PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 296-JUNE 28, 1944 Adjustments in amounts. Stenographic re- porting services. Options to purchase lad. Payments for rent, etc., in advance. Employee predict- ing future price of cotton. Purchase of twine. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY SALARIES AND EXPENSES For the Secretary of Agriculture, hereafter in this Act referred to as the Secretary, and other personal services in the Office of the Secretary in the District of Columbia, and elsewhere, and other neces- sary expenses, including the purchase of one and the maintenance, repair, and operation of four motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; travel expenses, including examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; stationery, supplies, materials, and equip- ment; freight, express, and drayage charges; advertising, communica- tion service, postage, washing towels, repairs and alterations, and other miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for and necessary for the practical and efficient work of the Department, which are authorized by such officer as the Secretary may designate, $1,700,000, together with such amounts from other appropriations or authorizations as are provided in the schedules in the Budget for the fiscal year 1945 for such services and expenses, which several amounts or portions thereof as may be determined by the Secretary, not exceeding a total of $187,390, shall be transferred to and made a part of this appropriation: Provided, however, That if the total amounts of such appropriations or authorizations for the fiscal year 1945 shall at any time exceed or fall below the amounts estimated, respectively, therefor in the Budget for 1945, the amounts transferred or to be transferred therefrom to this appropriation 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 Depart- ment of Agriculture, hereafter in this Act referred to as the Department, shall determine are appropriate to the requirements as changed by such reductions or increases in such appropriations or authorizations: Provided further, That the Secretary is authorized to contract for stenographic reporting services, and the appropria- tions made in this Act shall be available for such purposes, and to expend from appropriations available for the purchase of lands not to exceed $1 for each option to purchase any particular tract or tracts of land: Provided further, That with the approval of the Secretary, employees of the Department stationed abroad may enter into leases for official quarters, for periods not exceeding one year, and may pay rent, telephone, subscriptions to publications, and other charges incident to the conduct of their offices and the discharge of their duties, in advance, in any foreign country where custom or practice requires payment in advance: Provided further, That no part of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be used for the payment of any officer or employee of the Department who, as such officer or employee, or on behalf of the Department or any division, commission, or bureau thereof, issues, or causes to be issued, any prediction, oral or written, or forecast, except as to damage threatened or caused by insects and pests, with respect to future prices of cotton or the trend of same: Providedfurther, That, except to provide mate- rials required in or incident to research or experimental work where no suitable domestic product is available, no part of the funds appro- priated by this Act shall be expended in the purchase of twine manu- factured from commodities or materials produced outside of the United States. 426 [58 STAT.
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