Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 57 Part 1.djvu/466

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57 STAT.] 78TH OONG., 1 ST SESS.-CH. 219-JULY 12, 1943 CONTINGENT EXPENSES, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR For the contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the bureaus and offices of the Department (except as otherwise provided), including furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, adver- tising, teletype rentals and service, telegraphing, telephone service, including personal services of temporary or emergency telephone operators; streetcar fares not exceeding $150; constructing model and other cases and furniture; postage stamps to prepay postage on foreign mail and for special-delivery and air-mail stamps for use in the United States; traveling 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; purchase of motortrucks, motorcycles, and bicycles; maintenance, repair, and operation of four motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motortrucks, motorcycles, and bicycles to be used only for official purposes; expense of taking testimony and preparing the same in connection with disbarment proceedings instituted against persons charged with improper practices before the Department, its bureaus and offices; expense of translations, and not exceeding $1,000 for contract stenographic reporting services; not exceeding $700 for news- papers; 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 necessary expenses not hereinafter provided for, $160,000; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to $52,900 for stationery supplies shall be deducted from other appro- priations made for the fiscal year 1944 as follows: General Land Office, $6,500; Geological Survey, $9,000; National Park Service, $7,500; Bureau of Reclamation, $8,400, any unexpended portion of which shall revert and be credited to the reclamation fund; Bureau of Mines, $15,500; Grazing Service, $6,000; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to this appropriation. For the purchase or exchange of professional and scientific books, law and medical books and books to complete broken sets, period- icals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the Department, $500, and in addition there is hereby made avail- able 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 Recla- mation, $8,000; Geological Survey, $6,000; National Park Service, $3,000; General Land Office, $1,000; Bureau of Mines, $4,500. PRINTING AND BINDING For printing and binding for the Department of the Interior, including the purchase of reprints of scientific and technical articles published in periodicals and journals, $217,500, of which $37,500 shall be for the National Park Service, $85,000 for the Bureau of Mines, and $25,000 for the Fish and Wildlife Service, including the publi- cation of bulletins which shall be adapted to the interests of the people of the different sections of the country, an equal proportion of four-fifths of the bulletins to be delivered to or sent out under addressed franks furnished by the Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, as they may direct. 453 Stationery supplies. Additional sums from specified appro- priations. Purchase of bookl, etc. Additional sums from specified appro- priations.