UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES 
(b) The term “United States,” when used in a geographical sense, includes 
the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia. 
(e) The term “public works emergency appropriation’ means an appropria- 
tion made in pursuance of supplemental estimates transmitted to the Congress 
under the provisions of this act. 
FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT STABILIZATION BOARD 
Sec. 3. (a) There is hereby established a board to be known as the Federal 
Employment Stabilization Board, and to be composed of the Secretary of the 
Treasury, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the 
Secretary of Labor. It shall be the duty of the board to advise the President 
from time to time of the trend of employment and business activity and of the 
existence or approach of periods of business depression and unemployment in the 
United States or in any substantial portion thereof. 
(b) The board is authorized to appoint, in accordance with the civil service 
laws, a director and such experts, and clerical and other assistants, and to make 
such expenditures (including expenditures for personal services and rent at the 
seat of government and elsewhere, for law books, books of reference, and period- 
icals) as may be nzcessary 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 
accordanee 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 
prepared by the Department of Labor, and any other information concerning 
employment 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 States 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 
Suc. 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 here- 
after amended and supplemented; 
(b) For the preservation and maintenance of existing river and harbor works, 
and for the prosecution of such projects 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 or hereafter amended and supplemented, in respect of public 
buildings within and without the District of Columbia.