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 77TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 32-APR. 1, 1941 OFFICE OF SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Railway Mail Service, traveling expenses: For an additional amount for Railway Mail Service, traveling expenses, fiscal year 1941, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1941, $7,500. Domestic air mail: For an additional amount for the inland transportation of mail by aircraft, fiscal year 1940, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Depart- ment Appropriation Act, 1940, $285,000. OFFICE OF THIRD ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Unpaid money orders more than one year old: For an additional amount for payment of domestic money orders after one year from the last day of the month of issue of such orders, fiscal year 1941, $60,000. DEPARTMENT OF STATE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Contingent expenses (departmental): For an additional amount for contingent expenses (departmental), fiscal year 1941, including the same objects specified under this head in the State Department Appropriation Act, 1941, $37,500, of which amount there may be expended not to exceed $10,000 for the purchase of typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including rental, exchange, and repair thereof. FOREIGN INTERCOURSE Salaries, Ambassadors and Ministers: During the period of the existing state of emergency proclaimed by the President on Sep- tember 8, 1939, any Ambassador or Minister whose salary as such is payable from the appropriation "Salaries, Ambassadors and Minis- ters" and who prior to appointment as Ambassador or Minister was legally appointed and served as a diplomatic or consular officer of career or as a Foreign Service officer, and who on account of emergent conditions abroad is unable properly to serve the United States at his regular post of duty, or on account of such emergent conditions abroad it shall be or has been found necessary in the public interest to terminate his appointment as Ambassador or Min- ister at such post, may be appointed or assigned to serve in any capacity in which a Foreign Service officer is authorized by law to serve, and, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the payment from such appropriation for the fiscal years 1941 and 1942 of the salary of such officer, while serving under such assignment, is hereby authorized: Provided, That no person, while serving under such emergency appointment or assignment, shall receive compen- sation in excess of $9,000 per annum while serving in continental United States or in excess of $10,000 per annum while serving else- where. The appropriation for "Salaries of Ambassadors and Ministers" contained in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1941, shall be available for the salary of an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Uruguay at the rate of $17,500 per annum. Transportation, Foreign Service: For an additional amount for transportation, Foreign Service, fiscal year 1941, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appro- priation Act, 1941, $330,000. 54 Stat. 74 . Post, p. 560. 53 Stat. 677. Post, p. 202. 54 Stat. 182 . Services during ex- istingemergency. 54 Stat. 2643. 50 U. S. C., app., prec. § 1 note. Proviso. Limitation on com- pensation. Ambassador to Uruguay. 54 Stat. 183. 54 Stat. 183 55 STAT.] 71

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