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56 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CI. 516-JULY 22, 1942 the cost or value of such supplies, materials, or equipment: Provided further, That reproductions of such aerial or other photographs, mosaics, and maps as shall be required in connection with the author- ized work of the Soil Conservation Service may be furnished at the cost of reproduction to Federal, State, county, or municipal agencies requesting such reproductions, the money received from such sales to be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of this appropriation, as follows: General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses for gen- eral administrative purposes, including the salary of the Chief of the Soil Conservation Service and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $501,315: Provided, That no part of the money appro- priated in this paragraph shall be available for expenditure if any emergency appropriations are made available for administrative expenses in administering the funds provided in regular appropria- tions to the Soil Conservation Service. Soil and moisture conservation and land-use investigations: For research and investigations into the character, cause, extent, history, and effects of erosion, soil and moisture depletion and methods of soil and moisture conservation (including the construction and hydrologic phases of farm irrigation and land drainage); and for construction, operation, and maintenance of experimental watersheds, stations, laboratories, plots, and installations, $1,339,429. Soil and moisture conservation and land-use operations, demonstra- tions, and information: For carrying out preventive measures to conserve soil and moisture, including such special measures as may be necessary to prevent floods and the siltation of reservoirs, and including the improvement of farm irrigation and land drainage, the establishment and operation of erosion nurseries, the making of con- servation plans and surveys, and the dissemination of information, $20,510,812: Provided, That any part of this appropriation allocated for the production or procurement of nursery stock by any Federal agency, or funds appropriated to any Federal agency for allocation to cooperating States for the production or procurement of nursery stock, shall remain available for expenditure for not more than three fiscal years. Emergency erosion control, Everglades region, Florida: For research and demonstration work in soil conservation control meas- ures, including research and demonstration work in fire control and irrigation construction work to eliminate fire hazards, in the Ever- glades region of Florida, $75,648: Provided, That no expenditures shall be made for these purposes until a sum at least equal to such expenditures shall have been made available by the State of Florida, or a political subdivision thereof, for the same' purposes. Total, salaries and expenses, Soil Conservation Service, $22,427,204 of which not to exceed $1,301,585 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. CONSERVATION AND USE OF AGRICULTURAL LAND RESOURCES, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of sections 7 to 17, inclusive, of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, approved February 29, 1936, as amended (16 U. S. C. 590g-590q), and the provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended (7 U. S . C . 1281-1407) (except the making of payments pursuant to sections 303 and 381 and the provisions of titles IV and V), including the employment of persons 691 Reproductions of aerial photographs. etc. Proviso. Proviso. Nursery stock, avail- ability of funds. Everglades region, Fla. Proidfo. Total; personal serv- ices. Soil conservation. 49 Stat. 1148 . 16 U. S.C., Supp. I, 590h. Ante, p. 53; post, p. 761. 52 Stat. 31; ante, pp. 41, 51 , 121, 653. 7U.S.C., Supp.I, ch 35.