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292 If only one position in a grade. Office of Solicitor. PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 187-MAY 9, 1938 [52 STAT. as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or (5) to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated. OFFICE OF SOLICITOR ersonal services. For personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $280,000. Division of Terri- tories and Island Pos- sessions. Personal services. Division of Inves- tigations. Investigation of offi- cial matters; timber protection, etc. Traveling expenses. Vehicles and motor boats. Annual statement of expenditures. Division of Grazing. Salaries and ex- penses. 48 Stat. 1269; 49 Stat. 1976. 43 U. S. C. §315; Supp. III, § 315. Classification, etc., of lands. Services in the Dis- trict. Advisory commit- tees of local stock- men. Range improve- ments. 48 Stat. 1273; 49 Stat. 1978. 43U.S.C.§§3151, 315j; Supp. III , § 315i. Proviso. Limitation. DIVISION OF TERRITORIES AND ISLAND POSSESSIONS For personal services in the District of Columbia, $56,460. DIVISION OF INVESTIGATIONS For investigating official matters under the control of the Depart- ment of the Interior; for protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; for protecting public lands from illegal and fraud- ulent entry or appropriation; for adjusting claims for swamplands and indemnity for swamplands; and for traveling expenses of agents and others employed hereunder, $440,000, including not exceeding $34,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia; not exceed- ing $38,000 for the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motorboats for the use of agents and others employed in the field service. The Sec- retary of the Interior shall include in his annual report a full state- ment of all expenditures made under authority of this paragraph. DIVISION OF GRAZING For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to 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 Stat. 1269), and as amended by the Act of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1976), including examination and classification of lands with respect to grazing or agricultural utility, preparation of land classification maps and reports, traveling and other necessary expenses, payments for the cost of packing, crating, and transportation (including dray- age) of personal effects of employees upon permanent change of sta- tion, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Inte- rior, not to exceed $60,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, not to exceed $30,000 for the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $1,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Division of Grazing when authorized by the Secretary of the Interior, $550,000; 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 com- mittees of local stockmen, $100,000; in all, $650,000. For construction, purchase, and maintenance of range improvements within grazing districts, pursuant to the provisions of sections 10 and 11 of the Act of June 28, 1934 (48 Stat. 1269) and as amended by the Act of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1976), and not including contributions under section 9 of said Act, $250,000: Provided, That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed 25 per centum of all moneys received from grazing districts under the provisions of said Act during the fiscal years 1938 and 1939.