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55 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 273-JUILY 3, 1941 Miscellaneous salaries and allowances, Foreign Service: For an additional amount for "Miscellaneous salaries and allowances, For- eign Service", fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1942, $9,000. Contingent expenses, Foreign Service: For an additional amount for "Contingent expenses, Foreign Service", fiscal year 1942, includ- ing the objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1942, $91,500: Provided, That the limitation of $40,000 on the amount which may be expended during the fiscal year 1942 for reimbursement of appropriations for the Navy Department for the purposes specified in the last proviso contained under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act for 1942 is increased to $80,000. CONTRIBJUTIONS, QUOTAS, AND SO FORTH Inter-American Coffee Board: For an additional amount for United States contributions to international commissions, congresses, and bureaus, fiscal year 1942, to meet the contribution of the United States to the Inter-American Coffee Board under the Inter-American Coffee Agreement, signed at Washington, District of Columbia, November 28, 1940, $6,000, to remain available until September 30, 1941. Second Inter-American Travel Congress: For the expenses of participation by the Government of the United States in the Second Inter-American Travel Congress, to be held at Mexico City, Mexico, in 1941, including personal services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere; travel expenses; communication services; stenographic reporting, translating, and other services by contract if deemed neces- sary, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C . 5); local transportation; equipment; transportation of things; rent; printing and binding; entertainment; official cards; purchase of newspapers, periodicals, books, and documents; station- ery; and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State, including the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments may have been m'ade for any of the purposes herein specified, fiscal year 1942, $3,500. Alaskan International Ilighway Commission: For expenses of tho Alaskan International Highway Commission, created by Act of May 31, 1938 (52 Stat. 590), and extended by Public Act 585, approved June 11, 1940, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, without regard to civil-service and classification laws; stenographic, translating, and other services, by contract if deemed necessary, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5); communication service; rent; travel expenses; local transportation; transportation of things; purchase of necessary books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, and maps; stationery; equip- ment; official cards; entertainment; printing and binding; recon- naissance survey; and such other expenses as the President shall deem proper in the fulfillment of the duty of the Commission, including the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of the purposes herein specified, and also including the United States share of necessary joint expenses of the two Governments, fiscal year 1942, $4,000: Provided, That the unex- pended balance of the appropriation "Alaskan International High- way Commission" made in the First Supplemental Civil Functions Appropriation Act, 1941, approved October 9, 1940, is continued available for the purposes herein specified until June 30, 1942, includ- ing obligations chargeable against the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1941. 278941°-4 2 -PT. I --8 561 Ante, p. 269. Ante, p. 269. Proviso. Ante. p . 270. Ante, p. 271. Ante, p. 133; post, p.754. M Stat. 262. 48t.S.C., note prec. § 321. Prooiso. Reappropriation. 54 Stat. 104.