PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 40 -APR. 5, 1941 FOREIGN-SERVICE PAY ADJUSTMENT Foreign-service pay adjustment of officers and employees of the United States in foreign countries due to appreciation of foreign cur- rencies: For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize annual appropriations to meet losses sustained by officers and employees of the United States in foreign countries due to appreciation of foreign currencies in their relation to the American dollar, and for other purposes", approved March 26, 48 Stat. 466. 1934 (U. S . C ., Supp. IV, Title 5, Sec. 118c), and for each and every 5 .S.C.§118c. object and purpose specified therein, $975,000. GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE Post, p.830 . Salaries: For Comptroller General, Assistant Comptroller General, and other personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, Proiios. $10,362,000: Provided,That notwithstanding the provisions of the Act stamps. of August 5, 1939 (53 Stat. 1219), the Comptroller General of the . S 351- United States is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to destroy and dispose of stamps issued by the Surplus Marketing Administration of the Department of Agriculture after the said stamps have been paid by the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and audited by the General Accounting Office, either in the field or at the Comptroller Gen- seat of government: Provided further, That the salary of the Comp- eral, salary. troller General shall be at the rate of $12,000 per annum effective on the date of enactment of this Act, so long as the position is held by the present incumbent. Contingent expenses: For traveling expenses, materials, supplies, equipment, and services; procurement and exchange of books, law- books, books of reference, and periodicals, typewriters calculating machines, and other office appliances, including their development, repairs, and maintenance, including one motor-propelled passenger- carrying vehicle; and miscellaneous items, $319,880. For all printing and binding for the General Accounting Office, including monthly and annual editions of selected decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, $82,000. Total, General Accounting Office, $10,763,880. Post, p. 546. 24 Stat. 379, 386; 34 Stat. 584: 41 Stat. 474: 54 Stat. 898, 916. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION SALARIES AND EXPENSES General administrative expenses: For eleven Commissioners, secre- tary, and for all other authorized expenditures necessary in the execu- tion of laws to regulate commerce, including one chief counsel, one director of finance, and one director of traffic, at $10,000 each per annum, field hearings, traveling expenses, and contract steno- graphic reporting services, $2,580,940, of which amount not to exceed $2,338,040 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, exclusive of special counsel, for which the expenditure shall not exceed $50,000; not exceeding $3,000 for purchase and exchange of necessary books, reports, and periodicals. Regulating accounts: To enable the Interstate Commerce Com- mission to enforce compliance with section 20 and other sections of the Interstate Commerce Act as amended by the Act approved June 29, 1906, the Transportation Act, 1920 (49 U. S . C. 20), and the Transportation Act-of 1940, including the employment of necessary special accounting agents or examiners, and traveling expenses, $840,000, of which amount not to exceed $190,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. [55 STAT.
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