PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 180 -APR. 27, 1938 PATENT OFFICE Salaries. Photolithographing. Proviso. Multigraphed head- ings. Miscellaneous ex- penses. Printing and bind- ing. Attendance at meet- ings. Short title. Department of La- bor Appropriation Act, 1939. Office of the Secre- tary. Salaries. Proviso. Retention of person- nel determining wage rates. 49 Stat. 1011 . 40 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 276a-276a-6 . contingent ex- penses. Salaries: For the Commissioner of Patents and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $3,400,000. Photolithographing: For producing copies of weekly issue of draw- ings of patents and designs; reproduction of copies of drawings and specifications of exhausted patents, designs, trade-marks, and other papers, such other papers when reproduced for sale to be sold at not less than cost plus 10 per centum; reproduction of foreign patent drawings; photo prints of pending application drawings; and photo- stat and photographic supplies and dry mounts, $178,000: Provided, That the headings of the drawings for patented cases may be multi- graphed in the Patent Office for the purpose of photolithography. Miscellaneous expenses: For purchase and exchange of law, pro- fessional, and other reference books and publications and scientific books; expenses of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments; directories, furniture, and filing cases; for investigating the question of public use or sale of inventions for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents, and such other questions arising in connection with applica- tions for patents and the prior art as may be deemed necessary by the Commissioner of Patents; for expense attending defense of suits instituted against the Commissioner of Patents, and for other con- tingent and miscellaneous expenses of the Patent Office, $55,000. Printing and binding: For printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, trade-marks, prints, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly and annual indices, $780,000; for miscel- laneous printing and binding $55,000; in all, $835,000. The appropriation under title III herein for traveling expenses shall be available, in an amount not to exceed $500, for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Patent Office when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce. This title may be cited as the "Department of Commerce Appropri- ation Act, 1939". TITLE IV-DEPARTMENT OF LABOR OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Salaries: Secretary of Labor, Assistant Secretary, Second Assistant Secretary, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $345,700: Provided, That persons (not exceeding ten in number) now employed in the determination of wages pursuant to the pro- visions of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Act approved March 3, 1931, relating to the rate of wages for laborers and mechanics employed by contractors and subcontractors on public buildings", approved August 30, 1935, may be continued in such employment and paid from the amount herein appropriated without regard to the pro- visions of the civil-service laws requiring competitive examinations. Contingent expenses: For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the omces and bureaus of the Department, for which appropria- tions for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specifically made, including the purchase of stationery, furniture, and repairs to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloths, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, laundry, street-car fares not exceeding $400; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motorcycles and motortrucks; purchase and exchange of a passenger-carrying automobile for the official use of the Secretary of Labor at not to exceed $1,800, and maintenance, operation, and repair of two motor-propelled passenger- 284 Patent Office. [52 STAT.
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