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56 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 516-JULY 22, 1942 the amounts estimated, respectively, therefor in the Budget for 1943, the amounts transferred or to be transferred therefrom to this appro- priation and the amount which may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia shall be increased or decreased in such amounts as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, after a hearing thereon with representatives of the Department, shall determine are appropriate to the requirements as changed by such reductions or increases in such appropriations or authorizations: Provided fur- ther, That in addition the Secretary may, subject to the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, transfer to this appro- priation for the purpose of administering and performing the func- tions of the Division of Agricultural Statistics of the Agricultural Marketing Service, such sums as he may determine necessary from other appropriations available to the Department: Provided further, That no part of the funds herein appropriated or made available to the Bureau of Agricultural Economics shall be used for State and county land-use planning. OFFICE OF FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL RELATIONS Salaries and expenses: For carrying out the functions of the Secre- tary of Agriculture under the Act of June 5, 1930 (7U. S. C . 541-545), independently and in cooperation with other branches of the Gov- ernment, State agencies, purchasing and consuming organizations, and persons engaged in the production, transportation, marketing, and distribution of farm and food products, including the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and the purchase of such books and periodicals and not to exceed $500 for newspapers as may be necessary in connection with this work, $223,795. Grand total, Office of the Secretary of Agriculture, $26,624,730. BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY SALARIES AND EXPENSES For the employment of persons and means in the District of Colum- bia and elsewhere for carrying out the provisions of the Act, as amended, establishing a Bureau of Animal Industry, and related Acts; and the Secretary of Agriculture, upon application of alny exporter, importer, packer, or ownler of, or the agent thereof, or dealer in, livestock, hides, skins, meat, or other animal products, may in his discretion, make inspections and examinations at places other than the headquarters of inspectors for the convenience of said applicants and charge the applicants for the expenses of travel and subsistence incurred for such inspections and examinations, the funds derived from such charges to be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the appropriation from which the expenses are paid; collect and disseminate information concerning livestock and animal products; prepare and disseminate reports on animal industry; purchase in the open market samples of all tuberculin, serums, anti- toxins, or analogous products, of foreign or domestic manufacture, which are sold in the United States, for the detection, prevention, treatment, or cure of diseases of domestic animals, test the same, and disseminate the results of said tests in such manner as he may deem best, and purchase and destroy diseased or exposed animals, including poultry, or quarantine the same whenever in his judgment essential to prevent the spread of pleuropneumonia, tuberculosis, contagious poultry diseases, or other diseases of animals from one State to another, as follows: 65714 -- 43 --p. I 43 673 Transfer of funds. Land-use planning, restriction. Post,p. 1001. 46 Stat. 497. Grand total, Office of the Secretary. 23 Stat. 31 . 7U.S. C.§391. Inslicttiolns at other than hoadqularters. Preparation, etc., of reports. Purchase and de- struction of diseased animals.