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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 473-JULY 2, 1942 Salaries. 39 Stat. 1132: 49 Stat. 1813 . Mliscellancous ex- penses. Acricultural experi- erilt station and vo- catilnal school. Deficit of municipal government of St. Croix. Administrative ex- penses. Loan adjustments. GOVERNMENT OF TIlE VIRGIN ISLANDS For salaries of the Governor and employees incident to the execu- tion of the Acts of March 3, 1917 (48 U. S . C. 1391), and June 22, 1936 (48 U. S . C. 1405v), traveling expenses of officers and employees, necessary janitor service, care of Federal grounds, repair and pres- ervation of Federal buildings and furniture, purchase of equipment, stationery, lights, water, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses, including not to exceed $5,000 for purchase, including exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger- carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $4,000 for personal services, household equipment and furnishings, fuel, ice, and electricity neces- sary in the operation of Government House at Saint Thomas and Government House at Saint Croix, $147,980. For salaries and expenses of the agricultural experiment station and the vocational school in the Virgin Islands, including technical personnel, clerks, and other persons; scientific investigations of plants and plant industries, and diseases of animals; demonstrations in practical farming; official traveling expenses; fixtures, apparatus, and supplies; clearing and fencing of land; and other necessary expenses, including not to exceed $2,000 for purchase, including exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $37,640. For defraying the deficit in the treasury of the municipal govern- ment of Saint Croix because of the excess of current expenses over current revenues for the fiscal year 1943, $114,800, to be paid to the said treasury in monthly installments. PUERTO RICAN HURRICANE RELIEF To enable the Division of Territories and Island Possessions to continue collection and administration of moneys due the United States on account of loans made under the joint resolutions approved December 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 1067), and January 22, 1930 (46 Stat. 57), and to make compositions and adjustments in any loan hereto- fore made, as authorized by Public Resolutions Numbered 59 (49 Stat. 926) and 60 (49 Stat. 928), Seventy-fourth Congress, approved August 27, 1935, not to exceed $19,950 of any unobligated balances of appropriations made by authority of those joint resolutions. including repayment of principal and payments of interest on such loans, is hereby nlade available for administrative expenses during the fiscal year 1943. EQUATORIAL AND SOUTHI SEA ISLANDS Administrative ex- For administrative expenses of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions, in carrying out the provisions of Executive 1F2. R 40 5; 3 F. R. Orders Numbered 7368 and 7828, approved May 13, 1936, and March 3, 1938, respectively, relating to certain islands of the United States situate in the Pacific Ocean, including personal services outside the District of Columbia (such employment to be by contract, if deemed necessary, without regard to the provisions of section 3709 . . 5* of the Revised Statutes), rent, traveling expenses, purchase of neces- sary books, documents, newspapers and periodicals, stationery, hire of automobiles, purchase of equipment, supplies and provisions, and Hire of work an all other necessary expenses, $26,675. mals, etc. SEC. 2. Appropriations herein made for field work shall be avail- able for the hire, with or without personal services, of work animals and animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles and equipment. 560 [56 STAT.
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