53 STAT.]
76 TH CONG. , IST SESS.-CH. 633- -AUG. 9, 1939
FEDERAL WORKS AGENOT
PUBLIC BUILDINGS ADMINISTRATION
Great Plaza Development, Triangle, Washington, District of
Columbia: For the preparation, for location thereon of the Oscar S.
Straus Memorial authorized by the Act of March 2, 1929 (45 Stat.
1540), of a portion of the Great Plaza, including necessary drainage
and administrative expenses, fiscal year 1940, to remain available
until expended, $7,250.
The item "Procurement Division, Public Buildings Branch, Con-
struction of Public Buildings outside the District of Columbia", in
the Treasury Department Appropriation Act of 1940, is hereby
amended to increase the limits of cost to the amounts indicated after
each of the hereinafter-mentioned projects contained in House Docu-
ment Numbered 177, Seventy-sixth Congress: Tempe, Arizona, post
office, and so forth, $160,000; Antioch, California, post office, $98,000;
Bellflower, California, post office, $125,000; Chicago, Illinois (Jack-
son Park Postal Station), $350,000; Ellicott City, Maryland, post
office, and so forth, $117,000; Hamilton, Montana, post office, and so
forth, $100,000; Hamlet, North Carolina, post office, and so forth,
$90,000.
PUBLIC ROADS ADMINISTRATION
Inter-American Highway: For the continuation of cooperation
with the several governments, members of the Pan American Union,
in connection with the survey and construction of the inter-Amer-
ican highway as provided in Public Resolution Numbered 104,
approved March 4, 1929 (45 Stat. 1697), as amended or supple-
mented, and for performing engineering service in pan-American
countries for and upon the request of any agency or governmental
corporation of the United States, the Public Roads Administration
is hereby authorized to expend not to exceed $40,000 to pay all costs
incurred for such work from the administrative funds provided
under the Act of July 11, 1916 (23 U. S. C . 21), as amended or
supplemented, or as otherwise provided.
GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE MEMORIAL COMMISSION
For carrying out the provisions of the public resolution entitled
"Joint resolution to establish the General Anthony Wayne Memorial
Commission to formulate plans for the construction of a permanent
memorial to the memory of General Anthony Wayne", approved
August 19, 1937, fiscal year 1940, to be available for obligations there-
tofore incurred, $1,500.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
General administrative expenses, Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion: For an additional amount for eleven Commissioners, Secretary,
and for all other authorized expenditures necessary in the execution
of laws to regulate commerce, including the same objects specified
under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1940,
$40,000: Provided, That the limitation under this head in such Act
upon the amount that may be expended for personal services in the
District of Columbia is hereby increased to $2,368,000.
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIITH ANNIVERSARY OF THE WRITING OF THE
STAR-SPANGLED BANNER
To provide for participation by the United States in the celebra-
tion to be held at Fort McHenry on September 14, 1939, in celebra-
1305
Great Plaza De-
velopment, Triangle,
D.C.
Oscar S. Straus Me-
morial.
45 Stat. 1540.
Construction
of
public buildings out-
side D. C.
Ante, p. 672.
Limits of cost of
designated projects in-
creased.
Inter-American
Highway.
45 Stat. 1697.
Engineeringservice.
42 Stat. 217.
23U.S.C.§21.
Formulation of
plans, etc.
50 Stat. 695.
Administrative ex-
penses.
Ante, p. 533.
Proviso.
Personal services.
Participation by
U.S.
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