PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 529-JULY 1, 1946 Warehouse mainte- nance, etc. Investigations by legislative branch. Ante, p. 306. Awards. 58 Stat. 360. 5U.S. C., Supp.V, §500. Additional sums for stationery supplies. 58 Stat. 394. 39 U.S .C.,Supp.V, § 321d. 36 Stat. an $1,509,830: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for meeting expenses of warehouse maintenance and the procurement, care, and handling of supplies. materials, and equipment stored therein for distribution to projects under the supervision of the Department of the Interior. 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 teletype rentals and service; streetcar fares not exceeding $300; traveling expenses, including not exceeding $5,000 for inspec- tions and investigations by the legislative branch as well as attend- ance at meetings or conventions concerned with the work of the Department, 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 Depart- ment motor vehicles; purchase (not to exceed two, including one at not to exceed $2,500), maintenance, repair, and operation of four passenger automobiles; hire of aircraft; expense of taking testimony and preparing the same in connection with disbarment proceedings 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; $12,500, exclusively for payment of awards pursuant to the Act of June 26, 1944 (5 U. S . C. 500); print- ing and binding; $250,760; and, in addition thereto, sums transferred from other appropriations to this for stationery supplies as follows: General Land Office, $5,000; Geological Survey, $15,000; National Park Service, $7,500; Bureau of Reclamation, $8,400, any unexpended portion of which shall revert and be credited to the reclamation fund; Bureau of Mines, $9,000; Grazing Service, $4,000. Penalty mail costs: For deposit in the general fund of the Treas- ury for cost of penalty mail of the Department of the Interior, as required by section 2 of the Act of June 28, 1944 (Public Law 364), $205,000. COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS For expenses made necessary by the Act establishing a Com- mission of Fine Arts (40 U. S. C. 104), including personal services in the District of Columbia, printing and binding and payment of actual traveling expenses of the members and secretary of the Commission in attending meetings and committee meetings of the Commission either within or outside of the District of Columbia, to be disbursed on vouchers approved by the Commission, $10,000. BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION Construction, operation, and maintenance, Bonneville power transmission system: To enable the Bonneville Power Administra- tor to carry out the duties imposed upon him pursuant to law, including the construction of transmission lines, substations, and appurtenant facilities; operation and maintenance of the Bonne- ville transmission system; marketing of electric power and energy; printing and binding; purchase (not to exceed thirty-four in the fiscal year 1947), hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of pas- senger automobiles; purchase (not to exceed two in the fiscal year 1947), hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of aircraft; $12,470,000, to be available until expended, of which amount not to 350 [60 STAT.
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