Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 57 Part 1.djvu/557

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PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 229-JULY 12, 1943 TREASURY DEPARTMENT Ante, p. 251. Chorrera-Rio Hato Highway. Ante, p. 75. Ante, p. 253. Ante, p. 138. Ante, p. 261. Post, p. 631. Intracoastal Water- way. Ante, p. 94. Mosquito Creek, Ohio. 52 Stat. 1215; 55 Stat. 638 . 33U.S.C.§701bet seq.; Supp. II, § 701b et seq. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY To enable the Secretary of the Treasury, in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of the joint resolution approved May 3, 1943 (Public Law 48), to pay to the Republic of Panama an amount equivalent to the principal and interest paid by that Government on account of the credit of $2,500,000 made available to it by the Export-Import Bank for the construction of Panama's share of the Chorrera-Rio Hato Highway, and to pay to the Export-Import Bank an amount sufficient to liquidate the remaining obligation of the Republic of Panama to that bank on account of the aforesaid credit, fiscal years 1943 and 1944, $2,700,000. BUREAU OF ACCOUNTS Salaries and expenses, deposit of withheld taxes: For all necessary expenses, fiscal year 1944, incident to the deposit of withheld taxes in Government depositories pursuant to the Current Tax Payment Act of 1943, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; not to exceed $113,000 for printing and binding; and reimbursement to Federal Reserve banks for printing and other necessary expenses, $800,000. PROCUREMENT DIVISION Emergency relief, Treasury Procurement Division, administrative expenses: For administrative expenses of the Procurement Division, fiscal year 1944, to effect the liquidation of the operations of said Division incident to the emergency relief program, $137,500. Federal property utilization: For necessary expenses of the Pro- curement Division in connection with the transportation, handling, warehousing, safeguarding, rehabilitating, transferring to Govern- ment agencies, and otherwise disposing of supplies and equipment, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, stationery (not to exceed $35,000), purchase (including exchange) of books of reference and periodicals, printing and binding (not to exceed $12,000), and advertising, fiscal year 1944, $3,250,000. WAR DEPARTMENT CIVIL FUNCTIONS CORPS OF ENGINEERS Rivers and harbors: For the preservation and maintenance of exist- ing river and harbor works, and for the prosecution of projects here- tofore authorized, including the objects and purposes and subject to the conditions specified under this head in the War Department Civil Appropriation Act, 1944, to be available until expended and to be allo- cated to the Intracoastal Waterway from the vicinity of Apalachee Bay to Corpus Christi, Texas, $7,095,000. Flood control, general: For the prosecution of a dam and reservoir project on Mosquito Creek, Ohio, authorized by the Acts of June 28, 1938, and August 18, 1941, $4,385,000. Flood control, general (emergency fund): For the repair, restora- tion, and strengthening of levees and other flood-control works which have been threatened or destroyed by the recent floods, in accordance with the first section of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for emergency flood-control work made necessary by recent floods, and 544 [57 STAT.