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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 180 -APR. 27, 1938 Corps to serve as custodians, under the immediate supervision of the Secretary of State or the chief of mission, whichever the Secretary of State shall direct, at embassies, legations, or consulates of the United States located in foreign countries. Contingent ex- Contingent expenses, Foreign Service: For stationery; blanks; penses, Foreign Serv- stationery; ice. ore record and other books; seals; presses; flags; signs; repairs and any alterations; repairs, preservation, and maintenance of Government- owned diplomatic and consular properties in foreign countries, includ- ing water, materials, supplies, tools, seeds, plants, shrubs, and similar objects; newspapers (foreign and domestic); freight; postage; tele- Vehicles. grams; advertising; ice and drinking water for office purposes; pur- chase, maintenance, and hire of motor-propelled or horse-drawn pas- senger-carrying vehicles, and purchase, maintenance, and hire of other Commissar serv- passenger-carrying vehicles; funds for establishment and maintenance of commissary service; uniforms; furniture, household furniture and Government build- furnishings, except as provided by the Act of May 7, 1926, as amended ngs abroad. (22 U. S . C . 292-299), for Government-owned or rented buildings, 22U. . c. § 292- when, in the judgment of the Secretary of State, it would be in the 299 . public interest to do so, not to exceed $100,000; typewriters and exchange of same; maintenance and rental of launch for embassy in Dispatch agencies. Turkey, not exceeding $3,500, including personnel for operation; rent and other expenses for dispatch agencies at London, New York, San Attendance at con- Francisco, Seattle, and New Orleans; traveling expenses, including attendance at trade and other conferences or congresses under orders of the Secretary of State as authorized by the Act approved February 46 Sta. 1209. 23, 1931 (22 U. S . C. 16); loss by exchange; payment in advance for telephone and other similar services, expenses of vice consulates and consular agencies for any of the foregoing objects; allowances for special instruction, education, and individual training of Foreign Language study. Service officers at home and abroad, not to exceed $7,500; cost, not exceeding $500 per annum each, of the tuition of Foreign Service offi- cers assigned for the study of the languages of Asia and eastern Relief, etc., of Europe; for relief, protection, and burial of American seamen in Americanseamen, foreign countries, in the Panama Canal Zone, and in the Philippine Islands, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, in Puerto Rico, and in the Virgin Islands, and for expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of the services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing Ameri- can seamen or citizens from shipwreck or other catastrophe at sea; Consular prisons, for expenses of maintaining in China, the former Ottoman Empire, etare of insane. gypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, and Muscat institutions for incarcerating American convicts and persons declared insane by any consular court, rent of quarters for prisons, ice and drinking water for prison pur- poses, and for the expenses of keeping, feeding, and transportation of prisoners and persons declared insane by any consular court in China, the former Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, and Muscat; Bringing home per- for every expenditure requisite for or incident to the bringing home sons charged with crime. r w l t from foreign countries of persons charged with crime as authorized R. S .§5275. by section 5275 of the Revised Statutes (18 U. S. C. 659); and such 18U. S.C. 59. other miscellaneous expenses as the President may deem necessary; Provieo. $1,158,500: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for reimbursement. reimbursement of appropriations for the Navy Department, in an amount not to exceed $35,000, for materials, supplies, equipment, and services furnished by the Navy Department, including pay, subsist- ence, allowances, and transportation of enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps who may be assigned by the Secretary of the Navy, upon request of the Secretary of State, to embassies, legations, or consular offices of the United States located in foreign countries. 252 [52 STAT.

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