55 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 26- -JULY 1, 1941 461 including payment in advance for subscription books and society publications, and for freight, commissions, and traveling expenses not to exceed $7,500, including expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian in the interest of collections, and all other expenses incidental to the acquisition of books, miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, and all other material for the increase of the Library, by purchase, gift, bequest, or exchange, including not to exceed $5,000 for the payment of obligations legally incurred in previous fiscal years under appro- priations for these purposes, $248,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1943. Increase of the law library: For the purchase of books and for legal periodicals for the law library, including payment for legal society publications and for freight, commissions, and all other expenses incidental to the acquisition of lawbooks, and all other mate- rial for the increase of the law library, including not to exceed $2,000 for the payment of obligations legally incurred in previous fiscal years under appropriations for these purposes, $90,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1943. Books for the Supreme Court: For the purchase of books and periodicals for the Supreme Court, to be a part of the Library of Congress, and purchased by the Marshal of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $20,000. BOOKS FOR ADULT BLIND To enable the Librarian of Congress to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide books for the adult blind", approved March 3, 1931 (2 U. S. C . 135a), as amended, $350,000, 4Stat. 1487 . including not exceeding $20,000 for personal services and not exceed- ing $500 for necessary traveling expenses connected with such service and for expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian. PRINTING AND BINDING General printing and binding: For miscellaneous printing and bilnding for the Library of Congress, including the Copyright ()ffice, and the binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, and for the Library Buildings, $360,000. Printing the Catalogue of Title Entries of the Copyright Office: C'taIxue< of Ttle For the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the Copy- right he Copy- right Office and the decisions of the United States courts involving copyright, $45,000. Printing catalog cards: For the printing of catalog cards and of miscellaneous publications relating to the distribution of card indexes, $200,000. CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE LIBRARY For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, stationery, office sup- plies. stock, and materials directly purchased, miscellaneous travel- ing expenses, postage, transportation, incidental expenses connected with the administration of the Library and Copyright Office, includ- ing not exceeding $500 for expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian, $19,400. For furniture, including the purchase of office and library equip- ment, apparatus, and labor-saving devices, $64,500, to be expended under the direction of the Librarian of Congress, of which sum $10,000 shall be immediately available.
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