Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 56 Part 1.djvu/434

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savings shall not be expended for any other purpose but shall be impounded and returned to the Treasury. PUBLIC BUILDINGS ADMINISTRATION Maintenance. For carrying into effect the provisions of the Public Buildings 3 Stat. 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 occu- pied 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 build- ings, mints, bullion depositories, and assay offices, and buildings operated by the Treasury and Post Office Departments in the District of Columbia. Administrative ex- General administrative expenses: For architectural, engineering, postep. s99. mechanical, administrative, clerical, and other personal services; not to exceed $135,000 for traveling expenses, and for transfer of house- 54 statr.05. hold goods and effects as provided by the Act of October 10, 1940, Printing and bind-, and regulations promulgated thereunder; printing and binding (not in. to exceed $20,000), advertising, testing instruments, lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals, and such other contingencies, articles, serv- ices, equipment, or supplies as the Commissioner of Public Build- ings may deem necessary in connection with any of the work of the Public Buildings Administration; ground rent of the Federal build- ings at Salamanca, New York, and Columbus, Mississippi, for which U. s. HousingCor- payment may be made in advance; expenses necessary to wind up raon dissolutionthe affairs of the United States Housing Corporation and effect its dissolution; $1,100,000, of which amount not to exceed $600,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia and r's, models. not to exceed $356,070 for personal services in the field: Provided, Surveys, models, etc. That the foregoing appropriations shall not be available for the cost of surveys, plaster models, progress photographs, test pits and bor- ings, or mill and shop inspections, but the cost thereof shall be con- strued to be chargeable against the construction appropriations of the respective projects to which they relate. Buildings, etc., out Repair, preservation, and equipment, outside the District of side i. C'u Maintenlmce. 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 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 com- pleted and occupied, 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 Pnen,-ti-tb pneumatic-tube system in New York City installed under franchise City. of the city of New York, approved June 29, 1909. and June 11, 1928, and the payment of any obligations arising thereunder in accord- Protiso. ance with the provisions of the Acts approved August 5, 1909 (36 Limitation. Stat. 120), and May 15, 1928 (45 Stat. 533), $3413,275: Provided, That the total expenditures for the fiscal year for the repair and 406 [56 STAT. PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 450 -JUNE 27, 1942