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 59 STAT.] 79TTH CONG., IST SESS.- CH. 129-MAY 21, 1945 During the continuance of the present war and for six months after its termination, American citizens holding positions in the Foreign Service of the United States and who on account of emergent conditions abroad are unable properly to serve the United States at their regular posts of duty may be assigned to the Department of State to perform temporary services in that Department or to be detailed for temporary services of comparable importance, difficulty, responsibility, and value in any other department or agency of the United States, in cases where there is found to be a need of services for the performance of which such persons have the requisite qualifications. The salaries of such persons shall, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, con- tinue to be paid during the periods of such assignments from the appropriations under the caption "Foreign Service" in the Department of State Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1946. Contracts entered into in foreign countries involving expenditures from any of the foregoing appropriations under the caption "Foreign Service" shall not be subject to the provisions of section 3741 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S . C . 22). 175 Emergency assign- ments. Payment of salaries. Ante, p. 170. Contracts, interest of Members of Con- gress. Ante, p. 170. INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS United States contributions to international commissions, con- qContributions gresses, and bureaus: For payment of the annual contributions, quotas, Pot, pp. 427, 428, and expenses, including loss by exchange in discharge of the obliga- tions of the United States in connection with international commis- sions, congresses, bureaus, and other objects, in not to exceed the respective amounts as follows: Pan American Union, $301,219.88, including not to exceed $20,000 for printing and binding; Bureau of Interparliamentary Union for Promotion of International Arbitra- tion, $10,000; Pan American Sanitary Bureau, $62,493.31; Bureau of International Telecommunication Union, Radio Section, $8,215; Inter-American Radio Office, $6,377.50; Government of Panama, $430,000; International Hydrographic Bureau, $2,286.90; Inter-Amer- ican Trade-Mark Bureau, $14,330.20; International Bureau for Protection of Industrial Property, $2,490.08; Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, $50.000; American International Institute for the Pro- tection of Childhood, $3,200, including not to exceed $1,200 for traveling expenses of the United States member of the Council of the American International Institute for the Protection of Childhood in attending the annual meeting of the Council; International Map of the World on the Millionth Scale, $50; International Penal and Penitentiary Commission, $3,260.87, including not to exceed $800 for the necessary expenses of the Commissioner to represent the United States on the Commission at its annual meetings, personal services without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, printing 42 tt. s4c8 § 61 and binding, traveling expenses, and such other expenses as the Secre- supp. IV, §661 t teq. tary of State may deem necessary; International Labor Organization, International Labor Organization. $547,638.90, including not to exceed $15,000 for the expenses of par- Post, rp. 6i. ticipation by the United States in the meetings of the General Conference and of the Governing Body of the International Labor Office and in such regional, industrial, or other special meetings, as may be duly-called by such Governing Body, including personal serv- ices, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, rent, traveling expenses, purchase of books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, and charts, stationery, official cards, printing and binding, entertainment, hire, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carry- ing vehicles, and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State; Implementing the Narcotics Convention of 1931, internatonal Com- $15,681.60; International Council of Scientific Unions and Associated ci o entifi c Un- Unions, as follows: International Council of Scientific Unions, $32.67;

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