PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 298-JUNE 28, 1944 priation when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $300: Cotopetio with Provided further, That the Secretary, through the Director of the Bureau of Mines, is hereby authorized to carry out projects hereunder in cooperation with other departments or agencies of the Federal Government, the District of Columbia, States, Territories, insular possessions, with other organizations or individuals, and with foreign countries and the political subdivisions thereof. Protection of mineral resources and facilities (national defense): For all expenses necessary to enable the Bureau of Mines, independ- ently or in cooperation with other agencies, public or private, to initiate and augment measures to prevent subversive activities from inter- fering with the extraction and processing of minerals, including not to exceed $22,500 for personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase (not to exceed $4,500), maintenance, operation, and repair of passenger-carrying automobiles; travel expenses, including expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with the further- ance of the purposes hereof; not to exceed $3,250 for printing and binding; purchase of special apparel and equipment for the protection of employees while engaged in their work; and purchase in the District of Columbia and elsewhere of other items otherwise properly charge- lp .4 able to the appropriation "Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior", $250,000. Testing fuel: To conduct inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and use of mineral fuels, and for investigation of mineral fuels belonging to or for the use of the United States, with a view to their most efficient toecomendation- utilization; to recommend to various departments such changes in o 8 n- selection and use of fuel as may result in greater economy, and, upon request of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, to investigate the fuel-burning equipment in use by or proposed for any of the depart- ments, establishments, or institutions of the United States in the Dis- trict of Columbia, $439,825, of which not to exceed $75,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. sadt inve- Anthracite investigations: For all expenses necessary to conduct inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and use of anthracite coals; including purchase of special wearing apparel and equipment for the protection of employees while engaged in their work; and other items otherwise AtS, . properly chargeable to the appropriation "Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior"; purchase, not to exceed $3,000 opera- tion, maintenance, and repair of passenger-carrying automobiles; and not to exceed $6,500 for personal services in the District of Columbia, ontributions. $81,000: Provided, That the Secretary, through the Director of ilj Bureau of Mines, is authorized to accept buildings, equipment, and other contributions from public or private sources. 8athetic liquid Synthetic liquid fuels: For all expenses without regard to section 41u. .c. . 5. 3709, Revised Statutes, necessary to carry into effect the Act authoriz- ing the construction and operation of demonstration plants to pro- duce synthetic liquid fuels from coal, oil shales, agricultural and
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forestry products, and so forth, approved April 5,1944 (Public, Num- bered 290) including construction and acquirement of camp and laboratory buildings and equipment, personal services in the District of Columbia (not exceeding $90,000) and elsewhere, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, purchase of special wearing apparel or equipment for the protection of employees while engaged in their work, purchase (not exceeding $15,000), maintenance, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles, printing and binding, and purchase in the District of Columbia and elsewhere of items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriation "Contingent 494 [58 STAT.
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