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 8OrT CONG., 2D SESS.- CH. 400-JUNE 3, 1948 required by law of such countries; excise taxes on negotiable instru- ments; purchase of uniforms; health service program as authorized by law (5 U. S . C . 150); purchase of household furniture and furnish- ings for Government-owned, rented, or leased buildings, except as provided by the Act of May 7, 1926, as amended (22 U. S . C . 292-299), and the acquisition, by purchase or otherwise, of household equipment for the purpose set forth in section 912 of said Foreign Service Act of 1946, all without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended; loss by exchange; radio broadcasting; payment in advance for subscriptions to commercial information, telephone and similar services, including telephone service in residences as author- ized by the Act of April 30, 1940 (31 U. S . C . 679); burial expenses and expenses in connection with last illness and death of certain native employees, as authorized by the Act of July 15, 1939 (5 U. S. C. 118f) ; for relief, protection, and burial of American seamen, and alien sea- men as authorized by the Act of March 24, 1943 (57 Stat. 45), in foreign countries and in Territories and insular possessions of the United States, and for expenses incurred in the acknowledgment of the services of officers and crews of foreign vessels and aircraft in rescuing American seamen, airmen, or citizens from shipwreck or other catastrophe abroad; for expenses of maintaining in Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, and Muscat, institutions for incarcerating Amer- ican convicts and persons declared insane by any consular court, rent of quarters for prisons, ice and drinking water for prison pur- poses, and for the expenses of keeping, feeding, and transportation of prisoners and persons declared insane; for every expenditure requisite for or incident to the bringing home from foreign countries of persons charged with crime, as authorized by section 5275 of the Revised Statutes (18 U. S . C . 659); and the operation and mainte- nance of commissary and mess service (not to exceed $200,000), with- out regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended; $43,750,000: Provided, That the Secretary of State may lease or rent, for periods not exceeding ten years, offices, buildings, grounds, and living quarters for the use of the Foreign Service, which rental pay- ments may be made in advance, and may furnish heat, fuel, light, gas, and electricity for Government-owned, leased, or rented offices, buildings, grounds, and living quarters, all without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended: Provided further, That pursuant to section 8 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (Public Law 600), automobiles in possession of the Foreign Service abroad may be exchanged or sold and the exchange allowances or proceeds of such sales applied to replacement of an equal number of passenger vehicles and the cost, including the exchange allowance, of each such replace- ment shall not exceed $3,000 in the case of the chief of mission automobile at each diplomatic mission and $1,400 in the case of all other passenger vehicles except station wagons, and such replacements shall not be charged against the numerical limitation hereinbefore set forth. Living and quarters allowances, Foreign Service: To provide for allowances as authorized by section 901 (1) and (2) of the Foreign Service Act of 1946 (22 U. S . C . 1131), $7,150,000. Representation allowances, Foreign Service: For representation allowances as authorized by section 901 (3) of the Foreign Service Act of 1946 (22 U. S. C . 1131), $650,000. Foreign Service retirement and disability fund: For financing the liability of the United States, created by the Foreign Service Act of 1946 (22 U. S. C. 1061-1116), $2,150,000, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the "Foreign Service retirement and disability fund." Printing and binding, Foreign Service: For printing and binding for the Foreign Service, except as otherwise provided for, $170,000: 60 Stat. 903. 44 Stat. 403. 60 Stat. 1027. 22U. S.C.§1137. 41 U. S.C. §5. Radio broadcasting. 54 Stat. 176. 53 Stat. 1043. Relief, etc., of Amer- ican seamen. 50U.S.C.app. § 1291 et seq. Consular prisons, etc. Bringing home per- sons charged with crime. Post, p. 862. 41 U. S.C. §5 Advance payment of rent. Leases. 41U.S.C. 5. 60 Stat. 808 . 5U.S.C.§118d-1. Automobiles. Post, p. 1046. 60 Stat. 1025 . 60 Stat. 1026 . 60 Stat. 1019. C2 STAT.] 307

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