not to be supplied through the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works: Provided, further, That this limitation upon time shall not apply to any project enjoined in any Federal or State court: Provided further, That in no case shall the amount of the grant exceed forty-five per centum of the cost of the project. Nothing herein shall be construed to increase the amount of notes, bonds, debentures, and other such obligations which the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is authorized and empowered under existing law to issue and to have outstanding at any one time, and nothing herein shall be construed to limit or curtail in any way any powers which the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works or the Administrator is now authorized to exercise. Any person who knowingly and with intent to defraud the United States makes any false statement in connection with any application for any project, employment, or relief aid under the foregoing appropriation, or diverts, or attempts to divert, or assists in diverting for the benefit of any person or persons not entitled thereto, any portion of the foregoing appropriation, or any services or real or personal property acquired thereunder, or who knowingly, by means of any fraud, force, threat, intimidation, or boycott, or discrimination on account of race, religion, or political affiliations, deprives any person of any of the benefits to which he may be entitled under the foregoing appropriation, or attempts so to do, or assists in so doing, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. No part of the foregoing appropriation shall be used to pay the salary or expenses of any person who is a candidate for any State, District, County, or Municipal office (such office requiring full time of such person and to which office a salary attaches), in any primary, general, or special election, or who is serving as a campaign manager or assistant thereto for any such candidate. The provisions of the Act of February 15, 1934 (48 Stat. 351), relating to disability or death compensation and benefits shall apply to persons (except administrative employees qualifying as civil employees of the United States) receiving compensation from the foregoing appropriation for services rendered as employees of the United States, and to persons receiving assistance in the form of payments from the United States for services rendered under the National Youth Administration, created by Executive order of June 26, 1935: Provided, That so much of the foregoing appropriation as the United States Employees' Compensation Commission, with the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, estimates and certifies to the Secretary of the Treasury will be necessary for the payment of such compensation and administrative expenses shall be set aside in a special fund to be administered by the Commission for such purposes; and after June 30, 1937, such special fund shall be available for such purposes annually in such amounts as may be specified therefor in the annual appropriation Acts: Provided further, That this paragraph shall also apply to persons employed and paid by the United States in those States in which the Federal Relief Administrator assumed control under section 3 (b) of the Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933 but such compensation shall be limited to fatal cases and permanent partial and permanent total disability cases where claim is filed within one year from the date of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That this paragraph shall not apply in any case coming within the purview of the workmen's compensation law of any State or Territory, or in which the claimant has received or is entitled to receive similar benefits for injury or death. So much of the foregoing appropriation as may be determined by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget to be necessary for administrative expenses of any department, establishment, or agency of the United States for additional work incident to carrying out of the purposes of the foregoing appropriation shall be allotted by the President and shall remain available to such agencies until June 30, 1938; the funds so allotted shall be available for expenditure for the same purposes for which funds have been allotted for administrative expenses under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935. The provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) shall not apply to any purchase made or service procured in connection with the foregoing appropriation when the aggregate amount involved is less than $300. Any Administrator or other officer named to have general supervision at the seat of Government over the program and work contemplated under the foregoing appropriation and receiving a salary of $5,000 or more per annum from such appropriation, and any State or regional administrator receiving a salary of $5,000 or more per annum from such appropriation, except persons now serving as such under other law, shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate: Provided, That the provisions of section 1761 of the Revised Statutes shall not apply to any such appointee and the salary of any person so appointed shall not be increased for a period of six months after confirmation. The Federal Emergency Relief Administrator is hereby authorized and directed to liquidate and wind up the affairs of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration under the Act of May 12, 1933, as amended, and funds available to it shall be available for expenditure for such purpose until June 30, 1937. A report of the operations under the foregoing appropriation shall be submitted by the President to Congress before the 10th day of January in each of the next two regular sessions of Congress, which report shall include a statement of the expenditures made and obligations incurred, by classes and amounts. * * * * TITLE IV-JUDGMENTS AND AUTHORIZED CLAIMS SEC. 7. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the establishments or agencies named in subsection (b) of this section shall, after June 30, 1937, incur any obligations for administrative expenses, except pursuant to an annual appropriation specifically therefor, nor shall any such establishment or agency continue to function after said date unless established by or pursuant to law: Provided, That nothing contained herein shall be construed to extend the period during which any such establishment or agency heretofore has been authorized by law to function. (b) 1. Federal Home Loan Bank Board; 2. Home Owners' Loan Corporation; 4. Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation; 6. Export-Import Bank of Washington; 7. Second Export-Import Bank of Washington, District of Columbia; 8. Reconstruction Finance Corporation; 9. Electric Home and Farm Authority; 10. Commodity Credit Corporation; 11. Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works; (c) The appropriation made by section 2 of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1937, for carrying out sections 7 to 17, inclusive, of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act is hereby made available to the Department of Agriculture for the purposes of carrying out such Act with respect to land devoted to growing trees for the production of gum turpentine and gum rosin. SEC. 8. After June 30, 1936, advance payments under the provisions of Title VI, Part II, of the Legislative Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1933, shall have no longer period of availability for obligation than the appropriation from which such advance payments are made. SEC. 9. This Act may be cited as the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936. Approved, June 22, 1936. [C. 860, 49 Stat. 2025; 40 U. S. C., Supp. III, 421-425] [PUBLIC-No. 837-74TH CONGRESS] [S. 3247] AN ACT To waive any exclusive jurisdiction over premises of Public Works Administration slum-clearance and low-cost housing projects, to authorize payments to States and political subdivisions in lieu of taxes on such premises, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the acquisition by the United States of any real property heretofore or hereafter acquired in connection with any low-cost housing, or slumclearance project heretofore, or hereafter constructed with funds allotted to the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works pursuant to title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act, the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, or any other law, shall not be held to deprive any State or political subdivision thereof of its civil and criminal jurisdiction in and over such property, or to impair the civil rights under the local law of the tenants or inhabitants on such property; and insofar as any such jurisdiction has been taken away from any such State or subdivision, or any such rights have been impaired, jurisdiction over any such property is hereby ceded back to such State or subdivision. SEC. 2. Upon the request of any State or political subdivision in which any such project has been or will be constructed, the Federal Emergency Administrator of Public Works is authorized to enter into an agreement, and to consent to the renewal or alteration thereof, with such State or subdivisions for the payment by the United States of sums in lieu of taxes. Such sums shall be fixed in such agreement and shall be based upon the cost of the public or municipal services to be supplied for the benefit of such project or the persons residing on or occupying such premises, but taking into consideration the benefits to be derived by such State or subdivision from such project. SEC. 3. Such payments in lieu of taxes, and any other expenditures for operation and maintenance (including insurance) of any lowcost housing or slum-clearance project described in section 1, shall be made out of the receipts derived from the operation of such projects. To provide for such payments and expenditures the Federal Emergency Administrator of Public Works is authorized from time to time to retain out of such receipts such sums as he may estimate to be necessary for such purposes. SEC. 4. (a) In the administration of any low-cost housing or slumclearance project described in section 1, the Federal Emergency Administrator of Public Works shall fix the rentals at an amount at least sufficient to pay (1) all necessary and proper administrative expenses of the project; (2) such sums as will suffice to repay, within a period not exceeding sixty years, at least 55 per centum of the initial cost of the project, together with interest at such rate as he deems advisable. (b) Dwelling accommodations in such low-cost housing or slumclearance projects shall be available only to families who lack sufficient income, without the benefit of financial assistance, to enable them to live in decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings, and under other than overcrowded housing conditions: Provided, That no family shall be accepted as a tenant in any such project whose aggregate income exceeds five times the rental of the quarters to be furnished such family. The term "rental" as used in this subsection includes the average cost (as determined by the Federal Emergency Administrator of Public Works) of heat, light, water, and cooking, where such services are not supplied by the lessor and included in the rent. SEC. 5. In connection with any low-cost housing or slum-clearance project described in section 1, the Federal Emergency Administrator of Public Works, with the approval of the President, is authorized to dedicate streets, alleys, and parks for public use, and to grant easements. Approved, June 29, 1936. [Extract from c. 396, 50 Stat. 329, 351] [PUBLIC-NO. 171-75TH CONGRESS] 13 [H. R. 4064] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, and for other purposes. Not to exceed $10,000,000 of the amount of $300,000,000 made available, upon the direction of the President, to the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works by Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936 shall be available during the fiscal year 1938 for administrative expenses in connection with the liquidation of said Administration, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; travel expenses, in accordance with the Standardized Government Travel Regulations and the Act of June 3, 1926, as amended (U. S. C., title 5, secs. 821-833); printing and binding; law books, books of reference, and not to exceed $500 for periodicals, newspapers, and press clippings; procurement of supplies, equipment, and services; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes; typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange; not to exceed $1,000 for expenses of attendance, when specifically authorized by the Administrator, at meetings concerned with the work of the Administration; rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and all other necessary administrative expenses: Provided, That except for the limitations in amounts hereinbefore specified, and the restrictions in respect to travel expenses, the administrative expenses, and other obligations of the Administration shall be incurred, allowed, and paid in accordance with the provisions of Title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act. SEC. 4. This Act may be cited as the "Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1938." Approved, June 28, 1937. 13 See note 5, p. 5, this compilation, |