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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 187-M -AY 9, 1938 Arlington bridge, re- pairs. Office of Education. Salaries. General expenses. Travel, attendance at meetings, etc. Libraries of educa- tional institutions. Surveys, reports, etc., of. Attendance at meet- ings, etc. Agriculture and the mechanic arts. Further endowment of colleges of. 49 Stat. 439. 7 U. S. C., Supp. II, § 343d. Vocational educa- tion. Salaries and ex- penses. 39 Stat. 933; 40 Stat. 345. 20U.S.C.§15. 49 Stat. 1489. 20 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 15k. uniforms, and equipment, per-diem employees at rates of pay approved by the Director not exceeding current rates for similar services in the District of Columbia, the hire of draft animals with or without drivers at local rates approved by the Director, traveling expenses and carfare, and leather and rubber articles for the protec- tion of public property and employees, $227,000, of which $50,000 shall be available for repairs to the Arlington Memorial Bridge. OFFICE OF EDUCATION SALARIES For the Commissioner of Education and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $270,800. GENERAL EXPENSES For necessary traveling expenses of the Commissioner and employees acting under his direction, including attendance at meet- ings of educational associations, societies, and other organizations; for compensation, not to exceed $500, of employees in field service; for purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational documents, motion-picture films, and lantern slides; collection, exchange, and cataloging of educational apparatus and appliances, articles of school furniture and models of school buildings illustrative of foreign and domestic systems and methods of education, and repairing the same; and other expenses not herein provided for, $21,500. For making surveys, studies, investigations, and reports regarding public, school, college, university, and other libraries; fostering coor- dination of public and school library service; coordinating library service on the national level with other forms of adult education; developing library participation in Federal projects; fostering Nation-wide coordination of research materials among the more scholarly libraries, inter-State library cooperation, and the develop- ment of public, school, and other library service throughout the country, and for the administrative expenses incident to performing these duties, including salaries of such assistants, experts, clerks, and other employees in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, as the Commissioner of Education may deem necessary, necessary traveling expenses, including attendance ait meetings of educational associations, societies, and other organizations, purchase of miscellaneous supplies, equipment, stationery, typewriters, and exchange thereof, postage on foreign mail, purchase of books of reference, law books, and periodi- cals, printing and binding, and all other necessary expenses, $25,000. Further endowment of colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts: For carrying out the provisions of section 22 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for research into basic laws and principles relating to agriculture and to provide for the further development of coopera- tive agricultural extension work and the more complete endowment and support of land-grant colleges", approved June 29, 1935 (49 Stat. 436), $2,480,000. VOCATIONAL EDUCATION Salaries and expenses: For carrying out the provisions of section 7 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the promotion of voca- tional education, and so forth", approved February 23, 1917, as amended by the Act of October 6, 1917 (20 U. S. C. 15), and of section 4 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the further development of vocational education in the several States and Terri- tories", approved June 8, 1936 (49 Stat. 1488), $425,000. 336 [52 STAT.

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