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PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 258 -JUNE 28, 1941 Post, pp. 824, 832. Post, p . 824. Post, p. 825 . Post,p. 551 . 54 Stat. 641. Restriction on use of funds. A ttendance at meet. ings. ' ITmporary employ- nWnt of architectF,etc. Post, p . 832 China Trade Act, administration. 42 Stat. 849. 15U.S.C.H141- 162. Office force: For personal services, $692,000. Office expenses: For purchase of new icstruments (except sur- veying instruments), including their exchange, materials, equipment, and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and chart division; books, scientific and technical books, journals, books of reference, maps, charts, and subscriptions; copper plates, chart paper, printer's ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, rubber gloves, and electrotyping supplies; photohthographing and printing charts for immediate use; stationery for office and field parties; transportation of instruments and supplies when not charged to field expenses; telegrams; washing; office furniture, repairs; mis- cellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, not exceeding $90 for streetcar fares, $98,000. Aeronautical charts: For compilation and printing of aeronautical charts, including personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $154,000), operation of airplane for check flights, and aerial photographs, execution of ground surveys at air terminals, and the purchase of drafting, photographic, photolithographic, and printing supplies and equipment, $180,000. Construction of vessels: For an additional amount for construct- ing, equipping, and outfitting one main surveying ship and one aux- iliary surveying vessel, authorized by the Act of June 2, 1939 (53 Stat. 803), $191,100, which amount, together with the amount appro- priated under this head in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1940, shall continue available until June 30, 1942. Appropriations herein made for traveling expenses or for the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall not be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the director), except as now provided by law. The appropriation in this title herein for traveling expenses shall be available, in an amount not to exceed $650, for expenses of attend- ance at meetings concerned with the work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce. Not to exceed $2,500 of the appropriations herein made for the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall be available for the payment of part-time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, of such architects, engineers, scientists, and technicists as may be contracted for by the Secretary of Commerce, in his dis- cretion, at a rate of pay not exceeding $25 per diem for any person so employed. BURIEAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE Departmental salaries and expenses: For the salary of the Director and other personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $1.380,000), and for all other authorized and necessary expenditures of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce at the seat of Government in performing the duties imposed by law or in pursu- ance of law, including functions incident to the establishment, opera- tion, and maintenance of foreign trade zones in ports of entry of the United States and administration of the China Trade Act; news- papers (not exceeding $1,500), periodicals, and books of reference; purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriters and labor-saving devices; contract stenographic reporting services; fees and mileage of witnesses, and other contingent expenses in the District of Colum- [55 STAT.