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 56 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CI. 178-IMAR. 10, 1942 ment and countersigned by the Comptroller General, such warrants to be based solely on itemized invoices prepared by the Procurement Division at issue prices to be fixed by the Director of Procurement: Provided further, That advances received pursuant to law (31 U. S . C. 686) from departments and establishments of the United States Government and the government of the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1943 shall be credited to the general supply fund: Provided further, That not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be available from the general supply fund during the fiscal year 1943 for personal services: Providedfurther, That per diem employees engaged in work in connection with operations of the fuel yards may be paid rates of pay approved by the Secretary of the Treasury not exceeding current rates for similar services in the District of Columbia: Provided further, That the term "fuel" shall be held to include "fuel oil": Provided further, That the requirements of sections 3711 and 3713 of the Revised Statutes (40 U. S . C . 109) relative to the weighing of coal and wood and the separate certificate as to the weight, meas- urement, or quantity of coal and wood purchased shall not apply to purchases by the Procurement Division at free-on-board destination outside of the District of Columbia: Provided further, That the reconditioning and repair of surplus property and equipment for disposition or reissue to Government service, may be made at cost by the Procurement Division, payment therefor to be effected by charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation "Salaries and expenses, Procurement Division": Provided further, That all orders for printing and binding for the Treasury Depart- ment, exclusive of work performed in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and exclusive of such printing and binding as may under existing law be procured by field offices under authorization of the Joint Committee on Printing, shall be placed by the Director of Procurement in accord with the provisions of existing law. Repairs to typewriting machines (except bookkeeping and billing machines) in the Government service in the District of Columbia and areas adjacent thereto may be made at cost by the Procurement Divi- sion, payment therefor to be effected by charging the proper appropri- ation and crediting the appropriation "Salaries and expenses, Pro- curement Division". No part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used during the fiscal year 1943 for the purchase of any standard typewriting machines (except bookkeeping, billing, and electric machines) at a price in excess of the following for models with carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches (correspondence models), $70; twelve inches, $75; fourteen inches, $77.50; sixteen inches, $82.50; eighteen inches, $87.50; twenty inches, $94; twenty-two inches, $95; twenty-four inches, $97.50; twenty-six inches, $103.50; twenty-eight inches, $104; thirty inches, $105; thirty-two inches, $107.50; or, for standard typewriting machines distinctively quiet in operation, the maximum prices shall be as follows for models with carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches, $80; twelve inches, $85; fourteen inches, $90; eighteen inches, $95. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Procure- ment Division, including printed forms and miscellaneous items for general use of the Treasury Department, the cost of transportation to field offices of printed and bound material and the cost of necessary packing boxes and packing materials, $161,500, together with not to exceed $4,000 to be transferred from the general supply fund, Treas- ury Department. This title may be cited as the "Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1943". 65714°-4 3 -PT. I -- - 161 Crediting of ad- vances. 47 Stat. 417. Post, p. 661. Personal services. Per diem employees at fuel yards. "Fuel." Purchases of coal and wood. Reconditioning of surplus property. Orders for printing and binding. Purchase of type- writing machines. Post, p. 1004. Citation of title.

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