FISCAL AFFAIRS

APPROPRIATION ACTS PROVIDING FUNDS FOR COMMISSION WORK

The Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1938 (Public, No. 171, 75th Cong.), approved June 28, 1937, provided funds for the fiscal year 1938 for the Federal Trade Commission as follows:

For five commissioners, and for all other authorized expenditures of the Federal Trade Commission in performing the duties imposed by law or in pursuance of law, including secretary to the Commission and other personal services, contract stenographic reporting services; supplies and equipment, law books, books of reference, periodicals, garage rentals, traveling expenses, including not to exceed $900 for expenses of attendance, when specifically authorized by the Commission, at meetings concerned with the work of the Federal Trade Commission, for newspapers and press clippings not to exceed $600, foreign postage, and witness fees and mileage in accordance with section 9 of the Federal Trade Commission Act; $1,950,000: Provided, That the Commission may procure supplies and services without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $50.

For all printing and binding for the Federal Trade Commission, $31,000.

Total, Federal Trade Commission, $1,981,000.

The Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1939 (Public, No. 534, 75th Cong.), approved May 23, 1938, made immediately available the sum of $15,000 for printing and binding parts of the report on principal farm products of the agricultural income inquiry made pursuant to Public Resolutions Nos. 61 and 112, Seventy-fourth Congress.

APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES FOR FISCAL YEAR

Appropriations available to the Commission for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1938, under the Independent Offices Act approved June 28, 1937, $1,981,000; under the Independent Offices Act, 1939, approved May 23, 1938, $15,000; in all, $1,996,000. This sum is made up of three separate items: (1) $50,000 for salaries of the Commissioners, (2) $1,900,000 for the general work of the Commission, and (3) $46,000 for printing and binding.

Appropriations, Allotments, Expenditures, Liabilities, and Balances

Detailed Statement of Costs for the Fiscal Year ended June 30, 1938

Detailed Statement of Costs for the Fiscal Year ended June 30, 1938-Continued

APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES, 1915-1938

Appropriations available to the Commission since its organization and expenditures for the same period, together with the unexpended balances, are shown by the following table: