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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 773-JUNE 30,1948 Vocational training of prisoners. Ante, p. 230. of commodities acquired or produced, including selling and shipping expenses, and expenses in connection with acquisition, construction, operation, maintenance, improvement, protection, or disposition of facilities and other property belonging to the Corporation or in which it has an interest: Provided, That funds of the Corporation shall be available, in amounts not to exceed $338,000 during the fiscal year 1948 and $380,000 during the fiscal year 1949, for expenses of voca- tional training of prisoners as authorized by the Act of May 11, 1948 (Public Law 521), such expenses to be computed and determined on the same basis and with the same exclusions (except vocational train- ing expenses) as provided herein with respect to administrative expenses. DEPARTMENT OF STATE The Institute of Inter-American Affairs: Not to exceed $490,000 of the funds available to the Corporation shall be available during the fiscal year 1949 for its administrative expenses, including adminis- trative services performed for the Corporation by other Government agencies. 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; printing and binding; examination of budgets and estimates of appropriations in the field; travel expenses in accordance with the Standardized Government Travel Regulations, the Subsist- ence 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) ; for the objects specified under the head "General provisions" in title II of the Independent Offices Appropria- tion Act, 1949, all the provisions of which title unless otherwise specified in this Act, shall be applicable to the expenditure of such funds; and services in accordance with section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S . C . 55a): Provided, That in the event any functions budgeted as administrative expenses are subsequently transferred to or paid from other funds, the limitations on administrative expenses herein provided shall be correspondingly reduced. SEC. 302. No part of any funds of or available to any wholly owned Government corporation shall be used for the purchase or construc- tion, 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 payment of claims pur- suant to section 403 of the Federal Tort Claims Act (28 U. S . C. 921). SEC. 304. Any funds of, or available 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 Government Corporation Control Act (31 U. S . C . 841-869) or other law, shall be accounted for and audited in accordance 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 provision of any other law respecting warranting, accounting for, and auditing of funds. Funds for adninis- trative expenses. 44 Stat. 688 . 5 U.S. C.§821. 46 Stat. 1103 . Ante, p. 193. 60 Stat. 810. Use of funds for con- struction, etc. Claims. 60 Stat. 843 . Ante, p. 1008. Accounting. 59 Stat. 597. 31 U. S. C., Supp.I, 5846 et seq. Post, p. 1283. 1194 [62 STAT.

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