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 60 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 541-JULY 5, 1946 TITLE III-DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Salaries and expenses: For all necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary of Commerce (hereafter in this title referred to as the Secretary) including personal services in the District of Columbia; teletype news service (not exceeding $1,000); newspapers (not exceed- ing $500); contract stenographic reporting services; lawbooks, books of reference, and periodicals; purchase of one passenger automobile; maintenance, operation, and repair of motor vehicles; not exceeding $2,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations con- cerned with the work of the Office of the Secretary and not to exceed $5,000 for the entertainment of representatives of other countries by officials of the Department when specifically authorized and approved by the Secretary; $925,000. Printing and binding: For all printing and binding for the Department of Commerce, except for technical and scientific services in the Office of the Secretary and for the Patent Office, the Civil Aeronautics Board, and work done at the field printing plants of the Weather Bureau authorized by the Joint Committee on Printing, in accordance with the Act approved March 1, 1919 (44 U. S . C. 111, 220), $1,110,000. Technical and scientific services: For all necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary in the performance of activities and services relating to technological development as an aid to business in the development of foreign and domestic commerce, including all the objects for which the appropriation "Salaries and expenses, Office of the Secretary", is available, and including (not to exceed $75,000) for the temporary employment of persons by contract or otherwise, with- out regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, the employ- ment of persons, including State, county, or municipal officers and employees, with or without compensation, and not to exceed $130,000 for printing and binding, $3,800,000: Provided, That of the sum herein appropriated the Secretary may transfer not to exceed $500,000 to the National Bureau of Standards for testing and other scientific studies and expend not to exceed $1,000,000 for temporary employment of persons or organizations by contract or otherwise, for scientific research on new products, materials, material substitutes, and such other subjects and special services determined necessary, including the encouragement of inventive genius, without regard to sections 3709 and 3648 of the Revised Statutes and the civil-service and classification laws. Penalty mail, Department of Commerce: For deposit in the gen- eral fund of the Treasury for cost of penalty mail of the Department of Commerce, except the Civil Aeronautics Board, as required by section 2 of the Act of June 28, 1944 (Public Law 364), $600,000. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS Salaries and expenses, age and citizenship certification: For salaries and expenses necessary for searching census records and supplying information incident to carrying out the provisions of the Social Security Act, and other statutory requirements with respect to age and citizenship certification, including personal services at the seat of government, travel, microfilm, and binding records, books of reference, periodicals, and photographic supplies, $150,000: Provided, That the procedure hereunder for the furnishing from census records of evidence 80634°-47-PT. I-30 465 Department of Commerce Appropri- ation Act, 1947. Post, pp. 594, 618 , 916. Post, pp. 466, 467, 468. 40 Stat. 1270. 44U.S. C. §4. Temporary employ- ment. 42 Stat. 1488. 5U.S.C.§661; Supp. V, § 661 et seq. Ante, pp. 216, 219. Scientific study and research. 41 U.S. C.. 5; 31 U. S. C. 629. Post, p. 809. Post, p. 471. 58 Stat. 394. 39 U. S. C., Supp. V, § 321d. Post, p. 618. 49 Stat. 620 . 42 U. . C. §C301- 1307; Supp. V, § 401 et Post. p. 979et q. Procedure for fur- nishing evidence of age.

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