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59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 263-JULY 3, 1945 [CHAPTER 263] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Department of Labor, the Federal Security Agency, and related independent agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1946, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- wise appropriated, for the Department of Labor, the Federal Security Agency, and related independent agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1946, namely: TITLE I-DEPARTMENT OF LABOR OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia, $395,691. Salaries and expenses, Office of Secretary (national defense): For expenses necessary for the administration of the Davis-Bacon Act and Executive orders dealing with premium pay in war industries and for the work of the Wage Adjustment Board, pertaining to building construction contracts financed by Federal funds, including personal services in the District of Columbia, contract stenographic reporting services, and other items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriations under the Department of Labor for contingent expenses, travel expenses, and printing and binding, $63.000 . Salaries and expenses, Office of the Solicitor: For personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and for other necessary expenses in the field, including contract stenographic reporting services, $714,177. Contingent expenses: For expenses of the offices and bureaus of the Department, for which appropriations for expenses are not specifically made, including the purchase of stationery, furniture, and repairs to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloths, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, laundry, not exceeding $1,000 for streetcar fares; purchase, maintenance, and repair of motorcycles and motortrucks; main- tenance, operation, and repair of four motor-propelled passenger- carrying vehicles; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; freight and express charges; commercial and labor-reporting services; postage to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service; purchase and exchange of lawbooks, books of reference, newspapers, and periodicals and, when authorized by the Secretary of Labor, dues for library membership in societies or associations which issue publica- tions to members only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers who are not members, not exceeding $8,000; contract stenographic services; and teletype service and tolls (not to exceed $1,100); $167,502. Traveling expenses: For traveling expenses under the Department of Labor, $1,058.200: Provided, That all funds transferred to the Department of Labor from any other department or agency under section 601 of the Act of June 30, 1932, as amended (31 U. S . C . 686), and available for travel, and all funds appropriated for traveling expenses under this title, shall be available to reimburse employees at not to exceed 3 cents per mile for expenses of travel performed by them in privately owned automobiles within the limits of their official stations in the field. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Depart- ment of Labor, $294,790. 361 July 3, 1945 [H. R . 3199] [Public Law 124] Labor-Federal Se- curity Appropriation Act, 1946. Department of La- bor Appropriation Act, 1946. Post, p. 660. 46 Stat. 1494. 40 U.S. C.. 276a- 276a-6; Supp. IV, I 276a-5 note. Post, p. 650. Post, p. 610. 47 Stat. 417 . 31 U. S. C., Snpp. IV, §686.