Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 53 Part 2.djvu/198

This page needs to be proofread.

PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 115-MAY 6, 1939 Credit of advances to general supply fund. 47 Stat. 417. 31 U.S.C. 686. Personal services. "Fuel" construed. Separate certificate waived. R. S. 3711,3713. 40U.S.C. 109. Cost of recondition- ing equipment. Repairs to typewrit- ing machines. Prices of standard typewritingmachines; exceptions. Check clearance, etc., expenses. the Director of Procurement: Provided further, That advances received pursuant to law (31 U. S. C. 686) from departments and establishments of the United States Government and the government of the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1940 shall be cred- ited to the general supply fund: Providedfurther, That not to exceed $700,000 shall be available from the general supply fund during the fiscal year 1940 for personal services: Provided further, That the term "fuel" shall be held to include "fuel oil": Provided further, That the requirements of sections 3711 and 3713 of the Revised Stat- utes (40 U. S. C. 109) relative to the weighing of coal and wood and the separate certificate as to the weight, measurement, or quantity of coal and wood purchased shall not apply to purchases by the Pro- curement Division at free-on -board destination outside of the Dis- trict of Columbia: Provided further, That the reconditioning and repair of surplus property and equipment, for disposition or reissue to Government service, may be made at cost by the Procurement Division, payment therefor to be effected by charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation "Salaries and expenses, Branch of Supply, Procurement Division". Repairs to typewriting machines (except bookkeeping and billing machines) in the Government service in the District of Columbia may be made at cost by the Procurement Division, payment therefor to be effected by charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation "Salaries and expenses, Procurement Division, Branch of Supply". No part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used during the fiscal year 1940 for the purchase of any standard typewriting machines, except bookkeeping and billing machines, at a price in excess of the following for models with carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches (correspondence models), $70; twelve inches, $75; fourteen inches, $77.50; sixteen inches, $82.50; eighteen inches, $87.50; twenty inches, $94; twenty-two inches, $95, twenty-four inches, $97.50; twenty-six inches, $103.50; twenty-eight inches, $104; thirty inches, $105; thirty-two inches, $107.50; or, for standard typewriting machines distinctively quiet in operation, the maximum prices shall be as follows for models with carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches, $80; twelve inches, $85; fourteen inches, $90; eighteen inches, $95. With the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, there may be transferred sums (not exceeding a total of $475,000) to the appropriations, "Salaries, Office of Treasurer of the United States, 1940', "Contingent expenses, Treasury Department, 1940", "Printing and binding, Treasury Department, 1940", and "Stationery, Treasury Department, 1940", from funds available for the Agric- tural Adjustment Administration, Home Owners' Loan Corporation Farm Credit Administration, Tennessee Valley Authority, Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Federal land banks and other banks and corporations under the supervision of the Farm Credit Administration, Railroad Retirement Board, Soil Conservation Service, including Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment, Social Security Board, Federal Housing Admin- istration, United States Housing Authority, Civilian Conservation Corps Public Works Administration, Commodity Credit Corpora- tion, Rural Electrification Administration, and corporations and banks under the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to cover the expenses incurred on account of such respective activities in clearing of checks, servicing of bonds, handling of collections, and rendering of accounts therefor. 674 [53 STAT.