78TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 63 -FEB. 25, 1944 Department, and he may authorize such individuals or agencies to make further delegations of such authority and discretion. (f) Every purchase order or agreement, or contract to make or furnish any article or service of any kind, which is required by a Department or directly or indirectly required, furnished, or offered in connection with, or as a part of, the performance or procurement of any contract with such Department or of any subcontract thereunder shall, if made thirty days or more after the date of the enactment of this Act, be deemed to contain a provision under which the person making or furnishing such article or service agrees that notwithstand- ing other provisions of the purchase order, agreement, or contract, he shall be entitled to receive for such article or service only the fair and just compensation provided for in subsection (c). Provision for receipt of fair and just com- pensation. SEC. 802 . EFFECTIVE DATE. (a) Section 801 shall be effective from the date of the enactment of this Act. (b) Section 801 shall not apply to any contract with a Department Expration. or any subcontract made after the date proclaimed by the President as the date of the termination of hostilities in the present war or the date specified in a concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress as the date of such termination, whichever is the earlier. TITLE IX-SOCIAL SECURITY TAXES SEC. 901. AUTOMATIC INCREASE IN 1944 RATE NOT TO APPLY. (a) Clauses (1) and (2) of section 1400 of the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (Internal Revenue Code, sec. 1400) are amended to read as follows: "(1) With respect to wages received during the calendar years 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, and 1944, the rate shall be 1 per centum. "(2) With respect to wages received during the calendar year 1945, the rate shall be 2 per centum." (b) Clauses (1) and (2) of section 1410 of such Act (Internal Reve- nue Code, sec. 1410) are amended to read as follows: "(1) With respect to wages paid during the calendar years 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, and 1944, the rate shall be 1 per centum. "(2) With respect to wages paid during the calendar year 1945, the rate shall be 2 per centum. SEC. 902 . APPROPRIATIONS TO THE TRUST FUND. Section 201 (a) of the Social Security Act, as amended, is further amended by adding at the end of the subsection the following: "There is also authorized to be appropriated to the Trust Fund such additional sums as may be required to finance the benefits and payments provided under this title." SAM RAYBURN Speaker of the House of Representatives. CLAUDE PEPPER Acting Presidentof the Senate pro terpore. IN THr HousE OF REPESENTATIVES, U. S., FebruaryS4, 1944 The House of Representatives having proceeded to reconsider the bill (LH B. 3687) entitled "An Act to provide revenue, and for other 53 Stat. 175. 26 U. S. 0. 1400; Supp. Im, 1400. Post, p. 812. 53 stat. 17 26 U. 8. 0. 1410; Supp. III,§ 1410. Post, p. 813 . 49 Stat. 2. 42U.S.0. 401(a). Appropriation au- thorized. Cotifice o Hoam otReipr llataDiv. 58 STAT.]
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