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1758 Swamp lands. Traveling expenses. Vehicles and motor boats. Emergencies . Grazing Control di- vision . Salariesandexpenses . Vol.48,p.1269 . U.S.C.,p.1851. Traveling, etc ., ex- penses . Services in the Dis- trict . Class ificat ion, etc . , o f lands. Advisory committee expenses . Range improve- ments . Vol. 48, p. 1273. U.S.C.,p.1853. Proviso . Limitation on ex- penditure in any dis- trict . Department con- tingent expenses . 74TH C ONGRESS . SESS. II. CH. 691 . JUNE 22, 1936 . lent entry or appropriation ; for adjusting claims for swamp lands and indemnity for swamp lands ; and for traveling expenses of agents and others employe d hereu nder, $ 391,700, includ ing not exceed ing $22,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia ; not exceed- ing $35,000 for the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motor boats for the use of agents and others employed in the field service ; and not to exceed $5,000 to meet unforeseen emergencies of a confidential character, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, who shall make a certificate of the amount of such expendi- ture as he may thi nk it a dvisabl e not to specif y, and every s uch certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended . DIVISION OF GRAZING CONTROL For carryi ng out the prov isions of the Act ent itled "A n Act t o stop injury to the public grazing lands by preventing overgrazing and soil deterioration, to provide for their orderly use, improvement, and development, to stabilize the livestock industry dependent upon the public range, and for other purposes", approved June 28, 1934 (48, tat .1269), including traveling and other necessary expenses, pay- ments for the cost of packing, crating, and transportation (including drayage) of personal effects of employees upon permanent change of station, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, not to exceed $55,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, not to exceed $20,000 for the purchase, exchange, opera- tion, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $150,000 for examination and classifica- tion of lands with respect to agriculture and agricultural utility as required by the public-land laws and for related administrative operations and for the preparation and publication of land classifica- tion maps and reports, $300,000 ; for payment of a salary of $5 per diem while actually employed and for the payment of necessary travel expenses, exclusive of subsistence, of members of advisory committees of local stockmen, $100,000 ; in all, $400,000. For construction, purchase, and maintenance of range improve- ments within grazing districts, pursuant to the provisions of sec- tions 10 and 11 of the Act of June 28, 1934 (48 Stat ., p . 1269), and not including contributions under section 9 of said Act, $250,000 : Provided, That expenditures hereunder in any grazing district shall not exceed 25 per centum of all moneys received under the pro- visions of said Act from such district during the fiscal years 1936 and 1937. CONTINGENT EXPENSES, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR F or cont ingent expenses of the office of the Secret ary and the bureaus and offices of the Department ; furniture, carpets, ice, lum- ber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, telephone serv- ice, including personal services of temporary or emergency telephone o p er a to rs ; street- car fares for use by messe ngers not exceedin g $150 ; expressage, diagrams, awnings, filing devices, typewriters, addin a nd addre ssing m achines , and o ther lab or-savi ng devi ces, in clu ing 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 stamps fo r use in the Unit ed States ; trave ling expe nses, inc luding n ecessary expenses of inspectors and attorneys ; fuel and light ; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field for any bureau, office,