62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2 D SESS.-CH. 467-JUNE 14, 1948 INDEX TO STATE LEGISLATION Salaries and expenses: To enable the Librarian of Congress to pre- pare an index to the legislation of the several States, together with a supplemental digest of the more important legislation, as authorized and directed by the Act entitled "An Act providing for the prepara- tion of a biennial index to State legislation", approved February 10, 1927 (2 U. S . C . 164, 165), including personal and other services within 44 S t at. 10 66 . and without the District of Columbia, including not to exceed $2,500 for special and temporary services at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, travel, necessary material and apparatus, and for printing and binding the indexes and digests of State legislation for official distribution only, and other printing and binding incident to the work of compila- tion, stationery, and incidentals, $25,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1950. UNION CATALOGUES Salaries and expenses: To continue the development and mainte- nance of the Union Catalogues, including personal services within and without the District of Columbia (and not to exceed $700 for special and temporary services, including extra special services of regular employees, at rates to be fixed by the Librarian), travel, necessary material and apparatus, stationery, photostat supplies, and incidentals, $64,000. INCREASE OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS General increase of Library: For purchase of books, miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, photo-copying supplies and photo-copy- ing labor, and all other material for the increase of the Library, including payment in advance for subscription books and society pub- lications, and for freight, commissions, and traveling expenses not to exceed $25,000, including expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian in the interest of collections, and all other expenses incidental to the acquisition of books, miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, and all other material for the increase of the Library by purchase, gift, bequest, or exchange, $300,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1950. Increase of the law library: For the purchase of books and for legal periodicals for the law library, including payment for legal society publications and for freight, commissions, traveling expenses not to exceed $2,500, including expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian in the interest of collections, and all other expenses incidental to the acqui- sition of lawbooks, and all other material for the increase of the law library, $95,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1950. Books for the Supreme Court: For the purchase of books and periodicals for the Supreme Court, to be a part of the Library of Congress, and purchased by the Marshal of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $24,000. BOOKS FOR ADULT BLIND To enable the Librarian of Congress to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide books for the adult blind", approved March 3, 1931 (2 U. S. C. 135a), as amended, $974,000, 46 Stat. 1487 . including not exceeding $50,000 for personal services, not exceeding $200,000 for books in raised characters, and the balance remaining for sound-reproduction records and for the purchase, maintenance, 68706-49--PT . I 28 433
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