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52 STAT.] 75TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CH. 180-APR. 27, 1938 ing inventions; rent of rooms for United States courts and judicial officers; supplies, including the exchange of typewriting and adding machines, for the United States courts and judicial officers, including firearms and ammunition therefor; purchase of law books, including the exchange thereof, for United States judges, district attorneys, and other judicial officers, including the libraries of the ten United States circuit courts of appeals, and the Federal Reporter and continua- tions thereto as issued, $551,290: Provided, That such books shall in all cases be transmitted to their successors in office; all books pur- chased hereunder to be marked plainly, "The Property of the United States": Provided further, That not to exceed $2 per volume shall be paid for the current and future volumes of the United States Code, Annotated, and that the reports of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia shall not be sold for a price exceeding that approved by the court and for not more than $6.50 per volume. GENERAL PROVISIONS Funds available to any executive department, independent estab- lishment, or other Federal agency for the acquisition of lands shall be available, in such amounts as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget may determine to be necessary, for transfer to the Depart- ment of Justice for payment of salaries and other expenses in the District of Columbia and elsewhere necessary for the examination of title and prosecution of condemnation proceedings with respect to such lands, including traveling expenses, notarial fees, stenographic reporting services by contract or otherwise, printing and binding, commissioners' fees, and payment of compensation of expert wit- nesses at such rates as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General. None of the money appropriated by this title shall be used to pay any witness, juror, or bailiff more than one per diem for any one day's service even though he serves in more than one of such three capacities on the same day. None of the funds appropriated by this title may be used to pay the compensation of any person hereafter employed as an attorney unless such person shall be duly licensed and authorized to practice as an attorney under the laws of a State, Territory, or the District of Columbia. No part of the funds appropriated by this title for salaries of judges, the Attorney General, Assistant Attorneys General, Solicitor General, district attorneys, marshals, and clerks of court shall be used for any other purpose whatsoever, but such salaries shall be allotted out of appropriations herein made for such salaries and retained by the Department and paid to such officials severally, as and when such salaries fall due and without delay. This title may be cited as the "Department of Justice Appropria- tion Act, 1939". TITLE III-DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Salaries: Secretary of Commerce, two Assistant Secretaries, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including the Chief Clerk and Superintendent, who shall be chief executive officer of the Department and who may be designated by the Secretary of Commerce to sign minor routine official papers and documents dur- ing the temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secre- taries of the Department, $355,000. 269 Rent, supplies, etc. Law books for judi- cial officers. Federal Reporter. Provisos. Transmittal to suc- cessors. United States Code, Annotated, price limi- tation. General provisions. Transfer of funds for examining land titles. Attendancefees, wit- nesses, etc.; limitation. License requirement for attorneys. Restriction on use of designated funds. Short title. Departmentof Com- merce Appropriation Act, 1939. Office of the Secre- tary. Salaries.