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56 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 629-OCT. 26, 1942 shall not apply to purchases of such machines outside the continental limits of the United States, including Alaska and the Canal Zone. BUREAU OF INTERNAL REVENUE Collecting the internal revenue-Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, Bureau of Internal Rev- enue, fiscal year 1943, including the objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 19432 $8,000,000: Provided, That the limitations on the amounts which may be expended for printing and binding, stationery, and personal services in the District of Columbia are hereby increased from $931,850 to $1,606,850, from $468,000 to $565,400, and from $10,961,742 to $11,006,542, respectively. WAR DEPARTMENT MILITARY ACTIVITIES OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR Claims for damages to and loss of private property: To pay claims for damages adjusted and determined by the Secretary of War under the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, and for other purposes", approved August 24, 1912, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 252, Seventy-seventh Congress, $1,567. CIVIL FUNCTIONs CORPS OF ENGINEERS Rivers and harbors: Any unobligated balances of existing appro- priations heretofore made for the preservation and maintenance of existing river and harbor works, for the prosecution of such projects theretofore authorized as may be most desirable in the interests of commerce and navigation, and for other purposes specified under the head "Rivers and harbors" in the War Department Civil Appro- priation Act, 1943, are hereby made available for the prosecution of the work of enlargement of the present Intracoastal Waterway froim the vicinity of Apalachee Bay to Corpus Christi, Texas, in accord- ance with the provisions of the Act approved July 23, 1942 (Public Law 675). SEC. 201. The limitation of $925 specified in section 405 of the Sixth Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1942, and any similar limitation specified in any other appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1943 may be exceeded by such amount as the Secretary of War, in the case of the War Department, the Secretary of the Navy, in the case of the Navy Department, the Commissioners, in the case of the government of the District of Columbia, and the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, in the case of other essential governmental needs, may determine necessary to obtain satisfactory light-weight and medium-weight motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, but in no event shall the price so paid for any such vehicle exceed the maximum price for such vehicle established by the Office of Price Administration and in no event more than $1,500, which amount shall be in addition to amounts allowed for transportation. SEC. 202. Section 301 of the Second Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1941 (Act of September 9, 1940, 54 Stat. 884), be, and it hereby is, amended to read as follows: 1005 Ante, p. 155 . Proviso. Ante, pp. 156, 720. 37 Stat. 86. 5U. .C.i208. Supp. I, § 208 note. Intracostal Water- way. Ante. p. 220. Avtte, p. 708 . Motor vehlole. Ante, p. 27 . 39U.S.C.i3Olb note.