79TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 109-MAY 5, 1945 $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence, of persons serving while away from their permanent homes in an advisory capacity to or employed by the War Food Administration, without other compensation from the United States, except that such expenditures shall not exceed $115,000; printing and binding; the purchase of lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals, and not to exceed $700 for newspapers; and the purchase of one, operation, and maintenance of two passenger- carrying vehicles in the District of Columbia; $14,986,472, including $275,000 for the wage stabilization program, and, in the absence of other governing statute, the provisions of law applicable to such program during the fiscal year 1945 are continued during the current fiscal year: Provided, That none of the funds herein appropriated shall be used for the promulgation or execution of orders under which assessments are made against producers or handlers of agri- cultural products, excepting walnuts, for administration of such orders: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for agricultural wage stabilization with respect to any com- modity unless a majority of the producers of such commodity within the area affected participating in a referendum or meeting held for that purpose request the intervention of the Administrator of the War Food Administration. COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION Salaries and administrative expenses: Not to exceed $6,565,000 of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation shall be available for administrative expenses of the Corporation in carrying out its activities as authorized by law, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; travel expenses, in accordance with the Standardized Government Travel Regulations and the Act of June 3, 1926, as amended (5 U. S. C. 821-833); printing and bind- ing; lawbooks and books of reference; not to exceed $400 for peri- odicals, maps, and newspapers; procurement of supplies, equipment, and services; rent in the District of Columbia; and all other neces- sary administrative expenses: Provided, That all necessary expenses (including legal and special services performed on a contract or fee basis, but not including other personal services) in connection with the acquisition, operation, maintenance, improvement, or disposition of any real or personal property belonging to the Corporation or in which it has an interest, including expenses of collections of pledged collateral, shall be considered as nonadministrative expenses for the purposes hereof: Provided further That none of the fund made available by this paragraph shall be obligated or expended unless and until an appropriate appropriation account shall have been estab- lished therefor pursuant to an appropriation warrant or a covering warrant, and all such expenditures shall be accounted for and audited in accordance with the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, as amended: Provided further, That none of the fund made available by this paragraph shall be used for administrative expenses con- nected with the sale of Government-owned or Government-controlled stocks of farm commodities at less than parity price as defined by the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 or the comparable price as provided by section 4 (a) of the Act of July 1, 1941, as amended (15 U. S . C . 713a-8); and the method that is now used for the pur- poses of Commodity Credit Corporation loans for determining the parity price or its equivalent for y7/-inch Middling cotton at the average location used in fixing the base loan rate for cotton shall also be used for determining the parity price for 7/8-inch Middling cotton at such average location for the purposes of this proviso: Provided 153 Wage stabilization program. Restriction on use of funds. Ante, p. 50. Pot,pp . 423 64L Travel expenses. 44 Stat. 688 . 5 U. S. C., Supp. IV, 1 823. Nonadministrative expenses. Accounting. 42 Stat. 20 . 31U..C.I1; Supp. IV, §16 t Ke. Sales at less than parity price. 52 Stat. 38; 55 Stat. 498. 7U.S.C. 1301(a); 15 U. S. C., Spp. IV, I 713a-8 (a). 59 STA.]
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