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74TH CONGRESS . SESS. I. CH. 39. MARCH 22, 1935 . To enable the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation to operate shi ps or lines of ships which hav e been or may be taken back from purchasers by reason of competition or other methods employed by foreign shipowners or operators, there is hereby reappropriated the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $10,000,000 made for similar purposes in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1927 : Provided, That no expendit ure shall be ma de for the pur poses of this p aragraph from this sum without the prior approval of the President of the United States . No part of the sums appropriated in this Act shall be used to pay the compensation of any attorney, regular or special, for the United States Shipping Board Bureau or the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation unless the contract of employment has been app roved by the At torney General of the United States . No part of the funds of the United States Shipping Board Mer- chant Fleet Cor oration sh all be availabl e to pay any sa lary at a rate in excess of 8,000 per annum . No part of the funds of the United States Shipping Board Mer- chant Fleet Corporation shall be available for the rent of buildings in the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1936 if suitable space is provided for said corporation by the Office of National Parks, Buildings, and Reservations of the Department of the Interior. No part of the funds of the United States Shipping Board Mer- chant Fleet Corporation sh all be availabl e during the fi scal year 1936 for the purchase of any kind of fuel oil of foreign production for issue, delivery, or sale to ships at points either in the United States or its possessions, where oil of the production of the United States or its possessions is available, if the cost of such oil compared with foreign-oil costs be not unreasonable . Of t he sums herein made available under the Unit ed States Ship- ping Board Bureau, not to exceed an aggregate of $150,000 shall be expended for compensation of regular attorneys employed on a yearly salary basis, including their clerical and legal assistants . This title may be cited as the " Department of Commerce Appro- priation Act, 1936 ." TITLE IV-DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Orr1CE OF THE SECRETARY Salaries : Secretary of Labor, Assistant Secretary, Second Assist- ant Secretary, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $257,000 . Promotion of health, safety, employment, and so forth : For sal- aries and expenses in connection with the promotion of health, safety, employment stabilization, and amicable industrial relations for labor and industry, $125,000, of which amount not to exceed $70,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia . Contingent expenses : For c onti ngen t an d mi scel lane ous expe nses of the offices and bureaus of the Department, for which appropria- tions for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specifically made, including the purchase of stationery, furniture, and repairs to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloths, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponge s, laundry, st reet-car fares not exceeding $ 200 ; pu r- chase, excha nge, maintenan ce, and repair of motorcycles and motor trucks ; purchase and exchange (not exceeding $2,500), maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying Vol .44,p .318. 101 Operation of ships . Prov iso . Approval of P res 1- dent . Attorneys, App rov al of co ntr act of em plo yme nt. Salary restriction . Rent . Vol . 48, p. 389. Fuel oil of foreign production . Purchase, use, etc ., restricted. Compensation of at- to rneys . Shor t tit le . Depa rtment of La- bor . Office of the Secre- tary . Salaries. Promotion of health, safety, employment, etc. Contingent expenses.