[PUBLIC LAW 127--79TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 266--1ST SESSION] [H.J .RES. 202] JOINT RESOLUTION

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[PUBLIC LAW 127-79TH CONGRESS]
[CHAPTER 266-1sT SESSION
[H. J. Res. 202]
JOINT. RESOLUTION
Reducing certain appropriations available in the fiscal year ending June'30, 1945.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the appropria-
tions of the departments and agencies available in the fiscal year
ending. June 30, 1945, are hereby reduced in the sums hereinafter set
forth, such sums to be carried to the surplus fund and covered into
the Treasury immediately upon the approval of.this Act:
Office for Emergency Management:
Division of Central Administrative Services : Salaries and
expenses,. $1,558,000; Foreign Economic Administration: Salaries and, expenses,
$9001000;
National War Labor Board : Salaries and expenses, $700,000;
Office of Defense Transportation : Salaries ? and expenses,
$2,950,000;
Office of Inter-American Affairs : Salaries and expenses,
$307,000;
Office of Scientific Research and Development: Salaries and
expenses, $18,000,000;
Office of War Information : Salaries and expenses, $4,750,000;
War Manpower Commission : General administration, $300,000;
War Production Board: Salaries and expenses, $4,000,000;
Office of Censorship: Salaries and expenses, $5,107,000;
Office of Strategic Services: Salaries and expenses, $14,000,000 and
the limitation under this head on the amount for objects of a confiden-
tial nature is hereby decreased from "$35,000,000" to "$21,000,000";
Petroleum Administration for War: Salaries and expenses,,
$1,050,000;
INDEPENDENT OFFICES
Civil Service Commission :
Salaries and expenses, $375,000;
Salaries and .expenses (national defense), $75,000;
General Accounting Office: Salaries., $4,000,000;
Interstate Commerce Commission : Salaries and expenses, emergency,
$55,000;
FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY
Office of Education :
Education and training, defense workers (national defense) :
(2) For the cost of short courses of college grade, and so
forth, $1,500,000;
(3) For the cost of vocational courses in food production,
and so forth, $3,500,000;
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Public, Health Service: Emergency health and sanitation activities
(national defense,), $800,000;
FEDERAL WORTS AGENCY
Public Buildings Administration : Emergency safeguarding of pub-
lic buildings and property, $6,400,000;
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
War Food Administration : Salaries and expenses, $2,000,000;
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Federal property utilization, $3,600,000;
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of 'Fishery Coordination : Salaries and expenses, $25,000;
Solid Fuels Administration for War, $850,000;
War Relocation Authority: Salaries and expenses, $1,500,000;
Bureau of Mines :
Enforcement of Federal Explosives Act, $35,000;
Protection' of mineral resources and facilities (national
defense), $95 000;
Construction and equipment of helium plants, $500,000;
Manganese:beneficiation pilot plants ..and research (national
defense), $100,000;
Production of alumina from low-grade bauxite, aluminum clays
and alunite (national defense), $185,000;
investigation of bauxite and alunite ores and aluminum clay
deposits. (national defense), $187.000, and the amount under this
head available to the Geological Survey is hereby decreased from
"$317,000" to "$205,000" ;
Magnesium pilot plants and research (national defense),
$90,000;
Reduction in zinc concentrates with methane gas (national
defense), $75,000;
Government in the Territories : Emergency fund, Territories and
island possessions (national defense), $4,000,000;
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Legal activities and general administration :
For the Criminal Division, $200,000;
Salaries and expenses, Lands Division, $375,000;
Salaries and expenses, War Division, $85,000;
Federal Bureau of Investigation : Salaries and expenses, detection
and prosecution of crimes (emergency), $6,400,000;
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Office of the Secretary : Loan to District of Columbia for black-out
expenses, $100,000;
Foreign funds control, $1,000,000;
Bureau of the Public Debt : Salaries and expenses, $550.000;
Office of the Treasurer of the United States: Salaries, $440,000;
In all, $92,119,000.
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[PUBLIC LAw 372-78TH CONGRESS]
[CHAPTER 301-2D SESSION]
[H. R.' 4879]
AN ACT
Making appropriations for war agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945,
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representativee of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That' the' following
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated, for the support of war agencies for the fiscal year
ending June 30,1945, and for other purposes, namely
TITLE I
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF CENSORSHIP
Salaries and expenses : For all necessary expenses of the Office, of
Censorship, including the employment of aliens as examiners or trans-
lators; the employment of a Director and a deputy director at not
exceeding $10,000 and $9,000 per annum, respectively; not to exceed
$20,000 for temporary personal services without regard to civil-service
and classification laws; travel expenses (not to exceed $165,000) ; travel
expenses of appointees froin point of inductidn in continental United
States to their first posts of duty outside continental United States
and such expenses of employees returning from their places of employ-
ment outside continental United States to their homes in the United
States or possessions or in foreign countries; reimbursement at not to
exceed 3 cents per mile to employees for expenses incurred by them for
official travel in privately owned automobiles within the limits of their
official stations; printing and binding (not to exceed $275,000) ; rental
of news and other reporting services; rental and/or operation of photo-
graphic, communication, and other equipment and devices; hire (and
not to exceed $3,500 for the purchase) of motor-propelled passenger-
carrying vehicles; purchase of guard uniforms; purchase of special
wearing apparel or equipment for protection of employees while
engaged in their work; not to exceed $10,000 for scientific research on
models, devices, and other items related to the functions of the Office of
Censorship without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes;:
$29,700,000: Provided, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes shall
not be construed to apply to any purchase made by or service rendered
for the Office of Censorship outside the continental limits of the United
States when the aggregate amount involved in such case does not
exceed $500: Provided further, That not to exceed $10,000 of this appro-
priation shall be available for expenses of a confidential character, to
be expended under the direction of the Director who shall make a
certificate of the amount of each such expenditure which he may think
it advisable not to specify and every such certificate shall be deemed
a sufficient voucher for the amount therein certified.
