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PUBLIC LAW 85-52-JUNE 13, 1957
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INLAND WATERWAYS CORPORATION
Inland Waterways Corporation (administered under the supervision and direction of the Secretary of Commerce): Not to exceed $4,500 shall be available for administrative expenses to be determined in the manner set forth under the title "General expenses" in the Uniform System of Accounts for Carriers by Water of the Interstate Commerce Commission (effective January 1, 1947). PATENT OFFICE
Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Patent Office, including services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a), at rates for individuals not to exceed $50 per diem (not to exceed $25,000); and defense of suits instituted against the Commissioner of Patents; $19,000,000.
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BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS
General administrative expenses: Necessary expenses of administration, including advertising (including advertising in the city of Washington for work to be performed in areas adjacent thereto), purchase of seventy-five passenger motor vehicles for replacement only, and the maintenance and repairs of experimental highways, shall be paid, in accordance with law, from appropriations available to the Bureau of Public Roads. Of the total amount available from appropriations of the Bureau of Public Roads for general administrative expenses, pursuant to the provisions of section,21 of the Act of November 9, 1921, as amended (23 U.S.C. 21), $100,000 shall be available for all necessary expenses ^^ ^tat. 217. to enable the President to utilize the services of the Bureau of Public Roads in fulfilling the obligations of the United States under the Convention on the Pan-American Highway Between the United States and Other American Republics (51 Stat. 152), cooperation with several governments, members of the P a n American Union, in connection with the survey and construction of the Inter-American Highway, and for performing engineering service in Pan-American countries for and upon the request of any agency or governmental corporation of the United States. Federal-aid highways (trust fund): For carrying out the provisions of the Federal-Aid Road Act of July 11, 1916, as amended and ^3^^^%i^*„'ote. supplemented, which are attributable to Federal-aid highways, to remain available until expended, not more than $1,690,000,000, to be derived from the Highway Trust F u n d; which sum is composed of $264,500,000, the balance of the amount authorized for the fiscal year 1956, and $1,422,500,000, a part of the amount authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1957, and $2,396.73, $17,700.07, $816,392.20, and $1,492,268, the latter sums being for reimbursement of the sums expended for the repair or reconstruction of highways and bridges which have been damaged or destroyed by floods, hurricanes, or landslides, as provided by section 4 of the Act approved June 8, 1938, g^S2 st^at.;534|^^^7 section 7 of the Act approved July 13, 1943, and section 9 of the Act 78^;' 66 Stat. lel.* approved September 7, 1950, as amended (23 U.S.C. 13a and 13b), and section 7 of the Act approved June 25, 1952, and $671,243 for reimbursement of the sums expended for the design and construction of highway bridges upon and across dams in accordance with the Act of July 29, 1946 (60 Stat. 709). " " ^ *^"Forest highways (liquidation of contract authorization): For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for carrying out the provisions of section 23 of the Federal Highway Act of November 9, ^2 Stat. 2 is; 49
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