59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 1 8T SESS.-CH. 271-JULY 5, 1945 415 and return; hire of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; not to exceed $5,210,550 for deposit in the general fund of the Treasury for cost of penalty mail as required by section 2 of the Act of June 28, 1944 (Public Law 364); fiscal year 1946, $174,500,000: Pro- 58 Stat. 394. 39 U. S. 0., Supp. vided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the cor- IV, 32da pp. pensation of any officer, agent, clerk, or other employee of the United maDtion riesctiron. 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 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 ally 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 per- son 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: Provided further, That the foregoing provisions Authorized disdo- shall not be construed to prevent or prohibit the publication or dis- re closure of studies, graphs, charts, or other documents of like general character wherein individual statistics or the source thereof is not disclosed or identified directly or indirectly nor to prevent the fur- nishing in confidence to the War Department, the Navy Department, or the United States Maritime Commission, such data and informa- tion as may be requested by them for use in the performance of their official duties: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation Subsidy payments. shall be available for making any subsidy payments: Provided Maximum prices on further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to enforce ities. any maximum price or prices on any agricultural commodity or any commodity processed or manufactured in whole or substantial part from any agricultural commodity, including milk and its products and livestock, unless and until (1) the Secretary of Agriculture has determined and published for such agricultural commodity the prices specified in section 3 (a) of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, as amended by Public Law 729, approved October 2, 1942, as tiat. 27 , 765 amended; (2) in case of a comparable price for such agricultural IV, a.pp . sr 1 o,, commodity, the Secretary of Agriculture has held public hearings and (b), () ,l 0'-9I' . determined and published such comparable price in the manner pre- scribed by section 3 (b) of said Act as amended; and (3) the Secre- tary of Agriculture has determined after investigation and proclaimed that the maximum price or prices so established on any such agri- cultural commodity, including milk and its product and livestock, will reflect to the producer of such agricultural commodity a price in conformity with section 3 (c) of said Act as amended: Provided further, That such maximum price or prices shall conform in all 5 SLtat7 6 . 766. respects to the provisions of section 3 of Public Law 729 approved v, app. 63W . October 2 1942, as amended: Provided further, That any employee Adminstrtion of of the Ofice of Price Administration is authorized and empowered, oaths. when designated for the purpose by the head of the agency, to administer to or take from any person an oath, affirmation, or affidavit when such instrument is required in connection with the performance of the functions or activities of said Office: Provided further, That Experience reqnre- ment for designated no part of this appropriation shall be directly or indirectly used for personni. the payment of the salary or expenses of any person who directs the formulation of any price policy, maximum price, or price ceiling with respect to any article or commodity unless, in the judgment of the
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