PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 258-JUNE 28, 1941 exchange of motortrucks and bicycles; maintenance, repair, and opera- tion of three motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (one for the Secretary of Commerce and two for the general use of the Depart- ment), and motortrucks and bicycles, to be used only for official pur- poses; freight and express charges; postage to foreign countries; telegraph and telephone service; teletype service and tolls (not to exceed $1,000), typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange; first-aid outfits for use in the buildings occupied by employees of this Department; $69,000, which sum shall constitute the appropriation for contingent expenses of the Department, except the Patent Office, Office of Administrator of Civil Aeronautics, the Civil Aeronautics Board, and the Bureau of the Supplies for field Census, and shall also be available for the purchase of necessary sup- services. plies and equipment for field services of bureaus and offices of the Department for which contingent and miscellaneous appropriations are specifically made in order to facilitate the purchase through the central purchasing office (Division of Purchases and Sales) as provided by law. Traveling expenses: For all necessary traveling expenses under the Department of Commerce, including all bureaus and divisions there- under except the Bureau of the Census, Weather Bureau, Office of Administrator of Civil Aeronautics, and Civil Aeronautics Board, and including the examination of estimates of appropriations in the Pre'ofutomobls. field, $228,000: Provided, That not exceeding $2,500 of this appro- priation shall be available for the hire of automobiles for travel on official business, without regard to the provisions of the Act of July 5. . C. 178. 16, 1914 (38 Stat. 508), and not exceeding $2,000 shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Office of the Secretary of Commerce. Printing and binding: For all printing and binding for the Department of Commerce, including all of its bureaus, offices, insti- tutions, and services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, except the Patent Office, the Bureau of the Census, the Civil Aero- nautics Board, and work done at the field printing plants of the Weather Bureau authorized by the Joint Committee on Printing, in 4Stat. 1270. accordance with the Act approved March 1, 1919 (44 U. S. C . 111, Proviso. Detail or copy edt- 220), $489,000: Provided, That an amount not to exceed $2,000 of tors. this appropriation may be expended for salaries of persons detailed from the Government Printing Office for service as copy editors. National Inventors Salaries and expenses, National Inventors Council Service Staff: For all necessary expenses to enable the servicing staff of the National Inventors Council during the fiscal year 1942 to continue to perform the functions or activities for the performance of which, during the fiscal year 1941, the Secretary of Commerce received allocation of funds from the appropriations "Emergency fund for the President" Mtat.377,297. contained in the Military Appropriation Act, 1941, and in the Naval Appropriation Act, 1941, including the objects for which and subject to the conditions under which such allocations were expended during the fiscal year 1941, $150,000. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS Siteenth Census. For continuing the work of taking, compiling, and publishing the Post, p. 551. Sixteenth Census of the United States, as authorized by the Act of h on ensus of June 18, 1929 (13 U. S . C . 201-218), and the national census of housing 13 U. S . C i 100, as authorized by the Act of August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1406), and for 107. carrying on other authorized census work, including personal services and rentals in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; the cost of Monographs. transcribing State, municipal, and other records; contracts for the 278 [55 STAT.
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