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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 421 --JUNE 25, 1940 Railway cars, etc.; inspection. Proviso. Receipts. Certification of ex- ports. Proviso. Receipts. Total; personal serv- ices. Vehicles. States, including the regulation of the entry into the United States of railway cars and other vehicles, and freight, express, baggage, or other materials from Mexico, and the inspection, cleaning, and disin- fection thereof, including construction and repair of necessary build- ings, plants, and equipment, for the fumigation, disinfection, or cleaning of products, railway cars, or other vehicles entering the United States from Mexico, $680,000: Provided, That any moneys received in payment of charges fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture on account of such cleaning and disinfection shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Certiication of exports: For the inspection, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe, of domestic plants and plant products when offered for export and to certify to shippers and interested parties as to the freedom of such products from injurious plant diseases and insect pests according to the sani- tary requirements of the foreign countries affected and to make such reasonable charges and to use such means as may be necessary to accomplish this object, $31,862: Provided, That moneys received on account of such inspection and certification shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Total, salaries and expenses, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, $5,733,217, of which amount not to exceed $868,458 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $40,900 shall be available for the purchase of motor- propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of field work outside the District of Columbia. BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS SALARIES AND EXPENSES elaries and ex- For the employment of such persons and means in the city of Pse. Washington and elsewhere as may be necessary in conducting inves- tigations, experiments, and demonstrations, either independently or in cooperation with public or private agencies, organizations, or individuals, as follows: Administrative ex- General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses for gen- eral administrative purposes, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $88,900. Economic Ilvestiga- Economic investigations: For acquiring and diffusing useful infor- mation among the people of the United States, and for aiding in formulating programs for authorized activities of the Department of Agriculture relative to agricultural production, distribution, land utilization, and conservation in their broadest aspects, including farm management and practice, utilization of farm and food products, purchasing of farm supplies, farm population and rural life, farm labor, farm finance, insurance and taxation, adjustments in produc- tion to probable demand for the different farm and food products; land ownership and values, costs, prices and income in their relation to agriculture, including causes for their variations and trends, Traerof funds. $775,000: Provided, That the Secretary may transfer to this appro- priation from the funds available for authorized activities of the Department of Agriculture, such sums as may be necessary for aiding in formulating programs for such authorized activities, including expenditures for employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere. otai;pesonaserv Total, salaries and expenses, Bureau of Agricultural Economics $863,900, of which amount not to exceed $823,358 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. 554 [54 STAT.

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