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 58 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 2 D SESS.-CH. 294-JUNE 28, 1944 President's War Relief Control Board: For all expenses necessary to enable the President's War Relief Control Board to continue to administer section 8 (b) of the Neutrality Act of 1939 and to perform the functions vested in it by Executive Order 9205 of July 25, 1942, including personal services in the District of Columbia; fees for professional or expert services at rates to be determined by the Secretary of State, but not in excess of $25 per day; actual trans- portation and other necessary expenses, and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence of persons serving while away from their homes in an advisory capacity, without other compensation from the United States, or at $1 per annum; expenses of attendance at meet- ings and conferences concerned with the work of the Board; printing and binding; purchase of books, newspapers, and periodicals; and stenographic reporting services by contract, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, $50,000. FOREIGN SERVICE Salaries, ambassadors and ministers: For salaries of ambassadors and ministers appointed by the President, with the advice and con- sent of the Senate, to such countries and at such salary rates, not exceeding $10,000 per annum each for ministers (except one at not exceeding $12,000 per annum) and not exceeding $17,500 per annum each for ambassadors, as the President may determine, notwith- standing the provisions of any other law, $640,000, including also salaries as authorized by section 1740, Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act of April 24, 1939 (22 U. S. C . 3, 121): Provided, That no salary shall be paid to any official receiving any other salary from the United States Government: Provided further, That during the continuance of the present war and for six months after its termina- tion, any ambassador or minister whose salary as such is payable from the appropriation "Salaries, Ambassadors and Ministers" and who, prior to appointment as ambassador or minister was legally appointed and served as a diplomatic or consular officer or as a Foreign Service officer, and who, on account of emergent conditions abroad, is unable properly to serve the United States at his regular post of duty, or, on account of such emergent conditions abroad, it shall be or has been found necessary in the public interest to termi- nate his appointment as ambassador or minister at such post, may be appointed or assigned to serve in any capacity in which a Foreign Service officer is authorized by law to serve, and, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the payment from such appropria- tion for the fiscal year 1945 of the salary of such officer, while serving under such assignment, is hereby authorized: Providedfurther, That no person, while serving under such emergency appointment or assignment, shall receive compensation in excess of $9,000 per annum while serving in the continental United States or in excess of $10,000 per annum while serving elsewhere. Salaries, Foreign Service officers: For salaries of Foreign Service officers as provided in the Act approved February 23, 1931, as amended by the Act of April 24, 1939 (22 U. S. C. 3, 3a), including salaries of such officers for the period actually and necessarily occu- pied in receiving instructions and in making transits to and from their posts, and while awaiting recognition and authority to act in pursuance with the provisions of section 1740 of the Revised Statutes (22 U. S. C . 121); and salaries of Foreign Service officers or vice consuls while acting as charges d'affaires ad interim or while in charge of a consulate general or consulate during the absence of the principal officer (22 U. S . C . 20); $4,750,000. 397 President's War Re- lief Control Board. 54 Stat. 8. 22U. S. 0. §448 (b). 50 U. S. C., Supp. III, app., note preo. 51. 41U.S.C. 5. Post, pp. 611, 869. 53 Stat. 583. Double-salary re- striction. Assignments during emergency. Limitation on oom- pensation. 46Stat.1207;53Stat. 583.

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