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 72d CONGRESS. SESS. IL CIA. 144 . MAR CH 1, 1933. 1393 $85,000 : Provided, That the maximum allowance to any officer shall Proviso. mauowaace not exceed $720. Appropriations herein made for the Bureau of Foreign and .Attendance at meet- Do mestic C ommerce shall be availab le for e xpenses of atten dance at meetings concerned with the promotion of foreign and domestic commerce, or either, and also expenses of illu,,tratmg the work of the bureau by showing of maps, charts, and graphs at such meetings, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce ; Th e purc hase of su pplies and equip ment o r the proc uremen t of Ioreignetipn~I~ in services for the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, in for- ei gn countries, may be ma de in open market. without compliance with section 3709 of the Revised Statu tes o f the Unite d States (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), in the manner common among bus in ess men, when the aggregate amount of the purchase or the service does not exceed $100 in any instance ; Total, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, $3,514,370, of which amount not to exceed $1,600,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Colu mbia. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS For expenses for securing information for and compiling the census reports provided for by law, including personal services in the Dis- tri ct of Columbia and elsewhere ; compensation and expenses of enumerators, special agents, supervisors, supervisor's clerks, a nd interpreters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere ; traveling expenses ; the cost of transcribing State, municipal, and other records ; temporary rental of quarters outside the District of Colum- bia ; not to exceed $5,000 for the employment by contract of personal services for the preparation of monographs on census subjects ; not to exceed $52,000 for constructing tabulating machines and repairs to such machinery and other mechanical appliances, including technical, mechanic al, and other pe rsonal s ervices in connec tion the rewith i n the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and the purchase of neces- sary machinery and supplies ; and not to exceed $2,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the collection of statistics when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Com- merce ; $1,903,000, of which amount not to exceed $1,300,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, including not to exceed $25,000 for temporary employees who may be appointed by the Director of the Census under civil-service rules, at per diem rates to be fixed by him without regard to the provisions of the Classification Act of 1923, as alneuded, fur the purpose of assisting in periodical inquiries. BU REAU OF NAVIGATION AND STEAMBOAT INSPECTION (Departmental salaries : For the director and other personal services in the District of Columbia . $97,000 . Salaries and general expenses : For salaries of shipping commis- sioners and employees in their offices ; salaries for steamboat inspec- tion as authoriz ed by la w, inclu ding cle rks to bo ards of steamboa t inspectors ; to enable the Secretary of Commerce to provide and operate such motor boats and employ such persons (including te m- porary employees) as may be necessary for the enforcement, under his direction, of laws relating to navigation end inspection of vessels, boarding of vessels, counting of passengers on excursion boats, and to prevent overcrowding of passenger and excursion boats ; to enable the Secretary of Coinnu rcs in carry out the provisions of the Act 3051•--33 its R.S . sea 370. p- 733 U.S. C.,p.1309 . Services in District . Census Bureau . Services end ex- penses. Temporary em- ployees . Na vig ati on nr.„l Steamboat inspect on Bureau Director, and otb ,~ personnel Other employee . O% ercror it :r senger boats