Continuance of for non-Federal agen warehousing functions cies. plies, services, etc. available to the several departments and establishments of the Government for the fiscal year 1946 such amounts as may be approved by the Bureau of the Budget, not to exceed the sum of (a) the amount of the annual compensation of employees who may be transferred or detailed to the Procurement Division, respectively, from any such department or establishment, where the transfer or detail of such employees is incident to a transfer of a function or functions to that Division and (b) such amount as the Bureau of the Budget may determine to be necessary for expenses other than personal services incident to the proper carrying out of functions so transferred: Provided further, That when there has been or shall be transferred from any agency of the Government to the Procurement Division any function of warehousing, and the agency from which such function is being transferred is authorized at the time of such transfer to perform functions of procurement, warehousing, or distribution of property, equipment, stores, or supplies for non-Federal agencies the Procurement Division is authorized during the fiscal year 1946 to continue the performance of such functions for such non-Federal agencies where such functions are to be discontinued by the agency from which the warehousing function has been transferred, and the receipts, including surcharge, for all issues to and all advances by all non-Federal agencies shall be Payments for sup- credited to the general supply fund: Provided further, That payments during the fiscal year 1946 to the general supply fund for materials, and supplies (including fuel), and services, and overhead expenses for all issues shall be made on the books of the Treasury Department by transfer and counterwarrants prepared by the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department and countersigned by the Comptroller General, such warrants to be based solely on itemized invoices prepared by the Procurement Division at issue prices to be fixed by the Director of Procurement: Provided further, That payments covering transactions between the Procurement Division and field offices of other Government agencies whose detailed appropriation or fund accounts are maintained elsewhere than within the District of Columbia, may be made on the basis of itemized vouchers or invoices prepared by the Procurement Division and sent through the appropriate field offices to the disbursing officers for the agencies involved, who are hereby authorized to make payment based (1) upon certification of the Procurement Division, which shall include the specific statement that the vouchers are issued pursuant to and in conformity with purchase orders or requisitions duly executed by the agency billed, and (2) upon approval and certification of such vouchers by the agency billed, which action shall be based upon acceptance of the Procurement Division certification as made, subject to later adjustment if necessary, the responsibility of the certifying officer to be limited to the availability Standard forms and of the funds to be charged: Provided further, That the general supply fund may be used to purchase from or through the Public Printer standard forms and blankbook work for field warehouse stocking and issue, but issues thereof shall be made only to Government agencies and shall be chargeable to applicable appropriation authorizations or limitations of such agencies for printing and binding, and reports of such issues shall be made as the Public Printer may require: 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 1946 shall be credited to the general supply fund: Provided further, That during the fiscal year 1946 there shall be available from the general supply fund for personal services in the District of Columbia not to Per diem employees exceed $1,250,000: Provided further, That per diem employees engaged in work in connection with operations of the fuel yards may be paid Transactions with Government agencies. field offices of other blank book work for field warehouses. Crediting vances. 47 Stat. 417. of ad 3.S. C., Supp. IV, § 686. Personal services. at fuel yards. "Fuel." Reconditioning rates of pay approved by the Secretary of the Treasury not exceeding current rates for similar services in the District of Columbia: Provided further, That the term "fuel" shall be held to include "fuel oil": Provided further, That the reconditioning and repair of surplus property 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 general supply fund: Provided further, That all orders for printing and binding for the Treasury Department, exclusive of work performed in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and exclusive of such printing and binding as may under existing law be procured by field offices under authorization of the Joint Committee on Printing, shall be placed by the Director of Procurement in accord with the provisions of existing law. Repairs to typewriting machines (except bookkeeping and billing machines) in the Government service in the District of Columbia and areas adjacent thereto may be made at cost by the Procurement Division, payment therefor to be effected by charging the proper appropriation and crediting the general supply fund. No part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used during the fiscal year 1946 for the purchase, within the continental limits of the United States, of any standard typewriting machines (except bookkeeping, billing, and electric 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: Provided, That there may be added to such prices the amount of Federal excise taxes paid or payable with respect to any such machines. of Orders for printing and binding. Typewriting chines, repairs. Purchase prices. ma Surplus property. 