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 59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 189-JUNE 13, 1945 For furniture, including the purchase of office and library equip- ment, apparatus, and labor-saving devices, $38,600, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol. BOTANIC GARDEN Salaries: For personal services (including not exceeding $3,000 for miscellaneous temporary labor without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended), $80,200; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library. Maintenance, operation, repairs, and improvements: For all neces- sary expenses incident to maintaining, operating, repairing, and im- proving the Botanic Garden, and the nurseries, buildings, grounds, and equipment pertaining thereto, including procuring fertilizers, soils, tools, trees, shrubs, plants, and seeds; materials and miscellaneous supplies, including rubber boots and aprons when required for use* by employees in connection with their work; not to exceed $25 for emergency medical supplies; disposition of waste; traveling expenses of the Director and his assistants, not to exceed $250; streetcar fares, not exceeding $25; not to exceed $45 for deposit in the general fund of the Treasury for cost of penalty mail as required by section 2 of the Act of June 28, 1944 (Public Law 364); office equipment and contingent expenses; the prevention and eradication of insect and other pests and plant diseases by purchase of materials, and procure- ment of personal services by contract without regard to the provisions of any other Act; repair, maintenance, operation, purchase, and exchange of motortrucks, and maintenance, repair, and operation of a passenger motor vehicle; purchase of botanical books, periodicals, and books of reference, not to exceed $100; repairs and improvements to Director's residence; and all other necessary expenses; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $20,000. No part of the appropriations contained in this Act for the Botanic Garden shall be used for the distribution, by congressional allotment, of trees, plants, shrubs, or other nursery stock. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Salaries, Library, proper: For the Librarian, the Librarian Emeri- tus, Chief Assistant Librarian, and other personal services, including special and temporary services and extra special services of regular employees (not exceeding $5,000) at rates tobe fixed by the Librarian, $1,783,310, of which $135,000 shall be immediately available. OOPYTIGHT OFFICE Salaries: For the Register of Copyrights, assistant register, and other personal services, $299,800. LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICE Salaries: To enable the Librarian of Congress to employ competent persons to gather, classify, and make available, in translations, indexes, digests, compilations, and bulletins, and otherwise, data for or bearing upon legislation, and to render such data serviceable to Congress, and committees and Members thereof, and for printing and binding the digests of public general bills, and including not to exceed $5,700 for employees engaged on piece work and work by the day or hour at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, $198,300: Protided, That not more than $20,000 of this sum shall be used for preparation and reproduction of copies of the Digest of General Public Billas Furniture. 42 Stat. 1488. 6U.S.C.661; Supp. IV, 661 a seq. Post, p. 298Et uq. 58 Stat. 394. 39 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 321d. Distribution of nursery stock. Digests of public general bills.

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