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 59 STAT.] 79TH CONG., IST SESS. -CH. 106-MAY 3, 1945 for cost of penalty mail as required by section 2 of the Act of June 28, 1944 (Public Law 364); and not to exceed $3,000 for actuarial services by contract, without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes: Provided, That no details from any executive department or inde- pendent establishment in the District of Columbia or elsewhere to the Commission's central office in Washington or to any of its regional offices shall be made during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1946, but this shall not affect the making of details for service as members of the boards of examiners outside the immediate offices of the regional directors, nor shall it affect the making of details of persons qualified to serve as expert examiners on special subjects: Provided further, That the Civil Service Commission shall have power in case of emer- gency to transfer or detail any of its employees to or from its office or field force. Salaries and expenses, national defense: For all necessary expenses of the Civil Service Commission in connection with the recruitment and placement of civilian personnel required in connection with emergencies affecting the national security and defense, including personal services in the District of Columbia; traveling expenses; and other items otherwise properly chargeable to appropriations of the Civil Service Commission for salaries and expenses and not to exceed $42,136 for printing and binding, $6,032,000: Provided, That upon the expiration of sixty days after the cessation of hostilities between the United States and the principal enemy powers or after the date of an armistice between the United States and the principal enemy powers, this appropriation shall cease to be available for obligations unless Congress shall otherwise provide by law. No part of the appropriations herein made to the Civil Service Commission shall be available for the salaries and expenses of the Legal Examining Unit in the Examining and Personnel Utiliza- tion Division of the Commission, established pursuant to Executive Order Numbered 9358 of July 1, 1943. PANAMA CANAL CONSTRUCTION ANNUITY FUND Panama Canal construction annuity fund: For payment of annuities authorized by the Act of May 29, 1944 (Public Law 319), $1,443,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation under this head for the fiscal year 1945. CIVIL-SERVICE RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY FUND For financing of the liability of the United States, created by the Act entitled "An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes", approved May 22, 1920, and Acts amendatory thereof (38 U. S . C . 11), $245.000,000, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the "civil-service retirement and disability fund". CANAL ZONE REIREMENT AND DISABILITY FND For financing of the liability of the United States, created by the Act entitled "An Act for the retirement of employees of the Panama Canal and the Panama Railroad Company, on the Isthmus of Pan- ama, who are citizens of the United States", approved March 2, 1931, and Acts amendatory thereof (48 U. S. C . 1371n), $1,177,000, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the "Canal Zone retirement and disability fund". 5S Stat. 394. 39 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 321d. 41U.S.C. 5. Details, restriction. Emergency trans fers or details National-defense ac- tivities. Availability of funds, limitation. Legal Examining Unit. 3 CFR, 1943 Supp., p. 30. I'ost, 1. 635 . r8 Stat. 257 602. 49 U. S. C., Supp. IV, 0t 1373-1373g. 41 Stat. 614. 5 U. S.C. 691e seq.; Supp. IV, § 691 et se. Post,pp. 577, 621. 46 Stat. 1479.

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