1 OFFICE FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT [BOARD OF ECONOMIC WARFARE] FOREIGN ECONOMIC Salaries and Expenses, Foreign Economic Administration— Salaries and expenses: For all expenses necessary to enable the [Board of Economic Warfare] Foreign Economic Administration to carry out its functions and activities, including salaries of [an Executive Director] the Administrator at $12,000 per annum, one Deputy Administrator at $10,000 per annum, and four assistants to the [Executive Director] Administrator at $9,000 per annum each, and other personal services (including aliens) in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; the acceptance and utilization of voluntary and uncompensated services; the]; employment of aliens; temporary employment of persons or organizations by contract or otherwise without regard to the civil-service and classification laws [or section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5); procurement of services, supplies, and equipment (1) outside the United States without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes, and 3648, Revised Statutes (31 U. S. C. 529), including the rental of office space and contracts for utility services for periods of two years in any foreign country where required by local custom or practice, and (2) within the United States without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes, when the amount involved in any one case does not exceed $3001 (not exceeding $100,000); travel expenses (not exceeding [$300,000 $275,000 for travel within [the] continental [limits of the] United States), including [(1) expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with the work of the Board, (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 to the Board, (3) payment to the Chairman and the Executive Director of the Board of actual and necessary transportation, subsistence, and other expenses incidental to the performance of their duties, and (4) 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), and section 901 of the Act of June 29, 1936 (46 U. S. C. 1241), and (5) when specifically authorized or approved by the Executive Director of the Board or such other official as he may designate for the purpose, expenses of employees of the Board, including the transportation of their effects (in accordance with the Act of October 10, 1940), to their first post of duty in a foreign country, or when transferred from one official station to another, and return to the United States; payment of living and quarters allowances to personnel stationed outside the United States in accordance with the regulations approved by the President on December 30, 1942;] expenses of employees of the Administration and the transportation of their personal effects to their first posts of duty in a foreign country and return to their homes; transportation of dependents and household goods and effects, in accordance with the Act of October 10, 1940, from foreign countries to their homes in the United States of employees of the Foreign Economic Administration and the State Department for whom such expenses to a foreign country were authorized and paid from funds allocated to the Board of Economic Warfare; advances of money, upon the furnishing of bond, to employees [of the Board] traveling in a foreign country, in such sums as the [Executive Director of the Board] Administrator shall direct; reimbursement of employees [of the Board] for loss of personal effects in case of marine or aircraft disaster; [preparation and trans portation 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; the rental of news-reporting services; [the] purchase of, or subscription to, commercial and trade reports [, newspapers, and periodicals; maintenance, operation, repair, and hire of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles]; [and] printing and binding (not exceeding [$100,000); $36,150,000 $90,000); $20,881,000, 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 for the performance by them of any of the functions or activities for which this appropriation is made, but no other agency of the Government shall perform work or render services for the Board of Economic Warfare, whether or not the performance of such work or services involves the transfer of funds or reimbursement of appropriations, unless authority therefor, in accordance with regulations issued by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall have been obtained in advance: Provided, That such sums as are included in this appropriation for special projects (classified in the estimates submitted to Congress as or under "Other contractual services") may be expended for travel expenses, printing and binding, and purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles without regard to the limitations specified for such objects under this appropriation but within such amounts as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget may approve therefor and such Director shall report to Congress each such limitation determined by him] not to exceed $100,000 shall be available for payment, or reimbursement to employees, as determined by the Administrator, for emergency or extraordinary expenses in connection with operations in foreign countries, without regard to the provisions of law regulating the expenditure, accounting for, and audit of Government funds: Provided further, That not to exceed [$10,000,000 of this appropriation] $500,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be available [to meet emergencies] for expenditures of a confidential character to be expended under the direction of the [Executive Director] Administrator, 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 (Act of July 12, 1943, Public Law 189). |