49 Stat. 774. 7 U. S. C. § 612c. July 1, 1941 [H. R. 3735] [Public Law 144] culture Appropriation Act, 1942. purposes", approved August 24, 1935, as amended, such sum to be in addition to any funds appropriated by such section 32 and to be subject to all the provisions of law relating to the expenditure of such funds. Approved, July 1, 1941. [CHAPTER 267] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Department of Agri- United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, namely: Post, pp. 550, 749. Post, p. 831. Provisos. Salary restriction. 42 Stat. 1488. 5 U. S. C. §§ 661674. Post, p. 613. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY SALARIES For the Secretary of Agriculture, Under Secretary of Agriculture, Assistant Secretary, and for other personal services in the District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $609,424: Provided, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations contained in this Act for the payment of personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the Assistant Secretary, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act as amended and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then Restriction not ap- only to the next higher rate: Provided further, That this restriction plicable in designated cases. 42 Stat. 1490. 5 U. S. C. § 666. shall not apply (1) to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or (2) to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act, (3) to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade, in the same or different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, (4) to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or (5) to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is alloStenographic recated: Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to contract for stenographic reporting services, and the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for such purposes: Provided Options to purchase further, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to expend from appropriations available for the purchase of lands not to exceed $1 for each option to purchase any particular tract or tracts of land: ProAllowances for liv vided further, That not to exceed $25,000 of the appropriations available for salaries and expenses of officers and employees of the Department of Agriculture permanently stationed in foreign countries may be used for payment of allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (5 porting services. lands. ing quarters abroad. 46 Stat. 818. Payments for rent, etc., in advance. Employees predicting, etc., future prices U. S. C. 118a): Provided further, That with the approval of the Sec- MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE For stationery, supplies, materials, and equipment, freight, express, and drayage charges, advertising, communication service, postage, washing towels, repairs, and alterations; for the maintenance, repair, and operation of one motorcycle and not to exceed three motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (including one for the Secretary of Agriculture, one for general utility needs of the entire Department, and one for the Forest Service) and purchase of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle at not to exceed $1,800, including the exchange value of one such vehicle, for official purposes only; for official travel expenses, including examination of estimates for appropriations in the field for any bureau, office, or service of the Department; and for other miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for and necessary for the practical and efficient work of the Department, which are authorized by such officer as the Secretary may designate, $99,341: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the payment of salaries of employees engaged in the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-transport vehicles, and that this appropriation shall be reimbursed from the appropriation made for any bureau or office for which such service is performed, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of May 11, 1922 (5 U. S. C. 543): Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture, during the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made, may maintain stocks of stationery, supplies, equipment, and miscellaneous materials sufficient to meet, in whole or in part, requirements of the bureaus and offices of the Department in the city of Washington and elsewhere, but not to exceed in the aggregate $200,000 in value at the close of the fiscal year, and the appropriations of such bureaus, offices, and agencies available for the purchase of stationery, supplies, equipment, and miscellaneous materials shall be available to reimburse the appropriation for miscellaneous expenses current at the time supplies are allotted, assigned, or issued, or when payment is received; for transfer for the purchase of inventory; and for transfer pursuant to the provisions of section 601 of the Act approved June 30, 1932 (31 U. S. C. 686): Provided further, That the appropriations made hereunder shall be available for the payment of salaries and expenses for purchasing, storing, handling, packing, or shipping supplies and blank forms, and there shall be charged proportionately as a part of the cost of supplies issued an amount to cover such salaries and expenses, and in the case of blank forms and supplies not purchased from this appropriation an amount to cover such salaries and expenses shall be Laboratory investigations. Provisos. of vehicles; reimburse- 42 Stat. 508. Maintenance of sta tionery, etc., stocks. Reimbursement. 