57 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 228 -JULY 12, 1943 525 and classification laws; contract stenographic reporting services; wit- ness fees; purchase of lawbooks, books of reference, newspapers, and periodicals; printing and binding (not to exceed $1,830,815, which Printing and bind- limitation shall not apply to the printing of forms, instructions, regu- mg. lations, and coupon books incidental to the rationing of commodities); maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles; traveling expenses (not to exceed $7250,000), including (1) attend- Traveling expernes. ance at meetings of organizations concerned with the work of the Office of Price Administration, (2) actual transportation and other necessary expenses and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of sub- sistence of persons serving while away from their homes in an advisory capacity without other compensation from the United States, or at $1 per annum, (3) reimbursement, at not to exceed 3 cents per mile, of employees for expenses incurred by them in official travel in privately owned automobile within the limits of their official sta- tions, (4) expenses of appointees from point of induction in conti- nental United States to their first post of duty in the Territories, and (5) expenses to and from their homes or regular places of business in accordance with the Standardized Government Travel Regulations, including travel in privately owned automobile (and including per diem in lieu of subsistence at place of employment), of persons employed intermittently away from their homes or regular places of business as consultants and receiving compensation on a per diem when actually employed basis; $155,000,000, of which sum not less Allocations for local than $56,000,000 shall be allocated for direct obligations of local ds. war price and rationing boards; sums under such appropriation of Transfer of funds. $155 000,000 may be transferred to other departments or agencies of the Government for the performance by them of any of the functions or activities for which this appropriation is made, but unless otherwise b Athority for work authorized by law no other agency of the Government shall perform by ot g work or render services for the Office of Price Administration, whether or not the performance of such work or services involves the transfer of funds or reimbursement of appropriations, unless author- ity therefor by the Bureau of the Budget shall have been obtained in advance: Provided, That sums set apart for special projects (classi- spUcil projets or fled in the estimates submitted to Congress as or under "Other con- tractual services") may be expended for travel expenses, and printing and binding without regard to the limitations herein specified for such objects, but within such amounts as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget may approve therefor and such Director shall report to R el 'rt to Congre b . Congress each such limitation determined by him: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the compensa- dential ination. tion of any officer, agent, clerk, or other employee of the United States who shall divulge or make known in any manner whatever to any per- son the operations, style of work, or apparatus of any manufacturer or producer visited by him in the discharge of his official duties, or the amount or source of income, profits, losses, expenditures, or any particular thereof, set forth or disclosed in any questionnaire, report, return, or document, required or requested to be filed by order or regulation of the Administrator or to permit any questionnaire, report, return, or document or copy thereof or any book containing any abstract or particulars thereof to be seen or examined by any person except as provided by law; nor for any person who shall print or publish in any manner whatever, except as hereinafter provided, any questionnaire, report, return, or document or any part thereof or source of income, profits, losses, expenditures, or methods of doing business, appearing in any questionnaire, report, return, or document: Authoad did- Provided further That the foregoing prvisions shall not be con- re of inoram strued t prevent or prohibit the pubiction or diosure of studies
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