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 68 S T A T. ]

PUBLIC LAW 458-JUNE 30, 1954

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National Guard Bureau; establishment, maintenance, operation, repair, and other necessary expenses of facilities for the training and administration of the Air National Guard, including construction of facilities, and additions, extensions, alterations, improvements, and rehabilitation of existing facilities, as authorized by the Act of September 11, 1950 (Public Law 783); maintenance, operation, and modi- |^ use ssi^note. fication of aircraft; transportation of things; purchase and hire of Si4>piies, etc. passenger motor vehicles; procurement and issue to the Air National Guard of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia of supplies, materials, and equipment, as authorized by law; and expenses incident to the maintenance and use of supplies, materials, and equipment, including such as may be furnished from stocks under the control of agencies of the Department of Defense; $160,000,000: Provided, That in addition, the Secretary of the Air Force may transfer not to exceed $9,000,000 to this appropriation from any appropriation available to the Department of the Air Force which is limited for obligation to fiscal year 1955: Provided further, That the number of caretakers authorized to be employed under the provisions of law (32 U.S.C. 42) may be such as is deemed necessary by the Secretary stat^. Tf34.^°^' ^* of the Air Force. CONTINGENCIES

For emergencies and military expenses, to be expended on the authority or approval of the Secretary of the Air Force, and such expenses may be accounted for solely on his certificate, $28,000,000. EEDUCTION IN APPROPRIATION AIR FORCE STOCK FUND

The amount available in the Air Force Stock Fund is hereby reduced by $25,000,000, such sum to be covered into the Treasury immediately upon approval of this Act. TITLE VII GENEEAL PROVISIONS SEC. 701. During the current fiscal year, the Secretary of Defense Experts or conand the Secretaries of the Air Force, Army, and Navy, respectively, if they should deem it advantageous to the national defense, and if in their opinions, the existing facilities of the Department of Defense are inadequate, are authorized to procure services in accordance with section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a), but at rates «« Stat. sio. for individuals not in excess of $50 per day, and to pay in connection therewith travel expenses of individuals, including actual transportation and per diem in lieu of subsistence while traveling from their homes or places of business to official duty station and return as may be authorized by law: Provided, That such contracts may be renewed annually. SEC. 702. Section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall not apply in the case publicmones! °* of payments made from appropriations contained in this Act, (1) to 3i use 529.' payments made in compliance with the laws of foreign countries or their ministerial regulations, (2) to payments for rent in such countries for such periods as may be necessary to accord with local custom, or (3) to payments made for tuition. SEC. 703. During the current fiscal year, provisions of law pro- Noncitizens. hibiting the payment of compensation to, or employment of, any person not a citizen of the United States shall not apply to personnel of the Department of Defense.

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