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SEC. 2. That section 3 of the Act of February 23, 1931, as amended, is amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 3. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized to grant at all posts, allowances for living quarters, heat, light, fuel, gas and electricity, and at posts where in his judgment it is required by the public interests for the purpose of meeting the unusual or excessive costs of living ascertained by him to exist, to grant post allowances to clerks assigned there and also to other employees of the Foreign Service of the United States who are American citizens, within such appropriations as Congress may make for said purpose; Provided, That all such allowances shall be accounted for to the Secretary of State in such manner and under such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe, and the authorization and approval of such expenditures by the Secretary of State as complying with such rules and regulations shall be binding upon all officers of the Government; Provided, however, That all such allowances and the reasons therefor shall be reported to the Congress with the annual budget."

SEC. 3. That paragraph (a) of section 10 of the Act of February 23, 1931, as amended, is hereby amended to read:

"SEC. 10 (a). The officers in the Foreign Service of the United States shall hereafter be graded and classified as follows, with the salaries of each class herein affixed thereto, except as increases in salaries are authorized in section 33 of this Act:

"Ambassadors and Ministers, as now or hereafter provided; Foreign Service officers as follows: Class I, $9,000 to $10,000; class II, $8,000 to $8,900; class III, $7,000 to $7,900; class IV, $6,000 to $6,900; class V, $5,000 to $5,900; class VI, $4,500 to $4,900; class VII, $4,000 to $4,400; class VIII, $3,500 to $3,900; unclassified, $2,500 to $3,400; Provided, however, That as many Foreign Service officers above class VI as may be required for purposes of inspection may be detailed by the Secretary of State for that purpose.'

SEC. 4. That section 10 of the Act of February 23, 1931, is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph (c):

"SEC. 10 (c). The Secretary of State is hereby authorized to assign for special duty as officers of the Foreign Service for nonconsecutive periods of not more than four years, qualified persons holding positions in the Department of State, and, at his request, qualified persons holding positions in any other department or agency of the United States who have rendered not less than five years of Government service, and persons so assigned shall be eligible during the periods of such assignment to receive the allowances authorized by the provisions of section 11 of this Act. Persons assigned under the authority of this section shall be eligible to receive all benefits provided by Civil Service law and regulation in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as though they were serving in their regular Civil Service positions and upon termination of their assignment shall be reinstated in the respective department or agency from which loaned. The salaries and allowances of such persons shall, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, be paid throughout the periods of such assignments from the appropriations provided for the Department of State.'

Sec. 5. That section 12 of the Act of February 23, 1931, is amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 12. Hereafter appointments to the position of Foreign Service officer shall be made after examination, and officers so appointed, except as hereinafter provided, shall serve a suitable period of probation in an unclassified grade, or, under such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe, after ten years continuous service in an executive or quasi-executive position in the Department of State, by transfer therefrom or, to meet the immediate need for special, technical and scientific personnel by transfer of such personnel, from the Foreign Service Auxiliary or the administrative, fiscal or clerical personnel of the Foreign Service or from among the personnel of other departments or agencies who have rendered not less than ten years of Government service and who have demonstrated special qualifications upon assignment for special duty under the authority of section 5 of this Act, by appointment and commission with designations appropriate to the professional, scientific or technical duties to be performed, directly to a classified grade commensurate with the candidate's age, qualifications and experience; Provided, That the personnel appointed without requirement of probationary tenure in an unclassified grade shall not exceed at any time in number 5% of the total number of the Foreign Service officers for whom provision is annually to be made by the Congress; Provided further, That no person shall be eligible for appointment as a Foreign Service officer who is not an American citizen and who shall not have been such at least fifteen years; Provided further, That reinstatement of Foreign Service officers separated from the classified service by reason of

appointment to some other position in the Government service may be made by Executive order of the President under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe.

"All appointments of Foreign Service officers shall be by commission to a class and not by a commission to a particular post, and such officers shall be assigned to posts and may be transferred from one post to another by order of the President as the interests of the Service may require; Provided, That the classification of secretaries in the Diplomatic Service and of consular officers is hereby abolished without, however, in any wise impairing the validity of the present commissions of secretaries and consular officers."

