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49 Stat. 543: 24 Stat. provisions of part II of the Interstate Commerce Act and section 5, 49U. S .C . §301,5 . part I, of the Interstate Commerce Act insofar as applicable to 54 Stat. 919. common carriers subject to part II (Transportation Act of 1940), 49 U.SC .301 . including one director at $10,000 per annum and other personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses; supplies; services and equipment; not to exceed $1,000 for purchase and exchange of books, reports, newspapers, and periodicals; contract stenographic reporting services; purchase (not to exceed $18,000), exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled pas- senger-carrying vehicles when necessary for official use in field work; not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase of evidence in connection with rasportation re- investigations of apparent violations of said Act, $3,690,000: Pro- quests. vided, That Joint Board members may use Government transporta- tion requests when traveling in connection with their duties as Joint Board members. Attendanceat meet- Not to exceed $2,500 of the appropriations herein made for the m igs. Interstate Commerce Commission shall be available for expenses, except membership fees, for attendance at meetings concerned with hoTldaeffect ous the work of the Commission, and not to exceed $5,000 for transfer of 54stat. 1105 . household goods and effects as provided by the Act of October 5 .S. C.§73c. 10, 1940 (Public, Numbered 839), and regulations promulgated thereunder. In all, salaries and expenses, Interstate Commerce Commission, $8,858,750. Post, p.6. For all printing and binding for the Interstate Commerce Com- mission, including reports in all cases proposing general changes in transportation rates and not to exceed $17,000 to print and furnish to the States, at cost, report form blanks, and the receipts from such reports and blanks shall be credited to this appropriation, $200,000. Total, Interstate Commerce Commission, $9,058,750. post,pp.546,748,822. NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS Salaries and ex- For scientific research, technical investigations, and special reports penses . in the field of aeronautics, including the necessary laboratory and technical assistants; contracts for personal services in the making of special investigations and in the preparation of special reports; traveling expenses of members and employees, including not to exceed $2,500 for expenses, except membership fees, of attendance upon meetings of technical and professional societies; transfer of household goods and effects as provided by the Act of October 10, 1940 (Public, 54 Stat. 1105 . Numbered 839) and regulations promulgated thereunder; office sup- 5U. S. . 73c-. plies and other miscellaneous expenses, including technical period- Aeronauticallabora- icals and books of reference; equipment, maintenance, and operation tories. of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, the Ames Aero- nautical Laboratory, and the airplane engine research laboratory provided for in the First Supplemental National Defense Appro- 54 Stat. 599. priation Act, fiscal year 1941, approved June 26, 1940; purchase, maintenance, operation, and exchange of motor-propelled passenger- pot, pp. 546,748. carrying vehicles including one at not to exceed $1,200; personal services in the field and not to exceed $195,380 for personal services in the District of Columbia; in all, $4,567,890. For all printing and binding for the National Advisory Com- mittee for Aeronautics, including all of its offices, laboratories, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $25,000. Ames Aeronautical Construction and equipment: For continuing construction and Post. p. 74. equipment of the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory (at Moffett Field, California) for which an initial appropriation of $1,890,980 was pro- 114 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 40 -APR. 5 , 1941 [55 STAT.