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PUBLIC LAW 179—OCT. 18, 1951

[65 STAT.

and manufacturing data, copyrights and letters patent, applications therefor, and licenses thereunder pertaining to such supplies, equipment, and materials for which the appropriations are made. onS?/wX^ta ^"^' ^^^- ^12. Any appropriation available to the Air Force, Army, or the Navy may, under such regulations as the Secretary concerned may prescribe, be used for expenses incident to the maintenance, pay, and allowances of prisoners of war, other persons in Air Force, Army, or Navy custody whose status is determined by the Secretary concerned to be similar to prisoners of war, and persons detained in such custody pursuant to Presidential proclamation, te^ef/^*^'^*^ ^ ™ ^^^' ^^^' ^^^^^S the current fiscal year, without deposit to the credit ™ ^ ^^' of the Treasurer of the United States and withdrawal on money requisitions, receipts of public moneys from sales or other sources by officers of the Department of Defense on disbursing duty and charged in their official accounts, except receipts to be credited to river and harbor and flood-control appropriations, may be used by them as required for current expenditures, all necessary bookkeeping adjustments of appropriations, funds, and accounts to be made in the settlement of their disbursing accounts. Minor construction. gj,(. Q^^ ^ h e Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Air Force, and the Secretary of the Navy are authorized to expend out of the Appropriations in this Act available for construction or maintenance such amounts as may be required for minor construction (except family quarters), extensions to existing structures, and Cost limitation. improvements, at facilities of the Department concerned, but the cost of any project authorized under this section which is not otherwise authorized shall not exceed $50,000, except that the limitation on the cost of any such project which is determined by the Secretary of Defense to be urgently required in the interests of national defense, .m^X^o^"p^^"n"J,*° shall not exceed $200,000: Provided, That the cost limitations of this section shall not apply to amounts authorized to be expended for emergency expenses on the approval of the Secretary concerned. ^rt°r *iimitatton°^ ^^^' ^^^' ^^^ring the Current fiscal year, appropriations contained quar ers, imi a ion. ^^ ^^^^ ^^^ (except those for liquidation of prior contract authorizations) shall not be obligated for construction of family quarters for personnel at a cost per family unit in excess of $14,040 on housing units for generals; $12,040 on housing units for majors, lieutenant colonels and colonels, or equivalent; $11,040 on housing units for second lieutenants, lieutenants, captains, and warrant officers, or equivalent; or $10,040 on housing units for enlisted personnel, except that when such units are constructed outside the continental United States or in Alaska, the average cost per unit of all such units shall not exceed $25,850 and in no event shall the individual cost exceed $35,000. The last proviso of section 3 of the Act of June 12, 1948 f u**s ^^'*M26p- (Public Law 626), and the last proviso in the next to last paragraph 1 u. s. o. § 1337b'; of section 3 of the Act of June 16, 1948 (Public Law 653), shall not 0 Itid.' ^' ^ ^^ ^^^^ be applicable to appropriations made herein or heretofore to carry out such Acts, in cases where the Secretary of the Department concerned determines that the erection of prefabricated family quarters will be more advantageous to the United States than multiple type dwellings of conventional construction. t r S e t? ^ "^^^ "'"• ^^^' ^1^- Appropriations for the Air Force and the Army for the current fiscal year shall be available for carrying out the purposes note^' ^' ^' *^^' *^^^ ^^ Executive Order 9112 of March 26, 1942; for expenses in connection with the administration of occupied areas; for distribution of trophies and devices as authorized by law; for actual and necessary expenses or per diem in lieu thereof authorized by law; and, except as otherwise ^ u^*s."c!§5 236- authorized by the Act of September 30, 1950 (Public Law 874), for 244. * ' primary and secondary schooling for dependents of military and

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