52 STAT.] 75TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CH. 55 -MAR . 28 , 1938 thereof, wharves, and piers, together with the necessary dredging adjacent thereto, and care and safeguarding, not otherwise provided for, of sites acquired for Federal buildings, including tools and mate- rials for the use of the custodial and mechanical force, wire parti- tions and insect screens, installation and repair of mechanical equip- ment, gas, and electric-light fixtures, conduits, wiring, platform scales, and tower clocks; vaults and lockbox equipment in all buildings under construction or completed, and for necessary safe equipments in buildings under the administration of the Treasury Department, including repairs thereto, and changes in, maintenance of, and repairs to the pneumatic-tube system in New York City installed under fran- chise of the city of New York, approved June 29, 1909, and June 11, 1928, and the payment of any obligations arising thereunder in accordance with the provisions of the Acts approved August 5, 1909 (36 Stat. 120), and May 15, 1928 (45 Stat. 533), $2,750,000: Pro- vided, That the appropriation herein made shall not be available for the payment of personal services, except for work done under con- tract, or for temporary job labor under exigency in an amount not to exceed $100 at one time at any one building: Provided further, That the total expenditures for the fiscal year for the repair and preserva- tion of buildings not reserved by the vendors on sites acquired for buildings or the enlargement of buildings and the installation and repair of the mechanical equipment thereof shall not exceed 20 per centum of the annual rental of such buildings. Operating force for public buildings: For personal services, including also telephone operators for the operation of telephone switchboards or equivalent telephone switching equipment jointly serving in each case two or more governmental activities, $1,585,900: Provided, That in no case shall the rates of compensation for the mechanical labor force under this appropriation be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services are employed. Furniture and repairs of furniture, public buildings: For furni- ture, carpets, and repairs of same, for certain completed and occu- pied Treasury buildings, and for public buildings in course of con- struction which are to be operated by the Public Buildings Branch, $50,000: Provided, That the foregoing appropriation shall not be used for personal services except for work done under contract or for temporary job labor under exigency and not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building: Providedfurther That all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings or in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not. Operating supplies, public buildings: For fuel, steam, gas for lighting and heating purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for lighting, heating, and power purposes, telephone service for custodial forces; removal of ashes and rubbish, snow, and ice; cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, and miscellaneous items for use of the custodial forces in the care and maintenance of such public buildings, the grounds thereof, and the equipment and furnishings therein; temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building; miscellaneous supplies, tools, and appliances required in the operation (not embracing repairs) of the mechanical equipment, including heating, plumbing, hoisting, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum-cleaning, air-conditioning and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit Pneumatic tube sys- tem, New York City. 36 Stat. 120; 45 Stat. 533. Provisos. Personal services, restriction. Limitation on re- pair, etc. Operating force for public buildings. Proviso. Wage rates. Furniture, etc. Provisos. Personal services, restriction. Use of present fur- niture. Operating supplies. Fuel, light, power, etc. Miscellaneous. 137
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