Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 58 Part 1.djvu/439

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58 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 294-JUNlE 28, 1944 CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD Civil Aeronautics Board, salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Civil Aeronautics Board, including personal services in the District of Columbia; traveling expenses; contract stenographic reporting services; fees and mileage of expert and other witnesses; temporary employment of attorneys, examiners, consultants, experts, and guards on a contract or fee basis without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes; salaries and traveling expenses of employees detailed to attend courses of training conducted by the Government or industries serving aviation; expenses of examination of estimates of appropriations in the field; purchase and exchange of lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals, and newspapers; hire and operation of aircraft; hire maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger- carrying automobiles; purchase and hire of special wearing apparel and equipment for aviation purposes (including rubber boots, snow- shoes, and skis); $1,500,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available when specifically authorized by the Chairman of the Board, for expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations con- cerned with aeronautics (not to exceed $4,000). Printing and binding: Forprinting and binding, $14,000. COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY For all necessary salaries and expenses of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including purchase of not more than two motor-propelled station wagons and maintenance, repair, and operation of motor- propelled or horse-drawn vehicles, purchase of motorcycles with side car not to exceed $500, surveying instruments, including their exchange, rubber boots, canvas and rubber gloves, goggles, and caps, coats, and aprons for stewards' departments on vessels, packing, crating, and transporting personal household effects of commissioned officers when transferred from one official station to another for permanent duty, and of commissioned officers who die while on active duty and funeral expenses of commissioned officers, as author- ized by section 9 of the Act of January 19, 1942 (Public Law 402), extra compensation at not to exceed $15 per month to each member of the crew of a vessel when assigned duties as bomber or fathometer reader, extra compensation at not to exceed $1 per day for each station to employees of the Coast Guard and the Weather Bureau while observing tides or currents or tending seismographs; services of one tide observer in the District of Columbia at not to exceed $1 per day, and compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, for operation, maintenance, and repair of an airplane for photographic survey, and for travel, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey subscribed by the Secretary, and under the following heads: Field expense, coastal surveys: For surveys and necessary resur- veys of coasts on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the Gulf of Mexico under the jurisdiction of the United States; continuing researches in physical hydrography relating to harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States; compilation of the Coast Pilot; the preparation or purchase of plans and specifications of vessels and the employment of hull draftsmen; the reimbursement, under rules prescribed by the Secretary, of offi- cers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey for food, clothing, medicines, 419 Post, p. 876 . 41 U.. C..5. Attendance at meet- ings. Post, p. 864. Salaries and ex- penses. Funeral expenses. 56Stat.8. 33 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 870. Ante, p. 130. Put, p. 863. Compilation of Coast Pilot.