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 58 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 2D SESS.- CHS. 302, 303-JUNE 28, 1944 pensation for employees in the Postal Service", approved April 9, 1943, or of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the payment of over- time compensation to Government employees, and for other purposes" approved May 7, 1943, shall be fixed by concurrent resolution of the Congress at a date earlier than June 30, 1945, the appropriations con- tained in this Act shall cease to be available on such earlier date for obligation for the purposes of the terminated Act and the unobligated portions of appropriations allocated for the purposes of such termi- nated Act shall not be obligated for any other purposes of the appro- priation during the fiscal year 1945. SEC. 805. This Act may be cited as the "Labor-Federal Security Appropriation Act, 1945". Approved June 28, 1944. [CHAPTER 303] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Military Establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- wise appropriated, for the Military Establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, and for other purposes namely: MILITARY ACTIVITIES OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR CONTINGENCIES OF THE ARMY For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising in the War Department or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices in the District of Columbia, or in the Army at large, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, including personal services, the purchase of lawbooks, books of reference, subscriptions to newspapers and peri- odicals; the actual and necessary expenses or per diem in lieu thereof as may be determined and approved by the Secretary of War, of military and civilian personnel in and under the Military Establish- ment on special duty in foreign countries; and for examination of estimates of appropriations and of military activities in the field, to be expended on the approval or authority of the Secretary of War, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, and his determination thereon shall be final and conclusive upon the accounting officers of the Government, and payments from this appropriation may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be made on his certificate that the expenditures were necessary for confidential military purposes, $24,000,000. EXPEDITING PRODUCTION Expediting production of equipment and supplies for national defense: To enable the Secretary of War, without reference to sec- tions 3709 and 1136, as amended, Revised Statutes, to expedite the production of equipment and supplies for the Army for emergency national-defense purposes, including all of the objects and purposes specified under each of the appropriations available to the War Department during the fiscal year 1945, for procurement or produc- tion of equipment or supplies, for erection of structures, or for acqui- sition of land; the furnishing of Government-owned facilities at 573 57 Stat. 59, 75. 39 U. S. C., Supp. III, §§ 835, 836; 50 U. S. c., Supp. III, app. § 1401-1415 . Post, p. 758. Short title. June 28, 1944 [H. R. 4967] [Public Law 374] Military Appropria- tion Act, 1945. Post, p. 872. Special duty in for- eign countries. 41U.S.C.§5;10 U. S. C.§ 1339.

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