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54 STAT.] 76TH OONG., 3D SESS.-CI. 428-JUNE 26, 1940 and telephone service, typewriters, adding machines, and other labor- saving devices; purchase and exchange of lawbooks, books of refer- ence, newspapers, and periodicals, and, when authorized by the Secretary of Labor, dues for library membership in societies or associations which issue publications to members only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers who are not members, not exceeding $5,300; contract stenographic services; teletype service and tolls (not to exceed $1,100); rent and maintenance of buildings in the District of Columbia; all other necessary miscellaneous expenses not included in the foregoing; and not to exceed $25,000 for purchase of certain supplies for the Immigration and Naturalization Service; in all, $347,500: Provided, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C . 5) shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for the Department of Labor when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $100. Traveling expenses: For all traveling expenses, except traveling expenses incident to the deportation of aliens, under the Department of Labor, including all bureaus and divisions thereunder, $1,628,000. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Depart- ment of Labor, including all its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $459,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the publication entitled "Our Constitution and Government- Federal Text Book on Citizenship" may be sold by the Superin- tendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, in quantities of ten or more copies at the rate of 25 cents per copy. Salaries and expenses, Division of Labor Standards: For salaries and expenses, including purchase and distribution of reports, and of material for informational exhibits, in connection with the promo- tion of health, safety, employment, stabilization, and amicable indus- trial relations for labor and industry, $225,000, of which amount not to exceed $162,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. The appropriation under this title for traveling expenses shall be available for expenses of attendance of cooperating officials and consultants at conferences concerned with the work of the Division of Labor Standards when called by the Division of Labor Standards with the written approval of the Secretary of Labor, and shall be available also in an amount not to exceed $2,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings related to the work of the Division of Labor Standards when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor. Commissioners of conciliation: To enable the Secretary of Labor to exercise the authority vested in him by section 8 of the Act creat- ing the Department of Labor (5 U. S . C. 611) and to appoint commissioners of conciliation, telegraph and telephone service, sup- plies for field offices, newspapers, books of reference and periodicals; and not to exceed $71,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $383,400: Provided, That persons now employed in such conciliation work pursuant to authority contained under this head in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935 may be continued in such employment and paid from the amount herein appropriated. The appropriation in this title for traveling expenses shall be available in an amount not to exceed $2,000 for expenses of attend- ance at meetings, conferences or conventions concerned with labor and industrial relations when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor. 575 Proviso. Minor purchases. Traveling expenses. Post, pp . 646 , 647, 648, 1043. Printing and bind- ing. Post, pp. 646, 647, 648, 1043. Proviso. Sale of designated publication. Division Standards. Salaries penses. Post, pp. of Labor and ex. 647, 1043. Attendance at con- ferences. Meetings. Commissioners of conciliation. 37 Stat. 738. 5 U.S.c.§ 619. Proviso. Retention of certain employees. 49 Stat. 587. Attendance at meet- ings.