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sonal services at the seat of government and elsewhere; (2) travel expenses; (3) office furniture, equipment and supplies, lawbooks, newspapers, periodicals, and books of reference (including the exchange thereof); (4) printing and binding; (5) membership m and cooperation with such organizations as are related to, or are part of, the civil aeronautics industry or the art of aeronautics in the United States or in any foreign country; (6) payment of allowances and other benefits To employees stationed in foreign countries to the same extent as authorized from time to time for members of the Foreign Service of the United States of comparable grade; (7) making investigations and conducting studies in matters pertaining to aeronautics; and (8) acquisition (including exchange), operation and maintenance of passengercarrying automobiles and aircraft, and such other property as is necessary in the exercise and performance of the powers and duties of the Administrator: Provided, That no aircraft or motor vehicles, purchased under the provisions of this section, shall be used otherwise than for official business. S U P P L I E S AND MATERIALS FOR OVERSEAS I N S T A L L A T I O N S

(b) When appropriations for any fiscal year for the Agency have not been made prior to the first day of March preceding the beginning of such fiscal year, the Administrator may authorize such officer or officers as may be designated by him to incur obligations for the purchase and transportation of supplies and materials necessary to the proper execution of the Administrator's functions at installations outside the continental United States, including those in Alaska, in amounts not to exceed 75 per centum of the amount that had been made available for such purposes for the fiscal year then current, payments of these obligations to be made from the appropriations for the next succeeding fiscal year when they become available. ACQUISITION AND DISPOSAL OF PROPERTY

(c) The Administrator, on behalf of the United States, is authorized, where appropriate: (1) to accept any conditional or unconditional gift or donation of money or other property, real or personal, or of services; (2) within the limits of available appropriations made by the Congress therefor, to acquire by purchase, condemnation, lease, or otherwise, real property or interests therein, including, in the case of air navigation facilities (including airports) owned by the United States and operated under the direction of the Administrator, easements through or other interests in airspace immediately adjacent thereto and needed in connection therewith: Provided, That the authority herein granted shall not include authority for the acquisition of space in buildings for use by the Federal Aviation Agency, suitable pccommodations for which shall be provided by the Administrator of General Services, unless the Administrator of General Services determines, pursuant to section 1(d) of Reorganization Plan Numbered 18, 1950 (64 Stat. 1270; 5 U.S.C. 133z-15 note), that the space to be acquired is to be utilized for the special purposes of the Federal Aviation Agency and is not generally suitable for the use of other agencies; (3) for adequate compensation, by sale, lease, or otherwise, to dispose of any real or personal property or interest therein: Provided, That, except for airport and airway property and technical equipment used for the special purposes of the Agency, such disposition shall be made in accordance with the Federal Property and Ad40 u#c 47Vnote. uiinistrative Services Act of 1949, as amended; and (4) to construct, improve, or renovate laboratories and other test facilities and to purchase or otherwise acquire real property required therefor. Any

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