60 STAT.] 79TH CONG., 2 D SESS.-CH. 263 -MAY 18, 1946 printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, and trade-marks and printing and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly and annual indices; and $4,900 shall be for miscellaneous printing and binding. WEATHER BUREAU Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount, fiscal year 1946, for "Salaries and expenses", including the objects specified under this head in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1946, $800,000, and the limitation upon the amount which may be expended for departmental personal services in the District of Columbia is hereby increased from "$1,142,000" to "$1,175,000": Provided, That in the conduct of meteorological investigations by the Weather Bureau in the Arctic region, the War Department is authorized in the fiscal year 1946, subject to the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, to transfer without charge to the Weather Bureau materials, equipment, and supplies, surplus to the needs of the War Department and necessary for the establishment, maintenance, and operation of Arctic weather stations. GENERAL PROVISIONS The provision in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1946, which authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to delegate his authority to subordinate officials of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Weather Bureau, and the Civil Aeronautics Administration, to authorize payment of expenses of travel and transportation of house- hold goods of officers and employees on change of official station, is hereby extended to apply to the payment of expenses of transportation of the immediate families of such officers and employees and to have so applied from July 1, 1945. The provision in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1946, which specifies that the appropriations in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1945, available for travel shall be avail- able for the traveling expenses of the immediate families of officers and employees of the Department who were returned from points outside the United States during the war is hereby amended by extending said authority to apply to the appropriations available for travel in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1946, and by increasing the limitation upon the amount which may be expended under said authority, as amended hereby, from "$1,000" to "$6,000". DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS Expenses: For an additional amount, fiscal year 1946, for "Expenses", including the objects specified under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1946, $1,500. GRAZING SERVICE Fire fighting: For an additional amount, fiscal year 1946, for "Fire fighting', including the objects specified under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1946, $20,000. BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS INDUSTRIAL ASSISTANCE AND ADVANCEMENT Suppressing forest and range fires: For an additional amount, fiscal year 1946, for "The suppression or emergency prevention of forest 191 59 Stat. 194. Investigations in Arctic region. Ante, p. 4. Delegation of au- thority. 59 Stat. 196. Travel expenses of families returning to U.S . 59 Stat. 195; 58 Stat. 414. 59 Stat. 320 . 69 Stat. 322.
�
