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 77TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 472-JULY 2, 1942 employ such persons as may be necessary for the enforcement, under his direction, of laws relating to navigation and inspection of vessels, boarding of vessels, counting of passengers on excursion boats to prevent overcrowding, and to secure uniformity in the admeasure- ment of vessels; fees to witnesses; materials, supplies, equipment, and services, including rent and janitor service; the transfer of household goods and effects, as provided by the Act of October 10, 1940 (54 Stat. 1105), and regulations promulgated thereunder; pur- chase, exchange, and repair of instruments; plans and specifications; insignia, braid, and chin straps; coats, caps, and aprons for stewards' departments on vessels; and other incidental expenses of field offices, including contract stenographic reporting services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; $2,700,000: Provided, That $85,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be available only for the pay- ment of extra compensation for overtime services of local inspectors of steam vessels and their assistants, United States shipping com- missioners and their deputies and assistants, and customs officers and employees for which the United States receives reimbursement in accordance with the provisions of the Act of May 11, 1938 (46 U. S. C. 382B). PATENT OFFICE Salaries: For the Commissioner of Patents and other personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $3,893,000. Photolithographing: For producing copies of weekly issue of drawings of patents and designs; reproduction of copies of draw- ings and specifications of exhausted patents, designs, trade-marks, and other papers, such other papers when reproduced for sale to be sold at not less than cost plus 10 per centum; reproduction of foreign patent drawings; photo prints of pending application draw- ings; and photostat and photographic supplies and dry mounts, $225,000: Provided, That the headings of the drawings for patented cases may be multigraphed in the Patent Office for the purpose of photolithography. Miscellaneous expenses: For purchase and exchange of law, pro- fessional, and other reference books and publications and scientific books; expenses of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments; directories, furniture, filing cases; exchange of labor-saving office devices for investigating the question of public use or sale of inventions for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents, and such other questions arising in connection with applications for patents and the prior art as may be deemed necessary by the Commissioner of Patents; for expense attending defense of suits instituted against the Com- missioner of Patents, and for other contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the Patent Office, $71,000. Printing and binding: For printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, trade-marks, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly and annual indices, $700,000; for miscellaneous printing and binding, $60,000; in all, $760,000. The appropriation in this title for traveling expenses shall be available, in an amount not to exceed $500, for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Patent Office when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce. NATIONAL BUREAT OF STANDARDS Salaries and expenses: For carrying out the provisions of the Act establishing the National Bureau of Standards, approved March 65714---4 -PT. I 1-32 5U.S.C. 73c-1. Proviso. Local inspectors, etc., overtime pay. 52 Stat. 345. Proiso. Multigraphedhead- ings. Attendance at meet- ings. 497 56 STAT.]

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