47 Stat. 417. Purchasing, etc., supplies. house. Annual Budget, requirement. charged proportionately to the proper appropriation: Provided furUse of central store- ther, That the facilities of the central storehouse of the Department shall to the fullest extent practicable be used to make unnecessary the maintenance of separate bureau storehouse activities in the Department: Provided further, That a separate schedules of expenditures, transfers of funds, or other transactions hereunder shall be included Purchase of domes in the annual Budget: 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 commodities or materials produced outside of the United States. tic twine. Post, pp. 750, 831. Legal services. Provisos. Personal services. Transfer of funds. Post, pp. 441, 443. Salary limitation. Post, p. 831. Total, Office of the Secretary, $708,765. OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR For all legal services for the Department of Agriculture, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including clerical and other necessary expenses incident thereto, $209,535, together with not to exceed such amounts from other appropriations or authorizations as are provided in the schedules in the Budget for the fiscal year 1942 for such services and other expenses, which several amounts shall be transferred to and made a part of this appropriation: Provided, That there may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia not to exceed the total amount set up in the Budget schedules for such fiscal year for such purpose under the several appropriations herein involved: Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture, in his discretion, may transfer to this appropriation, from the funds available for the operations of the Rural Electrification Administration and the Farm Credit Administration, such sums as he may determine are properly allocable to the cost of providing legal services for these agencies, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including clerical and other necessary expenses incident thereto: Provided further, That no part of the funds provided in this appropriation shall be used to pay any salary for legal services in excess of that authorized by law for the Solicitor of the Department of Agriculture. OFFICE OF INFORMATION SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary expenses in connection with the publication, indexing, illustration, and distribution of bulletins, documents, and reports, including labor-saving machinery and supplies, envelopes, stationery and materials, office furniture and fixtures, photographic equipment and materials, artists' tools and supplies, telephone and telegraph service, freight and express charges; purchase and maintenance of bicycles; purchase of manuscripts; travel expenses; electrotypes, illustrations, and other expenses not otherwise provided for, $344,883, of which not to exceed $327,062 may be used for personal services in the District of Columbia. PRINTING AND BINDING For all printing and binding for the Department of Agriculture, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $1,550,111, including the purchase of reprints of scientific and technical articles Annual Report of published in periodicals and journals; the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Acts of January 12, Secretary. 28 Stat. 601. 34 Stat. 825. Farmers' bulletins. "Diseases Horse." of the "Diseases of Cattle." 1895 (44 U. S. C. 111, 212-220, 222, 241, 244), March 4, 1915 (7 U. S. C. 418), and June 20, 1936 (5 U. S. C. 108), and in pursuance Stat. 1550. of the Act approved March 30, 1906 (44 U. S. C. 214, 224), also including not to exceed $250,000 for farmers' bulletins, which shall be adapted to the interests of the people of the different sections of the country, an equal proportion of four-fifths of which shall be delivered to or sent out under the addressed franks furnished by the Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, as they shall direct, and also including printing and binding in cloth, with illustrations, twenty thousand copies of the Special Report on the Diseases of the Horse, the same to be revised and brought to date, of which fifteen thousand shall be for the use of the House of Representatives, and five thousand for the use of the Senate, $20,000, and including printing and binding in cloth, with illustrations, thirty-five thousand copies of the Special Report on the Diseases of Cattle, the same to be revised and brought to date, of which twenty-six thousand two hundred shall be for the use of the House of Representatives, and eight thousand eight hundred for the use of the Senate, $30,000, but not including work done at the field printing plants of the Forest Service authorized by the Joint Committee on Printing, in accordance with the Act approved March 1, 1919 (44 U. S. C. 111, 220): Provided, That the Secretary of Agriculture may transfer to this appropriation from the appropriation made for "Conservation marketing quotas, etc. and Use of Agricultural Land Resources" such sums as may be necessary for printing and binding in connection with marketing quotas under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, and from funds appropriated to carry into effect the terms of section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935 (7 U. S. C. 612c), as amended, such sums as may be necessary for printing and binding in connection with the activities under said section 