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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 189-MAY 14, 1940 v A c, Foreign Service Buildings Fund. 22 U. S. C., Supp. V, I 296a. Contracts author- ized. Proris. Payments in foreign currency. Retroactive authori- zation. Emergencies, Dip- lomatic and Consular Service. Post, p. 650. FOREIGN SERVICE BUILDINGS FUND Foreign Service Buildings Fund: For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the Act of May 25, 1938, entitled "An Act to provide additional funds for buildings for the use of the diplomatic and consular establishments of the United States" (52 Stat. 441), including the initial alterations, repair, and furnishing of buildings acquired under said Act, $300,000, to remain available until expended, and in addition the Secretary of State is authorized to enter into contracts for such purpose during the fiscal year 1941 in an amount of not to exceed $100,000: Provided,That whenever a contract is made for the construction, alteration, or repair of a Foreign Service build- ing which requires payments in a foreign currency, the Secretary of State is authorized to purchase such currency at such times and in such amounts (within the total amount of the payments to be made under such contract) as he may deem necessary, the currency so pur- chased to be disbursed and accounted for at its cost price: Provided further,That this authorization shall also apply to the funds available to the Secretary of State under prior appropriations for the con- struction of Foreign Service buildings. EMERGENCIES ARISING IN THE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR SERVICE Emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service: To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, and to extend the commercial and with last illness and death of certain native employees, as authorized 5 i. s. C., SUpp. by and in accordance with the Act of July 15, 1939 (53 Stat. 1043); expenses of vice consulates and consular agencies for any of the fore- going objects; allowances for special instruction, education, and indi- vidual training of Foreign Service officers at home and abroad, not to Language study exceed $7,500; cost, not exceeding $500 per annum each, of the tuition of Foreign Service officers assigned for the study of the languages of elief, etc., of Asia and eastern Europe; for relief, protection, and burial of Ameri- merican seamen. can seamen in foreign countries, in the Panama Canal Zone, and in the Philippine Islands, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Ter- ritory 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 American seamen or citizens from shipwreck or other Consular prisons, catastrophe at sea; for expenses of maintaining in China, Egypt, Ethi- . opia, 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 purposes, and for the expenses of keeping, feeding, and transportation of prisoners and persons declared insane by any consular court in China, Egypt, Bringing home pe Ethiopia, Morocco, and Muscat; for every expenditure requisite for or ons charged with rsme. incident to the bringing home from foreign countries of persons charged with crime as authorized by section 5275 of the Revised Statutes (18 U. S. C. 659); and such other miscellaneous expenses as Nav Department, the President may deem necessary; $1,226,000: Provided, That this eimbursement. appropriation shall be available for reimbursement of appropriations Post, p. 650. 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, subsistence, allowances, and transporta- tion 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. [54 STAT. I

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