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PETROLEUM ADMINISTRATION FOR WAR
Salaries and expenses,: For all necessary expenses of,the Petroleum
'Administration for War in performing its functions, as prescribed by
the President (Fed. Reg., December4, 1942); including not to exceed
$425,000 for personal services without regard to the civil-service and
classification laws but no'part of this sum shall be used to compensate.
any person who has been transferred from a classification.'pay status
to an ungraded pay status; printing and binding not to exceed
$25,000; and not to exceed $390,000 for travel expenses^' $6,000,000:'
Provided, That section 3709, Revised Statutes, shall not.apply to any
purchase or service. rendered under this ?appropriation w 0n t e
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aggregate amount involved does not exceed $30
Salaries and expenses: For all expenses necessary to, enable' the.
Office of Strategic Services to carry out its functions and activities,
including salaries of a 'Director at $10,000 per annum, one assistant
di .'tor and one deputy director at $9 000 per annum each;-procure-
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ment of, necessary services, supplies- and equipment without regard.
to section 3709, Revised Statutes ; travel expenses, including expenses
outside the United States without regard to the Standardized Govern-
ment Travel Regulations and. the Subsistence Expense,. Act of 1926,
as amended (5 U. S. C. 821-833), and any generalprovision for the
fiscal year 1945 to the. contrary ; preparation and transportation of
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the remains of officers and employees who
while in the dispatch of their official duties, to their former homes
in this country or to a place not more distant for interment,. and for
the ordinary expenses of such interment; rental of news-reporting
services; purchase of or subscription to.commercial.and trade reports;
the rendering of such gratuitous services and the disposition, free
or otherwise, of such materials as the Director deems advisable;
purchase or rental and operation of photographic, reproduction, dupli-
and printing machines, equipment, and devices and ,radio-
cating -
receiving and radio-sending equipment and devices; maintenance,
operation, repair, and hire of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passen I
ger-carrying vehicles and vessels of all kinds; printing and binding;
exchange of funds without regard to,section 3651, Revised Statutes
(31 U. S. C. 543) ; purchase and free distribution of firearins,guard
uniforms, special clothing, and other personal equipment; the cost
rtment or such other accommodations as may be authorized
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by the Director for security when authorized personnel are required
to transport secret documents or hand baggage containing highly
technical and valuable equipment ; X57.000.000._ of - which amount
such sums as may be authorized by the Director of the Bureau of the
Budget may be transferred to other departments or agencies of the
Government, either as advance payment or reimbursement of appro-
P riation, for the performance of any of the functions or activities
or or which this. appropriation is made: Provided, That $37,000,000 of
this appropriation may be expended without regard to the provisions
of law and regulations' relating to the expenditure of Government
f, unds or the employment of persons in the Government Service, and
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dential nature, such expenditures to be accounted for solely on the
certificate of the Director of the Office of Strategic Services and every
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Salaries and expenses : For all expenses necessary to enable the
Committee for Congested Production Areas to carry out the functions
vested in it by Executive Order 9327, including traveling expenses
(not to exceed $48,000) ; printing and binding (not to exceed $2,550) ;
purchase of newspapers and periodicals (not to exceed $600) ; the
employment of State, county, or municipal officials and employees,
with or without compensation; and the temporary employment of
persons or organizations, by contract or otherwise, without regard
to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and the civil service and classi-
fication laws (not to exceed $15,000)'; fiscal year 1945, $250,000, to
remain available to and including December 31, 1944; and $50,000 to
/ enable the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, in the period, January
1, 1945, to and including June 30, 1945, to liquidate such agency,
including personal services in the District of Columbia, and of such
sum of $50,000 the sum of $42,000 shall be exclusively for the payment
.of accumulated and accrued annual leave of employees of such Com-
mittee ; in all, $300,000.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT-OFFICE FOR
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
DIVISION OF CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES
Salaries and expenses : For all necessary expenses of the Division of
Central Administrative Services, including traveling expenses (not
to exceed $140,000.) ; printing and binding (not to exceed $50,000);
$7,783,000: Provided, That there may be transferred from this appro-
priation to appropriations available to the constituent agencies of the
office for Emergency Management and to other agencies such amounts
as may be necessary in connection with the transfer of functions from
the Division to such agencies and funds so transferred shall be consoli-
**..+ dated with and shall be expendable in the same manner as funds of
the agencies to which functions are transferred.
OFFICE OF CIVILIAN DEFENSE
Salaries and expenses : For all necessary expenses of the Office of
Civilian Defense, including salary of the Director at not to exceed
$10,000 per annum; traveling expenses (not to exceed $112,725) ;
printing and binding (not to exceed $9,750) ; $403,875; and $375,000
for storage, care, transportation, and inspection of property pur-
chased from funds appropriated to the Office of Civilian Defense;
in all, $778,875.
