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 PUBLIC LAWS-OH. 18 --APR. 27, 1938 Restdrction n ose No part of the funds herein appropriated for the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce shall be used to pay the salary of any employee or officer, other than the Director and Assistant Directors, engaged on regular work of the Bureau within the continental limits of the United States, for a period longer than three consecutive months, at an annual rate in excess of $7,000 per annum. customs statistics. Customs statistics: For all expenses necessary for the operation of the section of customs statistics transferred to the Department of Commerce from the Treasury Department by the Act approved Jan- 42Stat. 1109. uary 5, 1923 (15 U. S . C . 194), and expenses connected with the 15U. .C. 194. monthly publication of statistics showing the United States exports and imports by customs districts and destinations, including per- sonal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $100,000) and elsewhere; rent of or purchase of tabulating, punching, sorting, and other mechanical labor-saving machinery or devices, including adding, typewriting, billing, computing, mimeographic, multigraph- ing, photostat, and other duplicating machines and devices, including their exchange and repair; telegraph and telephone service; freight, express, drayage; tabulating cards, stationery, and miscellaneous office supplies; books of reference and periodicals; furniture and equipment; ice, water, heat, light, and power; streetcar fare; and all other necessary incidental expenses not included in the foregoing; $403,000. Transortation of Transportation of families and effects of officers and employees families and effects of 1 officers, etc. and allowances for living quarters: To pay the traveling expenses and expenses of transportation, under such regulations as the Secre- taryof Commerce may prescribe, of families and effects of officers and employees of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce in going to and returning from their posts, or when traveling under ransportation of the order of the Secretary of Commerce, and also for defraying the remains ofofficers, etc, . dying abroad. expenses of preparing and transporting the remains of officers and employees of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce who may die abroad or in transit, while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country, or to a place not more distant, for interment, and for the ordinary expenses of such inter- Living quarters, al- ment; to enable the Secretary of Commerce, under such regulations lowances. as lhe may prescribe, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Act entitled 'An Act to establish in the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Department of Commerce, a Foreign Commerce Service of the United States 44stat. 1395; 4stat and for other purposes', approved March 3, 1927", approved April i5u.s .c. 17b. 12, 1930 (15 U. S.C. 197f), to furnish the officers in the Foreign Commerce Service of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com- merce stationed in a foreign country, without cost to them and within the limits of this appropriation, allowances for living quarters, heat, .SC §0I and light, notwithstanding the provisions of section 1765 of the Prorifo. Revised Statutes (5 U. S . C . 70), $143,800: Provided, That the max- aximum low- imum allowance to any officer shall not exceed $1,700. Attendance t meet- The appropriation herein under title III for traveling expenses shall be available in an amount not to exceed $5,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the promotion of foreign and domestic commerce, or either, and also expenses of illustrating the work of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce by showing of maps, charts, and graphs at such meetings, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce. Bureau of the Cen- BUBEAT OF THE CENSUS Services and For expenses for securing information for and compiling the census reports provided for by law, including personal services in 274 [52 STAT.

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