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 288 Cooperative work with departments, etc. Transfer of funds. Attendance at meet- ings. Total; personal serv- ices. Post,p. 751. Post, p. 832. 26 Stat. 653. 52 Stat. 1014. 54 Stat. 1105. 5U. S. C. 73c-1. Training of person- nel at civilian mstitu. tions. Telegraphing, etc. PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 258 -JUNE 28, 1941 [55 STAT. Materials testing laboratory and equipment: For the construction, on the site of the National Bureau of Standards in the District of Columbia, and equipment of a laboratory for scientific research and for testing equipment, materials, and supplies, $600,000, to be immediately available. During the fiscal year 1942 the head of any department or inde- pendent establishment of the Government having funds available for scientific investigations and requiring cooperative work by the National Bureau of Standards on scientific investigations within the scope of the functions of that Bureau, and which the National Bureau of Standards is unable to perform within the limits of its appropria- tions, may, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce, 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 per- sonal 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, $2,968,000, of which amount not to exceed $1,905,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. WEATHER BuREATu SALARIES AND EXPENSES For the employment of persons and means, including rental of buildings, required for carrying into effect in the District of Columbia and elsewhere in the United States, in the West Indies, in the Panama Canal, the Caribbean Sea, and on adjacent coasts, in the Hawvaiian Islands, in Bermuda, and in Alaska the provisions of sections 1 and 3 of an Act approved October 1, 1890 (15 U. S . C . 311- 313), and section 803 of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 (49 U. S. C . 603); for purchase of books of reference; for traveling expenses; for necessary expenses (not to exceed $2,000) of attend- ance at meetings concerned with the work of the Bureau when authorized by the Secretary of Commerce; for the purchase, exchange, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; transfer of household goods and effects, as provided by the Act of October 10, 1940 (Public, No. 839), and regulations promulgated thereunder; detail of not to exceed a total of ten members of the Weather Bureau personnel for training at Government expense at civilian institutions in advanced methods of meteorological science; for repair, alterations, and improvements to existing buildings and care and preservation of grounds, including the construction of necessary outbuildings and sidewalks on public streets, abutting Weather Bureau grounds; for the erection of tem- porary buildings for living quarters of observers; for telephone rentals, and for telegraphing, telephoning, and cabling reports and messages, rates to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce by agree- ment with the companies performing the service; for the establish- ment, equipment, and maintenance of meteorological offices and stations and for the issuing of weather forecasts and warnings of

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