58 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 2D SESS.- CH. 294-JUNE 28, 1944 reports provided for by law and for sample surveys throughout the United States for the purpose of estimating the size and character- istics of the Nation's labor force, including personal services at the seat of government; temporary employees at per diem or hourly rates to be fixed by the Director of the Census without regard to the Classification Act; the cost of transcribing State, municipal, and other records; preparation of monographs on census subjects and other work of specialized character by contract or otherwise; travel expenses, including not to exceed $500 for attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with the collection of statistics, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary; purchase, main- tenance, repair, and operation of three motor-propelled passenger- carrying vehicles; construction and repair of tabulating machines and other mechanical appliances, and the rental or purchase and exchange of necessary machinery, appliances, and supplies, $4,300,000. Census of agriculture: For all expenses necessary for preparing for, taking, compiling, and publishing the quinquennial Census of Agriculture of the United States, including the employment by the Director, at rates to be fixed by him, of personnel at the seat of gov- ernment and elsewhere without regard to the civil service and classi- fication laws; books of reference, newspapers, and periodicals; con- struction of tabulating machines; purchase, maintenance2 repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; travel expenses, including expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the collection of statistics, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary; printing and binding; $7,250,000, to be available until December 31, 1946, and to be consolidated with the appropriation "Census of Agriculture" contained in. the First Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1944: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated in this paragraph shall be expended for field work in connection with such census prior to January 1, 1945. OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATOR OF CIVIL AERONAUTICS General administration, Office of the Administrator: For necessary expenses of the Office of Administrator of Civil Aeronautics in carrying out the provisions of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended (49 U. S. C. 401), including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; contract stenographic reporting services; not to exceed $4,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings of organi- zations concerned with aeronautics, when specifically authorized by the Administrator; fees and mileage of expert and other witnesses; expenses of examination of estimates of appropriations in the field; hire, operation, maintenance, and repair of aircraft, aircraft engines, propellers, instruments, equipment, and spare parts therefor; hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automo- biles; $2,459,000. Establishment of air-navigation facilities: For the acquisition and establishment by contract or purchase and hire of air-navigation facilities, including the equipment of additional civil airways for day and night flying; the construction of additional necessary lighting, radio, and other signaling and communicating structures and appa- ratus; the alteration and modernization of existing air-navigation facilities; the acquisition of the necessary sites by lease or grant; personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automo- biles, $3,915,000: Provided, That the consolidated appropriation under this head for the fiscal year 1944 is hereby continued available without warrant action until June 30, 1945, and is hereby merged 93650° -45--PT. i-27 417 Sample surveys of Nation's labor force. Census of agricul- ture. 57 Stat. 620. Field work, restric- tion. Post, pp . 606, 863. Post, p. 863 . 52 Stat. 973. 49 U. S.C. 401 et seq.; Supp. III, §1 481, 492, 143. Post, p. 863. Availability of funds. 57 Stat. 293.
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