal year 1935, $30,000.

TITLE II-EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

For the purpose of increasing employment by providing for emergency construction of public highways and other related projects fiscal year 1935, $100,000,000, to remain available until expended, which sum shall be apportioned by the Secretary of Agriculture immediately upon the enactment of this Act under the provisions of section 204 of the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933 (in addition to any sums heretofore allocated under such section), to the highway departments of the several States to be expended by such departments pursuant to the provisions of such section, and which sum is a part of the $200,000,000 authorized to be appropriated by section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to increase employment by authorizing an appropriation to provide for emergency construction of public highways and related projects, and to amend the Federal Aid hoad Act, approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, and for other purposes", approved June 18, 1934.

For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of section 23 of the Federal Highway Act, approved November 9, 1921, fiscal year 1935, $10,000,000 to remain available until expended in accordance with the provisions of such section 23.

For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of section 3 of the Federal Highway Act, approved November 9, 1921, as amended June 24, 1980 (46 Stat. 805), for the survey, construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of roads through unappropriateu or unreserved public lands, nontaxable Indian lands, or other Federal reservations other than the forest reservations, fiscal year 1935, $2,500,000; to remain available until expended.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

For the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of roads and trails, inclusive of necessary bridges in the national parks, monuments, and other areas, administered by the National Park Service, including areas authorized to be established as national parks and monuments, and national park and monument approach roads authorized by the Act of January 31, 1931 (46 Stat. 1053), as amended, fiscal year 1935, $5,000,000, to remain available until expended.

For the construction and improvement of Indian reservation roads under the provisions of the Act approved May 26, 1928 (45 Stat. 750), fiscal year 1935, $2,000,000 to remain available until expended: Provided, That the location, type, and design of all roads and bridges shall be approved by the Bureau of Public Roads before any expenditures are made thereon, and all such construction done by contract shall be under the general supervision of said Bureau. SEC. 2. This title may be cited as the "Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935."

Approved, June 19, 1934.

APPROPRIATION OF MAY 17, 1935

[49 Stat. 272, 273, 281]

[PUBLIC NO. 62-74TH CONGRESS]

AN ACT

Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture and for the Farm Credit Administration for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other purposes

FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAY SYSTEM

For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes", approved July 11, 1916 (39 Stat., pp. 355-359), and all Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, to be expended in accordance with the provisions of said Act, as amended, including not to exceed $556,000 for departmental personal services in the District of Columbia, $48,559,256.14, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, of which sum $8,559,256.14 is the remainder of the sum of $125,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, by section 1 of the Act approved April 4, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 141), and $40,000,000 is part of the sum of $125,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, by section 4 of the Act approved June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 994): Provided, That the Secretary of Agriculture shall act upon projects submitted to him under his apportionment of the $125,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, by section 4 of the Act approved June 18, 1934 (Public, numbered 393, Seventy-third Congress, 48 Stat. 994), and his approval of any such project shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of its proportional contribution thereto: Provided further, That none of the money herein appropriated shall be paid to any State on account of any project on which convict labor shall be employed, except this provision shall not apply to convict labor performed by convicts on parole or probation: Provided further, That not to exceed $45,000 of the funds provided for carrying out the provisions of the Federal Highway Act of November 9, 1921 (U. S. C., title 23, secs. 21 and 23), shall be available for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles necessary for carrying out the provisions of said Act,

including the replacement of not to exceed one such vehicle for use in the administrative work of the Bureau of Public Roads in the District of Columbia : Provided further, That, during the fiscal year 1936, whenever performing authorized engineering or other services in connection with the survey, construction, and maintenance, or improvement of roads for other Government agencies the charge for such services may include depreciation on engineering and road-building equipment used, and the amounts received on account of such charges shall be credited to the appropriation concerned: Provided further, That not to exceed $140,000 from the administrative funds authorized by the Act approved November 9, 1921, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, in addition to the amount remaining available under the authorization contained in the Agricultural Appropriation Act approved May 27, 1930, shall be available for the construction of a laboratory, on a site already acquired, for permanent quarters for the testing and research work of the Bureau of Public Roads.

For the survey, construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of main roads through unappropriated or unreserved public lands, nontaxable Indian lands, or other Federal reservations other than the forest reservations, under the provisions of the Act of June 24, 1930 (46 Stat. 805), and as authorized by section 6 of the Highway Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 994), $2,500,000, to be immediately available and remain available until expended.

NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY HIGHWAY FUNDS

For emergency construction of public highways and other related projects in accordance with section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to increase employment by authorizing an appropriation to provide for emergency construction of public highways and related projects, and to amend the Federal Aid Road Act, approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, and for other purposes", approved June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 993), the sum of $100,000,000 (being the remainder of the amount of $200,000,000 authorized to be appropriated by section I of such Act) shall be made immediately available for the foregoing purposes from the appropriation in section 1 of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 and continue available until expended.

The appropriation of $2,000,000 for roads on unappropriated or unreserved public lands, nontaxable Indian lands, and so forth, contained in the Act entitled "An Act to relieve destitution, to broaden the lending powers of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and to create employment by providing for and expediting a public-works program", approved July 21, 1932, is hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1936, and not to exceed $4,760 may be used for personal services in the District of Columbia.

FOREST ROADS AND TRAILS

For carrying out the provisions of section 23 of the Federal Highway Act approved November 9, 1921 (U. S. C., title 23, sec. 23), including not to exceed $82,320 for departmental personal services in the District of Columbia, $7,082,600, which sum is composed of $582,600, the balance of the amount authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1933 by the Act approved May 5, 1930, and $6,500,000, part of the sum of $10,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1936 by the Act approved June 18, 1934: Provided, That the Secretary of Agriculture shall, upon the approval of this Act, apportion and prorate among the several States, Alaska, and Puerto Rico, as provided in section 23 of said Federal Highway Act, the sum of $10,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, by the Act approved June 18, 1934: Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture shall incur obligations, approve projects, or enter into contracts under his apportionment and prorating of this authorization, and his action in so doing shall be deemed a contractual obligation on the part of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof: Provided further, That total expenditures on account of any Sate or Territory shall at no time exceed its authorized apportionment: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available for the rental, purchase, or construction of buildings necessary for the storage of equipment and supplies used for road and trail construction and maintenance, but the total cost of any such building purchased or constructed under this authorization shall not exceed $2,500: Provided further, That during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, the expenditures on forest highways in Alaska