58 Stat. 765. Surplus property program: For expenses of care and handling and other necessary expenses of the Procurement Division incident to the disposal of property under the Surplus Property Act of 1944; including personal services in the District of Columbia; stationery (not to IV, app. 5 1611-1646. exceed $90,000); purchase (including exchange) of lawbooks, books of reference, and periodicals; printing and binding (not to exceed $100,000); advertising; and maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger automobiles; $14,999,000. Printing and bind Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Procurement Division, including printed forms and miscellaneous items for ing. general use of the Treasury Department, the cost of transportation to field offices of printed and bound material and the cost of necessary packing boxes and packing materials, $150,000, together with not to exceed $4,000 to be transferred from the general supply fund, Treasury Department. Payment of salaries and expenses, restric No part of any appropriation or authorization in this Act shall be used to pay any part of the salary or expenses of any person tion. whose salary or expenses are prohibited from being paid from any appropriation or authorization in any other Act. This title may be cited as the "Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1946". Citation of title. Post Office Depart ment Appropriation TITLE II-POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT The following sums are appropriated in conformity with the Act of July 2, 1836 (5 U. S. C. 380, 39 U. S. C. 786), for the Post Office Post, pp. 427, 651, Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1946, namely: Act, 1946. 652. 5 Stat. 80. Post, p. 651. 41 U. 8. O. §5. Post, p. 651. 54 Stat. 2074. Printing and binding. Field-service appropriations, restriction on use. Travel expenses. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL Salaries: For the Postmaster General and other personal services in the office of the Postmaster General in the District of Columbia, $247,450. SALARIES IN BUREAUS AND OFFICES For personal services in the District of Columbia in bureaus and offices of the Post Office Department in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Office of Budget and Administrative Planning, $36,650. Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, $710,800. Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, $553,250. Office of the purchasing agent, $58,200. Bureau of Accounts, including the employment of not to exceed three temporary experts by contract or otherwise without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, or the civil-service and classification laws, $405,000. CONTINGENT EXPENSES, POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT For contingent and miscellaneous expenses; including stationery and blank books, index and guide cards, folders and binding devices, purchase of penalty envelopes; telegraph and telephone service; furniture and filing cabinets and repairs thereto; purchase of tools and electrical supplies; maintenance of two motor-driven passengercarrying vehicles; floor coverings; postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad, which is not exempt under article 49 of the Buenos Aires Convention of the Universal Postal Union; purchase and exchange of lawbooks, and books of reference; newspapers, not exceeding $200; and expenses of the purchasing agent and of the Solicitor and attorneys connected with his office while traveling on business of the Department, not exceeding $1,900; and other expenses not otherwise provided for; $133,000. For printing and binding for the Post Office Department, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $1,750,000. Appropriations hereinafter made for the field service of the Post Office Department, except as otherwise provided, shall not be expended for any of the purposes hereinbefore provided for on account of the Post Office Department in the District of Columbia: Provided, That the actual and necessary expenses of officials and employees of the Post Office Department and Postal Service, when traveling on official business, may be paid from the appropriations for the service in connection with which the travel is performed, and appropriations for the fiscal year 1946 shall be available therefor: Provided further, Examination of esti- That appropriations hereinafter made, except such as are exclusively for payment of compensation, shall be immediately available for mates. in connection with the examination of estimates for approexpenses priations in the field including per diem allowances in lieu of actual expenses of subsistence. FIELD SERVICE, POST OFFICE Department OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL Travel expenses, Postmaster General and Assistant Postmasters General: For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, offices of the Postmaster General and Assistant Postmasters General, $3,000. Personal or property damage claims: To enable the Postmaster General to pay claims for damages, occurring during the fiscal year 1946, or in prior fiscal years, to persons or property in accordance with the provisions of the Deficiency Appropriation Act, approved June 16, 1921 (5 U. S. C. 392), as amended by the Act approved June 22, 1934 (48 Stat. 1207), $75,000. Adjusted losses and contingencies: To enable the Postmaster General to pay to postmasters, Navy mail clerks, and assistant Navy mail clerks or credit them with the amount ascertained to have been lost or destroyed during the fiscal year 1946, or prior fiscal years, through burglary, fire, or other unavoidable casualty resulting from no fault or negligence on their part, as authorized by the Act approved March 17, 1882, as amended, $55,000. OFFICE OF CHIEF INSPECTOR Salaries of inspectors: For salaries of fifteen inspectors in charge of divisions and seven hundred and ninety-five inspectors, $3,073,375. Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling expenses of inspectors, inspectors in charge, the chief post-office inspector, and the assistant chief post-office inspector, including reimbursement of not to exceed 3 cents per mile for official travel performed by them in privately owned automobiles within the limits of their official stations, and for the traveling expenses of four clerks performing stenographic and clerical assistance to post-office inspectors in the investigation of important fraud cases; for tests, exhibits, documents, photographs, office, and other necessary expenses incurred by postoffice inspectors in connection with their official investigations, including necessary miscellaneous expenses of division headquarters, and not to exceed $500 for books of reference needed in the operation of the Post Office Inspection Service, $956,250: Provided, That not exceeding $15,000 of this sum shall be available for transfer by the Postmaster General to other departments and independent establishments for chemical and other investigations. Clerks, division headquarters: For compensation of three hundred and sixty-seven clerks at division headquarters and other posts of duty of post-office inspectors, $960,000. Payment of rewards: For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction of post-office burglars, robbers, highway mail robbers, and persons mailing or causing to be mailed any bomb, infernal machine, or mechanical, chemical, or other device or composition which may ignite, or explode, $55,000: Provided, That rewards may be paid in the discretion of the Postmaster General, when an offender of the classes mentioned was killed in the act of committing the crime or in resisting lawful arrest: Provided further, That no part of this sum shall be used to pay any rewards at rates in excess of those specified in Post Office Department Order 15142, Post, p. 651. 42 Stat. 63. 22 Stat. 29. Chemical, etc., investigations. Post, p. 651. Rewards. Death of offender. Limitation. tion. Securing of informa- dated February 19, 1941: Provided further, That of the amount herein appropriated not to exceed $20,000 may be expended in the discretion of the Postmaster General, for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the postal laws and for services and information looking toward the apprehension of criminals. OFFICE OF THE FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Compensation to postmasters: For compensation to postmasters, including compensation as postmaster to persons who, pending the designation of an acting postmaster, assume and properly perform the duties of postmaster in the event of a vacancy in the office of postmaster of the third or fourth class, and for allowances for rent, light, fuel, and equipment to postmasters of the fourth class, $59,773,000. Compensation to assistant postmasters: For compensation to assistant postmasters at first- and second-class post offices, $10,071,000. Clerks, first- and second-class post offices: For compensation to clerks and employees at first- and second-class post offices, including auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter post offices, printers, mechanics, skilled laborers, watchmen, messengers, mail handlers, and substitutes, $302,000,000. Contract station service: For contract station service, $2,900,000. Separating mails: For separating mails at third- and fourth-class post offices, $427,400. Unusual conditions: For unusual conditions at post offices, $500,000. Clerks, third-class post offices: For allowances to third-class post offices to cover the cost of clerical services, $11,492,000. Miscellaneous items, first- and second-class post offices: For miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to the operation and protection of post offices of the first and second classes, and the business conducted in connection therewith, not provided for in other appropriations, $3,200,000. Village delivery service: For village delivery service in towns and villages having post offices of the second or third class, and in communities adjacent to cities having city delivery, $375,000. Detroit River service: For Detroit River postal service, $12,990. Carfare and bicycle allowance: For carfare and bicycle allowance, including special-delivery carfare, cost of transporting carriers by privately owned automobiles to and from their routes, at rates not exceeding regular streetcar or bus fare, and purchase, maintenance, and exchange of bicycles, $1,575,000. City delivery carriers: For pay of letter carriers, City Delivery Service, and United States Official Mail and Messenger Service, $172,000,000. Special-delivery fees: For fees to special-delivery messengers, $11,500,000. Rural Delivery Service: For pay of rural carriers, auxiliary carriers, substitutes for rural carriers on annual and sick leave, clerks in charge of rural stations, and tolls and ferriage, Rural Delivery Service, and for the incidental expenses thereof, $93,598,000, of which not less than $200,000 shall be available for extensions and new service. OFFICE OF THE SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Star-route service: For inland transportation by star routes (excepting service in Alaska), including temporary service to newly established offices, $19,150,000. Star Route and Air Mail Service, Alaska: For inland transportation by Star Route and Air Mail Service in Alaska, $400,000. |