57 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 18T SESS.-CH. 215-JULY 12, 1943 February 23, 1929 (7 U. S . C . 386c), $13,950; and the provisions of section 3 of the Act entitled "An Act to extend the benefits of the Adams Act, the Purnell Act, and the Capper-Ketcham Act to the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes", approved June 20, 1936 (7 U. S. C. 343e), $10,000; in all, for Alaska, $23,950. Puerto Rico: To enable the Secretary to carry into effect the pro- visions of the Act entitled "An Act to extend the benefits of section 21 of the Bankhead-Jones Act to Puerto Rico", approved August 28, 1937 (7 U. S . C . 343f-343g), $140,000. In all, payments to States, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico for agricultural extension work, $14,198,950. SALARIES AND EXPENSES Administration and coordination of extension work: For the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere to enable the Secretary to administer the provisions of the Smith-Lever Act, approved May 8, 1914 (7 U. S . C. 341-348), and Acts amendatory or supplementary thereto, and to coordinate the extension work of the Department and the several States Terri- tories, and insular possessions, including cooperation with other bureaus and offices of the Department, and Federal, State, county, and other agencies, in the development, preparation, and distribution of educational material designed to increase the effectiveness of cooperative extension work as conducted by the Department in cooperation with land-grant colleges, $658,843, of which amount not to exceed $547,610 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Total, Extension Service, $14,857,793. BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS Economic investigations: For acquiring and diffusing useful infor- mation among the people of the United States, for conducting inves- tigations, experiments, and demonstrations, and for aiding in formulating programs for authorized activities of the Department, relative to agricultural production, distribution, land utilization, and conservation in their broadest aspects, including farm management and practice, utilization of farni and food prodlucts, plurchasinl, of farm supplies, farm po)plation and rural life, farm labor, tarInm finance, insurance and taxmtion, adjustments in production to probable demand for the different farm and food products; land ownership and values, costs, prices and income in their relation to agriculture, including causes for their variations and trends, $2,127,236, together with such amounts from other appropriations or authorizations as are provided in the schedules in the Budget for the fiscal year 1944 for such salaries and expenses, which several amounts or portions thereof, as may be determined by the Secretary, not exceeding a total of $115,377 shall be transferred to and made a part of this appro- priation: Provided, however, That if the total amounts of such appro- priations or authorizations for the fiscal year 1944 shall at any time exceed or fall below the amounts estimated, respectively, therefor in the Budget for 1944, the amounts transferred or to be transferred therefrom to this appropriation and the amount which may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia shall be increased or decreased in such amounts as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, after a hearing thereon with representatives of the Department, shall determine are appropriate to the requirements as changed by such reductions or increases in such appropriations or authorizations: Provided further, That no part of the funds herein 397 45 Stat. 1256. 49 Stat. 1.54. 50 Stat. P81 . 38 Stat. 372 . Cooperation with other bureaus, etc. Adjustments in amounts. Land-use planning.
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