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 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SEss. I. CH. 57. 1928 . 105 mineral resources of the United States, including special statistical inquiries ; statistical studies and reports relating to mine accidents ; and including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere ; purchase of furniture and equipment ; stationery and supplies ; typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs ; newspapers ; traveling expenses ; purchase, not exceeding $1,2 00, oper atio n, m ain tena nce, and rep air of moto r-pr opel led passenger-carrying vehicles ; and for all other necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $260,000, of which amount not to Ser vic es in the Di s- exceed $219,600 may be expended for personal services in the trict. District of Columbia ; During the fiscal year 1929 the head of any department or inde- do Scien tific dep art mei a, pendent establishment of the Government having fiends available for etc ., by the Bureau. scientific investigations and requiring cooperative work by the Bureau of Mines on scien tific inv estigatio ns withi n the sco pe of the function s of that bureau and which it is unable to perform within the limits of its appropriations may, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce, transfer to the Bureau of Mines such sums as may be necessary to carry on such investigations. The Secretary of the Transfer of funds to credit of the Bureau. Treasury shall transfer on the books of the Treasury Department any sums which may be authorized hereunder, and such amounts shall be placed to the credit of the Bureau of Mines for the performance of work for the department or establishment from which the transfer is ma d e : Pro vided, That any sums transferred by any department or Proviso. Expenditure of funds independent establishment of the Government to the Bureau of transferred. Mines for coope rati ve wo rk in con necti on wi th th is a pprop riati on may be expended in the same manner as su ms appropriated herein may be expended ; The purchase of supplies and equipment or the procurement of cbaase enof m minor up. services for the Bureau of Mines, at the seat of government, as well plies, etc° as in the field outside of the District of Columbia, may be made in open market without compliance with section 3709 of the Revised 73R .S.,sec. 37Sf, p. Statutes of the United States, in the manner common among business men, when the aggregate amount of the purchase or the service does not exceed $100 in any instance ; Purch ase of b ooks, For the purchase or exchange of professional and scientific books, etc. law books, and boo ks to com plete bro ken sets, periodic als, dire ctories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the Bureau of Mines, there is hereby made available from any appropriations made for such bureau not to exceed $3,500 ; Total, Bureau of Mines, $2,542,080. TITLE IV .-DEPARTMENT OF LABOR OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Salaries : Secretary of Labor, $15,000 ; Assistant Secretary, Second Assistant Secretary, and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $177,000 ; in all, $192,000. Commissioners of conciliation : To enable the Secretary of Labor to exercise the authority vested in him by section 8 of the Act creating the Department of Labor, and to appoint commissioners of concili ation, trave ling e xpense s, and not to excee d $14, 140 fo r per- sonal services in the District of Columbia, and telegraph and telephone service, $210,000. 0 Department of La- bor. Secretary, Assistants, and office personnel. Vol.42,p. 14SS. Commission ersof con cil iat ion . Vol. 37, p. 738.

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