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54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CHS. 313, 314-JUNE 11, 1940 CONTINGENT EXPENSES For an additional amount for contingent expenses, Navy Depart- ment, $28,000: Provided, That the unobligated balance on June 30, 1940, of the appropriation "Contingent expenses, Navy Department, 1940", is hereby reappropriated and made available for obligation during the fiscal year 1941. PRINTING AND BINDING For an additional amount for printing and binding, Navy Depart- ment, $50,000. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES, HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE For an additional amount for contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Hydrographic Office, $10,000. EMERGENCY FUND FOR THE PRESIDENT To enable the President, through the appropriate agencies of the Government, without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, to provide for emergencies affecting the national security and defense and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including all of the objects and purposes specified under any appropriation available or to be made available to the Navy Department for the fiscal years 1940 and 1941; the furnishing of Government-owned facilities at pri- vately owned plants; the procurement and training of civilian person- nel necessary in connection with the production of critical and essen- tial items of equipment and material and the use or operation thereof; and the procurement of strategic and critical materials in accordance with the Act of June 7, 1939, $34,000,000; to be immediately avail- able; and, in addition, the President is authorized, through such agencies, on and after the enactment hereof, to enter into contracts for the same purposes to an amount not exceeding $34,000,000: Provided, That an account shall be kept of all expenditures made or authorized hereunder, and a report thereon shall be submitted to the Congress on or before June 30, 1942. Approved, June 11, 1940. [CHAPTER 314] AN ACT To facilitate the control of soil erosion and/or flood damage originating upon lands within the exterior boundaries of the Cleveland National Forest in San Diego County, California. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Agriculture, with the approval of the National Forest Reservation Commission, established by section 4 of the Act of March 1, 1911 (U. S. C., title 16, sec. 513), is hereby authorized to acquire by pur- chase any lands, or interests therein, within the boundaries of the Cleveland National Forest in the county of San Diego, State of Cali- fornia, which in his judgment should become the property of the United States in order that they may be so managed with other lands of the United States as to minimize soil erosion and flood dam- age, and to pay for said lands, or interests therein, from those pro- portions of the entire receipts from the occupancy of public land or the sale of natural resources other than mineral, within the Cleveland 297 Ante, p. 289. Proviso. Reappropriation. Ante, p. 290 . Ante, p. 290 . Post, pp . 377, 1126 . Emergency fund. 41U.S.C.§6. Government-owned facilities at private plants. Civilian personnel. Strategic and criti- cal materials. 53 Stat. 811. 60 U. S. C., Supp. V, §§ 98-98f. Contracts in addi- tion, authorized. Proviso. Accounting; report to Congress. June 11, 1940 (II. R . 1691 [Public, No. 689] Cleveland National Forest, Calif. Acquisition of lands in, for soil erosion, etc., control. 36 Stat. 962. Payment from For- est receipts, etc.