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 516 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 221-JULY 12, 1943 [57 STAT. including compensation of members and employees of such boards, together with their necessary traveling expenses and expenses actually incurred for subsistence while so employed, and printing of awards, together with proceedings and testimony relating thereto, as author- ized by the Railway Labor Act, including also contract stenographic reporting service, and rent of quarters when suitable quarters cannot be supplied in any Federal building, the unexpended balance of pre- vious appropriations for these purposes shall be available. Printing and binding: For all printing and binding for the National Mediation Board, $2,500. NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Salaries and expenses: For authorized expenditures of the National Railroad Adjustment Board, in performing the duties imposed by law, including contract stenographic reporting services and supplies and equipment, $235,500, of which $62,500 shall be available only for compensation not in excess of $50 per day and expenses of referees, and not more than $118,680 for other personal services. Printing and binding: For all printing and binding for the National Railroad Adjustment Board, $17,500. citation of title. This title may be cited as the "National Mediation Board Appro- priation Act, 1944". Railroad Retire- ment Board Appro- priation Act, 1944. 49 Stat. 967; 50 Stat. 307. 45U.S.C.§§215-. 228r; Supp. II, §§215- 228 et seq. 50 Stat. 316. 45 . S..C. 2280. TITLE VI-RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere necessary in performing the duties imposed by law, $2,030,000. Miscellaneous expenses (other than salaries): For all necessary expenditures, other than salaries and printing and binding, of the Railroad Retirement Board in performing the duties imposed by law, including rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; travel- ing expenses, including not to exceed $1,000 for expenses of attend- ance at meetings concerned with the work of the Board when specifically authorized by the Board; not to exceed $2,500 for pay- ment of actual transportation and per diem (not to exceed $10) in lieu of subsistence and other expenses of persons serving while away from their homes without other conpensation in an advisory capacity to the Railroad Retirement Board; repairs and alterations: contract stenographic reporting services; other fees and compensation; sup- plies and equipment (including photographic equipment) ; not to exceed $5,000 for lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals, and for payment in advance when authorized by the Board for library mer- bership in organizations which issue publications to members only or to members at a price lower than to the general public; operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; and expenses incident to moving the office of the Board from one building to another, $490,000. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Railroad Retirement Board, $34,000. Railroad retirement account: For an amount sufficient as an annual premium for the payments required under the Railroad Retirement Act, approved August 29, 1935, and the Railroad Retirement Act, approved June 24, 1937, and authorized to be appropriated to the railroad retirement account established under section 15 (a) of the latter Act, $262,720,000, of which $20,774,000 shall be immediately available: Provided, That such total amount shall be available until expended for making payments required under said retirement Acts.

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