The appropriation herein made for the Office of'Civilian Defense
shall constitute the total amount to be available for obligation by such
agency during the fiscal year 1945 and shall not be supplemented
by funds from any Federal source.
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-COM1tiIITTEE ON FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE
For all expenses necessary to enable the Committee on Fair Employ-
ment Practice to carry out any functions lawfully vested in it by Execu-
tive Orders Numbered 8802 and 9346, including salary of a Chairman
at not to exceed $8,000 per annum and six other members at not to
exceed $25 per diem when actually engaged; travel expenses (not to
exceed $63,800) ; expenses of witnesses in attendance at Committee
hearings, when necessary; printing and binding (not to exceed $4,800) ;
purchase of newspapers and periodicals (not to exceed $500) ; and the
temporary employment of persons, by contract or otherwise, without
regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and the civil service and
classification laws (not to exceed $8,900) $500,000: Provided, That
no part of the funds herein appropriated shall be used to pay the com-
pensation of any person to initiate, investigate, or prosecute any
complaint against any defendant where such defendant does not have
the same right to appeal an adverse decision of the Committee on Fair
Employment Practice to the President of the United States, or to refer
said complaint to the President of the United States for final disposi-
tion, as is asserted by or allowed the said Committee on Fair Employ-
ment Practice in cases where persons complained against refuse to
abide by its orders: Provided further, That no part of this appropria-
tion shall be used to pay the compensation of any person to initiate,
investigate, or prosecute any proceeding against any person, firm, or
corporation which seeks to effect the seizure or operation of any plant
or other property of such person, firm, or corporation by Federal
authority for failure to abide by any rule or regulation of the Com-
mittee on Fair Employment Practice, or for failure to abide by any
order passed by the Committee on Fair Employment Practice: Pro-
vided further, That no part of the funds herein appropriated shall be
used to pay the compensation of any person employed by said Com-
mittee on Fair Employment Practice who issues or attempts to enforce
any rule, regulation, or order which repeals, amends, or modifies any
law enacted by the Congress.
OFFICE OF THE COORDINATOR OF INTER-AMERICAN LIT'AIRS
Salaries and expenses : For all necessary expenses of the Office of
the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, including not to exceed
$15,000 for the temporary employment of persons or organizations
by contract or otherwise without regard to the civil-service and classi-
fication laws; employment of aliens; travel expenses, not to exceed
$175,000; printing and binding, not to exceed $12,000; entertainment
flrcials and others of the other American republics; grants of
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money, property, or services to governmental and public or private
nonprofit institutions and facilities in the United States and the other
American republics; the free distribution, donation, or loan of pub-
lications, phonograph records, radio scripts, radio transcriptions, art
works, motion-picture scripts, motion-picture films, edm.cational mate-
rial, and other material and equipment; such other gratuitous assist-
ance as the Coordinator may deem necessary and appropriate to carry
out his program; expenses of transporting employees of the Office
of the Coordinator and their effects from their homes to their places
of employment in the other American republics, or from their homes
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in the other American republics to their places of employment, and
return, when specifically authorized by the Coordinator; travel
expenses of dependents and transportation of personal effects, from
their places of employment to their homes in the United States or
in the possessions of the United States or in the other American
republics, of employees for whom such expenses were paid by the
Government on their assignment to posts in foreign countries; caus-
ing corporations to be created under the laws of the District of
Columbia, any State of the United States, or any of the other Amer-
ican republics, to assist in carrying out the Coordinator's program
and capitalizing such corporations : Provided, That corporations
heretofore or hereafter created or caused to be created by the Coordi-
nator primarily for operation outside the continental United States
shall determine and prescribe the manner in which their obligations
shall be incurred and their expenses allowed and paid without regard
to the provisions of law regulating the expenditure, accounting for
and audit of Government funds, and may, in their discretion, employ
and fix the compensation of officers and employees outside the conti-
nental limits of the United States without regard to the provisions
of law applicable to the employment and compensation of officers
and employees of the United States : Provided further, That the
Coordinator shall transmit to the President immediately upon the
close of the fiscal year a complete financial report of the operations
of such corporations; $18,000,000, of which $4,000,000 is for the pay-
ment of obligations incurred under the contract authorization of
$18,000,000 under this head in the National War Agencies Appropria-
tion Act, 1944, and in addition to said appropriation the Coordinator
is authorized to enter into contracts during the fiscal year 1945 in
an amount not exceeding $2,500,000 for obligations necessary for and
incident to his program : Provided further, That not to exceed
$200,000 of this appropriation shall be available to meet emergencies
of a confidential character to be expended under the direction of the
Coordinator, who shall make a certificate of the amount of such
expenditure which he may think it advisable not to specify and every
such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the amount
therein certified: Provided further, That notwithstanding the provi-
sions of section 3679, Revised Statutes (31 U. S. C. 665), the Coordi-
nator is authorized in making contracts for the use of international
short-wave radio stations and facilities, to agree on behalf of the
United States to indemnify the owners and operators of such radio
stations and facilities, from such funds as may be hereafter appro-
rriated for the purpose, against loss or damage on account of injury
to persons or property arising from such use of said radio stations
and facilities.
