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 59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , IST SESS.-CH. 319-JULY 17, 1945 OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES Salaries and expenses: For all expenses necessary to enable the Office of Strategic Services to carry out its functions and activities, including salaries of a Director at $10,000 per annum, one assistant director and one deputy director at $9,000 per annum each; not to exceed $3,500 for deposit in the general fund of the Treasury for cost of penalty mail as required by section 2 of the Act of June 28, 1944 (Public Law 364); travel expenses, including expenses outside the United States without regard to the Standardized Government Travel Regulations and the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, as amended (5 U. S . C . 821-833), and any general provision for the fiscal year 1946 to the contrary; preparation and transportation of the remains of officers and employees who die abroad or in transit, while in the dispatch of their official duties, to their former homes in this country or to a place not more distant for interment, and for the ordinary expenses of such interment; rental of news-reporting services; pur- chase of or subscription to commercial and trade reports; the render- ing of such gratuitous services and the disposition, free or otherwise, of such materials as the Director deems advisable; purchase or rental and operation of photographic, reproduction, duplicating and print- ing machines, equipment, and devices and radio-receiving and radio- sending equipment and devices; maintenance, operation, repair, and hire of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles and vessels of all kinds; printing and binding; exchange of funds without regard to section 3651, Revised Statutes (31 U. S . C . 543); purchase and free distribution of firearms, guard uniforms, special clothing, and other personal equipment; the cost of a compartment or such other accommodations as may be authorized by the Director for security when authorized personnel are required to transport secret documents or hand baggage containing highly technical and valuable equipment; $20,000,000, of which amount such sums as may be authorized by the Bureau of the Budget may be transferred to other departments or agencies of the Government, either as advance pay- ment or reimbursement of appropriation, for the performance of any of the functions or activities for which this appropriation is made: Provided, That $10,500,000 of this appropriation may be expended without regard to the provisions of law and regulations relating to the expenditure of Government funds or the employment of persons in the Government service, and $10,000,000 of such $10,500,000 may be expended for objects of a confidential nature, such expenditures to be accounted for solely on the certificate of the Director of the Office of Strategic Services and every such certificate shall be deemed a suf- ficient voucher for the amount therein certified. 483 Post, p. 487. Director, assistant and deputy directors. 58 Stat. 394. 39 U. S. C., Supp. IV, i 321d. 44 Stat. 888. 5 U. 8. C., Supp. IV, i 823. Transportation of remain of oicers and employees. Vehiclesand vessels. Exchange of funds. Transfer of funds.' Objects of a confi- dential nature. PETROLEUM ADMINISTRATION FOR WAR Salaries and expenses: For all necessary expenses of the Petroleum Administration for War in performing its functions as prescribed by the President (Fed. Reg., December 4, 1942), including not to p 3 CFl c s Cnupp.. exceed $250,000 for personal services without regard to the civil- service and classification laws but no part of this sum shall be used to compensate any person who has been transferred from a classi- fication pay status to an ungraded pay status; printing and binding not to exceed $20,000; not to exceed $2,000 for the entertainment of officials of other countries; not to exceed $22,500 for deposit in the general fund of the Treasury for cost of penalty mail, as required 3 Sat.V, npp by section 2 of the Act of June 28, 1944 (Public Law 364) and not iv, I 31d. to exceed $263,700 for travel expenses; $3,968,200: Proided, That section 3709, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to any purchase or U..o.I

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