PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 228 -JULY 12, 1943 Columbia and elsewhere; the employment of aliens as examiners or Director and Dep- translators; the employment of a Director and a Deputy Director at not exceeding $10,000 and $9,000 per annum respectively; the accept- ance and utilization of voluntary and uncompensated services; not to exceed $20,000 for temporary employment, without regard to civil- service and classification laws; expenses of attendance at meetings Traveling expenses. of organizations concerned with the work of the Office; traveling expenses (not to exceed $175,500), including not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses of persons serving as advisers while away from their homes without other compensation from the United States; payment of living and quarters allowances to personnel stationed outside the continental limits of the United States in accordance with the Standardized Regulations Dated December 30, 1942; printing and binding (not to exceed $355,000); hire, main- tenance, and repair of automobiles; purchase of guard uniforms, law- books, books of reference, newspapers, and periodicals; purchase of gloves, aprons, and other items necessary for protection from chem- icals and other laboratory materials and equipment; $27,800,000: Minor purchases. Provided, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes shall not be con- 41U.8.a. 5 strued to apply to any purchase made by or service rendered for the Office of Censorship outside the continental limits of the United States when the aggregate amount involved in such case does not exceed $500. PETROLEUM ADMINISTRATION FOR WAR Salaries and Expenses: For all necessary expenses of the Petroleum Administration for War in performing its functions as prescribed by 7 F. R. 10001. the President (Fed. Reg., December 4, 1942), including personal serv- ices in the District of Columbia; not to exceed $600,000 for personal services without regard to the civil service and classification laws; printing and binding not to exceed $15,000; traveling expenses not to exceed $320,000, including attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with the purposes of this appropriation, and actual trans- portation and other necessary expenses and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence of persons serving in an advisory capacity to the Administrator while away from their homes without other com- pensation from the United States; contract stenographic reporting services; books of reference, newspapers, and periodicals; purchase (not to exceed $12,000), maintenance, repair, and operation of pas- 41 S.. ('. . senger-carrying automobiles; $5,473,000: Provided, That section 3709, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to any purchase or service rendered under this appropriation when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $300. OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION peinistres ti' e - Salaries and expenses: For all necessary expenses of the Office of ·s Stat. 23, 65. Price Administration in carrying out the provisions of the Emer- app. ' 901946, p961- gency Price Control Act of 1942, as amended by the Act of October 2, 9Ant, p. 63; pot p 1942 (50 U. S. C . App. 901), and the provisions of the Act of May 566t. 31, 1941 (55 Stat. 236), as amended by the Second War Powers Act, 56 Stat. 177 . s50-. s: c.,supp. i, 1942 (50 U. S . C . App. 622), and all other powers, duties, and func- aplp. 1152 . tions which may be lawfully delegated to the Office of Price Adminis- tration, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; expenses of in-service training of employees, including Employment of salaries and traveling expenses of instructors; not to exceed $55,000 alis. for the employment of aliens; not to exceed $30,000 for the temporary employment of persons or organizations, by contract or otherwise, 41 v. . c.I. . without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes, or the civil-service 524 [57 STAT.
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