32, and from funds appropriated for parity payments under section 303 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, such sums as may be necessary for printing and binding in connection with such payments: Provided further, That the total amount that may be transferred under the authority granted in the preceding proviso shall not exceed $600,000. Total, Office of Information, $1,894,994. LIBRARY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Salaries and expenses: For purchase and exchange of books of reference, lawbooks, technical and scientific books, periodicals, and for expenses incurred in completing imperfect series; not to exceed $1,200 for newspapers; for dues, when authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture, 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; for salaries in the city of Washington and elsewhere; for official travel expenses, and for library fixtures, library cards, supplies, and for all other necessary expenses, $102,000, of which amount not to exceed $73,810 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS PAYMENTS TO STATES, HAWAII, ALASKA, AND PUERTO RICO FOR Hatch Act: To carry into effect the provisions of an Act approved March 2, 1887 (7 U. Š. C. 362, 363, 365, 368, 377-379), entitled "An Act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States under the provisions of an Act approved July 2, 1862 (7 U. S. C. 301-308), and of the Acts 40 Stat. 1270. Post, p. 435. 52 Stat. 31. 7 U. S. C. ch. 35. 52 Stat. 45. 7 U.S. C. § 1303. Post, p. 436. Maximum amount. Post, p. 831. Support of stations. 24 Stat. 440. 12 Stat. 503. 34 Stat. 63. 43 Stat. 970. 45 Stat. 571. 45 Stat. 1256. 49 Stat. 1554. 46 Stat. 1520. Research, etc. 49 Stat. 436. Proviso. ments. Total. Post, p. 831. supplementary thereto", the sums apportioned to the several States, to be paid quarterly in advance, $720,000. Adams Act: To carry into effect the provisions of an Act approved March 16, 1906 (7 U. Š. C. 369), entitled "An Act to provide for an increased annual appropriation for agricultural experiment stations and regulating the expenditure thereof", and Acts supplementary thereto, the sums apportioned to the several States to be paid quarterly in advance, $720,000. Purnell Act: To carry into effect the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the more complete endowment of agricultural experiment stations", approved February 24, 1925 (7 U. S. C. 361, 366, 370, 371, 373-376, 380, 382), $2,880,000. Hawaii: To carry into effect the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to extend the benefits of certain Acts of Congress to the Territory of Hawaii", approved May 16, 1928 (7 U. S. C. 386–386b), $67,500. Alaska: To carry into effect the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to extend the benefits of the Hatch Act and the Smith-Lever Act to the Territory of Alaska", approved February 23, 1929 (7 U. S. C. 386c), $15,000; and the provisions of section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to extend the benefits of the Adams Act, the Purnell Act, and the Capper-Ketcham Act to the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes", approved June 20, 1936 (7 U. S. C. 369a), $10,000; in all, for Alaska, $25,000. Puerto Rico: To carry into effect the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to coordinate the agricultural experiment station work and to extend the benefits of certain Acts of Congress to the Territory of Puerto Rico", approved March 4, 1931 (7 U. S. C. 386d-386f), $50,000. Title I, Bankhead-Jones Act: For payments to States, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico, pursuant to authorizations contained in title I of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for research into basic laws and principles relating to agriculture and to provide for the further development of cooperative agricultural extension work and the more complete endowment and support of land-grant colleges", approved June 29, 1935 (7 U. S. C. 427-427g), $2,463,708: Provided, That of allot this amount $63,708 shall be allotted to States and Territories for which allotments under the Bankhead-Jones Act, title I, for the fiscal year 1942 are less than the allotment of the respective State or Territory in the fiscal year 1941, each such State or Territory to receive a total allotment under the Bankhead-Jones Act, title I, in 1942 at least equal to the allotment for the respective State or Territory in 1941. 24 Stat. 440; 34 Stat. 63; 43 Stat. 970; 45 Stat. 571, 1256; 46 Stat. 1520; 49 Stat. Form financial etc. In all, payments to States, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico for agricultural experiment stations, $6,933,708. SALARIES AND EXPENSES Administration of grants to States and coordination of research: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to enforce the provisions of the Acts approved March 2, 1887, March 16, 1906, February 24, 1925, May 16, 1928, February 23, 1929, March 4, 1931, and June 20, 1936, and Acts amendatory or supplementary thereto (7 U. S. C. 361-386f), relative to their administration and for the administration of an agricultural experiment station in Puerto Rico, including the employment of persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere, annual $161,735; and the Secretary of Agriculture shall prescribe the form statement, of the annual financial statement required under the above Acts, ascertain whether the expenditures are in accordance with their provisions, coordinate the research work of the Department of Agriculture and of |