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 56 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 516-JULY 22, 1942 of $1,000,488, shall be transferred to and made a part of this appro- priation; and there may be expended .for personal services in the District of Columbia in said Office of the Secretary not to exceed the total amount provided in the Budget schedules for such purpose under this appropriation: Provided, however, That if the total amounts of such appropriations or authorizations for the fiscal year 1943 shall at any time exceed or fall below the amounts estimated, respectively, therefor in the Budget for 1943, the amounts trans- ferred or to be transferred therefrom to this appropriation and the amount which may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia shall be increased or decreased in such amounts as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, after a hearing thereon with representatives of the Department, shall determine are appropriate to the requirements as changed by such reductions or increases in such appropriations or authorizations: Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to contract for stenographic reporting services, and the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for such purposes: Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to expend from appropriations avail- able for the purchase of lands not to exceed $1 for each option to purchase any particular tract or tracts of land: Provided further, That not to exceed $25,000 of the appropriations available for salaries and expenses of officers and employees of the Department of Agriculture permanently stationed in foreign countries may be used for payment of allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (5 U. S . C . 118a): Provided further, That with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture, employees of the Department of Agri- culture stationed abroad may enter into leases for official quarters, for periods not exceeding one year, and may pay rent, telephone, subscriptions to publications, and other charges incident to the con- duct of their offices and the discharge of their duties, in advance, in any foreign country where custom or practice requires payment in advance: Provided further, That no part of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be used for the payment of any officer or employee of the Department of Agriculture who, as such officer or employee, or on behalf of the Department or any division, commission, or bureau thereof, issues, or causes to be issued, any prediction, oral or written, or forecast, except as to damage threatened or caused by insects and pests, with respect to future prices of cotton or the trend of same: Provided further, That no part of the funds appro- priated by this Act shall be used for laboratory investigations to determine the possibly harmful effects on human beings of spray insecticides on fruits and vegetables: Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to make microfilm or other photographic reproductions of books and other library materials in the Department of Agriculture and sell such reproductions at such prices (not less than estimated cost of furnishing same) as he may determine, the money received from such sales to be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation charged with the cost of making such reproductions. MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE For stationery, supplies, materials, and equipment, freight, express, and drayage charges, advertising, communication service, postage, washing towels, repairs, and alterations; for the maintenance, repair, and operation of one motorcycle and not to exceed three motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (including one for the 665 Provisos. Adjustments in amounts. Stenographic report- ing services. Options to purchase lands. Allowances for liv- ing quarters abroad. 46 Stat. 818. Payments for rent, etc., in advance. Employees predict- ing, etc., future prices of cotton. Laboratory investi- gations. Photographic repro- ductions.

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