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 818 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 591-DEC. 17, 1941 EMERGENCY FUNDS FOR THE PRESIDENT Ante, p. 94. [55 STAT. Emergency fund for the President: 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 purpose for which the Congress has previously made appropriation or authorization and without regard to the provisions of law regulating the expenditure of Gov- ernment funds or the employment of persons in the Government 41U. .C.§. service, such as section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and the civil service and classification laws; and any waiver hereunder of the pro- visions 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 availed of; $100,000,000, fiscal year Proeie0s. erovisos f 1942, to remain available until June 30, 1943: Provided, That in a confidentialnature. total amount of not exceeding $10.000,000 and within the purposes provided for in this paragraph, the President may authorize the expenditure of sums from this appropriation for objects of a confi- dential nature and in any such case the certificate of the expending agency as to the amount of the expenditure and that it is deemed inadvisable to specify the nature thereof shall be deemed a sufficient Report to Congress. voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended: Pro- vided further, That the President shall transmit to Congress, on or before January 10, 1944, a report of the expenditures of such sum of $100,000,000. Defense housing: For an additional amount to enable the President of the United States to provide temporary shelter in localities where for any reason arising out of the war a shortage of housing exists, fiscal year 1942, including the objects and subject to the conditions specified under this head in the Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Act Ante, p. 1 1941, approved March 1, 1941, $300,000,000, to remain available until June 30, 1943. OFFICE FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT Ante, p. 543. Provisos. Office of Price Ad- ministration. Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Ante, p. 543. Grants to institu- tions. For an additional amount for the Office for Emergency Manage- ment, fiscal year 1942, including the objects for which the appropria- tion under this heading in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1941, is available, and subject to the provisions and limitations thereof, except as hereinafter otherwise specified, $75,000,000: Provided, That not more than $5,000,000 of the amount appropriated in this para- graph shall be available for the Office of Price Administration except that in the event of the enactment hereafter into law of legislation for price control this limitation may be exceeded to the extent neces- sary to give effect to such legislation: Providedfurther, That moneys from this appropriation made available to the Coordinator of Inter- American Affairs (successor to the Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics), together with moneys previously made available to the Coordinator of Inter-Ameri- can Affairs, shall, without regard to the limitation of $1,600,000 speci- fied in the second proviso clause in the appropriation to the Office for Emergency Management contained in the Second Deficiency Appro- priation Act, 1941 (which proviso is amended in accordance here- with), be available to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, for the purpose of (a) furthering the national defense, (b) taking such action as may be necessary under the existing state of war, and (c) strengthening the bonds between the United States and the other American republics by (1) grants to governmental and private non- profit institutions and facilities in the United States and the other

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