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Volume 53 · 998

Public Law 76–259

Providing an appropriation for the month of July 1939, for the Petroleum Conservation Division, Department of the Interior.

Approved July 1, 1939

Statutory text

JOINT RESOLUTION

Providing an appropriation for the month of July 1939, for the Petroleum Conservation Division, Department of the Interior.

Resolved by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That there is hereby

Petroleum Conservation Division, Interior Department.

Appropriation for expenses, month of July 1939.

49 Stat. 30.

15 U. S. C., Supp. IV, §§ 715–715l.

Attendance at meetings.

Printing and binding.

appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $20,000 for the month of July 1939, for administering and enforcing the provisions of the Act approved February 22, 1935 (49 Stat. 30), entitled “An Act to regulate interstate and foreign commerce in petroleum and its products by prohibiting the shipment in such commerce of petroleum and its products produced in violation of State law, and for other purposes”, as amended, and to include necessary personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere without regard to the civil-service laws and regulations, traveling expenses, contract stenographic reporting services, rent, stationery, and office supplies, not to exceed $500 for necessary expenses of attendance at meetings and conferences concerned with the work of petroleum conservation when authorized by the Secretary of the Interior, not to exceed $2,500 for printing and binding, not to exceed $100 for books and periodicals, and for the hire, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles.

Approved, July 1, 1939.

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