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 55 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 258-JUNE 28, 1941 MISCELLANEOUS APPROPRIATIONS Conduct of customs cases: Assistant Attorney General, special 'ot,p.833. attorneys and counselors at law in the conduct of customs cases, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General; necessary clerical assistance and other employees at the seat of oovern- ment and elsewhere, to be employed and their compensation fxed by the Attorney General, including experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General; expenses of procuring evidence, supplies, Supreme Court Reports and Digests, and Federal Reporter and Digests, and other miscellaneous and inci- dental expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General; in all, $137,000. Enforcement of antitrust and kindred laws: For the enforcement of antitrust and kindred laws, including traveling expenses, and experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, except that the compensation paid to any person Salary restriction. employed hereunder shall not exceed the rate of $10,000 per annum, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $2,325,000: Provided, That none of this appropriation shall be expended for the Provisos. establishment and maintenance of permanent regional offices of the offices,raestriction. Antitrust Division: Provided further, That no part of this appro- Senate approval of priation shall be used for the payment of any person hereafter appointments at $7,500 appointed at a salary of $7,500 or more for the enforcement of antitrust orm and kindred laws unless such person is appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Bond and Spirits Division: For salaries and expenses in connection Post,p. 33 with the preliminary determination of civil liabilities arising under acts pursuant to the eighteenth amendment before repeal; the prelimi- nary determination of compromises and petitions for remission of for- feitures arising out of current internal-revenue liquor laws; the supervision of the collection on forfeited bail bonds and judgments and fines imposed in criminal cases; personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and such other expenditures as may be necessary, $175,000: Provided,That no part,of this appropriation shall rortio. be used to colpensate any person not appointed pursuant to civil- silait to (ii-sertiee service laws and regulations, but this limitation shall not apply to L;'excpt''"ions. attorneys or the head of the division. Examination of judicial offices: For the investigation of the official Pot,l.. 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 examined 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, $61,000, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. Salaries and.expenses, veterans' insurance litigation: For salaries Post, p . 833. and expenses incident to the defense of suits against the United States under section 19, of the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, approved 43 stat. rl2; 4s stat. June 7, 1924, as amended and supplemented, or the compromise of 3 U. . C. . 445, the same under the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1934, 445b- approved June 16, 1933, including office expenses, lawbooks, supplies, equipment, stenographic reporting services by contract or otherwise, including 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, printing and binding, the employ- ment of experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, and personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $350,000. 293

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