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 68 S T A T. ]

PUBLIC LAW 778-SEPT. 3, 1954

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Provided further, That none of the funds provided herein shall be ^^s^^i^y p~wbi. used to pay any employee a basic salary of $12,000 or more per annum, except that this prohibition shall not apply to two-thirds of the number of employees being paid at the basic salary of $12,00 or more per annum on June 30, 1953, and except that this prohibition shall not apply to employees receiving salaries in excess of $12,000 as the result of general pay raise legislation enacted during the fiscal year 1955, nor to not to exceed six employees assigned to the administration or implementation of the program authorized by section 132 of the Mutual ^"'^' ^' ^^^' Security Act of 1954: Provided further, That appropriations made travel expenses, under tLis Act shall be available for expenses in connection with travel of personnel outside the continental United States, including travel of dependents and transportation of personal effects, household goods, or automobiles of such personnel when any part of such travel or transportation begins in the current fiscal year pursuant to travel orders issued in that fiscal year, notwithstanding the fact that such travel or transportation may not be completed during the current fiscal year, and cost of transporting to and from a place of storage, and the cost of storing, the furniture and household and personal effects of an employee of the Foreign Operations Administration who is assigned to a post at which he is unable to use his furniture and effects, under such regulations as the Director of the Foreign Operations Administration may prescribe: Provided further, That no part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for expense of transportation, packing, crating, temporary storage, drayage, and unpacking of household goods and personal effects in excess of an average of five thousand pounds net but not exceeding nine thousand pounds net in any one shipment, but the limitations imposed herein shall not be applicable in the case of employees transferred to or serving in stations outside the continental United States under orders relieving them from a duty station within the United States prior to August 1, 1953. SEC. 103. Payments made from funds appropriated herein for t^e'l-^re^olx.^l engineering fees and services to any individual engineering firm on congress, any one project in excess of $25,000 shall be reported to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives at least twice annually. SEC. 104. Pursuant to section 1415 of the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1953, and in addition to other amounts made available pur- 31 u | c 724.* suant to said section, not to exceed the equivalent of $25,000,000 of foreign currencies or credits owed to or owned by the United States shall remain available until expended, without reimbursement to the Treasury, for liquidation of obligations incurred against such currencies or credits prior to July 1, 1953, pursuant to authority contained in the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended, and Acts for 22 USC^i*65 1 which funds were authorized by that Act and hereafter, foreign no*** currencies generated under the provisions of this Act shall be utilized only for the purposes for which the funds providing the commodities which generated the currency were appropriated (except as specifically provided in section 109 of this Act): Provided, That the proviso in section 502(b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954 is '*"'°' P- *^°amended as follows: (1) Strike out "Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate" and insert "Committee on Appropriations of the Senate". SEC. 105. None of the funds provided by this Act nor any of the refIct^n.'* * * * *' " counterpart funds generated as a result of assistance under this or ^^ "" *°"* any other Act shall be used to make payments on account of the principal or interest on any debt of any foreign government or on any loan made to such government by any other foreign government; nor

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