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[72 Stat. 231]
PUBLIC LAW 85-000—MMMM. DD, 1958
[72 Stat. 231]

72 S T A T. ]

PUBLIC

LAW 85-469-JUNE 26, 1958

$320^00 for allowances for uniforms, textbooks, and subsistence of cadets at State marine schools, to be paid in accordance with regulations established pursuant to law (46 U.S.C. 1126 (b)); $660,000. WAR S H I P P I N G ADMINISTRATION

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70 Stat. 25.

LIQUIDATION

The unexpended balance of the appropriation to the Secretary of the Treasury in the Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1948, for liquidation of obligations approved by the General Accounting Office as properly incurred against funds of the W a r Shipping Administration prior to January 1, 1947, is hereby continued available until December 31, 1958, and shall be available for the payment of obligations incurred against the working fund titled: "Working fund, Commerce, W a r Shipping Administration functions, December 31, 1946": Provided, That effective December 31, 1958, the unexpended balance remaining in this account is hereby rescinded and carried to the surplus fund in the Treasury.

^i Stat. 697.

FEDERAL S H I P MORTGAGE INSURANCE F U N D

The Secretary of Commerce is authorized to advance to this account from the "Vessel operations revolving fund" (46 U.S.C. 1241a), such amounts as may be required for the payment, pursuant to section 1105 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended (46 U.S.C. 1275), of unpaid principal amounts of defaulted mortgages and loans and of unpaid mterest thereon: Provided., That such advances shall be repaid to the "Vessel operations revolving fund" as soon as practicable consistent with the status of this account: Provided further., That the total advances outstanding at any one time shall not exceed $10,000,000. GENERAL PROVISIONS

ss Stat. 59. «« Stat. 1272.

MARITIME ACTIVITIES

No additional vessel shall be allocated under charter, nor shall any V e s s e l s. vessel be continued under charter by reason of any extension of chartering authority beyond June 30, 1949, unless the charterer shall agree that the Maritime Administration shall have no obligation upon redelivery to accept or pay for consumable stores, bunkers and slop-chest items, except with respect to such minimum amounts of bunkers as the Maritime Administration considers advisable to be retained on the vessel and that prior to such redelivery all consumable stores, slop-chest items, and bunkers over and above such minimums shall be removed from the vessel by the charterer at his own expense. No money made available to the Department of Commerce for maritime activities by this or any other Act shall be used in payment for a vessel the title to which is acquired by the Government either by requisition or purchase, or the use of which is taken either by requisition or agreement, or which is insured by the Government and lost while so insured, unless the price or hire to be paid therefor (except in cases where section 802 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, is 1355/*^*" ^^^'*' applicable) is computed in accordance with subsection 902(a) of said 46*u s c 1212, Act, as that subsection is interpreted by the General Accounting Office. ^^^^' Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Maritime icy"and*repai^I.^" Administration is authorized to furnish utilities and services and make necessary repairs in connection with any lease, contract, or occupancy involving Government property under control of the Maritime Administration, and payments received by the Maritime Administration for utilities, services, and repairs so furnished or made shall be credited to the appropriation charged with the cost thereof: Provided., That rental payments under any such lease, contract, or occupancy on account of items other than such utilities, services, or repairs shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.