53 STAT.] 76TH CONG., IST SESS.-CH. 248-JUNE 29, 1939 expenditures for personal services at the seat of government and elsewhere as may be necessary, as authorized in the Act approved June 7,1924 (16 U. S. C. 721 -731), $17,000. Fishery laboratory, Little Port Walter, Alaska: For the estab- lishment and equipment of a fishery laboratory at Little Port Walter, Alaska, including the construction of experimental spawning ponds, $7,500. The appropriation herein under title III for traveling expenses shall be available, in an amount not to exceed $750, for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Bureau of Fisheries when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce. Appropriations herein made for propagation of food fishes, inquiry respecting food fishes, fishery industries, fishery market news service, and Alaska fisheries service, shall be available, under such regula- tions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce, for paying the cost of packing, crating, drayage, and transporting the house- hold effects (not to exceed six thousand pounds in any one case) of employees of the Bureau of Fisheries when transferred from one official station to another for permanent duty. 919 43 Stat. 650 . 16 U. S. C. §§721- 731. Little Port Walter, Alaska, fishery labo- ratory. Attendance at meet- ings. Use of certain funds for transferring house- hold effects. PATENT OFFICE Salaries: For the Commissioner of Patents and other personal Salaries. services in the District of Columbia, $3,560,000. Photolithographing: For producing copies of weekly issue of Photoithographing. drawings 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 photostat and photographic supplies and dry mounts, $180,000: Provided,That the headings of the drawings for patented cases may Multigrap hehad- be multigraphed in the Patent Office for the purpose of photo- ings. lithography.iscllneous Miscellaneous expenses: For purchase and exchange of law, pro- p,,s ell 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, $62,500. Printing and binding: For printing the weekly issue of patents, Printing and bind- designs, trade-marks, prints, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; and tor printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly and annual indices, $805,000; for miscel- laneous printing and binding, $60,000; in all $865,000. The appropriation under title III herein for traveling expenses inAttendane atmeet 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 Com- merce. This title may be cited as the "Department of Commerce Appro- Short tit e - priation Act, 1940". Approved, June 29, 1939.
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