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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 40 -APR. 5, 1941 including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; contract stenographic reporting services; purchase of books of refer- ence, and periodicals; expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with development, conservation, and use of the resources of the Nation; traveling expenses; payment of actual transportation expenses and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses of persons serving, while away from their homes without other compensation from the United States, in an advisory capacity to the Board; purchase of office equipment and supplies, without 41 U. .c.S. regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes when the amount Temporary employ- involved in any case does not exceed $50, and not to exceed $50,000 ment. for temporary employment of persons or organizations by contract or otherwise without regard to said section 3709, or classification laws, $701,390, of which not to exceed $40,000 shall be available for printing Proviso. and binding: Provided, That no part of the funds appropriated Restriction on use of funds. under this item shall be used for the performance of any functions or duties other than the functions heretofore authorized by law to be performed by the Federal Employment Stabilization Board. National defense activities: For all necessary expenses to enable the National Resources Planning Board during the fiscal year 1942 to continue to perform the functions or activities for the performance of which, during the fiscal year 1941, the National Resources Planning Board received allocations of funds from the appropriations "Emer- 54 Stat. 377, 297. gency fund for the President" contained in the Military Appropria- tion Act, 1941, and in the Act making appropriations for the Navy Department for the fiscal year 1941, including the objects for which and subject to the conditions under which such allocations were expended during the fiscal year 1941, $400,000. Total, Executive Office of the President, $2,886,620. EMERGENCY FUNDS FOR THE PRESIDENT Post, pp. 682, 813, 818. EMERGENCY FUND FOR THE PRESIDENT Expenditures. To enable the President, through appropriate agencies of the Government, to provide for emergencies affecting the national security and defense and for each and every purpose connected therewith, and to make all necessary expenditures incident thereto for any pur- pose for which the Congress has previously made appropriation or authorization and without regard to the provisions of law regu- lating the expenditure of Government funds or the employment of 41U.S.C.. persons in the Government service, such as section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and the civil service and classification laws; and any waiver hereunder of the provisions of any law regulating such expenditure or such employment shall not be exercised by any agency unless the allocation to such agency or subsequent action of the President in connection therewith permits any such waiver to be ontract authoriza- availed of; $100,000,000; and, in addition, the President is authorized, through such agencies, to enter into contracts during the fiscal year 1942 for the same purposes to an amount not exceeding $25,000,000: Peorto Congress. Provided, That an account shall be kept of all expenditures made or authorized hereunder, and a report thereon shall be submitted to the Congress on-June 30, 1942. Incurred obliga- For the payment of obligations incurred under the contract authori- tions. 54 Stat. 377. zation of $66,000,000 under this head in the Military Appropriation Act, 1941, $66,000,000. For the payment of obligations incurred under the contract authori- zation of $34,000,000 under this head in the Act making appropria- U Stat. 297. tions for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal [55 STAT.

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