Salaries and expenses : For all necessary expenses of the Office of
Defense Transportation, including salary of the Director at not to
exceed $12,000, traveling expenses (not to exceed $900,000, including
reimbursement, at not to exceed 3 cents per mile, of employees for
official travel performed by them in privately owned automobiles
within the limits of their official stations) ; printing and binding
(not to exceed $130,000, including not to exceed $5,000 for printing
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And binding outside the continental limits of the United States with-
out regard to provisions of law governing printing and binding-
(44 U. S. C. 111)) ; payment, at rates not in excess of those fixed by
law for witnesses attending in United States courts (28 U. S. C.
600c), of fees, mileage, and subsistence of witnesses appearing at
hearings held by the Office of Defense Transportation in connection
with the performance of its functions : Provided, That the payment
of subsistence to witnesses shall be subject to certification by the
Director of the Office of Defense Transportation or his designee, as-
to the necessity therefor ; $17,000,000.
Salaries and expenses : For all necessary expenses of the National
War Labor Board, including salaries at not to exceed $10,000 per
annum each for the four public members and not to exceed $9,000
per annum each for the four alternate public members of the Board;
travel expenses (not to exceed $1,000,000) ; printing and binding (not
to exceed $31,300) ; actual transportation and other- necessary
expenses, and not to exceed $25 per diem in lieu of subsistence,
whether or not in a travel status, of other members, alternate mem-
bers and associate members of the Board while serving as such
without other compensation from the United States; $15,000,000.
OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Salaries and expenses : For all necessary expenses of the Office of
Scientific Research and Development, including the purchase of
reports, documents, plans, or specifications; the emhloym.ent by con-
traet or otherwise, without regard to civil-service or classification
laws, at not to exceed $25 per day for individuals, of engineers, scien
tists, civilian analysts, technicians, or other necessary professional
personnel or firms, corporations, or other organizations thereof; print-
ing and binding; travel expenses, including, when specifically author-
ized or approved by the Director of the Office, transportation of per-
sonal effects, of personnel to their first posts of duty outside continental
United States, and return; travel expenses of personnel on official
business outside continental United States and away from., designated
posts of duty, on assignment with military forces, without regard to
the Standardized Government Travel Regulations other than para-
graph 45; the cost of a compartment or such other accommodation as
may be authorized by the Director for security when authorized per-
sonnel are required to transport secret documents or hand baggage con-
taining highly technical and valuable equipment; and not to exceed
$6,000 for the entertainment of officials of other countries, $120,000,000
Provided, That there may be paid from this approprieaion to the,
National Academy of Sciences a sum not exceeding $150,000 for the
administrative and overhead expenses incurred by said academy dur-
ing the fiscal year 1945 in carrying out research projects for Federal
agencies, and such sum shall be in addition to any reimbursement other-
wise provided for: Provided further, That notwithstanding the provi-
sions of section 3679 of the Revised Statutes (31 U. S. C. 665) the
'Office of Scientific Research and Development is authorized, in mi&ing
contracts for the conduct of investigations or experiments, to agree
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on behalf of the United States to indemnify the contractor from such
funds as may be hereafter appropriated for the purpose, against loss
or damage to persons or property arising from such work : Provided
further, That funds available to any agency of the Government for
scientific, technical, or medical research, development, testing, con-
struction of test models, experimental production, or the provision of
facilities therefor, shall be available for transfer with the approval of
the head of the agency involved, in whole or in part, to the Office of
Scientific Research and Development, and funds so transferred shall
be expendable in the same manner as this appropriation : Provided
further, That the Office of Scientific Research and Development may
sell, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, under such terms and condi-
tions as it may deem advisable, devices, scientific or technical equip-
ment, models, or other articles of personalty, developed, constructed,
produced in or purchased for the performance of its scientific or medi-
cal contracts, except articles acquired for administrative purposes, and
all receipts from such dispositions shall be covered into the Treasury
as miscellaneous receipts.
OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION
Salaries and expenses : For all necessary expenses of the Office of
War Information, including the employment of a Director and
Associate Director at not exceeding $12,000 and $10,000 per annum,
respectively ? not to exceed $75,000 for the temporary employment in
the United States of persons by contract or otherwise without regard
to the civil service and classification laws; employment of aliens;
employment of persons outside the continental limits of the United
States without regard to the civil service and classification laws ; travel.
