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 532 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SEss. I. CHs. 551, 552. 1928 . supplying books to depository libraries, $85,000 ; in all, $187,000 : Srovisongdepository Provided, That no part of this sum shall be used to supply to pp lyi libr aries rest ricte d. depository libraries any documents, books, or other printed matter Printing re ports, of not requested by such libraries. In order to keep the expenditures for printing and binding for the fiscal year 1929 within or under the appropriations for such fiscal year, the heads of the various executive departments and independent establishments are authorized to discontinue the printing of annual or special reports under their respective jurisdictions : Prov ided , That, where the printing of such reports is discontinued, the original copy thereof shall be kept on file in the offices of the heads of the respective departments or independent establishments for public inspection. Purchases all owed to Purchases may be made from the foregoing appropriations under the "Government Printing Office," as provided for in the Printing Act approved January 12, 1895, and without reference to section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 19 10, concerning purchases for executive departments. SEC. 2. No part of the funds herein appropriated shall be used for the maintenance or care of private vehicles. SEC. 3. In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in the Botanic Garden, the Library of Congress, or the Government Printing Office, shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once Nr ot2Sapplicable to in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate : Provided, services. That this restriction shall not apply (1) to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of ice s. No fixed salar y re- the clerical-mechanical service, (2) to require the reduction in salary dt 4'2, p .1490. of any person whose compensation was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act, (3) to require Transfers t o another position without reduc- the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one tion. position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, or (4) Higher salary rates to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is per- mi tted by the Classification Act of 1923, and is specifically authorized by other law. Appr oved, May 14, 192 8. departments, etc ., may be discontinued. Proviso. Originals to be kept for public inspection. without reference Supply Committee. Vol.28,p.601. Vol.36,p.531. Private vehicles re- striction. Res tri ct ion on ex- ceeding average salaries in designated offices. Vol.42p.1488. If only one position in a grade. Advances allowed in unusually meritorious cases. permitted . May 14, 1928. [H. R.11245.] CHAP. 552 .-An Act To cancel certain notes of the Panama Railroad Com- [P ubli c, No . 387.1 pany held by the Treasurer of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Treasurer of the United States is authorized and directed to cancel and sur- render to the Panama Railroad Company the notes given by such company to the United States prior to March 4, 1911, with respect to which payment of interest and principal was discontinued by section 2 of the Act approved March 4, 1911 (United States Code, title 48, se ction 1333). Approved, May 14, 1928. Panama Railroad Com pany. Notes of, held by the Treasurer, to be can- celed. Vol.36,p.1451. U.S. Code, p.1641.

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