74th congress. SESS. II. CH. 405. MAY 15, 1936. 



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Of the .sums herein made available under. the United States 

 Shipping Board Bureau, not to exceed an aggregate of $150,000 

 shall be expendeil for compensation of regular attorneys employed 

 on a yearly salary basis, including their clerical and legal assistants. 



This title may be cited as the Department of Commerce Appro- 

 priation Act, 1937. 



TITLE IV— DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 



OFFICE or THE SECRETARY 



Salaries: Secretary of Labor, Assistant Secretary, Second Assist- 

 ant Secretary, and other personal services in the District of 

 Columbia, $330,000: Provided, That persons (not exceeding ten 

 in number) now employed in the determination of wages pursuant 

 to the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Act 

 approved March 3, 1931, relating to the rate of wages for laborers 

 and mechanics employed by contractors and subcontractors on public 

 buildings", approved August 30, 1935, may be continued in such 

 employment and paid from the amount herein api^ropriated without 

 regard to the provisions of tlie civil-service laws requiring com- 

 petitive examinations : Provided further, That said personnel (except 

 attorneys and referees) shall be required to take nonassembled 

 examinations. 



Promotion of health, safety, employment, and so forth: For 

 salaries and expenses in connection with the promotion of health, 

 safety, employment stabilization, and amicable industrial relations 

 for labor and industry, $140,000, of which amount not to exceed 

 $83,580 may be expended for personal services in the District of 

 Columbia. 



Contingent expenses : For contingent and miscellaneous expenses 

 of the offices and bureaus of the Department, for which appropria- 

 tions for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specifically 

 made, including the purchase of stationery, fiirniture, and repaii's 

 to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloths, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, 

 soap, sponges, laundry, street-car fares not exceeding $400; purchase, 

 exchange, maintenance, and repair of motorcycles and motor trucks; 

 maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-propelled passenger- 

 carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; freight and 

 express charges; newspaper clippings not to exceed $1,200, postage 

 to foreign countries, telegrai^h and telephone service, typewriters, 

 adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; purchase of law 

 books, books of reference, newspapers and periodicals, not exceeding 

 $4,500; contract stenographic services; all other necessaiy miscel- 

 laneous items and expenses not included in the foregoing; and not 

 to exceed $25,000 for purchase of certain supplies foi* the Immigra- 

 tion and Naturalization Service; in all, $112,500: Provided, That 

 section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (U. S. C, 

 title 41, sec. 5) shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or 

 service rendered for the Department of Labor when the aggregate 

 amount involved does not exceed the sum of $100. 



Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Depart- 

 ment of Labor, including all its bureaus, offices, institutions, and 

 services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, 

 $250,000. 



Commissioners of conciliation : To enable the Secretary of Labor 

 to exercise the authority vested in him by section 8 of the Act creat- 

 ing the Department of Labor (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 611 ^) and to 



1 So in original. 



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Compensation of at- 

 torneys. 



Short title. 



Department of 

 Labor. 



Office of the Secre- 

 tary. 



Salaries. 



Provisos. 



Personnel determin- 

 ing wage rates, re- 

 tained. 



Public Laws, 1st 

 sess., p. 1011. 



Nonassembled e.xami- 

 nations required. 



Promotion of health, 

 safety, employment, 

 etc. 



Contingent e.xpenses. 



Proviso. 



Minor purchases. 

 R. S., sec. 3709, p. 

 733; U. S. C, p. 1S03. 



Printing and binding. 



C ommissioners 

 of conciliation. 

 Vol. 37, p. 738. 

 U. S. C.,p. 81. 