expenses (not to exceed $400,000 for travel within the continental
limits of the United States) ; expenses of transporting employees and
their effects from their homes to their places of employment in a
foreign country and return to their homes in the United States;
purchase of radio time and purchase or rental of facilities for radio
transmission; purchase, rental, construction, improvement, mainte-
nance, and operation of facilities for radio transmission and reception,
including real property outside the continental limits of the United
`fro ' States and temporary sentry stations, guard barracks, and enclosures
for the security of short-wave broadcasting facilities within the
continental limits of the United States without regard to the provi-
sions of section 355, Revised Statutes (40 U. S. C. 255), and other pro-
visions of law affecting the purchase or rental of land and the con-
struction of buildings thereon; advertising in foreign newspapers
without regard to section 3828, Revised Statutes (44 U. S. C. 324) ;
printing and binding (not to exceed $2,710,389, for such expenses
within the continental limits of the United States), including
printing and binding outside the continental limits of the United
States without regard to section 11 of the Act of March 1, 1919
(44 U. S. C. 111) ; purchase or rental and operation of photographic,
reproduction, printing, duplicating, communication, and other
machines, equipment, and devices ; exchange of funds without regard
to section 3651, Revised Statutes; purchase of four hundred and
eighty-six motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for use outside
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the continental limits of the United States which may be acquired
without regard to statutory limitations as to price and authority to
purchase; acquisition, production, and free distribution of publica-
tions, phonograph records, radio transcriptions, motion-picture films,
photographs and pictures, educational materials, and such other items
as the Director may deem necessary to carry out the program of the
Office of War Information, and sale or rental of such items by contract
or otherwise to firms or individuals for use outside the continental
limits of the United States; purchase, repair, and cleaning of uni-
forms for use by porters, drivers, messengers, watchmen, and other
custodial employees outside continental United States; such
gratuitous expenses of travel and subsistence as the Director deems
advisable in the fields of education, travel, radio, press, and cinema;
not to exceed $125,000 for entertainment of officials and others in the
fields of education, radio, press, and cinema of other countries; pay-
ment of the United States' share of the expenses of the maintenance,
in cooperation with any other of the United Nations, of organizations
and activities designed to receive and disseminate information relative
to the prosecution of the war; $58,62x,367: Provided, That, exclusive
of the contingency fund mentioned in the last proviso hereof, not
more than $48,562,101 (including living and quarters allowances)
shall be allocated to the Overseas Operations Branch and not more
than $2,200,000 shall be allocated to the Domestic Operations
Branch for the following functions only : Office of the Director;
Book and Magazine Bureau; Foreign News Bureau, Office of Pro-
gram Coordination; News Bureau; Bureau of Special Services; Radio
Bureau; Motion Picture Bureau, not exceeding $54,428: Provided
further, That notwithstanding, the provisions of section 3679,
Revised Statutes (31 U. S. C. 665), the Office of War Information is
authorized in making contracts for the use of international short-
wave radio stations and facilities, to agree on behalf of the United
States to indemnify the owners and operators of said radio stations
and facilities from such funds as may be hereafter appropriated for
the purpose, against loss or damage on account of injury to persons
or property arising from such use of said radio stations and facilities :
Provided further, That not to exceed $600,000 of this appropriation
shall be available to meet emergencies of a confidential character to
be expended under the direction of the Director, who shall make a
certificate of the amount of such expenditure which he rr_.ay think it
advisable not to specify and every such certificate shall be deemed a
sufficient voucher for the amount therein certified: Provided further,
That $5,500,000 of this appropriation shall not be available for
expenditure unless the Director of the Office of War Information,
with the approval of the President, shall determine that such funds
in addition to the other funds provided herein for the Overseas
Branch are necessary for carrying on activities in conjunction with
actual or projected military operations and that accounts for these
funds may be merged with regular accounts.
No part of this or any other appropriation shall be expended by
the Office of War Information for the preparation or publication
of any pamphlet or other literature, except the United States Govern-
ment Manual, for distribution to the public within the United States.
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The appropriation herein made for the Office of War Information
shall constitute the total amount to be available for obligation by
such agency during the fiscal year 1945 and shall not be supplemented
by funds from any source except by reverse lend-lease.
OFFICE OF WAR MOBILIZATION
Salaries and expenses : For all necessary expenses of the Office of
War Mobilization, including salary of the Director at $15,000 per
annum; salaries of two Assistant Directors at $9,000 per annum each;
not to exceed $169,000 for the employment of persons or organizations
by contract or otherwise without regard to section 3709, Revised
Statutes, or the civil-service and classification laws; and printing
and binding; $900,000.
WAR PRODUCTION BOARD
Salaries and expenses : For all necessary expenses of the War Pro-
duction Board, including salary of the Chairman at $15,000 per
annum, and salaries of six vice chairmen or principal officials at
$10,000 per annum each; the employment of aliens; the employment
of expert witnesses; not to exceed $20,000 for the temporary employ-
ment of persons or organizations, by contract or otherwise, without
regard to the civil-service or classification laws; not to exceed $5,000
for entertainment of officials of other countries when specifically
authorized or approved by the Chairman; reimbursement at not to
exceed 3 cents per mile, of employees for expenses incurred by them
in performance of official travel in privately owned automobiles
within the limits of their official stations; not to exceed $4,625,000 for
travel expenses, including travel to and from their homes or regular
places of business in accordance with the Standardized Travel Regu-
lations; including travel in privately owned automobile (and includ-
ing per diem in lieu of subsistence at place of employment), of per-
sons employed intermittently away from their homes or regular places
of business as compliance commissioners and receiving compensation
on a per diem when actually employed basis; not to exceed $1,217,000
for printing and binding; not to exceed $4,500,000 for scientific
research on materials, material substitutes, and other subjects related
to the functions of the Board, without regard to section 3648, Revised
Statutes; and the rental, maintenance and operation of one airplane;
$67,500,000: Provided, That the requirement in section 301 of the
Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriation Act, 1943, and
in section 201 (a) of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1944,
that the payment of expenses of travel of employees on transfer from
one official station to another must be authorized in the order direct-
ing the transfer is hereby waived with respect to such travel per-
formed, with the approval. of the Chairman of the Board, or his
designee, in the fiscal year 1943, and in the fiscal year 1944 prior to
November 1, 1943.
