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plemented, and this act, the Secretary of Agricuture shall deduct any payment 
made to a State out of a public works emergency appropriation from the amount 
apportioned to the State out of any subsequent appropriation for Federal-aid 
highways. 
(e) The Secretary of Agriculture, after making the deductions authorized by 
this section, shall within sixty days thereafter reapportion the amount so de- 
ducted to all the States in the same manner and on the same basis, and certify 
to the Secretary of the Treasury and the State highway departments in the same 
way as if it were being apportioned under the Federal highway act for the first 
ime. 
(f) In the event that the payment received by a State under the provisions of 
a public works emergency appropriation for Federal-aid highways exceeds the 
amount apportioned to the State out of the next succeeding appropriation for 
Federal-aid highways, the whole amount apportioned to that State shall be 
reapportioned to all the States in the manner provided in subdivision (e), and the 
difference between the payments so received and the amount so reapportioned 
shall be deducted from the amount apportioned to the State out of the next 
succeeding appropriation for Federal-aid highways and reapportioned in accord- 
ance with subdivision (e) and so on until the total amount so received has been 
thus deducted and reapportioned. 
PUBLIC BUILDINGS 
Src. 12. The provisions of the public buildings act, approved May 25, 1926, 
shall apply to public buildings authorized under this act, except that the method 
of allocation prescribed therein shall not apply; but the sums appropriated for 
public buildings under this act shall be apportioned as Congress may provide or, 
if there be no such provisions, by the Secretary of the Treasury in such way as 
best to carry out the intent of this act and prevent unemployment in the United 
States or the area prescribed by Congress. 
APPROPRIATIONS AUTHORIZED 
Sec. 13. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as are 
necessary for expenditure on public works to prevent unemployment during any 
such period of business depression, not in excess of $150,000,000 in any one fiscal 
year, and such further sums as are necessary for the administration of this act. 
[H. R. 11414, Seventy-first Congress, second session] 
A BILL To provide for the advance planning and regulated construction of certain public works, for the 
stabilization of industry, and for the prevention of unemployment during periods of business depression 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of 
America in Congress assembled, That this act may be cited as the ‘Employment 
stabilization act of 1930.” 
DEFINITIONS 
Sec. 2. When used in this act— 
(a) The term ‘“‘board” means the Federal Employment Stabilization Board 
established by section 3 of this act; 
(b) The term ‘‘ United States,” when used in a geographical sense, includes the 
several States and Territories and the District of Columbia; 
(¢) The term “public works emergency appropriation’ means an appropriation 
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 Stablization 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