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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CH. 189-MAY 14, 1940 the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and such other expenditures as may be necessary, $185,000: Provided, That no part of this appro- priation shall be used to compensate any person not appointed pur- suant to civil-service laws and regulations, but this limitation shall not apply to attorneys or the head of the division. Examination of judicial offices: For the investigation of the official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks of the United States courts and Territorial courts, probation officers, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the official papers, records, and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be exam- ined by the agents of the Attorney General at any time; and also the official acts, records, and accounts of referees and trustees of such courts; in all, $51,000, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. Salaries and expenses, veterans' insurance litigation: For salaries and expenses incident to the defense of suits against the United States under section 19, of the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, approved June 7, 1924, as amended and supplemented, or the com- promise of the same under the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1934, approved June 16, 1933, including office expenses, law- books, supplies, equipment, stenographic reporting services by con- tract or otherwise, including notarial fees or like services and steno- graphic work in taking depositions at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, printing and binding, the employment of experts at such rates of compensa- tion as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, and personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $375,000. Salaries and expenses, Lands Division: For personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and for other necessary expenses, including employment of experts at such rates of compen- sation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, purchase and exchange of typewriters, adding machines and other labor-saving devices, stenographic reporting services by contract or otherwise, and notarial fees or like services, $1,400,000. Miscellaneous salaries and expenses, field: For salaries not other- wise specifically provided for (not to exceed $110,000) and for such other expenses for the field service, Department of Justice, as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, including experts, and notarial fees or like services and stenographic work in taking depositions, at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, so much as may be necessary in the discretion of the Attorney General for such expenses in the Dis- trict of Alaska, and in courts other than Federal courts; patent appli- cations and contested proceedings involving inventions; rent of rooms; supplies and equipment, incluing the exchange of typewriting and adding machines, firearms and ammunition therefor; purchase of law books, including exchange thereof, and the Federal Reporter and continuations thereto as issued, $317,500: Provided, That not to exceed $2 per volume shall be paid for the current and future volumes of the United States Code Annotated. Salaries and expenses of district attorneys, and so forth: For salaries and expenses of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, clerks, and other employees, including the office expenses of United States district attorneys in Alaska, and for salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the office of the United States district attorney, $3,185,000. 203 Proviso. Appointments pur- suant to civil-service laws; exceptions. Examination of Ju- dicial offices. Veterans' insurance litigation. 43 Stat. 612; 48 Stat. 302. 38 U. 8. C. §445, 445b; Supp. V, § 44, 445b. Lands Division. Post, p. 645. Miscellaneous sala- ries and expenses, field. Post, p. 64& Rent. Proiso. U. S. Code Anno- tated, price limitation. District attorneys, etc. Post, p. 645.

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