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 74 TH CONGRESS. SESS. I. CH. 508. AUGUST 12, 1935. 599 able for the purposes and subject to the applicable provisions of the Foreign Service Buildings Act of 1926, as amended (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 22, sees . 292-299). TREASURY DEPARTMENT PROCUREMENT DIVISION-PUBLIC WORKS BRANCH U.S. C.,p.967. Treasury Depart- ment. P rocur ement Divi- sion -Publ ic Wo rks Branch. Public buildings out- side the District of Columbia. Post, p. 1638. Public buildings outside the District of Columbia : For emer- gency construction of public building projects outside of the District of Columbia (including the acquisition, where necessary, by pur- chase, condemnation, exchange, or otherwise of sites and additional land for such buildings ; the demolition of old buildings where neces- sary and construction, remodeling, or extension of buildings ; rental of temporary quarters during construction, including moving expenses ; purchase of necessary equipment for buildings and such addit ional a dministr ative e xpenses and sal aries as may be require d solely for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this pa.ra- graph), $60,000,000 ; such projects, including the sites therefor, to be selected by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster Gen- eral, acting jointly, from the public-building projects specif ied in Statement Numbered 1 contained in House Report Numbered 1879 Seventy-third Congress, second session, as revised April 15, 1935, and Statement Numbered 2 attached thereto, and the projects so selected shall be carried out within the respective estimates of pro- posed limits of cost specified in such Statement Numbered 1 and those hereafter fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Post- master General for projects selected from Statement Numbered 2 and otherwise, except that the unobligated balance of the $2,500,000 fund established by the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year Emergency construe . 1935, approved June 19, 1934 (48 Stat . 1061), shall be available also t`V 48,p .1061. for the augmentation of limits of cost of projects selected under the provisions of this Act in an amount not exceeding 10 per centum for any project and including $70,000 for the completion of the Oak Park (Illinois), post-office building as planned by the Treasury Department, and $56,000 for the Marquette (Michigan), post-office and courthouse building, in order to award the contract therefor to the lowest responsible bidder : Provided, That with a view to reliev- Provisos. ing country-wide unemployment the Secretary of the Treasury and ti on Equ of it p rojableects. distrib 1 the Postmaster General, in the selection of towns or cities in which buildings are to be constructed, shall endeavor to distribute, the projects equitably throughout the country so far as may be c on- sistent with the needs of the public service ; and the Secretary of the Selection of other Treasury and the Postmaster General may also select for prosecu- project`. tion under this appropriation such projects not included in such revised report as in their judgment are economically sound and advantageous to the public service : Provided further, Tha t the Prepar ation of plans, Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to direct the preparation of contracts. all sketches, estimates, plans and specifications (including super- vision and inspection thereof), and to enter into all contracts neces- sary for carrying out the purposes of this paragraph, and he is her eby autho rize d, wh en d eeme d by him desi rable and advanta- geous, to employ by contract or otherwise, temporary professional, Techni cal services. technical, or nontechnical employees, firms, or corporations to such extent as inay be required to carry out the purposes of this para- graph, without reference to civil-service laws, rules, regulations, or to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, or to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S . C ., title 41, sec . 5) : Provided further, That in the acquisition of land or sites for the purposes of Federal public buildings and in the construction of such buildings provided Oak Park, Ill. Marquette, Mich. R.S.,sec.3709,p.733. L'.S.C.,p.1803. Acquisition of sites, building plans, etc. Vol.47, pp. 722-723.