INCREASED PAY COSTS

INCREASED PAY COSTS For additional amounts for appropriations for the fiscal year 1956, for increased pay costs authorized by the Act of March 2, 1955 (Public Law 9), the Act of June 10, 1955 (Public Law 68), the Act of June 28, 1955 (Public Law 94), the Act of July 11, 1955 (Public Law 139), the Act of August 5, 1955 (Public Law 242), the Act of August 5, 1955 (Public Law 243), and the Act of August 5, 1955 (Public Law 244), as follows: Legislative Branch Senate: “Salaries, officers and employees”, $3,763,750; Contingent expenses of the Senate: “Joint Committee on the Economic Report”, $10,985; “Joint Committee on Atomic Energy”, $14,715; “Joint Committee on Printing”, for compiling, preparing, and indexing material for the biographical directory, $140; “Vice President’s automobile”, $325; “Automobile for the President pro tempore”, $325; “Automobiles for majority and minority leaders”, $650; “Reporting Senate proceedings”, $10,925; “Folding documents”, $2,000; “Inquiries and investigations”, including $7,500 authorized by Public Law 295, Eighty-fourth Congress, approved August 9, 1955, $67,880; “Miscellaneous items”, $15,130; 70 Stat. 177 House of Representatives: “Salaries, officers and employees”, $681,345; “Members’ clerk hire”, $3,100,000; Contingent expenses of the House: “Furniture”, $9,300; “Special and select committees”, $150,000; “Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation”, $20,000; “Office of the Coordinator of Information”, $4,160; “Attending physician’s office”, $2,160; “Folding documents”, $40,000; “Revision of laws”, $2,800; “Speaker’s automobile”, $700; “Automobile for the Majority Leader”, $665; “Automobile for the Minority Leader”, $665; Capitol police: “Capitol Police Board”, $6,810; “Office of the Legislative Counsel”, $38,000 of which $12,000 shall be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and $26,000 shall be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives; “Education of Senate and House pages”, $1,450; Architect of the Capitol: Office of the Architect of the Capitol: “Salaries”, $6,000; Botanic Garden: “Salaries and expenses”, $2,000; Library of Congress: “Salaries and expenses”, $283,064; Copyright Office: “Salaries and expenses”, $80,415; Legislative reference service: “Salaries and expenses”, $70,055; Distribution of catalog cards: “Salaries and expenses”, $52,359; “Boots for the blind”, $6,678; Government Printing Office: Office of Superintendent of Documents: “Salaries and expenses”, $87,270; The Judiciary Supreme Court of the United States: “Salaries”, $9,000; Customs Court: “Salaries and expenses”, $12,500; Courts of appeals, district courts, and other judicial services: “Salaries of supporting personnel”, $825,000; “Administrative Office of the United States Courts”, $36,500; Executive Office of the President “Executive Mansion and grounds”, $17,575; Bureau of the Budget: “Salaries and expenses”, $210,000; Council of Economic Advisers: “Salaries and expenses”, $4,000; National Security Council: “Salaries and expenses”, $4,000; Office of Defense Mobilization: “Salaries and expenses”, $50,000; President’s Commission on Veterans’ Pensions: “Salaries and expenses”, $12,000; Funds Appropriated to the President “Refugee relief” (decrease the amount of the limitation under this head in the Departments of State and Justice, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1956, on capital for making loans from “$2,000,000” to “$1,685,655”); 70 Stat. 178 Independent Offices American Battle Monuments Commission: “Salaries and expenses”, $9,000; Civil Service Commission: “Salaries and expenses”, $1,065,000; Federal Civil Defense Administration: “Operations”, $362,000, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Emergency supplies and equipment”; “Salaries and expenses, civil defense functions of Federal agencies”, $40,000, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Emergency supplies and equipment”; Federal Communications Commission: “Salaries and expenses”, $453,000; Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service: “Salaries and expenses”, $160,000; Federal Power Commission: “Salaries and expenses”, $250,000; Federal Trade Commission: “Salaries and expenses”, $286,000; General Accounting Office: “Salaries and expenses”, $1,500,000; Indian Claims Commission: “Salaries and expenses”, $1,700; Interstate Commerce Commission: “General expenses”, $670,000; “Railroad safety”, $60,500; “Locomotive inspection”, $44,500; National Capital Housing Authority: “Maintenance and operation of properties”, $1,400; National Capital Planning Commission: “Salaries and expenses”, $6,700; National Mediation Board: National Railroad Adjustment Board: “Salaries and expenses” (decrease of $18,000 in the limitation upon the amount available for compensation and expenses of referees); Securities and Exchange Commission: “Salaries and expenses”, $323,000; Selective Service System: “Salaries and expenses” (decrease the amount of the limitation under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1956, on