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 56 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 524 -JULY 25, 1942 gencies affecting the national security and defense and for each and every purpose connected therewith, and to make all necessary expendi- tures incident thereto for any purpose for which the Congress has pre- viously made appropriation or authorization and without regard to the provisions of law regulating the expenditure of Government funds or the employment of persons in the Government service, such as section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and the civil service and classifi- cation laws; and any waiver hereunder of the provisions of any law regulating such expenditure or such employment shall not be exer- cised by any agency unless the allocation to such agency or subse- quent action of the President in connection therewith permits any such waiver to be availed of; $100,000,000: Provided, That in a total amount of not exceeding $25,000,000 and within the purposes pro- vided for in this paragraph, the President may authorize the expendi- ture of sums from this appropriation for objects of a confidential 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 voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended: Provided further, That the foregoing appropriation and the foregoing limitation upon the amount which may be expended for objects of a confidential nature, are hereby respectively merged with the appropriation and with the limitation for the same purpose under this head in the Third Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1942: Provided further, That the President shall transmit to Congress, on or before January 10, 1944, a report of the expenditures from such total appropriation. BOARD OF ECONOMIC WARFARE Salaries and expenses: For all expenses necessary to enable the Board of Economic Warfare to carry out its functions and activities, including salaries of an Executive Director at $10,000 per annum and four assistants to the Executive Director at $9,000 per annum; per- sonal services (including aliens) in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; the acceptance and utilization of voluntary and uncom- pensated services; the temporary employment of persons or organi- zations by contract or otherwise without regard to the civil-service and classification laws or section 3709 of the Revised Statutes; pro- curement of necessary services, supplies, and equipment without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes, for use (1) outside the continental limits of the United States, including the rental of office space, and (2) within the United States when the aggregate amount involved in any one case does not exceed $300; traveling expenses, including (1) expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with the work of the Board, (2) actual transportation and other necessary expenses, and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence of persons serving while away from their homes without other compensation from the United States, in an advisory capacity to the Board, (3) payment to the Chairman and the Executive Director of the Board of actual and necessary transportation, subsistence, and other expenses incidental to the performance of their duties, and (4) expenses outside the United States without regard to the Standard- ized Government Travel Regulations and the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, as amended, or any limitation of law or regulation governing the payment of transportation and subsistence to military or naval personnel, and section 901 of the Act of June 29, 1936 (49 Stat. 2015); transfer of household goods and effects as provided by the Act of October 10, 1940 (54 Stat. 1105); preparation and transportation of the remains of officers and employees who die abroad or in transit, 65714°- 43 -PT. I --45 705 41U.S. C.§ 5. Provisos. Expenditures of a confidential nature. Post, p. 996. Merger of funds, etc. 55 Stat. 818 . Report to Congress. Post, p. 996. Executive Director and assistants. 41U.8.C. 6. Servies, supplies, and equipment. Traveling expenses. 44 Stat. 688. 5U.S.C. 821. Ante, p. 39. 46U.S. C. 1241. 5 U.S.C.I 73c-. Transportation of remains

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