UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES 
(¢} The provision of the Federal highway act in respect of the apportionment 
of Federal-aid appropriations shall not apply to public works emergency appro- 
priations, but the Secretary of Agriculture may apportion such appropriations 
among all the States or in the State in the area or areas designated by Congress 
in such a way as may be fixed by Congress or shall in his judgment be best cal- 
culated to prevent unemployment. 
(d) For the purpose of equalizing among the several States the amount of 
Federal funds apportioned under the Federal highway act, as amended and sup- 
plemented, and this act, the Secretary of Agriculture 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 deducted 
bo 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 time. 
(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 that 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 oul of the next 
succeeding appropriation for Federal-aid highways and reapportioned in aceord- 
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, 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 
Src. 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 
vear, and such further sums as are necessary for the administration of this act. 
[S. 3080, Seventy-first Congress, second session] 
AN ACT To provide {or the establishment of a national employment system and far cooperation with 
the States in the promotion of such system, and for other purposes 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represeniatives of the United States of 
America in Congress assembled, That in order to promote the establishment 
and maintenance of a national system of public emplovment offices there is 
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 ecivil- 
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 per- 
sonal services and rent at the seat or government and elsewhere. and for law