Smaller War Plants Corporation, administrative expenses : Not
to exceed $10,000,000 of the funds of the Smaller War Plants Cor-
poration, acquired in accordance with the Act of June 11, 1942
(Public Law 603), shall be available for the administrative expenses
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vested in it by such Act, to carry out the provisions of section 2 of
such Act, and such other functions as may be lawfully delegated to
the Corporation, including the salary of the Chairman of. the Board
at $10,000 per annum; not to exceed $10,000 for the employment of
aliens; not to exceed $500,000 for the temporary employment of per-
sons or organizations by contract or otherwise without regard to the
civil-service and classification laws for special services, including
audits notwithstanding section 5 of the Act of April 6, 1914 (5 U. S.
C. 55) ; printing and binding; reimbursement, at not to exceed 3
cents per mile, of employees for expenses incurred by them in per-
formance of official travel in privately owned automobiles within the
limits of their official stations; the hire of motor-propelled passen-
ger-carrying vehicles; procurement of supplies, equipment, and
services without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes where
the amount involved in any one case does not exceed $300; and rent
in the District of Columbia : Provided, That, as determined by the Ink
chairman of the Board of Directors, or such officer as may be desig-
nated by the Board of Directors for the purpose, expenditures
(including expenditures for services performed on a force account or
contract or fee basis) necessary in acquiring, operating, main'taining,
improving, or disposing of real or personal property belonging to the
Corporation or in which it has an interest (except property acquired
for the administrative purposes of the Corporation), including
expenses of collections of pledged collateral and expenses of service
and administration of its loans, advances, and property under sec-
tion 6 of said Act of June 11, 1942, shall be considered as nonadmin-
istrative expenses for the purposes hereof : Provided further, That no
part of said $10,000,000 shall be obligated or expended unless and
until an appropriate appropriation account shall have been estab-
lished therefor pursuant to an appropriation warrant oi? a covering
warrant, and all such expenses shall be accounted for and audited
in accordance with the Budget and Accounting Act.
WAR SHIPPING ADMINISTRATION
War Shipping Administration, revolving fund: To increase the
War Shipping Administration revolving fund, $450,000,000, which
amount, together with other funds heretofore or hereafter made
available to such revolving fund, shall be available for carrying on'
all the activities and functions of the War Shipping Administration
(not provided for under other appropriations made to said Adminis-
tration), under Executive order of February 7, 1942 (7 F. R. 837),
and heretofore or hereafter lawfully vested in such Administration,
including costs incidental to the acquisition, operation, loading, dis-
charging, and use of vessels transferred. for use of any' department
or agency of the United States, for carrying out the provisions of
Executive Order Numbered 9112 of March 26, 1942, and for all
administrative expenses (not to exceed $14,500,000 in the fiscal year
1945), including the employment and compensation of persons in
the District of Columbia and elsewhere, such employment and com-
pensation to be in accordance with laws applicable to the employment
and compensation of persons by. the United States Maritime Com-
mission except section 201 (b) of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936
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(49 Stat. 1985) ; expenses of attendance, when specifically authorized
by the Administrator, at meetings concerned with the work of the
Administration; actual transportation and other necessary expenses
and not to exceed $25 per diem in lieu of subsistence of persons serv-
ing while away from their permanent homes or regular places of
business in an advisory capacity to or employed by the Administra-
tion without other compen?ation from the United. States or at $1
per annum ; printing and binding; lawbooks, books of reference,
periodicals and newspapers; teletype services; purchase, maintenance,
repair, rental in foreign countries, and operation of passenger-carry-
ing automobiles ; travel expenses, including transportation of effects
under regulations prescribed by the Administrator, of employees
from their homes to their first post of duty in 'a foreign country;
rent, including heat, light, and power, outside the District of Colum-
bia; necessary advance payments in foreign countries; and the
employment, on a contract or fee basis, of persons, firms, or corpora-
tions for the performance of special services, including legal services,
without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes or the civil-
service and classification laws : Provided, That when vessels are
transferred or assigned permanently by the War Shipping Adminis-
trator to other departments or agencies of the United States Govern-
ment for operation by them, funds for the operation, loading,
discharging, repairs, and alterations, or other use of such vessels
may be transferred from this fund to the applicable appropriations
of the department or agency concerned in such amounts as may be
approved by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget: Provided'
further, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and
directed to transfer the sum of $100,000,000 from the marine and
war risk insurance fund to the War Shipping Administration,
revolving fund.
Maritime training fund, War Shipping Administration : For the
training, recruitment, repatriation, rehabilitation, and placement of
personnel for the manning of the merchant marine, and the establish-
ment and maintenance of policies respecting maritime labor relations
and conditions, and for administrative expenses. (not to exceed
$4,000,000) including all the administrative items of expenditure
for which the appropriation "War Shipping Administration, revolv-
ing fund", is available, and not to exceed $2,500 for contingencies,
for the Superintendent, United States Merchant Marine Academy,
to be expended in his discretion, $80,000,000, of which $2,700,000 shall
be available for payment of obligations incurred in the fiscal year
1944: Provided, That the amount which may be expended for admin-
istrative expenses in the fiscal year 1944 is hereby increased from
$2,600,000 to $2,700,000.
