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65 STAT.]

749

PUBLIC LAW 253—NOV. 1, 1951

the department or agency concerned shall fix and pay a uniform rate per pound for the ocean transportation of all relief packages of food or other general classification of commodities shipped to Japan or the Ryukyus regardless of methods of shipment and higher rates charged by particular agencies of transportation, but this proviso shall not apply to shipments made by mdividuals to individuals: Provided further, That the President may transfer to any other department or agency any function or functions provided for under this appropriation, and there shall be transferred to any such department or agency without reimbursement and without regard to the appropriation from which procured, such property as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall determine to relate primarily to any function or functions so transferred.

Transfer of functions.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE GOVERNMENT I N OCCUPIED AREAS

For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary to meet the responsibilities and obligations of the United States in connection with the government, occupation, and control of occupied areas of Germany and Austria, and relationships with the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Austria, under such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, including one deputy to the United States High Commissioner for Germany at a salary of $17,500; tuition, personal allowances (not to exceed $10 per day), travel expenses (not to exceed those authorized for United States civilian personnel), health and accident insurance, fees incident to instruction in the United States or elsewhere, and hospitalization and medical care, including travel of attendants, of such persons as may be required to carr^ out the provisions of this appropriation; actual expenses of preparing and transporting to their former homes the remains of persons who may die away from their homes while participating in activities authorized under this appropriation; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a), at rates not in excess of $50 per diem for individuals; payment of tort claims, in the manner authorized in the first paragraph of section 2672, as amended, of title 28 of the United States Code when such claims arise in foreign countries; expenses for translation and reproduction rights; acquisition, maintenance, operation, and distribution of educational, informational, reorientation, and rehabilitation materials and equipment for Germany and Austria, including grants; medical and health assistance for the civilian population of Germany and Austria; expenses incident to the operation of schools for American children who are dependents of Government personnel; expenses incident to maintaining discipline and order in occupied areas (including trial and punishment by courts established by or under authority of the President); printing and binding outside continental United States without regard to section 11 of the Act of March 1, 1919 (44 U.S.C. I l l); purcliase, rental, operation, and maintenance of printing and binding machines, equipment, and devices abroad; purchase (including one at not to exceed $3,000 for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; transportation to occupied Germany or Austria of property donated for the purposes of this appropriation; unforeseen contingencies (not to exceed $25,000) for the United States High Commissioner for Germany, to be accounted for pursuant to the provisions of section 291 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 107); and representation allowances (not to exceed $35,000) similar to those authorized by section 901(3) of the Foreign Service Act of 1946 (22 U.S.C. 1131); $26,250,000: Provided, That provisions of law,

60 Stat. 810. Tort claims. 62 Stat. 983.

40 Stat. 1270.

60 Stat. 1025.