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77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 629-OCT. 26, 1942 1003 $33,250, and the limitation of $30,000 on expenditures for personal services in the District of Columbia is hereby increased to $80,000. The authority granted by the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1943, to the Secretary of the Interior, or any official to whom he may delegate such authority, for the duration of the war and six months thereafter, to appoint skilled and unskilled laborers, mechan- ics, and other persons engaged in a recognized trade or craft, includ- ing foremen of such groups, employed at experimental plants and laboratories of the Bureau of Mines without regard to the Classifica- tion Act of 1923, as amended, is hereby extended to include appoint- ment of such employees at helium plants and properties related thereto. GOVERNMENT OF THE TERRITORIES TERRITORY OF ALASKA Care and custody of insane, Alaska: For an additional amount for care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in Alaska, fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1942, $1,500. Construction of Palmer-Richardson Road, Alaska (national defense): For an additional amount to complete construction of the Palmer-Richardson Road, Alaska, $500,000, to remain available until expended, and the limitation of $1,800,000 upon the total cost of such work contained in the Third Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1942, is hereby increased to $2,300,000. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding for the Department of Justice, $225,000. SPECIAL WAR EFFORT UNIT For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, Special War Effort Unit, Department of Justice, fiscal year 1943, including the objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appro- priation Act, 1943, $180,000. DEPARTMENT OF STATE AMBASSADORS AND MINISTERS The appropriation "Salaries of Ambassadors and Ministers", con- tained in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1943, shall be available for the salary of Mr. Joseph C. Grew, until recently Ambassador to Japan, for all purposes for which such appropria- tion would have been available had it provided specifically for the salary of an Ambassador to Japan. TREASURY DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Expenses of absentee voting by members of the land and naval forces: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to make payments to States as provided by Public Law 712, approved September 16, 1942, entitled "An Act to provide for a method of voting, in time of war, by members of the land and naval forces absent from the place of their residence", the checks in payment thereof to be drawn in Ante, p. 544 . Ante, p. 548. 42 Stat. 1488 . 5 U.s .o . §S661-674: Supp. I, ch. 13 . Ante, p. 733. 55 Stat. 358. 55 Stat. 827. Ante, p. 481 . Ante, p. 485. Ante, p. 469. Ante, p. 150. Ante, p. 756. 56 STAT.]