63 STAT.] 81ST CONG., l ST SESS.-CHS. 290, 292, 296- June 30, 1949
July 1, 5, 1949
and for which a Budget estimate for the fiscal year 1950 was trans-
mitted to the Congress prior to July 1, 1949, but for which no provision
is contained in any bill pending in Congress on July 1, 1949, at the
rate provided for under any corresponding appropriation for the fiscal
year 1949 or the Budget estimate for 1950, whichever is smaller;
except that in the case of activities (other than those of the Treasury
Department) transferred to the General Services Administration by
H. R . 4754 (Eighty-first Congress) when enacted into law, there are
hereby appropriated such amounts as may be necessary to carry out
such activities to the extent and in the manner which would be pro-
vided for in Budget estimates transmitted to the Congress for the fiscal
year 1950.
(c) Appropriations and funds made available, and authority
granted, pursuant to this joint resolution shall be determined under
the terms hereof by reference to the status of the pertinent appropria-
tion Acts and Budget estimates on July 1, 1949, and shall continue to
be available in the amount and in the manner so determined until (1)
enactment into law of the applicable appropriation Act, or (2) the
date both Houses shall have acted and failed to make an appropria-
tion, or (3) July 31, 1949, whichever first occurs.
(d) Expenditures from appropriations or funds made available
pursuant to this joint resolution shall be charged to any applicable
appropriation or fund when the bill in which it is contained is enacted
into law.
Approved June 30, 1949.
[CHAPTER 292]
AN ACT
To continue for a temporary period certain powers, authority, and discretion for
the purpose of exercising, administering, and enforcing import controls with
respect to fats and oils (including butter), and rice and rice products.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That, notwithstand-
ing any other provision of law, title III of the Second War Powers
Act, 1942, as amended, and the amendments to existing law made by
such title shall continue in effect until July 1, 1950, for the purpose
of authorizing the exercising, administering, and enforcing of import
controls with respect to fats and oils (including oil-bearing materials,
fatty acids, butter, soap and soap powder, but excluding petroleum
and petroleum products) and rice and rice products, upon a deter-
mination by the President that such controls are (a) essential to the
acquisition or distribution of products in world short supply or (b)
essential to the orderly liquidation of temporary surpluses of stocks
owned or controlled by the Government: Provided, however, That
such controls shall be removed as soon as the conditions giving rise
to them have ceased.
Approved July 1, 1949
[CHAPTER 296]
AN ACT
To authorize certain Government printing, binding, and blank-book work else-
where than at the Government Printing Office if approved by the Joint Com-
mittee on Printing.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the second
proviso of section 11 of the Act entitled "An Act making appropria-
tions for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Govern-
ment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes",
405
Ante, p. 877.
Availability of ap-
propriations.
Post, pp. 485 , 614,
696.
July 1, 1949
[H. R. 5240]
[Public Law 155]
56 Stat. 177.
50U. . 0 . app. §633;
Supp. II, § 633 notes.
July 5, 1949
[H. R. 4878]
[Public Law 156]
Government print-
ing and binding.
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