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 77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 450 -JUNE 27, 1942 locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto" (45 U. S . C . 22), as amended by the Act of March 4, 1915, extending "the same powers and duties with respect to all parts and appurte- nances of the locomotive and tender" (45 U. S . C . 30), and amendment of June 7, 1924 (45 U. S . C . 27), providing for the appointment from time to time by the Interstate Commerce Commission of not more than fifteen inspectors in addition to the number authorized in the first paragraph of section 4 of the Act of 1911 (45 U. S . C . 26), and the amendment of June 27, 1930 (45 U. S . C . 24, 26), including such legal, technical, stenographic, and clerical help as the business of the offices of the director of locomotive inspection and his two assistants may require and for traveling expenses, $475,000, of which amount not to exceed $71,915 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Valuation of property of carriers: To enable the Interstate Com- merce Commission to carry out the objects of the Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to regulate commerce', approved February 4, 1887, and all Acts amendatory thereof, by pro- viding for a valuation of the several classes of property of carriers subject thereto and securing information concerning their stocks, bonds, and other securities", approved March 1, 1913, as amended by the Act of June 7, 1922 (49 U. S. C . 19a), and by the "Emergency Railroad Transportation Act, 1933" (49 U. S. C. 19a), including one director of valuation at $10,000 per annum, one valuation engineer at $7,500 per annum, and not to exceed $22,302 for traveling expenses, $649,927. Motor transport regulation: For all authorized expenditures nec- essary to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to carry out the provisions of part II of the Interstate Commerce Act and section 5, part I, of the Interstate Commerce Act insofar as applicable to common carriers subject to part II (Transportation Act of 1940), including one director at $10,000 per annum and other personal serv- ices in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses not to exceed $189,000; supplies; services and equipment; not to exceed $1,000 for purchase and exchange of books, reports, news- papers, and periodicals; contract stenographic reporting services; purchase (not to exceed thirty-one), exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary for official use in field work; not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase of evidence in connection with investigations of apparent violations of said Act, $3,565,240: Provided, That Joint Board mem- bers may use Government transportation requests when traveling in connection with their duties as Joint Board members. Not to exceed $2,500 of the appropriations herein made for the Interstate Commerce Commission shall be available for expenses, except membership fees, for attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Commission, and not to exceed $5,000 for transfer of household goods and effects as provided by the Act of October 10, 1940 (Public, Numbered 839), and regulations promulgated there- under. In all, salaries and expenses, Interstate Commerce Commission, $9,068,677. For all printing and binding for the Interstate Commerce Com- mission, including reports in all cases proposing general changes in transportation rates and not to exceed $17,000 to print and furnish to the States, at cost, report form blanks, and the receipts from such reports and blanks shall be credited to this appropriation, $203,200. Salaries and expenses, emergency: For necessary expenses, includ- ing not to exceed $52,650 for traveling expenses, to enable the Inter- 413 36 Stat. 913; 38 Stat. 1192. 43 Stat. 659. 36 Stat. 914; 46 Stat. 822. Traveling expenses. Post, p. 1000. 37 Stat. 701; 42 Stat. 624; 48 Stat. 221. 49 Stat. 543; 24 Stat. 380; ante, pp. 176, 300; post, p. 746. 49U.S.C.§§301,5. 54 Stat. 919. Prorito. Transportation re- quests. Attendance at meet- ings. Post,p. 1000. 4 Stat. 1105 . 5 U.S. C. 73c-1. Printing and binding. 56 STAT.]

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