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 57 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 1 ST SESS.-CH. 228-JULY 12, 1943 bia; living and quarters allowances in accordance with the standard- ized regulations approved by the President December 30, 1942; necessary advance payments in foreign countries; and the employment, on a contract or fee basis, of persons, firms, or corporations for the performance of special services, including legal services, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes: Provided, That when vessels are transferred or assigned permanently by the War Shipping Administrator to other departments or agencies of the United States Government for operation by them, funds for the operation, loading, discharging, repairs, and alterations, or other use of such vessels may be transferred from this fund to the applicable appropriations of the department or agency concerned in such amounts as may be approved by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget. Maritime training fund: For the training, recruitment, repatria- tion, rehabilitation, and placement of personnel for the manning of the merchant marine, and the establishment and maintenance of poli- cies respecting maritime labor relations and conditions, and for admin- istrative expenses (not to exceed $2,600,000) including all the adminis- trative items of expenditure for which the appropriation '"War Shipping Administration, Revolving Fund" is available, $72,000,000, of which $5,500,000 shall be available for payment of obligations incurred in the fiscal year 1943. State Marine Schools: To reimburse the State of California, $50,000; the State of Maine, $50,000; the State of Massachusetts, $50,000; the State of New York, $50,000; and the State of Pennsylvania, $50,000; -for expenses incurred in the maintenance and support of marine schools in such States as provided in the Act authorizing the establishment of marine schools, and so forth, approved March 4, 1911, as amended (34 U. S . C. 1121 -1123) ; and for the maintenance and repair of vessels loaned by the United States to the said States for use in connection with such State marine schools, $100,000; in all, $350,000. GENERAL PROVISIONS (a) The foregoing appropriations for the constituent agencies under the Office for Emergency Management shall be available, in addition to the objects specified under each head, and without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes (except as otherwise specified herein), for personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; con- tract stenographic reporting services; lawbooks, books of reference newspapers and periodicals; maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; acceptance and utiliza- tion of voluntary and uncompensated services; and traveling expenses, including expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations con- cerned with the work of the agency from whose appropriation such expenses are paid, and actual transportation and other necessary expenses, and not to exceed $10 (unless otherwise specified) per diem in lieu of subsistence, of persons serving while away from their per- manent homes or regular places of business in an advisory capacity to or employed by any of such agencies without other compensation from the United States, or at $1 per annum, and including (upon author- ization or approval of the head of any of such agencies) travel expenses to and from their homes or regular places of business in accordance with the Standardized Government Travel Regulations including travel in privately owned automobile (and including per diem in lieu of subsistence at place of employment), of persons employed inter- mittently away from their homes or regular places of business as con- sultants and receiving compensation on a per diem when actually employed basis. Special services. 41 U.S.C. 15. Transfer of funds for operation of vessels. Personnel for man- ning merchant ma- rine. Maintenance of ma- rine schools and ves- sels. 36 Stat. 1353 . 34 U.. C., Bupp. II, §I 1121, 1122. Post, p. 613. 41 U. .C. 16.

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