52 STAT.] 75TH CONG. , 3 D SESS.-CH. 259 -MAY 23. 1938 employment of expert examiners not in the Federal service on special subjects for which examiners within the service are not available, and for personal services in the field; for medical examinations; for necessary traveling expenses, including those of examiners acting under the direction of the Commission, and for expenses of examina- tions and investigations held elsewhere than at Washington, including Attendanceatmeet- not to exceed $1,000 for expenses incident to attendance at meetings concerned with problems of public officials, educational groups, Gov- ernment employees as such, and other similar organizations, which are peculiar to the interests and business of the Commission, when specifically directed by the Commission; for furniture and other Miscellaneou e equipment and repairs thereto; rental of equipment; supplies; adver- tising; telegraph, telephone, and laundry service; freight and ex- press charges; streetcar fares not to exceed $300; stationery; purchase and exchange of law books, books of reference, directories, subscrip- tions to newspapers and periodicals, not to exceed $1,000; charts; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motortrucks, motor- cycles, and bicycles; garage rent; postage stamps to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries; special-delivery stamps; and other like miscellaneous necessary expenses not herein- before provided for, $2,450,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any cara expenses provisions of law to the contrary, the Civil Service Commission is authorized to expend not to exceed $3,000 of this amount for actuarial services pertaining to the civil service, Canal Zone, and Alaska Rail- road retirement and disability funds, to be obtained by contract, with- out obtaining competition, at such rates of compensation as the Com- mission may determine to be reasonable: Provided further, That no pariltsomdden- details from any executive department or independent establishment in the District of Columbia or elsewhere to the Commission's cen- tral office in Washington or to any of its district offices shall be made during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, but this shall not affect the making of details for service as members of the boards of exam- iners outside the immediate offices of the district managers: Provided further, That the Civil Service Commission shall have power in case fersetcpe itted of emergency to transfer or detail any of its employees to or from its office or field force. For all printing and binding for the Civil Service Commission Printing and bind- including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in.Poep.l ml in Washington and elsewhere, $88,750. CIVIL-SERVICE RETIREMENT FUND Civil-service retire- ment and disability fund. For financing of the liability of the United States, created by the Contribution. Act entitled "An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes", approved May 22, 1920, and 41 Stat. 614 . Acts amendatory thereof (38 U. S . C. 11), $74,244,000, which amount 38U. S '. 11. shall be placed to the credit of the "civil-service retirement and dis- ability fund." CANAL ZONE RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY Canal Zone retire- ment and disability fund. For financing of the liability of the United States, created by the Contribution. Act entitled "An Act for the retirement of employees of the Panama Canal and the Panama Railroad Company, on the Isthmus of Pan- ama, who are citizens of the United States", approved March 2, 1931, 48stUS. S1I n. and Acts amendatory thereof (48 U. S . C . 1371n), $500,000, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the "Canal Zone retirement and disability fund." 413
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