EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT,

The PRESIDENT,
The White House.

BUREAU OF The Budget, Washington, D. C., March 7, 1944.

SIR: I have the honor to submit for your consideration the budget for the Selective Service System for the fiscal year 1945 containing estimates of appropriation amounting to $63,573,000. The details of these estimates and proposed provisions are transmitted herewith. I recommend that the budget be transmitted to Congress.

Very respectfully,

HAROLD D. SMITH,

Director of the Bureau of the Budget.

SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM

Salaries and Expenses, Selective Service System—

Salaries and expenses, Selective Service System [, War Manpower Commission]: 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 [$640,000] $400,000 for printing and binding; [$51,856,000 purchase of not to exceed forty motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; and, under such rules or regulations as may be prescribed by the Director of Selective Service, expenses of emergency 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: Provided, That such burial expenses shall not exceed $150 in any one case; $63,573,000: Provided, That such amounts as may be necessary shall be available for the planning, directing, and operation of a program of work of national importance under civilian direction, either independently or in cooperation with governmental or nongovernmental agencies, and the assignment and delivery thereto of individuals found to be conscientiously opposed to participation in work of the land or naval forces, which 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 accomplishment of the work; and [including also] 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 privileges 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 personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or their reserve components, may be ordered by the Director or by such persons as he may authorize, and persons so traveling shall be entitled to transportation 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 [86] $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, pursuant to the first paragraph of section 12 of the Act approved June 16, 1942 (37 U. §. 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 (Act of July 12, 1943, Public Law 135).