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55 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.--CH. 156-MAY 31, 1941 Salaries (Reimbursable): For personal services in the District of Columbia, in redeeming Federal Reserve notes, $58,000, to be reim- bursed by the Federal Reserve banks. With the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, there may be transferred sums (not exceeding a total of $700,000) to the appropriations, "Salaries, Office of Treasurer of the United States, 1942", "Contingent expenses, Treasury Department, 1942", "Printing and binding, Treasury Department, 1942", and "Stationery, Treasury Department, 1942", from funds available for the Agricul- tural Adjustment Administration, Home Owners' Loan Corporation, Farm Credit Administration, Tennessee Valley Authority, Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Federal land banks and other banks and corporations under the supervision of the Farm Credit Administration, Railroad Retire- ment Board, Soil Conservation Service, including Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment, National Youth Administration, Federal Housing Administration, United States Housing Authority, Civilian Conservation Corps, Public Works Administration, Commodity Credit Corporation, Rural Electrification Administration, and corpo- rations and banks under the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to cover the expenses incurred on account of such respective activities in clearing of checks, servicing of bonds, handling of collections, and rendering of accounts therefor. 217 Redeeming Federal Reserve notes. Transfer of funds. Ante, pp. 216, 213, 214, 216. BUREAU OF CUSTOMS Salaries and expenses: For collecting the revenue from customs, for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, and not to exceed $100,000 for the securing of evidence of violations of the customs laws; for expenses of transportation and transfer of customs receipts from points where there are no Government deposi- tories; not to exceed $84,500 for allowances for living quarters, including heat fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (5 U. S. C . 118a), but not to exceed $1,700 for any one person; not to exceed $500 for subscriptions to newspapers; not to exceed $2,000 for improving, repairing, maintaining, or preserving buildings, inspection stations, office quarters, including living quarters for officers, sheds, and sites along the Canadian and Mexican borders acquired under authority of the Act of June 26, 1930 (19 U. S . C. 68); and including the purchase (not to exceed $87,500), exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger- carrying vehicles when necessary for official use in field work; $21,050,000, of which such amount as may be necessary shall be avail- able for the payment of extra compensation earned by customs officers or employees for overtime services, at the expense of the parties in interest, in accordance with the provisions of section 5 of the Act approved February 13, 1911, as amended by the Act approved Febru- ary 7, 1920, and section 451 of the Tariff Act, 1930. as amended (19 U. S C. 261, 267, and 1451): Provided,.That the receipts from such parties in interest for such overtime services shall be deposited as a refund to the appropriation from which such overtime compensation is paid, in accordance with the provisions of section 524 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U. S . C . 1524); for the cost of seizure, storage, and disposition of any merchandise, vehicle and team, auto- mobile, boat, air or water craft, or any other conveyance seized under the provisions of the customs laws, for the purchase of arms, ammuni- tion, and accessories, and $570,000 shall be available for personal serv- ices in the District of Columbia exclusive of ten persons from the Post, p. 836. Living quarters. 46 Stat. 818. 40 Stat. 817. Overtime compen- sation. 36 Stat. 901; 41 Stat. 402; 46 Stat. 715. Proviso. Deposit of receipts as refund to appro- priation. 46 Stat. 741. Personal servica