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 7(6TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CH. 189-MAY 14, 1940 197 transfer to the National Bureau of Standards such sums as may be necessary to carry on such investigations. The Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer on the books of the Treasury Department any sums which may be authorized hereunder, and such amounts shall be placed to the credit of the National Bureau of Standards for performance of work for the department or establishment from which the transfer is made, including, where necessary, travel expenses and compensation for personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field. The appropriation in this title for traveling expenses shall be available for the National Bureau of Standards in an amount not to exceed $4,500 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with standardization and research or either, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce. Total, National Bureau of Standards, $2,037,500, of which amount not to exceed $1,830,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Transfer of funds. Attendance at meet- ings. Total; personal serv- ices. COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including purchase of not more than four motor-propelled station wagons and maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn vehicles for official use in field work, purchase of motorcycles with side cars, including their exchange, not to exceed $500, surveying instruments, including their exchange, rubber boots, canvas and rubber gloves, goggles, and caps, coats, and aprons for stewards' departments on vessels, packing, crating, and transporting personal household effects of commissioned officers, when transferred from one official station to another for per- manent duty, extra compensation at not to exceed $1 per day for each station to employees of the Coast Guard and the Weather Bureau while observing tides or currents or tending seismographs, services of one tide observer in the District of Columbia at not to exceed $1 per day, and compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work for operation, maintenance, and repair of an airplane for photographic survey, and expenses inci- dent to the execution of field work upon approval by the head of the Bureau, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey subscribed by the Secretary of Commerce, and under the following heads: Field expenses, coastal surveys: For surveys and necessary resur- veys of coasts on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the Gulf of Mexico under the jurisdiction of the United States; continuing researches in physical hydrography relating to harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States; compila- tion of the Coast Pilot, including the employment of pilots and nauti- cal experts; the preparation or purchase of plans and specifications of vessels and the employment of hull draftsmen; the reimbursement, under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce, of officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey for food, clothing, medicines, and other supplies furnished for the temporary relief of distressed persons in remote localities and to shipwrecked persons temporarily provided for by them, not to exceed a total of $500 and actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office in the District of Columbia for consultation with the director, $477,500, of which amount not more than $21,200 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Expenses. Field expenses, coastal surveys. Coast Pilot, com- pilation. Personal services. 54 STAT. ]

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