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 58 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 2 D SESS.-CH. 286 -JUNE 27, 1944 trator, National Housing Agency, in the performance of administra- tive and supervisory services relating to the constituent units of said Agency shall be transferred, from the funds available for the admin- istrative expenses of such constituent units for the fiscal year 1945, to this authorization for expenditure hereunder and shall be available until June 30, 1945, for all necessary expenses of said Office of the Administrator, including personal services and rent in the District of Columbia; printing and binding; purchase and exchange of law- books, books of reference; periodicals and newspapers (not to exceed $500); preparation, mounting, shipping, and installation of exhibits (not to exceed $500); maintenance, repair, and operation of motor- propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; not to exceed $5,000 for temporary employment of persons or organizations, by contract or otherwise, for legal or other special services without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and the civil service and classification laws; payment, when specifically authorized by the Administrator, of (1) actual transportation and other necessary expenses and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence to persons serving, while away from their homes, without other compensation from the United States, in an advisory capacity to the Agency and (2) not to exceed $1,500 for expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations con- cerned with the work of the Agency when specifically authorized by the Administrator; reimbursement for the actual cost of ferry fares and bridge, road, and tunnel tolls, and an allowance not to exceed 3 cents per mile for all travel performed in privately owned auto- mobiles by employees engaged in the inspection of property within the limits of their official posts of duty when such travel is per- formed in connection with such inspection: Provided, That notwith- standing the consolidation effected by Executive Order 9070, section 7 of the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1936, shall continue to apply to administrative expenses of and for the constituent units of the National Housing Agency mentioned in said section 7 and shall also apply to such expenses of said National Housing Agency in connection with the functions and purposes of said constituent units, and none of the funds made available by this Act for such adminis- trative expenses shall be obligated or expended unless and until an appropriate appropriation account shall have been established there- for pursuant to an appropriation warrant or a covering warrant, and all such expenditures shall be accounted for and audited in accordance with the Budget and Accounting Act, as amended: Pro- vided further, That the Administrator may, with the approval of the President of the United States, transfer to this authorization or to an authorization of a constituent unit from funds available for administrative expenses of the constituent units or the Office of the Administrator of the National Housing Agency such additional sums as represent a consolidation in the Office of the Administrator or in a constituent unit of any of the administrative functions of the National Housing Agency; but no such transfer of funds shall be made unless the consolidation will result in a reduction in manpower and a savings in administrative expenses, which savings shall not be used for administrative expenses but instead shall be returned to or remain in the funds from which administrative expenses are drawn under this authorization: Provided further, That a report of such transfers and the savings effected thereby shall be submitted to Congress in the annual budget. FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK ADMINISTRATION Salaries and expenses: Not to exceed a total of $10,853,825, to be derived from the same sources as the funds made available for 375 Temporary employ- ment. 41U. S.c. 15. Administrative ex- penses. 50 U. S. C., Supp. III, app. §601 note. 49 Stat. 1647. 15 U. S. C. §712a; Supp. III, 712a note. 42 Stat. 20. 31U.S.C.§1; Supp. IIl, S 16 etl 1. Transfers and sav- ings. Report to Congress.

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