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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CH. 71 -MAR. 25, 1940 and efficient method of manufacturing coin including the purchase of necessary equipment and materials, the reimbursement to other Gov- ernment agencies for labor and materials furnished, and salaries and traveling expenses, including subsistence, of technical assistants who may be temporarily employed without regard to civil-service laws and regulations, $2,282,540. PROCUREMENT DIVISION Salaries and expenses: For the Director of Procurement and other personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field service, and for miscellaneous expenses, including office supplies and mate- rials, purchase and exchange of motortrucks and maintenance thereof, telegrams, telephone service, traveling expenses, office equip- ment, fuel, light, electric current, and other expenses for carrying into effect regulations governing the procurement, warehousing, and distribution by the Procurement Division of the Treasury Depart- ment of property, equipment, stores, and supplies in the District of Columbia and in the field (including not to exceed $500 to settle claims for damages caused to private property by motor vehicles used by the Procurement Division), $688,973: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed during the fiscal year 1941 to transfer to this appropriation from any appro- priations or funds available to the several departments and estab- lishments of the Government for the fiscal year 1941 such amounts as may be approved by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, not to exceed the sum of (a) the amount of the annual compensation of employees who may be transferred or detailed to the Procurement Division, respectively, from any such department or establishment, where the transfer or detail of such employees is incident to a trans- fer of a function or functions to that Division and (b) such amount as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget may determine to be necessary for expenses other than personal services incident to the proper carrying out of functions so transferred: Provided further, That payments during the fiscal year 1941 to the general supply fund for materials, and supplies (including fuel), and services, and overhead expenses for all issues shall be made on the books of the Treasury Department by transfer and counterwarrants prepared by the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department and counter- signed by the Comptroller General, such warrants to be based solely on itemized invoices prepared by the Procurement Division at issue prices to be fixed by the Director of Procurement: Providedfurther, That advances received pursuant to law (31 U. S . C . 686) from departments and establishments of the United States Government and the government of the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1941 shall be credited to the general supply fund: Provided further, That not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be available from the general supply fund during the fiscal year 1941 for personal serv- ices: Providedfurther, That the term "fuel" shall be held to include "fuel oil": Provided further, That the requirements of sections 3711 and 3713 of the Revised Statutes (40 U. S. C . 109) relative to the weighing of coal and wood and the separate certificate as to the weight, measurement, or quantity of coal and wood purchased shall not apply to purchases by the Procurement Division at free-on- board destination outside of the District of Columbia: Provided further, That the reconditioning and repair of surplus property and equipment, for disposition or reissue to Government service, may be made at cost by the Procurement Division, payment therefor to be effected by charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation "Salaries and expenses, Procurement Division". 69 Technical assistants. Ante, p. 66. Salaries and ex- penses. Damage claims. Proeoy. Transfer of funds for pay of details, etc. Other expenses. Payments for sup- plies, services, etc. Advances, credit of. 47 Stat. 417. 81 U.8.C., Supp.V, Personal services. "Fuel" construed. Separate certificate waived. Reconditioning, cost; accounting.

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