[PUBLIC LAW 353-80TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 478-1ST SESSION] [H. R. 3870] AN ACT To authorize certain expenditures from the appropriation of Saint Elizabeths Hospital, 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 Federal Security administrator is authorized to admit to Saint Elizabeths Hospital in the District of Columbia, for care and treatment, upon application of the Secretary of the Interior, beneficiaries of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The cost of such care and treatment shall be paid for by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. SEC. 2. Any executive department of the Federal Government (including any agency, independent establishment, or wholly owned instrumentality thereof, and including the District of Columbia) requiring Saint Elizabeths Hospital to care for patients for whom such department is responsible, shall, except to the extent that the expense of such care is authorized to be paid from appropriations to the hospital for the care of patients, pay by check to Saint Elizabeths Hospital, upon the Superintendent's request, either in advance or by way of reimbursement at the end of each calendar month or calendar quarter, such amounts as the Superintendent calculates to be due for such care on the basis of a per diem rate approved by the Bureau of the Budget. Bills rendered by the Superintendent on the basis of such calculations shall not be subject to audit or certification in advance of payment; but proper adjustment of amounts which have been paid in advance on the basis of such calculations shall be made monthly or quarterly, as may be agreed upon by the Superintendent of the hospital and the executive department concerned. SEC. 3. All sums paid to the Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the care of patients shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation for the care of patients at the hospital for the year in which such care is provided. SEC. 4. The Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital is authorized to operate and maintain at the hospital necessary facilities for feeding employees and others (at not less than cost, as determined by the Federal Security Administrator), and the proceeds from such operation shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation for the operation of Saint Elizabeths Hospital. SEC. 5. Appropriations for the care of persons in Saint Elizabeths Hospital shall be available for expenditure for furnishing, repairing, and cleaning such wearing apparel as may be prescribed by the superintendent of the hospital, for use by employees in the performance of their official duties; reimbursing employees, subject to regulations of the Federal Security Administrator, for the cost of repairing or replacing their personal belongings damaged or destroyed by patients while such employees are engaged in the performance of their official duties; expenses incurred in pursuing, identifying, and returning patients who escape from the hospital or from the custody of any employee, including rewards for the capture of such patients; expenses incurred in ascertaining the residence of patients whose care is not, or whose care is no longer, authorized at the hospital, and in returning such patients to their places of residence; expenses incurred in the removal of patients to their friends; and repairs, replacements, and minor improvements to the buildings and grounds of the hospital. Approved August 4, 1947. [PUBLIC LAW 379-80TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 510—1ST SESSION] [H. R. 3818] AN ACT To amend the Federal Insurance Contributions Act with respect to rates of tax on employers and employees, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That clauses (1), (2), and (3) of section 1400 of the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (Internal Revenue Code, sec. 1400), as amended, are hereby amended to read as follows: "(1) With respect to wages received during the calendar years 1939 to 1949, both inclusive, the rate shall be 1 per centum. "(2) With respect to wages received during the calendar years 1950 and 1951, the rate shall be 12 per centum. "(3) With respect to wages received after December 31, 1951, the rate shall be 2 per centum." SEC. 2. Clauses (1), (2), and (3) of section 1410 of the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (Internal Revenue Code, sec. 1410), as amended, are hereby amended to read as follows: "(1) With respect to wages paid during the calendar years 1939 to 1949, both inclusive, the rate shall be 1 per centum. "(2) With respect to wages paid during the calendar years 1950 and 1951, the rate shall be 12 per centum. "(3) With respect to wages paid after December 31, 1951, the rate shall be 2 per centum." SEC. 3. Section 504 of the Social Security Act Amendments of 1946 (Public Law 719, Seventy-ninth Congress), fixing the termination date of amendments relating to grants to States for old-age assistance, aid to the blind, and aid to dependent children, is hereby amended by striking out "December 31, 1947" and inserting in lieu thereof "June 30, 1950". SEC. 4. Section 603 of the War Mobilization and Reconversion Act of 1944 (terminating the provisions of such Act on June 30, 1947) shall not be applicable in the case of the amendments made by title IV of such Act to the Social Security Act. SEC. 5. (a) Section 904 (h) of the Social Security Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "(h) There is hereby established in the Unemployment Trust Fund a Federal unemployment account. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to such Federal unemployment account a sum equal to (1) the excess of taxes collected prior to July 1, 1946, under title IX of this Act or under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act, over the total unemployment administrative expenditures made prior to July 1, 1946, plus (2) the excess of taxes collected in each fiscal year beginning after June 30, 1946, and ending prior to July 1, 1949, under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act, over the unemployment administrative expenditures made in such year, and the excess of such taxes collected during the period beginning on July 1, 1949, and ending on December 31, 1949, over the unemployment administrative expenditures made during such period. Any amounts in the Federal unemployment account on April 1, 1950, and any amounts repaid to such account after such date, shall be covered into the general fund of the Treasury. As used in this subsection, the term 'unemployment administrative expenditures' means expenditures for grants under title III of this Act, expenditures for the administration of that title by the Board or the Administrator, and expenditures for the administration of title IX of this Act, or of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act by the Department of the Treasury, the Board, or the Administrator. For the purposes of this subsection there shall be deducted from the total amount of taxes collected prior to July 1, 1943, under title IX of this Act, the sum of $40,561,886.43 which was authorized to be appropriated by the Act of August 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 754) and the sum of $18.451,846 which was authorized to be appropriated by section 11 (b) of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act." (b) Section 1201 (a) of the Social Security Act is hereby amended by striking out "on June 30, 1945, or on the last day in any ensuing calendar quarter which ends prior to July 1, 1947", and inserting in lieu thereof "on June 30, 1947, or on the last day in any ensuing calendar quarter which ends prior to January 1, 1950". SEC. 6. This Act may be cited as the "Social Security Act Amendments of 1947." Approved August 6, 1947. [PUBLIC LAW 413-80TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 65-2D SESSION] [H. R. 1366] AN ACT To facilitate procurement of supplies and services by the Departments of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force, the Coast Guard, and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Armed Services Procurement Act of 1947." SEC. 2. (a) The provisions of this Act shall be applicable to all purchases and contracts for supplies or services made by the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Air Force, the United States Coast Guard, and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (each being hereinafter called the agency), for the use of any such agency or otherwise, and to be paid for from appropriated funds. (b) It is the declared policy of the Congress that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts for supplies and services for the Government shall be placed with small business concerns. Whenever it is proposed to make a contract or purchase in excess of $10,000 by negotiation and without advertising, pursuant to the authority of paragraph (7) or (8) of section 2 (c) of this Act, suitable advance publicity, as determined by the agency head with due regard to the type of supplies involved and other relevant considerations, shall be given for a period of at least fifteen days, wherever practicable, as determined by the agency head. (c) All purchases and contracts for supplies and services shall be made by advertising, as provided in section 3, except that such purchases and contracts may be negotiated by the agency head without advertising if (1) determined to be necessary in the public interest during the period of a national emergency declared by the President or by the Congress; (2) the public exigency will not admit of the delay incident to advertising; (3) the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $1,000; (5) for any service to be rendered by any university, college, or other educational institution; (6) the supplies or services are to be procured and used outside the limits of the United States and its possessions; (7) for medicines or medical supplies; (8) for supplies purchased for authorized resale; (9) for perishable subsistence supplies; (10) for supplies or services for which it is impracticable to secure competition; |