istration of Public Works. The appropriation to carry out the provisions of the act of June 16, 1933, was made available until June 30, 1935 (act of June 16, 1933, c. 100, 48 Stat. 274, 275).

The life of the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works was extended by the following statutes: until June 20, 1937, by the act of April 8, 1935 (c. 48, sec. 12, 49 Stat. 115, 119); until July 1, 1939, by the act of June 29, 1937 (c. 401, title II, sec. 201, 50 Stat. 352, 357) ; and to the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, by the act of June 21, 1938 (c. 554, title II, sec. 202, 52 Stat. 809, 817).

Pursuant to the provisions of Reorganization Plan No. 1, effective July 1, 1939, the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works and its functions and certain other agencies and functions were consolidated into a new agency termed the Federal Works Agency. (Reorganization Plan No. 1, part 3, sec. 301, 53 Stat. 1423, 1426; act of June 7, 1939, c. 193, 53 Stat. 813.) Subsection (d) of section 301 of the Plan provides that the agencies and functions consolidated by section 301 in the Federal Works Agency shall carry with them their personnel. Section 305 of the Plan provides that the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works and its functions shall be administered as the Public Works Administration, with a Commissioner of Public Works at the head thereof; and that the Commissioner, to be appointed by the Federal Works Administrator, shall act under the direction and supervision of the Federal Works Administrator.

Certain positions in the Public Works Administration were covered into the classified civil service, effective January 1, 1942, with exceptions not pertinent, pursuant to the provisions of the act of November 26, 1940 (c. 919, sec. 1, 54 Stat. 1211, the Ramspeck Act), and Executive Order 8743, dated April 23, 1941 (6 F. R. 2117). Section 2 of the Ramspeck Act prescribes the conditions under which incumbents of positions covered into the classified civil service can acquire a classified civil service status. Section 1 of Executive Order 8743 provides:

"All offices and positions in the executive civil service of the United States except (1) those that are temporary, (2) those expressly excepted from the provisions of section 1 of the said act of Novmber 26, 1940, (3) those excepted from

the classified service under Schedules A and B of the Civil Service Rules, and (4) those which now have a classified status, are hereby covered into the classified civil service of the Government."

The life of the Public Works Administration was extended as follows: to the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, by the act of April 5, 1941 (c. 40, 55 Stat. 92, 110); to the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, by the act of June 27, 1942 (c. 450, 56 Stat. 392, 410); and to the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1944, by the act of June 26, 1943 (c. 145, 57 Stat. 169, 180).

The last construction program undertaken by the Public Works Administration was the one authorized by the act of June 21, 1938, supra. From 1941 to July 1, 1943, the Administration was engaged in completing projects commenced in the preceding years and in winding up its affairs as a Federal agency. See Hearings before the Subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations, (78th Congress, 1st session, on the Independent Offices Appropriation Bill for 1944, pp. 451, 452; hearings before the same committee, 78th Congress, 2nd session, on the Independent Offices Appropriation Bill for 1945, p. 838; First Annual Report, Federal Works Agency, 1940, pp. 154, 157; Second Annual Report, id., 1941, pp. 111, 117; Third Annual Report, id., 1942, pp. 83, 85, Fourth Annual Report, id., 1943, p. 6.

Effective July 1, 1943, all functions, powers and duties of the Public Works Administration and of the Commissioner of Public Works in the Federal Works Agency, together with all records, property and personnel of the Public Works Administration, were transferred to the Office of the Federal Works Administrator (Executive Order 9357, June 30, 1943, 8 F. R. 9041). The order provides that the functions, powers and duties so transferred to the Office of the Federal Works Administrator shall be administered by or under the direction and supervision of the Federal Works Administrator. The affairs of the Public Works Administration have been practically liquidated.

The appointment papers of the administrative employees of the Public Work Administration contain the following provision:

"This appointment is for emergency work for such period

of time as your services may be required, but limited to a period not to extend beyond the expiration of the emergency appropriation from which your salary is paid."

APPENDIX II

WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION

The Works Progress Administration, later termed the Work Projects Administration, was established as an independent agency pursuant to the provisions of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 (approved April 8, 1935, c. 48, 49 Stat. 115), and Executive Order 7034, dated May 6, 1935. The principal purpose of the Administration was to provide work for needy persons on useful public projects.

