56 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 516-JULY 22, 1942 In all, salaries and expenses, $256,497. Total, Office of Experiment Stations, $7,182,705, of which amount not to exceed $154,780 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. SPECIAL RESEARCH FUND, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE For enabling the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for research into basic laws and principles relating to agriculture and to provide for the further development of cooperative agricultural extension work and the more complete endowment and support of land-grant col- leges", approved June 29, 1935 (7 U. S . C . 427, 427b, 427c, 427f); for administration of the provisions of section 5 of the said Act, and for special research work, including the planning, programming, coordination, and printing the results of such research, to be conducted by such agencies of the Department of Agriculture as the Secretary of Agriculture may designate or establish, and to which he may make allotments from this fund, including the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse- drawn passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of field work outside the District of Columbia, $1,150,000, of which amount $700,000 shall be available for the maintenance and operation of research laboratories and facilities in the major agricultural regions provided for by section 4 of said Act: Provided, That not more than $5,000 of this appropriation shall be used to further the chemical phases of the soybean investigations, except the routine analytical work for plant production, now being conducted at Urbana, Illinois, and such $5,000 shall be available only for the expenses incident to the transfer of such investigations to Peoria, Illinois, for absorption by the Northern Regional Research Laboratory. EXTENSION SERVICE PAYMENTS TO STATES, HAWAII, ALASKA, AND PUERTO RICO Capper-Ketcham extension work: To enable the Secretary of Agri- culture to carry into effect the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the further development of agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several States receiving the benefits of the Act entitled 'An Act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts', approved July 2, 1862 (7 U. S . C. 301-308), and all Acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture", approved May 22, 1928 (7 U. S. C. 343a, 343b), $1,480,000. Additional cooperative extension work: For additional cooperative agricultural extension work in agriculture and home economics, to be allotted and paid by the Secretary of Agriculture to the several States and the Territories of Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, in such amounts as he may deem necessary to accomplish such purposes, $555,000. Extension work, section 21, Bankhead-Jones Act: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of section 21, title II, of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for research into basic laws and principles relating to agriculture and to provide for the further development of cooperative agricultural extension work and the more complete endowment and support of land-grant col- leges", approved June 29, 1935 (7 U. S . C. 343c), $12,000,000. 671 Total; personalserv- ices. Administrative ex- penses. 49 Stat. 436. Research labora- tories. Proviso. Soybean investiga- tions. Cooperation with State colleges. 12 Stat. 56 . 46 Stat. 711. 49 Stat. 43.
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