400 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 294-JUNE 28, 1944 [58 STAT. 46 sta. 1209. sentation allowances, as authorized by the Act approved February 23, 1931, as amended, may be paid from this appropriation to American citizens employed hereunder. Contingent e x- Contingent expenses, Foreign Service: For stationery; blanks, Ante, p . 398; post, record and other books; seals, presses, flags, signs; military equip- p. 869. ment and supplies; repairs, alterations, preservation, and maintenance of Government-owned and leased diplomatic and consular properties in foreign countries, including minor construction on Government- owned properties, water, materials, supplies, tools, seeds, plants, shrubs, and similar objects; purchase, rental, repair, and operation of microfilm equipment; newspapers (foreign and domestic); freight; postage; telegrams; advertising; ice and drinking water for office purposes; purchase, maintenance, and hire of motor-propelled, horse- drawn, or other passenger-carrying vehicles, including two auto- mobiles for chiefs of missions at not to exceed $3,000 each; insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign countries when required by the Cormm'issar ser- law of such countries; excise taxes on negotiable instruments; funds for establishment and maintenance of commissary service; uniforms; furniture; household furniture and furnishings, except as provided 44 Stat. 403. by the Act of May 7, 1926, as amended (22 U. S. C . 292-299), for Government-owned or rented buildings; maintenance and rental of launch for embassy in Turkey, not exceeding $3,500, including per- sonnel for operation; rent and other expenses for dispatch agencies Traveling expenses. established by the Secretary of State; traveling expenses, including the transportation of members of families and personal effects of diplomatic officers or Foreign Service officers acting as charges d'affaires in traveling to seats of government at which they are accredited other than the city of usual residence and returning to Radiobroasting. the city of usual residence; loss by exchange; radio broadcasting; payment in advance for subscriptions to commercial information, telephone and other similar services, including telephone service in 31U. .C. 679. residences as authorized by the Act of April 30, 1940 (54 Stat. 175); burial expenses and expenses in connection with last illness and death of certain native employees, as authorized by and in accordance with 53 Stat. 1043. the Act of July 15, 1939 (5 U. S . C. 118f) expenses of vice consu- lates and consular agencies for any of the foregoing objects; allow- ances for special instruction, education, and individual training of Foreign Service officers at home and abroad, not to exceed $7,500; Language study. cost, not exceeding $500 per annum each, of the tuition of Foreign Service officers assigned for the study of the languages of Asia and Reief, etc of Amer- eastern Europe; for relief, protection, and burial of American sea- Ican seamen. 57 tat. 45. men, and alien seamen as authorized by Public Law 17, approved I5 app. si1291.Su March 24, 1943, in foreign countries and in Territories and insular possessions of the United States, and for expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of the services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from ship- Consular prisons, wreck or other catastrophe at sea; for expenses of maintaining in Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, and Muscat, institutions for incarcerating American convicts and persons declared insane by any consular court, rent of quarters for prisons, ice and drinking water for prison pur- poses, and for the expenses of keeping, feeding, and transportation of prisoners and persons declared insane by any consular court in Bringinghome per- Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, and Muscat; for every expenditure req- rime. uisite for or incident to the bringing home from foreign countries of persons charged with crime as authorized by section 5275 of the Revised Statutes (18 U. S . C. 659); and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may deem necessary; $4,400,000: Provided Sabs Dept. That this appropriation shall be available for reimbursement of appropriations for the Navy Department, in an amount not to exceed
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