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57 STAT.] 78H CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 215-JULY 12, 1943 Information, as the central agency of the Department therefor, additional funds not exceeding $300,000 for these purposes may be trahsferred to and made a part of this appropriation, from the funds applicable, and shall be available for the objects specified herein, including personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided further, That in the preparation of motion pictures or exhibits by the Department, not exceeding a total of $10,000 may be used for the temporary employment, by contract or otherwise, of specialists technicians, and experts, without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended: Provided,That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the establishment or maintenance of regional or State field offices or for the compensation of employees in such offices except that not to exceed $9,100 may be used to maintain the San Francisco radio office. PtrNTING AND BINDING For all printing and binding for the Department, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, except as otherwise in this Act provided, $1,200,000 including the purchase of reprints of scientific and technical articles published in periodicals and journals; the Annual Report of the Secretary, as required by the Acts of January 12, 1895 (44 U. S. C. 111, 212-220, 222, 241, 244), March 4, 1915 (7U. S.C. 418), and June 20, 1936 (5 U. S . C. 108), and in pursuance of the Act approved March 30, 1906 (44 U. S . C . 214, 224), also including not to exceed $250,000 for farmers' bulletins, which shall be adapted to the interests of the people of the different sections of the country, an equal proportion of four-fifths of which shall be delivered to or sent out under the addressed franks furnished by the Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, as they shall direct, but not including work done at the field printing plants of the Forest Service authorized by the Joint Committee on Printing, in accordance with the Act approved March 1, 1919 (44 U. S . C. 111, 220): Provided, That the Secretary may transfer to this appropriation from the appropriation made for "Conservation and Use of Agricultural Land Resources" such sums as may be necessary for printing and binding in connection with marketing quotas under the Agricultural Adjust- ment Act of 1938, and from funds appropriated to carry into effect the terms of section 82 of the Act of August 24, 1935 (7 U. S. C. 612c), as amended, such sums as may be necessary for printing and binding in connection with the activities under said section 32, and from funds appropriated for parity payments under section 803 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, such sums as may be necessary for printing and binding in connection with such payments: Provided further, That the total amount that may be transferred under the authority granted in the preceding proviso shall not exceed $550,000. Reproduction of 1942 Yearbook of Agriculture: For printing and binding 231,250 copies of the remainder of the quotas for the Senate and House of Representatives of part 2 of the annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture (known as the Yearbook of Agriculture, 1942, entitled "Keeping Livestock Healthy"), as authorized by sec- tion 73 of the Act of January 12, 1895 (44 U. S . C. 241), $178,000. Total, Office of Information, $1,817,257. LIBRARY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Salaries and expenses: For purchase and exchange of reference books, lawbooks, technical and scientific books, periodicas, and for penses incurred in completing imperfect series; not to exceed Temporary em- ployment of special- ists, etc. 42 Stat. 1488. 5U.S.C.§661; Supp. II, § 661 d sq. Regional or field of- fices. Annual Report of the Secretary. 28 Stat. 601 . 38 Stat. 1110 . 49 Stat. 1550. 34 Stat. 825. Farmers' bulletins. 40 Stat. 1270. Transfer of funds. Pat, p. 416 . 52 Stat. 31. 7U.S.C. 121; Supp. II, eh. S3. Ante, p. ¢9. 49 Stat. 774 . 7 U. 8. C., Supp. II, § 612c note. 2 Stat. 4&. 7U.S. C. 1303. 28 Stat. 612