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 1354 SE VENT Y-F IRS T C ONGRESS. SEss. III. CH. 280. 1931 . Children's Bureau. Salaries and ex- Salaries and expenses : For expenses of investigating and reporting pen Child welfar e, inf ant upon matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life, mortality, etc ., investi- and especially to investigate the questions of infant mortality ; per- gations. sonal services, including experts and temporary assistants ; traveling expenses, including expenses of attendance at meetings for the pro- motion of child welfare when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor ; purchase of reports and material for the Bureau publications, publications of the Children's Bureau and for reprints from State, e tc' city, and private publications for distribution when said reprints can be procured more cheaply than they can be printed by the Government, and other necessary expenses, $ 395, 500, of whi ch services in the Die- amount not to exceed $306,740 may be expended for personal services trict. in the District of Columbia. Women's Bureau. Salaries and ex- pe nses. Vol. 41, p. 987. U. S. C., p. 947 ; Supp. IV, p. 447. Attendance at meet- ings. Employment Ser v- ice. CHILDREN'S BUREAU WOME N'S BUREAU For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to establish in the Department of Labor a bureau to be known as the Women's Bureau," approved June 5, 1920 (U. S . C., title 29, sees. 11-16 ; U . S . C ., Supp . III, title 29, sees . 12-14), including personal services in the District of Columbia, not to exceed $146,780 ; purchase of material for reports and educational exhibits, and traveling ex penses $179,900, which sum shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of said bureau when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE wage Promoting welfare of To enable the Secretary of Labor to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, including ju niors legally employed, to improve their working conditions, to Objects desi gnated. advance their opportunities for profitable employment by regularly collecting, furnishing, and publishing employment information as to opportunities for employment ; maintaining a system for clearing la bor between the several States ; co oper ati ng w ith the Ve tera ns' Administration to secure employment for veterans ; cooperating with a nd coordi nating the public e mployment offices th roughout the country, including personal services in the District of Columbia and Tr aveling expenses. elsewhere ; traveling expenses, including expenses of attendance at Attendance at meet- meetings concerned with the work of the Employment Service when ings. specifically authorized by the Secretary of Labor ; supplies and equip- ment, telegraph and telephone service, and miscellaneous expenses ; Services m the Dis- trict. $ 383,7 80, of which amount not to exceed $37,280 may be e xpend ed for personal services in the District of Columbia. Tr ansfer s allo wed be - tween appropriations SEC. 2. When specifically approved by the head of any of the to meet changes in re- executive departments provided for herein, transfers may be made allocations, between the appropriations in this Act under the respective juris- diction of any bureau, office, institution, or service, including any appropriations for the Foreign Service under the Department of State, in order to meet increases in compensation resulting from the reallocation by the Personnel Classification Board of positions under Report thereof to any such organization unit. Any such transfers shall be reported Congress. to Congress in the an nual Budget. Approved, February 23, 1931.

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