58 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 2 D SESS.-CH. 294-JUNE 28, 1944 Board, and the Loan Agencies, including those for which appropria- tions {or miscellaneous expenses are specifically made, including law- books, books of reference, periodicals, blank books, pamphlets, maps, newspapers (not exceeding $1,500); contract stenographic reporting services; purchase of atlases or maps, stationery, furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges; fuel, lighting and heating; purchase of motortrucks and bicycles; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (not exceeding three) and motortrucks and bicycles; freight and express charges; postage to foreign countries; telegraph and telephone service; teletype service and tolls (not to exceed $1,000); travel and not exceeding $2,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with the work of the Office of the Secretary; first-aid outfits for use in the buildings occupied by employees of this Department; $69,000. Printing and binding: For all printing and binding for the Depart- ment of Commerce, except the Patent Office, the Civil Aeronautics Board, the Loan Agencies, the war training service and the develop- ment of landing-areas program of the Office of the Administrator of Civil Aeronautics, and work done at the field printing plants of the Weather Bureau authorized by the Joint Committee on Printing, in accordance with the Act approved March 1, 1919 (44 U. S . C. 111, 220), $440,000. Salaries and expenses, National Inventors Council Service Staff: For all necessary expenses of the servicing staff of the National Inventors Council, including personal services in the District of Columbia, printing and binding and traveling expenses, $125,000. Working capital fund, Department of Commerce: For the estab- lishment of a working capital fund, $100,000, without fiscal year limitation, for the payment of salaries and other expenses necessary to the maintenance and operation of (1) central duplicating, photo- graphic, drafting, and photostating services and (2) such other serv- ices as the Secretary, with the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, determines may be performed more advantageously as central services; said fund to be reimbursed from applicable funds of bureaus, offices, and agencies for which services are performed on the basis of rates which shall include estimated or actual charges for personal services, materials, equipment (including maintenance, repairs, and depreciation) and other expenses: Provided, That such central services shall, to the fullest extent practicable, be used to make unnecessary the maintenance of separate like services in the bureaus, offices, and agencies of the Department: Provided further, That a separate schedule of expenditures and reimbursements, and a state- ment of the current assets and liabilities of the working capital fund as of the close of the last completed fiscal year, shall be included in the annual Budget. LOAN AGENCIES (COMMERCE) Administrative expenses: Of the funds available for administra- tive expenses to the agencies placed under the supervision of the Secretary of Commerce by section 402 of Reorganization Plan Num- bered I under authority of the Reorganization Act of 1939 and Executive Order Numbered 9071 of February 24, 1942, $120,000 is hereby made available to the Secretary for expenses in accordance therewith, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; printing and binding ($2,500); lawbooks, books of reference and periodicals; not to exceed $10,000 for the temporary employment of persons or organizations for special services by con- 415 Post,p. 863 . 40 Stat. 1270. National Inventors Council Service Staff. Working capital fund for central serv- ices. Reimbursement from applicable funds. 53 Stat. 1429, 561. 5U.S.C.§§133t note, 133-133r; Supp. III,§ 133t note. 50 U. S. C., Supp. HI, app. § 601 note. Temporary employ- ment.
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