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PUBLIC LAW 778-SEPT. 3, 1954

35 Stat. 1027. Ante, p. 859.

Ante, p. 857.

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47 Stat. 412. " * "'""^ ' Ante, p. 832.

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Ante, p. 418. 60 Stat. 999.

62 Stat. 47.

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of 1954, and allocations to the Foreign Operations Administration, from any other appropriations shall be available for rents in the District of Columbia; expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the purposes of such appropriations, including (notwithstanding the provision of section 9 of the Act of March 4, 1909 (31 U.S.C. 673)), expenses in connection with meetings of persons whose employment is authorized by section 530 of the Mutual Security Act of 1954; employment of aliens, by contract, for services abroad; maintenance, operation, and hire of aircraft; hire of passenger motor vehicles and, in addition, passenger motoi^ vehicles abroad may be exchanged or sold and replaced by an equal number of such vehicles and the cost, including the exchange allowance, of each such replacement shall not exceed $3,000 in the case of an automobile for the chief of any special mission or staff abroad established under section 526, and $1,400 in the case of all other such passenger vehicles except station wagons; transportation of privately owned automobiles; entertainment within the United States (not to exceed $15,000); 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 the Foreign Operations Administration, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the amount therein specified; insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign countries; rental of quarters outside the continental limits of the United States to house employees of the United States Government (without regard to section 322 of the Act of June 30, 1932, as amended (40 U.S.C. 278a)), lease, necessary repairs and alterations to quarters; 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 1954 or other Act administered by the Foreign Operations Administration; purchase of uniforms; employment of chauffeurs for passenger carrying vehicles abroad notwithstanding the provisions of any other law; medical examinations of dependents of overseas personnel or candidates for overseas positions on the same basis as for employees or candidates; payment of per diem in lieu of subsistence to persons participating in any program of furnishing technical information and assistance, while in countries other than their own and other than the continental United States, at rates not in excess of those prescribed by the Standardized Government Travel Regulations, notwithstanding section 107 of the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1955; expenses authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended (22 U.S.C. 801-1158), not otherwise provided for; ice and drinking water for use abroad; 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 twenty 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, ^944^ as amended (42 U.S.C. 211a), and the Coast and Geodetic Survey may appoint for such purposes not to exceed twenty commissioned officers in addition to those otherwise authorized: Provided, That no part of the administrative expenses 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:

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