Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 55 Part 1.djvu/332

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55 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , IST SESS.-CH. 259-JUNE 28, 1941 aluminum clays and alunite, and manganese beneficiation pilot plants and research); furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, teletype rentals and service, telegraphing, telephone serv- ice, including personal services of temporary or emergency telephone operators; streetcar fares not exceeding $150; expressage, diagrams, awnings, filing devices, typewriters, adding and addressing machines, and other labor-saving devices, including the repair, exchange, and maintenance thereof; constructing model and other cases and furni- ture; postage stamps to prepay postage on foreign mail and for spe- cial-delivery and air-mail stamps for use in the United States; travel- ing expenses, including necessary expenses of inspectors and attorneys; fuel and light; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field for any bureau, office, or service of the Department; not exceeding $500 for the payment of damages caused to private property by Department motor vehicles; not to exceed $1,800 for the purchase of an automobile for the official use of the Secretary of the Interior; purchase and exchange of motortrucks, motorcycles, and bicycles; maintenance, repair, and operation of three motor-propelled passen- ger-carrying vehicles and motortrucks, motorcycles, and bicycles to be used only for official purposes; expense of taking testimony and pre- paring the same in connection with disbarment proceedings instituted against persons charged with improper practices before the Depart- ment, its bureaus and offices; expense of translations, and not exceed- ing $1,000 for contract stenographic reporting services; not exceeding $700 for newspapers; stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined wrappers, and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the Postmaster General, for the Department and its several bureaus and offices, and other absolutely necessary expenses not hereinafter provided for, $160,000, of which not exceeding $3,600 shall be immediately available; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to $56,600 for stationery supplies shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1942 as follows: General Land Office, $3,500; Geological Survey, $12,700; National Park Serv- ice, $12,500; Bureau of Reclamation, $8,400, any unexpended portion of which shall revert and be credited to the reclamation fund; Divi- sion of Investigations, $2,000; Bureau of Mines, $12,500; Grazing Service, $5,000; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $160,000, the total appropriation for contingent expenses for the Department and its several bureaus and offices (except soil and moisture conservation operations, production of alumina from low grade bauxite, aluminum clays and alunite, and manganese beneficiation pilot plants and research) for the fiscal year 1942: Provided, That not to exceed $3,000 of this appropriation shall be available for contract services for radio broadcasting. For the purchase or exchange of professional and scientific books, law and medical books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the Department, $800, and in addition there is hereby made available from any appropriations made for any of the following bureaus or offices of the Department not to exceed the following respective sums: Grazing Service, $250; Indian Service, $500; Bureau of Reclamation, $10,000; Geological Survey, $6.000; National Park Service, $2,200; General Land Office, $500; Bureau of Mines, $4,000. 307 Stationery supplies. Additional sums from specified appro- priations. Provoso. Radio broadcasting. Purchase of books, etc. Additional sums from specified appro- priations. PRINTING AND BINDING For printing and binding for the Department of the Interior, Pot p. 826 $319,735, of which $107,000 shall be for the National Park Service,