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 59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , I1 T SESS.-CH. 319-JULY 17, 1945 foreign countries: Provided,That corporations heretofore created or caused to be created by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs primarily for operation outside the continental United States shall determine and prescribe the manner in which their obligations shall be incurred and their expenses allowed and paid without regard to the provisions of law regulating the expenditure, accounting for and audit of Government funds, and may, in their discretion, employ and fix the compensation of officers and employees outside the continental limits of the United States without regard to the provisions of law applicable to the employment and compensation of officers and employees of the United States, but this proviso shall not be construed to exempt said corporations from the provisions of section 5 of the Act approved February 24, 1945 (Public, Numbered 4, Seventy-ninth Congress), or the provisions of the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1945, approved April 25, 1945, relative to the audit of all Gov- ernment corporations by the General Accounting Office: Provided further, That the Director shall transmit to the President immediately upon the close of the fiscal year a complete financial report of the oper- ations of such corporations; $13,000,000, of which $3,543,290 is for the payment of obligations incurred under the contract authorization of $18,000,000 under this head in the National War Agencies Appropria- tion Act, 1944, and $301,423 under the contract authorization of $2,500,000 under this head in the National War Agency Appropriation Act, 1945: Provided further, That not to exceed $25,000 of this appro- priation shall be available to meet emergencies of a confidential char- acter to be expended under the direction of the Director, who shall make a certificate of the amount of 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: Provided further, That notwithstanding the provisions of section 3679, Revised Statutes (31 U. S. C . 665), the Director is authorized in making contracts for the use of international short-wave radio stations and facilities, to agree on behalf of the United States to indemnify the owners and operators of such radio stations and facilities, from such funds as may be hereafter appropriated for the purpose, against loss or damage on account of injury to persons or property arising from such use of said radio stations and facilities. OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION Salaries and expenses: For all necessary expenses of the Office of War Information, including the employment of a Director and Asso- ciate Director at not exceeding $12,000 and $10,000 per annum, respec- tively; not to exceed $45,800 for the temporary employment in the United States of persons by contract or otherwise without regard to the civil-service and classification laws; employment of aliens; employ- ment of persons outside the continental limits of the United States without regard to the civil-service and classification laws; travel expenses (not to exceed $267,500 for travel within the continental limits of the United States); expenses of transporting employees and their effects from their homes to their places of employment outside continental United States and return to their homes in the United States; reimbursement, at not to exceed 3 cents per mile, of employees or others rendering service to the Office of War Information for use by them of privately owned automobiles for transportation on official business within the limits of their official stations or places of service; purchase of radio time and purchase or rental of facilities for radio transmission; purchase, rental, construction, improvement, mainte- nance, and operation of facilities for radio transmission and reception, including real property outside the continental limits of the United 477 Corporations for op- eration outside conti- nental U. S. Ante, p. 6. Ante, p. 81. Financial report. 57 Stat. 529; 58 Stat. 537. Emergencies of a confidential character. Use of international short-wave radio sta- tions. 31 U. S. C., Supp. IV,§ 665 note. Director and Asso- ciate Director. Temporary employ- ment. Travel expenses.

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