58 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 2 D SESS.-CH. 298-JUNE 28, 1944 For salaries and expenses of the agricultural experiment station and the vocational school in the Virgin Islands, including technical personnel, clerks, and other persons; scientific investigations of plants and plant industries7 and diseases of animals; demonstrations in prac- tical farming; official traveling expenses; fixtures, apparatus, and supplies; clearing and fencing of land; and other necessary expenses, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger- carrying vehicles, $47,260, to be expended by and under the super- vision and direction of the Governor. For defraying the deficit in the treasury of the municipal govern- ment of Saint Croix because of the excess of current expenses over current revenues for the fiscal year 1945, $100,000 to be paid to the said treasury in monthly installments. 507 Agricultural experi- ment station and vo- cational school. Deflcit of municipal government of St. Croix. PUERTO RICO To enable the Division of Territories and Island Possessions to continue collection and administration of moneys due the United States on account of loans made under the joint resolutions approved December 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 1067), and January 22, 1930 (46 Stat. 57), and to make compositions and adjustments in any loan hereto- fore made, as authorized by Public Resolutions Numbered 59 (49 Stat. 926) and 60 (49 Stat. 928) Seventy-fourth Congress, approved August 27, 1935, not to exceed $28,000 of any unobligated balances of appropriations made by authority of those joint resolutions, includ- ing repayment of principal and payments of interest on such loans, is hereby made available for administrative expenses during the fiscal year 1945. SEC. 2 . Appropriations herein made for field work shall be avail- Hire of able for the hire, with or without personal services, of boats, work e animals and animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles and equip- ment. SEC. 3. Appropriations herein made shall be available for the Pick-p tr purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of vehicles generally known as quarter-ton or half-ton pick-up trucks and as station wagons without such vehicles being considered as passenger-carrying vehicles. SEC. 4. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, aliens ,,emploi' may be employed during the fiscal year 1945 in the field service of the Department for periods of not more than thirty days in cases of emergency caused by fire, flood, storm, act of God, or sabotage. SEO. 5 . Appropriations herein made for the following bureaus and inAtetcn offices shall be available for expenses of attendance of officers and employees at meetings or conventions of members of societies or associations concerned with their work in not to exceed the amounts indicated: Office of the Secretary, $500; Grazing Service, $400; Petroleum Conservation Division, $150; General Land Office, $400; Bureau of Indian Affairs, $3,000; Bureau of Reclamation, $2,500; Geological Survey, $1,500; Bureau of Mines, $5,000; National Park Service, $1,500; Fish and Wildlife Service, $2,250; and Soil and Moisture Conservation Operations (all bureaus), $1,500. SEa. 6 . Appropriations available for expenses of travel of officers Travele and employees of the Department shall be available for traveling ewappo"i expenses of new appointees from Seattle, Washington, or from any point within Alaska, to their posts of duty in Alaska, and return. SEC. 7 . No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be ovethow used to pay the salary or wages of any person who advocates, or who Govrnmn is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided,That idavt. work anl- tcks, etc. ment of
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