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PUBLIC LAW 5 4 7 - J U L Y 15, 1952

CHAPTER X I

M u t u a l Security Appropriation Act, 1953.

MUTUAL SECURITY TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DEPARTMENT OF THE A R M Y — C IV I L FUNCTIONS GOVERNMENT AND RELIEF I N OCCUPIED AREAS

For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary to meet the responsibilities and obligations of the United States in connection with the government or occupation of certain foreign areas (except Germany, J a p a n and Austria), including, subject to such authorizations and limitations as may be prescribed by the head of the department or agency concerned, tuition, travel expenses, and fees incident to instruction in the United States or elsewhere of such persons as may be required to carry out the provisions of this appropriation; travel expenses and transportation; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a), at rates not m excess of $50 per diem for individuals not to exceed ten in number; translation rights, photographic work, education exhibits, and dissemination of information, including preview and review expenses incident thereto; hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; repair and maintenance of buildings, utilities, facilities, and appurtenances; not to exceed $2,000 for contingencies for the United States commanders, commissioners, or other administrators of foreign areas, to be expended in their respective discretions; such minimum supplies for the civilian populations of such areas as may be essential to prevent starvation, disease, or unrest, prejudicial to the objectives sought to be accomplished; and such supplies, commodities, and equipment as may be essential to carry out the purposes of this appropriation; $11,000,000, of which not to exceed $1,500,000 shall be available for administrative expenses: Provided, That the general provisions of the Appropriation Act for the current fiscal year for the military functions of the Department of the Army shall apply to expenditures made by that Department from this appropriation: Provided further, That expenditures from this appropriation may be made outside continental United States, when necessary to carry out its purposes, without regard to sections 355, 1136, 3648, and 3734, Revised Statutes, as amended, civil service or classification laws, or provisions of law prohibiting payment of any person not a citizen of the United States: Provided further, That expenditures from this appropriation may be made, when necessary to carry out its purposes, without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes, as amended, and the Armed Services Procurement Act of 1947 (41 U.S.C. 161-161): Provided further, Th&t expenditures may be made hereunder for the purposes of economic rehabilitation in such occupied areas in such manner as to be consistent with the general objectives of the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, as amended, and in the manner authorized by section 111(b)(1) thereof: Provided further. That funds appropriated hereunder and unexpended at the time of the termination of occupation by the United States, of any area for which such funds are made available, may be expended by the President for the procurement of such commodities and technical services, and commodities procured from funds herein or heretofore appropriated for government and relief in occupied areas and not delivered to such an area prior to the time of the termination of occupation, may be utilized by the President, as may be necessary to assist in the maintenance of the political and economic stability of such areas: Provided further, That before any such assistance is made

60 Stat. 810.

Minimum sup p l i e s for civilian populations.

33 USC 733 and note; 10 USC 1339; 31 U S C 5 2 9; 40 USC 259, 267. 41 USC 5. 62 Stat. 21.

62 Stat, 137. 22 USC 1 5 0 1 note. Commodities and t e c h n i c a l services.

Bilateral agree ment.

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