the amount available for registration, classification, and induction activities of local boards from “$20,963,700” to “$20,636,300”); Small Business Administration: “Salaries and expenses”, $128,000; Smithsonian Institution: “Salaries and expenses”, $166,000; “Salaries and expenses, National Gallery of Art”, $81,000; Tariff Commission: “Salaries and expenses”, $83,000; United States Information Agency: “Salaries and expenses”, $2,000,000; Veterans Administration: “General operating expenses”, $9,500,000; “Medical administration and miscellaneous operating expenses”, $755,600; “Inpatient care”, $30,790,600; “Maintenance and operation of supply depots”, $50,000; General Services Administration “Emergency operating expenses”, $265,000; “Operating expenses, Federal Supply Service”, $190,000; “Expenses, general supply fund”, $625,000; “Operating expenses, National Archives and Records Service”, $325,000; “Administrative operations”, $285,000; 70 Stat. 179 “Abaca fiber program” (increase of $2,000 in the limitation upon the amount which may be used for administrative expenses); Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service: “Research on strategic and critical agricultural materials”, $14,000; “Foot-and-mouth and other contagious diseases of animals and poultry”, $45,000; Extension Service: Federal Extension Service: “Administration and coordination”, $60,000, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Payments to States, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico”; “Farmer Cooperative Service”, $19,000; Forest Service: “State and private forestry cooperation”, $45,000; Soil Conservation Service: “Conservation operations”, $3,650,000; Agricultural Marketing Service: “Marketing research and service”, $1,300,000, of which $925,000 shall be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Payments to States, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico”, Extension Service; “Foreign Agricultural Service”, $80,000; “Commodity Exchange Authority”, $44,000; Commodity Stabilization Service: “Agricultural adjustment programs”, $150,000; “Federal Crop Insurance Corporation”, $214,200; Rural Electrification Administration: “Salaries and expenses”, $460,000; “Office of the General Counsel”, $116,000; “Office of the Secretary”, $138,000; “Office of Information”, $43,500; “Library”, $40,000; Department of Commerce Office of the Secretary: “Salaries and expenses”, $140,500; Bureau of the Census: “Censuses of business, manufactures, and mineral industries”, $304,000; Civil Aeronautics Administration: “Operation and regulation”, $5,890,000; “Maintenance and operation, Washington National Airport”, $38,000; “Maintenance and operation of public airports, Territory of Alaska”, $17,500; Civil Aeronautics Board: “Salaries and expenses”, $265,000; Coast and Geodetic Survey: “Salaries and expenses”, $340,000; Business and Defense Services Administration: “Salaries and expenses”, $402,000; Bureau of Foreign Commerce: “Salaries and expenses”, $130,500; “Export Control”, $186,000; Office of Business Economics: “Salaries and expenses”, $60,000; Maritime activities: “Salaries and expenses”, $525,500; and increase the limitations thereunder as follows: Administrative expenses, $410,000; Maintenance of shipyard facilities and operation of warehouses, $37,200; Reserve fleet expenses, $78,300; Patent Office: “Salaries and expenses”, $500,000; National Bureau of Standards: “Expenses”, $413,500; Weather Bureau: “Salaries and expenses”, $1,650,000; 70 Stat. 180 Department of Defense—Military Functions Office of the Secretary of Defense: “Salaries and expenses”, $769,000; “Office of Public Affairs”, $27,500; Interservice activities: “Court of Military Appeals”, $41,400; Department of the Navy: “Service-wide supply and finance”, $7,400,000; “Service-wide operations”, $2,180,000; Department of Defense—Civil Functions Department of the Army: Rivers and harbors and flood control: “General investigations”, $100,000; “General expenses”, $550,000; “United States Soldiers’ Home”, $137,000, to be paid from the Soldiers’ Home permanent fund; Canal Zone Government: “Operating expenses”, $448,000; “Panama Canal Company” (increase of $49,000 in the limitation upon the amount which may be used for administrative expenses); Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Food and Drug Administration: “Salaries and expenses”, $360,000; Freedmen’s Hospital: “Salaries and expenses”. $100,000: Gallaudet College: “Salaries and expenses”, $9,000; Howard University: “Salaries and expenses”, $215,000; Office of Education: “Salaries and expenses”, $190,000, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Promotion and further development of vocational education”; “Salaries and expenses. White House Conference on Education”, $8,000; Office of Vocational Rehabilitation: “Salaries and expenses”, $8,000; Public Health Service: “Assistance to States, general”, $161,000; “Venereal diseases”, $116,000; “Tuberculosis”, $62,000; “Communicable diseases”, $146,000; “Sanitary