Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 70.djvu/618

 562

47 Stat. 412.

60 Stat. 999.

62 Stat. 4 7.

PUBLIC LAW 726-JULY 18, 1956

[70 S T A T.

"(7) exchange of funds without regard to section 3651 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 543), and loss by exchange; "(8) expenditures (not to exceed $50,000 in any fiscal year except as may otherwise be provided in an appropriation or other Act) 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 an officer administering nonmilitary assistance, or such person as he may designate, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the amount therein specified; "(9) insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign countries; "(10) 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; "(11) actual expenses of preparing and transporting to their former homes in the United States or elsewhere, and of care and disposition of, 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 carried out with funds covered by this subsection (a); "(12) purchase of uniforms; "(13) payment of per diem in lieu of subsistence to foreign participants engaged in any program of furnishing technical information and assistance, while such participants are away from their homes in countries other than the continental United States, at rates not in excess of those prescribed by the Standardized Government Travel Regulations, notwithstanding any other provision of law; "(14) expenses authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1946, ^g amended (22 U.S.C. 801 and the following), not otherwise provided for; " (15) ice and drinking water for use abroad; "(16) 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 ^f j ^ j y j ^ ^944^ ^s 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; "(17) expenses in connection with travel of personnel outside the continental United States, including travel expenses of dependents (including expenses during necessary stopovers while engaged in such travel) and transportation of personal effects, household goods, and automobiles of such personnel when any part of such travel or transportation begins in one fiscal year pursuant to travel orders issued in that fiscal year, notwithstanding the fact that such travel or transportation may not be completed during that same 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 any employee (i) for not to exceed three months after first arrival at a new post, (ii) when an employee is assigned to a post to which he cannot take, or at which he is unable to use, his furniture and household and personal effects, or (iii) when such storage would avoid the cost

