57 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 1ST SESS. -CH. 182 -JULY 1, 1943 tered mail, or otherwise, and traveling expenses not to exceed $500, for not to exceed five passport agencies, $50,000. Collecting and editing official papers of Territories of the United States: For the expenses of collecting, editing, copying, and arranging for publication the official papers of the Territories of the United States, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, printing and binding, and contingent and traveling expenses, as provided by the Act approved February 28, 1929, as amended by the Act approved June 28, 1937 (5 U. S . C . 168-168b), $10,000. FOREIGN INTERCOURSE Salaries, ambassadors and ministers: For salaries of ambassadors and ministers appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to such countries and at such salary rates, not exceeding $10,000 per annum each for ministers (except one at not exceeding $12,000 per annum) and not exceeding $17,500 per annum each for ambassadors, as the President may determine, not- withstanding the provisions of any other law, $625,000, including also salaries as authorized by section 1740, Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act of April 24, 1939 (22 U. S. C. 3, 121): Provided, That no salary shall be paid to any official receiving any other salary from the United States Government: Provided further, That during the continuance of the present war and for six months after its termi- nation, any Ambassador or Minister whose salary as such is payable from the appropriation "Salaries, Ambassadors and Ministers" and who, prior to appointment as Ambassador or Minister was legally appointed and served as a diplomatic or consular officer or as a Foreign Service officer, and who, on account of emergent conditions abroad, is unable properly to serve the United States at his regular post of duty, or, on account of such emergent conditions abroad, it shall be or has been found necessary in the public interest to terminate his appointment as Ambassador or Minister at such post, may be appointed or assisgned to serve in any capacity in which a Foreign Service officer is authorized by law to serve, and notwith- standing the provisions of any other law, the payment from such appropriation for the fiscal year 1944 of the salary of such officer, while serving under such assignment, is hereby authorized: Provided further, That no person, while serving under such emergency appoint- ment or assignment, shall receive compensation in excess of $9,000 per annum while serving in the continental United States or in excess of $10,000 per annum while serving elsewhere. Salaries, Foreign Service officers: For salaries of Foreign Service officers as provided in the Act approved February 23, 1931, as amended by the Act of April 24, 1939 (22 U. S . C . 3, 3a), including salaries of such officers for the period actually and necessarily occupied in receiving instructions and in making transits to and from their posts, and while awaiting recognition and authority to act in pursuance with the provisions of section 1740 of the Revised Statutes (22 U. S. C . 121); and salaries of Foreign Service officers or vice consuls while acting as Charges d'Affaires ad interim or while in charge of a consulate general or consulate during the absence of the principal officer (22 U. S . C. 20); $4,250,000. Transportation, Foreign Service: To pay the traveling expenses of Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Service officers, and other employees of the Foreign Service, including Foreign Service inspec- tors, and under such regulations as the Secretary of State may pre- scribe of their families and expenses of transportation of effects, in going to and returning from their posts, and in removing the 81077-44-PT. I- --18 273 Collecting and edit- ing official papers of U. S . Territories. 45 Stat. 1412. 50 Stat. 323 . 63 Stat. 583 . Double-salary re- striction. Assignments during emergency. Limitation on com- pensation. 46 Stat. 1207; 53 Stat. 883. Emergency amndl- tons.
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