PUBLIC LAWS ENACTED DURING THE FIRST SESSION OF THE SEVENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, January3, 1939, and adjourned without day on Saturday, August 5, 1939 FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President; JOHN N. GARNER, Vice President; KEY PITTMAN, President of the Senate pro tempore; WILLIAM B. BANKHEAD, Speaker of the House of Representatives; SAM RAYBURN, Speaker of the House of Represent- atives pro tempore, July 1-11, 1939. [CHAPTER 1] JOINT RESOLUTION February 4, 1939 Making an additional appropriation for work relief and relief for the fiscal year [H. J. Res. 83] ending June 30, 1939. [Pub. Res., No. 1] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to continue to provide work relief on useful public projects, and relief, as author- ized in the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1938, and subject to all of the provisions of such Act, there is hereby appropriated to the Works Progress Administration, out of any money in the Treas- ury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $725,000,000, which amount shall be added to the $1,425,000,000 appropriated to that Administration in section 1, subsection 1, of such Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1938 and shall proportionately increase the amounts specified in limitations (1), (2), and (3), of (d) of subsec- tion (1) of section 1 of such Act: Provided, That the provisions of section 2 of such Act prescribing February 28, 1939, as the end of the period over which the funds appropriated to the Works Progress Administration shall be apportioned and distributed are hereby amended so as to prescribe June 30, 1939, as the end of such period: Providedfurther, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Works Progress Administrator is authorized, from time to time, out of the funds appropriated in this joint resolution, to use such amount or amounts not to exceed in the aggregate $15,000,000 as may be determined by the Administrator to be necessary, for the purpose of providing direct relief for needy persons: Provided further, That notwithstanding any of the provisions of section 2 of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1938, the amount herein appropriated shall be so apportioned by the Works Progress Administration as to cover the entire period from the date of the approval of this Act until June 30, 1939: Provided further, That prior to April 1 there shall be no administrative reduction of more than 5 per centum in the number of employees upon Works Progress projects and that the funds available for the remainder of the fiscal year shall be appor- 98907'-89--PT --1 507 Work relief and re- lief. Additional appro- priation for fiscal year 1939. 52 Stat. 809. 15 U. S. C., Supp. IV, ch. 1;i (note). Post, p . 578. Prorisos. Funds appropriated to Works Progress Administration, time extension for appor- tionment, etc. Amount for provid- ing direct relief fcr needy persons. Period to be covered. Restriction on ad- ministrative reduc- tion prior to April 1, t139.
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