53 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 248-JUNE 29, 1939 Enforcement of antitrust and kindred laws: For the enforcement of antitrust and kindred laws, including experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General except that the compensation paid to any person employed hereunder shall not exceed the rate of $10,000 per annum, includ- ing personal services in the District of Columbia, $1,300,000: Pro- vided, That none of this appropriation shall be expended for the establishment and maintenance of permanent regional offices of the Antitrust Division: Provided further, That any person hereafter appointed at a salary of $7,500 or more and paid from this appro- priation shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Bond and Spirits Division: For salaries and expenses in connec- tion with the preliminary determination of civil liabilities arising under acts pursuant to the eighteenth amendment before repeal; the preliminary determination of compromises and petitions for remis- sion of forfeitures arising out of current internal-revenue liquor laws; the supervision of the collection on forfeited bail bonds and judg- ments and fines imposed in criminal cases; personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and such other expenditures (not exceeding $50 for any one item) as may be necessary, $195,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to com- pensate any person not appointed pursuant to civil-service laws and regulations, but this limitation shall not apply to attorneys or the head of the division. Examination of judicial offices: For the investigation of the official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks of the United States courts and Territorial courts, probation officers, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the official papers, records, and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney General at any time; and also the official acts, records, and accounts of referees and trustees of such courts, in all, $51,300, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. Veterans Insurance Litigation Division: For salaries and expenses incident to the defense of suits against the United States under sec- tion 19, of the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, approved June 7, 1924, as amended and supplemented, or the compromise of the same under the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1934, approved June 16, 1933, including office expenses, lawbooks, supplies, equip- ment, stenographic reporting services by contract or otherwise, including notarial fees or like services and stenographic work in taking depositions at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, printing and binding, the employment of experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, and personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $485,000. Salaries and expenses, Lands Division: For personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and for other necessary expenses, including employment of experts at such rates of compen- sation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, purchase and exchange of typewriters, adding machines and other labor-saving devices, stenographic reporting services by contract or otherwise, and notarial fees or like services, $1,700,000: Provided, That all unobligated balances, at the close of business on June 30, 1939, of funds transferred to the Department of Justice for payment of salaries and other expenses necessary for the examination of title and prosecution of condemnation proceedings with respect to the acquisition of lands for other departments, independent establish- 899 Enforcement of anti- trust, etc., laws. Salary restriction. Proisos. Restriction on es- tablishing permanent regional offices. Senate approval of appointments at $7,.500 or more. Bond and Spirits Division. Personal services. Proviso. Appointments pur- suant to civil-service laws; exceptions. Examination of Ju- dicial offices. Veterans Insurance Litigation Division. 43 Stat. 612; 48 Stat. 302. 38U.. C.{445. Lands Division. Proiso. Transfer of unobli- gated balances.
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