State marine schools, War Shipping Administration : To reimburse
the State of California, $50,000; the State of Maine, $50,000; the
State of Massachusetts, $50,000; the State of New York, $50,000; and
the State of Pennsylvania, $50,000; for expenses incurred in the
maintenance and support of marine schools in such States as provided
in the Act authorizing the establishment of marine schools, and so
forth, approved March 4, 1911, as amended (34 U. S. C. 1121-11.23) .
and for the maintenance and repair of vessels loaned by the United
States to the said States for use in connection with such 'State marine`
schools, $100,000; in all, $350,000.
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OFFICE FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT-GENERAL PROVISION 9
(a) The head of any constituent agency may delegate to any official
in such agency or in the field offices of the Division of Central Admin-
istrative Services the authority to make appointments of personnel
and he may also delegate to any official in the agency of which he is
the head the authority to make other determinations necessary for the
conduct of the administrative management within such agency.
(b) Any employee of any of the constituent agencies :is authorized,
when designated for the purpose by the head of such ager.cy, to admin-
ister to or take from any person an oath, affirmation, or affidavit, when
such instrument is required in connection with the performance of
the functions or activities of such agency.
(c) The head of any of the constituent agencies is authorized, in
connection with the operations of such agency, to consider, ascertain,
adjust, determine, and certify claims against the Uni-:ed. States in
accordance with the Act of December 28, 1922 (31 U. S. C. 215), and
to designate certifying officers in accordance with the Act. of December
29, 1941, or to delegate authority to the Director of the Division of
Central Administrative Services to designate employees of such
Division as certifying officers to certify vouchers payable against the
funds of the constituent agency concerned.
(d) The appropriations for the constituent agencies under the Office
for Emergency Management for the fiscal year 1945 shall lie available
for the hire of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and the
appropriations for such agencies for the fiscal year 1944: shall be con-
strued as having been available for such purpose.
INDEPENDENT EXECUTIVE AGENCIES
SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM
Salaries and expenses, Selective Service System : For all expenses
necessary for the operation and maintenance of the Selective Service
System as authorized by the Selective Training and Service Act of
1940 (50 U. S. C. App. 301) ; including not to exceed. $00,000 for
printing and binding and not to exceed $1,000,000 for expenditure
through other Federal agencies, and through State agencies without
regard to section 3648 of the Revised Statutes, for gathering of
medical and social history information on registrants; purchase, for
replacement, of not to exceed thirty-two motor-propelled passenger-
carrying vehicles; and, under such rules or regulations as may be
prescribed by the Director of Selective Service, expenses of emer-
gency medical care, including hospitalization, of registrants who
suffer illness or injury, and the transportation, and burial, of the
remains of registrants who suffer death, while acting under orders
issued under the selective-service law but such burial expenses shall
not exceed $150 in any one case; $62,500,000: Provided, That such
amounts as may be necessary shall be available for the planning,
directing, and operation of a program of work of national impor-
tance under civilian direction, either independently or in cooperation
with governmental or nongovernmental agencies, and the assign-
ment and delivery thereto of individuals found to be conscientious)
opposed to participation in work of the land or naval farces, which
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cooperation with other agencies may include the furnishing of funds
to and acceptance of money, services, or other forms of assistance
from such nongovernmental agencies for the more effectual accom-
plishment of the work; and for the pay and allowances of such
individuals at rates not in excess of those paid to.persons inducted
into the Army under the Selective Service System, and such privi-
leges as are accorded such inductees : Provided further, That the
travel of persons engaged in the administration of the Selective
Service System, including commissioned, warrant, or enlisted per-
Sonnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or their reserve com-
ponents, may be ordered by the Director or by such persons as he
may authorize, and persons so traveling shall ' be entitled to trans-
portation and subsistence or per diem in lieu of subsistence, at rates
authorized by law : Provided further, That the Director of Selective
Service, in prescribing per diem rates of allowance, not exceeding
~7, in lieu of subsistence for officers of the Army, Navy, and
Marine Corps, and of the reserve components thereof, traveling on
official business and away from their designated posts of duty, pur-
suant to the first paragraph of section 12 of the Act approved June
16, 1942 (37 U. S. C. 112), is hereby authorized to prescribe such
per diem rates of allowance, whether or not orders are given to
such officers for travel to be performed repeatedly between two or
more places in the same vicinity, and without regard to the length
of time away from their designated posts of duty under such orders.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Salaries and expenses : For all necessary expenses of the War Relo-
cation Authority, $39,000,000, including expenses incident to the exten-
sion of the program provided for in Executive Order 9102 to persons
of Japanese ancestry not evacuated from military areas; salary of the
Director at not to exceed $10,000 per annum; employment of aliens;
traveling expenses, not to exceed $375,000; printing and binding, not
to exceed $28,000; procurement, without regard to section 3709, Revised
Statutes, of supplies and equipment (with or without personal serv-
ices.) ; purchase for replacement (not to exceed $50,000) of passenger-
carrying automobiles; the leasing to others of land acquired for the
program; purchase of uniforms for internal security officers; transfer
of household goods and effects as provided by the Act of October 10,
1940, including travel expenses, of employees transferred from other
Federal agencies to the Authority at its request; not to exceed $10,000
for payment to States or political subdivisions thereof, or other local
public taxing units, of sums in lieu of taxes against real property
acquired by the Authority for the purposes hereof; for payments for
the performance of governmental services required in connection with
the administration of the program; the disposal, by public or private
sale, of goods or commodities produced or manufactured in the per-
formance of activities hereunder, the proceeds of which shall be depos-
ited in a special fund which shall remain available until June 30, 1g45
'for the purposes hereof : Provided, That the provisions of the Act oy
February 15, 1934 (48'Stat. 351), as-amended, relating to disability or
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death compensation and benefits, shall apply to persons receiving, from
the United States compensation in the form of subsistence, cash
advances, or other allowances in accordance with regulations pre-
scribed by the Director of the War Relocation Authority for work
performed in connection with such program, including work per-
formed in the War Relocation Work Corps: Provided further, That
this pmovision shall not apply in any case coming within the purview
of the workmen's compensation laws of any State, Territory, or pos-
session, or in which the claimant has received or is entitled to receive
similar benefits for injury or death : Provided further, That the Secre-
tary of the Interior may delegate to any official in the VTar Relocation
Authority the authority to make appointments of personnel and he
may also delegate to any official in the War Relocation Authority the
authority to make other determinations necessary for nco conduct of
administrative management within the Authority : And provided fur-
That the limitation placed on the amount available for travel
ther
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expenses for the War Relocation Authority shall not apply to travel
of evacuees and their escorts incident to transfers and relocation.
