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 78TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 301-JUNE 28,1944 used to pay the compensation of any person employed by said Com- mittee on Fair Employment Practice who issues or attempts to enforce any rule, regulation, or order which repeals, amends, or modifies any law enacted by the Congress. OFFICE OF THE COORDINATOR OF INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS Salaries and expenses: For all necessary expenses of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, including not to exceed $15,000 for the temporary employment of persons or organizations by contract or otherwise without regard to the civil-service and classi- fication laws; employment of aliens; travel expenses, not to exceed $175,000; printing and binding, not to exceed $12,000; entertainment of officials and others of the other American republics; grants of money, property, or services to governmental and public or private nonprofit institutions and facilities in the United States and the other American republics; the free distribution, donation, or loan of pub- lications, phonograph records, radio scripts, radio transcriptions, art works,motion-picmotion-picturemotion-picture films, educational mate- rial, and other material and equipment; such other gratuitous assist- ance as the Coordinator may deem necessary and appropriate to carry out his program; 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 heretofore or hereafter created or caused to be created by the Coordi- nator 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 conti- nental 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 Coordinator shall transmit to the President immediately upon the close of the fiscal year a complete financial report of the operations of such corporations; $18,000,000, of which $4,000,000 is for the pay- ment of obligations incurred under the contract authorization of $18,000,000 under this head in the National War Agencies Appropria- tion Act, 1944, and in addition to said appropriation the Coordinator is authorized to enter into contracts during the fiscal year 1945 in an amount not exceeding $2,500,000 for obligations necessary for and incident to his program: Provided further, That not to exceed $200,000 of this appropriation shall be available to meet emergencies 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 sufcient voucher for the amount 537 Poet, p. 874. Temporary employ- ment. Free distribution of publications, educa- tional material, etc. Transportation ex- penses. Creation of corpo- rations. Corporations for op- eratlon outside conti- nental limits of U. 8. A nnual HInatnr i re- port. 57 Stat. 5X. Contracts. Ememnes of a onfidntia icharcter. 58 STAT.]

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