PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 228 -JULY 12, 1943 OFFICE OF ECONOMIC STABILIZATION 50 U. S. C., Supp. II, app. §901 note. Ante, p. 63. 41U.S. . 15. 42 Stat. 1488. 5U. .C.C 661; Supp. II, §661 et seq. Post, p. 613 . Research projects for Federal agencies. Indemnity provi- sions in contracts. Transfer of funds. Disposition of arti- cles of personalty. Salaries and expenses: For all necessary expenses of the Office of Economic Stabilization established by Executive Order Numbered 9250, dated October 3, 1942, including salary of Economic Stabiliza- tion Director at $15,000 per annum; temporary employment (not to exceed $20,020) of persons or organizations by contract or otherwise, without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes and Classification Act of 1923, as amended; traveling expenses (not to exceed $10,660) ; and printing and binding (not to exceed $2,000) ; $100,000. NATIONAL WAR LABOR BOARD Salaries and expenses: For all necessary expenses of the National War Labor Board, including salaries at not to exceed $10,000 per annum each for the four public members of the Board; travel expenses (not to exceed $1,369,613) ; printing and binding (not to exceed $37,400); actual transportation and other necessary expenses, and not to exceed $25 per diem in lieu of subsistence, whether or not in a travel status, of other members, alternate members and associate members of the Board while serving as such without other compensa- tion from the United States; $14,091,300. OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Salaries and expenses: For all necessary expenses of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, including the purchase of reports, documents, plans, or specifications; the employment by con- tract or otherwise, without regard to civil-service or classification laws, at not to exceed $25 per day, of engineers, scientists, civilian analysts, technicians, or other necessary professional personnel; and printing and binding, $135,982,500: Provided,That there may be paid from this appropriation to the National Academy of Sciences a sum not exceeding $150,000 for the administrative and overhead expenses incurred by said academy during the fiscal year 1944 in carrying out research projects for Federal agencies, and such sum shall be in addition to any reimbursement otherwise provided for: Prorided further, That notwithstanding the provisions of section 3679 of the Revised Statutes (31 U. S . C . 665), the Office of Scientific Research and Development is authorized, in making contracts for the conduct of investigations or experiments, to agree on behalf of the United States to indemnify the contractor from such funds as may be hereafter appropriated for the purpose, against loss or damage to persons or property arising from such work: Provided further, That funds available to any agency of the Government for scientific, technical, or medical research, development, testing, construction of test models, experimental production, or the provision of facilities therefor, shall be available for transfer with the approval of the head of the agency involved, in whole or in part, to the Office of Scientific Research and Development, and funds so transferred shall be expendable in the same manner as this appropriation: Provided further, That the Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development may sell, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, under such terms and condi- tions as he may deem advisable, devices, scientific or technical equip- ment, models, or other articles of personalty, developed, constructed, produced in or purchased for the performance of its scientific or medical contracts, except articles acquired for administrative pur- poses, and all receipts from such disposition to nongovernmental agencies shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. [57 STAT. 530
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