78TH CONG. , 2D SESS.- CH. 298-JUNE 28, 1944 465 Fire protection of forests, forest industries, and strategic facilities (national defense): For all expenses necessary to enable the Depart- ment of the Interior, independently or in cooperation with other agencies, to initiate and augment forest-fire prevention and suppres- sion measures on critical forest, brush, and grass areas under the administration of the Department of the Interior, including not to exceed $8,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia; maintenance, operation, and repair of passenger-carrying automo- biles; travel expenses, including expenses of attendance at training courses and meetings of organizations concerned with the furtherance of the purposes hereof; and purchase in the District of Columbia or elsewhere of other items otherwise properly chargeable to the appro- priation "Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior", $525,000. Payment of awards, war minerals claims: To complete payment of awards made by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the Act of May 18, 1936 (49 Stat. 1355), amending the War Minerals Relief Act of March 2, 1919, and as authorized by the Act of April 4, 1944 (Public Law 284), $54,775.82: Provided, That the settlement of awards under this appropriation shall be made through the General Accounting Office. CONTINGENT EXPENSES, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR For the contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the bureaus and offices of the Department (except as otherwise provided), including furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, adver- tising, teletype rentals and service, telegraphing, telephone service, including personal services of temporary or emergency telephone operators; streetcar fares not exceeding $300; constructing model and other cases and furniture; postage stamps to prepay postage on for- eign mail and for special-delivery and air-mail stamps for use in the United States; traveling expenses, including necessary expenses of inspectors and attorneys; fuel and light; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field for any bureau, office, or service of the Department, including not exceeding $2,000 for inspections and investi- gations by the legislative branch, and any request from appropriate authority in such branch in connection therewith shall be immediately complied with by administrative authority in the Department; not exceeding $500 for the payment of damages caused to private property by Department motor vehicles; purchase of motortrucks, motorcycles, and bicycles; maintenance, repair, and operation of four motor-pro- pelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motortrucks, motorcycles, and bicycles to be used only for official purposes; expense of taking testi- mony and preparing the same in connection with disbarment pro- ceedings instituted against persons charged with improper practices before the Department, its bureaus and offices; expense of translations, and not exceeding $1,000 for contract stenographic reporting services; not exceeding $700 for newspapers; stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined wrappers, and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the Postmaster General, for the Department and its several bureaus and offices, and other necessary expenses not hereinafter provided for, $164,000; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to $59,400 for stationery supplies shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1945 as follows: General Land Office, $6,500; Geological Survey, $12,000; National Park Serv- ice, $7,500; Bureau of Reclamation, $8,400, any unexpended portion of which shall revert and be credited to the reclamation fund; Bureau of Mines, $19,000; Grazing Service, $6,000; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to this appropriation. 93650'-45 --PT . I- --30 Infra. War minerals claims. 40 Stat. 1272. Ante, p. 187. Examination of esti- mates for appropria- tions in the field. Stationery supplies. Additional sums from specified appro- priations. 58 STAT.]
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