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58 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 2 D SESS.-CH. 294-JUNE 28, 1944 cial acts, records, and accounts of referees and trustees of such courts; travel expenses; in all, $70,000, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. Salaries and expenses, veterans' insurance litigation: For salaries and expenses incident to the defense of suits against the United States under section 19, of the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, approved June 7, 1924, as amended and supplemented, or the compromise of the same under the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1934, approved June 16, 1933, including travel and office expenses, law- books, supplies, equipment, stenographic reporting services by con- tract, including notarial fees or like services and stenographic work in taking depositions at such rates of compensation as may be author- ized or approved by the Attorney General, printing and binding, the employment of experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, and personal serv- ices in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $150,000. Salaries and expenses, Lands Division: For personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and for other necessary expenses, including travel expenses, employment of experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney Gen- eral, stenographic reporting services by contract, and notarial fees or like services, $4,275,000. Salaries and expenses, War Division: For all salaries and expenses in the District of Columbia and elsewhere necessary for the enforce- ment of Acts relating to the national security and war effort' and in connection with the registration and control of alien enemies, includ- ing the employment of experts; supplies and equipment; printing and binding; travel expenses, including attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with the purposes of this appropriation; stenographic reporting services by contract; books of reference, periodicals, and newspapers (not exceeding $4,000), $460,000. Miscellaneous salaries and expenses, field: For salaries not other- wise specifically provided for (not to exceed $160,000), and for such other expenses for the field service, Department of Justice, including travel expenses, experts, and notarial fees or like services and stenographic work in taking depositions, at such rates of compensa- tion as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, or his Administrative Assistant, so much as may be necessary in the discretion of the Attorney General for such expenses in the District of Alaska, and in courts other than Federal courts; patent applica- tions and contested proceedings involving inventions; firearms and ammunition therefor; purchase of lawbooks, including exchange thereof, and the Federal Reporter and continuations thereto as issued, $440,000. Salaries and expenses of district attorneys, and so forth: For sal- aries, travel, and other expenses of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, clerks, and other employees, including the office expenses of United States district attorneys in Alaska, and for salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the office of the United States district attorney, $4,275,000. Salaries and expenses of special attorneys, and so forth: For com- pensation of special attorneys and assistants to the Attorney General and to United States district attorneys not otherwise provided for employed by the Attorney General to aid in special matters and cases, and for payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney General in special cases, $200,000, no part of which, except for pay- ment of foreign counsel, shall be used to pay the compensation of 409 43 Stat. 612; 48 Stat. 302. 38U.s. C.. 445; 445b. Alien enemy con- trol. Foreign counseL