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75TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CH. 187-MAY 9, 1938 PETROLEUM CONSERVATION DIVISION Salaries and expenses, oil regulation and enforcement: For admin- istering and enforcing the provisions of the Act approved February 22, 1935 (49 Stat. 30), entitled "An Act to regulate interstate and foreign commerce in petroleum and its products by prohibiting the shipment in such commerce of petroleum and its products produced in violation of State law, and for other purposes", as amended, and to include necessary personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere without regard to the civil-service laws and regulations, traveling expenses, contract stenographic reporting services, rent, sta- tionery, and office supplies, not to exceed $1,000 for necessary expenses of attendance at meetings and conferences concerned with the work of petroleum conservation when authorized by the Secretary of the Interior, not to exceed $4,000 for printing and binding, not to exceed $500 for books and periodicals, and not to exceed $14,000 for the pur- chase, exchange, hire, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor- propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $260,000. CONTINGENT EXPENSES, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the bureaus and offices of the Department; furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, teletype rentals and service, tele- graphing, telephone service, including personal services of temporary or emergency telephone operators; street-car fares for use by mes- sengers not exceeding $150; expressage, diagrams, awnings, filing devices, typewriters, adding and addressing machines, and other labor-saving devices, including 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 for use in the United States; traveling expenses, including necessary expenses of inspectors and attorneys; fuel and light; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field for any bureau, office, or service of the Department; not exceeding $500 for the payment of damages caused to private property by Department motor vehicles; purchase and exchange of motor trucks, motorcycles, and bicycles, maintenance, repair, and operation of three motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motor trucks, motorcycles, and bicycles to be used only for official purposes; rent of Department garage; expense of taking testimony and preparing the same in con- nection with disbarment proceedings instituted against persons charged with improper practices before the Department, its bureaus and offices; expense of translations, and not exceeding $1,000 for con- tract stenographic reporting services; not exceeding $700 for news- papers; stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined wrappers, and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the Postmaster General, for the Department and its several bureaus and offices, and other absolutely necessary expenses not hereinafter provided for, $112,000; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to $46,100 for stationery supplies shall be deducted from other appro- priations made for the fiscal year 1939 as follows: General Land Office, $3,500; Geological Survey, $6,000; Freedmen's Hospital, $1,000; Saint Elizabeths Hospital, $2,200; National Park Service, $10,000; Bureau of Reclamation, $8,400, any unexpended portion of which shall revert and be credited to the reclamation fund; Division of Investigations, $2,000; Bureau of Mines, $9,000; Division of Grazing, $4,000; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together Petroleum Conser- vation Division. Salaries and ex- penses. 49 Stat. 30. 15 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 715. Services in the Dis- trict. Attendance at meet- ings. Printing and bind- ing. Vehicles. Department contin- gent expenses. Teletype rentals, etc. Labor-saving de- vices. Fuel and light. Vehicles. Disbarment pro- ceedings, expenses. Stationery, etc. Additional, fron specified appropria- tions. 293 52 STAT.]