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

A v a i l ability of appropriations.

65 Stat. 373. 22 USC 1651 note.

Expenditures of confidential char^ acter.

47 Stat. 412.

Officers of PHS and Coast and Geodetic Survey.

62 Stat. 47. Administrative expenses.

A gricultural products.

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Appropriations in this title for economic or technical assistance and allocations from any appropriations to the Director for Mutual Security, or the Mutual Security Agency, or the Department of State, shall be available, without limitation on any authority conferred by the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended, or any Act continued in effect thereby, for rents in the District of Columbia; expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the purposes of such appropriations; hire of passenger motor vehicles; purchase of not to exceed two aircraft for use outside the continental limits of the United States and maintenance, operation, and hire of aircraft; purchase of not to exceed twenty passenger motor vehicles for use outside the continental limits of the United States and, in addition, passenger motor vehicles abroad may be exchanged or sold and replaced for an equal number of such vehicles; transportation of privately owned automobiles; entertainment within the United States (not to exceed $20,000); exchange of funds without regard to section 3651 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 543); loss by exchange; expenditures (not to exceed $50,000) of a confidential character other than entertainment provided that a certificate of the amount of each such expenditure, the nature of which it is considered inadvisable to specify, shall be made by the Director or Deputy Director of Mutual Security, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the amount therein specified; insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign countries; acquisition of quarters outside the continental limits of the United States to house employees of the United States Government by rental (without regard to section 322 of the Act of June 30, 1932, as amended (40 U.S.C. 278a)), lease, purchase, or construction, and necessary repairs and alterations to such quarters; health and accident insurance for foreign trainees and technicians while en route or absent from their own countries participating in activities authorized under the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended; actual expenses of preparing and transporting to their former homes in the United States or elsewhere the remains of persons or members of the families of persons who'may die while such persons are away from their homes participating in activities under the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended; and services of commissioned officers of the Public Health Service and of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and for the purposes of providing such services the Public Health Service may appoint not to exceed 20 officers in the Regular Corps to grades above that of senior assistant, but not above that of director, as otherwise authorized in accordance with section 711 of the Act of July 1, 1944; as amended (42 U.S.C. 211a), and the Coast and Geodetic Survey may appoint for such purposes not to exceed 20 commissioned officers in addition to those otherwise authorized: Provided, That not to exceed $37,800,000 shall be available for administrative expenses of the departments and agencies concerned with the administration of the programs provided for herein, including not to exceed $186,900 for personal services for those persons in a publicity office of the Mutual Security Agency in the District of Columbia the major part of whose activities is the dissemination of information in the United States and for expenses incident to the dissemination of such information, and no part of such amount shall be used to pay the salary of any civilian employee at a rate greater than that paid by the State Department for comparable work or services in the same area: Provided further, That no part of such funds shall be expended for the purchase of Agricultural products or products produced from Agricultural products not declared to be in short supply, in the United

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