53 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 248-JUNE 29, 1939 Export industries: To enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to investigate and report on domestic as well as foreign problems relating to the production, distribution, and marketing, insofar as they relate to the important export industries of the United States, including personal services, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding and com- puting machines, accessories and repairs, books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, and all other publications, rent outside of the District of Columbia, ice and drinking water for office purposes, and all other necessary incidental expenses connected therewith, $540,000. Salaries and expenses, Foreign Commerce Service: For the promo- tion and development of the foreign commerce of the United States and for carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March 3, 1927, as amended (15 U. S. C . 197-197f, 198), to establish in the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Com- merce, a Foreign Commerce Service of the United States, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, the compensation of a clerk or clerks for each commercial attache at a rate not to exceed $3,000 per annum for each person so employed, and to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled "China Trade Act, 1922", including rent outside of the District of Columbia, the pur- chase of necessary furniture and equipment, loss by exchange, sta- tionery and supplies, typewriting, adding, duplicating, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, law books, books of reference, and periodicals, uniforms, maps, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts newspapers (not exceeding $2,500), ice and drinking water for ofice purposes, and for every necessary incidental expense not included in the above, $791,000, of which not to exceed $19,300 shall be available immediately: Provided, That Foreign Commerce Service officers are authorized to enter into leases for office quarters, and payment in advance for rent, telephone, or other charges required by the customs of the country is hereby authorized: Provided further, That the purchase of supplies and equipment or the procurement of services in foreign countries may be made in the open market without compliance with section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (41 U. S . C. 5) in the manner common among businessmen when the aggregate amount of the purchase or the service does not exceed $100 in any instance. Customs statistics: For all expenses necessary for the operation of the section of customs statistics transferred to the Department of Commerce from the Treasury Department by the Act approved January 5, 1923 (15 U. S. C. 194), and expenses connected with the monthly publication of statistics showing the United States exports and imports by customs districts and destinations, including personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $100,000) and elsewhere; rent of or purchase of tabulating, punching, sorting, and other mechanical labor-saving machinery or devices, including adding, typewriting, billing, computing, mimeographic, multigraphing, pho- tostat, and other duplicating machines and devices, including their exchange and repair; telegraph and telephone service; freight, express, drayage; tabulating cards, stationery, and miscellaneous office supplies; books of reference and periodicals; furniture and equipment; ice, water, heat, light, and power; streetcar fare; and all other necessary incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, $403,000. Transportation of families and effects of officers and employees and allowances for living quarters: To pay the traveling expenses and expenses of transportation, under such regulations as the Secretary 909 Export industries. Investigations and reports. Foreign Commerce Service. 44 Stat. 1394. 15U.S.C.§§197- 197f, 198. Personal services. China Trade Act. 42 Stat. 849. 15 U. S.C. §§ 141- 162; Supp. IV, ch. 4 . Supplies. Provisos. Leases, etc. Open market pur- chase of supplies. It. S. § 37(09. 41U.S.. §5. Customs statistics. 42 Stat. 1109. 15 U.S.C. 194. Transportation of families and effects of personnel, etc.
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