SEC. 6. Section 14 of the Act of February 23, 1931, is amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 14. That the Secretary of State is directed to report from time to time to the President, along with his recommendations, the names of those Foreign Service officers who by reason of efficient service have demonstrated special capacity for promotion to the grade of minister or ambassador and the names of those Foreign Service officers and clerks and officers and employees in the Department of State who by reason of efficient service, an accurate record of which shall be kept in the Department of State, have demonstrated special efficiency, and also the names of persons found upon taking the prescribed examination to have fitness for appointment to the Service, and any Foreign Service officers who may hereafter be promoted to a higher class within the classification prescribed in section 10 of this Act, as amended, shall have the status and receive the compensation attaching to such higher class from the date stated in his commission as the effective date of his promotion to such higher class."

SEC. 7. Section 16 of the Act of February 23, 1931, is amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 16. That every secretary, consul general, consul, vice consul, or Foreign Service officer and, if required, any other officer or employee of the Foreign Service or of the Department of State before he enters upon the duties of his office shall give to the United States a bond in such form and in such penal sum as the Secretary of State shall prescribe, with such sureties as the Secretary of State shall approve, conditioned without division of penalty for the true and faithful performance of his duties including (but not by way of limitation) certifying vouchers for payment, accounting for, paying over, and delivering up of all fees, moneys, goods, effects, books, records, papers, and other property that shall come to his hands or to the hands of any other person to his use as such officer or employee under any law now or hereafter enacted and for the true and faithful performance of all other duties now or hereafter lawfully imposed upon him as such officer or employee, and such bond shall be construed to be conditioned for the true and faithful performance of all official duties of whatever character now or hereafter lawfully imposed upon himn, or by him assumed incident to his employment as an officer or employee of the Government: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provisions of law, upon approval of any bond given pursuant to this Act, the principal shall not be required to give another separate bond conditioned for the true and faithful performance of only a part of the duties for which the bond given pursuant to this Act is conditioned; Provided further, That the operation of no existing bond of a Foreign Service officer or vice consul shall in any way be impaired by the provisions of sections 1-23, 23f-23 1, title 22 of the U. S. Code; Provided further, That the bond of a Foreign Service officer shall be construed to be conditioned for the true and faithful performance of all acts of such officer incident to his office regardless of whether commissioned as diplomatic, consular or Foreign Service officer. The bonds herein mentioned shall be deposited with the Secretary of the Treasury; Provided further, That nothing herein contained shall be deemed to obviate the necessity of furnishing any bond which may be required pursuant to the provisions of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, as amended."

SEC. 8. Section 19 of the Act of February 23, 1931, is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 19. Under such regulations as the President may prescribe and within the limitations of such appropriations as may be made therefor, which appropriations are authorized, ambassadors, ministers, diplomatic, consular and Foreign Service officers may be granted allowances for living quarters, heat, light, fuel, gas and electricity; for representation; and also post allowances wherever the cost of living may be proportionately so high that in the opinion of the Secretary of State such allowances are necessary to enable such diplomatic, consular, and Foreign Service officers to carry on their work efficiently; Provided, That all such allowances shall be accounted for to the Secretary of State in such manner and

under such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe and the authorization and approval of such expenditures by the Secretary of State as complying with such rules and regulations shall be binding upon all officers of the Government; provided further, That the Secretary of State shall report all such expenditures annually to the Congress with the budget estimates of the Department of State."

SEC. 9. Section 21 of the Act of February 23, 1931, is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 21. That any Foreign Service officer may be assigned for duty in the Department of State or in any department or agency of the Government in the discretion of the Secretary of State without loss of class or salary, such assignment to be for a period of not more than three years unless the public interest demands further service, when such assignment may be extended for a period not to exceed one year, upon completion of which four-year assignment and reassignment to the field, he may not again be assigned for duty in the Department of State or in any other department or agency of the Government until the expiration of at least three years of field duty. Any ambassador or minister, or any Foreign Service officer of whatever class, detailed for duty in connection with trade conferences, or international gatherings, congresses, or conferences, or for other special duty not at his post or the Department of State, except temporarily for purposes of consultation, shall be paid his salary and expenses of travel and subsistence at the rates prescribed by law."

