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 272 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 445 --JUNE 22, 1946 OFFICE OF INFORMATION SALARIES AND EXPENSES [60 STAT. For necessary expenses in connection with the publication, indexing, illustration, and distribution of bulletins, documents, and reports, the preparation, distribution, and display of agricultural motion and sound pictures, and exhibits, and the coordination of informational work in the Department, $578,500, together with such amounts from other appropriations or authorizations as are provided in the schedules in the Budget for the current fiscal year for such expenses, which several amounts or portions thereof, as may be determined by the Secretary, not exceeding a total of $12,555 shall be transferred to and made a part of this appropriation, of which total appropriation amounts not exceeding those specified may be used for the purposes enumerated as follows: For personal services in the District of Columbia, $525,320; for preparation and display of exhibits, $115,900; and the preparation, distribution, and display of motion and sound Adjustments in pictures, $58,296: Provided,however, That if the total amounts of the mouts. appropriations or authorizations for the current fiscal year from which transfers to this appropriation are herein authorized shall at any time exceed or fall below the amounts estimated, respectively, therefor in the Budget for such year, the amounts transferred or to be transferred therefrom to this appropriation and the amount which may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia shall be increased or decreased in such amounts as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, after a hearing thereon with representatives of the Department, shall determine are appropriate to the requirements as changed by such reductions or increases in such appropriations or authorizations: Pro- Tan sfer of fddi- vided further,That when and to the extent that in the judgment of acts as central agency. the Secretary agricultural exhibits and motion and sound pictures relating to the authorized programs of the various agencies of the Department can be more advantageously prepared, displayed, or distributed by the Office of Information, as the central agency of the Department therefor, additional funds not exceeding $300,000 for these purposes may be transferred to and made a part of this appropriation, from the funds applicable, and shall be available for the objects specified herein, including personal services in the District of Colum- Temporary employ- bia: Providedfurther, That in the preparation of motion pictures or e. exhibits by the Department, not exceeding a total of $10,000 may be 58 Utat. upp. v used for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706 (a) 1574. of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 (5 U. S . C . 574), said Act being elsewhere herein referred to as the Organic Act of 1944: feld lor tate. Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the establishment or maintenance of regional or State field offices or for the compensation of employees in such offices except that not to exceed $9,000 may be used to maintain the San Francisco radio office. PRINTING AND BINDING For all printing and binding for the Department, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, except as otherwise in this Act provided, $1,309,500, including the purchase of reprints of scientific and technical articles published in periodicals and journals; the Annual Report of Annual Report of the Secretary, as required by the Acts of January 28 Stat. 01; 38tat. 12, 1895 (44 U. S . C . 111, 212-220, 222, 241, 244), March 4, 1915 Sta.82.85 5 (7 U. S. C. 418), and June 20, 1936 (5 U. S. C. 108), and in pursuance Fams'buletns. of the Act approved March 30, 1906 (44 U. S . C . 214, 224), also includ- ing not to exceed $250,000 for farmers' bulletins, which shall be adapted to the interests of the people of the different sections of the

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