56Stat.0. tC Spphe Act approved October 29, 1942 (15 U. S . C. 323), and section II5, 323. 803 of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 (49 U. S. C. 603), including 52 Stat.1014. investigations of atmospheric phenomena; cooperation with other public agencies and societies and institutions of learning; purchase of books of reference; traveling expenses, including not to exceed $1,500 for attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Bureau when authorized by the Secretary; purchase (not to exceed five), maintenance, operation, and repair of passenger automobiles; repair, alterations, and improvements to existing buildings and care and preservation of grounds, including the construction of necessary outbuildings and sidewalks on public streets, abutting Weather Bureau grounds; the erection of temporary buildings for living quar- ters of observers; telephone rentals, and telegraphing, telephoning, and cabling reports and messages, rates to be fixed by the Secretary by agreement with the companies performing the service; and estab- lishment, equipment, and maintenance of meteorological offices and stations, $12,700,000, of which not to exceed $1,231,186 may be expended for departmental personal services in the District of Colum- teorological omit- bia; not to exceed $1,500 for the contribution of the United States tee. to the cost of the office of the secretariat of the International Meteoro- Prnting offce, logical Committee; and not to exceed $10,000 for the maintenance of a printing office in the city of Washington for the printing of weather maps, bulletins, circulars, forms, and other publications: Provided,That no printing shall be done by the Weather Bureau that can be done at the Government Printing Office without impairing the service of said Bureau. tioE flakaCmpen- Extra compensation at not to exceed $5 per day may be paid to employees of other Government agencies in Alaska and in other Territorial possessions for taking and transmitting meteorological observations for the Weather Bureau. medicalservices Al The appropriations "Maintenance and operation of air-navigation nte, pp. 418, 423. facilities", Office of Administrator of Civil Aeronautics, and "Sal- aries and expenses", Weather Bureau, shall be available, under regu- lations to be prescribed by the Secretary, for furnishing to employees of the Civil Aeronautics Administration and the Weather Bureau in Alaska free emergency medical services by contract or otherwise and medical supplies, and for the purchase, transportation, and pSubsitence s- storage of food and other subsistence supplies for resale to such employees, the proceeds from such resales to be credited to the appro- priation from which the expenditure for such supplies was made- and appropriations of the Civil Aeronautics Administration and the Weather Bureau, available for travel, shall be available for the travel expenses of appointees of said agencies from the point of engagement in the United States to their posts of duty at any point outside the continental limits of the United States or in Alaska. thDegatio of au- During the fiscal year 1945 the Secretary of Commerce may dele- gate his authority to subordinate officials of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Weather Bureau, and the Civil Aeronautics Administra- tion, to authorize payment of expenses of travel and transportation of household goods of officers and employees on change of official station: Provided, That in no case shall such authority be delegated to any official below the level of the heads of regional or field offices. itation oftitle. This title may be cited as the "Department of Commerce Appro- priation Act, 1945". 424 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 294-JUNE 28, 1944 [58 STAT.
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