62 STAT.] 80TE CONG. , 2 D SESS.-CH. 466 -JUNE 14, 1948 agency billed, which action shall be based upon acceptance of the Bureau of Federal Supply certification as made, subject to later adjustment if necessary, the responsibility of the certifying officer to be limited to the availability of the funds to be charged: Provided further, That the general supply fund may be used to purchase from or through the Public Printer standard forms and blank-book work for field warehouse stocking and issue, but issues thereof shall be made only to Government agencies and shall be chargeable to applicable appropriation authorizations or limitations of such agencies for printing and binding, and reports of such issues shall be made as the Public Printer may require: Providedfurther,That advances received pursuant to law (31 U. S . C . 686) from departments and establish- ments of the United States Government and the government of the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1949 shall be credited to the general supply fund: Providedfurther, That per diem employees engaged in work in connection with operations of the fuel yards may be paid rates of pay approved by the Secretary of the Treasury not exceeding current rates for similar services in the District of Columbia: Provided further, That the term "fuel" shall be held to include "fuel oil": Providedfurther, That the reconditioning and repair of surplus property and equipment for disposition or reissue to Government service, may be made at cost by the Bureau of Federal Supply, pay- ment therefor to be effected by charging the proper appropriation and crediting the general supply fund. Repairs to typewriting machines (except bookkeeping and billing machines) in the Government service in the District of Columbia and areas adjacent thereto may be made at cost by the Bureau of Federal Supply, payment therefor to be effected by charging the proper appropriation and crediting the general supply fund. No part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used during the fiscal year 1949 for the purchase, within the continental limits of the United States, of any typewriting machines (except bookkeeping and billing machines and typewriting machines for veterans under public laws administered by the Veterans' Administration). Each agency in the executive branch of the Government (which shall include all departments, independent establishments, and wholly owned Government corporations) is authorized and directed (1) to report within thirty days after the enactment of this Act, or by July 1, 1948, whichever is the later, to the Director of the Bureau of Federal Supply the total number of typewriting machines in the possession or custody of such agency and the number thereof surplus to its requirements, and (2) to surrender and ship such surplus typewriting machines as the Director of the Bureau of Federal Supply may direct. Costs of packing and shipping hereunder shall be charged to the general supply fund. Each agency shall furnish the Director of the Bureau of Federal Supply such information regarding type- writing machines as he may from time to time request. The Bureau of Federal Supply is authorized and directed to receive and hold all typewriting machines surrendered to it hereunder and to distribute same to any of such agencies as the Director of the Bureau of Federal Supply may determine. Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraphs, in the event the Director of the Bureau of Federal Supply is unable to furnish any such agency with suitable typewriters out of stock on hand, he may purchase typewriters for the account of such agency: Provided, That the price paid during any quarter of the fiscal year for such type- writers shall not exceed ninety per centum of the lowest net cash price, plus applicable Federal excise taxes, accorded the most favored cus- tomer (other than the Government of the United States, or any agency thereof, and purchasers of typewriters for educational instruction 415 Standard forms and blank-book work. Crediting of vances. 47 Stat. 417. ad- Per diem employees at fuel yards. "Fuel." Reconditioning surplus property. of Typewritingma- chines, repairs. Restriction on use of funds. Report of number of typewriters by agen- Purchase price.
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