77TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 40 -APR. 5, 1941 units of the Federal Works Agency such sums as represent a consoli- dation in the Office of the Administrator of any of the administrative functions of said constituent units; but no such transfer of funds shall be made unless the consolidation of administrative functions will result in a reduction of administrative salary and other expenses and such reduction is accompanied by savings in funds appropriated to the Federal Works Agency, which savings shall not be expended for any other purpose but shall be impounded and returned to the Treasury. PUBLIC BUILDINGS ADMINISTRATION For carrying into effect the provisions of the Public Buildings Acts, as provided in section 6 of the Act of May 30, 1908 (31 U. S . C. 683), and for the repair, preservation, and upkeep of all completed public buildings under the control of the Federal Works Agency, the mechanical equipment and the grounds thereof, and sites acquired for buildings, and for the operation of certain completed and occupied buildings under the control of the Federal Works Agency, including furniture and repairs thereof, but exclusive, with respect to operation, of buildings of the United States Coast Guard, of hospitals, quarantine stations, and other Public Health Service buildings, mints, bullion depositories, and assay offices, the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Liberty Loan, and Auditors' Buildings: General administrative expenses: For architectural, engineering, mechanical, administrative, clerical, and other personal services; traveling expenses, including expenses of employees directed by the Federal Works Administrator to attend meetings of technical and professional societies and educational exhibits in connection with subjects related to the work of the Public Buildings Administration, and for transfer of household goods and effects as provided by the Act of October 10, 1940 (Public, Numbered 839), and regulations promulgated thereunder; printing and binding (not to exceed $13,000), advertsing, not exceeding $1,000 for expenses of educational exhibits, specifically approved by the Federal Works Administrator, testing instruments, lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals, and such other contingencies, articles, services, equipment, or supplies as the Commissioner of Public Buildings may deem necessary in con- nection with any of the work of the Public Buildings Administra- tion; ground rent of the Federal buildings at Salamanca, New York, and Columbus, Mississippi, for which payment may be made in advance; expenses necessary to wind up the affairs of the United States Housing Corporation and effect its dissolution; $875,840, of which amount not to exceed $518,500 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia and not to exceed $196,910 for personal services in the field: Provided, That the foregoing appro- priations shall not be available for the cost of surveys, plaster models, progress photographs, test pits and borings, or mill and shop inspec- tions, but the cost thereof shall be construed to be chargeable against the construction appropriations of the respective projects to which they relate. Repair, preservation, and equipment, outside the District of Columbia: For repairs, alterations, improvement, and preservation, including personal services employed therefor, of completed Federal buildings (including Marcus Hook), the grounds and approaches 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 Post. pp. 546, 683 , 821. Maintenance. 35 Stat. 537. Administrative ex- penses. 54 Stat. 1105 . 5 U.S.C.§ 73c-1. Printing and bind- ing. U. S . Housing Cor- poration, dissolution. Provise. Surveys, models. etc. Buildings, etc., out- sideD.C. Maintenance. 105 55 STAT.]
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