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than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both: Provided further, That the above penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law.

[SEC. 202. The appropriations and authority with respect to appropriations contained herein for the fiscal year 1944 shall be available from and including July 1, 1943, for the purposes respectively provided in such appropriations and authority. All obligations incurred during the period between June 30, 1943, and the date of the enactment of this Act in anticipation of such appropriations and authority are hereby ratified and confirmed if in accordance with the terms thereof.]

SEC. 207. Whenever the Civil Service Commission shall find that within the Federal service in the District of Columbia basic daily or hourly pay rates, fixed by wage boards or similar administrative authority serving the same purpose, for mechanical crafts and trades and laborer positions are higher than rates for such positions authorized by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, to such an extent as to cause undesirable competition for such services between units of the Government in the District of Columbia, said Commission is authorized to adjust from time to time and without regard to said Act the pay rates of such positions subject to the Classification Act to the extent necessary to prevent such competition. This authority shall cease siz months after the termination of the present hostilities, at which time the adjusted rates shall revert to those prescribed by the Classification Act.

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ESTIMATES OF APPROPRIATION FOR THE OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES

COMMUNICATION

FROM

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

TRANSMITTING

THE BUDGET FOR THE OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1945 CONTAINING ESTIMATES OF APPROPRIATION AMOUNTING TO $57,000,000 AND PROPOSED PROVISIONS AFFECTING SAID ESTIMATES

MARCH 24, 1944.-Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed

THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, March 23, 1944.

The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith for the consideration of Congress the budget for the Office of Strategic Services for the fiscal year 1945 containing estimates of appropriation amounting to $57,000,000 and proposed provisions affecting said estimates.

The letter of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget in connection with this budget is transmitted herewith.

Respectfully,

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.

The PRESIDENT,

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT,

The White House.

BUREAU OF THE BUDGET, Washington, D. C., March 23, 1944.

SIR: I have the honor to submit for your consideration the budget for the Office of Strategic Services for the fiscal year 1945 containing estimates of appropriation amounting to $57,000,000. The details of these estimates and proposed provisions are transmitted herewith. I recommend that the budget be transmitted to Congress.

Very respectfully,

PAUL H. APPLEBY, Acting Director of the Bureau of the Budget.

OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES

Salaries and Expenses, Office of Strategic Services—

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 director and one deputy director at $9,000 per annum each; [utilization of voluntary and uncompensated services;] procurement of necessary services, supplies and equipment without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes; travel expenses, including [(1) expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with the work of the Office of Strategic Services, (2) actual transportation and other necessary expenses and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence of persons serving while away from their homes without other compensation from the United States in an advisory capacity, and (3)] expenses outside the United States without regard to the Standardized Government Travel Regulations and the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, as amended (5 U. S. C. 821-833) [, and section 901 of the Act of June 29, 1936 (46 U. S. C. 1241)] and any general provision for the fiscal year 1945 to the contrary; preparation and transportation of the remains of officers and employees who die abroad or in transit, 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; [purchase and exchange of lawbooks and books of reference;] rental of news-reporting services; purchase of or subscription to commercial and trade reports, newspapers, and periodicals]; the rendering of such gratuitous services and the [free distribution] disposition, free or otherwise, of such materials as the Director deems advisable; purchase or rental and operation of photographic, reproduction, duplicating and printing machines, equipment, and devices and radio-receiving and radio-sending equipment and devices; maintenance, operation, repair, and hire of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles and vessels of all kinds; printing and binding; [payment of living and quarters allowances to employees with official headquarters located abroad in accordance with regulations approved by the President on December 30, 1942;] exchange of funds without regard to section 3651, Revised Statutes (31 U. S. C. 543); purchase and free distribution of firearms, guard uniforms, special clothing, and other personal equipment; [the use of and payment for compartments or other superior accommodations considered necessary by the Director of Strategic Services or his designated representatives for security reasons or the protection of highly technical and valuable equipment] the cost of a compartment or such other accommodations as may be authorized by the Director for security when authorized personnel are required to transport secret documents or hand baggage containing highly technical and valuable equipment; [$35,000,000] $57,000,000, 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 appropriation, for the performance of any of the functions or activities for which this appropriation is made: Provided, That [$23,000,000 $37,000,000 of this appropriation may be expended without regard to the provisions of law and regulations relating to the expenditure of Government funds or the employment of persons in the Government service, and [$21,000,000] $35,000,000 of such [$23,000,000 $37,000,000 may be expended for objects of a confidential nature, such expenditures

to be accounted for solely on the certificate of the Director of the Office of Strategic Services and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the amount therein certified (Act of July 12, 1943, Public Law 139).

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