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77TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 40-APR . 5, 1941 THE WHITE HOUSE OFFICE Salaries: For personal services in the office of the President, includ- ing the Secretary to the President, two additional secretaries to the President and six administrative assistants to the President at $10,000 each; $224,860: Provided, That employees of the executive depart- ments and other establishments of the executive branch of the Gov- ernment may be detailed from time to time to the office of the President of the United States for such temporary assistance as may be deemed necessary. Contingent expenses: For contingent expenses of The White House Office, including stationery, record books, telegrams, telephones, books for library, furniture and carpets for offices, automobiles, expenses of garage, including labor, special services, and miscellaneous items to be expended in the discretion of the President, $50,000. For printing and binding, $2,700. Traveling expenses: For traveling and official entertainment expenses of the President of the United States, to be expended in his discretion and accounted for on his certificate solely, $30,000. Total, The White House Office proper, $307,560. EXEOUTIVE MANSION AND GROUNDS For the care, maintenance, repair and alteration, refurnishing, improvement, heating and lighting, including electric power and fixtures of the Executive Mansion, the Executive Mansion green- houses, including reconstruction, and the Executive Mansion grounds, and traveling expenses, to be expended as the President may deter- mine, notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act, $150,670. BUREAU OF THE BUDGET Salaries and expenses: For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Bureau of the Budget, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, contract steno- graphic reporting services, traveling expenses, including expenses of attendance at meetings when necessary in furthering the work of the Bureau of the Budget, streetcar fares, lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals, and newspapers, purchase (not to exceed $750), mainte- nance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles for official use, and not to exceed $50,000 for temporary employment of persons or organizations by contract or otherwise without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and including obligations chargeable against the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1941, $993,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation under this head for the fiscal year 1941. For printing and binding, $44,000. National defense activities: For all necessary expenses to enable the Bureau of the Budget during the fiscal year 1942 to continue to perform the functions or activities for the performance of which, during the fiscal year 1941, the Bureau of the Budget received an allocation of funds from the appropriation "Emergency fund for the President" contained in the Military Appropriation Act, 1941, including the objects for which and subject to the conditions under which such allocation was expended during the fiscal year 1941, $200,000. NATIONAL RESOURCES PLANNING BOARD Salaries and expenses: For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the National Resources Planning Board, to perform the functions transferred to said Board on July 1, 1939, Proviso. Temporary details. Care, repair, etc. Post, p. 542 . Post, p. 542i Temporary employ- ment. 41U.S.C.§5. 42 Stat. 148S . 5 U. S.C. 5i661- 674. Post, p. 613. Post, p. 542. 54 Stat. 377. 55 STAT.] 93