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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 271-JULY 5, 1945 Salary, etc., of per- sons fixing certain maxi- mum prices. Appropriations and contract authorizations. Report and recom- mendations to Con- gress. 58 Stat. 623. 31 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 18 note. Applicabilityof designated provisions. Post, p. 486. Post, p. 430. Administrator and assistants. Travel expenses. 54 Stat. 1105. 5 U. S. C. §73c-l; Supp. IV, §73c- note. Advances to certain employees. Printing and bind- ing. Emergency expen- ses. Administrator, such person shall be qualified by experience in busi- ness, industry, or commerce; but this limitation shall not apply to the Administrator or Acting Administrator as the case may be, in considering, adopting, signing, and promulgating price policies, maximum prices, or price ceilings formulated and prepared in com- pliance herewith: Provided further, That none of the funds appro- priated in this Act shall be used to pay the salary or expenses of any person fixing maximum prices for different kinds, classes, or types of processed fruits and vegetables which are described in terms of specifications or standards, unless such specifications or standards were, prior to such order, in general use: Provided further, That as to appropriations and contract authorizations granted for the national defense, war agencies, and the prosecution of the war contained in this Act and other appropriation Acts, in addition to compliance with the provisions of section 303 of the Second Deficiency Appro- priation Act, 1944, there shall be submitted to the Congress on January 3, 1946, a list showing the condition of the balances of each of such appropriations and contract authorizations together with recommendations for the repeal of such of those funds or portions thereof as are deemed no longer required for the purposes for which they were granted. Those general provisions in the National War Agency Appropria- tion Act, 1946, applicable to all agencies in such Act, are hereby made applicable to the same extent, except as otherwise provided, to the appropriation for the Office of Price Administration. OFFICE FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT FOREIGN ECONOMIC ADMINISTRATION Salaries and expenses: For all expenses necessary to enable the Foreign Economic Administration to carry out its functions and activities, including salaries of the Administrator at $12,000 per annum except that such salary shall be $15,000 per annum during the incumbency of the present Administrator, one Deputy Adminis- trator at $10,000 per annum, and four assistants to the Administrator at $9,000 per annum each; employment of aliens; temporary employ- ment of persons or organizations by contract or otherwise without regard to the civil-service and classification laws (not exceeding $100,000); travel expenses (not exceeding $234,000 for travel within continental United States), including expenses of employees of the Administration and the transportation of their personal effects to their first posts of duty outside continental United States and return to their homes; transportation of dependents and household goods and effects, in accordance with the Act of October 10, 1940, from foreign countries to their homes in the United States of employees of the Foreign Economic Administration and the State Department for whom such expenses to a foreign country were authorized and paid from funds allocated to the Board of Economic Warfare; advances of money, upon the furnishing of bond, to employees trav- eling outside continental United States, in such sums as the Admin- istrator shall direct; reimbursement of employees for loss of personal effects in case of marine or aircraft disaster; rental of news-report- ing services; purchase of, or subscription to, commercial and trade reports; printing and binding (not exceeding $102,500); fiscal year 1946, $16,750,000, of which amount not to exceed $75,000 shall be available for payment, or reimbursement to employees, as deter- mined by the Administrator, for emergency or extraordinary expenses in connection with operations in foreign countries, without regard to [59 STAT.

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