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 476 74 n CONG RESS. SESS. I. CH. 374. JULY 8, 1935. hour who shall be subject to the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate and fix rates of pay for employees and officers of the Government Printing Office ", approved June 7, 1924 (U. S . C ., Pro viso . title 44, sec . 40), $585,000 : Provided, That for the purpose of con- forming to section 3 of this Act this appropriation shall be consid- ered a separate appropriation unit. For furniture and fixtures, typewriters, carpets, labor-saving machines and accessories, time stamps, adding and numbering machines, awnings, curtains, books of reference ; directories, books, miscellaneous office and desk supplies, paper, twine, glue, envelops, postage, car fares, soap, towels, disinfectants, and ice ; drayage, express, freight, telephone and telegraph service ; traveling expenses (not to exceed $200) ; repairs to buildings, elevators, and machinery ; preserving sanitary condition of building ; li g ht, h e at , a nd po w er ; stationery and office printing, including blanks, price lists, and bibli- ographies, $100,000 ; for catalogues and indexes, not exceeding $30,000 ; for supplying books to depository libraries, $85,000 ; in all, $215,000 : Provided, That no part of this sum shall be used to supply to depository libraries any documents, books, or other printed mat- ter not requested by such libraries, and the requests therefor shall be s ubject to a pprova l by the Su perin tenden t of Docume nts. P rinting reports of In order to keep the expenditures for printing and binding for de partme nts. the fiscal year 1936 within or under the appropriations for such fiscal year, the heads of the various executive departments and inde- pend ent es tabli shment s are autho rized to di scont inue t he pr inting of annual or special reports under their respective jurisdictions : Proviso ls to be kept . Provided, That where the printinof such reports is discontinued the original copy thereof shall be -kept on file in the offices of the hea ds of the r espec tive d epart ments or in depend ent e stabli shmen ts for public inspection. ent of Purchases Procurement c Purchases may be made from the foregoing appropr iation under Depart De partnientr easury the 11 Government Printing Office ", as provided for in the Printing Vol. 28, p. 601; Vol. Act approved January 12, 1895, and without reference to section 4 36, p. 531. U .S. U., p .1804 . of the Act approved June 17, 1910 (U. S . C., title 41, sec. 7), concern- ing purchases for executive departments . Pri•ate vehicle re- strict Snc . 2 . No part of the funds herein appropriated shall be used for ion . the maintenance or care of private vehicles . Average salaries in Snc . 3 . In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, des ig nat ed of fi ces not to be ex ceeded . contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the U.S. C,p.85. District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of p . 1488. 1923, as amended, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in the Botanic Garden, the Library of Con- gress, or the Government Printing Office, shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended, 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 in any fiscal year, and then only to the next higher rate : Provided, That this restriction shall not apply (1) to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical serv- ice, (2) to require the reduction in salary of any person whose com- pensation was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act, (3) to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the sam e or diffe rent grade in the sa me or a di fferent bu reau, offic e, or other appropriation unit, (4) to prevent the payment of a salary Vol. 43, p. 658. U.S.C.,p.1931. I tem a separate u Contingent expenses. Proviso. Supplying deposi- tor y libr aries restr icted. Proviso. Not appl icab le to clerical-mechanical service. Vol. 42, p. 1490. U.S.C.,p.86. Transfer to another po siti on w itho ut re- duction.