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 1394 72d CONGRESS. SESS. II. CH. 144 . MARCH 1, 1933 . Load line s for Amerr. entitled "An Act to establish load lines for American vessels, and for can vessels . Vol. 45, p.1492 . other purposes," approved March 2, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. VI, title P. 8W. C ., Supp. vZ, 46, sees . 85-85g), and to secure uniformity in the admeasurement of vessels, including personal services ; fees to witnesses ; traveling expenses of the personnel of the bureau and field offices ; materials, supplies, equipment, and services, including rent and janitor service ; purchase, exchange,, and repair of instruments ; plans and specifica- tions ; insignia, braid, and chin straps ; coats, caps, and aprons for stewards' departments on vessels ; and other incidental expenses of R .S .,sec .3709,p .733R f ield offic es, inclu ding contr act steno graph ic r eport ing s ervi ces w ithou t u.s. c.,p. 1309. reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U . S. C ., title 41, sec. 5) ; $1,308,000. Bureau of Standards . BUR EAU OF STAN DARD S Director, and oface Salaries : For the director and other personal services in the personnel . District of Columbia, $600,000. Equipment . Equi pment : For apparatus, machinery, tools, and appliances used in connection with buildings or work of the bureau, typewriters, adding machines, and other labor -saving devices, laboratory suppl ies, materi als, and supplies used in the construction of ap parat us, machinery, or other appliances, including their exchange ; piping, wiring, and construction incident to the installation of apparatus, machinery, or appliances ; furniture for laboratories and offices, cases for apparatus, $80,000, including $18,000 for repairs and necessary alterations to buildings. General expenses. General expenses : For fuel for heat, light, and power ; office expenses, stationery, cleaning and toilet supplies, books and periodi- cals, which may be exchanged when not needed for permanent use traveling expenses ; street-car fares not exceeding $100 ; expenses of the visiting committee ; expenses of attendance of American member International sand mrttee of Weights and at the meeting of the International Committee of Weights and Measures. Measures ; purchase of gloves, goggles, rubber boots, and aprons ; supplies for operation, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks and a passenger automobile for official use, including their exchange ; and contingenc ies of all kinds, $64,000. Care, etc., of grounds. Improvement and care of grounds : For gradi ng, cons truction of roads and walks, piping grounds for water supply, lamps, wiring for li ghting p urposes, an othe r expens es incid ent to t he impro ve- ment and care of grounds, including foreman and laborers in the District of Columbia, $11,220. St ructu ral mater ials Testing structural materials : For continuation of the investiga- hiv&Stigationsv se rvice s in the Dis- tion of structural materials, such as stone, clays, cement, and so forth, trict. including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the Disse minating Di,, S0 infor- field, $255,000 : Provided, Tha t as mu ch of th is sum as necessary mation as to housing, shall be used to collect and disseminate such scientific, practical, and a statistical information as may be procured, showing or tending to sh ow approved met ho ds in building, planning and construction, standardization, and adaptability of structural units, including building materials and codes, economy in the manufacture and utilization of building materials and supplies, and such other matters as may tend to encourage, improve, and cheapen construction and housing g physical Tescal constants, machines etc. Tes ti ng machines : For maintenance and operati on of testing . machines,, including personal service in connection therewith in the District of Columbia and in the field, for the determination by the Bureau of Standards of the physical constants and the properties of materials as authorized by law, $41,455.