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 57 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 1 ST SESS.-CH. 228 -JULY 12, 1943 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, publications, the radio, the press, and the cinema; expenses of transporting employees of the Office of the Coordinator 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, when specifically authorized by the Coordinator; travel expenses of dependents and transportation of personal effects, from their places of employment to their homes in the United States or in the possessions of the United States or in the other American republics, of employees for whom such expenses were paid by the Government on their assignment to posts in foreign countries; caus- ing corporations to be created under the laws of the District of Columbia, any State of the United States, or any of the other Amer- ican republics, to assist in carrying out the Coordinator's program and capitalizing such corporations: Provided,That corporations here- tofore 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 obligations shall be incurred and their expenses allowed and paid without 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 of officers and employees of the United States: Provided further, That the Coordi- nator shall transmit to the President immediately upon the close of the fiscal year a complete financial report of the operations of such corporations; $30,735,000, and in addition thereto the Coordinator is authorized to enter into contracts during the fiscal years 1944 and 1945 in an amount not exceeding $18,000,000 for obligations neces- sary for and incident to his program: Providedfurther, That not to exceed $300,000 of this appropriation shall be available to meet emer- gencies 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: Provided further, That notwithstanding the provisions of section 3679, Revised Statutes (31 U. S . C. 665) the Coordinator is authorized in making contracts for the use of international short-wave radio stations and facilities, to agree on behalf of the United States to indemnify the owners and operators of such radio stations and facilities, from such funds as may be hereafter appropriated for the purpose, against loss or damage on account of injury to persons or property arising from such use of said radio stations and facilities. 529 Transportation ex- penses. Creation of corpora- tions. Corporations for op- eration outside con- tinental limits of U. S. Annual financial re- port. Contracts. Emergencies of a confidential character. Use of international short-wave radio sta- tions. OFFICE OF DEFENSE TRANSPOWTATION Salaries and expenses: For all necessary expenses of the Office of P. 613. Defense Transportation, including traveling expenses (not to exceed $1,250,000, including reimbursement, at not to exceed 3 cents per mile, of employees for official travel performed by them in privately owned automobiles within the limits of their official stations); printing and binding (not to exceed $250,000, including not to exceed $10,000 for printing and binding outside the continental limits of the United States without regard to provisions of law governing printing and binding (44 U. S. C. 111)); $14650,000. 81077--44 -PT. I ---4

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