56 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 472-JULY 2, 1942 purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of not to exceed four motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; charter of vessels; purchase of books, periodicals, furniture, and scientific instru- ments; contingent expenses; rent; and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the Secretary of State may deem proper, including the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of the purposes herein specified, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $39,960, to be available immediately. COOPERATION WITH THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS Salaries and expenses: For all expenses necessary to enable the Secretary of State to meet the obligations of the United States under the Convention for the Promotion of Inter-American Cultural Rela- tions between the United States and the other American Republics, signed at Buenos Aires, December 23, 1936, and to carry out the purposes of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the President to render closer and more effective the relationship between the Ameri- can Republics", approved August 9, 1939, and to supplement appro- priations available for carrying out other provisions of law authoriz- ing related activities, including the establishment and operation of agricultural and other experiment and demonstration stations in other American countries, on land acquired by gift or lease for the duration of the experiments and demonstrations, and construction of necessary buildings thereon; such expenses to include personal services in the District of Columbia; not to exceed $85,000 for printing and binding; stenographic reporting, translating and other services by contract, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S . C . 5); expenses of attendance at meetings or conventions of societies and associations concerned with the furtherance of the purposes hereof; tuition, compensation, and monthly allowances while not in travel status, all to be fixed by the Secretary of State, and traveling expenses in the United States and abroad in accordance with the Standardized Government Travel Regulations and the Act of June 3, 1926, as amended, of educational, professional, and artistic leaders, and professors, students, and persons possessing special scientific or other technical qualifications, who are citizens of the United States or the other American republics: Provided, That the Secretary of State is authorized under such regulations as he may adopt, to pay the actual transportation expenses and not to exceed ten dollars per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses, of citizens of the other American republics while traveling in the Western Hemisphere, without regard to the Standardized Government Travel Regulations, and to make advances of funds notwithstanding section 3648 of the Revised Statutes; traveling expenses of members of advisory commit- tees in accordance with section 2 of said Act of August 9, 1939 (22 U. S. C . 249a); purchase and exchange (not to exceed $6,000), hire, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled and animal- drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; and purchase of books and peri- odicals, $1,685,000; and the Secretary of State is hereby authorized, subject to the approval of the President, to transfer from this appro- priation to other departments, agencies, and independent establish- ments of the Government for expenditure in the United States and in the other American republics any part of this amount for direct expenditure by such department or independent establishment for the purposes of this appropriation: Provided further, That any funds herein appropriated which may be transferred to the Federal Security Agency for the Public Health Service shall be available for the 479 Reimbursement of other appropriations. Post, p. 719. 51 Stat. 178 . 53 Stat. 1290. 22U. .C.§§501, 502. Experiment and demonstration st a- tions. Printing and bind- ing. Traveling expenses. 44 Stat. 688 . 5U.S.C.§§821-833. Ante, p. 39. Prolsoa. Citizens of other American republics. 81U. .C.§629. 53 Stat. 1290. 22 U.S. C. I. 02. Transfer of funds. Public Health Serv- ice.
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