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 75TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CH. 180 -APR. 27, 1938 repairs, books of reference, newspapers, periodicals, reports, docu- ments, plans and specifications, freight, express, drayage, and street- car fares; $543,800. Domestic commerce and raw-materials investigations: For personal services of officers and employees to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to collect and compile information regard- ing the disposition and handling of raw materials and manufactures within the United States; and to investigate the conditions of pro- duction and marketing of foreign raw materials essential for Ameri- can industries, $330,000. District and cooperative office service: For all expenses necessary to operate and maintain district and cooperative offices, including personal services, rent outside of the District of Columbia, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding and computing machines, accessories and repairs, purchase of maps, books of reference, and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, newspapers, both foreign and domestic (not exceeding $300), and all other publications necessary for the promotion of the commercial interests of the United States, and all other necessary incidental expenses not included in the fore- going, $323,000. Export industries: To enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domes- tic Commerce to investigate and report on domestic as well as foreign problems relating to the production, distribution, and market- ing, insofar as they relate to the important export industries of the United States, including personal services, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding and com- puting machines, accessories and repairs, books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, and all other publications, rent outside of the District of Columbia, ice and drinking water for office purposes and all other necessary incidental expenses connected therewith, $530,000. Salaries and expenses, Foreign Commerce Service: For the promo- tion and development of the foreign commerce of the United States and for carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March 3, 1927, as amended (15 U. S. C . 197-197f, 198), to establish in the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Com- merce, a Foreign Commerce Service of the United States, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, the compensation of a clerk or clerks for each commercial attache at a rate not to exceed $3,000 per annum for each person so employed, and to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled "China Trade Act, 1922", including rent outside of the District of Columbia, the purchase of necessary furniture and equipment, loss by exchange, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, duplicating, and com- puting machines, accessories and repairs, law books, books of refer- ence, and periodicals, uniforms, maps, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, newspapers (not exceeding $2,500), ice and drinking water for office purposes, and for every necessary inci- dental expense not included in the above, $764,500: Provided, That Foreign Commerce Service officers are authorized to enter into leases for office quarters, and payment in advance for rent, telephone, or other charges required by the customs of the country is hereby authorized: Provided further, That the purchase of supplies and equipment or the procurement of services in foreign countries may be made in the open market without compliance with section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (41 U. S . C . 5) in the manner common among businessmen when the aggregate amount of the purchase or the service does not exceed $100 in any instance. 36525°-38 -- -18 Domestic commerce and raw-materials in- vestigations. District and coop- erative office service. Export industries. Investigations and reports. Foreign Commerce Service. 44 Stat. 1394. 15 U.S.. I§197- 197f, 198. Personal services. China Trade Act, enforcement. 16U.S.C.ii141- 162. Supplies. Provisot. Leases, etc. Open-market pur- chase of supplies. R. S. § 3709. 41U.S.C.§5. 52 STAT.] 273

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