PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 228-JULY 12,1943 [CHAPTER 228] AN ACT July 12, 1943 [H. R. 2968] Making appropriations for war agencies in the Executive Office of the President [Public Law 139] for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1944, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the cies Appropriation United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following Act, 1944. sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- wise appropriated, for the support of war agencies in the Executive Office of the President for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1944, and for other purposes, namely: Ante, p. 169. Pst, pp.3, 613. EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT BOARD OF ECONOMIC WARFARE Salaries and expenses: For all expenses necessary to enable the Board of Economic Warfare to carry out its functions and activities, Executive Director including salaries of an Executive Director at $10.000 per annum and assstnts four assistants to the Executive Director at $9,000 per annum each, and other personal services (including aliens) in the District of Colum- bia and elsewhere; the acceptance and utilization of voluntary and uncompensated services; the temporary employment of persons or organizations by contract or otherwise without regard to the civil- servce, service and classification laws or section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and equipment. (41 U. S . C . 5); procurement of services, supplies, and equipment (1) outside the United States without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes, and 3648, Revised Statutes (31 U. S . C . 529), including the rental of office space and contracts for utility services for periods of two years in any foreign country where required by local custom or Minor purchases practice, and (2) within the United States without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes, when the amount involved in any one case does Travelexpenses. not exceed $300; travel expenses (not exceeding $300,000 for travel within the continental limits of the United States), including (1) expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with the work of the Board, (2) actual transportation and other necessary expenses, and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence of per- sons serving while away from their holles without other compensation from the United States, in an advisory capacity to the Board, (3) payment to the Chairman and the Executive Director of the Board of actual and necessary transportation, subsistence, and other expenses incidental to the perforlnance of their duties, and (4) expenses outside the United States without regard to the Standardized Government 44U.St. upp.. Travel Regulations and the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, as s823. amended (5 U. S . C 821), and section 901 of the Act of June 29, 1936 (46 U. S . C . 1241), and (5) when specifically authorized or approved by the Executive Director of the Board or such other official as he may designate for the purpose, expenses of employees of the Board includ- ing the transportation of their effects (in accordance with the Act of 5U.ts. C. 73-L October 10, 1940), to their first post of duty in a foreign country, or when transferred from one official station to another, and return to the United States; payment of living and quarters allowances to personnel stationed outside the United States in accordance with the regulations approved by the President on December 30, 1942; advances of money, upon the furnishing of bond, to employees of the Board traveling in a foreign country in such sums as the Executive Director of the Board Reimbursement. shall direct; reimbursement of employees of the Board for loss of per- Transprtation of sonal effects in case of marine or aircraft disaster; preparation and employees transportation of the remains of officers and employees who die abroad employees,. transportation of the remains of officers and employees who die abroad 522 [57 STAT.
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