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 58 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 286, 287-JUNE 27, 1944 SEC. 210. No part of any appropriation for the fiscal year 1945 contained in this or any other Act shall be paid to any person for the filling of any position for which he or she has been nominated after the Senate has voted not to approve of the nomination of said person. SEC. 211. The funds appropriated in the appropriation Acts for the fiscal year 1945 of the services mentioned in the title of the Act of June 16, 1942 (Public Law 607, Seventy-seventh Congress), shall be available for, and the heads of the executive departments con- cerned are authorized to prescribe, per diem rates of allowance, at rates not to exceed $7 per day, in lieu of subsistence to officers travel- ing on official business and away from their designated posts of duty, and to members of the services concerned (including officers, war- rant officers, contract surgeons, enlisted personnel, aviation cadets, and members of the Nurse Corps) when traveling by air under competent orders and on duty without troops. SEO. 212. No part of any appropriation contained in this or any other Act shall be used to pay in excess of $2 per volume for the current and future volumes of the United States Code Annotated or in excess of $3.25 per volume for the current or future volumes of the Lifetime Federal Digest. SEC. 213. After January 1, 1945, no part of any appropriation or fund made available by this or any other Act shall be allotted or made available to, or used to pay the expenses of, any agency or instrumentality including those established by Executive order after such agency or instrumentality has been in existence for more than one year, if the Congress has not appropriated any money specifically for such agency or instrumentality or specifically authorized the expenditure of funds by it. For the purposes of this section, any agency or instrumentality including those established by Executive order shall be deemed to have been in existence during the existence of any other agency or instrumentality, established by a prior Execu- tive order, if the principal functions of both of such agencies or instrumentalities are substantially the same or similar. When any agency or instrumentality is or has been prevented from using appro- priations by reason of this section, no part of any appropriation or fund made available by this or any other Act shall be used to pay the expenses of the performance by any other agency or instru- mentality of functions which are substantially the same as or similar to the principal functions of the agency or instrumentality so pre- vented from using appropriations, unless the Congress has specifically authorized the expenditure of funds for performing such functions. SEC. 214. This Act may be cited as the "Independent Offices Appro- priation Act, 1945". Approved June 27, 1944. [CHAPTER 287] AN ACT To give honorably discharged veterans, their widows, and the wives of disabled veterans, who themselves are not qualified, preference in employment where Federal funds are disbursed. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Veterans' Preference Act of 1944". SEC. 2. In certification for appointment, in appointment, in rein- statement, in reemployment, and in retention in civilian positions in all establishments, agencies, bureaus, administrations, projects, and departments of the Government, permanent or temporary, and in 387 Senate disapproval of nomination, effect. Per diem rates of allowance. 56 Stat. 359. 37 U. S. C., Supp. III, §§ 101-120. Post, pp. 682, 729. U. S. Code Anno- tated; Lifetime Fed- eral Digest. Availability, after Jan. 1, 1945, o0funds for certain agencies. Short title. June 27, 1944 [H. R. 4115] [Public Law 359] Veterans' Prefer- ence Act of 1944. Preference in Gov- ernment employment.

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