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 55 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 1 ST SESS.-CH. 591-DEC. 17, 1941 ARMY OF THE PHILIPPINES For all expenses necessary for the mobilization, operation, and maintenance of the Army of the Philippines, including expenses con- nected with calling into the service of the armed forces of the United States the organized military forces of the Government of the Com- monwealth of the Philippines, and expenditures incident to pay, allow- ances, operation, maintenance, and other activities of units and per- sonnel of said organized military forces, and for the emergent mobilization and training of such forces, may be made without regard to the provisions of law regulating the expenditure of or accounting for funds of the United States but shall be expended and accounted for in a manner prescribed by the President of the United States, $269,000,000, to remain available until June 30, 1943, which shall be available for payment to the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines upon its written request, either in advance of or in reimbursement for all or any part of the estimated or actual cost, as authorized by the Commanding General, United States Army Forces in the Far East, of necessary expenses for the purposes aforesaid, except that none of such moneys shall be available for the pay and allowances of personnel of said organized military forces of the Gov- ernment of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, when serving in the Philippine Islands, in excess of the pay and allowances authorized by Philippine law, executive orders, and regulations which were in effect November 1, 1941, and of which not to exceed $15,000,000 may be restored to the Emergency Fund for the President, created by the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1942, in reimbursement of a like amount advanced therefrom: Provided, That any expenditures heretofore or hereafter made from said appropriation "Emergency Fund for the President" for the purposes and in the manner author- ized under this heading in this Act, are hereby authorized and vali- dated: Provided further, That any appropriation for the Military Establishment may be applied to the purposes aforesaid subject to reimbursement by transfer from this appropriation of the value of such property or service as may have been or may thereafter be applied to such purposes and any amount so transferred shall be available for expenditure for the purposes of the appropriation so reimbursed during the fiscal year in which such amount was received and the ensuing fiscal year. GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 102. Whenever the President deems it to be in the interest of national defense, he may authorize the Secretary of War to sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, to the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States, any defense article procured from funds appropriated for the Military Establishment prior to or since March 11, 1941, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March 11, 1941 (Public, Numbered 11). The value of defense articles disposed of in any way under the authority of this paragraph shall not exceed $2,000,000,000, and the limitation of $1,300,000,000 fixed by section 3 (a) (2) of such Act is hereby reduced to $800,000,000 and this latter limitation shall not be applicable to the War Department after the date of the enactment of this Act. SEc. 103. The Secretary of War is authorized to utilize any appro- priation available for the Military Establishment, under such regula- tions as he may prescribe, for all expenses incident to the maintenance, pay, and allowances of prisoners of war, other persons in Army custody whose status is determined by the Secretary of War to be 813 Mobilization, etc., expenses. A vailability. Emergency Fund for the President, reimbursement. Ante, p. 94. Provisos. Validation of ex- penditures. Ante, p. 94. Transfer of funds. Disposal of defense articles. Ante, p. 31. Limitation on value. Ante, p. 31. Inapplicability to War Department. Prisoners of war, etc.

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