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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 633-AUG. 9, 1939 Retired pay, ormer Retired pay, former life-saving service: For an additional amount lifef isaving service. for retired pay, former life-saving service, 1935, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appro- 48 Stat. 432. priation Act, 1935, $328.12. Superintendentu.S. Not to exceed $2,500 of the amount appropriated for "Contingent Coast Guard Acad- emy, contingencies. Expenses, Coast Guard", in the Treasury Department Appropria- Ante, p.6. tion Act, 1940, is hereby made available for contingencies for the Superintendent, United States Coast Guard Academy, as authorized Ante, p. 582. by the Act of April 20, 1939. tiona arplanes. dd The unexpended balances of the appropriations under the head- ings "Air station, Elizabeth City, North Carolina", "Air station, San Francisco, California", and "Additional airplanes", fiscal years 1938 and 1939, contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation 52Stat.. Act, fiscal year 1938, are hereby continued available for the same of the Co- purposes until June 30, 1940. mandant, salaries. The appropriation for salaries, Office of the Commandant, United States Coast Guard, for the fiscal year 1940, and such portion of the appropriation for salaries, Bureau of Lighthouses, fiscal year 1940, as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget with the approval of the President may determine, shall be transferred and consolidated into an appropriation "Salaries, Office of Commandant, United States Limitation. Coast Guard, 1940, subject, however, to the limitation contained in Ante, p. 663. the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1940, upon the appro- priation for salaries, Office of the Commandant, United States Coast Guard". PROCUREMENT DIVISION, BRANCH OF SUPPLY Salaries and ex- penses. Ante, p. 673. Transfer of funds to Branch of Supply. Personal services. General supply fund. 45 Stat. 1342. 41U.S.C. 7c. Strategic and critical materials. Ante, p. 811. Salaries and expenses: The text of the appropriation for Salaries and Expenses, Branch of Supply, Procurement Division, contained in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1940, is modified as follows: (a) The first proviso is hereby amended to read as follows: "Pro- vided, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed during the fiscal year 1940 to transfer to this appropriation from any appropriations or funds available to the several departments and establishments of the Government for the fiscal year 1940 such amounts as may be approved by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, not to exceed the sum of (a) the amount of the annual compensation of employees who may be transferred or detailed to the Procurement Division, Branch of Supply, respectively, from any such department or establishment, where the transfer or detail of such employees is incident to a transfer of a function or functions to that Division, and (b) such amount as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget may determine to be necessary for expenses other than personal services incident to the proper carrying out of functions so transferred." (b) The fourth proviso limiting to $700,000 the amount which shall be available from the general supply fund for personal services, is hereby amended to read as follows: 'Provided further, That not to exceed $2,000,000 shall be available from the general supply fund during the fiscal year 1940 for personal services. ' General supply fund: To increase the general supply fund estab- lished by the Act approved February 27, 1929 (41 U. S. C . 7c), as amended, fiscal year 1940, $2,000,000. Strategic and critical materials: For all necessary expenses for the acquisition, transportation, maintenance, storage, and rotation of strategic and critical materials in accordance with sections 1 to 6, inclusive, of the Act of June 7,1939 (Public, Numbered 117, Seventy- sixth Congress), including personal services and rental and mainte- 1326 [53 STAT.

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