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 59 STAT.] 79'H CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 271-JULY 5, 1945 the provisions of law regulating the expenditure, accounting for, and audit of Government funds: Provided, That not to exceed $1,200,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be available for expenditures of a confidential character to be expended under the direction of the Administrator, who shall make a certificate of the amount of each such expenditure which he may think it advisable not to specify, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the amount therein certified. Penalty mail costs, Foreign Economic Administration: For deposit in the general fund of the Treasury for cost of penalty mail of the Foreign Economic Administration as required by section 2 of the Act of June 28, 1944 (Public Law 364), fiscal year 1946, $48,420, together with not to exceed $1,500 of the funds made available for administra- tive expenses to the Export-Import Bank of Washington, the Rubber Development Corporation, and the U. S. Commercial Company. Penalty mail costs, 1945-Foreign Economic Administration: The limitation in the First Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1945, on the amount for penalty mail for the Foreign Economic Administration is hereby increased from $47,453 to $51,000. Payments for articles and materials requisitioned: For the purpose of making payments to the owners thereof for articles requisitioned under authority of the Acts of October 10, 1940, and October 16, 1941, as amended (50 U. S. C . App . 711 and 721), the unexpended balance as of June 30, 1945, of the fund consisting of (1) the allocation of $200,000 to the Economic Defense Board from the emergency fund for the President by letter of November 26, 1941, and (2) the receipts credited to said appropriation by said Act of October 10, 1940, as amended and reallocated for the same purpose by said letter of alloca- tion, is hereby continued available to the Foreign Economic Adminis- tration for the fiscal year 1946: Provided, That receipts of the sales of articles requisitioned by said Administrator under authority of said Act of October 16, 1941, shall be deposited to the credit of this fund and be immediately available for the purposes thereof. EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF WASHINGTON Export-Import Bank of Washington, administrative expenses: Not to exceed $372,700 of the funds of the Export-Import Bank of Wash- ington, continued as an agency of the Government by the Act of September 26, 1940 (15 U. S . C. 713b), shall be available during the fiscal year 1946 for all administrative expenses of the bank, including personal services and rent in the District of Columbia; travel expenses, in accordance with the Standardized Government Travel Regulations and the Act of June 3, 1926, as amended (5 U. S . C. 821-833); printing and binding; lawbooks and books of reference; not to exceed $100 for periodicals, $200 for newspapers, and $200 for maps; and not to exceed $24,000 for the temporary employment of persons or organizations for special services by contract or otherwise, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and the civil-service and classification laws: Provided,That all necessary expenses (including special services performed on a contract or fee basis, but not including other personal services) in connection with the acquisition, operation, maintenance, improvement, or disposition of any real or personal property belong- ing to the bank or in which it has an interest, including expenses of collections of pledged collateral, shall be considered as nonadminis- trative expenses for the purposes hereof: Providedfurther, That sec- tions 102, 103, and 104 of the National War Agencies Appropriation Act, 1946, shall have no application to this appropriation. 66347--46--PT. -- 27 417 Expenditures of a confidential character. 58 Stat. 394. 39 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 321d. Infra; post, p. 418. 58 Stat. 874. 54 Stat. 1090; 65 Stat. 742. 50U.S.C.app. 5§711-713; Supp. IV, app. §§ 711, 713, 721- 724. Ante, pp. 270, 271. Receipts from sales. Poet. p. 526. 'ost, p. 635. 54 Stat. 962. 15 U. S. 0., Supp. IV, § 713b note. Post, p. 529. 44 Stat. F88. 5 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 823. Temporary employ- ment. 41U. S.C. §5. Nonadministrative expenses. Nonapplication of certain provisions. Post, p. 486.

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