PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 304-JUNE 28, 1944 OFFIcE FOE EMEBOENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICE OF ECONOMIO STABIZIZATION . Pp.874. Salaries and expenses: For all necessary expenses of the Office of Economic Stabilization, including salaries of the Director at $15,000 per annum and one assistant to the Director at $9,000 per annum; temporary employment (not to exceed $10,000) of persons or organi- zations by contract or otherwise, without regard to section 3709, 41..o. .a. Revised Statutes, or civil-service and classification laws; traveling expenses (not to exceed $6,000); and printing and binding (not to exceed $2,000); fiscal year 1945, $100,000. Applieability of The general provisions under the caption "Executive Office of the gnal Pion President-Office for Emergency Management", contained in the Ante,p. National War Agency Appropriation Act, 1945, and applicable to the constituent agencies of the Office for Emergency Management Ant, p.M. contained therein and the general provisions in such Act applicable to all agencies therein shall be applicable in the same manner to the Office of Economic Stabilization. OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION PA, p sa. Salaries and expenses: For all necessary expenses of the Office of Price Administration in carrying out the provisions of the Emer- s tat.23 75. gency Price Control Act of 1942, as amended by the Act of October 2, m-.p. ois-m; 1942 (50 U. SC . App . 901), and the provisions of the Act of May 31, sp' pp. 82-. 1941 (55 Stat. 236), as amended by the Second War Powers Act, 1942 s8tat. 1 . (50 . S. C . App. 622), and Acts amending or supplementing such o0u.s. . ., supp. cts, and all other powers, duties, and functions which may be law- ,p. s 82' fully delegated to the Office of Price Administration, including expenses of in-service training of employees, including salaries and Employment of traveling expenses of instructors; not to exceed $55,000 for the al enemployment of aliens; not to exceed $30,000 for the temporary employment of persons or organizations, by contract or otherwise, 41u.s.a . I5. without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes, or the civil-service and classification laws; contract stenographic reporting services with- out regard to said section 3709; witness fees; printing and binding (not to exceed $1,635,800, which limitation shall not apply to the printing of forms, instructions, regulations, and coupon books inci- Testpurchae, dental to the rationing of commodities); not to exceed $50,000 for test purchases of commodities, services, or ration currency for enforce- ment purposes, authorization in each case to have approval prior to purchase of the Administrator or the regional administrator in the Travelng expe. region in which the purchase is contemplated; traveling expenses (not to exceed $7,250,000), including 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 stations, and expenses of appointees from point of induction in con- tinental United States to their first post of duty in the Territories and return; hire of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; fnDitvgi °ofsction fiscal year 1945,$179,000,000: Provided, That no part of this appro- priation shall be used for the compensation of any officer, agent, clerk, or other employee of the United States who shall divulge or make known in any manner whatever to any person the operations, style of work, or apparatus of any manufacturer or producer visited bv 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 Admin- istrator or to permit any questionnaire, report, return, or document 600 [58 STAT.
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