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 60 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 589-JULY 20, 1946 WAR DEPARTMENT United States Spruce Production Corporation: Provided, That not to exceed $10,000 shall be available for administrative expenses until January 1, 1947, and thereafter all administrative duties and responsi- bilities shall be assumed by such officers and employees of the War Department as the Secretary of War may designate and who shall receive no additional compensation for such duties: Providedfurther, That the Secretary of War shall take appropriate steps to secure the final dissolution and liquidation of the said corporation at the earliest practicable date. TITLE III-GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 301. Funds made available by this Act for administrative expenses shall be available, in addition to objects for which such funds are otherwise available, for personal services and rent in the District of Columbia or elsewhere; fawbooks, books of reference, periodicals, newspapers, and maps; printing and binding; examination of budgets and estimates of appropriations in the field; contract stenographic reporting services; travel expenses in accordance with the Standard- ized Government Travel Regulations, the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, as amended (except as to per diem rates outside continental United States), and the Act of February 14, 1931, as amended (5 U. S . C. 73a); and for the objects specified under the head "General provi- sions" in title II of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1947, all the provisions of which title (except section 211), unless otherwise specified in this Act, shall be applicable to the expenditure of such funds: Provided, That the head of any agency may exercise any authority vested in him by said title II through such subordinate or subordinates as he may designate for the purpose. SEC. 302. No part of any funds of any wholly owned Government corporation shall be used for the purchase or construction, or in making loans for the purchase or construction of any office building at the seat of government primarily for occupancy by any department or agency of the United States Government or by any corporation owned by the United States Government. SEC. 303. Funds of the corporations and agencies covered by the provisions of this Act shall be available for maintenance, operation, and repair of passenger automobiles and, except as otherwise provided herein, shall be avaiTable for purchase of passenger automobiles only for replacement of worn-out vehicles. SEC. 304. Any funds of, or availale for expenditure by, any cor- poration or agency included in this Act, which are not subject to audit by the General Accounting Office under the provisions of the Govern- ment Corporation Control Act (Public Law 248, Seventy-ninth Congress) or other law, shall be accounted for and audited in accord- ance with the Budget and Accounting Act, as amended, and no such fund shall be obligated or expended unless and until an appropriate appropriation account shall have been established therefor pursuant to an appropriation warrant or a covering warrant: Provided, That this section shall not be so construed as to modify or repeal any pro- vision of any other law respecting warranting, accounting for, and auditing of funds. SEC. 305. No part of the funds of, or available for expenditure by, any corporation or agency included in this Act shall be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who engages in a strike against the Government of the United States or who is a member of an organiza- tion of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against 595 Funds for adminis- trative expenses. Travel expenses. 44 Stat. 688. 6U.S.C.5821; Bupp. V, §823. 46 Stat. 1103 . 5U.S.C., Supp.V, §73a. Post, p. 807. Ants, p. 78. Use of funds of Gov- ernment corporations for construction, etc. Maintenance and purchase of automo- biles. Accounting, etc. 59 Stat. 597. 31 U. S. C., Supp. V, §§ 841-869. 42 Stat. 20 . 31U.S.C.§1; Supp.V,§16d seq. Persons engaging, etc., in strikes against or advocating over- throw of U. S. Gov- ernment.

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