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 59 STAT.] 79TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 262-JULY 3, 1945 ings and furniture, purchase of equipment, stationery, lights, water, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $4,000 for personal services, household equipment and furnish- ings, fuel, ice, and electricity necessary in the operation of Government House at Saint Thomas and Government House at Saint Croix, $196,450, to be expended by and under the supervision and direction of the Governor: Provided, That the executive assistant to the Gov- ernor and the legal counsel shall be appointed by the Governor. For salaries and expenses of the agricultural station in the Virgin Islands, including technical personnel, clerks, and other persons; scientific investigations of plants and plant industries, and diseases of animals; demonstrations in practical farming; official traveling expenses; fixtures, apparatus, and supplies; clearing and fencing of land; and other necessary expenses; maintenance, repair, and opera- tion of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $36,600, to be expended by and under the supervision and direction of the Governor. PUERTO BICO To enable the Division of Territories and Island Possessions to continue collection and administration of moneys due the United States on account of loans made under the joint resolutions approved December 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 1067), and January 22, 1930 (46 Stat. 57), and to make compositions and adjustments in any loan heretofore made, as authorized by Public Resolutions Numbered 59 (49 Stat. 926) and 60 (49 Stat. 928), Seventy-fourth Congress, approved August 27, 1935, not to exceed $26,350 of any unobligated balances of appropria- tions made by authority of those joint resolutions, including repay- ment of principal and payments of interest on such loans, is hereby made available for administrative expenses during the fiscal year 1946. SEC. 2. Appropriations herein made for field work shall be available for the hire, with or without personal services, of boats, work animals and animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles and equipment. SEC. 3. Appropriations herein made shall be available for the pur- chase, maintenance, operation, and repair of vehicles generally known as quarter-ton or half-ton pick-up trucks and as station wagons without such vehicles being considered as passenger-carrying vehicles: Pro- vided, That appropriations herein made available for the purchase of passenger-carrying motor vehicles shall be available only for the pur- chase of used or Federal surplus motor vehicles. SEC. 4. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, aliens may be employed during the fiscal year 1946 in the field service of the Department for periods of not more than thirty days in cases of emergency caused by fire, flood, storm, act of God, or sabotage. SEC. 5. Appropriations herein made for the following bureaus and offices shall be available for expenses of attendance of officers and employees at meetings or conventions of members of societies or asso- ciations concerned with their work in not to exceed the amounts indi- cated: Office of the Secretary, $400; Grazing Service, $300; Petroleum Conservation Division, $100; General Land Office, $300; Bureau of Indian Affairs, $2,000; Bureau of Reclamation, $2,000; Geological Sur- vey, $1,250; Bureau of Mines, $4,000; National Park Service, $1,000; Fish and Wildlife Service, $2,000; and soil and moisture conservation operations (all bureaus), $1,000. SEC. 6. Approporiations available for expenses of travel of officers and employees of the Department shall be available for traveling expenses of new appointees from Seattle, Washington, or from any point within Alaska, to their posts of duty in Alaska, and return. 359 Agricultural station. Hire of work ani- mals, etc. Pick-up trucks, etc. Employment of aliens. Attendance at meet- ings, etc. Ahlsa. Travel expenses oc new appointees.

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