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59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CHS. 265, 266-JULY 3, 1945 affecting merged appropriations shall be credited to the applicable current appropriations. SEC. 19. The appropriations for the Military Establishment and for civil functions administered by the War Department for the fiscal year 1946 shall be available for the payment of rewards, sub- ject to such regulations as the Secretary of War shall prescribe, to civilian officers and employees in addition to their usual compensa- tion and to persons in civil life for suggestions resulting in improve- ment or economy in manufacturing process or plant or military material, and for suggestions resulting in efficiency or economy in the operation or administration of the War Department and the Military Establishment, and for expenses of such nonmonetary awards, including citations, insignia, emblems, medals, and devices, as may be granted in recognition of faithful and meritorious service. SEC. 20. During the fiscal year 1946 occupancy of Government facilities under the jurisdiction of the Military Establishment on a rental basis by personnel of the services mentioned in the title of the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942 or by their dependents shall not deprive such personnel of money allowances for rental of quarters. SEC. 21 . The application to the requirements of the War Depart- ment by the reappropriation of unexpended balances of prior years shall be deemed to be a compliance with so much of paragraph (2) of subsection (c) of section 403, as amended, of the Sixth Supple- mental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1942, as reads: "Upon the withholding of any amount of excessive profits or the crediting of any amount of excessive profits against amounts otherwise due a contractor, the Secretary shall certify the amount thereof to the Treasury and the appropriations of his Department shall be reduced by an amount equal to the amount so withheld or credited. The amount of such reductions shall be transferred to the surplus fund of the Treasury". SEC. 22 . As to appropriations and contract authorizations granted for the Military Establishment contained in this Act, in addition to compliance with the provisions of section 303 of the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1944, there shall be submitted to the Appropriation Committees of the Congress on January 3, 1946, a list showing the condition of the balances of each of such appropria- tions and contract authorizations together with recommendations for the repeal of such of those funds or portions thereof as are deemed no longer required for the purposes for which they were granted. SEC. 23. This Act may be cited as the "Military Appropriation Act, 1946". Approved July 3, 1945. [CHAPTER 266] [CHAPTER 266JOINT RESOLUTION Reducing certain appropriations available in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the appropria- tions of the departments and agencies available in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, are hereby reduced in the sums hereinafter set forth, such sums to be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury immediately upon the approval of this Act: EXECUTIVE OMFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Office for Emergency Management: Division of Central Administrative Services: Salaries and expenses, $1,558,000; 407 Rewards. Allowance for rental of quarters. 56 Stat. 359. 37 U. S. C., Supp. IV, §§ 101-120. Post, pp. 541 , 542,587. Compliance with excessive profits provi- sion. 58 Stat. 83. 50 U. S. C., Supp. IV, app. §1191 (c) (2). Appropriations and contract authoriza- tions. Report and recom- mendations to Con- gress. 58 Stat. 623. 31 U. S. 0. Supp. IV, § IS note. Short title. July 3. 194 [H. J . Res. 2021 [Public Law 127] Reduction of appro- priations. 68 Stat. 5.