PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 294-JUNE 28,1944 International Pa- cific Salmon Fisheries Commission. 50 Stat. 1355. Reimbursement of other appropriations. Cooperation with the American Re- publics. Pos, p. 870. 51 Stat. 178. 53 Stat. 1290. 22U. S.C. §I501, 502. Experiment and demonstration sta- tions. Printing and bind- ing. Traveling expenses. 44 Stat. 688. 5U.S.C.1821; Supp. III, 823. 46 Stat. 818 . Citizens of other American republics. 31 U.S. C. 529. 53 Stat. 1290 . 22 U... c. 5e2. International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission: For the share of the United States of the expenses of the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission, under the convention between the United States and Canada, concluded May 26, 1930, including per- sonal services; traveling expenses; purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of not to exceed four motor-propelled passenger-car - rying vehicles; charter of vessels; purchase of books, periodicals, furniture, and scientific instruments; contingent expenses; rent; and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the Secre- tary of State may deem proper, including the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of the purposes herein specified, to be expended under the direc- tion of the Secretary of State, $40,000, to be available immediately. Cooperation with the American Republics: For all expenses neces- sary to enable the Secretary of State to meet the obligations of the United States under the Convention for the Promotion of Inter- American Cultural Relations between the United States and the other American Republics, signed at Buenos Aires, December 23, 1936, and to carry out the purposes of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the President to render closer and more effective the relationship between the American Republics", approved August 9, 1939, and to supplement appropriations available for carrying out other provisions of law authorizing related activities, including the establishment and operation of agricultural and other experiment and demonstration stations in other American countries, on land acquired by gift or lease for the duration of the experiments and demonstrations, and con- struction of necessary buildings thereon; such expenses to include personal services in the District of Columbia; not to exceed $125,000 for printing and binding; stenographic reporting, translating and other services by contract, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S . C. 5); expenses of attendance at meetings or conventions of societies and associations concerned with the fur- therance of the purposes hereof; and, under such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, tuition, compensation, monthly allowances and enrollment, laboratory, insurance, and other fees inci- dent to training, including traveling expenses in the United States and abroad in accordance with the Standardized Government Travel Regulations and the Act of June 3, 1926, as amended, of educational, professional, and artistic leaders, and professors, students, internes, and persons possessing special scientific or other technical qualifica- tions, who are citizens of the United States or the other American republics, and the expenses of transportation and subsistence of employees, including the cost of transportation of their immediate families and household goods and effects in going to and returning from posts of assignment in foreign countries, and living quarters allowances, including heat, fuel, and light, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 26, 1930 (5 U. S . C . 118a): Provided That the Secretary of State is authorized under such regulations as he may adopt, to pay the actual transportation expenses and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses, of citizens of the other American republics while traveling in the West- ern Hemisphere, without regard to the Standardized Government Travel Regulations, and to make advances of funds notwithstanding section 3648 of the Revised Statutes; traveling expenses of members of advisory committees in accordance with section 2 of said Act of August 9, 1939 (22 U. S. C. 249a); purchase (not to exceed $15,000), hire, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled and animal-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; purchase of books and periodicals; rental of halls and boats; and purchase, rental, and 406 [58 STAT.
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