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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 319--JULY 17, 1945 States and temporary sentry stations, guard barracks, and enclosures for the security of short-wave broadcasting facilities within the con- tinental limits of the United States without regard to the provisions of section 355, Revised Statutes (40 U. S . C . 255), and other provisions of law affecting the purchase or rental of land and the construction of buildings thereon; advertising in foreign newspapers without regard Printing and bind- to section 3828, Revised Statutes (44 U. S . C . 324); printing and bind- ing (not to exceed $1,000,000, for such expenses within the continental limits of the United States), including printing and binding outside the continental limits of the United States without regard to section 11 40 Stat. 1270 . of the Act of March 1, 1919 (44 U. S. C . 111); not to exceed $56,250 for deposit in the general fund of the Treasury for cost of penalty 58 stat.394. mail as required by section 2 of the Act of June 28, 1944 (Public Law 39 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 321d. 364); purchase or rental and operation of photographic, reproduction, printing, duplicating, communication, and other machines, equipment, 31 .. 543 and devices; exchange of funds without regard to section 3651, Revised Statutes; acquisition, production, and free distribution of publications, phonograph records, radio transcriptions, motion-picture films, pho- tographs and pictures, educational materials, and such other items as the Director may deem necessary to carry out the program of the Office of War Information, and sale or rental of such items by contract or otherwise to firms or individuals for use outside the continental limits of the United States; purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for use by porters, drivers, messengers, watchmen, and other custodial employees outside continental United States; such gratuitous expenses of travel and subsistence as the Director deems advisable in the fields Entertainment in of education, travel, radio, press, and cinema; not to exceed $125,000 for entertainment in the United States and abroad of officials and others in the fields of education, radio, press, and cinema of other countries and prior appropriations of the Office of War Information for this purpose shall be construed as having been available for Receipt and dis- expenditure in the United States; payment of the United States' semination of war information. share of the expenses of the maintenance, in cooperation with any expenses share other of the United Nations, of organizations and activities designed Alloation of funds. to receive and disseminate information relative to the prosecution of the war; $35,000,000: Provided, That not more than $31,135,270 (including living and quarters allowances) shall be allocated to the Overseas Operations Branch and not more than $1,297,500 shall be allocated to the Domestic Operations Branch for the following functions only: Office of the Director; Book and Magazine Bureau; Foreign News Bureau; Graphics Bureau; News Bureau; Bureau of Special Services; Radio Bureau Motion Picture Bureau, not exceed- sheorteeTradio ta- ing $36,840: Provided further, That notwithstanding the provisions t31u s. C., upp of section 3679, Revised Statutes (31 U. S . C . 665), the Office of War IV, 6s65 note. Information is authorized in making contracts for the use of interna- tional short-wave radio stations and facilities, to agree on behalf of the United States to indemnify the owners and operators of said radio stations and facilities from such funds as may be hereafter appropri- ated for the purpose, against loss or damage on account of injury to persons or property arising from such use of said radio stations and cEmergencies of afacilities: Providedfurther, That not to exceed $250,000 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. Restriction on use No part of this or any other appropriation shall be expended by Exception. the Office of War Information for the preparation or publication of U.aS. Government y pamphlet or other literature, except the United States Gove Manual. any pamphlet or other literature, except the United States Govern- 478 [59 STAT.

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