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74 TH CONGRESS . SESS. I. CH. 110 . MAY 14, 1935 .

231 Transportation of bullion and coin : For transportation of bullion Tr ans port ing bu lli on and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints and assay and c ow' . off ices, $10,00 0 . Contingent expenses : For assay laboratory chemicals, fuel, mate- Contingent expenses . rials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books, peri- odicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, $700 . For examination of mints, expense in visiting mints for the pur- Mint examinations . pose of superintending the annual settlements, and for special exam- inations and for the collection of statistics relative to the annual production and consumption of the precious metals in the United States, $4,700. Salaries and expenses, mints and assay offices

For comp ensation Mints and assay of- of officers and employees of the mints at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, fi Marl- andexpenses . San Francisco, C alifornia, Denver, Colorado, a nd New Orleans, Post,pp.5s, , . Louisiana, and assay offices at New York, New York, and Seattle, Was hingto n, and for i nciden tal an d cont ingent expen ses, i ncludi ng traveling expenses, new machinery, and repairs, cases and enameling for medals manufactured, net wastage in melting and refining and in coining departments, loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treat- ment of bullion and the manufacture of coins, not to exceed $500 for the expenses of the annual assay commission, and not exceeding $1,000 in value of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint at Philadelphia, $1,204,000 . Procurement DM- PROCUREMENT DIVISION-PUBLIC WORKS BRANCH sign ; Public Works Branch . For carrying into effect the provisions of the Public Building Rep airs, preserva- tion , e tc ., of completed Acts, as provided in section 6 of the Act of May 30, 1908 (U. S. C., buildi ngs . title 31, sec . 683), and for the repair, preservation, and upkeep of 42 1h5' p.537; vol. all completed public buildings, the mechanical equipment and the u . s. c., p.1407. grounds thereof, and sites acquired for buildings, maintained by the Treasury Department, and for the operation of certain completed and occupied Treasury buildings, including furniture and repairs thereof, but exclusive, with respect to operation, of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, narcotic farms, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Liberty Loan, and Auditors' buildings Genera l admi nistra tive e xpense s : For arch itectura l, en~ai neering~ t tiv e General administra- expenses. mechanical, administrative, clerical, and other personal services, a r e p a i traveling expenses, including expenses of employees directed by the Secretary of the Treasury to attend meetings of technical and pro- fess ional so cieties in conne ction wi th subje cts rel ated to the work of the Divis ion of Procu rement , Publ ic Wor ks Bra nch, a nd tra nsport a- tion of household goods, incident to change of headquarters of all employees engaged in field activities, not to exceed five thousand pounds at any one time, together with the necessary expenses incident to packing and drafing same ; advertising, testing instruments, law books, books of reference, technical periodicals and journals, drafting materials, especially prepared paper, typewriting machines, adding machines and other mechanical labor-saving devices, and exchange of same, carpets, electric-light fixtures, furniture, equipment, and rs ther eto, tel egraph a nd telep hone ser vice, fr eight, expressa ge, nd postage incident to the transportation of drawings to and from he office and such other contingencies, articles, services, or supplies as the Se cretar y of t he Tre asury may de em nec essary and s pecial ly order or approve in connection with any of the work of the Procure- ment Division, Public Works Branch ; rent in the District of Colum- bia and elsewhere, including ground rent of the Federal building ground entc a, r. Y., at Sala manc a, New Y ork, for whi ch p ayme nt may be ma de in