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54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CH. 189-MAY 14, 1940 binding, traveling expenses, streetcar fares, and all other contingent expenses in the District of Columbia and in the field, $17,850,000, of which $2,000,000 shall be available immediately, and the unexpended balance of the appropriation under this title in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1940, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1941. Salaries and expenses, Social Security Act: For salaries and neces- sary expenses for searching census records and supplying information incident to carrying out the provisions of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935 (42 U. S . C. ch. 7), including personal services in the District of Columbia; binding records; supplies; serv- ices; $110,000: Provided, That the procedure hereunder for the fur- nishing from census records of evidence for the establishment of age of individuals shall be pursuant to regulations approved jointly by the Secretary of Commerce and the Social Security Board. 195 53 Stat. 910. Social Security Act, salaries and expenses. 49 Stat. 620. 42 U. S. C., Supp. V, ch. 7. Proviso. Joint approval of regulations. BUREAU OF MARINE INSPECTION AND NAVIGATION Departmental salaries: For the director and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $366,000. Salaries and general expenses: For salaries of shipping commis- sioners, inspectors, and other personal services; to enable the Secre- tary of Commerce to provide and operate such motorboats and employ such persons as may be necessary for the enforcement, under his direction, of laws relating to navigation and inspection of vessels, boarding of vessels, counting of passengers on excursion boats to prevent overcrowding, and to secure uniformity in the admeasure- ment of vessels; fees to witnesses; materials, supplies, equipment, and services, including rent and janitor service; purchase, exchange, and repair of instruments; plans and specifications; insignia, braid, and chin straps; coats, caps, and aprons for stewards' departments on vessels; and other incidental expenses of field offices, including con- tract stenographic reporting services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; $2,250,000: Provided, That $50,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be available only for the payment of extra com- pensation for overtime services of local inspectors of steam vessels and their assistants, United States shipping commissioners and their deputies and assistants, and customs officers and employees for which the United States receives reimbursement in accordance with the provisions of the Act of May 11, 1938 (52 Stat. 345). NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS Salaries and expenses: For carrying out the provisions of the Act establishing the National Bureau of Standards, approved March 3, 1901 (5 U. S. C. 591, 597; 15 U. S. C. 271-278), and of Acts supple- mentary thereto affecting the functions of the Bureau, and specifically including the functions as set forth under the Bureau of Standards in the "Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1935", approved April 7, 1934, and for all necessary expenses, purchases, and personnel connected with administration and operation, testing, inspection, and technical information service, research and develop- ment, and standards for commerce, including rental of laboratories in the field, communication service, transportation service; street-car fares not exceeding $100, expenses of the visiting committee, attend- ance of American member at the meeting of the International Com- mittee of Weights and Measures; compensation and expenses of medical officers of the Public Health Service detailed to the National Bureau of Standards for the purpose of maintaining a first-aid Departmental sal- aries. Post, p . 640. Salaries and general expenses. Post, p . 641. Provio. Local Inspectors, etc., overtime pay. 46 U. S. C., Supp. V, § 882b. Salaries and ex penses. 31 Stat. 1449. 48 Stat. 52. Attendance at meet- ing. Detailed Public Health Service ofi- cers.