57 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 179-JUNE 30, 1943 traveling, mill, and other necessary expenses, and salaries of employees and allowance, in lieu of expenses, of officer or officers detailed from the Treasury Department, not exceeding $50 per month each when actually on duty; in all, $1,241,431: Provided, That in order to foster competition in the manufacture of distinctive paper for United States securities, the Secretary of the Treasury is author- ized, in his discretion, to split the award for such paper for the fiscal year 1944 between the two bidders whose prices per pound are the lowest received after advertisement. Expenses of loans: The indefinite appropriation "Expenses of loans, Act of September 24, 1917, as amended and extended" (31 U. S . C. 760, 761), shall not be used during the fiscal year 1944 to supple- ment the appropriations otherwise provided for the current work of the Bureau of the Public Debt, and the amount obligated under such indefinite appropriation during such fiscal year shall not exceed $57,600,000 to be expended as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct: Provided, That the proviso in the Act of June 16, 1921 (31 U. S . C . 761), limiting the availability of this appropriation for expenses of operations on account of any public debt issue to the close of the fiscal year next following the fiscal year in which such issue was made, shall not apply to savings bond transactions handled by the Federal Reserve banks for account of the Secretary of the Treasury: Providedfurther, That regular field employees of the War Savings Staff may be reimbursed, at not to exceed 3 cents per mile, for travel performed by them in privately owned automobiles while engaged in the promotion of the sale of United States Government securities (estimated War Savings bonds) within the limits of their official stations. OFFICE OF THE TREASURER OF THE UNrrED STATES Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia, Office of the Treasurer of the United States, $2,940,000: Provided, That with the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, there may be transferred (not exceeding a total of $410,000) to this appro- priation and to the appropriations "Printing and binding, Office of the Treasurer of the United States" and "Contingent expenses, Office of the Treasurer of the United States", from funds respectively avail- able for such purposes for the Agricultural Conservation and Adjust- ment Administration, Home Owners' Loan Corporation Tennessee Valley Authority, Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation, Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation, Federal land banks and other banks and corporations under the supervision of the Farm Credit Administra- tion, Railroad Retirement Board, Federal Crop Insurance Corpo- ration, United States Maritime Commission, Agricultural Marketing Administration, Farm Security Administration, National Youth Administration, Federal Housing Administration, Federal Public Housing Authority. Commodity Credit Corporation, and corporations and banks under the Federal fome Loan Bank Administration, such sums as may be necessary to cover the expenses incurred on account of such respective activities in clearing of checks, servicing of bonds, handling of collections, and rendering of accounts therefor. No part of any appropriation or authorization in this Act shall be used to pay any part of the salary or expenses of any person whose salary or expenses are prohibited from being paid from any appropriation or authorization in any other Act. Contingent expenses, Office of the Treasurer of the United States: For all necessary expenses, other than personal services and printing and binding, including travel expenses and purchase of periodicals and books of reference, $160,000. 255 Division of award. 40 Stat. 292 . Limitation on obli- gations. Post, p. 630. Savings bond trans- actions. 42 Stat. 36 . War Savings Staff, travel expenses. Post, p . 630. Transfer of funds. Podt,p. 256. Infra. Restriction on pay- ment of oertain salaries. Pst, p. 6 30.
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