58 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 2 D SESS.-CH. 296-JUNE 28, 1944 EMERGENCY RUBBER PROJECT For all expenses necessary to enable the Secretary to carry into effect the Act of March 5, 1942, as amended (7 U. S . C . 171-175), including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; printing and binding without regard to section 11 of the Act of March 1, 1919 (44 U. S . C. 111); purchase of books of reference and periodicals; purchase of passenger-carrying vehicles; erection of necessary buildings; procurement of medical supplies or services for emergency use in the field; and the acceptance of donations of land and rubber-bearing plants, and furnishing to employees daily trans- portation between points of assembly and work projects, there is hereby continued available, in accordance with section 3 of said Act of March 5. 1942, not to exceed $3,020,985 of the unobligated balances of appropriations made under this head for the fiscal years 1942 and 1943, which balances shall be merged with the appropriation made under this head in the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1944: Provided, That any proceeds from the sales of guayule, rubber processed from guayule, or other rubber-bearing plants, or from other sales, rentals, and fees resulting from operations under such Act of March 5, 1942, as amended, shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. WAR FOOD ADMINISTRATION Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary to enable the War Food Administration to perform its functions, including those pre- scribed by Executive Orders 9280, 9310, 9322, 9328, and 9334, inde- pendently or in cooperation (by transfer of funds or otherwise) with public and private agencies and individuals, other personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere in accordance with the provi- sions of law applicable to the appointment and compensation of per- sons employed by the Agricultural Adjustment Agency, including not to exceed $50,000 for the temporary employment of persons or organi- zations by contract or otherwise without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; actual transportation and other necessary expenses, and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence, of persons serving while away from their permanent homes in an advi- sory capacity to or employed by the War Food Administration, with- out other compensation from the United States, except that such expenditures shall not exceed $200,000; upon authorization or approval of the War Food Administrator, travel expenses to and from their homes or regular places of business in accordance with the Standardized Government Travel Regulations'not to exceed $20,000, including travel in privately owned automobiles, of persons employed intermittently away from their homes or regular places of business as consultants and receiving compensation on a per diem when actually employed basis; printing and binding; the purchase of law- books, books of reference, periodicals, and not to exceed $800 for newspapers; and the purchase, operation, and maintenance (includ- ing two in the District of Columbia) of passenger-carrying vehicles; $30,700,000: Provided, That the applicable appropriations available to the War Food Administration, current at the time services are rendered or payment therefor is received, may be reimbursed by non- governmental agencies or foreign governments (by advance credits or reimbursements) for the actual or estimated costs, as determined by the War Food Administration, incident to procuring agricultural commodities for such nongovernmental agencies or foreign govern- ments: Provided further, That none of the funds herein appropriated 447 56 Stat. 126. 7 U. S. C., Supp. III, §§ 171175. 40 Stat. 1270 . 57 Stat. 415. Proceeds from sale. Post, p. 875. 7 F. R.10179;8 F. R . 2913, 3807, 4681, 5423, 14783. 5U.S.C., Supp III, § 514 note; 50 U. S. C ., Supp. III, app. §§ 601 note, 901 note. 42 Stat. 1488 5tJ.S.C.§Ml; Suipp. 11l, § ¢1il aseq. Reimbursement by non governmental agencies, etc. Restriction on use of funds.
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