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PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 185-JULY 1. 1943 Technical and cler- ical personnel. Maximum expendi- tures, fiscal year 1944. Report to Congress. Employment of ad- ditional personnel. Bulletins for instruc- tion of medical officers. Time-measuring devices, restriction on use. Office of the Quartermaster General, $831,000. Office of the Chief Signal Officer, $371,000. Office of Commanding General, Army Air Forces, $517,000. Office of the Surgeon General, $393,000. Office of Chief of Engineers, $531,000: Provided, That the services of such additional technical and clerical personnel as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the Office of the Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors and flood control, surveys, and preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor and flood-control estimates and bills, to be paid from such appropriations: Provided further, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1944 shall not exceed $604,219, and the Secretary of War shall each year, in the Budget, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. Office of Chief of Ordnance, $883,000. Office of Chief of Chemical Warfare Service, $83,000. Office of Chief of Chaplains, $7,000. National Guard Bureau, War Department, $114,000. In all, salaries, War Department. $7,552,000. The Secretary of War is authorized to employ such additional per- sonnel at the seat of government and elsewhere, and to provide out of any appropriations available for the Military Establishment for their salaries and for such printing and binding, communication and other services, and supplies as he may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, but the amount so used for personal services at the seat of government, other than for field service employees, shall not exceed one-third of 1 per centum of the total amount of cash appropriated for the Army. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY CONTINGENT EXPENSES, WAR DEPARTMENT For stationery and office supplies; purchase of professional and scientific books, lawbooks, including their exchange; books of refer- ence, pamphllets, periodicals, newspapers (not to exceed $3,500), maps; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, linoleum, filing equip- ment, photo supplies, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges; purchase of motortrucks; maintenance, repair, and operation of motortrucks and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle; freight and express charges; streetcar fares; postage; and other necessary expenses, $511,000. PRINTING AND BINDING, WAR DEPARTMENT For printing and binding for the War Department, except such as may be otherwise provided for in accordance with existing law, $901,000: Provided, That the sum of $3,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used for the publication, from time to time, of bulletins prepared under the direction of the Surgeon Gen- eral of the Army, for the instruction of medical officers, when approved by the Secretary of War. SEC. 2. No part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch, or other time-measuring device, a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged 366 [57 STAT.