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SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . SEss. I . CH. 137. 1928 . salary of any person whose compensation was fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act, (3) to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a diff erent bur eau, offi ce, or ot her appro priation unit, or (4) to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rat e is perm itted by the Class ification Act of 1 923, and is specif ically authorized by other law. OFFICE OF SOLICITOR For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $116,500 . CONTINGENT EXPENSES, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the bureaus and offices of the department ; furniture, carpets, ice, lum- ber, hardw are, d ry goo ds, ad vertis ing, te legrap hing, teleph one se rv- ice , incl uding person al ser vices of tem porary or eme rgency telep hone operators, street-car fares for use of messengers not exceeding $150, expressage, diagrams, awnings, filing devices, typewriters, adding, addressing, and check-signing machines, and other labor-saving devices, including the repair, exchange, and maintenance thereof ; constructing model and other cases and furniture ; postage stamps to prepay postage on foreign mail and for special-delivery and air- mail stamp s for use in the U nited States ; t raveling expenses, includ- ing necessary expenses of inspectors ; fuel and light ; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field for any bureau, office, or service of the department ; not exceeding $500 shall be available for the payment of damages caused to private property by department mo tor v ehic les ; purchase and exchange of motor t rucks, motor cycles, and bicycles, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor- pr opel led pass enge r-c arry ing vehi cles an d mo tor truc ks, moto r cycles, and bicycles, to be used only for official purposes ; rent of department garage ; expense of taking testimony and preparing the same, in connection with disbarment proceedings instituted against persons charged with improper practices before the department, its bureaus and offices ; expense of translations ; not exceeding $500 for newspapers, for which payment may be made in advance ; stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined wrappers, and speci- men bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the Post- master General, for the department and its several bureaus and offices, and other absolutely necessary expenses not hereinbefore provided for, $118,000 ; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to $76,000 for stationery supplies shall be deducted from other appro- priations made for the fiscal year 1929, as follows : Surveying public lands, $2,500 ; protecting public lands and timber, $1,500 ; contingent expenses, local land offices, $2,500 ; Geological Survey, $4,500 ; Indian Service, $42,000 ; Freedmen's Hospital, $1,000 ; Saint Elizabeths Hospital, $3,000 ; National Park Service, $4,000 ; Bureau of Reclama- tion, $15,000, any unexpended portion of which shall revert and be credited to the reclamation fund ; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $118,000, the total appropriation for contingent expenses for the dep artment a nd its se veral bur eaus and offices f or the fi scal year 1929 . For th e purc hase o r exch ange o f prof essiona l and scient ific b ooks, law and medical books, and books to complete broken sets, periodi- Solicito r's Office . Office personnel . Stationery, etc . 201 No reduction i n fixed salaries . Vol.42,p. 1490. Transfers to another po sitio n wit hout reduc - tion . Paym ents u nder h igh- er rates permitted . Department contin- gent expenses . Traveling expenses . Property damages . Disbarment expenses. Ad ditio nal f rom s pec- fled appropriations . Books, periodicals, etc.