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 65 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , IST SESS.-CH. 267-JULY 1, 1941 Enforcement of the Insecticide Act: For enabling the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Act of April 26, 1910 (7 U. S . C . 121-134), entitled "An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded paris greens, lead arsenates, other insecticides, and also fungicides, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes", $168,180. Total, salaries and expenses, Agricultural Marketing Service, $6,421,308, of which amount not to exceed $1,633,362 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $44,400 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 HOME ECONOMICS SALARIES AND EXPENSES General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses for gen- eral administrative purposes, including the salary of Chief of Bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $31,735. Home economics investigations: For conducting either independ- ently or in cooperation with other agencies, investigations of the rela- tive utility and economy of agricultural products for food, clothing, and other uses in the home, with special suggestions of plans and methods for the more effective utilization of such products for these purposes, and such economic investigations, including housing and household buying, as have for their purpose the improvement of the rural home, and for disseminating useful information on this subject, including the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $301,310. Total, salaries and expenses, Bureau of Home Economics, $333,045, of which amount not to exceed $152,592 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. ENFORCEMENT OF THE COMMODITY EXCHANGE ACT To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act, as amended (7 U. S . C . 1-17a) and as further amended by the Act of October 9, 1940 (Public, No. 818), $626,000, of which amount not to exceed $224,840 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICF SALARIES AND EXPENSES To carry out the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the protection of land resources against soil erosion, and for other purposes", approved April 27, 1935 (16 U. S . C. 590a-590f), which provides for a national program of erosion control and soil and mois- ture conservation to be carried out directly and in cooperation with other agencies, including the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of books and period- icals, maintenance, repair, and operation of one passenger-carrying automobile in the District of Columbia, furnishing of subsistence to employees, training of employees, and the purchase and erection of permanent buildings: Provided, That the cost of any building pur- chased, erected, or as improved, exclusive of the cost of constructing a water supply or sanitary system and connecting the same with any such building, shall not exceed $2,500 except where buildings are acquired in conjunction with land being purchased for other purposes 278941 -42-PTr. I-28 433 36 Stat. 331. Total; personal serv- ices. Vehicles. Post, p. 832. Post, p. 750. Post, p. 832. 49 Stat. 1491. 54 Stat. 1059. 49 Stat. 163. Provisos. Cost of buildings.

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