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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CH. 189-MAY 14, 1940 and field parties; transportation of instruments and supplies when not charged to field expenses; telegrams; washing; office furniture, repairs; miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, not exceed- ing $90 for streetcar fares, $92,000. Aeronautical charts: For compilation and printing of aeronautical charts, including personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $92,280), operation of airplane for check flights, and aerial photographs, execution of ground surveys at air terminals, and the purchase of drafting, photographic, photolithographic, and printing supplies and equipment, $120,000. Appropriations herein made for traveling expenses or for the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall not be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the director), except as now provided by law. The appropriation in this title for traveling expenses shall be avail- able, in an amount not to exceed $650, for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce. Not to exceed $2,500 of the appropriations herein made for the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall be available for the payment of part-time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, of such architects, engineers, scientists, and technicists as may be contracted for by the Secretary of Commerce, in his discre- tion, at a rate of pay not exceeding $25 per diem for any person so employed. PATENT OFFICE 199 Aeronautical charts. Post, p. 641. Restriction on use of funds. Attendance at meet- ings. Temporary employ- ment of architects, etc. Rate of pay. Salaries: For the Commissioner of Patents and other personal "B fesl services in the District of Columbia, $3,540,000. Photolithographing: For producing copies of weekly issue of draw- Photolithographing. ings of patents and designs; reproduction of copies of drawings and Post'.1040' specifications of exhausted patents, designs, trade-marks, and other papers, such other papers when reproduced for sale to be sold at not less than cost plus 10 per centum; reproduction of foreign patent drawings; photo prints of pending application drawings; and photo- stat and photographic supplies and dry mounts, $175,000: Provided, Mulgraphed head. That the headings of the drawings for patented cases may be multi- Ings. graphed in the Patent Office for the purpose of photolithography. Miscellaneous expenses: For purchase and exchange of law, pro- Miscellaneous ex- fessional, and other reference books and publications and scientific Ptp. 10. books; expenses of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments; directories, furniture, filing cases; exchange of labor-saving office devices; for investigating the question of public use or sale of inventions for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents, and such other questions arising in connection with applications for patents and the prior art as may be deemed necessary by the Commissioner of Patents; for expense attending defense of suits instituted against the Commis- sioner of Patents, and for other contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the Patent Office, $68,000. Printing and binding: For printing the weekly issue of patents, Printing and bind- designs, trade-marks, prints, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly and annual indexes, $791,000; for mis- cellaneous printing and binding, $49,000; in all, $840,000. The appropriation in this title for traveling expenses shall be avail- ittendance at meet- able, in an amount not to exceed $500, for expenses of attendance at

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