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at meetings, conferences, or conventions concerned with labor and industrial relations when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS Salaries and expenses: For personal services including temporary statistical clerks, stenographers, and typists in the District of Columbia, and including also experts and temporary assistants for field service outside of the District of Columbia; purchase of periodicals, docu- ments, envelopes, price quotations, and reports and materials for reports and bulletins of said Bureau, $1,100,000, of which amount not to exceed $970,000 may be expended for the salary of the Commissioner and other personal services in the District of Columbia. Attendance at The appropriation in this title for traveling expenses shall be meetings. available, in an amount not to exceed $2,000, for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Bureau of Labor Statistics when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor. Salaries and expenses (national defense): For all expenses necessary to enable the Secretary of Labor, through the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in relation to the national security and defense, to perform the functions authorized by the Act of June 13, 1888, and 29 U. S C., Supp. other Acts (29 U. S. C. 1); to continue occupational outlook surveys , §1. throughout the United States; and to conduct studies relative to problems connected with labor likely to arise upon the termination of the existing emergent conditions in connection with defense activities throughout the United States, in cooperation with the National Resources Planning Board; such expenses to include per- sonal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and other items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriations under the Department of Labor for contingent expenses, traveling expenses, Temlptrarertemploy- and printing and binding, and not to exceed $15,000 for the temporary employment of experts without regard to the civil service and classi- fication laws, $1,162,000. Post, p. 569. CHILDREN'S BUREAU 52 Stat. 1060. 29U..C.. 201- 219; Supp. II, § 202 e seq. Salaries and expenses: For expenses of investigating and reporting upon matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life, and especially to investigate the questions of infant mortality; per- sonal services, including experts and temporary assistants; purchase of reports and material for the publications of the Children's Bureau and for reprints from State, city, and private publications for distri- bution when said reprints can be procured more cheaply than they can be printed by the Government, and other necessary expenses, $324,000, of which amount not to exceed $289,600 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Salaries and expenses, child labor provisions, Fair Labor Standards Act: For all authorized and necessary expenses of the Children's Bureau in performing the duties imposed upon it by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; supplies; services; equipment; news- papers, books of reference, and periodicals; and reimbursement to State and local agencies and their employees for services rendered, as authorized by section 11 of said Act, $225,000. MATERNAL AND CHILD WELFARE Salaries and expenses, maternal and child welfare: For all au- thorized and necessary administrative expenses of the Children's 496 PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 221-JULY 12, 1943 [57 STAT.