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68 Stat. 1015.

63 Stat. 166.

68 Stat. 1018.

PUBLIC LAW 85-207-AUG. 28, 1957

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the functions and duties of carrying out the purposes of this title and may enter into such developmental contracts as he may determine to be in the best interest of the Government. "§ 13. Procurement of professional services "The Secretary shall have authority to contract with educational and other research organizations for the preparation of monographs and other reports and materials of a similar nature." SEC. 6. Title 13, United States Code, is further amended by insertjj^g jj^ chapter 1 of such title immediately following section 25 the following new" section: "§ 26. Transportation by contract "The Secretary may contract with field employees for the rental and use within the continental limits of the United States of means of transportation, other than motorcycle, automobile, or airplane, and for the rental and use outside of the continental United States of any means of transportation, which means may be owned by the field employee. Such rental contracts shall be made without regard to section 4 of the Travel Expense Act of 1949, as amended (5 U.S.C. 837). The reutals shall be at rates equivalent to the prevailing rental rates of the locality. The rental contracts within the continental United States may be entered into only when the use by the field employee of such other means of transportation is safer, more economical, or more advantageous to the Government than use of his motorcycle, automobile, or airplane in conducting the census." SEC. 7. The analysis of chapter 5 of title 13, United States Code, immediately preceding section 131 of such title, is amended to read as follows: " C H A P T E R 5—CENSUSES "SUBCHAPTER I—MANUFACTUBES, MINERAL INDUSTRIES, AND OTHER B U S I N E S S E S

Sec. "131. Collection and publication; five-year periods. "132. Controlling law; effect on other agencies. "SUBCHAPTER

II — P O P U L A T I O N, H O U S I N G, AGRICULTURE, IRRIGATION, DRAINAGE, AND UNEMPLOYMENT

"141. Population, unemployment, and housing. "142. Agriculture, irrigation, and drainage. "SUBCHAPTER III — G O V E R N M E N T S

"161. Quinquennial censuses; inclusion of certain d a t a. "SUBCHAPTER IV — I N T E R I M CURRENT D A T A

"181. Surveys. "SUBCHAPTER V—GEOGRAPHIC SCOPE, PRELIMINARY AND SUPPLEMENTAL STATISTICS, AND U S E OF SAMPLING

"191. Geographic scope of censuses. "193. Preliminary and supplemental statistics. "195. Use of sampling."

68 Stat. 1019.

SEC. 8. Section 131 of title 13, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: "§ 131. Collection and publication; five-year periods "The Secretary shall take, compile, and publish censuses of manufactures, of mineral industries, and of other businesses, including the distributive trades, service establishments, and transportation (exclusive of means of transportation for which statistics are required

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