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 PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 324 -JUNE 30, 1944 Supplies, et., avail- SEO. 202. In addition to the sum appropriated by section 201 of under prlor Act 0 this title, any supplies, services, or funds available for disposition or 55stat. 31. expenditure by the President under the Act of March 11, 1941, as m2ifi1 Bu pp U. amended (22 U. S . C . 411-419), and Acts supplementary thereto, may Ante, p.. be disposed of or expended by the President to carry out the provi- Ate,. p.r22. sions of the Act of March 28, 1944, without reimbursement of the appropriations from which such supplies or services were procured Limitation;ac- or such funds were provided: Provided, That the supplies, services, g and funds disposed of or expended under the authority of this section shall not exceed a total value, as determined under regulations to be approved by the President of $350,000,000 and shall be charged to the amount authorized to be appropriated by said Act of March 28, 1944: UeS.tin"tiOnh Provided further, That the authority granted by this section shall ofstaB. not become effective until the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff shall have issued a certification that the state of the war permits the exercise of such authority and the utilization of lend-lease supplies, services, or funds for the purposes of section 201 of this title; and after such certification such utilization shall be upon the determina- tion of the Administrator of the Foreign Economic Administration. citation oftit. SEC. 203. This title may be cited as "United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Participation Appropriation Act, 1945". Foreign Economic Administration Ap- propriation Act, 1945. TITLE III-EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OFrmc FORn EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT FOBEIGN ECONOMIC ADMINISTRATION Salries and ex- Salaries and expenses: For all expenses necessary to enable the penses. Pot.p. 874. Foreign Economic Administration to carry out its functions and Admnitstrator and activities, including salaries of the Administrator at $15,000 per annum during the incumbency of the present Administrator, and four assistants to the Administrator at $9,000 per annum each; employment of aliens; temporary employment of persons or organ- izations by contract or otherwise without regard to the civil- Trelexpens service and classification laws (not exceeding $100,000); travel expenses (not exceeding $275,000 for travel within continental United States), including expenses of employees of the Administration and the transportation of their personal effects to their first posts of duty in a foreign country and return to their homes; transporta- tion of dependents and household goods and effects, in accordance 54 Stat. c15. with the Act of October 10, 1940, from foreign countries to their homes in the United States of employees of the Foreign Economic Administration and the State Department for whom such expenses Adto a foreign country were authorized and paid from funds allocated s to the Board of Economic Warfare; advances of money, upon the furnishing of bond, to employees traveling in a foreign country, in such sums as the Administrator shall direct; reimbursement of employees for loss of personal effects in case of marine or aircraft rinting and bind- disaster; rental of news-reporting services; purchase of, or subscrip- ing. tion to, commercial and trade reports; printing and binding (not Emergency ex- exceeding $90,000); $19,750,000, of which amount not to exceed $75,000 shall be available for payment, or reimbursement to employees, as determined by the Administrator, for emergency or extraordinary expenses in connection with operations in foreign coun- tries, without regard to the provisions of law regulating the expendi- ture, accounting for, and audit of Government funds: Provided fur- spendresorf er, That not to exceed $500,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be available for expenditures of a confidential character to be [58 STAT.

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