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 77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 450 -JUNE 27, 1942 books for library, furniture and carpets for offices, automobiles, expenses of garage, including labor, special services, and miscel- laneous items to be expended in the discretion of the President, $50,000. For printing and binding, $2.700. Traveling expenses: For traveling and official entertainment expenses of the President of the United States, to be expended in his discretion and accounted for on his certificate solely, $30,000. Total, The White House Office proper, $308,910. EXECUTIVE MANSION AND GROUNDS For the care, maintenance, repair and alteration, refurnishing, improvement, heating and lighting, including electric power and fix- tures of the Executive Mansion, the Executive Mansion greenhouses, including reconstruction, and the Executive Mansion grounds, and traveling expenses, to be expended as the President may determine, notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act, $145,570. BUREAU OF THE BUDGET Salaries and expenses: For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Bureau of the Budget, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, contract steno- graphic reporting services, traveling expenses, including expenses of attendance at meetings when necessary in furthering the work of the Bureau of the Budget, streetcar fares, lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals, and newspapers, purchase, including exchange of one, and maintenance, repair, and operation of three passenger-carrying automobiles for official use, and not to exceed $25,000 for temporary employment of persons or organizations by contract or otherwise without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, or the Classi- fication Act of 1923, as amended, $1,450,000. For printing and binding, $52,000. National defense activities: For all necessary expenses of the Bureau of the Budget in the performance of activities relating to the national defense, including all the objects for which the appropriation "Salaries and expenses, Bureau of the Budget" is available, and including the temporary employment (not exceeding $175,000) of persons or organizations by contract or otherwise, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; the employment of persons, including State, county, or municipal officers and employees, with or without compensation; and the payment of actual transportation expenses and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses of persons serving, while away from their homes without other compensation from the United States, in an advisory capacity to the Bureau, $480,000. NATIONAL RESOURCES PLANNING BOARD Salaries and expenses: For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the National Resources Planning Board, to perform the functions transferred to said Board on July 1, 1939, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; contract stenographic reporting services; purchase of books of ref- erence and periodicals; expenses of attendance at meetings con- cerned with development, conservation, and use of the resources of the Nation; traveling expenses not to exceed $50,000; payment of actual transportation expenses and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses of persons serving, while away from Care, repair, etc. Temporary employ- ment. 41U.S.0.§5. 42 Stat. 1488. 5U.S. 0. J§661-674; Supp. I, ch. 13 . Post, p. 733. Temporary employ- ment. 41U.S.C.§5. 42 Stat. 1488 . 5 U.S.C.§§661-674; Supp. 1, ch. 13 . 'o.ls, p. 733. Persons in advisory capacity, expenses. 5)G STAT.] 393

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