[54 STAT. eneral expenses. General expenses: For general expenses of the Office of Education, including lawbooks, books of reference and periodicals; streetcar fares; traveling expenses, including attendance at meetings of educa- tional associations, societies, and other organizations, and not to exceed $3,000 for the expenses of persons attending conferences called to meet in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; for compensation, not to exceed $500, of employees in field service; for purchase, dis- tribution, and exchange of educational documents, motion-picture films, and lantern slides; collection, exchange, and cataloging of edu- cational apparatus and appliances, articles of school furniture and models of school buildings illustrative of foreign and domestic sys- tems and methods of education, and repairing the same; exchange as part payment for office equipment and other expenses not herein provided for, $26,500. Libraryservice. Library service: For making surveys studies, investigations, and reports regarding public, school, college, university, and other libraries; fostering coordination of public and school library service; coordinating library service on the national level with other forms of adult education; developing library participation in Federal proj- ects; fostering Nation-wide coordination of research materials among the more scholarly libraries, inter-State library cooperation, and the development of public, school, and other library service throughout the country, and for the administrative expenses incident to perform- ing these duties, including salaries of such assistants, experts, clerks, and other employees in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, as the Commissioner of Education may deem necessary, necessary trav- eling expenses, including attendance at meetings of educational asso- ciations, societies, and other organizations, purchase of miscellaneous supplies, equipment, stationery, typewriters, and exchange thereof, postage on foreign mail, purchase of books of reference, lawbooks, and periodicals, printing and binding, and all other necessary expenses, $24,50 0 . studyothigheredu- Study of higher education for Negroes: For all expenses, includ- cation or Negroes. ing personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, pur- chase and rental of equipment, purchase of supplies, traveling expenses, including attendance at meetings of educational associations, societies, and other organizations, printing and binding, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to enable the Office of Education, at a total cost of not to exceed $40,000, to make a study of higher education for Negroes to determine first, the higher education needs of Negroes, and second, the areas of educational con- centration or specialization upon which the various colleges should Pmmentofs. embark, $15,000: Provided, That specialists and experts for tem- Employment of spe- ialists, etc. porary service in this study may be employed at rates to be fixed by the Administrator of the Federal Security Agency to correspond 42 Star.1488. to those established by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and 631-652; Supp. v, without reference to the Civil Service Act of January 16, 1883. 22 Stat7.43 . Further endowment of colleges of agriculture and the mechanic ofstherBendomeg arts: For carrying out the provisions of section 22 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for research into basic laws and principles relat- ing to agriculture and to provide for the further development of cooperative agricultural extension work and the more complete 49 Sutat. 439. endowment and support of land-grant colleges", approved June 29, . ,S3d p. 1935 (49 Stat. 436), $2,480,000. OFFICE OF EDUCATION-VOCATIONAL EDUCATION salaries and ex- Salaries and expenses: For carrying out the provisions of section 7 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the promotion of voca- PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 428-JUNE 26, 1940 582
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