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PUBLIC LAW 86-3l-MAY 26, 1959

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"Passamaquoddy tidal power survey", $6,600, to remain available until expended; Educational exchange: "International educational exchange activities", $300,000; TREASURY DEPARTMENT

Office of the Secretary: "Salaries and expenses", $235,100; Bureau of the Public Debt: "Administering the public debt", $1,332,900; Bureau of Narcotics: "Salaries and expenses", $280,550; United States Secret Service: "Salaries and expenses", $286,400; "Salaries and expenses, guard force", $22,500; Coast Guard: "Retired pay", $700,000. GENERAL PROVISION

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SEC. 201. Except where specifically increased or decreased elsewhere in this Act, the restrictions contained within appropriations, or provisions affecting appropriations or other funds, available during the fiscal year 1959, limiting the amounts which may be expended for personal services, or for purposes involving personal services, or,amounts which may be transferred between appropriations or authorizations available for or involving such services, are hereby increased to the extent necessary to meet increased pay costs authorized by or pursuant to law. Approved May 20, 1959.

Public Law 86-31 May 26, 1959

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rjijj provide for the receipt and disbursement of funds, and for continuation of accounts when there is a vacancy in the office of the disbursing officer for the Government Printing Office, and for other puriwses.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the ETfbursin of- United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the disficer, vacancy. bursing clerk of the Government Printing Office is hereby designated as the disbursing officer for the Government Printing Office. (b) I n the case of the death, resignation, or separation from office of such disbursing officer, his accounts may be continued, and payments and collections may be made in his name, by the deputy disbursing officer or officers designated by the Public Printer, for a period of time not to extend beyond the last day of the second month following the month in which such death, resignation, or separation occurred. Such accounts and payments shall be allowed, audited, and settled, and checks signed in the name of the former disbursing officer for the Government Printing Office by any such deputy disbursing officer shall be honored, in the same manner as if the former disbursing officer for the Government Printing Office had continued in office. (c) No former disbursing officer for the Government Printing Office, his estate, or the surety on his official bond, shall be subject to any legal liability or penalty for the official accounts or defaults of any deputy disbursing officer acting in the name or in the place of such former disbursing officer. Each such deputy disbursing officer shall be responsible for accounts entrusted to him pursuant to subsection (b), and such deputy disbursing officer and the sureties upon his bond shall be liable for any default occurring during his service as such pursuant to such subsection. Approved May 26, 1959.

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