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 57 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-H. 182-JULY 1, 1943 graphing, rubber gloves, and electrotyping supplies; photolithograph- ing and printing charts for immediate use; stationery for office and field parties; transportation of instruments and supplies when not charged to field expenses; telegrams; washing; office furniture, repairs; miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, not exceed- ing $90 for streetcar fares, $300,000. Aeronautical charts: For compilation and printing of aeronautical charts, including personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $213,000), operation of airplane for check flights, and aerial photographs, execution of ground surveys at air terminals, and the purchase of drafting, photographic, photolithographic, and printing supplies and equipment, $394,000. Appropriations herein made for traveling expenses or for the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall not be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the director), except as now provided by law. The appropriation in this title herein for traveling expenses shall be available, in an amount not to exceed $650. for expenses of attend- ance at meetings concerned with the work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce. Not to exceed $2,500 of the appropriations herein made for the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall be available for the payment of part-time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, of such architects, engineers, scientists, and technicists as may be contracted for by the Secretary of Commerce, in his discre- tion, at a rate of pay not exceeding $25 per diem for any person so employed. BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE Departmental salaries and expenses: For personal services (not to exceed $1,310,000) and other necessary expenses of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce at the seat of government in per- forming the duties imposed by law or in pursuance of law; news- papers (not exceeding $1,500), periodicals, and books of reference; contract stenographic reporting services; fees and mileage of wit- nesses, and other contingent expenses in the District of Columbia; $1,359,000: Provided, That expenses, except printing and binding and traveling expenses, of field studies or surveys conducted by departmental personnel of the Bureau shall be payable from the 'amount herein appropriated. Field office service: For salaries (not to exceed $260,000) and all other expenses necessary to operate and maintain regional, district, and cooperative branch offices for the collection and dissemination of information useful in the development and improvement of com- merce throughout the United States and its possessions, including foreign and domestic newspapers (not exceeding $300), periodicals and books of reference, $295,000. The appropriation in this title for traveling expenses shall be available in an amount not to exceed $6,500 for expenses of attend- ance at meetings concerned with the promotion of foreign and do- mestic commerce, or either, and also expenses of illustrating the work of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce by show- ing of maps, charts, and graphs at such meetings, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce. Post, p. 620. Subsistence. Attendance at meet- ings. Intermittent em- ployment of archi- tects, etc. Field studies or sur- veys. Attendance at meet- ings. 297

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