75TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CH. 55-MAR. 28, 1938 PUBLIC DEBT SERVICE Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses connected with the administration of any public-debt issues and United States paper- currency issues with which the Secretary of the Treasury is charged including the purchase of law books, directories, books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, and newspapers, and the maintenance, opera- tion, and repair of a motor-propelled bus or station wagon for use of the Destruction Committee, and including the Commissioner of the Public Debt and other personal services in the District of Colum- bia, $2,300,000: Provided, That the amount to be expended for per- sonal services in the District of Columbia shall not exceed $2,271,500: Provided further, That the indefinite appropriation "Expenses of loans, Act of September 24, 1917, as amended and extended" (31 U. S . C . 760, 761), shall not be used during the fiscal year 1939 to supplement the appropriation herein made for the current work of the Public Debt Service and the amount obligated under such indefi- nite appropriation during such fiscal year shall not exceed $3,500,000. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive paper for United States currency and Federal Reserve bank currency, including transportation of paper, traveling, mill, and other neces- sary expenses. and salaries of employees and allowance, in lieu of expenses, of officer or officers detailed from the Treasury Department, not exceeding $50 per month each when actually on duty; in all, $1,050,000: Provided, That in order to foster competition in the man- ufacture of distinctive paper for United States securities, the Secre- tary of the Treasury is authorized, in his discretion, to split the award for such paper for the fiscal year 1939 between the two bidders whose prices per pound are the lowest received after advertisement. Public Debt Serv- ice. Salaries and ex- penses. Reference books, etc. Services in the Dis- trict. Provisos. Limitation. Use of indefinite appropriation restrict- ed. 31U.S.C.§§760, 761. Distinctive paper for U. S . securities. Expenses. Proviso. Division of award. DIVISION OF APPOINTMENTS Salaries: For the Chief of the Division, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $44,560. BUREAU OF CUSTOMS Salaries and expenses: For collecting the revenue from customs, for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, and not to exceed $100,000 for the securing of evidence of violations of the customs laws; for expenses of transportation and transfer of customs receipts from points where there are no Government deposi- tories; not to exceed $84,500 for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (31 U. S. C. 118a), but not to exceed $1,700 for any one person; not to exceed $500 for subscriptions to newspapers; not to exceed $1,500 for improving, repairing, maintaining, or preserving buildings, inspection stations, office quarters, including living quar- ters for officers, sheds and sites along the Canadian and Mexican borders acquired under authority of the Act of June 26, 1930 (19 U. S . C. 68); and including the purchase (not to exceed $87,500), exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled pas- senger-carrying vehicles when necessary for official use in field work; $20,850,000, of which such amount as may be necessary shall be avail- able for the payment of extra compensation earned by customs officers or employees for overtime services, at the expense of the parties in interest, in accordance with the provisions of section 5 of the Act approved February 13, 1911, as amended by the Act approved Feb- ruary 7, 1920, and section 451 of the Tariff Act, 1930 (19 U. S . C . 261, Division of Ap- pointments. Salaries. Bureau of Customs. Salaries and penses. ex- Transfer of receipts from points lacking Government deposi- tories. Living quarters. 46 Stat. 818 . 6U.S.C. 118a. Quarters along bor- ders. 46 Stat. 817. 19U.S.C.§68. Vehicles. Overtime services, at expense of parties in interest. 36 Stat. 901; 41 Stat. 402; 46 Stat. 715. 19 U. . C. § 261, 267, 1451. 52 STAT.] 125
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