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 58 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 2 D SESS.-CH. 301 -JUNE 28,1944 may be authorized by the Director for security when authorized per- sonnel are required to transport secret documents or hand baggage con- taining highly technical and valuable equipment; and not to exceed $6,000 for the entertainment of officials of other countries, $120,000,000: Provided, That there may be paid from this appropriation to the National Academy of Sciences a sum not exceeding $150,000 for the administrative and overhead expenses incurred by said academy dur- ing the fiscal year 1945 in carrying out research projects for Federal agencies, and such sum shall be in addition to any reimbursement other- wise provided for: Providedfurther That notwithstanding the provi- sions of section 3679 of the Revised Statutes (31 U. S. C . 665), the Office of Scientific Research and Development is authorized, in making contracts for the conduct of investigations or experiments, to agree on behalf of the United States to indemnify the contractor from such funds as may be hereafter appropriated for the purpose, against loss or damage to persons or property arising from such work: Provided further, That funds available to any agency of the Government for scientific, technical, or medical research, development, testing, con- struction of test models, experimental production, or the provision of facilities therefor, shall be available for transfer with the approval of the head of the agency involved, in whole or in part, to the Office of Scientific Research and Development, and funds so transferred shall be expendable in the same manner as this appropriation: Provided further, That the Office of Scientific Research and Development may sell, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, under such terms and condi- tions as it may deem advisable, devices, scientific or technical equip- ment, models, or other articles of personalty, developed, constructed, produced in or purchased for the performance of its scientific or medi- cal contracts, except articles acquired for administrative purposes, and all receipts from such dispositions shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. OFFICE OF WAR INFOBMATION Salaries and expenses: For all necessary expenses of the Office of War Information, including the employment of a Director and Associate Director at not exceeding $12,000 and $10,000 per annum, respectively; not to exceed $75,000 for the temporary employment in the United States of persons by contract or otherwise without regard to the civil service and classification laws; employment of aliens; employment of persons outside the continental limits of the United States without regard to the civil service and classification laws; travel expenses (not to exceed $400,000 for travel within the continental limits of the United States); expenses of transporting employees and their effects from their homes to their places of employment in a foreign country and return to their homes in the United States; purchase of radio time and purchase or rental of facilities for radio transmission; purchase, rental, construction, improvement, mainte- nance, and operation of facilities for radio transmission and reception, including real property outside the continental limits of the United States and temporary sentry stations, guard barracks, and enclosures for the security of short-wave broadcasting facilities within the continental limits of the United States without regard to the provi- sions of section 355, Revised Statutes (40 U. S . C . 255), and other pro- visions of law affecting the purchase or rental of land and the con- struction of buildings thereon; advertising in foreign newspapers without regard to section 3828, Revised Statutes (44 U. S . C . 324); printing and binding (not to exceed $2710,389, for such expenses within the continental limits of the United State), ing 539 Research projects for Federal agencies. Indemnity provi- sions in contracts. Transfer of funds. Disposition of ar- ticles of personalty. Poi, p. 874. Director and Asso- ciate Director. Temporary employ. ment. Travel expenses. Pritat wd bind- la.

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