644 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 589-DEC. 28, 1945 [59 STAT. employ engineering and other professional services by contract or 41 ..C.i5. otherwise, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and civil-service and classification laws. SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS AND SUITS For the payment of claims in excess of $250, approved by the Commissioners in accordance with the provisions of the Act of 45 Stat. 1160. February 11, 1929, as amended (46 Stat. 500), as set forth in House to i-os. Document Numbered 370 of the Seventy-ninth Congress, $1,504.50. DIVISION OF EXPENSES Ane, p.271. The sums appropriated in this Act for the District of Columbia, shall, unless otherwise specifically provided, be paid out of the general fund of the District of Columbia, as defined in the District of Colum- bia Appropriation Act, 1946. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE Ant.p . 147. Salaries and expenses (foreign plant quarantine): For an addi- tional amount, fiscal year 1946, for "Salaries and expenses" (foreign plant quarantines), including the objects specified under this head in the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1946, $187,500. FOREST SERVICE Ante, p. 10 . National forest protection and management: For an additional amount, fiscal year 1946, for national forest protection and manage- ment, including the objects specified under this head in the Depart- ment of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1946, $300,000. Ante, p. 182 . FOREST ROADS AND TRAILS Forest roads and trails: For an additional amount, fiscal year 1946, for "Forest roads and trails", including the objects and subject to the conditions specified under this head in the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1946, $4,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which amount $2,000,000 is for forest development roads and trails, being a part of the $12,500,000 authorized to be appro- 8 Stat. 842 . priated for the first postwar fiscal year by the Act of December 20, 1944 (58 Stat. 838), and $2,000,000 is for forest highways, being a part of the balance of the $7,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the 23 U..S . . 23b. fiscal year 1942 by the Act of September 5, 1940 (54 Stat. 867). WAR FOOD ADMINISTRATION Ate, p. 152 Salaries and expenses: The limitation on the amount which may be expended for the agricultural wage stabilization program under the appropriation "Salaries and expenses, War Food Administra- tion", in the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1946, is hereby increased from "$275,000" to "$373,700". COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION Antkpp. 53 ,42 . Salaries and administrative expenses: For an additional amount, fiscal year 1946, for "Salaries and administrative expenses", Com-
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