PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 11-MAR . 16, 1939 CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION Commissioners, and For three Commissioners and other personal services in the Dis- e personne. trict of Columbia, including personal services required for examina- tion of Presidential postmasters, and including not to exceed $2,500 for employment of expert examiners not in the Federal service on special subjects for which examiners within the service are not avail- able, 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- Attendanceatmeet- tions and investigations held elsewhere than at Washington, includ- ings. ing not to exceed $5,000 for expenses incident to attendance at meetings concerned with problems of public officials, educational groups, Government employees as such, and other similar organiza- tions, which are peculiar to the interests and business of the Com- Miscellaneous ex- mission, when specifically directed by the Commission; for furniture penses. and other equipment and repairs thereto; rental of equipment; sup- plies; advertising; telegraph, telephone, and laundry service; freight and express charges; streetcar fares not to exceed $300; stationery; purchase and exchange of law books, books of reference, directories, subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals, not to exceed $1,000; charts; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motortrucks, motorcycles, and bicycles; garage rent; postage stamps to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries; special-deliv- ery stamps; and other like miscellaneous necessary expenses not here- Amountimmediate- inbefore provided for, $4,250,000, of which not to exceed $550,000 roavaiabe. shall be immediately available: Provided, That notwithstanding any Actuarialservices. 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 Details from de- Commission may determine to be reasonable: Provided further, That partments, etc., re- striction. eno details from any executive department or independent establish- ment in the District of Columbia or elsewhere to the Commission's central office in Washington or to any of its district offices shall be made during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, but this shall not affect the making of details for service as members of the boards of examiners outside the immediate offices of the district managers: Emergency trans- Provided further, That the Civil Service Commission shall have ers, etc., permitted power in case of emergency to transfer or detail any of its employees to or from its office or field force. Printing and bind- For all printing and binding for the Civil Service Commission in. including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington and elsewhere, $150,000, of which not to exceed $20,000 shall be immediately available. CIVIL-SERVICE RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY FUND Contribution. For financing of the liability of the United States, created by the Act entitled "An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified 41 Stat. 614. civil service, and for other purposes", approved May 22, 1920, and Supp. IV, ch. 14; Acts amendatory thereof (38 U. S. C . 11), $86,329,000, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the "civil-service retirement and disability fund". CANAL ZONE RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY FUND Contribution. For financing of the liability of the United States, created by the ,Act entitled "An Act for the retirement of employees of the Panama Canal and the Panama Railroad Company, on the Isthmus of 528 [53 STAT.
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