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amount apportioned to that State out of the next succeeding appropriation for 
Federal-aid highways, the whole amount apportioned to that State shall be reap- 
portioned 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 
Sec. 12. The provisions of the public buildings act, approved May 25, 19286, 
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. 12550, Seventy-first Congress, second session] 
A BILL To provide for the establishment of a national employment system and for cooperation with the 
States in the promotion of such system, and for other purposes 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of 
America in Congress assembled, That in order to promote the establishment and 
maintenance of a national system of public employment offices there ts hereby 
created in the Department of Labor a bureau to be known as the United States 
Employment Service, at the head of which shall be a director general. The 
director general shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and 
consent of the Senate, and shall receive a salary at the rate of $10,000 per annum. 
The Employment Service now existing in the Department of Labor is hereby 
abolished. 
Sec. 2. The Secretary of Labor is authorized, in accordance with the civil 
service laws, to appoint, and, in accordance with the classification act of 1923, as 
amended, to fix the compensation of a woman assistant director general who, 
subject to the director general, shall have general supervision of all matters 
relating to the obtaining of employment for women, and, in accordance with the 
civil service laws, to appoint, and, in accordance with the classification act of 
1923, as amended, to fix the compensation of such other officers, employees, and 
assistants, and to make such expenditures (including expenditures for personal 
services and rent at the seat of government and elsewhere, and for law books, books 
of reference, and periodicals), as may be necessary to carry out the provisions 
of this act. 
Sec. 3. (a) It shall be the province and duty of the bureau to establish and 
maintain a national system of employment offices for men, women, and juniors 
who are legally qualified to engage in gainful occupations, and, in the manner 
hereinafter provided, to assist in establishing and maintaining systems of public 
employment offices in the several States and the political subdivisions thereof. 
The bureau shall also assist in coordinating the public employment offices 
throughout the country by furnishing and publishing information as to oppor- 
tunities for employment, by maintaining a system for clearing labor between the 
several States, by establishing and maintaining uniform standards, policies, and 
procedure, and by aiding in the transportation of workers to such places as may 
be deemed necessary for the purpose of obtaining employment. It is hereby 
declared to be the policy of the Congress that the service authorized by this act 
shall be impartial, neutral in labor disputes, and free from political influence. 
(b) Except as herein otherwise provided, the United States Employment 
Service shall be charged with the administration of this act, under the supervision 
of the Secretary of Labor. The director general is authorized to deduct from any