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 72d CONGRESS. SESS. I. CHS. 361, 362. JULY 1, 1932. 523 deeds of tr usts, or rea cquir ing ti tle or posse ssion of re al pro perty under default proceeding, including attorney fees, witness fees, court costs, charges, and other miscellaneous expenses ; for the mainte- sold nop Taya of un- nance and repair of houses, buildings, and improvements which are unsold ; in all, $14,000 : Provided, That no person shall be employed Salary restriction. hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $4,000 per annu m, and only one person may be employed at that rate : Provided further, That no part of the appropriations heretofore made and available Prior appropriations for expenditure by the United States Housing Corporation shall be ent purposes . for pros. expended for the purposes for which appropriations are made herein. SEC. 2. No art of any money appropriated b this Act shall be chase, Resin Operation, ran p ur- h y y Y etc ., used for purchasing any motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle of motor vehicles . (except busses, ambulances, and station wagons) at a cost, completely equipped for operation, in excess of $750, 1 except where, in the judgment - of the department, special requirements can not thus be efficie ntly met, such ex ceptions, however, to be limited t o not to exceed 10 per centum of the, total expenditures for such motor vehicles purchased during the fiscal year, including -the value of a vehicle exchanged where exchange is involved ; nor shall any money appro- priated herein be used for maintaining, driving, or operating any &government-owned motor-propelled passenger-carrying v ehicle not used exclusively for official purposes ; and "official purposes" shall not include the transportation ofofficers and employees between their domiciles and places of employment, except in cases of officers and employees engaged in field work the character of whose duties makes such transportation necessary and then only when the same is approved by the head of the department. The limitations of this Exemptions. proviso shall not apply to any motor vehicle for official use of the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Secretary of Labor. SEC. 3 . No part of any ap ropriation made by this Act shall be Subsistence, etc ., al. used to pay actual expenses ofs ubsistence in excess of $6 each for any to Limitation. one calendar day, or per diem allowance' for subsistence in excess of the rate of $5 for any one calendar day, to any officer or employee of the United States, and payments accordingly shall be in full not- withstanding any other statutory provision. Approved, July 1, 1932. -(CHAPTER 362 .1 AN ACT July 1, 1932 . Amending an Act entitled "An Act authorizing ~the State of West Virginia by and	(s .4898.1	through the State Bridge Commission of West Virginia, or the successors of (Public, No. 233 .1 said" commission, to acquire, purchase, construct, improve, maintain, and operate bridges across the streams and rivers within said State and/or across boundary-line streams or rivers of said State," approved March 3, 1931 . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in. Congress assembled, That section 5 of "rift:, u Achorising the an Act entitled An Act authorizing the State of West Virginia by con struc tion o r desig- and through the West Virginia Bridge Commission, or the successors nated, by West vir . of said commission, to acquire, purchase, construct, improve, main- ginia,amended, tai n, and - operate bridges across the streams and rivers within said vol .46, p. 1500. State and/or across boundary-line streams or rivers of said Stat e," approved March 3, 1931, be, and the same is hereby, ame nded to read as follow s : "SEC . 5. The State of West Virginia, by and through the West Gro uping of lntra- sta to bri dges for il nano. Virginia Bridge Commission, or its successors, may unite or group I Zgg purposes, author- all or such of said intrastate bridges into one or more separate projects for financing purposes as in its judgment shall be deemed