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 62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 775-JUNE 30, 1948 and not to exceed $126,896 for transfer to applicable appropriations of the Public Health Service for services rendered the Commission; $7,744,000, of which $75,000 shall be available for restoration or repair of buildings at the training station at Pass Christian, Mississippi. State marine schools: To reimburse the State of California, $50,000; the State of Maine, $50,000; the State of Massachusetts, $50,000; and the State of New York, $50,000; for expenses incurred in the mainte- nance and support of marine schools in such States as provided in the Act authorizing the establishment of marine schools, and so forth, approved March 4, 1911, as amended (34 U. S. C . 1121-1123); and for the maintenance and repair of vessels loaned by the United States to the said States for use in connection with such State marine schools, $200,000; in all, $400,000. Vessel operating functions: For expenses (other than administra- tive expenses) necessary for carrying out, until March 1, 1949, the operating functions transferred to the United States Maritime Com- mission by section 202 of the Naval Appropriation Act, 1947 (60 Stat. 501), $25,483,976: Provided,That receipts from such functions during the fiscal year 1949 shall be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. War Shipping Administration liquidation: The unexpended bal- ance of the appropriation to the Secretary of the Treasury in the Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1948, for liquidation of obligations found by the General Accounting Office to have been prop- erly incurred against funds of the War Shipping Administration prior to January 1, 1947, is hereby continued available from July 1, 1948, until June 30, 1949: Provided, That hereafter all moneys accruing to the United States Maritime Commission from operations under the War Shipping Administration revolving fund prior to September 1, 1946 (including all moneys received from agent operators), shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Commission is authorized to furnish utilities and services and make necessary repairs in connection with any lease, contract, or occupancy involving Government property under control of the Comnission, and payments received by the Comllmission for utilities, services, and repairs so fur- nished or made shall be credited to the appropriation charged with the cost thereof: Provided, That rental payments under any such lease, contract, or occupancy on account of items other than such utilities, services, or repairs shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. The United States Maritime Commission shall not incur any obliga- tions during the fiscal year 1949 from the construction fund established by the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, or otherwise, in excess of the appro- priations and limitations contained in this Act: Provided,That nothing contained herein and in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1948, shall be construed to affect the authority of the Commission pur- suant to the provisions of section 603 (a) of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, (1) to grant operating differential subsidies on a long-term basis and (2) to obligate the United States to make future payments in accordance with the terms of such operating-differential subsidy contracts, and all receipts which otherwise would be deposited to the credit of said fund shall be covered into the Treasury as miscel- laneous receipts: Provided further, That hereafter the Commission may make allowances to purchasers of vessels for cost of putting such vessels in class, such allowances to be determined on the basis of com- petitive bids, without regard to the provisions of the last paragraph of section 3 (d) of the Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946. 1199 Transfer of funds. Pass Christian training station, Miss. 36 Stat. 1353. 60U.S.C.app. § 1291 note. 61 Stat. 697. Revolving fund, War Shipping Ad- ministration. Furnishing utilities, etc. 49 Stat. 1987. 46 U. 8. C. 1116. 61 Stat. 603 . 49 Stat. 2002 . 46U. S. C. 1173(a). Allowances to pur- chasers. 60 Stat. 41. 50U.S.C.app. § 1736 (d).

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