79TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 106-MAY 3,1945 of reference; purchase (not exceeding five) and repair, maintenance, and operation of passenger automobiles; and travel expenses (not to exceed $20,000). Virgin Islands public works: To enable the Federal Works Admin- POO P-O. istrator to carry out the functions vested in him by, and in accordance with the provisions of, the Act of December 20, 1944 (Public Law 58Stat.82 . 510), $150,000, to be immediately available. For deposit in the general fund of the Treasury for cost of penalty mail of the Federal Works Agency as required by section 2 of the 389Sat.39. pp Act of June 28, 1944 (Public Law 364), $25,767. IV, §321d. PUBLIC BUILDINGS ADMINISTRATION Post, p. 38 For carrying into effect the provisions of the Public Buildings 5^iSte.n7. Acts, as provided in section 6 of the Act of May 30, 1908 (31 U. . C. 683), and for the repair, preservation, and upkeep of all com- pleted 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, and buildings operated by the Treasury and Post Office Departments in the District of Columbia: General administrative expenses: For architectural, engineering, pAditrative ex- mechanical, administrative, clerical, and other personal services; traveling expenses, printing and binding (not to exceed $32,000), advertising, testing instruments, lawbooks, books of reference, peri- odicals. and such other contingencies, articles, services, equipment, or supplies as the Commissioner of Public Buildings may deem necessary in connection with any of the work of the Public Buildings Administration; ground rent of the Federal buildings at Salamanca, New York, and Columbus, Mississippi, for which payment may be made in advance, $1,335,710, of which not to exceed $638,540 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia and not to exceed $513,500 for personal services in the field: Provided, That tUrvey. """mdels the foregoing appropriations shall not be available for the cost of surveys, plaster models, progress photographs, test pits and borings or mill and shop inspections 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 side s etc. out- Columbia: For repairs, alterations, improvement, and preservation, Maintenance. including personal services employed therefor, of completed Federal buildings, 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 materials for the use of the custodial and mechanical force, wire partitions and insect screens, installation and repair of mechanical equipment, gas, and electric- light fixtures, conduits, wiring, platform scales, and tower clocks; vaults and lockbox equipment in all buildings completed and occu- pied, and for necessary safe equipments in buildings under the administration of the Federal Works Agency, including repairs thereto, and changes in, maintenance of, and repairs to the pneumatic- P ne"n Yae tube system in New York City installed under franchise of the city it. of New York, approved June 29, 1909, and June 11, 1928, and the payment of any obligations arising thereunder in accordance with 66347 -46 -PT . I-8 59 STAT.]
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