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Statement of proposed expenditures for purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, as required by 6 U. S. C. 78

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The sedans are used by the Administrator, assistant administrators, and occasionally by other officials of Foreign Economic Administration in expediting personal contacts with officials of other Government agencies. The station wagons are used to transport officials and mail between the various buildings of Foreign Economic Administration on regularly scheduled runs.

PRESIDENT

DEFENSE AID

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the President, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, through such departments or agencies of the Government as he may designate, further to carry out the provisions of an Act to promote the defense of the United States, approved March 11, 1941, as amended, and for each and every purpose incident to or necessary therefor, the following sums for the following respective purposes:

(a) For the procurement, by manufacture or otherwise, of defense articles, information, and services, for the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States, and the disposition thereof, including all necessary expenses in connection therewith, as follows:

[Vessels, ships, boats, and other watercraft, including the hire or other temporary use thereof, and equipage, supplies, materials, spare parts, and accessories, $1,552,659,000.]

Agricultural, industrial, and other commodities and articles, [$4,452,623,000] $3,446,361,000.

[(b) For testing, inspecting, proving, repairing, outfitting, reconditioning, or otherwise placing in good working order any defense articles for the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States, including services and expenses in connection therewith, $259,348,000.]

[(c)] (b) For administrative expenses, [$8,999,000: Provided, That transfers may be made from this appropriation to the consolidated appropriation for "Necessary services and expenses" to the extent necessary to reimburse such appropriation for transfers made pursuant to the Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1943] not specified or included in the appropriation for "Salaries and expenses, Foreign Economic Administration, $4,209,000.

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[(d)] (c) In all, [$6,273,629,000, to be available until June 30, 1944 $3,450,570,000.

[(e)] (d) Each of the foregoing appropriations shall be additional to, and consolidated with, the appropriations for the same purposes, contained in the same respective categories of appropriation in the Defense Aid Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1941, the Defense Aid Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1942, [and] the Second Defense Aid Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1942, and the Defense Aid Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1943, and the appropriations contained in the foregoing Acts[] are hereby continued and shall be available until June 30, [1944] 1945; and $88,299,000 of the money and property converted into money which have been hitherto received as a result of operations under said Act of March 11, 1941, as amended, is hereby consolidated with, and shall be available until June 30, 1945, for any of the purposes of, the appropriation for "Agricultural, industrial, and other commodities and articles": Provided, That with the exception of the appropriation for "Administrative expenses," not to exceed 20 per centum of any of [such consolidated] the foregoing appropriations may be transferred by the President to any other of such [consolidated] appropriations, but no such appropriation shall be increased more than 30 per centum thereby: Provided further, That notwithstanding the foregoing proviso (1) balances, unobligated as of [April 30, 1943] June 30, 1944, and balances subsequently released from obligation, of appropriations contained in the foregoing Acts for "Ordnance and ordnance stores, supplies, spare parts, and materials, including

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armor and ammunition and components thereof," and for “Miscellaneous military equipment, supplies, and materials," may be transferred by the President to and consolidated with the appropriation provided above for “Agricultural, industrial, and other commodities and articles," and (2) balances, unobligated as of [April 30, 1943] June 30, 1944, and balances subsequently released from obligation, of appropriations contained in the foregoing Acts for "Necessary services and expenses" may be transferred by the President to and consolidated with any of the appropriations provided above, except the appropriation for "Administrative expenses."

SEC. 2. Any defense article, information, or service procured from funds appropriated by this Act or prior Acts appropriating funds to the President for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of said Act of March 11, 1941, as amended, shall be retained by or transferred to and for the use of such department or agency of the United States as the President may determine, in lieu of being disposed of to a foreign government, whenever in the judgment of the President the defense of the United States will be best served thereby: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used for the payment of any subsidy on agricultural products produced in the continental United States (Act of June 14, 1943, Public Law 70).

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