TITLE II-GENERAL PROVISION,,
SEc. 201. The appropriations in this Act for salaries and expenses
shall be available, in addition to the objects specified under each head,
and without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes (except as other-
wise specified herein), for personal services in the District of Colum-
bia and elsewhere; contract stenographic reporting services; lawbooks,
books of reference, newspapers and periodicals; maintenance, opera-
tion, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles;
acceptance and utilization of voluntary and uncompensated services;
and traveling expenses, including expenses of attendance at meetings
of organizations concerned with the work of the agency from whose
appropriation such expenses are paid, and actual transportation
and other necessary expenses, and not to exceed $10 (unless otherwise
specified) per diem in lieu of subsistence, of persons serving while
away from their permanent homes or regular places of business in
an advisory capacity to or employed by any of such agencies without
other compensation from the United States, or at $1 per annum, and
including (upon authorization or approval of the head of any of such
agencies travel expenses to and from their homes or regular places
of business in accordance with the Standardized Government Travel
Regulations, including travel in privately owned automobile (and
including per diem in lieu of subsistence at place of employment),
of persons employed intermittently away from their homes or regular
places of business as consultants and receiving compensation on a
per diem when actually employed basis.
SEc,. 202. Whenever sums are set apart from the appropriations in
.this Act for special projects (classified in the estimates submitted to
Congress as or under "Other contractual services") expenditures may
be made therefrom for traveling expenses, printing and binding, and
purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles without
regard to the limitations specified for such objects under the respec-
tive heads, but within such amounts as the Director of the Bureau
..of the Budget may approve therefor and such Director shall report
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to Congress each such limitation determined by him : Provided, That
such limitations shall not apply where the special projects are per-
formed by non-Government agencies.
SEC. 203. With the prior approval of the Bureau of the Budget
and under authority of section 601 of the Act of June 30, 1932, as
amended (31 U. S. C. 686), orders for work or services to be per-
formed by other agencies of the Government may be placed by any
of the agencies whose appropriations are contained in this Act, but
no agency shall perform work or render services with or without
reimbursement (including the detail or loan of personnel) for any
of the agencies whose appropriations are contained in this Act except
in pursuance of orders so approved or under specific authority of
other law. This provision shall not apply' to the Office of Strategic
Services.
SEC. 204. The foregoing sections 201, 202, and 203 shall have no
application to appropriations for the War Shipping Administration.
SEC. 205. For the purposes of section 303 of the First Supple-
mental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1944, and any similar
general provisions for the fiscal year 1945, persons serving the
Government at $1 per annum shall be considered as serving without
compensation.
SEC. 206. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall
be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who advocates,
or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the over-
throw of the Government of the United States by force or violence :
Provided, That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be consid-
ered prima facie evidence that the person making the affidavit does
not advocate, and is not a member of an organization that advocates,
the. overthrow of the Government of the United States by force
or violence : Provided further, That any person who advocates, or
who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow
of the Government of the United States by force or violence and
accepts employment the salary or wages for which are paid from
any appropriation contained in this Act shall be guilty of a felony
and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or impris-
oned for not more than one year, or both : Provided further, That
the above penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not in substi-
tution for, any other provisions of existing law.
SEC. 207. If at any time during the fiscal year 1945 the termination
of the Act entitled "An Act to provide temporary additional compen-
sation for employees in the Postal Service", approved April 9, 1943, or
of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the payment of overtime
compensation to Government employees, and for other purposes",
approved May 7, 1943, shall be fixed by concurrent resolution of the
Congress at a date earlier than June 30, 1945, the appropriations con-
tained in this Act shall cease to be available on such earlier date for
obligation for the purposes of the terminated Act and the unobligated
portions of appropriations allocated for the purposes of such termi-
nated Act shall not be obligated for any other purposes of the
appropriation during the fiscal year 1945.
SEC. 208 This Act may be cited as the "National War Agency
Appropriation Act, 1945".
Approved June 28, 1944.
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