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.(k) a Thd Board,isa,authorized to make -such expenditures from
<br />appropriations, or,._other, funds made. available to be necessary
<br />to perform =its functions, including expenditures. for personal services .
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<br />and rent at .the seat, of .government and elsewheref for ;suppliesaiid
<br />equipments for law, books: periodicals, newspapers, and-books of
<br />,reference: for ,printing, and bindings -for, aid or assistance to any
<br />department,. bureau, agency,, or instrumentality;.of the' Federal
<br />Government and,. of,,any-State or. political subdivision, thereof] and for
<br />necessary ,travel#g expenses for. any, of , its= members, officers, and
<br />employees while, they, are awayfromthe seat.W, government, or their
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<br />,official, headquarters, n ,upo official business, or for attendance at
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<br />meetings or aorr,entions. when such attendance'is authorized by the
<br />Board. The provisions of section :3709 of 'the Revised Statute's (U.S .0
<br />1931 edition, title.41, sec.5) shall not apply to any purchase made or
<br />service procured in carrying out :,the, provision of this section -when the
<br />aggregate amount involved is less than x300,
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<br />SECTION 3, The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized
<br />'to carry ozi is any appropriate area of the United States the activities
<br />that he is authorized to perform in the arid and semi -•arid °States under
<br />' the Act of Jvne 17,, 1902 (32 Stat 388); or under legislation supplementary
<br />thereto or-amendatory thereof,,
<br />SECTION The sections of this Act are hereby declared to be
<br />separable, and,in the event any one or'more, words,, phrases,, provisions.
<br />subsections or sections of this Act be held to be unconstitutional the,
<br />same shall not.affect. the' validity of other parts of this Act,
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