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61 STAT.] S0TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 211-JULY 9, 1947 TITLE II-DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE LEGAL ACTIVITIES AND GENERAL ADMINISTRATION For personal services in the District of Columbia, including a health service program as authorized by the Act of August 8, 1946, Public Law 658, and for special attorneys and special assistants to the Attorney General as follows: For the offices of the Attorney General, Solicitor General, Assistant to the Attorney General, Assistant Solicitor General, Pardon Attorney, Board of Immigration Appeals, and Board of Parole, $772,500. For the Administrative Division, $1,275,000. For the Tax Division, $810,000. For the Criminal Division, $890,000 For the Claims Division, $1,500,000. Not to exceed $250,000 of the foregoing appropriations for personal services shall be available for the employment, on duties properly chargeable to each of said appropriations, of special assistants to the Attorney General without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended. Contingent expenses: For miscellaneous and emergency expenses authorized or approved by the Attorney General or his Administra- tive Assistant, including stenographic reporting services by contract as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (Public Law 600), a health service program as authorized by the Act of August 8, 1946 (Public Law 658), and examination of estimates of appropriation in the field; $205,000. Traveling expenses: For necessary traveling expenses not otherwise provided for, $140,000. Printing and binding: For printing and binding, $470,000. Penalty mail: For deposit m the general fund of the Treasury for cost of penalty mail as required by the Act of June 28, 1944, $140,000. Damage claims: For payment of claims pursuant to part 2 of the Federal Tort Claims Act, $25,000. Salaries and expenses, Customs Division: For necessary expenses, including travel expenses and employment of special attorneys and expert witnesses at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General or his Administrative Assistant, $187.000. Salaries and expenses, Antitrust Division: For expenses necessary for the enforcement of antitrust and kindred laws, including travel- ing expenses, services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2 1946 (Public Law 600), and personal services in the Dis- trict of Columbia, $2,400,000, of which $250,000 shall be available exclusively for activities in connection with railroad reparations cases: Provided, That none of this appropriation shall be expended for the establishment and maintenance of permanent regional offices of the Antitrust Division. Examination of judicial offices: For the investigation of the official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks of the United States courts and Territorial courts, probation officers, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the official papers, records, and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney General at any time; and also the official acts, records, and accounts of referees and trustees of such courts; travel expenses, $95,000, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. Salaries and expenses. Lands Division: For personal services in the District of Columbia and for other necessary expenses, including travel 95347°-48 -pt. 1 -19 289 Department of Jus- tice Appropriation Act, 1948. Ante, pp. 118, 187, 188, 245; post, pp. 361 , 435, 608, 609, 700. 60 Stat. 903. 5U.S.C. 150. Special assistants to Attorney General. 42 Stat. 1488 . 5U.S.C.§661et seq. 60 Stat. 810 . 5U.S.C. 55a. 60 Stat. 903. SU.s. c . 150. 58 Stat. 394. 39U. S. C. §1321c- 321h. Post, p. 450 . 60 Stat. 843. 28U..C.. 921, 922. Supra. Permanent regional offices of Antitrust Division.