The Executive order designates the Federal Emergency Relief Administrator to serve also as Administrator of the Works Progress Administration and provides that "within such amounts as may hereafter be allotted by the President, the agencies herein established or designated are authorized to employ the services and means mentioned in subdivision (a) of section 3 of said Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, to the extent therein provided, and, within the limitation prescribed by such section and at the direction of the President, to exercise the authority with respect to personnel conferred by subdivision (b) thereof." Subdivision (b) of section 3 of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 authorizes the President to appoint officers and employees without regard to the provisions of the civil service laws, prescribe their authorities, duties, responsibilities, and tenure, and, without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, fix the compensation of any officers and employees so appointed. The section further provides that all officers exercising general supervision over the work program and receiving a salary of $5,000 or more per annum shall be appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate.

The last requirement was continued by subsequent acts without material change (act of June 22, 1936, c. 689, title II, 49 Stat. 1597, 1611; act of June 29, 1937, c. 401, title I,

sec. 4, 50 Stat. 352, 355; act of June 21, 1938, c. 554, title I, 52 Stat. 809; act of June 30, 1939, c. 252, sec. 38, 53 Stat. 927, 939; act of June 26, 1940, c. 432, sec. 37, 54 Stat. 611, 625; act of July 1, 1941, c. 266, sec. 32, 55 Stat. 396, 407; and act of July 2, 1942, c. 479, sec. 30, 56 Stat. 634, 644).

Funds to carry on the activities of the Administration, as established by Executive Order 7034, were allocated to the Administration by the President from appropriations made to him by the act of April 8, 1935. Subsequent orders of the President continued the administration of the works program by the Works Progress Administrator, including the authority hereinbefore set forth. (See act of June 22, 1936, supra; Executive Order 7396, June 22, 1936, 1 F. R. 651; and act of June 29, 1937, supra; Executive Order 7649, June 29, 1937, 2 F. R. 1136.) The act of June 29, 1937, made funds available until June 30, 1938, to be used in the discretion and under the direction of the President.

The act of June 21, 1938 (c. 554, 52 Stat. 809) continued the works program by making appropriations direct to the Works Progress Administration, and extended the Administration until June 30, 1939 (secs. 1 and 4). Section 8 of this statute provides:

"The appropriations in this title for administrative expenses and such portion of other appropriations in this title as are available for administrative expenses shall not be obligated for such administrative expenses in excess of the amounts which the department, establishment, or agency, with the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury as necessary for such purposes. The amounts so certified for administrative expenses shall be available for expenditure by such department, establishment, or agency concerned for personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere and for the objects set forth in subsection (a) of section 3 of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 and with the authority set forth in subsection (b) of such section of such Act: Provided, That not to exceed 5 per centum of the amount made available in section 1 of this title to the Works Progress Administration and to the Works Progress Administration for the National Youth Administration shall be used for administration."

Pursuant to the provisions of Reorganization Plan No. 1, effective July 1, 1939, the Works Progress Administration and its functions, except the National Youth Administration and its functions, and certain other agencies and functions were consolidated into a new agency termed the Federal Works Agency. (Reorganization Plan No. 1, part 3, sec. 301, 53 Stat. 1423, 1426; act of June 7, 1939, c. 193, 53 Stat. 813.) Subsection (d) of section 301 of the Plan provides that the agencies and functions consolidated by section 301 in the Federal Works Agency shall carry with them their personnel. Section 306 of the Plan provides that the Works Progress Administration and its functions (except the National Youth Administration and its functions) shall be administered as the Work Projects Administration, with a Commissioner of Work Projects at the head thereof; and that the Commissioner, to be appointed by the Federal Works Administrator, shall act under the direction and supervision of the Federal Works Administrator.

The life of the Work Projects Administration was extended as follows: until June 30, 1940, by the act of June 30, 1939, c. 252, sec. 1 (f), 53 Stat. 927, 929; until June 30, 1941, by the act of June 26, 1940, c. 432, sec. (1) (i), 54 Stat. 611, 614; to June 30, 1942, by the act of July 1, 1941, c. 266, sec. 1 (i), 55 Stat. 396, 398; and to June 30, 1943, by the act of July 2, 1942, c. 479, sec. 1 (h), 56 Stat. 634, 637.

The President, by letter dated December 4, 1942, to the Federal Works Administrator, authorized and directed him to liquidate the Work Projects Administration. (Hearings before the subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations, 78th Cong., 1st sess., on the Second Deficiency Appropriation Bill for 1943, p. 5.) The Work Projects Administration ceased existence officially on June 30, 1943. (Fourth Annual Report, Federal Works Agency, 1943, p. 35.)

By the act approved July 12, 1943 (c. 229, title I, 57 Stat. 537, 540), the Congress authorized the transfer of the administrative employees of the Work Projects Administration engaged in the liquidation of the Administration to the Office of the Administrator of the Federal Works Agency. Work relief was continued in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands under the direction of the Federal Works Adminis