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 57 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 221 -JULY 12, 194 That the Federal Security Administrator may hereafter delegate to such officers and employees as he may designate for the purpose all his authority in connection with the transfer of personnel and house- hold goods and effects from one official station to another. Printing and binding, Federal Security Agency: For printing and binding (not appropriated for elsewhere) for the Federal Security Agency and all bureaus, boards, and constituent organizations thereof, including the purchase of reprints of scientific and technical articles published in periodicals and journals, $900,000, of which $567,700 shall be solely for printed forms, tabulating cards, and tabu- lating forms in the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance. In order that the Administrator may effectuate reorganization plans submitted and approved pursuant to the Reorganization Act of 1939, he may transfer to the foregoing appropriations under this title from funds available for administrative expenses of the con- stituent units of the Federal Security Agency such sums as represent a consolidation in the Office of the Administrator of any of the administrative functions of said constituent units: Provided, That no such transfer of funds shall be made unless the consolidation of administrative functions will result in a reduction of administrative salary and other expenses and such reduction is accompanied by savings in funds appropriated to the Federal Security Agency, which savings shall not be expended for any other purpose but shall be impounded and returned to the Treasury. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to transfer to the constituent organizations of the Federal Security Agency from appro- priations for traveling expenses and printing and binding, Federal Security Agency, such amounts as the Administrator may request; amounts so transferred shall be set up on the books of the Treasury under suitable titles and shall be available for the same purposes and subject to the same limitations as the appropriations from which transferred: Provided, That balances of any amounts so transferred, or any part of such balances shall, upon request of the Administrator, be retransferred to the appropriations for traveling expenses and printing and binding, Federal Security Agency. None of the moneys appropriated by this Act to the Social Security Board or to the Children's Bureau of the Department of Labor for grants-in-aid of State agencies to cover, in whole or in part, the cost of operation of said agencies, including the salaries and expenses of officers and employees of said agencies, shall be withheld from the said agencies of any States which have established by legislative enactment and have in operation a merit system and classification and compensation plan covering the selection, tenure in office, and com- pensation of their employees, because of any disapproval of their personnel or the manner of their selection by the agencies of the said States, or the rates of pay of said officers or employees. This title may be cited as the "Federal Security Agency Appropria- tion Act, 1944". TITLE III-EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION COMMISSION Salaries and expenses: For personal services in the District of Columbia, including not to exceed $1,000 for temporary experts and assistants in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, to be paid at a rate not exceeding $8 per day, and for personal services in the field; for furniture and other equipment and repairs thereto; lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals; stationery and supplies; traveling expenses; fees and mileage of witnesses; contract stenographic report- 513 Transfer of person- nel, etc. Delegation of au- thority. Transfer of funds. 53 Stat. 561, 1423; 54 Stat. 1231. 5U..C.i.133- 133t note; Supp. II, 133t. Withholding of moneys from State agencles, restriction. Citation of title. Employees' Com- pensation Commis- sion Appropriation Act, 1944. Post, p. 615. 81077°-4 4 -PT. I 88

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