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 58 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 2D SESS.- CH. 324-JUNE 30, 1944 expended under the direction of the Administrator, who shall make a certificate of the amount of each such expenditure which he may think it advisable not to specify, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the amount therein certified. Payments for articles and materials requisitioned: For the pur- Payments for requi- sitioned articles. pose of making payments to the owners thereof for articles requi- sitioned under authority of the Acts of October 10, 1940, and October M Stat. 1090; 55 16, 1941, as amended (50 U. S. C. App. 711 and 721), the unexpended 50. s. c. app. § 712; Supp. hi1, balance as of June 30, 1944, of the fund consisting of (1) the alloca- 'o 71;7137i721-7 tion of $200,000 to the Economic Defense Board from the emergency Ante, p. 624. fund for the President by letter of November 26, 1941, and (2) the receipts credited to said appropriation by said Act of October 10, 1940, as amended and reallocated for the same purpose by said letter of allocation, is hereby continued available to the Foreign Economic Administration for the fiscal year 1945: Provided, That receipts of Receipts from sales. the sales of articles requisitioned by said Administrator under au- thority of said Act of October 16, 1941, shall be deposited to the credit of this fund and be immediately available for the purposes thereof. No part of any funds appropriated or made available in this title sOidemrerict io to the Foreign Economic Administration shall be used directly or indirectly for the procurement of services, supplies, or equipment in connection with its foreign procurement activities outside the United States except for the purpose of executing general economic programs or policies formally approved in writing by a majority of the War Mobilization Committee and such writing has been filed with the Secretary of State prior to any such expenditure. Export-Import Bank of Washington, administrative expenses: Not Bakxoframporn to exceed $340,000 of the funds of the Export-Import Bank of Wash- ington, continued as an agency of the Government by the Act of September 26, 1940 (15 U. S . C . 713b), shall be available during the 5 ts. ac., upp. fiscal year 1945 for all administrative expenses of the bank, including III § 713b. personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; travel expenses, in accordance with the Standardized Government Travel Regulations and the Act of June 3, 1926, as amended (5 U. S . C . 821- 5U. .., Supp. 833); printing and binding; lawbooks and books of reference; not III, s23. to exceed $100 for periodicals, $200 for newspapers, and $200 for maps; not to exceed $15,000 for the temporary employment of per- mn rryemploy- sons or organizations for special services by contract or otherwise, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes; and rent in 41 U. S .C. the District of Columbia: Provided, That all necessary expenses Nonadministrative (including special services performed on a contract or fee basis, but p not including other personal services) in connection with the acqui- sition, operation, maintenance, improvement, or disposition of any real or personal property belonging to the bank or in which it has an interest, including expenses of collections of pledged collateral, shall be considered as nonadministrative expenses for the purposes hereof: Provided further, That sections 201, 202, and 203 of the NonapPicastons of National War Agencies Appropriation Act, 1945, shall have no A ro application to this appropriation. A, pp. 55, SEC. 301. Those general provisions in the National War Agency Applibilityofce- Appropriation Act, 1945, applicable to the constituent agencies of sions. the Office for Emergency Management, and those general provisions At, pp. 5 ,45. in such Act generally applicable to all agencies in such Act, are hereby made applicable to the same extent, except as otherwise provided, to the appropriations in this title. SEC. 302. This title may be cited as the "Foreign Economic Admin- cittion of tt istration Appropriation Act, 1945". Approved June 30, 1944. 631

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