engineering activities”, $120,000; “Disease and sanitary investigations and control, Territory of Alaska”, $14,000; “Salaries and expenses, hospital construction services”, $40,000; “Hospitals and medical care”, $1,070,000; “Foreign quarantine service”, $150,000; “Indian health activities”, $1,150,000; “National Institutes of Health, operating expenses”, $30,000; “National Cancer Institute”, $150,000; “National Heart Institute”, $120,000, of which $90,000 shall be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Construction of housing facilities for animals”; “Dental health activities”, $40,000; “Arthritis and metabolic disease activities”, $100,000; “Microbiology activities”, $195,000; “Salaries and expenses”, $154,000; Saint Elizabeths Hospital: “Salaries and expenses”, $117,000; Social Security Administration: “Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance”, $5,229,000, to be derived from the Federal old-age and survivors insurance trust fund; “Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Public Assistance”, $95,000; “Salaries and expenses, Children’s Bureau”, $100,000, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Promotion and further development of vocational education”; “Salaries and expenses, Office of the Commissioner”, $11,400, together with not to exceed $8,600 to be transferred from the Federal old-age and survivors insurance trust fund; Office of the Secretary: “Salaries and expenses”, $83,500, together with not to exceed $11,500 to be transferred from the Federal old-age and survivors insurance trust fund; “Salaries and expenses, Office of Field Administration”, $108,400, together with not to exceed $27,000 to be transferred from Federal old-age and survivors insurance trust fund; “Salaries and expenses, Office of the General Counsel”, $26,400, together with not to exceed $1,500 to be transferred from the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, certification, inspection, and other services”, and not to exceed $25,900, to be derived from the Federal old-age and survivors insurance trust fund; “Surplus property utilization”, $25,000; Department of the Interior Office of the Secretary: “Oil and Gas Division”, $15,600; “Office of the Solicitor”, $165,000; Commission of Fine Arts: “Salaries and expenses”, $1,000; Bonneville Power Administration: “Operation and maintenance”, $175,000; Bureau of Indian Affairs: “Resources management”, $450,000; “General administrative expenses”, $150,000; Bureau of Reclamation: “Operation and maintenance” (decrease the amount under this head in the Public Works Appropriation Act, 1956, which is to be derived from the reclamation fund from “$20,223,638” to “$20,171,138”, and increase the amount under said head which is to be derived from the Colorado River dam fund from “$1,697,000” to “$1,749,500”); “General administrative expenses”, $160,000; Bureau of Mines: “Conservation and development of mineral resources”, $650,000; “Health and safety”, $305,000; “General administrative expenses”, $60,000; National Park Service: “Management and protection”, $618,000; “Maintenance and rehabilitation of physical facilities”, $144,000; “General administrative expenses”, $75,000; Fish and Wildlife Service: “Management of resources”, $280,000; “Investigations of resources”, $185,000; “General administrative expenses”, $50,000; Administration, Department of the Interior: “Salaries and expenses”, $100,000; 70 Stat. 182 Department of Justice Legal activities and general administration: “Salaries and expenses, general administration”, $173,000; “Salaries and expenses, United States attorneys and marshals”, $559,000; Federal Bureau of Investigation: “Salaries and expenses”, $5,826,000; Immigration and Naturalization Service: “Salaries and expenses”, $1,995,000; Federal Prison System: “Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Prisons”, $1,335,000, of which $275,000 shall be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Support of United States prisoners”; “Federal Prison Industries, Inc.” (increase of $15,000 in the limitation upon the amount which may be used for expenses of vocational training of prisoners); Department of Labor Office of the Secretary: “Salaries and expenses”, $90,850, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Unemployment compensation for veterans”; Office of the Solicitor: “Salaries and expenses”, $79,500, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Unemployment compensation for veterans”; Bureau of Labor Standards: “Salaries and expenses”, $49,000, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Unemployment compensation for veterans”; Bureau of Veterans’ Reemployment Rights: “Salaries and expenses”, $22,500, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Unemployment compensation for veterans”; Bureau of Apprenticeship: “Salaries and expenses”, $200,800, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Unemployment compensation for veterans”; Bureau of Employment Security: “Salaries and