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 1364 SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. SESS. III. Ca. 281. 1931 . Proviso. Accounting. Housing Corpora- tion. Salaries and expenses. Salaries and expenses : For officers, clerks, and other employees, and for c ontingent and miscellaneous expenses, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including blank books, maps, stationery, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, freigh t and e xpress charge s, com- municatio n service, tra vel expense, printing and binding not to exceed $150, and all other miscellaneous items and expenses not included in the foregoing and necessary to collect and account for the receipts from the sale of properties and the receipts from the operation of unsold properties of the United States Housing Cor- poration, the Bureau of Industrial Housing and Transportation, property commandeered by the United States through the Secretary of Labor, and to collect the amounts advanced to transportation facilities and others ; for payment of special assessments and other utility, municipal, State, and county charges or assessments unpaid by purchasers, and which have been assessed against property in which the United States Housing Corporation has an interest, and to defray expenses inci dent to forec losing mortga ges, co ndu cti ng sales under deeds of trust or reacquiring title or possession of real property under default proceeding, including attorney fees, witness fees, court costs, charges, and other miscellaneous expenses ; for the main tenanc e and repai r of h ouses, build ings, and i mprove ments which are unsold ; in all, $15,000 : Provided, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $4,900 per annum, and only one person may be employed at that rate : Provided further, That no part of the appropriations heretofore made and available for expenditure by the United States Housing Corporation shall be expended for the purposes for which appro- priations are made herein : Provided further, That the directors of the United States Housing Corporation of New Yor k and the United States Housing Corporation of Pennsylvania, may, with the approval of the Secretary of Labor, appoint the chief clerk, or other officer of the Department of Labor, to act as their President, or as their immediate representative in charge of administrative work, such departmental officer to serve without compensation in addition to the salary of his official position, and the directors of these corporations may in like manner designate the disbursing clerk for the Department of Labor to act in a similar capacity for the corporations, and after such designation has been made all funds coming into the hands of said disbursing clerk shall be treated as funds of the United States to be accounted for under his official bond. Miscellaneous items. Receipts fr om sales, operation, etc. Payment of assess- ments, etc. Maintenance of un- sold property . Provisos. Restriction on com- pen sat ion. Former ap propria- tions not available for present purposes. Offi cer of Depart- me nt of Labor to rep- resent New York and Pennsylvania corpora- tions as their president, etc. Disbursing officer of Labor Depar tment to act as fiscal a gent . Interstate Commerce Commission. Commissioners, sec- retary, and other per- sonal services. Stenographic report- ing. Ser vices in the Dis- trict. executive committee, or such person as may be designated by him to approve vouchers : Provided, That nothing contained in this para- graph shall be construed to waive the submission of accounts and vouchers to the General Accounting Office for audit. HOUSI NG CORPORATIO N INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION For eleven commissioners, at $12,000 each ; secretary, $9,000, and for all other authorized expenditures necessary in the execution of laws to regulate commerce, including one chief counsel, one director of finance, and one director of traffic at $10,000 each per annum, traveling expenses, and stenographic reporting services to be obtained on and after the approval of this Act by the commission, in its discretion, through the civil service or by contract or renewal of existing contract, or otherwise, $3,090,900, of which amount not to exceed $2,569,160 may be expended for personal services in the Dis-

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