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55 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 1 ST SESS.-CH. 273-JULY 3, 1941 Construction and equipment, Langley Field, Virginia: For an additional amount for continuing the construction and equipment of additional laboratory buildings and research facilities on the United States military reservation at Langley Field, Virginia, $875,000, to be available until expended. Airplane engine research laboratory: The limitation of $8,400,000 upon the total cost of construction and equipment of the airplane engine research laboratory specified under this heading in the First Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1941, is hereby increased to $13,300,000. SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM That part of the appropriation under the caption "Selective Service System", contained in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1942, which reads as follows: "payment of actual transportation expenses (not exceeding a total of $100,000) and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses of persons serving while away from their homes, without other compensation from the United States, in an advisory capacity to the Director of Selective Service;" is hereby amended to read as follows: "payment of actual transportation expenses and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses of persons serving while away from their homes, without other compensation from the United States, in an advisory capacity to the Director of Selective Service (not exceed- ing a total of $100,000) ;". SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION The limitation established by the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1942, upon the amount which may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia is hereby increased by the sum of $19,100. UNITED STATES COMMISSION FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE TWO HUN- DREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF THOMAS JEFFERSON The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $5,000 for the expenses of the United States Commission for the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Thomas Jefferson, con- tained in the First Supplemental Civil Functions Appropriation Act, 1941, is hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30,1942. UNITED STTES CONSTITUTION SESQUICENTENNIAL COMMISSION The unexpended balance of the appropriation for the Commission, contained in the Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1939, approved August 9, 1939, as amended by the Urgent Deficiency Appro- priation Act, 1940, approved February 12, 1940, and any balance now contained or hereafter deposited in the special fund entitled "Proceeds, Sale of Books, and so forth, United States Constitution Sesquicenten- nial Commission", authorized by Public Resolution Numbered 92, approved May 13, 1938, are hereby made available until December 31, 1941, for the purposes and uses for which they were appropriated, for the payment of obligations heretofore and hereafter incurred by the Commission, including personal services, for all other necessary inci- dental expenses, and for the printing and binding of additional copies of the publication "Formation of the Union Under the Constitution": Provided, That such additional copies shall be apportioned pro rata to the Senators, Representatives, Delegates, and the Resident Commis- sioner from Puerto Rico, of the Seventy-seventh Congress, and deliv- ered to the folding rooms of the Senate and House of Representatives 547 Laboratories, etc. Ante, p. 114; post, p. 748. Limitation of cost increased. 54 Stat. 59. Transportation ex- penses. Ante, p. 118 . Personal services, D.O. Ante, p. 118 . 54 Stat. 1037. Funds made avail- able. 53 Stat. 1307; 54 stat. 36. 52 stat. 349 . "Formation of the Union Und the Con- stitution." PrvM