expenses”, $329,100, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Unemployment compensation for veterans”; “Salaries and expenses, Mexican farm labor program”, $107,000, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Unemployment compensation for veterans”; Bureau of Employees’ Compensation: “Salaries and expenses”, $143,000, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Unemployment compensation for veterans”; Bureau of Labor Statistics: “Salaries and expenses”, $342,000, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Unemployment compensation for veterans”; Women’s Bureau: “Salaries and expenses”, $23,000, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Unemployment compensation for veterans”; Wage and Hour Division: “Salaries and expenses”, $481,000, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Unemployment compensation for veterans”; Post Office Department (Out of postal fund) “Administration”, $486,600; “Operation”, $135,363,000; 70 Stat. 183 “Transportation”, $11,100,000; “Finance”, $335,400; “Facilities”, $2,715,000; Department of State “Salaries and expenses”, $3,080,000, of which $263,000 shall be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Educational aid for China and Korea, State”; “Missions to international organizations”, $43,000, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Educational aid for China and Korea, State”; International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico: “Salaries and expenses”, $22,000, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Educational aid for China and Korea, State”; “Operation and maintenance”, $39,000, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Educational aid for China and Korea, State”; “American sections, international commissions”, $13,000, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Educational aid for China and Korea, State”; “International educational exchange activities”, $170,000, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Educational aid for China and Korea, State”; Treasury Department Office of the Secretary: “Salaries and expenses”, $170,000; “Liquidation of Reconstruction Finance Corporation” (increase of $85,000 in the amount which may be used for administrative expenses); Bureau of Accounts: “Salaries and expenses, Division of Disbursement”, $280,000; Bureau of the Public Debt: “Administering the public debt”, $752,000; Office of the Treasurer: “Salaries and expenses”, $175,000; Bureau of Customs: “Salaries and expenses”, $2,855,000; Internal Revenue Service: “Salaries and expenses”, $17,900,000; Bureau of Narcotics: “Salaries and expenses”, $155,000; United States Secret Service: “Salaries and expenses”, $179,000; “Salaries and expenses, White House Police”, $57,000; “Salaries and expenses, guard force”, $17,000; Coast Guard: “Operating expenses”, $389,000, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Retired pay”; District of Columbia (Out of District of Columbia funds) Operating expenses: “Executive Office”, $17,500; “Department of General Administration”, $88,400; “Office of Corporation Council”, $24,400; “Compensation and retirement fund expenses”, $440,000; “Regulatory agencies”, $55,700; “Department of Occupations and Professions”, $13,600; “Public schools”, $3,172,000;70 Stat. 184 “Public Library”, $98,500; “Recreation Department”, $79,000; “Metropolitan Police”, $840,300, of which amount $118,100 shall be payable from the highway fund; “Fire Department”, $330,000; “Office of Civil Defense”, $3,400; “Courts”, $445,000; “Department of Public Health”, $1,263,800; “Department of Corrections”, $145,000; “Department of Public Welfare”, $297,800; “Department of Buildings and Grounds”, $77,300; “Office of the Surveyor”, $4,400; “Department of Licenses and Inspections”, $54,000; “Department of Highways”, $70,300, of which amount $50,522 shall be payable from the highway fund; “Department of Vehicles and Traffic”, $53,500 (payable from the highway fund); “Department of Sanitary Engineering”, $124,500, of which amount $36,941 shall be payable from the water fund and $37,487 shall be payable from the sanitary sewage works fund; “Washington Aqueduct”, $43,500 (payable from the water fund); “National Guard”, $5,800; “National Capital Parks”, $95,000; “National Zoological Park”, $21,600. General Provision Sec. 1402. Except where specifically increased or decreased elsewhere in this Act, the restrictions contained within appropriations, or provisions affecting appropriations or other funds, available during the fiscal year 1956, limiting the amounts which may be expended for personal services, or for purposes involving personal services, or amounts which may be transferred between appropriations or authorizations available for or involving such services, are hereby increased to the extent necessary to meet increased pay costs authorized by the Act of June 10, 1955 (Public Law 68), the Act of June 28, 1955 (Public Law 94), the Act of August 5, 1955 (Public Law 242), the Act of August 5, 1955 (Public Law 243), and the Act of August 5, 1955 (Public Law 244).