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 53 STAT.] 76T CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 119--MAY 10, 1939 of its responsibilities; contract stenographic reporting services; sta- tionery and office supplies; purchase, rental, exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair of reproducing, photographing, and other such equipment, typewriters, calculating machines, mechanical tabu- lating equipment, and other office appliances and labor-saving devices; printing and binding; witness fees and fees and mileage in accordance with section 8 of the Bituminous Coal Act of 1937; not to exceed $12,500 for purchase, exchange, hire, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles including one for use in the District of Columbia; garage rentals; miscellaneous items, including those for public instruction and information deemed necessary by the Commission; and not to exceed $6,000 for purchase and exchange of newspapers, law books, reference books, and peri- odicals, $3,500,000. Consumers' Counsel of the National Bituminous Coal Commission, salaries and expenses: For all necessary expenditures of the office of the Consumers' Counsel of the National Bituminous Coal Commis- sion, in performing the duties imposed upon said office of Consumers' Counsel by the Bituminous Coal Act of 1937, approved April 26, 1937 (50 Stat. 72), including witness fees and mileage for witnesses appearing in his behalf before the National Bituminous Coal Com- mission and including witnesses before the Interstate Commerce Com- mission, personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling expenses, including not to exceed $3,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings at which matters of importance to the work of the Consumers' Counsel are to be discussed, printing and binding, contract stenographic reporting services, stationery and office supplies and equipment, and not to exceed $1,000 for newspapers, books, and periodicals, $285,000. WAR MINERALS RELIEF COMMISSION Administrative expenses: For administrative expenses made neces- sary by section 5 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide relief in cases of contracts connected with the prosecution of the war, and for other purposes", approved March 2, 1919 (40 Stat. 1272), including personal services, without regard to the civil-service laws and regu- lations; traveling and subsistence expenses; supplies and all other expenses incident to the proper prosecution of this work, both in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $11,200. BONNEVILLE PROJECT For operation and maintenance of the Bonneville Project, Oregon, in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the completion, maintenance, and operation of the Bonne- ville project, for navigation and for other purposes", approved August 20 1937, including maintenance and operation of trans- mission lines, communicating systems, and substations, purchase and exchange, maintenance and operation of automobiles, purchase of stationery and office supplies, purchase of equipment and other sup- plies, rent, traveling expenses, telegraph and telephone expenses, printing and binding, and all other necessary expenses, and including not to exceed $8,200 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $400,000. For construction, purchase and improvement of transmission lines, substations, and facilities and structures appurtenant thereto, and the purchase of easements and rights-of-way and improvements thereon, including personal services incident to the foregoing, in carrying out the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the completion, 689 Stationery, etc. Printing and bind- ing. Witness fees. 50 Stat. 86. 15 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 838. Vehicles. Books, etc. Consumers' Coun- sel's office. Salaries and expenses. 50 Stat. 72. 15 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 829. Witness fees, etc. Rent. Attendance at meet- ings. Printing and bind- ing. Administrative ex- penses. 40 Stalt. 1274. Personal services. Operation and main- tenance. 50 Stat. 731. 16 U. S. C., Supp. IV, ch. 12B. Printing and bind- ing. Transmission lines, easements, etc.

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