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 508 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 543-JUNE 19,1948 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY SALARIES AND EXPENSES [62 STAT. For personal services in the office of the Secretary of Agriculture, hereafter in this Act referred to as the Secretary, in the District of Columbia, and elsewhere, and other necessary expenses, including the purchase of one passenger motor vehicle for replacement only; travel expenses, including examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; stationery, supplies, materials, and equipment; freight, express, and drayage charges; advertising, communication service, postage, washing towels, repairs and alterations, and other miscel- laneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for and neces- sary for the practical and efficient work of the Department of Agriculture, hereafter in this Act referred to as the Department, $2,033,000, 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 services and expenses, which several amounts or portions thereof as may be determined by the Secretary not exceeding a total of $87,560, shall be transferred to and made a Adjustments in part of this appropriation: Provided, however, That if the total amounts of such appropriations or authorizations for the current fiscal year shall at any time exceed or fall below the amounts estimated, respectively, therefor in the Budget for such year, the amounts trans- ferred or to be transferred therefrom to this appropriation 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 Option to purchase authorizations: Provided further, That, of appropriations herein made which are available for the purchase of lands, not to exceed $1 may be expended for each option to purchase any particular tract or Employee predict- tracts of land: Providedfurther That no part of the funds appro- Ing future price of cotton. priated by this Act shall be used for the payment of any officer or employee of the Department who, as such officer or employee, or on behalf of the Department or any division, commission, or bureau thereof, issues, or causes to be issued, any prediction, oral or written, or forecast, except as to damage threatened or caused by insects and pests, with respect to future prices of cotton or the trend of same: Purchase oftwine. Provided further, That, except to provide materials required in or incident to research or experimental work where no suitable domestic product is available, no part of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be expended in the purchase of twine manufactured from com- modities or materials produced outside of the United States. RESEARCH AND MARKETING ACT OF 1946 To enable the Secretary to carry into effect the provisions of the . 608tat.1082;61Stat. Act of August 14, 1946 as amended (Public Law 733, 79th Congress; 7 . s. C .§§ 427, Public Law 297, 80th Congress), including in addition to the objects supp. , §427j.69 for which funds are available for such Act of August 14, 1946 and 49 Stat. 436 . under title I of the Bankhead-Jones Act, as amendedpersonal services 7Us.5.c.§ Act, aenaerc 427j; Supp. , §42-j. in the District of Columbia; printing and binding; over-all adminis- 60Stat. 1085, 1086, tration, planning, and coordination of research under section 10 pur- 7 U. s. o. §§427i, suant to the provisions of section 10 (c); and necessary expenses for l628,1629. carrying out the provisions of title III of the Act, as follows: For payments to States, Territories, and Puerto Rico for agricul- tural experiment stations pursuant to section 9 of the Bankhead-Jones

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