SEC. 10. Section 31 of the Act of February 23, 1931, is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 31. There shall be in the Department of State a Board of Foreign Service Personnel for the Foreign Service, whose duty it shall be to recommend promotions in the Foreign Service and to furnish the Secretary of State with lists of Foreign Service officers who have demonstrated special capacity for promotion to the grade of Minister or Ambassador. The board shall be composed of not more than three Assistant Secretaries of State, one of whom shall be the Assistant Secretary of State having supervision over the Division of Foreign Service Personnel and who shall be chairman, an officer of the Department of Commerce designated by the Secretary of Commerce and acceptable to the Secretary of State and an officer of the Department of Agriculture designated by the Secretary of Agriculture and acceptable to the Secretary of State. The officer of the Department of Commerce shall sit as a member of the board only when nominations and assignments of commercial attachés, the selection or assignment of Foreign Service officers for specialized training in commercial work or other matters of interest to the Department of Commerce are under consideration; the officer of the Department of Agriculture shall sit as a member of the board only when nominations and assignments of agricultural attachés, the selection or assignment of Foreign Service officers for specialized training in agricultural work or other matters of interest to the Department of Agriculture are under consideration. The Chief of the Division of Foreign Service Personnel of the Department of State and one other member of that division may attend the meetings of the board and one of them shall act as secretary but they shall not be entitled to vote at its proceedings. No Foreign Service officer below class I shall be assigned as Chief of the Division of Foreign Service Personnel, nor shall such officer be given any authority except of a purely advisory character over promotions, demotions, transfers, or separations from the service of Foreign Service officers. The Director of the Office of Foreign Service Administration shall be assigned from among officers of the Foreign Service, but no Foreign Service officer below class I shall be so assigned."

SEC. 11. Revised Statutes 1699, 1700, and 1701 are hereby repealed.

SEC. 12. Section 7 of the Act of February 5, 1915 (38 Stat. 807), restricting the transaction of business by diplomatic officers, shall apply, with the exception of consular agents, to all officers and employees of the Foreign Service.

SCHEDULE OF JUDGMENTS RENDERED BY THE COURT OF CLAIMS

COMMUNICATION

FROM

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

TRANSMITTING

SCHEDULE OF JUDGMENTS RENDERED BY THE COURT OF CLAIMS WHICH HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED BY THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT AND REQUIRES AN APPROPRIATION FOR THEIR PAYMENT, AMOUNTING TO $526,560.06

FEBRUARY 29, 1944.-Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed

THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, February 28, 1944.

The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith for the consideration of Congress, in compliance with the provisions of the act of September 30, 1890 (31 U. S. C. 226), and the act of April 27, 1904 (31 U. S. C. 583, par. 2), a schedule of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims which have been submitted by the Treasury Department and requires an appropriation for their payment, amounting to $526,560.06.

The necessity for the appropriation asked is explained in the letter of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, transmitted herewith, in whose conclusions and observations thereon I concur.

Respectfully,

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.

The PRESIDENT,

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT,

The White House.

BUREAU OF THE BUDGET, Washington, D. C., February 25, 1944.

SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith for your consideration, in compliance with the provisions of the act of September 30, 1890, (31 U. S. C. 226), and the act of April 27, 1904 (31 U. S. C. 583, par. schedule of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims which has been submitted by the Treasury Department with the request for an appropriation for their payment, as follows:

Under

Legislative establishment: Architect of the Capitol.___
Federal Works Agency:

Public Buildings Administration.

Public Works Administration_.

Department of Agriculture..

Department of Commerce.

Department of the Interior:

Indians

Civil..

Department of Justice...

Department of Labor.
Navy Department..
Post Office Department-
Treasury Department.
War Department....

Total..

$900.00

47, 122. 77 2,000.00 75.00 125.00

3, 730. 43 18, 179.70

25.00

50.00

331, 594. 29

1,085. 36

7, 044. 97

114, 627. 54

526, 560. 06

For the payment of these judgments there is required an appropriation of $526,560.06, together with such amount as may be neces sary to pay interest, provided that none of the judgments shall be paid until the right of appeal has expired.

Since the foregoing is an obligation of the Government, lawfully imposed, and which (subject to the reserved right of appeal) must be paid, an appropriation for that purpose is necessary at this time.

Very respectfully,

HAROLD D. SMITH, Director of the Bureau of the Budget.

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