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 70 S T A T. ]

PUBLIC LAW 726-JULY 18, 1956

of transporting such furniture and etfeets from one location to another, under such regulations as an officer administering nonmilitary assistance, or such person as he may designate, may prescribe. "(18) payment of unusual expenses incident to the operation and maintenance of official residences for chiefs of special missions or staffs serving in accordance with section 526 of this Act. g ^^ Hg*; ^®^' '^^ ^f " (b) United States Government agencies are authorized to pay the 22 USC i786. costs of health and accident insurance for foreign participants in any exchange-of-persons program or any program of furnishing technical information and assistance administered by any such agency while such participants are en route or absent from their homes for purposes of participation in any such program. "(c) Not to exceed $12,000,000 of the funds available in the fiscal year 1957 for assistance in Korea under this Act may be used by the President to construct or otherwise acquire essential living quarters, office space, and supporting facilities in Korea for use by personnel carrying out activities under this Act."' SEC. 11. Title V, chapter 3, of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended, which relates to repeal and miscellaneous provisions, is further amended as follows: (a) Amend section 544, which relates to amendments to other laws, 22 ^|.9_''*'*2, by adding the following new subsections: " (c) In section 4 of the Act of May 26, 1949 (63 Stat. I l l, 5 U.S.C. 151c), insert after the words 'such functions' the following: ', including if he shall so specify the authority successively to redelegate any of such functions,'. " (d) In the first sentence of section 32(b)(2) of the Surplus Property Act of 1944, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 1641 (b)(2)), ss Stat. 782. after 'any agency thereof, insert 'including amounts received in repayment of principal or interest on any loan made under section 505(b) 22 u*sc frV?. of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended'. "(e) Section 933 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended (22 U.S.C. 1148), is hereby amended by inserting after 'continental ^° Stat. 1028. United States' where it appears in both subsection (a) and subsection (b) of that section', its Territories and possessions,'. "(f) Section 1441(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 is hereby fI'bsc *l44^i!* amended by inserting after paragraph (5) the following new paragraph: " ' (6) PER DIEM OF CERTAIN ALIENS.—No deduction or withholding under subsection (a) shall be required in the case of amounts of per diem for subsistence paid by the United States Government (directly or by contract) to any nonresident alien individual who is engaged in any program of training in the United States under the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended.' l^ ^u s c*^i*7 5 1 " (g) Section 1011 of the United States Information and Educa- "ot** tional Exchange Act of 1948, as amended (22 U.S.C. 1442), is ** ^*^*- «"• amended by inserting ' (a) ' before 'The Director', by deleting everything after the words 'national interests of the United States', by inserting a period at that point, and by inserting the following new subsections: " '(b) The Director is authorized to assume the obligation of not to exceed $28,000,000 of the notes authorized to be issued pursuant to subsection 111(c)(2) of the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, as amended (22 U.S.C. 1509 (c)(2)), together with the interest accrued «2 Stat. ue. and unpaid thereon, and to obtain advances from time to time from the Secretary of the Treasury up to such amount, less amounts previously advanced on such notes, as provided for in said notes. Such advances shall be deposited in a special account in the Treasury available for payments under informational media guaranties.

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