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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 524 -JULY 25, 1942 Post,. 996. PAR. 5 . Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs: For the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, $28,638,000, Paymentofcontract including $3,000,000 for payment of obligations incurred under the obligations, contract authorization of $3,000,000 under the head, Office for Emer- 55Stat.543. gency Management, in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1941, and the unobligated portion of said contract authorization is hereby continued in effect until June 30, 1943; employment of aliens; entertainment of officials and others of the other American republics; payment of living allowances to employees with official headquarters located abroad in accordance with the Act of June 26, 1930 (5 U. S . 4Stat 8to8institu C. 118a), and regulations promulgated thereunder; grants of money tions. or property to governmental and public or private nonprofit institu- tions and facilities in the United States and the other American a(atuitous assist- republics; the free distribution, donation, or loan of publications, phonograph records, radio transcriptions, art works, motion-picture films, educational material, and such material and equipment as the Coordinator may deem necessary and appropriate to carry out his program; such other gratuitous assistance as the Coordinator deems advisable in the fields of the arts and sciences, education and travel, Transportation ex- publications, the radio, the press, and the cinema; paying the expenses of transporting employees of the Office of the Coordinator and their dependents and their effects from their homes to their places of employment in the other American republics, or from their homes in the other American republics to their places of employment, and return or from one official station in the other American republics to another for permanent duty when specifically authorized or approved by the Coordinator under regulations approved by the Auxilis.ry corpora- President; causing corporations to be created under the laws of the District of Columbia, any State of the United States, or any of the other American republics, to assist in carrying out the Coordinator's peraions outside program and capitalizing such corporations: Provided, That corpo- continental U. S. rations heretofore or hereafter created or caused to be created by the Coordinator primarily for operation outside the continental United States shall determine and prescribe the manner in which their obli- gations shall be incurred and their expenses allowed and paid with- out regard to the provisions of law regulating the expenditure, accounting for and audit of Government funds, and may, in their discretion, employ and fix the compensation of officers and employees outside the continental limits of the United States without regard to the provisions of law applicable to the employment and compensation port.alnci of officers and employees of the United States: Provided further, That the Coordinator shall transmit to the President immediately upon the close of the fiscal year a complete financial report of the cEmoergencieslhrn t .r. operations of such corporations: Providedfurther, That not to exceed $500,000 of this appropriation shall be available to meet emergencies of a confidential character to be expended under the direction of the Coordinator, who shall make a certificate of the amount of such expenditure which he may think it advisable not to specify and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the amount therein certified. PAR. 6. Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services: For the Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services, $2,440,000, including 4Puf c. 5. not to exceed $10,000 for the employment of aliens: Provided, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes shall not be construed to apply to any purchase made by or service rendered for the Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services when the amount involved does not exceed the sum of $100. Post, p.996. PAR. 7 . Office of Defense Transportation: For the Office of Defense Transportation, $7.216,515. [56 STAT.

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