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57 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 1 ST SESS.-CH. 173-JUNE 28, 1943 cannot secure for such appointment a person in any of the three categories specified in such section 205 who possesses the special quali- fications for the particular position and also otherwise meets the gen- eral requirements for employment in the Library of Congress. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WORKING CAPITAL AND CONGRESSIONAL PRINTING AND BINDING To provide the Public Printer with a working capital for the following purposes for the execution of printing, binding, litho- graphing, mapping, engraving, and other authorized work of the Government Printing Office for the various branches of the Govern- ment: For salaries of Public Printer and Deputy Public Printer; for salaries, compensation, or wages of all necessary officers and employees additional to those herein appropriated for, including employees necessary to handle waste paper and condemned material for sale; to enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of law granting holidays and half holidays and Executive orders granting holidays and half holidays with pay to employees; to enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of law granting leave to employees with pay, such pay to be at the rate for their regular positions at the time the leave is granted; rental of buildings and equipment; fuel, gas, heat, electric current, gas and electric fixtures; bicycles, motor-propelled vehicles for the carriage of printing and printing supplies, and the maintenance, repair, and operation of the same, to be used only for official purposes, including operation, repair, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, for official use of the officers of the Government Printing Office when in writing ordered by the Public Printer; freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, furniture, typewriters, and carpets; traveling expenses, including not to exceed $3,000 for attendance at meetings or conventions when authorized by the Joint Committee on Printing; stationery, postage and advertising; directories, technical books, newspapers and magazines, and books of reference (not exceeding $500); add(ing and numbering machines, time stamps, and other machines of similar character; rubber boots, coats, and gloves; machinery (not exceeding $300,(000); equipment, and for repairs to machinery, implements, and buildings2 and for minor alterations to buildings; necessary equipment, maintenance, and supplies for the emergency room for the use of all employees in the Government Printing Office who may be taken suddenly ill or receive injury while on duty; other necessary contingent and miscel- laneous items authorized by the Public Printer; for expenses authorized in writing by the Joint Committee on Printing for the inspection of printing and binding equipment, material, and supplies and Government printing plants in the District of Columbia or elsewhere (not exceeding $1,000); for salaries and expenses of pre- paring the semimonthly and session indexes of the Congressional Record under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing (chief indexer at $3,480, one cataloger at $3,180, two catalogers at $2,460 each, and one cataloger at $2,100); and for all the necessary labor, paper, materials, and equipment needed in the prosecution and delivery and mailing of the work; in all, $7,225,000; to which sum shall be charged the printing and binding authorized to be done for Congress including supplemental and deficiency estimates of appro- priations; the printing, binding, and distribution of the Federal Register in accordance with the Act approved July 26, 1935 (44 U. S . C. 301-317) (not exceeding $400,000); for the printing and 237 Pest, p. 538 . Salaries, etc. Leave with pay. Machinery. Congressional Rec- ord indexes. Federal Register. 49 Stat. 500 . 44V.S.C.i§301- 314; Supp. I, § 311 (a).