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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 209, 210-JUNE 30, 1945 [59 STAT. Commissioners or their duly authorized representatives may exchange or sell similar items and apply the exchange allowances or proceeds of sales in such cases in whole or in part payment therefor. investments. SoE. 8. The Commissioners are hereby authorized in their discre- tion, to invest at any time in United States Government securities, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, any part of the general fund, highway fund, water fund, or trust funds, of the Dis- trict of Columbia, not needed to meet expenses during the current fiscal year, to deposit the interest accruing from such investment to the credit of the fund from which the investment was made, and to sell or exchange such securities for other Government securities, and deposit the proceeds to the credit of the appropriate fund. Reallocation in- SEC. 9. Section 7 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, trativepromotions. 1945, is amended to read as follows: "Hereafter appropriations for the Dat.Code, Supp. District of Columbia shall be used to pay increases in the salaries of IV,i 1-10a. officers and employees by reason of the reallocation of the position of any officer or employee by the Civil Service Commission, and adminis- Condition. trative promotions within the several grades: Provided, That such reallocation increases and administrative promotions shall be subject to the approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia: Retroactive provi- Provided further, That officers and employees whose positions were ions. reallocated by the Civil Service Commission during the period Janu- ary 1, 1945, to July 1, 1945, who have not received such reallocation increases shall be entitled to receive them retroactively to the date they would otherwise have been effective except for the provisions of said section 7, but in no case prior to January 1, 1945." Purchase of used SEC. 10. Appropriations herein made available for the purchase of passenger-carrying vehicles, with the exception of those to be pur- chased for use by the Fire Department and the Metropolitan Police, shall be available only for the purchase of used or Federal surplus motor vehicles. Short title. SEC. 11. This Act may be cited as the "District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1946". Approved June 30, 1945. [CHAPTER 210] June 30, 1945 [H. R. 33961 [Public Law 1041 Renegotiation Act, amendment. 66 Stat. 246. 0 U. S.., Supp. IV, app. § 1191 (h). "Termination date." AN ACT To extend through December 31, 1945, the termination date under the Renegotiation Act. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (h) of the Renegotiation Act (relating to the termination date) is amended to read as follows: "(h) This section shall apply only with respect to profits derived from contracts with the Departments and subcontracts which are deter- mined under regulations prescribed by the Board to be reasonably allocable to performance prior to the close of the termination date. Notwithstanding the method of accounting employed by the contractor in keeping his books, profits determined to be so allocable shall be considered as having been received or accrued not later than the termination date. For the purposes of this subsection, the term 'termi- nation date' means whichever of the following dates first occurs- "(1) December 31, 1945; or "(2) the date proclaimed by the President as the date of the termination of hostilities in the present war; or "(3) the date specified in a concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress as the date of the termination of hostilities in the present war." 294

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