PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 145 -JUNE 26, 1943 FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY Post, pp. 540, 617. [57 STAT. OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR Salaries and expenses: For salaries and expenses in the Office of the Administrator in the District of Columbia, including the salary of a general counsel at $10,000 per annum; printing and binding (not to exceed $4,000); actual transportation and other expenses and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence to persons serving, while away from their homes without other compensation from the United States, in an advisory capacity to the Administrator; pur- chase (incincluding exchange) of lawbooks and other books of reference, purchase of newspapers and periodicals (not to exceed $150); prepa- ration, shipment, and installation of photographic displays, exhibits, and other descriptive materials; travel expenses; not to exceed $1,500 for expenses of attendance, when specifically authorized by the Administrator, at meetings or conventions relating to the work of Specialservices, the Agency; not to exceed $6,000 for the employment of persons or organizations by contract or otherwise, for special services deter- mined by the Administrator to be necessary, without regard to section 41t.s.c.§5. 3709 of the Revised Statutes, and classification laws, $275,000: Pro- Appointments. vided, That the Federal Works Administrator may, under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe, authorize the Commissioner of PubliG Roads and the Commissioner of Public Buildings to make appointments of personnel for such administrations. PUBLIC BUILDINGS ADMINISTRATION Maintenance. 35 Stat. 537 . Administrative ex. penses. Surveys, models, etc. Buildings, etc.. out- side D. C. Maintenance. For carrying into effect the provisions of the Public Buildings Acts, as provided in section 6 of the Act of May 30, 1908 (31 U. S. C. 683), and for the repair, preservation, and upkeep of all completed public buildings under the control of the Federal Works Agency, the mechanical equipment and the grounds thereof, and sites acquired for buildings, and for the operation of certain completed and occupied buildings under the control of the Federal Works Agency, including furniture anl repairs thereof, but exclusive, with respect to operation, of buildings of the United States Coast Guard, of hospitals, quaran- tine stations, and other Public Health Service buildings, mints, bullion depositories, and assay offices, and buildings operated by the Treasury and Post Office Departments in the District of Columbia. General administrative expenses: For architectural, engineering, mechanical, administrative, clerical, and other personal services; traveling expenses, printing and binding (not to exceed $20,000), advertising, testing instruments, lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals, and such other contingencies, articles, services, equipment. or supplies as the Commissioner of Public Buildings may deem neces- sary in connection with any of the work of the Public Buildings Administration; ground rent of the Federal buildings at Salamanca, New York, and Columbus, Mississippi, for which payment may be made in advance; $1.225,000, of which not to exceed $675,900 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia and not to exceed $386,100 for personal services in the field: Provided, That the foregoing appropriations shall not be available for the cost of surveys, plaster models, progress photographs, test pits and borings, or mill and shop inspections, but the cost thereof shall be construed to be chargeable against the construction appropriations of the respec- tive projects to which they relate. Repair, preservation, and equipment, outside the District of Colum- bia: For repairs, alterations, improvement, and preservation, including
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