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 PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 182-JULY 1, 1943 Intermittent em- Not to exceed $100,000 of funds available to the Bureau by appro- ployment of scientists, etc. priation and transfer shall be available for payment of part-time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, of such scientists and technicians as may be contracted for by the Secretary of Commerce, in his discretion, at a rate of pay not exceed- ing $25 per diem for any person so employed. Personal services. f the foregoing amounts for the National Bureau of Standards not to exceed $2,200,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. WEATHER BUREAU Post p. 629. Salaries and expenses: For salaries and expenses necessary for car- rying into effect in the United States and possessions, on ships at sea, and elsewhere when directed by the Secretary of Commerce, the 26Stat. 6.3. provisions of sections 1 and 3 of an Act approved October 1, 1890 (15 U. S . C . 311313), and section 803 of the Civil Aeronautics Act 52Stat. 014 . of 1938 (49 U. S. C. 603), including investigations of atmospheric phenomena; cooperation with other public agencies and societies and institutions of learning; purchase of books of reference; traveling expenses, including not to exceed $1,500 for attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Bureau when authorized by the Secre- tary of Commerce; maintenance, operation, and repair of passenger automobiles; repair, alterations, and improvements to existing build- ings and care and preservation of grounds, including the construc- tion of necessary outbuildings and sidewalks on public streets, abut- ting Weather Bureau grounds; the erection of temporary buildings for living quarters of observers; telephone rentals, and telegraphing, telephoning, and cabling reports and messages, rates to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce by agreement with the companies per- forming the service; and establishment, equipment, and maintenance of meteorological offices and stations, $8,970,000, of which not to exceed $872,800 may be expended for departmental personal services Itornatltional M;ete- in the District of Columbia; not to exceed $1,500 for the contribution rological itteeof the United States to the cost of the office of the secretariat of the Printing office. International Meteorological Committee; and not to exceed $10,000 for the maintenance of a printing office in the city of Washington for the printing of weather In:ps, bulletins, circulars, forms, and other pllblications: Provided, That no printing shall be done by the Weather Bureau that can be done at the Government Printing Office without impairing the service of said Bureau. eet-time employ- Hereafter, Weather Bureau part-time employees, appointed by designation or otherwise under regulations of the Civil Service Com- mission for observational work, may perform odd jobs in the installa- tion, repair, improvement, alteration, cleaning, or removal of Government property and receive compensation therefor under regulations to be prescribed by the Chief of the Weather Bureau. tion, Alaska. Extra compensation at not to exceed $5 per day may be paid to employees of other Government agencies in Alaska, and in other territorial possessions for taking and transmitting meteorological observations for the Weather Bureau. ree emderiency The appropriations "Maintenance and operation of air navigation ka. facilities", Office of Administrator of Civil Aeronautics, and "Salaries Ante, p . aB, e. spa. and expenses", Weather Bureau, shall be available, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce, for furnishing to employees of the Civil Aeronautics Administration and the Weather Bureau in Alaska free emergency medical services by contract or Subsistencesuppl ie s otherwise and medical supplies, and for the purchase, transportation, and storage of food and other subsistence supplies for resale to such 300 [57 STAT.

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