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 63 STAT.] 81ST CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 280-JUNE 29, 1949 reprinting the 1948 Department of Agriculture Yearbook, "Grass", for the use of the Senate and the House of Representatives, respec- tively, in the ratio of one hundred and ten thousand to three hundred and sixty thousand copies (of which not to exceed $156,674 shall be available for the yearbook reprint for such use), and including $166,054 for the preparation, printing, and distribution of a home- makers' food and nutrition handbook, of which $10,000 shall be trans- ferred to the appropriation "Salaries and expenses, Human Nutrition and Home Economics, Agricultural Research Administration", for the preparation of such handbook, $615,728: Provided, That four hundred thousand copies of the homemakers' food and nutrition hand- book shall be for the use of the Department and the remainder shall be for the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, in the same ratio as farmers' bulletins: Provided further, That if the total amounts of the 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 trans- ferred 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: Provided further, That when and to the extent that in the judgment of 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 Columbia: Provided further, That in the prepara- tion of motion pictures or exhibits by the Department, not exceeding a total of $10,000 may be used for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706 (a) 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, as amended by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a): Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the establishment or mainte- nance of regional or State field offices or for the compensation of employees in such offices except that not to exceed $10,000 may be used to maintain the San Francisco radio office. LIBRARY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE For necessary expenses, including exchange of reference books, law- books, technical and scientific books, periodicals, and expenses incurred in completing imperfect series; not to exceed $1,200 for newspapers; dues, when authorized by the Secretary, for library membership in societies or associations which issue publications to members only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers who are not members; $713,293, of which not to exceed $518,800 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS For necessary expenses, including not to exceed $2,390,000 for per- sonal services m the District of Columbia, including the salary of 327 Reprinting Agricul- ture Yearbook. Homemakers' food and nutrition hand- book. Post, p. 336. Adjustments in amounts. Transfer of addi- tional funds if Office acts as central agency. Temporary employ- ment. 58 Stat. 742. 60 Stat. 810 . Regional or State field olllces.

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