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such expenditures (including expenditures for personal services and rent at the
seat of government and elsewhere, for law books of reference, and periodicals)
as may be necessary for the administration of this act, and as may be provided
for by the Congress from time to time. The compensation of the director and
such experts and clerical and other assistants shall be fixed in accordance with
the classification act of 1923, as amended.
BASIS OF ACTION OF BOARD
Sec. 4. (a) In advising the President the board shall take into consideration
the volume, based upon value, of contracts awarded for construction work in the
United States, or in any substantial portion thereof, during the three months’
period preceding action, in comparison with the corresponding three-month
periods of the two previous calendar years.
(b) The board may also take into consideration the index of employment pre-
pared by the Department of Labor, and any other information concerning em-
ployment furnished by the Department of Labor or by any other public or private
agency, and any other facts which it may consider pertinent.
PUBLIC WORKS EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION
Sec. 5. Whenever, upon recommendation of the board, the President finds
that there exists, or that within the six months next following there is likely to
exist, in the United States or any substantial portion thereof, a period of business
depression and unemployment, he is requested to transmit to the Congress by
special message, at such time and from time to time thereafter, such supplemental
estimates as he deems advisable for emergency appropriations, to be expended
during such period upon public works in the United Stales or in the area affected,
in order to prevent unemployment and permit the Government to avail itself of
the opportunity for speedy, efficient, and economical construction during any
such period. Except as provided in this act such supplemental estimates shall
conform to the provisions of the budget and accounting act, 1921.
WORKS ON WHICH APPROPRIATION USED
Sec. 6. Public works emergency appropriations are authorized and shall be
expended only—
(a) For carrying out the provisions of the Federal highway act. as now or
hereafter amended and supplemented;
(b) For the mreservation and maintenance of existing river and harbor works,
and for the prosecution of such propects heretofore or hereafter authorized as may
be most desirable in the interest of commerce and navigation;
(¢) For prosecuting flood-control projects heretofore or hereafter authorized;
and
(d) For carrying into effect the provisions of the public buildings act, approved
May 25, 1926, as now of hereafter amended and supplemented, in respect of public
buildings within and without the District of Columbia.
PUBLICATION OF INDEX OF EMPLOYMENT
Spc. 7. The Secretary of Labor shall prepare and publish monthly an Index
of Employment, which shall indicate the condition of employment in the United
Qiates and in each substantial portion thereof.
PREPARATION OF INDEX OF EMPLOYMENT
Spc. 8. For the preparation of the Inedx of Employment there shall be made
available to the Secretary of Labor, upon his request, statistics collected or com-
piled by any executive department, independent commission, board, bureau,
office, agency, or other establishment of the Government, The Secretary of
Labor is further authorized to utilize, to such extent as he deems advisable,
statistics collected or compiled by any State or political subdivision thereof, or
by any private, industrial, commercial, banking, labor, or. other association or
enterprise, and to obtain such additional facts and statistics as he deems neces-
sary for such purposes.
