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 59 STAT.] 79TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 129-MAY 21, 1945 Act of April 24, 1939 (22 U. S . C . 3, 121): Provided,That no salary shall be paid to any official receiving any other salary from the United States Government: Provided further, That during the con- tinuance of the present war and for six months after its termination, any ambassador or minister whose salary as such is payable from the appropriation "Salaries, Ambassadors and Ministers" and who, prior to appointment as ambassador or minister was legally appointed and served as a diplomatic or consular officer or as a Foreign Service officer, and who, on account of emergent conditions abroad, is unable properly to serve the United States at his regular post of duty, or, on account of such emergent conditions abroad, it shall be or has been found necessary in the public interest to terminate his appointment as ambassador or minister at such post, may be appointed or assigned to serve in any capacity in which a Foreign Service officer is authorized by law to serve, and, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the payment from such appropriation for the fiscal year 1946 of the salary of such officer, while serving under such assignment, is hereby authorized: Provided further, That no person, while serving under such emergency appointment or assignment, shall receive compensation in excess of $9,000 per annum while serving in the continental United States or in excess of $10,000 per annum while serving elsewhere: Provided further, That this appro- priation shall be available also for the payment, at not to exceed $10,000 per annum, of the salary of any person who, incident to reestablishment of representation in areas liberated from the enemy and prior to recognition by the United States of the governments of the countries concerned, may be or has been designated or as- signed to serve as commissioner, adviser, or in any similar repre- sentative capacity and who, prior to such designation, has served as ambassador or minister, having previously been legally appointed to serve as a diplomatic, consular, or Foreign Service officer of the United States. Salaries, Foreign Service officers: For salaries of Foreign Service officers as provided in the Act approved February 23, 1931, as amended by the Act of April 24, 1939 (22 U. S . C. 3, 3a), including salaries of such officers for the period actually and necessarily occupied in receiv- ing instructions and in making transits to and from their posts, and while awaiting recognition and authority to act in pursuance with the provisions of section 1740 of the Revised Statutes (22 U. S . C . 121); and salaries of Foreign Service officers or vice consuls while acting as charges d'affaires ad interim or while in charge of a consulate general or consulate during the absence of the principal officer (22 U. S . C . 20); $4,875,000. Transportation, Foreign Service: To pay the traveling expenses of diplomatic, consular, and Foreign Service officers, and other employees of the Foreign Service, including Foreign Service inspectors, and under such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, of their families and expenses of transportation of effects, in going to and returning from their posts, and in removing the family and effects of any such officer or employee from any foreign post, and thereafter transporting such family and effects to his post of assignment, to whatever extent may be determined necessary by the Secretary of State by reason of emergency conditions in any country that in his opinion may endanger the life of such officer or employee or any member of his family, including automobiles as authorized by the Act of April 30, 1940 (5 U. S. C. 73c), and storage of effects while such officers or employees are absent from their permanent posts of duty, including also not to exceed $250,000 for expenses in connection with leaves of absence; attendance at trade and other conferences and congresses 171 53 Stat. 583 . Ante, p. 102. Double -salary re- striction. Assignments during emergency. Limitation on com- pensation. Liberated areas. 46 Stat. 1207; 53 Stat. 583. Ante. p. 102. Post, p. W62. Emergency condi- tions. 54 Stat. 174 . Leaves of abeno.

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