space found by the Commissioner necessary for carrying out its approved plan.

(4) For the cost, including the necessary equipment and supplies, of vocational courses and related or other necessary instruction provided by such agencies for out-of-school rural youth who have attained the age of seventeen and who file a registration card with a public employment office and for nonrural youth who otherwise meet the above requirements whose training is not feasible under subdivisions (1) and (3) hereof, such courses and instruction to be provided pursuant to plans submitted by such agencies and approved by the Commissioner, $10,000,000.

(5) For the cost of vocational courses and related or other necessary instruction provided by such agencies for young people employed on work projects of the National Youth Administration, such courses and instruction to be provided pursuant to plans submitted by such agencies and approved by the Commissioner, $7,500,000: Provided, That the amount allotted to any agency shall be available for expenditure for purchase or rental of additional equipment and rental of additional space found by the Commissioner to be necessary for carrying out the approved plan.

The Commissioner shall carry out the purposes of these appropriations under regulations promulgated by him and approved by the President, and there shall be available out of these appropriations an amount determined by the Federal Security Administrator not exceeding 1 per centum of each such appropriation for expenses of administration to enable the Commissioner most efficiently to carry out the purposes of the several appropriations, the total sum to be available for general administration expenses, including printing and binding, equipment and supplies (including purchase of materials and equipment necessary for visual education), traveling expenses, including not to exceed $5,000 for expenses of persons (other than Federal employees) requested to attend conferences held in the District of Columbia and elsewhere whose travel is approved at the direction of the Commissioner, salaries for personal services, and rents, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere: Provided, That the Federal Security Administrator may transfer out of the sum available for administration expenses not exceeding $37,500 to the office of the Administrator for use in carrying out the purposes of these appropriations: Provided further, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5) shall not be construed to apply to any purchase with these funds when the aggregate amount involved in such purchase does not exceed the sum of $100: Provided further, That all functions of the Commissioner hereunder shall be performed under the direction and supervision of the Federal Security Administrator.

No trainee under the foregoing appropriations shall be discriminated against because of sex, race, or color; and where separate schools are required by law for separate population groups, to the extent needed for trainees of each such group, equitable provision shall be made for facilities and training of like quality.

Further development of vocational education: For an additional amount for carrying out the provisions of sections 1, 2, and 3 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the further development of voca

tional education in the several States and Territories", approved June 8, 1936, $400,000.

Cooperative vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry: For an additional amount for carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry", approved June 2, 1920, as amended, $319,500.

Approved, October 9, 1940.

[PUBLIC LAW 647-77TH CONGRESS]

[CHAPTER 475-2D SESSION]

[H. R. 7181]

AN ACT

Making appropriations for the Department of Labor, the Federal Security Agency, and related independent agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1943, and for other purposes.

Loans to students in technical and professional fields (national defense): To assist students (in such numbers as the Chairman of the War Manpower Commission shall determine) participating in accelerated programs in degree-granting colleges and universities in engineering, physics, chemistry, medicine (including veterinary), dentistry, and pharmacy, whose technical or professional education can be completed within two years, as follows:

Loans: For loans to students whose technical or professional education can be completed within two years to enable them to pursue college courses, who attain and continue to maintain satisfactory standards of scholarship, who are in need of assistance, and who agree in writing to participate, until otherwise directed by said Chairman, in accelerated programs of study, in any of the fields authorized hereunder, and who agree in writing to engage, for the duration of the wars in which the United States is now engaged, in such employment or service as may be assigned by officers or agencies designated by said Chairman, such loans to be made by such colleges or universities or public or college-connected agencies from funds paid to them upon estimates submitted by them as to the amounts necessary therefor, $5,000,000: Provided, That in case it shall be found that any payment to any such college, university, or public or college-connected agency is in excess of the needs thereof for the purposes hereof, refund of such excess shall be made to the Treasurer of the United States and the amount thereof credited to this appropriation. Loans hereunder shall be made in amounts not exceeding tuition and fees plus $25 per month and not exceeding a total of $500 to any one student during any twelve-month period, said loans to be evidenced by notes executed by such students payable to the Treasurer of the United States at a rate of interest at 22 per centum per annum. Repayments of such loans shall be made through the colleges, universities, or other agencies negotiating the loans and covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: Provided, That indebtedness of students who, before completing their courses, are ordered into military service during the present wars under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, or who suffer total and permanent disability or death, shall be canceled. The foregoing loan program shall be administered in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Commissioner of Education with the approval of the Chairman of the War Manpower Commission.

Approved, July 2, 1942.

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[PUBLIC LAW 726-77TH CONGRESS]

[CHAPTER 575-2D SESSION]

[H. R. 7273]

AN ACT

To amend section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide books for the adult blind", approved March 3, 1931, as amended.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide books for the adult blind", approved March 3, 1931, as amended (2 U. S. C. 135a), is amended by striking out the "$350,000" wherever occurring therein and inserting in lieu thereof the figures "$370,000", and by striking out the period at the end of the first sentence and inserting in lieu thereof a comma and the following: "and not to exceed $20,000 thereof shall be expended for the maintenance and replacement of the Governmentowned reproducers for sound-reproduction records for the blind." SEC. 2. This Act shall be applicable with respect to the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, and for each fiscal year thereafter.

Approved, October 1, 1942.

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[PUBLIC LAW 766-77TH CONGRESS]

[CHAPTER 632-2D-SESSION]

[6. 2693]

AN ACT

To provide for the instruction of meteorological students in weather forecasting.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Commerce is authorized, within the limits of available appropriations made by the Congress, to establish and provide not to exceed fifty scholarships annually for furnishing instruction and training in weather forecasting technique for students of meteorology. Such instruction and training shall be secured by contracts for tuition and laboratory charges only with educational institutions which offer accredited graduate professional courses in meteorological science. Such scholarship students shall be selected pursuant to such regulations as to desirable qualifications, ability, and aptitude for weather forecasting as the Weather Bureau, Department of Commerce, may from time to time prescribe, including regulations requiring students participating therein to agree to enter Government employ as meteorologists in the Weather Bureau or as officers in the military services after graduation and completion of training. No scholarship shall be granted under this Act after the termination of the wars in which the United States is now engaged or such earlier date as the Congress by concurrent resolution may fix, and any contract or other obligation entered into under this Act shall expire not later than one year after such termination or such earlier date, as the case may be: Provided, That no alien shall receive training under the provisions of this Act. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Approved, October 29, 1942.

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