516 TREASURY AND POST OFFICE APPROPRIATION ACT, 1934 satisfactory quality. This second exception does not require action by the head of the department or independent establishment but such showing of facts may be made by a subordinate. (Comp. Gen. decision A-58472, February 7, 1935.) SEC. 3. (a) Every contract for the construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work in the United States growing out of an appropriation heretofore made or hereafter to be made shall contain a provision that in the performance of the work the contractor, subcontractors, material men, or suppliers, shall use only such unmanufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been mined or produced in the United States, and only such manufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been manufactured in the United States substantially all from articles, materials, or supplies mined, produced, or manufactured, as the case may be, in the United States except as provided in section 2: Provided, however, That if the head of the department or independent establishment making the contract shall find that in respect to some particular articles, materials, or supplies it is impracticable to make such requirement or that it would unreasonably increase the cost, an exception shall be noted in the specifications as to that particular article, material, or supply, and a public record made of the findings which justified the exception. (b) If the head of a department, bureau, agency, or independent establishment which has made any contract containing the provision required by subsection (a) finds that in the performance of such contract there has been a failure to comply with such provisions, he shall make public his findings, including therein the name of the contractor obligated under such contract, and no other contract for the construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work in the United States or elsewhere shall be awarded to such contractor, subcontractors, material men, or suppliers with which such contractor is associated or affiliated, within a period of three years after such finding is made public. * * * * * SPECIAL PROVISIONS OF AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION ACT, FISCAL YEAR 1934 [Extracts from] An act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, and for other purposes. (Act March 3, 1933, 47 Stat. 1432) EXTENSION SERVICE SALARIES AND GENERAL EXPENSES [Farmers' cooperative demonstration work.]-For farmers' cooperative demonstration work, including special suggestions of plans and methods for more effective dissemination of the results of the work of the Department of Agriculture and the agricultural experiment stations and of improved methods of agricultural practice, at farmers' institutes and in agricultural instruction, and for such work on Government reclamation projects, and for personal services in the city of Washington and elsewhere, supplies, and all other necessary expenses, $1,420,189: Provided, That the expense of such service shall be defrayed from this appropriation and such cooperative funds as may be voluntarily contributed by State, county, and municipal agencies, associations of farmers, and individual farmers, universities, colleges, boards of trade, chambers of commerce, other local associations of business men, business organizations, and individuals within the State. * BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY SALARIES AND GENERAL EXPENSES [Western irrigation agriculture.]-Western irrigation agriculture: For investigations in connection with western irrigation agriculture, the utilization of lands reclaimed under the Reclamation Act, and other areas in the arid and semiarid regions, $130,000. SPECIAL PROVISIONS OF SECOND DEFICIENCY ACT, FISCAL YEAR 1933 [Extracts from] An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, and prior fiscal years, to provide supple mental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1933, and June 30, 1934, and for other purposes. (Act March 4, 1933, 47 Stat. 1602) * BUREAU OF RECLAMATION Minidoka project, Idaho: For refunds to subscribers of amounts contributed by them for construction of a storage plant for potatoes at Rupert, Idaho, such refunds being required under contracts between the United States and the subscribers, fiscal year 1933, $2,453.43, payable from the reclamation fund. Shoshone project, Wyoming: For emergency repairs, replacements, and betterments to power system, not to exceed $15,000 from power revenues, to remain available until June 30, 1934. Cooperative and general investigations: For an additional amount for cooperative and general investigations, $25,000, to be payable from the reclamation fund and to remain available until June 30, 1934. Reimbursement to reclamation fund: There is hereby transferred to the reclamation fund, from the unexpended balance of the appropriation, "Ammunition Storage Facilities, Navy, 1928-1932", $513.33, for repayment of amount paid from that fund for salary of an employee of the Reclamation Service while engaged on work for the Navy Department in connection with the Cat Creek Naval Ammunition Depot, Hawthorne, Nevada. This act may be cited as the "Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1933." 518 COMPENSATION TO HATCH FLOOD SUFFERERS REGARDLESS OF CITIZENSHIP An act to authorize amendment of the act of February 25, 1927, for the payment of damages caused by reason of the overflow of the Rio Grande on August 17, 1921. March 4, 1933, 47 Stat. 1763) (Act [Sec. 1. Payment directed, after investigation, to two persons, of damages Amount to be expended limited to $800.]-That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to investigate, ascertain the amount of, and to pay damages sustained by Ydelfonso Rodriguez, Andres Bustamante, residing at or in the vicinity of Hatch and Santa Teresa, New Mexico, or whose property is located in that vicinity and was damaged by the overflow of the Rio Grande River on August 17, 1921, in the manner and to the extent authorized by the act approved February 25, 1927 (44 Stat. L., pt. 3, p. 1792), without regard to the citizenship of the owners of property so damaged: Provided, That not more than $800 shall be expended in making said two settlements. SEC. 2. [Conflicting laws repealed.]—Such parts of the act of February 25, 1927, and acts supplementary thereto as are in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. 519 SALARY REDUCTIONS [Extracts from] An act to maintain the credit of the United States Government. (Act of March 20, 1933, 48 Stat. 13) * TITLE II OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES * SEC. 3. (a). [Percentage of salary reduction.]-The President is authorized to investigate through established agencies of the Government the facts relating to the cost of living in the United States during the six months' period ending June 30, 1928, to be known as the base period, and upon the basis of such facts and the application thereto of such principles as he may find proper, determine an index figure of the cost of living during such period. The President is further authorized to make a similar investigation and determination of an index figure of the cost of living during the six months' period ending December 31, 1932, and each six months' period thereafter. (b) [Method of determining reduction-Reduction shall not exceed 15 percent.]-The President shall announce by Executive order the index figure for the base period and for each subsequent period determined by him under paragraph (a) of this section. The percentage, if any, by which the cost of living index for any six months' period, as provided in paragraph (a) of this section, is lower than such index for the base period, shall be the percentage of reduction applicable under section 2 (b) of this title in determining compensation to be paid during the following six months' period, or such portion thereof during which this title is in effect: Provided, That such percentage of reduction (including reductions made under any existing law, regulation, or Executive order, in the case of subsistence and rental allowances for the services mentioned in the Pay Act of June 10, 1922) shall not exceed 15 per centum. 520 |