PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 113 -115 -MAY 6, 1939
Stationery, Treasury Department: For an additional amount for
stationery for the Treasury Department, fiscal year 1939, including
the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Depart-
ment Appropriation Act, 1939, $113,400.
Approved, May 6, 1939.
[CHAPTER 114]
AN ACT
May 6, 1939
AN ACT
[S. 1034]
To authorize the Secretary of War to terminate certain leases of the Long Island
[Public, No. 641
Railroad Company.
Long Island Rail-
road Company.
Termination of cer-
tain leases authorized.
Terms and condi-
tions.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secre-
tary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to terminate the leases
between the Long Island Railroad Company and the Secretary of
War dated May 7, 1926, and November 1, 1926, of property described
therein as the United States Army Base, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New
York, upon the railroad company placing the railroad tracks and
facilities located on the premises covered by these leases in good and
safe operating condition, giving all title to the railroad company's
freight station, railroad tracks, and facilities to the United States
now on the said premises, and paying in addition six months' rental,
at the going rate, from the time of the termination of the leases as
the consideration for the termination thereof.
Approved, May 6, 1939.
[CHAPTER 115]
AN ACT
May 6, 1939
AN ACT
[H. R. 4492]
Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the
[Public, No. 65]
fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
TITLE I-TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Treasury Depart-
ment Appropriation
Act 1940.
Salaries.
Experts.
Provisos.
Salaries limited to
average rates under
Classification Act; ex-
eeptions.
5U. S.C . 661 -674;
Supp. IV, 1 673, 673c.
Advances in merito-
rious cals.
That the following sums are appropriated out of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Treasury Department
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, namely:
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
Salaries: Secretary of the Treasury, Under Secretary of the Treas-
ury, three Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, and other personal
services in the District of Columbia, including the temporary employ-
ment of experts, $235,860: Provided, That in expending appropria-
tions or portions of appropriations contained in this Act for the
payment of personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance
with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception
of the Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury and the Assistant Post-
masters General, the average of the salaries of the total number of
persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation
unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation
rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended, and in grades
in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position
shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade,
except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade
advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the com-
Stationery.
52 Stat. 123.
654
[53 STAT.
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