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PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 258 -JUNE 28, 1941 CONTINGENT EXPENSES (DEPARTMENTAL) Post, p.754. Contingent expenses: For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including stationery, furniture, fixtures; typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including rental, exchange, and repair thereof (not to exceed $27,500); microfilming equipment, including rental and repair thereof; translating services by contract without Objects for presen- regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5); flags, tation in American .. republics. books, pictures, portraits, and other objects of like character appropriate for presentation (through diplomatic and consular offices) to govern- ments, schools, and other similar organizations in the American repub- Books, periodicals, liCs; purchase and exchange of books, maps, and periodicals, domestic .and foreign, and, when authorized by the Secretary of State, dues for library membership in societies or associations which issue publications to members only, or at a price to members lower than to subscribers who are not members, newspapers, teletype rentals, and tolls (not to exceed $13,400); purchase and repair of motion-picture projectors, accessories, films, including sound-tracking and distribution, and rental Vehicles, of projectors and hire of operators; purchase, including exchange, of one passenger-carrying automobile at not to exceed $1,800 for the use of the Secretary of State; maintenance and repair of motor-propelled vehicles to be used only for official purposes (including one passenger- carrying vehicle for the Secretary of State and two for the general use of the Department); streetcar fare; traveling expenses, including not to exceed $5,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Department of State when authorized by the Refund of certain Secretary of State; refund of fees erroneously charged and paid for passport fees. stfee the issue of passports to persons who are exempted from the payment of such fee by section 1 of the Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 41 stat. 750; 44 Stat. 1921, approved June 4, 1920 (22 U. S. C. 214, 214a); the examination of estimates of appropriations in the field; and other miscellaneous tradeagree-. items not included in the foregoing, $166,600: Provided, That not to ments. exceed $3,000 of this appropriation may be expended for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of section 4 of the Act entitled 48. Stat. 1351- "An Act to amend the Tariff Act of 1930", approved June 12, 1934, as 1354. amended (54 Stat. 107), this sum to be available in addition to the other authorized purposes of this appropriation for stenographic 41U S.C reporting services, by contract if deemed necessary, without regard to

section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, and such other expenses as the President may deem necessary. PRINTING AND BINDING Printing and binding: For all printing and binding in the Depart- ment of State, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services, located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $210,900. PASSPORT AGENCIES Post, p. 834. Passport agencies: For salaries and expenses of maintenance, rent, cost of insurance covering shipments of money by messenger, regis- tered mail, or otherwise, and traveling expenses not to exceed $500, for not to exceed five passport agencies, $52,500. gCollctig panderdiot Collecting and editing official papers of Territories of the United U. s. Territories. States: For the expenses of collecting, editing, copying, and arranging for publication the official papers of the Territories of the United States, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, printing and binding, and contingent and traveling [55 STAT. 266